背誦爲王第一冊 Unit01:Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is the most important festival for Chinese people all over the world. It is also called the Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year.
The exact date of the Spring Festival on the Western calendar changes from year to year. However, Chinese New Year takes place between January 1 and February 19.
On the Chinese calendar every year has an animal's name. These animals are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. A Chinese legend says that these twelve animals had a race. The first year was named after the rat, the winner. The other eleven years were named according to the order in which the animals arrived in the race. The clever rat jumped onto the ox's back, and then at the end jumped over the ox's head to arrive first!
The Chinese believe that a person born in a particular year has some of the characteristics of that animal.
lunar 月(亮)的
exact 確切的
calendar 日曆
rat 鼠
ox 公 牛
rabbit 兔子
ram 公羊
rooster 公雞
legend 傳說
name after 按....命名
particular 特殊的
characteristic 特徵
春 節
對於全世界的華人來說，中國的新年是最重要的節日。人們也稱它爲春節或農曆新年。 公曆春節的確切日期每年都在變化。但是春節一般都在 1 月 1 日 到 2 月 19 日 之間。在農曆中，每年都有一個生肖。這些生肖是鼠、牛、虎、兔、龍、蛇、馬、羊、猴、雞、狗和豬。據傳說，這十二個動物舉行了一次賽跑，第一年就以獲勝者鼠命名，其他十一年就根據動物們到達終點的順序命名。聰明的鼠跳在牛背上，在最後時刻跳過牛的頭頂第一個到達終點！
中國人相信在某一年出生的人具有這一年生肖的一些特徵。
背誦爲王第一冊 Unit02:Guidelines for Doing Schoolwork
A Teenager's Joke: Guidelines for Doing Schoolwork
My school had a policy about homework. Students should not spend more than ninety minutes per night doing homework. This is how I use the time for my work.
Fifteen minutes looking for assignment; Eleven minutes calling a friend for the assignment; Twenty three minutes explaining why the teacher is mean and does not like teenagers; Eight minutes in the bathroom; Ten minutes getting a snack; Seven minutes checking the TV Guide;
Six minutes telling my parents that the teacher never explained the assignment;
Ten minutes sitting at the kitchen table waiting for Mom or Dad to do the assignment.
uideline 指導方針
policy 政策
per 每
assignment 作業
mean 低劣的
snack 小吃
TV guide 電視指南
有關青少年的一則笑話——做作業的'指導方針
我的學校有一項針對作業的政策。學生每天晚上做作業的時間不應該超過九十分鐘。以下
就是我如何爲完成作業而使用這九十分鐘的。
花十五分鐘找作業；
花十一分鐘打電話向同學問作業；
花二十三分 鍾抱怨 老師爲什麼總是那麼討厭，爲什麼不喜歡我們這些十幾歲的孩子；
花八分鐘在洗手間裏；
花十分鐘找小吃；
花七分鐘查看電視節目預告；
花六分鐘告訴父母，老師從沒解釋過所佈置的作業；
背誦爲王第一冊 Unit03:The Toad and the Frog
The Toad and the Frog
A toad saw a frog near the road. He was a fat old frog. He sat and moaned and groaned.
The toad said, “Do not moan and groan, Mr. Frog. Hop like me. Hop down the road.”
So the frog and the toad went down the road to a big oak tree.
“I am home,” said the toad. “Come in and I will make tea.”
But Mr. Frog said, in a deep croak, “I must not roam far from home. I will be off to my home near the pond.”
toad 蟾蜍,癩蛤蟆
moan 呻吟
hop 跳躍
oak 橡樹
croak 一種低而嘶啞的聲音
癩蛤蟆和青蛙
一隻癩蛤蟆在路邊看到一隻青蛙。那是隻又胖又老的青蛙。他坐在那裏呻吟歎息着。
癩蛤蟆說：“青蛙先生，不要呻吟歎息了。像我一樣跳吧。沿着這條路跳。”
所以青蛙和癩蛤蟆一起沿着小路跳到一棵大橡樹下。
“我到家了，”癩蛤蟆說，“進來吧，我來泡茶。”
但青蛙用低沉的聲音說：“我不能在離家遠的地方閒逛，我要回我在池塘邊上的家。”
