文章題目 Dust and American

　　題材 環(huán)保

　　題型 判斷 7+填空 6

　　文章大意 美國沙漠化問題。美國西南沙塵的起源，歷史，調(diào)查對(duì)大平原地帶的影響，產(chǎn)生的問題。

　　文章題目 The meaning of history study

　　題材 人文社科

　　題型 配對(duì) 9+填空 4

　　文章大意 本文講了歷史研究的意義。列舉了名人對(duì)于學(xué)習(xí)歷史的觀點(diǎn)。歷史學(xué)家和教育家都認(rèn)為歷史不僅具有學(xué)術(shù)研究的意義，更有助于其他領(lǐng)域。

　　參考閱讀： The purpose of historical inquiry is not simply to present facts but to search for an interpretation of the past. Historians attempt to find patterns and establish meaning through the rigorous study of documents and artifacts left by people of other times and other places.

　　The study of history is vital to a liberal arts education. History is unique among the liberal arts in its emphasis on historical perspective and context. Historians insist that the past must be understood on its own terms; any historical phenomenon--an event, an idea, a law, or a dogma for example--must first be understood in its context, as part of a web of interrelated institutions, values, and beliefs that define a particular culture and era. Among the liberal arts, history is the discipline most concerned with understanding change. Historians seek not only to explain historical causality--how and why change occurs within societies and cultures. They also try to account for the endurance of tradition, understand the complex interplay between continuity and change, and explain the origins, evolution, and decline of institutions and ideas. History is also distinguished by its singularly broad scope. Virtually every subject has a history and can be analyzed and interpreted in historical perspective and context; the scope of historical inquiry is bound only by the quantity and quality of surviving documents and artifacts

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　　文章題目 Japan's ancient pottery

　　題材 歷史

　　文章大意 本文講了日本的古陶藝。這是一種特殊意義的傳統(tǒng)技藝，后來某年間得到發(fā)展，在某地如何被做出來等等。講到了一個(gè)大師先后跟父親學(xué)習(xí)技藝，后來和哥哥一起做獲得成就等。

　　文章題目 Children's adults

　　重復(fù)年份 20151219 20140802 20111026

　　題材 文學(xué)

　　題型 選擇 4+句子配對(duì) 4+判斷 4+簡答 1

　　文章大意 講了兒童文學(xué)。探討了從成人角度去寫兒童文學(xué)的視角不同。

　　參考閱讀： CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

　　A Stories and poems aimed at children have an exceedingly long history: lullabies, for example, were sung in Roman times, and a few nursery games and rhymes are almost as ancient. Yet so far as written-down literature is concerned, while there were stories in print before 1700 that children often seized on when they had the chance, such as translations of Aesop’s fables, fairy-stories and popular ballads and romances, these were not aimed at young people in particular. Since the only genuinely child-oriented literature at this time would have been a few instructional works to help with reading and general knowledge, plus the odd Puritanical tract as an aid to morality, the only course for keen child readers was to read adult literature. This still occurs today, especially with adult thrillers or romances that include more exciting, graphic detail than is normally found in the literature for younger readers.

　　B By the middle of the 18th century there were enough eager child readers, and enough parents glad to cater to interest, for publishers to specialize in children’s books whose first aim was pleasure rather than education or morality. In Britain, a London merchant named Thomas Boreham produced Cajanus, The Swedish Giant in 1742, while the more famous John Newbery published A Little Pretty Pocket Book in 1744. Its contents—rhymes, stories, children’s games plus a free gift (‘A ball and a pincushion’)— in many ways anticipated the similar...

　　文章題目 Ocean power

　　重復(fù)年份 20150829A 20091024

　　題材 能源

　　題型 選擇 3+配對(duì) 5+句子填空 5

　　文章大意 本文介紹了各種海洋資源，包括了潮汐能、洋流能、波浪能和海底熱能。

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