1. The cowboy’s work was hard and unromantic. From dawn to dark they performed their duties, rounding up the cattle, branding them for identification, and repairing equipment. A small group of cowboys had full responsibility for a herd of thousands. They had to cope with harsh weather and to protect the herd against cattle thieves, Indian fighter, and angry farmers, who feared the ruin of their crops.
2. He will sleep on the cold ground where the wintry (寒冷的)winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master’s side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores (疮)that come in encounters with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper(穷人)一小时英语 master as if he were a prince.
3. Hyponosis can control people’s vision. For example, if you were hypnotized(催眠) and I told you a snake was slithering(滑行, 蛇形带钰的女孩名字)across the floor, you would not only believe me, you would actually perceive the snake as real. If I told you that there was no desk in the room, you could look right at it but not e it.
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4. Mr. Cook, a renowned American historian, arranges the books on the bookshelves in a unique way. In the upper right hand corner, there are books about the development of the early colonies in New England and the War of Independence. Right under them can be found books on the slave trade, the plantation system and the growth of the southern states. The left side of the shelf contains hundredsof books concerning subjects of the Westward Movement, Indian culture, the cowboys’ contributions to American society and the Gold Rush in California. From the description above, one can e that Mr. Cook regards his bookshelves as a _____of the U.S. and arranges his history books accordingly. It is odd, but it is convenient.
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5. Every educated person has at least two ways of speaking his mother tongue. The first is that which he employs in his family, among his familiar friends, and on ordinary occasions. The cond is that which he us in discoursing(讲述) on more complicated subjects, and in addressing(向...说话) person with whom he is less intimat
ely acquainted. It is, in short, the language which he employs when he is ‘on his dignity,’ as he puts on evening dress when he is going to dine.
-- J.B. Greenough
6. There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the standard ts and best-llers—unread, untouched. (This deluded欺骗 individual owns woodpulp and ink, not books.) The cond has a great many books—a few of them read through, most of them dipped into, but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought. (This person would probably like to make books his own, but is restrained by a fal respect for their physical appearance.) The third has a few books or many—every one of them dog-eared (卷角的)and dilapidated(破旧的), shaken and looned by continued u, marked and scribbled(草草记下) in from front to back. (This man owns books.)
-- Mortimer J. Adler
7. Once you encounter a person who has stopped breathing, you should begin immediate
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ly to do mouth-to-mouth breathing. First, place the victim on his back and remove any foreign matter from his mouth with your fingers. Then tilt his head backwards, so that his chin is pointing up. Next, pull his mouth open and his jaw forward, pinch his nostrils shut to prevent the air which you blow into mouth from escaping through his no. Then place your mouth tightly over the victim’s. Blow into his mouth until you e his chest ri. Then turn your head to the side and listen for the outrush of air which indicates an air exchange. Repeat
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8. A “liberated woman” is simply a woman who controls her own life, rather than allowing it to be controlled by other people, traditions, or expectations. A “liberated woman” can be found pursuing any line of work, including hou work, or no work at all. She may or may not be married; she may or may not have borne children. She may belong to any race; she may have attained any age. She may be poor or wealthy, educated or illiterate. She need have only one trait in common with her “liberated sisters”: she makes her own choic
es, whether they be the colors on her walls or the advanced degrees she eks. She acts of her own volition(自行决断), responsible to herlf, and not out of fear of what her mother, lover, or neighbor might say.
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9. Some old people are oppresd by the fear The best way to overcome it—so at least it ems to me—is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river—small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the a, and painlessly lo their individual being. The man who, in old age, can e his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for
-- Bertrand Rusll