新东方背诵文选 Lesson 19:children’s numerical skills

19.children’s numerical skills people appear to born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impress accuracy—one knife, one spoon, one fork, for each of the five ...

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新东方背诵文选 Lesson 18:Modern American Universities

Modern American Universities   Before the 1850’s, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral character of their students. Throughout Europe, institutions of higher learning had developed, bearing the ancient name of university....

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新东方背诵文选 Lesson 21:The Origin of Sports

The Origin of Sports   When did sport begin? If sport is, in essence, play, the claim might be made that sport is much older than humankind, for , as we all have observed, the beasts play. Dogs and cats wrestle and play ball games. Fishes and birds dance. The apes have simple, pleasurable games. Frolicking infants, school children playing tag, and adult arm wrestlers ar...

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新东方背诵文选 Lesson 20:The Historical Significance of A

The Historical Significance of American Revolution The ways of history are so intricate and the motivations of human actions so complex that it is always hazardous to attempt to represent events covering a number of years, a multiplicity of persons, and distant localities as the expression of one intellectual or social movement; yet the historical process which culminated in...

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美丽英文诵读(22)Promise Yourself Only the Best(努力实现最好)

Promise yourself to dream more and hesitate less.努力让自己多一点如心所愿,少一些己所不愿。 To believe in yourself more and judge yourself less by the accomplishments of others.多一点相信自己,少一点将他人成就作为自我评价的标准尺度。To appreciate your family and friends for all the wonderful ways they make your life better.珍视家庭和朋友,他们为你的生命增添光彩。Promise your...

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