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1、读书破万卷下笔如有神1. Napoga is a 12-year-old girl in Ghana, Africa. It is hard for her family to get clean water. Every morning, she leaves home at half past five to get clean water for her family in a village far away. It takes her six hours to get enough clean water for daily cooking and drinking. She has
2、 no time to go to school or to play with her friends. Millions of people in the world are like Napoga. They can t get enough clean water to keep healthy. Earth Day is April 22. But on all other days, we must also remember it. The water we use is the most important natural resource on the earth. Wate
3、r covers 70% of the earth s surface. But most of that is sea water. We can t use it for very many things. Fresh water covers only 1% of the earth s surface. You probably feel lucky that your life isn t as hard as Napogas. But that doesn t mean you don t have to worry about water. We all face serious
4、 water problems. One of them is water pollution. All kinds of things from cars, factories, farms and homes make our rivers, lakes, and oceans dirty. Polluted water is very bad for people to drink. And dirty water is bad for fish, too. Now, 34% of all kinds of fish are dying out. How do cars and fact
5、ories make our water dirty? First, they pollute the air. Then, when it rains, the rain water comes down and makes our drinking water dirty. Dirty rain, called acid rain, is also bad for plants, animals and buildings. Scientists say that in 30 years, more than half of the people in the world won t ha
6、ve enough clean water. We have to learn how to save more water for ourselves and our children. Here is some advice for saving water: Turn off the water while you brush your teeth. You can save as much as 450 liters each month. Leaky taps waste a lot of water. Fix them right away! You can easily cut
7、your 10-minute showers in half and you ll be just as clean. When you wash dishes, don t let the water run. Only wash clothes when you have a lot to wash. If your washing machine isn t full ， you re wasting water! 2. What are you going to do if you are in a burning house? How will you escape? Do you
8、know how to save yourself? Please read the following passage. Escaping a fire is a serious matter. Knowing what to do during a fire can save your life. It is important to know the ways you can use and show them to everyone in the family， such as stairways and fire escapes, but not lifts. From the lo
9、wer floors of the buildings, escaping through windows is possible, learn the best way of leaving by windows with the least chance of serious injury. The second floor window is usually not very high from the ground. An average person, hanging by the finger-tips will have a drop of about six feet to t
10、he ground. It is about te height of an average man. Of course, it is safer to jump a short way than to stay in a burning building. Windows are also useful when you are waiting for help. Be sure to keep the door closed. Or smoke and fire may be drawn into the room. Keep your head low at the window to
11、 be sure you get fresh air rather than smoke that may leaked into the room. On a second or third floor, the 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 1 页，共 5 页读书破万卷下笔如有神best windows for escape are those that open onto a roof. From the roof a person can drop to the ground more safely. Dropping o
12、nto cement might end in injury. Bushes and grass can help to break a fall. 3. Linda Evans was my best friend like the sister I never had. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, horseback riding. When I was 13, my family moved away. Linda and I kept in touch through letters, and
13、 we saw each other on special time like my wedding and Linda s. Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less often. One day a card that I sent came back, stamped “ Address Unknown” . I had no idea how to find Linda. Over the years, I missed Linda very much. I wanted to
14、share happiness of my children and then grandchildren. And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill. One day I was reading a newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman who looked very much
15、like Linda and whose last name was Wagman Linda s married name. “ There must be thousands of Wagmans,” I thought, but I still wrote to her. She called as soon as she got my letter. “ Mrs Tobin!” she said excitedly, “ Linda Evans Wagman is my mother. ” Minutes later I heard a voice that I knew very m
16、uch, even after 40 years, laughed and cried and caught up on each others lives. Now the empty place in my heart is filled. And theres one thing that Linda and I know for sure: We wont lose each other again! 4. Do you remember we agreed to circulate our ideas for our school project this year? Well, h
17、ere is our suggestion and we in our school hope you will join us to develop it. The idea came to us in the autumn of 2004. We were sitting in our class when our head teacher made an announcement. “ There ll be a new boy starting school tomorrow. He comes from the circus so he ll be with us for a whi
18、le.” Immediately there was whispering around the classroom. I heard remarks like “ Those are dirty people” ; “ They eat raw meat” ; and “ Watch out for your bags” . The teacher must have heard them because she stopped the talking and said in a very serious voice: “ Jake is our guest for as long as h
19、e stays here. Make sure you treat him well. I don t want to hear any complaints about your behaviour to him.” I was curious because it was the first time I had met anyone from a circus. Fortunately for me, the next morning, after being introduced to the class he sat in the only spare seat next to me
20、. Of course I didn t want to be nosy but I couldn t help looking at him sideways as I began my mathematics task. I noticed Jake was smaller than me and had dirty finger nails. His shirt was clean but had been repaired in many places and his trousers were helped up by a wide, leather belt. As he seem
21、ed to have no handkerchief and was sniffing loudly, I passed him one of mine. Immediately the boys began to whisper “ What did you do that for? Leave him be!” I concentrated on my work. From my left a slight movement showed that Jake must have heard the remarks too. 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 -
22、 - - - - - -第 2 页，共 5 页读书破万卷下笔如有神He seemed to be having great difficulty with his work and was struggling to hold his pen correctly. He looked around as if for help. I looked around too. The teacher was busy so I leaned over and offered to explain the problems to him. As he listened his mouth split
23、into a smile. His eyes lit up as if a light had been turned on and he returned to the exercises with enthusiasm. He finished them quickly and proudly presented them to the teacher. “ Well done, Jake, ” she approved. Jake smiled and was soon busy sorting out information and adding more of his own. I
24、thought about how Jake s life would be. I remembered seeing the campsite and thinking how poor the facilities were. So I decided to help. As it was my turn to suggest a project for our grade, I put forward this idea. Our head teacher accepted it and so we began to prepare our plans to improve the ca
25、mpsite. Hope you will join us. 5. When my family moved to America in 2010 from a small village in Guangdong, China, we brought not only our luggage, but also our village rules, customs and culture. One of the rules is that young people should always respect elders. Unluckily, this rule led to my ver
26、y first embarrassment in the United States. I had a part-time job as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant. One time, when I was serving food to a middle-aged couple, the wife asked me how the food could be served so quickly. I told her that I had made sure they got their food quickly because I always re
27、spect the elderly. As soon as I said that, her face showed great displeasure. My manager, who happened to hear what I said, took me aside and gave me a long lecture about how sensitive Americans are and how they dislike the description “ old” . I then walked back to the table and apologized to the w
28、ife. After the couple heard my reason, they understood that the problem was caused by cultural differences, so they laughed and were no longer angry. In my village in China, people are proud of being old. Not so many people live to be seventy or eighty, and people who reach such an age have the most
29、 knowledge and experience. Young people always respect older people because they know they can learn from their rich experience. However, in the United States, people think “ growing old” is a problem since “ old ” shows that a person is going to retire or that the body is not working well. Here man
30、y people try to keep themselves away from growing old by doing exercises or jogging, and women put on makeup, hoping to look young. When I told the couple in the restaurant that I respect the elderly, they got angry because this caused them to feel they had failed to stay young. I had told them some
31、thing they didn t want to hear.6. My wife Julie and I were out on the road that runs around where we live, when we saw an old worn-out dog stumbling painfully up the road. We stopped, bent down, talked gently to the dog and patted it. I checked and there was a collar with a phone number. I called bu
32、t no one answered. The dog was painfully thin. So Julie ran home to get some of our dog s food while I tried to 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 3 页，共 5 页读书破万卷下笔如有神encourage the dog. After Julie came back, we sat down on the sidewalk while our new friend made short work of the food. Ev
33、entually we got her home. After trying for many times we got a response from the number. A lady came around with a bunch of flowers for us. She explained that Tara had been her father s dog. She was very old and got lost that morning. So, Tara was safely returned home. Here is the truth of the story
34、: Actually Julie and I were out that morning because I was leaving. She was trying to persuade me to come back, but I wasn t hearing anything that made that sound likely. I was about to turn and go when an old black dog walked between us and almost fell down. Suddenly we had something more important
35、 than our problem to worry about. There was a creature in need right before us and we had to work together to help it. We did help it. And here I am writing the story in my own home, in my own family. In the song “ Love Is Not a Fight ” Warren Barfield talks about marriage. At one point he sings, “
36、And if we try to leave, may God send angels to guard the door. ”Sometimes angels come disguised as dogs. 7. If you were walking around a supermarket and saw a woman with a shaved head, a ring through her nose, a tattoo design on her arm and she has a small child in her shopping trolley, what would y
37、our opinion be? Do you think this kind of body decoration is attractive or ugly? Different people have different ideas. The following are some examples of body decoration from around the world. In many parts of Africa, it is thought that an attractive girl should have really shinny skin. On Bali, a
38、little island in Indonesia, they believe that a beautiful woman or handsome man must have perfectly straight, flat teeth. The Balinese believe that teeth with pointed edges make you look like an ugly wild animal. So when a girl or boy becomes a teenager, he or she is taken to a special person in the
39、ir village who will file off teeth points to make them smooth and flat. There is no anesthetic and this tooth filing is really painful. It is a kind of test. If you can stand it without screaming or crying too much, then you are thought ready to become an adult. In Myanmar, there is a small group of
40、 people who are called the “ Papaung” . They believe that a woman can only be really beautiful if she has a long neck. I mean a VERY long neck. Now you might think that you are either born with a long or short neck and that there s nothing whatever you can do about it. But you would be wrong! At aro
41、und the age of 5, a Papaung girl has heavy metal rings fitted around her neck, tightly between the chin and shoulders. Each year more rings are added and very, very slowly their weight pushes the shoulders down, in this way making the neck look longer. A Papaung woman will wear her neck rings all he
42、r life, never once taking them off. So now I m sure you will all agree that different people have different ideas about what is beautiful. 精选学习资料 - - - - - - - - - 名师归纳总结 - - - - - - -第 4 页，共 5 页读书破万卷下笔如有神8. I got my first driver s license in 1953 by taking driver education in my first year at Centr
43、al High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Four years later when it was time to renew my license I was a married woman. Henry and I were living in Baltimore, Maryland. Two weeks before my 20thbirthday, Henry drove me to the motor vehicle office on a hot July afternoon. When I got to the office and
44、 showed to the man behind the counter my North Carolina driver s license, ready to renew, the man told me that I was under age by Maryland law since I was not yet 21. “ Mr. Henry Smith, your husband, will have to sign for you,” he said. I argued, pointing to a very large belly of mine, “ I am marrie
45、d. I am having a baby. Why should I have to have someone sign for me to drive? ” He answered coldly, “ It s the law, madam?” Henry encouraged me to calm down, just go ahead and get the license and be done with it “ No. ” I said. I refused to have him sign for me. So I left without a Maryland license
46、. I called the North Carolina Motor Vehicle Office and renewed my NC license by mail-using my name Susan Brown. And thus it was for the next twelve years. Since Henry was in the army I could drive under my home state license. By the time Henry left the army we were once again living in Maryland, and
47、 I had to take the Maryland driver s exam. Since then I just go in and renew every four years-sign the name Susan Brown, have my new picture taken, and walk out with a license to drive. 9. About 21,000 young people in 17 American states do not attend classes in school buildings. Instead, they receiv
48、e their elementary and high school education by working at home on computers. The Center for Education Reform says the United States has 67 public “ cyber schools”and that is about twice as many as two years ago. The money for students to attend a cyber school comes from the governments of the state
49、s where they live. Some educators say cyber schools receive money that should support traditional public schools. They also say it is difficult to know if students are learning well. Other educators praise this new form of education for letting students work at their own speed. These people say cybe
50、r schools help students who were unhappy or unsuccessful in traditional schools. They say learning at home by computer ends long bus rides for children who live far from school. Whatever the judgment of cyber schools, they are getting more and more popular. For example, a new cyber school called Com