第一部分 寓言故事
passage 1 the ant and the grasshopper
passage 2 the wolf, the fox, and the ape
passage 3 to sell a horse
passage 4 the farmer and his sons
passage 5 in the opposite direction
passage 6 the three rogues
passage 7 the elephant as governor
passage 8 the rose bush and the apple tree
passage 9 the old hound
passage 10 the raven
passage 11 the stray dogs
passage 12 the fox andthe tiger
passage 13 preventionls better than cure
passage 14 to move mountains
passage 15 the dancing bear
第二部分 成语故事
passage 1 giving all the historical facts exceptthose about the ancestors
passage 2 treating people heart to heart
passage 3 jostling each other in a crowd
passage 4 lamenting one's littleness before the vast ocean
passage 5 quenching their thirst by thinking of plums
passage 6 with bitter hatred
passage 7 blow hot and cold
passage 8 a mantis trying to stop a chariot
passage 9 bent solely on profit
passage 10 ordering people about by gesture
passage 11 drawing on collective wisdom and absorbing all useful ideas
passage 12 learning by way of collecting fireflies in a bag and with the light reflected from the snow
passage 13 a golden millet dream
passage 14 the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind
passage 15 climbing a tree to catch fish
passage 16 looking at a leopard through a bamboo tube
passage 17 passing himself off as one of the players in an ensemble
第三部分 幽默故事
passage 1 hillary's gift
passage 2 sly devil
passage 3 don't argue with children
passage 4 who had the most tragic death
passage 5 the chairman
passage 6 teaching the status
passage 7 interview
passage 8 a test
passage 9 speed limit
passage 10 the message
passage 11 the parachute
passage 12 captain and first mate
passage 13 technical support
passage 14 reminder
passage 15 gorbachev's driver
第四部分 名人铁事
passage 1 they were discovered by accident
passage 2 work only one day during the week?
passage 3 purely and exclusively a theorist
passage 4 plant wizard
passage 5 president of the u. s., one day
passage 6 he had his hand in many pies
passage 7 jefferson as an inventor
passage 8 an exhausting struggle
passage 9 servant or family member?
passage 10 carnegie earned $1.20 a week
passage 11 indies? bahamas!
passage 12 sports ethic? sports salaries?
passage 13 your special achievements? none.
passage 14 good to write poorly at the beginning
passage 15 ice fishing
第五部分 人物先锋
passage 1 j. m. coetzee wins nobel prize
passage 2 bill gates still top of rich list
passage 3 pandora's box
passage 4 fall of wall street head
passage 5 gates' way
passage 6 scientists rethinking nature of animal memory
passage 7 clone ewe, but not you
passage 8 iranian activist wins nobel peace prize
passage 9 nelson mandela
passage 10 hawking changes his mind about black holes
第六部分 民间故事
passage 1 palmistry
passage 2 the mandrake
passage 3 symbolism ( i)
passage 4 symbolism ( ii)
passage 5 the devil
passage 6 superstitions about the moon
passage 7 vampire
passage 8 sir lancelot
passage 9 little john
passage 10 the evil eye
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