大学英语综合教程第二版3背诵段落

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I suspect not everyone who loves

the country would be happy living the

way we takes a couple of special

is a tolerance for

e we are so busy and

on such a tight budget,we don’t

entertain the growing

season there is no time for socializing

and Emily are involved in

school activities,but they too spend

most of their time at home.

The other requirement is energy——a lot of way to make

self-sufficiency work on a small scale

is to resist the temptation to buy a

tractor and other expensive

laborsaving d,you do the

work only machinery we

own(not counting the lawn mower)is a

little three-horsepower rotary

cultivator and a 16-inch chain saw.

How much longer we’ll have

enough energy to stay on here is

anybody’s guess-perhaps for quite a

while,perhaps the time

comes, we’ll leave with a feeling of

sorrow but also with a sense of pride at

what we’ve been able to

should make a fair

profit on the sale of the

place,’ve invested about

$35.000 of our own money in it,and

we could just about double that if we

sold this is not a good time

to economic conditions

improve,however,demand for farms

like ours should be strong again.

We didn’t move here primarily to

earn money came because

we wanted to improve the quality of

our I watch Emily

collecting eggs in the evening,fishing

with Jim on the river or enjoying an

old-fashioned picnic in the orchard

with the entire family,I know we’ve

found just what we were looking for.

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Yet this stop was only part of a

much larger mission for

Henson is but one name on a long list

of courageous men and women who

together forged the Underground

Railroad,a secret web of escape routes

and safe houses that they used to

liberate slaves from the American

n 1820 and 1860,as

many as 100.000 slaves traveled the

Railroad to freedom.

In October 2000,President Clinton

authorized $16 million for the National

Underground Railroad Freedom Center

to honor this first great civil-rights

struggle in the center is

scheduled to open in 2004 in

it’s about the

heroes of the Underground Railroad

remain too little remembered,their

exploits still largely unsung.I was

intent on telling their stories.

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It has been replaced by dead-bolt

locks,security chains,electronic alarm

systems and trip wires hooked up to a

police station or private guard

suburban families have

sliding glass doors on their patios,with

steel bars elegantly built in so no one

can pry the doors open.

It is not uncommon,in the most

pleasant of homes,to see pasted on the

windows small notices announcing

that the premises are under

surveillance by this security force or

that guard company.

The lock is the new symbol of

,a recent public-service

advertisement by a large insurance

company featured not charts showing

how much at risk we are,but a picture

of a child’s bicycle with the now-usual

padlock attached to it.

The ad pointed out that,yes,it is the

insurance companies that pay for

stolen goods,but who is going to pay

for what the new atmosphere of

distrust and fear is doing to our way of

life?Who is going to make the psychic

payment for the transformation of

America from the Land of the Free to

the Land of the Lock?

For that is what has

have become so used to defending

ourselves against the new atmosphere

of American life,so used to putting up

barriers,that we have not had time to

think about what it may mean.

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Einstein’s parents sometimes

took Albert to parties. No babysitter

was required: Albert sat on the couch,

totally absorbed, quietly doing math

problems while others danced around

him. Pencil and paper were Albert’s

GameBoy!

He had impressive powers of

concentration. Einstein’s sister, Maja,

recalled “... even when there was a lot

of noise, he could lie down on the sofa,

pick up a pen and paper,precariously

balance an inkwell on the backrest and

engross himself in a problem so much

that the background noise stimulated

rather than disturbed him.”

Einstein was clearly intelligent,

but not outlandishly more so than his

peers. “I have no special talents,” he

claimed, “I am only passionately

curious.” And again: “The contrast

between the popular assessment of my

powers ... and the reality is simply

grotesque.” Einstein credited his

discoveries to imagination and endless

questioning more so than orthodox

intelligence.

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Always the college professor,my

dad had carefully avoided anything he

considered too sentimental,so I knew

how moved he was to write me that,

after having helped educate many

young people,he now felt that his best

results included his own son.

The Reverend Nelson wrote that his

decades as a”simple,old-fashioned

principal”had ended with schools

undergoing such swift changes that he

had retired in self-doubt.”I heard more

of what I had done wrong than what I

did right,”he said,adding that my letter

had brought him welcome reassurance

that his career had been appreciated.

A glance at Grandma’s familiar

handwriting brought back in a flash

memories of standing alongside her

white rocking chair,watching

her”settin’down”some letter to

ter by

character,Grandma would slowly

accomplish one word,then the next,so

that a finished page would consume

hours.I wept over the page

representing my Grandma’s recent

hours invested in expressing her loving

gratefulness to me——whom she used

to diaper!

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Old Behrman was a painter who

lived on the ground floor beneath

was past sixty and had a long

white beard curling down over his

e looking the

pare,Behrman was a failure in

forty years he had been always about

to paint a masterpiece,but had never

yet begun earned a little by

serving as a model to those young

artists who could not pay the price of a

drank gin to

excess,and still talked of his coming

the rest he was a

fierce little old man,who mocked

terribly at softness in any one,and who

regarded himself as guard dog to the

two young artists in the studio above.

Sue found Behrman smelling

strongly of gin in his dimly lighted

studio one corner was a blank

canvas on an easel that had been

waiting there for twenty-five years to

receive the first line of the

told him of Johnsy’s

fancy,and how she feared she

would,indeed,light and fragile as a leaf

herself,float away,when her slight hold

upon the world grew

Behrman,with his red eyes plainly

streaming,shouted his contempt for

such foolish imaginings.

“What!”he cried.”Are there people

in the world foolish enough to die

because leafs drop off from a vine?I

have never heard of such a

do you allow such silly ideas to come

into that head of hers?God!This is not

a place in which one so good as Miss

Johnsy should lie day I will

paint a masterpiece,and we shall all go

.”

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Porter came to Portland when he

was 13 after his father, a salesman,was

transferred attended a school

for the disabled and then Lincoln High

School,where he was placed in a class

for slow kids.

But he wasn’t slow.

His mind was trapped in a body that

didn’t ng was difficult and

took were impatient and

didn’t felt

different-was-different-from the kids

who rushed about in the halls and

planned dances he would never attend.

What could his future be?Porter

wanted to do something and his

mother was certain that he could rise

above his her

encouragement,he applied for a job

with the Fuller Brush to be

turned couldn’t carry a

product briefcase or walk a route,they

said.

Porter knew he wanted to be a

began reading help

wanted ads in the he

saw one for Watkins,a company that

sold household products

door-to-door,his mother set up a

meeting with a man

said no,but Porter wouldn’t

just wanted a man gave in

and offered Porter a section of the city

that no salesman wanted.

It took Porter four false starts before

he found the courage to ring the first

man who answered told

him to go away,a pattern repeated

throughout the day.

That night Porter read through

company literature and discovered the

products were would

sell that just needed people

to listen.

If a customer turned him

down,Porter kept coming back until

they heard he sold.

For several years he was Watkins’

top retail he is the only

one of the company’s44,000

salespeople who sells door-to-door.

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