Bruce and Dick were not brothers. They were good friends in Mr. Robert's class at school. Dick was a good pupil, and he enjoyed his lessons. Bruce was well, Bruce was different.
      One day Mr. Robert said to the class: "Write a little story in English. Here's the name of the story." He wrote "The Br

My husband and I went to the wedding of our friend's daughter．It was a very large wedding for our town．Almost one hundred people were there．I always get tired in large crowds，so I told my husband that I would rather not stay for the party after the wedding．My hu

Elephants are the largest land animals in the world．They live in Africa and the south of Asia．
There are two kinds of elephant—African and lndian．African elephants are bigger than lndian elephants．They often weigh five or six t

Work out the answers to the following problems．
1．An express train leaves London for Manchester at 9：15 in the morning．It travels at an average of 165 k．p．h．A slow train leaves Manchester for London at 10：30 th

A member of an average（普通）British family watches 22 hours of television a week．A person living alone watches even more than that—36 hours．
Soap operas（肥皂剧）are by far the most popular programmes on British TV．They are more popul

Alan worked in an office in the city．He worked very hard and really wanted to take a holiday．
He usually went to the seaside，but one day he saw an ad in a newspaper．“Enjoy country life．Spend a few weeks at Willow Far

大自然的景色变化万千。昼夜的更迭、季节的变换、日月星辰、山川地貌，都令我们惊叹不已。这些景象的英文名称我们大概都已学过不少了。但跟这些常用词语有关的习惯用语，你又懂多少呢？
这里给同学们介绍一些自然景象名称 mountain，coral，earth，ocean构成的英语习惯用语，配上汉语对照，使你明白它们的含义、用法及有关知识。生动有趣的漫画更可加深你的印象，学习英语词语就变成了一件轻松愉快的事了。英汉对照，你还可以从中揣摩翻译

2.根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
　　这种题，我们见的很多，在与教材配套的练习册上，几乎每个单元都有这种练习。但上面所说的练习和阅读理解中的练习不完全相同，前者一般可以在课文中直接找到答案，而编写的好的阅读理解题，则不可能直接从文章中找到答案的，而是要经过推敲、比较，才能根据文章内容回答所提的问题。请看下面的练习：
The Sea
　　The sea looks very beautiful when the sun is shining on it.It can be very terrible when there is a strong wind.

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American boys and girls love to watch television．Some children spend six hours a day in school and four to six hours a day in front of the television set．Some children even watch television for eight hours or more on Saturday．May parents let their children wa

Watson won his most important game and became Southern Chess Master（南部象棋大师）in 1977．He was given the silver（银）cup．
“It isn't rightly mine，”he said，when he was holding the cup．“It was won two years ago when I was on holiday in ．．．”

Cheese is made from（由……做成） the milk of cows，sheep or goats．It has always been one of the most important foods for westerners．It can be eaten alone or served in salads，sandwiches，etc（可以单独吃奶酪，也可以放在色拉、三明治等食物中吃）．

Beer is a drink popular among male adults（成年男性）throughout the world．Most beers，though not strong alcoholic（酒精的）drinks，contain（含有）from two to six per cent alcohol（酒精）．So it is not good for young people to take to beer．

During the wet season，or the rainy season，there are naturally（自然地）a lot of wet days，or rainy days．On a wet day workers who work outdoors will get wet through if they happen to have no raincoats on（在雨天，如果在户外干活的工人碰巧没穿雨衣，就会全身湿透。）．

Beef is one of the chief（主要的）foods in many countries，especially（特别地）in Western countries．Beef steak（牛排）is one of the main courses of a Western-style（西式的）meal．Beef tea，stewed juice from beef（从牛肉炖出的汁），is chiefly for people who are weak or ill（主要供虚弱的人或病人食用）．

Sydney is an important commercial（商业的），industrial（工业的）and tourist centre on the southeast coast of Australia．It is Australia's largest city with a populat