考研英语

　Illusions of Pastoral Peace 宁静田园生活的遐想The quiet life of the country has never appealed to me. City born and city bred, I have always regarded the country as something you look at through a train windo...

　Modern cavemen 现代洞穴人Cave exploration, or pot-holing, as it has come to be known, is a relatively new sport. Perhaps it is the desire for solitude or the chance of making an unexpected discovery that ...

Fully insured 全保险Insurance companies are normally willing to insure anything. Insuring public or private property is a standard practice in most countries in the world. If, however, you were holding a...

　The power of the press 新闻报道的威力In democratic countries any efforts to restrict the freedom of the Press are rightly condemned. However, this freedom can easily be abused. Stories about people often at...

　A happy discovery 幸运的发现Antique shops exert a peculiar fascination on a great many people. The more expensive kind of antique shop where rare objects are beautifully displayed in glass cases to keep t...

　A day to remember 难忘的一天We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a gre...

　Nothing to sell and nothing to buy 没有东西可卖也没有东西可买It has been said that everyone lives by selling something. In the light of this statement, teachers live by selling knowledge, philosophers by selling ...

　A skeleton in the cupboard “家丑”We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has been concealed from strangers for years. The English language po...

　Daniel Mendoza 丹尼尔.门多萨Boxing matches were very popular in England two hundred years ago. In those days, boxers fought with bare fists for prize money. Because of this, they were known as ’prize-fight...

　The longest suspension bridge in the world 世界上最长的吊桥Verrazano, an Italian about whom little is known, sailed into New York Harbour in 1524 and named it Angouleme. He described it as ’a very agreeable ...