初三阅读专项训练

（一）Buy a Car for Me as Well Mr Johnson wants a car for long. His home is far from his factory. He has to set the alarm clock（闹钟） for his wife every evening before he goes to bed. The Woman has to get up earlier. When breakfast is ready, she wakes him up. Then he hurried to catch the early bus. Once something was wrong with the clock, he was late for work. At the gate of the shop he met with the head. He was hardly sent away.     

DEVIATION IN THE SENSE OF THE CREATIVE ASPECT OF LANGUAGE USE

Winds stampeding the fields (Ted Hughes) (1) He sang his didn't he danced his did (E. E. Cummings) (2) Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green (Dylan Thomas) (3) That spanieled me heels,to whom I gave their wishes. (William Shakespeare, Anthony and     

另一只狗

一只狗得到了一块肉并想把它带回家。现在他正在回家的路上,要经过一座横跨河面上的桥。当他往水面上看时,他看到了水中自己的影子。他把影子当成了另外一只狗。于是他朝水中的影子叫喊,但是当他张开嘴时,肉掉到了水里,再也看不见了。A dog has a piece of meat and takes it home.Now on the way home,he has to walk across abridge over a river.Then he looks down and seeshis own shadow in the water.He takes it foranother dog.So he makes a bark at the shadow in the river.but as he opens his mouth,the meat drops into th…     

THE ORIGINALITY IN PLOTTING——On the Art of Wilde''''s Comedies (Ⅰ)

It has been a almost a century since Oscar Wilde’s comedies appeared on theEnglish stage and during this period they have met with both compliments andcensures.In the first years when his comedies monopol1zed London theatres, Wildewas regarded as great as William Shakespeare.But after his arrest on April 6,1895,his reputation suffered a disastrous decline.Since then,his plays have undergone     

"The Living Fruit of Nignts"——a Thematic Study of Faulkner''''s "Barn Burning"

William Faulkner was the winner of Nobel Prize for Literature of 1950. Although he received public acclaim chiefly for his longer works, such as The Sound and the Fury, Sartoris, and Light in August, Faulkner found himself again and again writing short stories. In "Barn Burning," which appeared in 1938, he created the seed story of the whole Snopes trilogy that was to constitute his last great creative accomplishment. This story not only looks forward to the Snopes stories, but also shares some of the themes recurring in the early parts of the Yoknapatawpha saga—the legendary matrix in which Faul-     

Scholars in Liaoning University

Professor Xu Ping, male and Han nationality, was born in Shenyang of Liaoning Province in 1959, is a Communist Party member and became a teacher after he got the Bachelor and Master degrees of History in the History Department in Liaoning University from the year 1980 to 1987. From 1993 to 1994, he did research with the Institute of Social Sciences of Waseda University. He was exceptionally promoted as a professor in 1997, and in the same year he started working for his PhD degree in …     

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Part ⅠRead AloudPlease read the passage. John liked eating fish very much.He often bought some fish for dinner.However,his wife andher friends also liked fish very much.They often ate up his fish when he was out.And his wifealways told him that his cat had eaten his fish so that he wouldn’t be angry with her. One day,John bought a very big fish.He told his wife that he would have it for dinner the next     

A Study Of The Chinese Language And Culture In The English Language

Language, as a special form of culture, will develop itself by absorbing the valuable elements from other cultures and languages. This essay will mainly concentrate on some English slang words, colloquial usages concerning Chinese culture.     

A Brief Survey on the Themes of Mark Twain′s Works

While I was studying some of Mark Twain's representative short stories and novels I got deep inclination to follow the general themes which he chose to develop his own subjects in his literary works. In generalizing his major themes I can not avoid the overlap of one theme and another. But simply for the convenience of understanding his wide range of literary themes I'dlike to divide them largely into five categories. Mark Twain is the major novelist of the era of realism along with James and Howells.Earlier writers as Hawthorne and Melville of the era of American Renaissance in New England had turened towards the world of nature and had emphasized the abstract universality of their themes. But the realists were determined to write novels, standing firm-     

How to exert the student-center approach in middle school English teaching

In order to train a student to be a person with ability,who can self-study,use knowledge flexibly and bring firth new ideas constantly,the constant development of society demands a full exertion of student-center approach in the process of education.Therefore,how to exert the student-center approach is a question that every teacher is facing.I think that we can exert the student-center approach from the following aspects.One,a teacher must change his teaching conception.He should know that it's the students who are the main body of teaching and the teacher can act as a guider.The other,by all means,we ought to make the students know the purpose of their study and the function of themselves in learning.We also ought to culture their interest in learning,inspire and strengthen their main body consciousness.the teacher should,on the basis of full understanding his students and textbook,exert the leading function of himself.In the course of teaching,the teacher can exert the advantage of advanced teaching method,such as situational language teaching,and advanced teaching instrument,such as multimedia,which will inspire the students' interest and conscious activities.We can train the students' imagining ability through encouragement 、guiding and extracurricular activities.We can improve the students' ability of self-study.Thus,the students' main body function will reach a better exertion and the effect of teaching will be improved.This will train the students to suit the need of society.     

The Collision and Coexistence between Chinese and American Cultures——The Collision and Coexistence between Two Generations in The Joy Luck Club

In many Chinese and American works,the differences of backgrounds,such as culture,customs and so on occupy a large part,through which readers can see the collision as well as coexistence between the two cultures.The Joy Luck Club has no exception.In this work,the communication under different cultural backgrounds between the generations generates a lot of collision,but they get coexistence in the end.In this paper,the author will analyze the continuous collision and the final coexistence of the four pairs of mothers and daughters,so that readers can learn more about the differences between Chinese and American cultures.     

The Mirror of America——Notes on "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

<正> Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name ofMark Twain, was the first real American auther. He grew upnext to the river (Mississippi), and had been tramp printer, ri-ver pilot, Confederate guerilla, prospector, journalist. He traveled ac-ross the country for more than a third of his life, digestingthe American experience, after that he translated it into litera-ture. When he was old, he grew cynical, bitter, saddened by the     

汉语谚语语义性质及其关系研究

As the oldest and most frequently used conventional expressions,Chinese proverbs usually represent the way of thinking of the Chinese people.Metaphors,one typical type of Chinese proverbs,try to establish a relation of equality between two relatively dissimilar entities, such as time and money.The ability to understand and to use figurative language is related to one's social competence and professional achievement.In order to reveal the mechanism of proverb processing,the current study takes a close look at the nature of semantic properties and their inter-relationships in Chinese proverbs.522 Chinese sentential proverbs(the two clauses of the proverb are of the same syntax,e.g.,“人活脸,树活皮”)were presented to 360 university students.They were asked to rate the familiarity(1 for least familiar, 7 for most familiar), predictability(1 for least predictable, 7 for most predictable),agreement(1 for least matched between the two clauses,7 for most matched between the two clauses),degree of being understandable(1 for least understandable,7 for most understandable),and imaginability(1 for least imaginable,7 for most imaginable)based on a 7-point Likert Scale,as well as age of acquisition(AOA).Correlation and regression analysis were conducted based on these ratings. The results show a significant positive correlation between familiarity and each of the rest semantic properties,which are consistent with the findings of the previous work.A significant negative correlation between age of acquisition and each of the rest semantic properties is also observed in the current study.However,no significant correlation is found between familiarity and degree of being understandable,which might be due to the low rating of familiarity and the wide dispersity.In order to further reveal the inter-relationships of semantic properties, hierarchical regression analyses are carried out and show that familiarity,imaginabiltity,agreement,and age of acquisition significantly predict the degree of being understandable,while familiarity and age of acquisition significantly predict the predictability of proverbs. Our results demonstrate that familiarity and age of acquisition are two important factors which influence our understanding of Chinese proverbs. In addition, the semantic consistency between two clauses of a Chinese sentential proverb and degree of imagination also play an important role in understanding idiomatic strings.Imaginability is related to the theory of″Dual Coding,″which argues that visual and verbal information are processed differently and along distinct channels in the human mind, creating separate representations for information processed in each channel.The mental codes corresponding to these representations are used to organize incoming information that can be acted upon,stored,and retrieved for subsequent use.Both visual and verbal codes can be used when recalling information.The ability to code a stimulus in two different ways increases the chance of remembering that item compared to if the stimulus is only coded one way.Our results suggest that the processing of a Chinese proverb partially relies on the accessibility to visual code of a proverb which is primarily affected by culture. Therefore, Chinese culture could influence the understanding of Chinese proverbs. Specifically,in the creating process,a number of concrete concepts are used to express the abstract inter-relationships through their similarity,e.g.,the relationship between a person(人)and his/her reputation(脸)is similar to that between a tree(树)and its bark(皮).In other words,the reputation of a person is as important as the bark of a tree.In order to successfully understand the Chinese proverbs,it is important to learn about the deeper meanings of″face″and″reputation″in Chinese culture.That explains why the comprehension of a proverb is significantly associated with one's culture understanding.Based on the current study,more studies should be conducted with a focus on the understanding process of proverbs,which will help reveal the mental mechanism of Chinese and preserving Chinese culture.     

论英语词语的文化特色对阅读理解的影响

不熟悉词语的文化历史背景,阅读理解往往会产生障碍。请看下面的例句、注意划线部分。 1)O’Donnell had never been handsome in the Adonic sense,but he had a rugged,creased irregularity of face (his nose still carried the scar of an old football injury)whichwomen so often,and perversely find attractive in men. 2)Mrs.Bern said,“Bob,Inever dreamed a guy like you would mess around,I mean,you and Sheila were like these Little figures on a wedding cake.” 3)Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss.     

Dreiser the Naturalist Seen in "An American Tragedy"

An American Tragedy is the masterpiece of Theodore Dreiser. It not only solidifies Dreiser's reputation and position in the history of American literature, but also shows, as no other novel of his has ever done so perfectly, Dreiser as a naturalist in his literary creation.     

在游戏中玩转英语

第一部分:Riddles(英语谜语)第二部分:Chinglish(病句修改看谁准)1、Swings by his thigh a thing most magical!Below the belt,beneath the folds of his clothes ithangs,a hole in its front end,stiff-set and stout,butswivels about.Levelling the head of this hanginginstrument,its wielder hoists his hem above the knee:it is his will to fill a well-known hole that it fitsfully when at full length.He has often filled it before.Now he fills it again.2、She learns soon enough,the curly-haired crea-ture who …     

钮文新梦想照进现实

他的标题和字里行间,总是诗意闪耀。对艺术的狂热和数学培养起来的逻辑思维,使他的性格在矛盾的二元统一中呈现出悖论的部分。There are always beauties and rhythms in his titles and words.The combination of his fanaticism for arts and the logical reasoning he got from his mathematical training produces a kind of dichotomy in his personality.     

Scholars in Liaoning University

He Guosheng,male,ethnic Han,born on September 3,1956,native of Shenyang,Liaoning province,professor.Now he works as the Party committee secretary and the vice-president of the economics college in Liaoning University.He is the PhD supervisor of Finance Specialty,member of academic leaders,standing director of China Society for Finace and Banking,director of China International Finance Association and the advisory committee member of CPC Shenyang municipal committee and municipal government.     

Some Artistic Principles Underlying Ellison''''s Choice of Language:A Stylistic Analysis

Ralph Ellison's novel,Invisible Man,has won high praise ever since its publication in 1952. A poll of literary critics in 1965 selected his book as the most distinguished novel of the previous twenty years. It tells about a Southern Negro who leaves the South,sickencd by racial prejudice and the hypocritical attitude towards whites of his Negro