17.A New Farming Way
新的耕种方式
Tuan was a farmer inVietnam. For
decades, he had been struggling to rid his family of hunger. However, it always
confused him how to expand the output of his crops. This disturbing problem led
to his regretting being a farmer. He would rather have chosen another job.
One day, when skimming
through a newspaper, Tuan read a comment on Yuan Longpin. He underlined Yuan’s
nationality and occupation, and then focused on his discovery and the
statistics of his research. He found the knowledge Yuan circulated very
practical. Therefore, he made a summary and began to build up a new farming
method. He planted super grain of rich nutrition and equipped himself to keep
his crops roots free from bacteria and pests. He also enriched minerals in the
soil while reducing chemical fertilizers. Though it cost him more time and
freedom, he was full of hope.
The next year, Tuan
was sunburnt but satisfied with his production very much. Thanks to Yuan
Longpin, he not only won the battle against hunger, but he could also export
his crops abroad.
俊是一名越南的农民，几十年来，他都一直在努力使家人摆脱饥饿。然而，如何扩大他的农作物产量这一问题却一直在困扰着他。这个恼人的问题导致了他后悔当一名农民，而宁愿自己当初选择其它的工作。
一天，俊在浏览报纸的时候，读到一篇关于袁隆平的评论。他在袁的国籍和职业下面划了线，然后将焦点集中在他的发现和研究数据上。他发现袁传播的知识非常实用，因此，他做了摘要，并开始建立一种新的耕作方式。他种植营养丰富的超级谷物，添置设备以使作物的根部免受细菌害虫的伤害；他还增加土壤所含的矿物质，同时减少化学肥料的使用。尽管耗费了他更多的时间和自由，他却充满着希望。
第二年，俊被晒黑了，但是却对自己的生产非常满意。多亏了袁隆平，他不仅赢得了对抗饥饿的战斗，而且还将自己的作物出口到国外呢。
15.A Journey across Canada
横穿加拿大的旅行
After a quiz last
autumn, Kuang crossed the continent eastward toTorontoto visit his schoolmate, the distance
measuring approximately 5,000 kilometers,His train started fromVancouver, a city
surrounded by mountains. After confirming his baggage was aboard the train,
Kuang settled down in his seat. Having a gift for communication, he started
chatting with another passenger within 5 minutes. Their topics included the
Canadian traditions, the Prime Minister, the mixture of races, and the
terrifying Great Fall. After a nice buffet at noon, he was pleased to find that
the scenery was impressive. He saw beautiful harbours in the distance, wealthy
urban areas and maple forest that covered thousands of acres. He even managed
to catch sight of an eagle flying upward over bushes.Kuang reachedTorontowhich lies
slightly near the border at a misty dawn. There was frost and the broad
downtown streets were very quiet. Though it was early, Kuang phoned his
schoolmate in a booth nearby at once rather than waiting for him to come. They
had a good time together.
他的火车从群山围绕的温哥华启程。在证实了自己的行李都在火车上之后，光就在座位上安坐下来。因为在与人交流方面有天赋，他在5分钟内就和另一个乘客聊起天来。他们的话题包括加拿大的传统、加拿大的总理、种族的混合，还有让人心惊胆战的大瀑布。中午吃了一顿美味的自助餐后，他很高兴发现外面的风景非常让人印象深刻。他看见了远处美丽的海港、富裕的市区，还有延绵几千亩的枫树林，他甚至还设法看见了一只在灌木丛上空翱翔的鹰。
光在一个薄雾笼罩的黎明到达稍稍接近边境的多伦多，地上有霜，宽阔的市区街道很安静。尽管还很早，光却不愿等待，立刻就在附近电话亭给同学打了个电话。他们在一起度过了美好的时光。
13.Sailing Home
划船回家
This novel was about an
unbelievable but genuine adventure. Its author was a black businessman who was
brought up in America.
In 1956, he visitedAfrica, his birthplace.
One day, when he was wandering on the pavement near the bay enjoying the sea
scenes, he lost his money and passport that he kept in an envelope. So he went
to the embassy to seek help, but the ambassador with rude manners didn’t permit
his staff to help though he bowed to him. Staring at his impatient face, he
understood that it was the fault of his skin colour that accounted for
their refection. So he decided to take a chance to sail on a small
boat home.
He met a large amount of
difficulty but was never stopped. On the contrary, difficulty pushed him to go
ahead harder. Three months later, he was spotted by a ship by accident. He was
in rags indeed. A maid even screamed when bringing him a steak and pineapple
dessert. Aboard, he earned his passage by working as a barber and got home
finally. As for the name of his novel, he couldn’t think of a better one than
the phrase “Go Ahead”.
这部小说写的是一次令人难以置信而又真实的历险。其作者是一位在美国被抚养长大的黑人商人。1956年，他回到他的出生地非洲。有一天，当他在海湾边的人行道上漫步欣赏海景时，他丢失了一个装着钱和护照的信封，于是向当地的大使馆寻求帮助。但是大使态度非常粗鲁，即使向他鞠躬，也不允许他的职员帮忙。盯着他那不耐烦的脸，他知道是他皮肤颜色的错才导致了他们的拒绝。于是，他决定冒险驾驶一只小船回家。
他遇到了许多困难，但是从未停止，相反，困难推动他更努力地前进。三个月后，当他被一艘船偶然发现时，真的是衣衫褴褛。给他端来牛排和菠萝甜品的女仆甚至被吓得尖叫起来。在船上，他当一名理发师来挣取船费，最后终于回到了家。至于这部小说的名字，他再也不能想到一个比“前进”更好的短语了。
11.An Interesting Festival
有趣的节日
The Agricultural Feast takes place after the
Independence Day. It is not a worldwide celebration. Only Christians in Mexicolook
forward to its arrival for its religious origin:
Long ago, humans’ ancestors were bad. They fooled
and played tricks on each other and never kept their word. So God turned up and
drowned all their crops. Humans starved day and night, weeping. In order to
gain God’s forgiveness, a woman poet set off to see God. She admired God and
kept apologizing. God was moved. With his permission, humans finally had good
harvests again. So, to wipe sadness and remind themselves of the belief in God,
people began the festival.
On the festival, people gather in open air, such
as playgrounds or parking lots, and energetically have fun with each other all
night long, as though they were never tired. When a beauty dressed up in lovely
clothing reads poems in memory of the poet, everyone holds their breath. Then,
it is the custom that the bone of a rooster head is given to her as an award.
Obviously, the story is not true, but the
festival is interesting.
农业盛会在独立日后举行。它不是一个世界性的庆典，由于它的宗教起源，只有墨西哥的基督徒才盼着节日的到来：
很久以前，人类的祖先很坏，他们互相欺骗，耍诡计，从不遵守诺言。于是，上帝出现了，淹死了他们所有的作物。人们日夜挨饿，哭泣着。为了获得上帝的原谅，一位女诗人出发去见上帝。她对上帝的赞美和怀有的歉意感动了上帝，有了他的允许，人类终于又获得了丰收。因此，为了抹去忧伤并提醒自己对上帝的信仰，人们开始举办这个节日。
在节日那天，人们聚集在露天场所，例如操场或停车场，通宵达旦地玩得非常开心，精力充沛的人们似乎不知疲倦。当一位用可爱的衣服盛装打扮的美女朗读诗歌以纪念那位诗人时，在场的每个人都屏住了呼吸，然后，按照风俗，将奖励给她一只公鸡的头骨。
很明显，这个故事不是真的，但是节日却很有趣。
9.保护野生动植物
Wildlife Protection
Dinosaurs died out because of an unexpected
incident. But wildlife today disappears or is in danger just because humans do
harm to it. For example, tigers are hunted for fur to make carpets so that they
can only live in secure reserves; grassland is destroyed without mercy so that
dust storms come into being affecting distant cities.
Last year, scientists saw some monkeys
rubbing themselves with a certain kind of insects to protect themselves from
fierce mosquitoes biting. According to the result of the inspection, they found
that the insect contains a powerful drug, so local farmers were employed to
catch the insects. The ending was that the insects disappeared from the whole
zone. When told that it was a loss to humans, the farmers burst into laughter
and responded, “Our real loss is our decreasing income.”
We should appreciate the natural balance and
pay more attention to the importance of wildlife protection. Not until we
succeed in letting wildlife live in peace, can we smile in relief.
恐龙因一次意外事件而灭绝，但是今天的野生动植物却是因为人类的伤害而消失或处在危险中。例如，老虎被猎杀以获取做地毯的皮毛，以致它们只能生活在安全的保护区里；草地被毫不怜悯地破坏，以致沙尘暴开始影响遥远的城市。
去年，科学家观察到猴子在身上擦某种昆虫来保护自己不受凶猛的蚊子的叮咬。根据检查的结果，他们发现这种昆虫含有一种具有强大效力的药物，于是，当地的农民都被雇来抓虫子。结果是，这种昆虫从这整个地区都消失了。当被告知说这是整个人类的损失时，农民们都突然大笑着回应道：“我们减少的收入才是我们真正的损失呢！”
我们应该意识到自然平衡的重要，更加注意野生动植物的保护。直到我们成功让野生动植物安详平静地生活，我们自己才能如释重负地笑开颜。
7.A Fair Competition
公平的比赛
Swifter, Higher and
Stronger stands for the spirit of the Olympics. But fairness is the basis of
this motto. Only when you win fairly will you and your homeland deserve the
great glory. But nowadays, unlike the ancient honest slave competitors, some
hopeless athletes who can’t bear the pain of training cheat when taking part in
games. Medals seem to have magical power causing them to cheat, and the prize
money has replaced the motto as their only goal.
So, in the
gymnastics event to be held in our city next month, one of the host’s responsibilities
is to keep competitions fair. They advertised on posters outside the stadium to
promise that every competitor is to have a regular physical examination in a
gymnasium one after another. No one can bargain on this. The volunteers in
charge will be very strict. It is foolish to cheat because they will not be
admitted to compete and will even be fined as well.
“更快！更高！更强！”代表着奥运精神。但是公平却是这一格言的基础。只有当你公平地赢得比赛，你和你的祖国才会承受这样的光荣。但如今，不像古代那些诚实的奴隶参赛者，有些没有希望的运动员无法承受训练的痛苦，于是在参加比赛时作假。奖牌似乎有某种魔力使他们作假，奖金也已经代替了奥运格言成为了他们唯一的目标。
因此，在我们市下个月即将举行的一场体操赛事中，主办方的其中一项责任就是要确保比赛的公平。他们在体育场外的海报上做广告，承诺说每个参赛者都将在体育馆一个一个地参加常规的身体检查。对此没有人可以讨价还价。负责此事的志愿者将非常严格。作假是很愚蠢的，因为他们将不被允许去竞赛，甚至还将被罚款。
5.The Great President
伟大的总统
As the founder of the
republic, the president had many good qualities. Before coming to power, he was
a generous lawyer. He was willing to selflessly help everyone who turned to
him. He accepted no fee to offer legal guidance and opinions to those who were
out of work or uneducated. Later, believing all mankind to be equal, he devoted
himself to stopping the unfair anti-black laws. He set up the Black Youth League
and was voted to be the leader. However, though he kept peaceful principles
without violence and terror, his mean enemies still blew up his house and
attacked his relatives, and he himself couldn’t escape being sentenced to 30
years in prison.
Not fearing of the
prison guards’ cruelty, he kept active and begged no mercy from them. As a
matter of fact, he was always hopeful and never lost heart during the stage
even though he was in trouble.
Finally, people rewarded
him with the leader’s position and a gold blanket.
作为共和国的创始人，这位总统具备许多的优秀品质。还在掌权之前，他就是一位慷慨的律师。他愿意无私地帮助那些向他求助的人。他免费为失业的，或没有受过教育的人提供法律指导和意见。后来，因为相信所有人类都是生来平等，他全身心投入到废除不平等的反黑人法律工作中。他建立了黑人青年团并被选为领袖。然而，尽管他坚持没有暴力、没有恐怖的和平原则，卑鄙的敌人还是炸毁了他的家、袭击了他的亲属，他自己也无法逃脱被判30年徒刑的遭遇。
在狱中，他毫不畏惧狱警的残酷，始终保持积极的态度，不向他们乞求怜悯。实际上，他在任何一个困境时期都充满着希望，从未灰心。
最后，人们以领袖的职位和一块金毯子回报了他的贡献。
3.A Hard Trip
一次辛苦的旅行
My sister was fond of traveling. Ever since
graduating, she had been determined to organize a trip to an old temple. Since
transporting fare was expensive, she decided to use a bicycle to cycle there
not caring about the disadvantages. Her stubborn attitude was always her
shortcoming. Once she made up her mind to do something, no one could persuade
her to change her mind. Finally, we gave in as usual though we preferred to
take a train. After we prepared everything, including the schedule, reliable
weather forecast and the insurance, we began our trip.
Our journey was along a river flowing from a
high altitude. Our pace was slow because the river frequently had many sharp
bends through deep valleys, where the water seemed to boil. Just as I recorded
in my journal, it was really a hard journey. But we also enjoyed great views.
One night, I put my head on my pillow--a parcel of wool coats, and lay beneath
the stars. When the flame in front of our cave went out at midnight, I found
the sky so beautiful!
我的妹妹很喜欢旅行。自从毕业以来，她就下定决心要组织一次往一座古庙的旅行。因为交通费用昂贵，她决定骑自行车去，毫不担心其中的不利情况。顽固的态度一直都是她的缺点，一旦她下定决心要做的事，就没有人能说服她改变主意。最后，我们像往常一样让步，尽管我们更喜欢乘火车去。我们准备好了所有东西，包括时间表、可靠的天气预报，还有保险，就开始了旅程。
我们的旅程沿着一条从高海拔处流下来的河流前行。但我们的步伐很慢，因为当流经深深的峡谷时，这条河流急转弯很多，急湍的河水都似乎沸腾起来。正如我在旅行日志里记录的那样，这真是一次艰苦的旅行。但是我们也欣赏到了美丽的景色。一天晚上，我把头枕在一包羊毛衣服做的枕头上，躺在星空下，当岩洞前的火焰在午夜熄灭时，我发现夜空是如此的美丽！
1. Fall in Love with English
爱上英语
Hiding behind the loose dusty curtain, a teenager
packed up his overcoat into the suitcase. He planned to leave home at dusk
though there was thunder and lightning outdoors. He had got to do this because
he was tired of his parents’ nagging about his English study and did not want
to go through it any longer. He couldn’t get along well with English and
disliked joining in English classes because he thought his teacher ignored him
on purpose. As a result, his score in each exam never added up to over 60.
His partner was concerned about him very much.
She understood exactly what he was suffering from, but entirely disagreed with
his idea. In order to calm him down and settle his problem, she talked with him
face to face and swapped a series of learning tips with him. The items she set
down helped him find the highway to studying English well.
The teenager was grateful and got great power
from his friend’s words. Now, he has recovered from being upset and has fallen
in love with English.
有个少年躲在积满灰尘的松散窗帘后把大衣装入手提箱。尽管外面正打雷闪电，他仍计划在黄昏时分离家出走。他不得不这样做是因为厌倦了父母对他英语学习的唠叨，不想再忍受下去了。他的英语学习总是无法取得进展，而且不喜欢参加英语课的学习，因为他以为老师有意忽视他。结果，他每次考试的分数合计从未超过60。
他的搭档很关心他，也确切地理解他遭受的折磨，但却完全不同意他的想法。为了使他冷静下来好好解决问题，她和他面对面地交谈，并交换了一系列的学习心得技巧。她写下来的条款帮助他找到了学好英语的最佳捷径。
这个少年非常很感激，并从朋友的话里获得极大的动力。现在，他已经从沮丧中恢复过来，真正爱上了英语。
