现在英语课文跟九十年代高中英语课文
现在英语课文
Journey Down the Mekong My name is Wang Kun.Ever since middle school,my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike trip.Two years ago she bought an expensive mountain bike and then she persuaded me to buy one.Last year,she visited our cousins,Dao Wei and Yu Hang at their college if Kunming.They are Dai and grew up in western Yunnan Province near the Lancang River,the Chine part of the river that is called the Mekong River in other countries.Wang Wei soon got time interested in cycling too.After graduating from college,we finally got the chance to take a bike trip.I asked my sister,“Where are we going?”It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the entire Mekong River from where it begins to where it ends.Now she is planning our schedule for the trip.I am fond of my sister but she has one rious shortcoming.She can be really stubborn.Although she didn’t know the best way of getting to places,she insisted that she organize the trip properly.Now I know that the proper way is always her way.I kept asking her,“When are we leaving and when are we coming back?”
I asked her whether she had looked at a map yet.Of cour she hadn’t;my sister doesn’t care about details.So I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai Province.She gave me a determined look--the kind that said she would not change her mind.When I told her that our journey would begin at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters,she emed to be excited about it.When I told her the air would be hard to breathe and it would be very cold,she said it would be an interesting experience.I know my sister well.Once she has made up her mind,nothing can change it.Finally,I had to give in.Several months before our trip,Wang Wei and I went to the library.We found a large atlas with good maps that showed details of world geography.From the atlas we could e that the Mekong River begins in a glacier to move quickly.It becomes rapids as it pass through deep valleys,traveling across western Yunnan Province.Sometimes the river becomes a water fall and enters wide valleys.We were both surprid to learn that half of the river is in China.After it leaves China and high altitude,the Mekong becomes wide,brown and warm.As it enters Southeast Asia,its pace slows.It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice grows.At last,the river delta enters the South China Sea.
九十年代高中英语课文
One dollar and eighty-ven cents.That was all.And sixty cents of it was in pennies.Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and
the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such clo dealing implied.Three times Della counted it.One dollar and eighty-ven cents.And the next day would be Christmas.
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.So Della did it.Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs,sniffles,and smiles,with sniffles predominating.
While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the cond,take a look at the home.A furnished flat at$8 per week.It did not exactly beggar description,but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go,and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name"Mr.James Dillingham Young."
The"Dillingham"had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its posssor was being 诛仙1电影
paid$30 per week.Now,when the income was shrunk to$20,though,they were thinking riously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D.But whenever Mr.James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called"Jim"and greatly hugged by Mrs.James Dillingham Young,already introduced to you as Della.Which is all very good.
Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag.She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.Tomorrow would be Christmas Day,and she had only$1.87 with which to buy Jim a prent.She had been saving every penny she could for months,with this result.Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far.Expens had been greater than she had calc
ulated.They always are.Only$1.87 to buy a prent for Jim.Her Jim.Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him.Something fine and rare and sterling--something 彭于晏电脑壁纸
just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim.
