“I would almost rather see you dead.” Robert S. Cassatt, a leading banker of Philadelphia, shouted when his twenty-year-old eldest daughter announced that she wanted to become an artist. In the 19th century, playing at drawing or painting on dishes was all right for a young lady, but serious work in art was not. And when the young lady’s

Thanksgiving Day is always celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. It is the most traditional of American holidays. The first Thanksgiving was held in Massachusetts in 1621. After a year of great hardship, the Pilgrim(朝圣) colonists(移民) wanted to give thanks to God for their first harvest. They invited their Indian friends to join

E
Children have their own rules in playing games. They seldom

A
Dolphins (海豚) are not fish, but warm-blooded animals. They live in groups, and speak to each other in their own language. In this they are like other animals, such as bees and birds. But dolphins are very different from

The“big land”is rich and most of it is almost uninhabited（无人居住的）．The Russians，who discovered Alaska in 1741，found only a few thousand Eskimos and Indians there．These people made a bare living by hunting and fishing．Russia was therefore，happy to sell the place to the U．S．in 1867 for U．S．$7，200，000．That was about the U．S．2 cents per

Much of mankind's attitude toward the sea can be traced（追溯）to a misplaced faith in its clearly limitless resources．The shallow muddy water over continental shelves is indeed rich in biological resources；but we are already exploiting almost all the fish，oil and minerals they have to offer．Almost every major fishery has been over-fis

It is understood that a ballad is a song that tells a story, but a folk song is not so easily defined. A ballad is a folk song, but a folk song is not a ballad until it tells a story. Folk song then has included many kinds of

The development of television has made a great impact on film, which has given people the impression that the film is arriving at its end.
Under such situation, a kind of stereoscopic film, w

It is important that all the details you include in a paragraph are relevant and support the main idea of the paragraph (expressed in the topic sentence). Read the following paragraph and cross out the sentences and clauses which you consider irrelevant. The topic sentence has b

Students who will go to university talk about what they expect and want from the experience.
IMOGEN CASEBOURNE
I see my degree as

Time and time again, one may be warned, “Your name will be Mud.” Many have used the expression in the mistaken belief that it has something to do with the kind of dirt found in the streets or on unclean river bottoms. But the expression comes from the name of Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd, a physician who fixed the broken leg of John Wilk

There are many famous museums throughout the world where people can enjoy art. Washington D. C. has the National Gallery of Art(美术馆); Paris has the Louvre; London, the British Museum. Florida International University (FIU) in Miami also shows art for people to see. And it does so without a building, or even a wall for its drawings and pa

B
Some time ago I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn't think there would be any difficulty in getting it mended, as there are a whole lot of antique(古董) shops near my home. So I left home one morning

C
Most British telephone cards just plain green, but card collecting becoming a popular hobby in Britain and collectors even have their own magazine, International Telephone Cards. One reason for their interest is that car

John Lee had been sentenced to death for cruelly taking another person's life．On the morning of that chilly day in November 1884，the scene was set for his execution．The public executioner setup the gallows，a wooden framework used for hanging criminals．
At the specified hour，t