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1 英语故事Why was Jenny not amused Jeremy Hampden has a large circle of friends and is very popular at parties. Everybody admires him for his great sense of humour -- everybody, that is, except his six-year-old daughter, Jenny. Recently, one of Jeremy's closest friends asked him to make a speech at a wedding reception. This is the sort of thing that Jeremy loves. He prepared the speech carefully and went to the wedding with Jenny. he had included a large number of funny stories in the speech and, of course, it was a great success. As soon as he had finished, Jenny told him she wanted to go home. Jeremy was a little disappointed by this but he did as his daughter asked. On the way home, he asked Jenny if she had enjoyed the speech. To his surprise, she said she hadn't. Jeremy asked her why this was so and she told him that she did not like to see so many people laughing at him! 【课文翻译】杰里米 .汉普登交际甚广， 是各种聚会上深受大家欢迎的人。

人人都钦佩他那绝妙的幽默感-- 人人，就是说，除他6 岁的女儿珍妮之外的每一个人最近，杰里米的一个最亲密的朋友请他在一个婚礼上祝词这正是杰里米喜欢做的事情他认真准备了讲稿，带着珍妮一道去参加了婚礼他的祝词里面加进了大量逗人的故事，自然大获成功他刚一讲完，珍妮就对他说她要回家这不免使杰里米有点扫兴，但他还是按照女儿的要求做了在回家的路上，他问珍妮是否喜欢他的祝词使他吃惊的是，她说她不喜欢杰里米问他为何不喜欢，她说她不愿意看到那么多的人嘲笑他！【生词汇总】reception n. 招待会sort n. 种类admire somebody for sth 因某些事而崇拜某人童话寓言看不见春天的盲人One day, there was a blind man sitting on the steps of a building with a sign by his feet, that reads: “I am blind, please help.“ A creative publicist was walking by the blind man and stopped to observe that the man only had a few coins in his hat. He put a few of his own coins in the hat, and without stopping to ask for permission （征求许可）, took the sign, turned it around, and wrote a new message. He then placed the sign by the feet of the blind man, and left. Later that afternoon the creative publicist returned by the blind man and noticed that his hat was almost completely full of bills and coins. The blind man recognized(认出 ) his footsteps and asked if it was him who had changed his sign? He also wanted to know what the man wrote on it? The blind man didn't know that his new sign reads as this: “It's spring now, but I can't see it.“ publicist[ 英][?p? bl?s?st] [美][?p? bl? s? st] n. 宣传人员；宣传代理人；政论家；时事评论员observe[英][?b?z?:v] [美][?b?z? v] vt. they?ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn?t bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. 你的学校也许已经不再分优等生和劣等生，但生活却仍在做出类似区分。

某些学校已经废除不及格分，只要你想找到正确答案，学校会给你无数次机会这和现实生活中的任何事情没有一点相似之处Life is not divided into semesters. You don?t get summers off a nd very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time. 生活不分学期，你并没有暑假可以休息，也没有几位雇主乐于帮助你发现自我自己找时间做吧Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. 电视不是真实的生活现实生活中，人们实际上得离开咖啡屋去干自己的工作nerds[n?:dz] n.讨厌的人，卑微的人（nerd 的名词复数）生活话题少年犯罪 de 问题The problem of Juvenile crime Juvenile crime has become a more and more serious problem for today's society. Many young people, unable to resist the various temptations of society, degenerate into moral depravity and some even commit crimes. There are different causes for such a widespread phenomenon. First, many young offenders lack warm emotional support and parental care from their families. Their partents, either too busy with their own business or too estranged to show their affections for their children, seldom set aside time for the education of their children. These children have nobody to turn to when faced with trouble from society and easily slide into bad habits and begin to acquire bad company. Second, the society is also to blame. Money seems to have become the central concern of many people. Those children with weaker will cannot resist the temptation of money and addict to materialist desires. In order to prevent juvenile crime, parents should devote more time to the care of children. They should themselves set examples for their offspring so that to tell their children to know the good from the bad. Furthermore, we should build a social system that is healthy for the growth of young children. Education should be given primary concern. Let the entire society be a school. Only through the collaboration of individual families and the society can we prevent juvenile climes. Juvenile crime 少年犯罪resist[ 英][ri?zist] [美][r?? z? st] v.抵抗，抗拒；忍耐；反对，抵制n.防染剂；防腐剂offenders[ ?? fend ?z] n.冒犯者（offender 的名词复数） ；犯规者；罪犯；妨害, 的人（或事物）acquire[ 英][?? kwai ?] [美][?? kwa ?r] vt.获得，取得；学到offspring[ 英][??fspri?] [美][??f?spr??, ?ɑf-] n.后代，子孙；产物，结果；（动物的）崽；幼苗复数： offsprings；诗歌散文What is Time? 对你来说，时间是什么Time is grain for peasants. Time is wealth for workers. Time is life for doctors. Time is victory for strategists. Time is knowledge for entrepreneurs. Time is speed for scientists. Time is money for enterprisers. Time is everything for all of us. Therefore, seize this day! Begin now! Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it. For today already walks tomorrow. grain [grein]n.颗粒 , 谷类 , 纹理 , 谷物 , 谷粒 , 细粒 , 粮食 vt.(使)成谷粒 vi.(使)成谷粒peasants [ 英][?pez?nt] [美][?p? z?nt] n. 农民；农夫；佃农；粗俗的人复数：。