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21世纪学生英文报高一版 第446期September 12, 2011Jump To:Frontpage | Our World | Campus Trends | Fun Time | Quiz Time | Learning KIT | Culture and DiscoveryComic barPotato chips are diet food. The vibrations (振动) from loud crunching (嘎吱嘎吱地嚼) loosen your fat cells.Sing alongHeroThere’s a heroIf you look inside your heartYou don’t have to be afraidOf what you are...So when you feel like hope is goneLook inside you and be strongAnd you’ll finally see the truthThat a hero lies in youSung by Mariah Carey,(American pop singer, 1970–)Self-made songwriter许嵩：坚持自我，为了梦想而歌唱。

词数 369 建议阅读时间 7分钟HE sings; he writes songs; he has made albums all by himself. You may not know his face. But you will definitely (肯定地) know his soft voice, rhythmic (有节奏的) music and beautiful lyrics. He is not “the second Jay Chou”, but “the first Xu Song”.Five years ago, Xu was an ordinary college student majoring in medical management (管理). He played the piano and wrote songs in his spare time. But one day he put his music on the Internet. His life soon changed.麻辣酷词★ 宅When a person prefers to stay at home a lot and doesn’t go out very often, we say that he or she is very zhai (宅). Obviously, “zhai” is used as an adjective here. In English, it is “indoorsy”.例如: Jimmy is a very indoorsy person. He hates camping.“zhai” can also be used as a verb, and here the English expression should be simply “stay indoors”.A little goodness?平凡英雄就在我们身边。

词数 442 建议阅读时间 9分钟RECENTLY Xu Yunhe, a young man in Tianjin, stopped his car. An old woman had fallen over and he wanted to help her. Soon after, Xu was in court. The woman blamed him for her fall.Stories like this can make us lose faith in society. However, there are still good people living around us. We just have to look for them.Top of the chart for teaching词数 268 建议阅读时间 5分钟剑桥大学蝉联世界大学排名第一ARE you thinking about which university to go to after you graduate from high school? The QS World University Rankings (排名) could help you get a better understanding of how good a university is among hundreds of others around the world.According to this year’s QS World University Rankings published on September 5, the University of Cambridge was ranked as the world’s best university. Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (麻省理工学院) came second and third. It is the second year that Cambridge has taken the top spot.重点讲解【核心词汇】blame vt. 责备，怪罪Don’t blame me for your problems.suffer vt./vi. 受苦，遭受She was suffering from a headache.condition n. 情况，状态The car is in very good condition.immediately adv. 立即We need to leave immediately.spread vt./vi. 传播，蔓延The fire spread from the factory to the houses nearby.【考点看台】An old woman had fallen over and he wanted to help her.该句中使用了过去完成时态，表示在过去某个时间之前已经完成的动作，在文中表示老太太摔倒在前。

Magic wisdom《哈利波特》的故事充满人生智慧词数 359 建议阅读时间 5分钟I READ Harry Potter for the first time in Grade 2. I didn’t pay much attention to it. But as the story went on and Harry grew up, I became more and more interested in his life. Now when I read these stories about magic, I see a real world with real people living real lives. I feel the happiness and sorrow (悲伤) of the characters. Harry Potter stories have taught me a lot.The school of Sun Yat-sen国父孙中山的母校有何不同？词数 254 建议阅读时间 4分钟“I FEEL as though I have returned home, because Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are my intellectual (智力的) birthplace.” These were the words of Sun Yat-sen when he visited the HKU in 1923. This year the university celebrates its 100th birthday.HKU is the oldest university in Hong Kong. It is not only the “intellectual birthplace” of the great Sun, but also of popular writer Eileen Chang (张爱玲), father of Chinese modern aesthetics (美学) Zhu Guangqian, and hundreds of important politicians (政治家) and business people.What would you feed to a foreigner?如果外国游客来到你的家乡，你会请他们品尝什么？Jiang Yining (Hefei): How about serving them stinky salmon (臭鲑鱼) It’s a famous snack in Hefei, Anhui. Like stinky tofu in Hunan, stinky salmon also smells smelly but tastes tasty. The guests will be amazed that Chinese people can produce such a wonderful and unusual snack.Hua Yinze (Wuxi)：I will definitely (肯定地) treat (招待) the foreign guests to a bowl of rice noodles with beef and eggs. In Wuxi, Jiangsu, we often serve rice noodles to guests on their first visit. It’s a sign of hospitality (好客).Scanners against snakesTHE new full-body scanners (扫描仪) at US airports proved themselves late last month - they kept snakes off a plane. A man stuffed (塞) live snakes down his pants. He was trying to get them past security (安检) at Miami Airport. Authorities said the man was behaving strangely and looked like he had “ants in his pants”. Officers from the US Department of Fish and Wildlife took away the animals. They arrested (逮捕) the man for illegal (非法的) wildlife trade.By Gabriella Van Leuven, 21st Century Teens staffSpotPIANIST Lang Lang p。