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The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the Mayflower were originally members of the English Separatist Church (a Puritan sect). They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland (The Netherlands) to escape religious...

One day,a little monkey is playing by the well. 一天，有只小猴子在井边玩儿。 He looks in the well and shouts,Oh!My god!The moon has fallen into the well! 它往井里一瞧，高喊道：噢！我的天！月亮掉到井里头啦！ An older monkeys runs over, take...

April 23 is World Book Day announced by the UNESCO。 This is not a long history of the festival, from 1995 began. However, it has been widely welcomed and responded in the world: held in Copenhagen, Denmark reading marathon, Canada's Toron...

The Scandinavian countries are much admired all over the world for their enlightened social policies. Sweden has evolved an excellent system for protecting the individual citizen from high-handed or incompetent public officers. The system...

Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends? Because they destroy so many insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human race.Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour al...

The difference between a brain and a computer can be expressed in a single word:complexity. 要形容人脑与电脑的区别只需一个词，即：复杂。 Even the most complicated computer man has yet built can't compare in intricacy with the brain. Comput...

The first fifty years of the next millennium will be critical for the world's population. By 2050 population growth should have leveled off, but by then we'll have 10 billion people--two-thirds as many again as we have today. The rate of p...

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth's vegetation and its animal life have been molded by the environm...

Hibernation is more than sleep. It is a very deep sleep.The animal's temperature drops to just over zero centigrade,and its heart beats very slowly. People who find hibernating animals asleep often think that they are dead: the body feels...

Nobody else in the computer industry, or any other industry for that matter, could put on a show like Steve Jobs. His product launches, at which he would stand alone on a black stage and conjure up a magical or incredible new electronic ga...

A snake, having made his hole close to the door of a cottage, inflicted a sever bite on the cottager's little son. So the child died. 有条蛇在一家农舍的门边打了个洞，并把主人的小孩咬了一口，孩子就一命呜呼。 This caused much sorrow to his p...

How to Stay Young 如何保持年轻 The older I grow, the more I appreciate children. Now, at my 80th birthday, I salute them again. Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are freshest from the hand of God. Whi...

Martin Luther King, Jr. 马丁o路德金 I am happy to join with you. today in what will go down in history ,as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.. 今天，我高兴地同大家一起，参加这次将成为我国历史上为了争取自由...

The following words were written on the tomb of an Anglican Bishop in the Crypts of Westminister Abbey: When I was young and free and my imagination had no limits, I dreamed of changing the world. As I grew older and wiser, I discovered th...

If you put a buzzard in a pen six to eight feet square and entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of...