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Unit 1

The author’s brother Jimmy did not get enough oxygen duringa difficult delivery,which left him with brain damage.As ordinary peoplethought,Jimmy couldn’t live a normal life because of being disabled.However,under the love and caring of the family,Jimmy learned how to adjust tolife successfully and eventually became essential to the neighborhood,spreadinghis love to the people all around . The passage concludes with thesentence:”There had never been any limitations to what Jimmy’s love could accomplish.

Unit 3

The Hyde School sees itself as preparing children for lifeby cultivating a comprehensive set of principles which include the values oftruth,integrity,leadership,curiosity and concern . Academic success will thennaturally follow.So now Joe Gauld,the Hyde School founder is trying his effortsto spread his controversial Character-First idea to some public school . Hesays it’s impossible to reform conventional education,believing that we shouldmeasure success by personal growth and parents must be committed to theschool’s ideas.The school also hopes the parents will act as daily role modelsfor their children , In fact , teachers as well as students benefit from theseprinciples.

Unit 4

This passage gives us some insight into the orgins ofsymbols by which the United States of America is known around the world . Thestatue of Liberty is a female figure which derives from the two favourite womenin French artist Bartholdi’s life .The statue has his mother’s face combinedwith his wife’s body . The model for Barbie comes from an exaggerated versionof an older doll sold in Germany with the American designer’s daughter’s nameon it . It’s universally seen as the Queen of dolls.The great American Gothicpainting is in the medieval European style showing the faces of an Americandentist and the artist’s sister . The Buffalo Nickel’s designer James  went against tradition by using actualAmerican Indians as models for his creation to memorize the detruction of thebuffalo herds and the American Indians.Uncle Sam may have the name of a meatinspector with a reputation for honesty. Sam Wilson,whose acronym is ‘US’ thathappens to be the initials of the United States.

Unit 6

Since earthquake may cause great destruction or damage ,weneed to know how to detect them quickly.Animals always give us warnings .forinstance,before an earthquake,rats run out from their hiding places and marchthrough houses without any fear.

To prevent destruction of property the architects designcolumns and        horizontal beams ofequal strength . Apart from the efforts to improve building structures,peoplealso should prepare their houses for the possibility of great earthquakes. Fromthis passage,we can learn some specific methods to prevent ourselves andproperty from being injured in an earthquake and if it happens how to reducethe damage caused by earthquake.

                                  Unit 8

The creation of Dolly.a cloned sheep,has aroused greatattention around the world. We now live in the reality of human cloning. Thissuggests,on one hand,great medical development and possibilities in curingpreviously incurable diseases. On the other hand ,human cloning has broughtconfusion and fear to people who worry that it would threaten human society anddignity. Why would anyone want to clone a human being in the first place? Willit be possible to clone the dead?What are the other implications of cloning forsociety ?.....the list of questions goes on;people are just beginning to wonderabout the future of the world after cloning.

                                 Unit 10

The twocharacters shared the similarities such as the same age and the samerelative---Aunt Carrie.Comparisons and contrasts had been made through thedifferent stages of their lives.One day,after they retired,they happened tomeet in a club. Thanks to their Aunt Carrie’s well-intentioned comparisonsbetween them,they all achieved great success in their careers. So finally,the tensionsof competition between them went away,they both drank to the memory of theirAunt Carrie.

（一）作者的哥哥吉米出生时难产缺氧，导致大脑残疾。就像一般人所想象的那样，吉米不能像正常人那样生活。然而，在家人的爱心与照顾下，吉米学会了如何适应生活，最终变成了邻里间不可缺少的人，向周围的人们传播爱意。这篇文章以：“吉米的爱可以成就一切----真爱无限。”作为结尾。

（三）海德中学的办学宗旨是：如果你向学生传授诸如诚实、勇敢、正直、领导能力、好奇心和关心他人等美德的话，教学成绩自然就会提高。因此，学校的创始人乔治.高尔德正在努力将自己饱受争议的“品德智商”的理念向公立学校推广。他称改革传统教育是不可能的，他认为人们应该以个人的成长来衡量一个人的成功，而家长则应该接受学校的教学理念。学校还希望家长们能成为孩子们日常行为的榜样。事实上和同学们一样老师们也从这些教育理念中受益。

（四）这篇文章让我们了解了美国为世人所熟悉的象征物的由来。自由女神像的灵感来自法国艺术家巴托尔迪一生中最爱的两个女人，雕像结合了他母亲的脸颊和他妻子的手，芭比娃娃的模型来自一个曾在德国销售并且印着美国设计者女儿名字的造型夸张的老版洋娃娃。它被普遍认为是娃娃皇后。

那幅著名的画《美国哥特人》用欧洲中世纪时期的风格向我们展示着一个美国牙医以及艺术家妹妹的面孔。野牛镍币的设计者詹姆斯颠覆传统，使用真正的美国印第安人作为他的创作原型，此举是为了纪念野牛群和印第安人的毁灭。山姆大叔有着诚实肉食检验员的美誉。他的名字，因为首字母是US结果被认为是UNITED STATES的缩写。

（六）地震会造成很严重的损失和破坏，因此我们需要了解怎样快速检测地震。动物可以给我们警告，例如在地震发生前老鼠倾巢而出，在大街上肆无忌惮的穿行。

为了避免财产损失，建筑师设计了同等强度的立柱和横梁。除了改进建筑物的结构，人们也应该做好发生大地震的应急准备。在这篇文章中我们可以学到有关如何避免人身伤害和财产损失的具体办法，以及地震发生后如何降低地震所造成的损失等。

（八）克隆羊多利的出现在世界范围内引起了人们的广泛关注，使得现在克隆人类成为了一种可能。一方面，这表明了医学的发展和治愈之前被认为是不治之症的可能。另一方面，人类克隆技术给一些担心克隆技术会威胁人类社会和尊严的人们带来了疑惑和恐惧。为什么有人会想要克隆人类？是否可以克隆死去的人？克隆技术对社会还有什么意义？。。。。还有很多诸如此类的问题。人们仅仅是刚刚开始探索克隆技术出现后的未来世界。

（十）两位主人公有很多共同点，比如同样的年纪，共同的亲戚—卡丽舅妈。在他们的成长过程中，一直在被卡丽舅妈做着比较。在他们退休后，一天他们在一间酒吧相遇。多亏了卡丽舅妈善意的比较，他们两个人在各自的事业上都取得了很大的成就。最后，被人比较的紧张感消失，两人共同举杯纪念卡丽舅妈。