英语短文阅读

英语短文阅读范例[15篇]

英语短文阅读1

　　一、题型要求

　　补全短文的设计思路是，给出一篇300-450词的短文，其中有5处空白，文章后面有6段文字，要求应试者根据文章的内容选择5段文字，将其放回文章原有位置，以恢复文章原貌。这种题型重在考查应试者把握文章结构、掌握作者思路的能力。这是一种较高层次的阅读理解能力，要求考生能够从宏观的角度把握文章的内容和结构，要想做好这类题，必须从语篇的角度，搞清楚文章的脉络，吃透文章的意思。

　　二、解题技巧

　　补全短文是职称英语六大题型中最难的一种题型，在做这种题型时要先预测选项，注意抓选项主干，猜测选项的大致意思，同时要注意连词，代词，名词，形容词，副词等的出现。之后回到原文中看看空白处所在的位置，如果是在段首句，也许意味着是中心主题句，如果是在段尾句，也许意味着是中心主题句或是细节论述，如果是在段中，也许意味着是细节论述。最后根据空白处的前后句的意思，按先易后难的顺序将原文恢复原貌。做完之后在把文章看一遍，检查一下所填的顺序是否符合文章二下文的要求。

　　这类题要求根据给定短文(原文)的意思，在6个选项句子(陈述句)中分别选出5个符合语法知识、逻辑结构和前后内容意思衔接的选项，补充到原文划线的填充处，使原文成为一篇意思完整、前后连贯的短文，所以这类题实际上是段落填充题。这类题本意是要考查较高的阅读能力、基础知识(语法、词汇等)和综合逻辑思维推理能力，其难度较大，是最令人头痛的'题型，并且其每题占的分值高(2分，只比阅读理解少1分)，加上各选项环环相扣，选错了一个至少错两个甚至更多，所以填错一个选项，就意味着至少没有了4分，这比所有类型的题的含金量都要高，不过，它也是把双刃剑，容易丢分的题，也是最容易得分题，每选对一个，也一样意味着其它选项选择的成功率大大提高，何况只有1个干扰项，排除起来更容易。所以，对这类题要有信心、决心和细心，如果做得好，它比“阅读理解”更容易拿分。

　　1、做题总思路：

　　从分析题型知道，这类题其实是前两类考题(“阅读判断”和“概括大意与完成句子”)的综合，说白一点，它只不过是要找出各选项在原文的出处而已，并且这个出处已经确定了5个填充处给予选择，从这点上说，比前两类题更简单。所以，做前两类题的步骤和技巧，特别是思路和逻辑推理方法，在这类题中运用更合适、更能体现和更能发挥得淋漓尽致。

　　针对这类题的要求和特点：是要在6个选项句子(陈述句)中分别选出5个符合语法知识、逻辑结构和前后内容意思衔接的选项，补充到原文划线的填充处(是在某段落之前、之后或两句子之中)，使原文成为一篇意思完整、前后连贯的短文;根据其要求与特点，有的放矢，我们再次运用综合分析排除法来选出正确的答案：一是不“符合语法知识”的排除，二是不“符合逻辑结构”的排除，三是不能使填充处“前后内容衔接、意思连贯”的排除。

　　要正确运用这些方法，当然能通读并读懂原文最好，但很难做到并且没有必要这样做，我们的思路总是要化复杂为简单、化难为易、化大为小来做题，所以，我们要把短文化为句子、句子化为单词来做，这样就简单得多了。因此，做这类题的重点，一是选项句子，而选项句子重点是它的中心词，包括：名词、代词和连接词，这三种词是我们必须重视的，也是我们了解该选项句子意思，运用上述三种方法的前提，二是填充处的前后段或前后句子，弄清楚这个填充处所在位置的意义以及其前后段或前后句子的逻辑关系和内容意思，也是运用上述方法的前提。

　　2、做题步骤：(根据总思路和参照前两类考题，分四步走)

　　(1)第一步：找出各选项句子中心词：名词、代词和连接词，了解这句子的大概意思(要该选项中划出其中心词并简要写也其大意)。对于中心词的查找方法，除了直接查字典外，请参看前两类考题所述技巧，在此不再赘述。建议：如果有点英语基础，在做这一步之前最好快速游览一个全文，了解全文大概是讲什么的。然后，根据各选项句子的大概意思，初步设想一下它们最有可能的位置和彼此顺序(当然，这也可以不做);

　　(2)第二步：按顺序了解某一个填充处前后段或前后句子的逻辑关系和大概内容意思。这也是类似找中心句子与中心词的方法，找出前后段最接近填充处的句子的中心词(名词、代词和连接词)，或者找出填充处前后句子的中心词，了解其大概意思和相互间的逻辑关系;

　　(3)第三步：把选项句子中心词及其大意与填充处前后段或前后句子的逻辑关系及大意进行对照，运用下述的做题技巧，综合分析排除，确定最有可能的选项或直接确定答案;并把确定了的答案把它划去和把最有可能的选项(A、B、C…)写到填充处，无论能否确定答案，都要接着往下做下一个填空处，以如类推。因为这类题是6选5，基本上是一个萝卜一个筐，每个选项最多只能用一次，并且基本上都必须用上，所以，不能确定最后唯一答案时，基本上可以通过做其它的填充处，甚至到最后把所有的填充处综合起来推敲，也可以确定各填充处的答案，因此，不要急于求成，困死在某一个填充处上;

　　(4)第四步：利用综合分析排除法，最后理顺并最终确定各选项的所有位置。确定了所有答案后，划去干扰项，把各选项对号入座，进行检查和印证。进一步理顺它们的一对一对应关系。如果存在较大的疑虑或者总是觉得不是很顺而是觉得很勉强很别扭，你就要好好重做一遍了，这种情况下一定是乱点鸳鸯谱，搞错了选项。

英语短文阅读2

　　In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 51 —— 55, choose the most suitable one from the list A. - [G] to fit into each of the numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET.

　　The social sciences are flourishing. As of 20xx, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia. According to the World Social Science Report 20xx, the number of social-science students worldwide has swollen by about 11% every year since 20xx. Yet this enormous resource in not contributing enough to today s global challenges including climate change, security, sustainable development and health.

　　(1)_________ Humanity has the necessary aggro-technological tools to eradicate hunger, from genetically engineered crops to artificial fertilizers. Here, too, the problems are social: the organization and distribution of food, wealth and prosperity.

　　(2) _________This is a shame--the community should be grasping the opportunity to raise its influence in the real world. To paraphrase the great social scientist Joseph Schumpeter: there is no radical innovation without creative destruction.

　　Today, the social sciences are largely focused on disciplinary problems and internal scholarly debates, rather than on topics with external impact.

　　Analyses reveal that the number of papers including the keywords "environmental changed" or "climate change" have increased rapidly since 20xx, (3)_________

　　When social scientists do tackle practical issues, their scope is often local: Belgium is interested mainly in the effects of poverty on Belgium for example. And whether the community s work contribute much to an overall accumulation of knowledge is doubtful.

　　The problem is not necessarily the amount of available funding. (4)_________ This is an adequate amount so long as it is aimed in the right direction. Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today s economic climate.

　　The trick is to direct these funds better. The European Union Framework funding programs have long had a category specifically targe

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　　答案

　　Mr. Johnson had a factory. He once 1 on TV that animals could be taught to 2 some work for people if they were given 3 to eat. He loved the idea. He thought it would be 4 to have a dog look after his 5 and an elephant do some heavy jobs 6 his factory. He bought a dog 7 an elephant in the market and decided to teach them to do some work for him. Of course. he 8 bought a lot of food for them. Several months later，the dog and the elephant 9 fatter and fatter，but they 10 do any work for him. At last，Mr. Johnson had to give up.

　　1. A. saw B. asked C. met 2. A. make B. do C. 1et

　　3. A. someone B. nothing C. something 4. A. bad B. good C. 1ate

　　5. A. house B. shirt C. eyes 6. A. in B. above C. under

　　7. A. but B. or C. and 8. A. also B. never C. yet 9. A. xxx elt B. sounded C. became

　　10. A. mustn’t B. couldn’t C. shouldn’t 2 At our school, we sometimes have a special day to help others. Last year we went to an old people’s 1 and sang songs and performed a play for 2 . The old people were very 3 . We should be allowed to take time to do things like that more often. For example, we should 4 primary schools and help 5 young students. I want to be a teacher 6 I’m older so it would be a great experience for me. Other students would like to do other jobs. For example, my friend Tian Ge wants to 7 for a newspaper. She should be allowed to volunteer at the newspaper office once a week. 1. A. home B. bank C. shop D. river 2. A. us B. them C. him D. her 3. A. great B. angry C. xxx art D. happy 4. A. buy B. have C. visit D. build 5. A. tell B. ask C. teach D. find 6. A. how B. when C. where D. why 7. A. write B. wait C. look D. pay 求解 七年级英语阅读和完形填空

　　应该是CEBGA

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　　Four best friends met at the hospital since their wives were giving births to their babies. The nurse comes up to the first man and says, "Congratulations, you got twins."The man said "How strange, I'm the manager of Minnesota Twins." After awhile the nurse comes up to the second man and says, "Congratulations, you got triplets." Man was like "Hmmm, strange I worked as a director for the "3 musketeers." Finally, the nurse comes up to the third man and says "Congratulations, you got twins x2."

　　Man is happy and says, "Ironic, I work for the hotel "4 Seasons." All three of them are happy until they see their last buddy jumping all over the place, cursing God and banging his head on the wall.They asked him what's wrong and he answered, "What's wrong? I work for 7up"！

英语短文阅读5

　　Bing in love

　　Love starts as an attraction to another. Love grows with mutual respect. Love thrives on confidence and dignity. Love survives on wisdom and honor.

　　New love, stirs the emotions, moves the soul and fires the blood setting hearts aflame. Love of amate provides us with another soul to feel kinship, with someone to share life with, someone tobe loved, in spite of shortcomings and human frailties. Someone to recall the past with, to dreamwith. Someone with whom silence is comfortable. Another soul on the earth who is in tune withyours . Someone who cares deeply about your well being and who in turn is cared for by you…just as deeply.

　　Someone whose happiness means as much, if not more than your own . Someone to place your trust in without fear of betrayal .Not having to worry when you’re apart, because you are secure in the knowledge that they will honor the love you share. Someone to helpfully grow old beside, to share the winter of life with, while recalling the summer of your dreams .

　　A lover is someone who, with a look, can touch your heart, ease your mind and bring comfort to your soul.

　　A lover is someone who, with a look, can touch your heart, ease your mind and bring comfort to your soul. Someone whose voice is music to your ear. Someone who by just entering a room makes your heart soar and joy fill your being, makes you want to touch them, be close to them. Who can turn your blood to molten fire with desire, their presence being food for your soul. Someone for whom your love grows stronger not weaker with the passing years. Someone who is willing to talk out problems and share concerns, not look for an easy way out if all does not go just as expected.

　　Someone to share all thing with: tenderness, passion, warmth, dreams and desire, laughter and tears but mostly life’s journey. A casually dropped piece of clothing can bring your love to mind as the scent of them clings, and turns your thoughts to love, as pleasant memories collect to be reviewed at leisure.

　　Love of a partner requires long-term commitment and wisdom and above all, work from both partners to nourish and nurture that love into a living growing thing. Without nourishment, all things die, even love.

　　Do not easily discard love, for the day may come when love, in turn, discards you. Place a high value in this the most precious of life’s joys. Some never find this treasure, many find and lose it through no fault of their own.. Some discard it lightly as if it were of little value and easily replaced. The ability to love and be loved is the most precious of gifts given to man, and as such should be highly treasured.

　　Love has the real power to make man come bake to life . —— Goethe

　　1. mutual 相互的，彼此的；共同的，共有的

　　Other organizations have joined the confederation for mutual benefit.

　　其他组织为了共同的利益也加入了这个联盟。

　　2. kinship n. 血缘关系，亲属关系，亲密关系

　　I feel a strong kinship with him.

　　我觉得与他十分投契。

　　3. betrayal n. 背叛，暴露

　　Confession is not betrayal.

　　招供不是出卖。

　　4. recall vt. 回想起

　　I can't recall how long it has been.

　　我回忆不起来多长时间了。

　　5. tenderness n.娇嫩；柔软；温柔

　　I dare not touch the flower for its tenderness.

　　这花太娇嫩了，我不敢碰它。

　　6. scent n. 气味，香味

　　The scent of the flowers was wafted along by the breeze.

　　微风送来了花香。

　　7. nourishment n. 营养，滋养品，养料

　　He told me I wanted nourishment.

　　他对我说，我需要营养。

　　8. discard vt.丢弃，抛弃

　　He discarded his winter clothing.

　　他把冬天穿的衣服都脱掉了。

　　爱始于他人的吸引，因互相尊重而成长，因自信与高贵而茁长，因英明与荣誉而幸存。

　　新生的爱情，搅动沉寂的情感，搅动灵魂，点燃心中的热血。夫妻之爱，使你感觉来自另一个灵魂的亲情，与他分享生活。爱一个人，就不在意他身上的缺点和人性的脆弱。与他一起，可以有意义深远的交谈，并规划未来；可以与他一起回忆从前，畅想未来。有了他，沉默也令人舒服。世界上的另一个灵魂与你和谐而鸣，他更关心你的健康，你也一样深深地牵挂着他。

　　他的快乐意味着你同样，甚或更多的快乐。他让你相信爱情，不再害怕背叛。即使离别也没有丝毫担忧，因为你确信他会坚守你们的爱。他让你充满希望地老去，他会同你一起追忆梦中的夏季，共度生命的寒冬。

　　爱人，就是那个一眼就能触动你的心灵、放松你的精神、带给你灵魂安慰的人。

　　爱人，就是那个一眼就能触动你的心灵、放松你的'精神、带给你灵魂安慰的人。他的声音是你耳中的乐曲。他刚刚进入房门，你的心跳就会加速，无比的喜悦之情溢满全身，让你有种想接触他、靠近他的冲动。他点燃你心中渴望的热血，他的存在是你的心灵食粮。你对他的爱与日俱增，不会随着时间的流逝有丝毫的减退。他愿意同你一起解决困难，分担忧虑。假如一切不能如期进行，他不会坐视不管，逃之夭夭。他和你分享一切：柔情、激情、亲切、梦想和渴望、欢笑、泪水，还有最多的人生之旅。他不经意间换下的衣物，像有他的体香一样，都可以唤起你的爱意，将你的思绪带入爱情，就像闲暇时回忆快乐的记忆一样。

　　爱一个人，就要承担长期的责任，这需要睿智。更重要的是，需要双方不断努力滋养和培育爱情，使之成为一种有生命的、不断成长的事物。一切都需要滋养，爱情亦是如此。

　　不要轻易抛弃爱，因为或许有一天，爱会反过来将你抛弃。请诊视生命中这份最宝贵的快乐。有些从未发现爱情的珍贵，很多人找到了，却又无端的地失去了。有些人轻轻地将爱丢弃，似乎它毫无价值，似乎爱可以随意代替。爱与被爱的能力是上天赐予人的珍贵礼物，正因如此，爱应该好好珍藏。

　　爱是使人复苏的真正动力。 ——歌德

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　　一、摒弃6大不良阅读习惯。

　　1.读得非常慢，非常仔细，不相信自己能全部理解所读的东西。

　　2.阅读时嘴唇和舌头在动。

　　3.头随着文字符号的位置左右移动。

　　4.经常回读，读过的东西又重新读一遍、甚至几遍。

　　5.读什么样体裁的文章都用一样的速度。

　　6.有很多单词不认识，或不知道它在此处的含义。

　　二、带着6个问题阅读：

　　1.作者要表达的主要思想。

　　2.文章的主要内容和次要内容，并能把他们区分开来。

　　3.了解并记住文章中最重要的内容。

　　4.文章结构及事件发生的时间、空间顺序。

　　5.作者的观点、意图、写作风格及其偏见等。

　　6.用自己的阅历和知识对文章进行分析、评价。

　　三、遇到生词要会猜,阅读中遇到生词，最好的方法是通过上下文猜测。

　　1.看看上下文中有没有生词的另一种说法，即找同义词。有时下文会对一个词做解释，或者提供一些暗示。

　　2.看词性，判断其是名词、动词、形容词、副词或其他词类。

　　3.分析生词的构成，尤其是词的前缀和后缀。英语中很多词都是加前缀和后缀而来的。比如根据前缀re-和后缀-ity的含义，你就可以准确地猜出rewrite和similarity的意思。

　　4.看看同一生词是否在上下文的其他地方出现，把两处的语境相比较，也许更能准确地猜出词义。

　　5.充分利用你阅读内容中已有的知识。

　　四、以下几条建议可以帮助推论：

　　1.结合作者的思想、观点及其创作目的、创作背景进行推论。

　　2.寻找作者直接陈述的诸多事件之间的联系。

　　3.仔细体会一些重要词的含蓄意义及其感情色彩。比如politician和statesman的'意思都是“政客家”，但前者有贬义的色彩，即“政客”，后者则没有。

　　4.从作者的语气、语调、措辞等文体特征，读出作者的“言外之意”。

　　5.得出推论后，尽量从上下文中寻找证据。

　　6.充分利用自己各方面的知识，把文章中所述的事件和自己的阅历或熟悉的事情联系起来思考。

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　　Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it. The article began: 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace.' The editor at once

　　sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.

　　The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two urgent telegrams, but received no reply. He sent yet another telegram informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written. A week later, the editor at last received a telegram from the journalist. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a cable in which he informed the editor that he had been arrested while counting the 1084 steps leading to the 15-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.

　　报刊杂志的编辑常常为了向读者提供成立一些关紧要的事实和统计数字而走向极端。去年，一位记者受一家有名的杂志的'委托写一篇关于非洲某个新成立共和国总统府的文章。稿子寄来后，编辑看第一句话就拒绝予以发表。文章的开头是这样的："几百级台阶通向环绕总统的高墙。"编辑立即给那位记者发去传真，要求他核实一下台阶的确切数字和围墙的高度。

　　记者立即出发去核实这些重要的事实，但过了好长时间不见他把数字寄来，在此期间，编辑等得不耐烦了，因为杂志马上要付印。他给记者先后发去两份传真，但对方毫无反应。于是他又发了一份传真，通知那位记者说，若再不迅速答复，将被解雇。但记者还是没有回复。编辑无奈，勉强按原样发稿了。一周之后，编辑终于接到记者的传真。那个可怜的记者不仅被捕了，而且还被送进了监狱。不过，他终于获准发回了一份传真。在传真中他告诉编辑，就在他数通向15英尺高的总统府围墙的1，084级台阶时，被抓了起来。

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　　The expensive shops in a famous arcade near Piccadilly were just opening. At this time of the morning, the arcade was almost empty. Mr Taylor, the owner of a jewellery shop was admiring a new window display. Two of his assistants had been working busily since 8 o'clock and had only just finished. Diamond necklaces and rings had been beautifully arranged on a background of black velvet. After gazing at the display for several minutes, Mr Taylor went back into his shop.

　　The silence was suddenly broken when a large car, with its headlights on and its horn blaring, roared down the arcade. It came to a stop outside the jeweler's. One man stayed at the wheel while two others with black stockings over their faces jumped out and smashed the window of the shop with iron bars. While this was going on, Mr Taylor was upstairs. He and his staff began throwing furniture out of the window. Chairs and tables went flying into the arcade. One of the thieves was struck by a heavy statue, but he was too busy helping himself to diamonds to notice any pain. The raid was all over in three minutes, for the men scrambled back into the car and it moved off at a fantastic speed. Just as it was leaving, Mr Taylor rushed out and ran after it throwing ashtrays and vases, but it was impossible to stop the thieves. They had got away with thousands of pounds worth of diamonds.

　　皮卡迪利大街附近的一条著名拱廊街道上，几家高档商店刚刚开始营业。在早晨的这个时候，拱廊街上几乎空无一人。珠宝店主泰勒先生正在欣赏新布置的橱窗。他手下两名店员从早上8点就开始忙碌，这时刚刚布置完毕。钻石项链、戒指漂亮地陈列在黑色丝绒上面。泰勒先生站在橱窗外凝神欣赏了几分钟就回到了店里。

　　宁静突然被打破，一辆大轿车亮着前灯，响着喇叭，呼啸着冲进了拱廊街，在珠宝店门口停了下来。一人留在驾驶座上，另外两个用黑色长筒丝袜蒙面的人跳下车来。他们用铁棒把商店橱窗的玻璃砸碎。这开始发生时，泰勒先生正在楼上。他与店员动手向窗外投掷家具，椅子，桌子飞落花流水在拱廊街上。一个窃贼被一尊很重的雕像击中，但由于他忙着抢钻石首饰，竟连疼痛都顾不上了。这场抢劫只持续了3分钟，因为窃贼争先恐后地爬上轿车，以惊人的`速度开跑了。就在轿车离开的时候，泰勒先生从店里冲了出来，跟在车后追赶，一边还往车上扔烟灰缸、花瓶。但他已无法抓住那些窃贼了。他们已带着价值数千镑的首饰逃之夭夭了。

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　　Don’t Work for Money 不做有才华的穷人

　　The world is filled with smart, talented, educated and gifted people. We meet them every day. A few days ago, my car was not running well. I pulled it into a garage, and the young mechanic had it fixed in just a few minutes. He knew what was wrong by simply listening to the engine. I was amazed. The sad truth is, great talent is not enough.

　　世界上满坑满谷都是精明能干、才华横溢、学富五车以及极具天赋之人，我们每天都会见到他们。几天前，我的汽车运转不灵了。我把它开进维修厂，一位年轻的机械工只消几分钟就把它修好了。他仅凭倾听发动机的声音就能确定哪儿有毛病，这让我惊奇不已。然而遗憾的是，光有非凡才华是不够的。

　　I am constantly shocked at how little talented people earn. I heard the other day that less than 5 percent of Americans earn more than $100,000 a year. A business consultant who specializes in1 the medical trade was telling me how many doctors, dentists and chiropractors struggle financially. All this time, I thought that when they graduated, the dollars would pour in. It was this business consultant who gave me the phrase, “They are one skill away from great wealth.” What this phrase means is that most people need only to learn and master one more skill and their income would jump exponentially. I have mentioned before that financial intelligence is a synergy of accounting, investing, marketing and law. Combine those four technical skills and making money with money is easier. When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.

　　我常常吃惊，为什么有才华的人却只有微薄的收入。前几天我听人说，只有不到5%的美国人年收入在10万美元以上。一位精通药品贸易的商务顾问曾经告诉我，有有许多医生、牙医和按摩师生活拮据。以前我总以为他们一毕业，财源便会滚滚而来。这位商务顾问告诉了我一句话：“离发大财，他们还差一项技能。”这句话的意思是说，大部分人还需多学习并掌握一项技能，他们的收入才能呈指数倍增长。以前我提到过，财商是会计、投资、市场营销和法律方面的能力综合。将上述四种专业技能结合起来，以钱生钱就会更容易。说到钱，大部分人所知的唯一技能就是拼命工作。

　　When I graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1969, my educated dad was happy. Standard Oil of California had hired me for its oil-tanker fleet. I had a great career ahead of me, yet I resigned after six months with the company and joined the Marine Corps to learn how to fly. My educated dad was devastated. Rich dad congratulated me.

　　1969年，我从美国海运学院毕业了。我那有学识的爸爸十分高兴，因为加州标准石油公司录用我为它的油轮队工作。尽管我的未来前程远大，但我还是在6个月后辞职离开了这家公司，加入海军陆战队去学习飞行。对此我那有学识的爸爸非常伤心，而富爸爸则祝贺我做出的决定。

　　Job security meant everything to my educated dad. Learning meant everything to my rich dad. Educated dad thought I went to school to learn to be a ship’s officer. Rich dad knew that I went to school to study international trade. So as a student, I made cargo runs, navigating 6 large freighters, oil tankers and passenger ships to the Far East and the South Pacific. While most of my classmates, including Mike, were partying at their fraternity houses, I was studying trade, people and cultures in Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Korea and the Philippines. I also was partying, but it was not in any frat house. I grew up rapidly.

　　对于有学识的爸爸来说，稳定的工作就是一切。而对于富爸爸来说，学习才是一切。有学识的爸爸以为我上学是为了做一名船长，而富爸爸明白我上学是为了学习国际贸易。因此，在做学生时，我跑过货运、为前往远东及南太平洋的大型货轮、油轮和客轮导航。当我的大部分同班同学，包括迈克，在他们的联谊会会堂举办晚会的时候，我正在日本、泰国、新加坡、中国香港、越南、韩国和菲律宾学习贸易、人际关系和文化。我也参加晚会，但不去任何联谊会，我迅速地成熟起来了。

　　There is an old cliché that goes, “Job is an acronym9 for ‘Just Over Broke.’” And unfortunately, I would say that the saying applies to millions of people. Because school does not think financial intelligence is intelligence, most workers “live within their means.” They work and they pay the bills. Instead I recommend to young people to seek work for what they will learn, more than what they will earn. Look down the road at what skills they want to acquire before choosing a specific profession and before getting trapped in the “Rat Race”. Once people are trapped in the lifelong process of bill paying, they become like those little hamsters running around in those little metal wheels. Their little furry legs are spinning furiously, the wheel is turning furiously, but come tomorrow morning, they’ll still be in the same cage: great job.

　　常言道，“工作(job)就是‘比破产强一点(Just Over Broke)’的缩写”。然而不幸的.是，这句话确实适用于千百万人，因为学校没有把财商看作是一种才智，大部分工人都“量入为出”：干活挣钱，支付账单。相反，我劝告年轻人在寻找工作时要看看能从中学到什么，而不是只看能挣到多少。在选择某种特定职业之前或是陷入 “老鼠赛跑(激烈的竞争)”之前，要好好掂量自己到底需要获得什么技能。一旦人们为支付账单而整天疲于奔命，就和那些在小铁轮里不停奔跑转圈的小老鼠一样了。老鼠的小毛腿跑得飞快，小铁轮也转得飞快，可到了第二天早上，他们发现自己依然困在同一个老鼠笼里，那就是：重要的工作。

　　When I ask the classes I teach, “How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald’s?” almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask, “So if most of you can cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald’s makes more money than you?” The answer is obvious: McDonald’s is excellent at business systems. The reason so many talented people are poor is because they focus on building a better hamburger and know little or nothing about business systems. The world is filled with talented poor people. All too often, they’re poor or struggle financially or earn less than they are capable of, not because of what they know but because of what they do not know. They focus on perfecting their skills at building a better hamburger rather than the skills of selling and delivering the hamburger.

　　当我在自己教授的班级上问到“你们当中有多少人做的汉堡包能比麦当劳更好”时，几乎所有的学生都举起了手。我接着问，“如果你们当中大部分人都能做出比麦当劳更好的汉堡包，那为什么麦当劳比你们更能赚钱?”答案是显而易见的：麦当劳拥有一套出色的运营体系。许多才华横溢的人之所以贫穷的原因，就是因为他们只是专心于做更好的汉堡包，而对运营体系几乎一无所知。世界上到处都是有才华的穷人。在很多情况下，他们之所以贫穷、生活拮据或者收入与其能力不相符，不是因为他们已知的东西而是因为他们未知的东西。他们只将注意力集中在提高和完善做汉堡包的技术上，却不注意提高有关汉堡包的销售和送货技能。

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　　Because they look like Chinese but they think and do things like Americans. Because they are born in America and they live in America for a long time. Their eyes are black and their hair is black,too His nationality ia American. 4.one thousands far takes climbing enjoy early bright really visit 1.BCBCBDABDD

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　　Every morning at approximately 8:48 a.m., I pass it—the brick building that I visited many times as a child and that once seemed so grand, now a miniature playhouse in my mind.

　　每天早晨，大约8点48分的时候，我都会路过那栋砖砌的建筑。小时候，我曾经多次造访过那里。那时，这栋楼看起来是那么威严宏大，可如今它在我心里就像一个微型的玩具小屋。

　　My father used to live there, along with 549 other inmates. When I’d visit, as I often did, we’d chat and laugh—through a glass wall, telephones in hand.

　　我父亲就曾住在那里，和其他549名囚犯生活在一起。我常常去探望他，每次去时，我们都有说有笑——只不过我和他之间隔着一堵玻璃墙，每人手里拿着电话。

　　For me, it was normal. It was all I knew. And I relished connecting with him. It was one of the most important relationships in my life, and still is today.

　　对我来说，这种交流方式很正常。因为我所知道的交流方式就是这样的。我喜欢这么和他聊天。那时候，和父亲的交流是我生命中最重要的情感寄托之一，直至今天也是如此。

　　Experts say the years before you turn 5 are the most important. I must be lucky then. The day he was arrested on drug-related charges, the day I smiled at the policeman in our home, the day that everything changed was six months before my sixth birthday.

　　专家说，每个人五岁之前的经历对其成长是最为重要的。要这么说的话，我肯定是幸运的。因为就在父亲因毒品案被捕的那一天、我冲着那个闯进我家的警察微笑的那一天、我的生活从此完全改变的那一天，我已经五岁半了。

　　Over the years, the weekly commutes to visit my father became rituals. Eventually, after several years, we were allowed real visits when he was moved to a lower-security facility—the kind of visits where you can hug and tickle, where a conversation’s connection doesn’t depend on the distorted and crackly voice coming through the telephone, where words can be freely exchanged without the clock ticking, reminding you that time is slipping, moving faster than it should, faster than you’d like.

　　那之后许多年，我每星期都会坐车去探望父亲，这已经成为一种习惯。终于，在几年后，父亲被转到一所防卫不那么严格的监狱，我们这才被允许“真正”地探望他：我们可以互相拥抱，互相胳肢；可以直接对话而不再依赖电话里那种有些失真又沙哑的声音；可以自由地交谈，没有时钟在一旁嘀嗒嘀嗒，提醒我们时间在一点点溜走，而且那时钟总是走得特别快，比你希望得快。

　　We’ve always shared a sense of understanding, my father and I. We can look at one another and know what the other is thinking. We get each other.

　　父亲和我之间一直有那么一种默契。我们看着对方，就知道彼此心里在想什么。我们心有灵犀。

　　You’d think his absence would have prevented him from making rules, enforcing discipline and participating in the day-to-day of my childhood, but that wasn’t so. He wrote me every week, and I often go back and read what’s left of the folded, disintegrating letters. He’d tell me stories and I’d draw him fashion designs.

　　也许你会觉得，既然父亲没在家，他肯定没办法给我立规矩或是管教我，在我的童年生活里，他肯定也没办法天天陪着我，但实际情况却并非如此。他每个星期都会给我写信，那些留着的信现在已经折痕累累、支离破碎，但我还时常回过头去读一读。他会在信里给我讲故事，而我会给他画服装设计的图样。

　　1In person, we’d talk, not just speak. His life lessons, never cliché but always earnest, struck a chord with me and I soaked up every word. He told me that not having a father had been a detriment to his ego and that he’d overcompensated by feeling infallible well into his 30s. He spoke of the shame he’d caused his family and how there were times when he almost cracked, being isolated from his family, from love, from who he used to be.

　　见面的时候，我们会倾心交谈，而不仅仅是闲聊瞎扯。他会和我分享他的人生经验，句句真挚中肯，从不老生常谈，他说的每一个字都让我深感共鸣，我把这些话牢记心间。他告诉我，他从小没有父亲，这让他的自尊深受伤害，而三十多岁时，他又走到另一个极端，过于自信，觉得自己永远是正确的。他还谈到自己的所作所为让家人蒙受的耻辱，他说自己好几次都几近崩溃——因为远离家人，远离关爱，无法做回曾经的自己。

　　Other children looked forward to Saturdays, long stretches of time when their fathers would take them to swimming or hockey lessons, to the park for a walk or for an ice-cream cone. I could barely sleep with anticipation, getting up as early as 5 a.m. to hop in the car for the two-hour drive ahead.

　　别的孩子们都盼着过周六，期待在那长长的闲暇时间里，他们的父亲会带他们去学游泳或上曲棍球课，去公园里散步或买冰淇淋甜筒。而我每周五晚会因满心期待而难以入睡，周六早上我会五点起床，跳上汽车，然后坐两个小时的车去探望父亲。

　　The ice cream I was missing paled in comparison with the sweet joy of simply “being” with my dad. To have our chats, to share outdoor barbecues with my father and other families who would gather. Most children have school friends and neighbourhood friends. I had those too, but I also had my jail friends, the girls and boys with whom I would run around and play tag, not truly comprehending why these individuals probably understood me and my life far better than anyone else.

　　不过，只要能和父亲“待”在一起，我就感到甜蜜而快乐，相比之下，没吃上冰淇淋就显得微不足道了。我可以和父亲聊天，和父亲以及其他周末在这个地方相聚的家庭一起在户外烧烤。大多数孩子的朋友是学校的同学或是附近的邻居。我也有这样的朋友，但我还有一帮在监狱里结识的伙伴。这些伙伴中有男孩也有女孩，我们一起东奔西跑，一起玩捉人游戏，那时我并没有真正理解，为什么这些孩子可能会比其他人更能理解我和我的生活。

　　My mother, who had long since separated from my father, would often ask me about my feelings, trying to uncover some inadequacy I felt, pressing for details and expressions that might make sense. How could I be okay?

　　很久以前，母亲就和父亲离婚了。她总是问我对父亲入狱这件事有什么感受，尽力寻找每一个可能有意义的细节和表情，试图证明我是感觉受伤害了的.。她想不明白我怎么可能一点儿事儿都没有呢？

　　But how could I not? As a child, the word jail means nothing, and this proved itself when my stepmother broke the news to me a few months after my father’s arrest. She took me for an ice cream, and as we sat in her car in the parking lot, she explained why the police had been at our home, what it all meant, how my father would not be returning any time soon.

　　可我为什么就不能感觉良好呢？对于一个孩子来说，“监狱”这个词没有任何意义。这一点，从父亲被捕几个月后继母告诉我这个消息时我的反应上就能看出来。她带我去买了一个冰淇淋，然后，在停车场里，我们坐在她的车上时，她向我解释了警察为什么会来我家，这一切都意味着什么，以及父亲为何在短时间内不能回家了。

　　Yes, I cried, but only because I thought I was supposed to. I couldn’t comprehend the magnitude. I just did what all kids learn to do around this age, intuitively gauge what an adult wants from you and serve it up, all the while holding one’s breath while waiting for approval.

　　没错，我哭了，但那只是因为我觉得我应该哭。我那时无法理解这件事情的严重性。我只是做了所有大概这个年龄的孩子都会做的事：凭直觉估计一下大人希望你怎么做，然后把它做出来，同时屏住呼吸，等着大人的认可。

　　I was 11 when my father finally came home. I learned all about responsibility when he signed me up for a part-time job serving ice cream at the beach. I acted excited, though like most 11-year-olds, all I wanted to do was park myself in front of the television all summer long. But I wanted to please him, wanted to earn those extra smiles, all the ones I’d missed.

　　我11岁那年，父亲终于刑满回家了。他给我报名，让我去应聘了一份在沙滩上卖冰淇淋的兼职工作，这份工作让我彻底了解了什么是责任。我当时假装很激动，但其实像大多数11岁的孩子一样，我只想整个夏天都坐在电视机前度过。但是我想让他高兴，想多看到他笑，想把我错过的那些笑容都补回来。

　　Years later, as I stare out the window while I pass that brick building on my daily commute to work, I often wonder if I lost something, if those special years that others had with their fathers, the ones I didn’t, harmed me in some way. Am I really that different? Do I have attachment issues?

　　多年以后，当我每天乘车上班途经那栋砖砌的建筑时，都会从车窗向外凝望，此时我经常问自己，我是否错失过什么？在那特别的几年里，别的孩子可以和他们的父亲一起度过，但我却没有父亲陪伴，这是否对我造成了这样或那样的伤害呢？我真的那么与众不同吗？我在情感方面有没有什么问题？

　　I still live at home, but so does every other twentysomething I know. They still enjoy home-cooked meals, pristinely arranged households and all bills paid for by their parents.

　　我现在还和父母住在一起，但我认识的其他二十多岁的年轻人也都和父母一起住。他们还是很喜欢吃家里做的饭菜，喜欢家里一切都收拾得整齐干净，更喜欢父母帮他们付清所有的账单。

　　When I think about moving out, I know it’s not time yet. It’s not the conveniences that come from living a life almost free of responsibility, although that’s a bonus.

　　我也考虑过搬出去住，但我知道还不是时候。不过，这并不是因为这种几乎不需要负任何责任的生活给我带来了很多便利，虽然这种便利是额外的奖励。

　　I’m not ready to give up the small inner burst of joy I get every morning when my dad pops his head into my bedroom and says, “Morning, Mini,” a nickname I’ve kept far too many years. I growl and tell him to “get out!” since it’s hours before I need to get up. But I can’t help smiling.

　　我不愿意搬出去住，是因为我还没有准备好放弃每天早上父亲突然探头到我的卧室，冲我喊“早安，米妮(一个我叫了好多年的小名)！”时，我心里迸发出来的那点小小的快乐。我会很生气地朝他大吼“出去！”，因为离我该起床的时间还有好几个小时呢。但每当此时，我都会忍不住地微笑起来。

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　　It may sound crazy that anyone would intentionally make quitting smoking any harder than necessary. But Ican guarantee that if you want to know a secret about how to quit smoking, then just stop making it so hardfor yourself.

　　Henry Ford once said, that if you think you can or you think you can't, then either way you are right. Here inlies the problem. Many smokers think they can't, or think it will be very hard.

　　They say things like:

　　1. Cigarettes are my friend: Wow talk about a lousy friend.

　　2. I'll be lost without them: Nothing quite so comforting as lighting a toxic cigarette.

　　3. I need my cigarettes to think: Nothing like 4000 toxic chemicals flooding your brain to help cognition.

　　4. Cigarettes help me when I'm stressed. Nicotine causes an adrenal response, flooding your system withadrenalin and cortisol, nothing good about that.

　　5. Smoking helps me relax. Again the nicotine does no such thing. It's taking time out that is relaxing.

　　6. I like smoking when I eat. Just wait until your food tastes like food and not an ashtray.

　　7. I always smoke with alcohol. Have a look around, notice the non smokers are doing just fine, withoutsmoking.

　　8. I put on weight if I quit. Smokers are no less thin or fat than any other group in society. Smoking actuallymakes it hard for your liver to break down fats properly.

　　In fact one of the best pieces of advice I can give to a smoker is to just observe non smokers going abouttheir day. See them when they are relaxed, stressed, busy, thinking, bored, eating or drinking.

　　The non smokers are managing just fine without any assistance from cigarettes. Focussing on all thereasons you think you need to smoke is just making it very hard for you. You can't quit when you think yourlife is so dependent on smoking.

　　The first thing to do is to look at the list and just think about it. Start to realise that smoking doesn't makeanything better. It doesn't help you to relax or thing, or drive better or hold a better conversation on thephone.

　　All it does is cost you a lot of money, make you smell like an ashtray, and strip away 14 years of life onaverage. And did I mention the slow painful lingering death.

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　　1.先读题时只能是读其问题或题干，而不能读问题后的选项，否则不仅浪费时间，而且也无法记住众多答案所表达的众多信息。

　　2.在读了题之后，要把这些问题记在心里，并带着这些问题去阅读短文，关于这一点考生是要经过反复的训练才能形成能力的，因为短文后的这些问题本身所表达的信息并不象短文那样有情节，也不象短文那样连贯，所以有不少同学在开始试用这种方法时，往往先读了题之后(尤其是当问题较多时)再读短文时，又忘记是什么问题了。

　　3.带着问题读短文时，对短文中出现的那些与问题有关的`词句，你可以用一支铅笔在短文中作些记号，以便为下一步选择作好准备，但也要注意不要每读到一个与问题有关的信息点就停下来去对照后面的问题，因为这样转来转去要耽误一些时间，另一方面有些问题往往要通过对短文的全面了解才能作出结论，而不能仅仅从一、二个信息点作出判断。

　　4.带着问题读完短文之后，接着便是选择理解题的答案。虽然你是带着问题去阅读短文的，但也并不是说你在阅读时带去的问题全部得到了答案，也可能有些还没有把握(尤其是一些主观理解题)，这时你同样要带着这些“疑题”去跳读短文。

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　　Michael Jordan's Retired Speech

　　迈克尔·乔丹退役演说

　　I am here to announce my retirement from the game of basketball. It won't be another announcement to baseball or anything to that nature.

　　我在这里宣布从篮球场上退役，而且这次退役后不会再去从事棒球或其他类似的运动。

　　Mentally, I'm exhausted; I don't feel I have a challenge. Physically, I feel great. The last time in 1993 I had other agendas. I felt that I wanted to play baseball and I felt that at my age, it was a good opportunity and time to do it. And with the death of my father, and I was basically trying to deal with that.

　　由于精神上很疲惫，我感到自己非常蛙主耻战力，体力倒还不错。1993年那次退役时我有其他计划：想打棒球，我这个年纪正是从事桦球事业的极佳时机而且父亲刚好去世了，我只想尽力去面对这一切。

　　Actually I talked to very last year once the season ended and I told Jerry at that time, mentally, I was a little exhausted. I didn't know if I would play next year. I wanted to put him on awareness so that he could possibly prepare going into next season. And very, once we had our conversation, wanted me to take time as I did in 93 to make sure that it was the right decision because it was going to be the final decision.

　　事实上，去年赛季刚结束时，我和在里谈过一次。我告诉他我精神上有些疲惫，不知道下一年还能不能打我想让他幸识到这一点，以便为下一事丰做准备。杰里——有一次我们谈过这个问题——让我要像93年那样，好好考虑，以使做出明智的决定，因为这将是最后的决定。

　　I retired the first time when Phil Jackson was the coach. And I think that even with Phil being the coach I would have had a tough time , mentally finding the challenge for myself. I though he can somehow present challenges for me. I don't know if he could have presented the challenge for me to continue on to this season. Even though middle way of this season I wanted to continue to play a couple more years, but at the end of this season I was mentally drained and tired. 50 I can't say that he would have restored that.

　　第一次退役时菲尔.杰克逊是教练。但我觉得即使本赛季他还担任教练，我也会很困难，内心里 ，我已感到了挑战。当然克论如何，他都会给我一些应对方洁的我不知道他是否还有办法使我打完这一赛季。在本赛季中间我还想着再打几年呢，但当赛季结束时，我却感觉精神枯竭，疲惫。因此我确实不能说他会使我恢复精力。

　　I will support the Chicago Bulls. I think the game itself is a lot bigger than Michael Jordan. I've been given an opportunity by people before me, to name a few, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Doctor J, Eljohn Baylor Jerry West. These guys played the game way before Michael Jordan was born and Michael Jordan came on the heels of all that activity. Mr. Stern and what he's done for the league, gave me an opportunity to play the game of basketball I played it to the best I could play it, I tried to enhance the game itself. I've tried to be the best basketball player that I could be.

　　我将支持芝加哥公牛队，我认为比赛本身比迈克尔.乔丹重要得多。我的`很多机会都是篮球前辈们给的。我这里指出一些：里姆·阿卡杜·贾巴尔，J博士,伊利约翰 ·贝勒，杰里 ·韦斯特这些人早在迈克尔.乔丹出生前就活跃在赛场了。迈克尔.乔丹只不过是继承了他们的传统。斯特恩先生及其为联盟做出的贡献给了我打篮球的机会。找已尽我最大能力打球，我也努力拉动比赛本身的发展。我一直在努力，尽我所能成为最好的球员。

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　　办公室恋情 Office Love

　　Nowadays, a new type of love is not accepted in most situation, it is the office love. In some companies, there is the rule to forbid office love, because the boss believes that it is not good for running the business, the relationship will distract the employees’ attention.

　　现在,一种新型的爱情在大多数情况下是不待见的,那就是是办公室恋情。在一些公司,有规则禁止办公室恋情,因为老板认为这对业务发展是不好的,恋爱会分散员工的注意力。

　　Why office love is always happening, even the young people know it is not allowed. It is because when these young girls and boys work together all the day, they are easy to fall in love with each other. It is the natural reaction, they know each other well and realize the shinning point.

　　为什么办公室的爱情总是发生,即使是年轻人知道这是不允许的。这是因为当这些年轻女孩和男孩在一起整天工作,他们很容易爱上对方。这是自然反应,他们彼此了解熟悉,发现闪光点。

　　In order to keep the relationship, the young couples have to lie to everybody and pretend nothing is happening. But the awkward situations happen sometimes, they have to deal very carefully. But most companies won’t interfere the personal emotion, they believe that it is the employees’ right to handle their emotion. The companies have the job for the employees, they can do whatever they want when they finish their job.

　　为了维持恋情,年轻的情侣们不得不欺骗大家,假装什么也没有发生。但有时尴尬的'情况会发生,他们必须非常谨慎地处理好。但大多数公司不会干涉个人的情感,他们认为这是员工的权利去处理他们的情绪。公司分配给员工工作 ,当他们完成他们的工作，该干嘛就干嘛去。

　　Office love is nothing special, don’t give the pressure to the young people.

　　办公室爱情没什么特别的,不要给年轻人压力。

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