Kima hummed an African folk（民歌）as she strolled along the（小径）．Her tall，lanky（过分瘦长的）body glided easily（稠密的叶子）．She was on her way tot he Gorilla Research Center（大猩猩研究中心）．Her father，Mutar，worked as（追踪者）at the center．   
It was along

1．In the year 1620，a little ship came to America． The ship they took was called Mayflower（五月花）．There were one hundred people on it．
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A Sheep once had to deal with much harm from other animals．He therefore appeared before Jupiter，and begged him to lessen his misery．Jupiter appeared willing，and said to the Sheep，“I see clearly，my pious creature，that I have created you too defenceless．Now I will choose how

Russell was a student of Cambridge University ．He asked his teacher Moore ，“Who is your best student ？”“Viter，”said Moore．“Why ？”“Because of all my students only he himself always has a lot of questions when he listens to my lessons．”
Viter's achievements（成就）surpassed（超过）Russell afterward（后来）．Why did Ru

（黑龙江，2001）
A man heard that a company（公司）needed an office worker. So he wrote and asked for the job. While he was waiting for an answer, a friend of his helped him to meet the head of the company, and then he got the job at once. Several months later, while the man was working in the company, he got a letter. It was sent from hi

（大连市，2001）
When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence "How do you do?" as an example, If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation（翻译）? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.

（南昌市，2001）
(A)
　　The word hobby is an interesting word. Every person has one thing he or she likes to do for fun（娱乐）. Some people like to collect（收集）things like stamps or story books. Others like to play football or go window shopping where you can look at many beautiful things without buying them.
I hav

（苏州市，2001）
(A)
　　Many different kinds of birds can copy the sounds of language. African parrots（鹦鹉）are the birds best known for this.
Every December in London, the Bird Show tries to find the best "talking" bird in the world. One bird named Prudle stood out among the "talking birds". She won this prize（

Many people go to school for education. School education is very important and useful, but no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter（无论）how much he knows, cannot teach his students everything. His work is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So much more is to be learned out

The sea looks very beautiful when the sun is shining on it. It can be very terrible when there is a strong wind. The sea is very big. It covers three quarters of the earth. The sea is also very deep in some places. There is one place, the sea is about 11 kilometres deep there. The highest mountain in the world is about 9 kilometres high.

A friend's grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe（东欧）. After being processed （移民入境检查）at Ellis Island, he went into a cafeteria（自助餐） in lower Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order（点菜）. Of course nobody did. At last, a woman with a plate full of food sat down oppo

Japanese students work very bard but many are unhappy. They feel heavy pressures（压力）from their parents. Most students are always told by their parents to study harder and better so that they can have a wonderful life in the future. Though this may be a good idea for those very bright students, it can have terrible results for many studen

Donald was not very good at math．
He could not understand the teacher's explanations．
Even when the teacher explained something a second time， Donald still could not understand it．

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 Brothers

One afternoon, when the lessons were over, John and Mike did not go home. They stayed at school to help their teacher carry, some books to the library .They worked for one hour. Then the teacher said, "Thank you, boys. We will finish the work tomorrow. Now you must go home. "
When they got home, it was seven o'clock. It was dark outsi