SD冠军锦标赛｜美国藤校演讲与辩论赛中国选拔赛

Women are concerned about their partner becoming attracted to other women by sex, intelligence, and other attractions, and dissatisfaction with the current relationship. 女人担心她们的伴侣被其他女人的性感、理解力和其他特质所吸引，担心会对现在的关系不满意。 Men are more concerned about protecting their egos if they are “beaten out” by another man; they worr...

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What Is American Dream? 什么是美国梦？ What is the American Dream? Is it the same for all Americans? Is it a myth? Is it simply a search for a better life? How has the American Dream changed over time? Some see their dreams wither and die while others see their dreams fulfilled. Why? Everyone has dreams abut a personally fulfilled life… and what is your dream? ...

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Living History 亲历历史 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says that she’s still not quite sure why her memoirs, “Living History,” sold so well. 希拉里·克林顿说她自己仍然不确定她的回忆录《亲历历史》为什么卖得这么好。 In a four-page afterword to the paperback edition, which comes out April 19, the former first lady lists a few possibilities. 4月19日...

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The Origin of Carnival 狂欢节的起源 Carnival is a Christian creation derived from the Latin “Carne vale”, meaning “farewell meat”. 狂欢节是基督教创造的，起源于拉丁文中的Carne vale，意思是“肉啊，再见”。 And this referred to stop eating the meat. Despite its religious origin, Carnival has developed a secular meaning. 这是指停止吃肉。尽管...

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She became convinced that her “life, though lived in the spotlight and blessed with greater opportunities, echoed the experiences of millions of other Americans.” 希拉里·克林顿开始相信“尽管一直生活在聚光灯下，而且总是有很多机会，自己的生活经历还是可以和几百万其他美国人产生共鸣的”。 Some readers, however, had other agendas. 然而有些读者却不以为然。 Cl...

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Space Voyage for the Average Joe and Mary 普通人的太空行 Forty-one years after the original space race began with the launch of the Russian Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, a new race has emerged. 四十一年前，俄罗斯发射世界上第一颗人造卫星，开始了最早的太空竞赛，一种新的竞赛出现了。 Its goal is to make space flight accessible to the average Joe or Mar...

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Lesson 4 第四课 The geese in a formation honk from behind to encourage those in front to keep up their speed. 为了鼓励队形前方的大雁，后面的雁群往往发出鼓励叫声。 We need to make sure our honking from behind is encouraging and not something else. 我们需要确信雁叫声是从后面发出的，而不是别的什么地方。 In groups where there is great encouragement against gre...

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But in the eyes of many UFO fans, government officials were trying to hide information on extraterrestrial UFOs for fear of mass panic. 但是在许多UFO迷们看来，政府官员试图遮掩公众对天外来客的UFO的恐惧感。 The UFO craze continued throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. 不明飞行物的热潮在二十世纪后期持续了几十年。 Numbers of sightings increased ste...

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Rick was chosen for US-British test pilot exchange program in 1992. 1992年，里克被选入美国— 英国皇家空军试飞员交换项目。 We moved to the English countryside, where our marriage grew to a deeper level with no barriers standing between us. 我们搬到了英国乡下。在国外的那段时间我们的婚姻发展到了心心相印的水平，没有隔阂。 Later Rick applied a fourth time for the spac...

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Possible low grade. Because dorm life is very social, your grades may be affected in a negative way. If you constantly choose hanging out with your dorm buddies over studying at the library, then your GPA will suffer. 可能会导致成绩下降。因为宿舍生活会很社交化，你的成绩可能会对你的成绩有负面影响。如果你时常和室友出去玩而不是在图书馆里自习，那么你的GPA会下降。 Off-Camp...

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To Become a Leader at Your School 成为校园领袖 Many leaders have certain traits and perform certain tasks that allow them to be respected by other people. 许多领导人都有特定的品质和做事的执行力，因而能得到其他人的尊重。 If you would like to become a respected leader at your school, then you need to be knowledgeable about what it takes to be a good leader. 如...

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How Love Endures? 爱如何不停运转？ It’s a year I could never have imagined happening, let alone getting through. 这一年我不敢去想发生了什么，更不用说我是如何度过每一天的。 A year since I lost the love of my life, the man I expected to be with forever, the man whose face I still long to see when I wake up in the morning. 一年前，我失去了我的爱人，那个我...

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Understanding Jealousy 理解嫉妒 Most of us have experienced Shakespeare’s “green-eyed monster”—jealousy. It is a terrible obsession. 大多数的我们都经历过莎士比亚笔下的“绿眼怪物”——嫉妒。这是摆脱不了的困扰。 Often in a crisis we’d like to kill the person who tries to take our lover away. 通常在一场危机中，我们想杀死抢走我们爱人的那个人。...

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UFO Mystery UFO之谜 The first mass sightings of UFOs in the United States came in 1896, when a number of people from California to the Midwest reported seeing mysterious aircraft. 第一次大规模目击UFO是在1896年的美国，据说当时有一群来自加利福利亚的人在去中西部地区的途中看到了神秘的航空器。 According to reports, these flying machines were cigar-shaped with intense...

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