Unit1Some scientists speculate the reduction in mental function often attributed to getting old may really be a penalty of neglecting to stay physically active, in addition to related factors such as medicines and poor diet.If you venture just a little way into the woods, your menu can become even more varied.The roots of Jerusalem artichokes () are often dug in spring and fall at the edges of woods, where the grounds may once have been tilled or farmed.Under U.S. law all aliens seeking admission are presumed to require an immigrant visa unless they establish that they are entitled to receive a visa in one of the nonimmigrant categories.“I believe that the staging of ‘Turandot’ in Beijing will further demonstrate that the arts, whether opera or film, are the best media for people of different cultures and histories to co mmunicate with each other and to share their feelings and emotions”, said Zhang Yimou, the director of the production.“I spent three or four hours on two short chapters –– savoring each paragraph, lingeringover a sentence, a phrase or even a single word, building a detailed mental picture of the scene.Unit2After lunch he walked to the Que Hua Bridge, where he hired a small boat and paddled along towards the north. Soon he reached the Li Xia Pavilion, so he stepped ashore and went in, and when he entered the gate he saw a house, the paint of which was practically all worn away.Of all the children, granny loved her second son, my uncle, best. The reason is that he not only resembles her very much, but also represents all her hopes. During those days, with grandpa losing his job first and then becoming bed-ridden with paralysis, our family was living in straitened circumstances. Granny pinned all the hopes of the family on my uncle, who was vivacious by nature and brilliant in his studies ever since his childhood,so she stinted herself in order to provide him with an education.Unlike nice-looking apples, peaches, and pomegranates, which hang their fruit on branches and win people’s admiration with their brillian t colors, tiny little peanuts bury themselves underground and remain uneart hed until they’re ripe. When you come upona peanut plant lying curled up on the ground, you can never immediately tell whether ornot it bears any nuts until you touch them.Unit31.When I was nine Mother died and Father became even worse. If you accidentally broke a small thing like a cup, he would throw such things as to make you shiver all over. His eyes would cast sideways glance. Whenever I passed by him, he would eye me sideways with an arrogant look streaming down the bridge of his nose and off the corner of the mouth, making you feel as if pricked on needles.2. The view, especially in early summer, is so pleasing that it’s a pity they can’t enjoy it.Wild roses blooming on fieldstone fences, fields white with daisies, that soft languorous air turning the mountains pastel blue out toward the West.3. Some parents simply cannot stand letting their baby cry until he or she learns to fallasleep on their own, or when the baby awakens in the middle of the night. Mo st experts’ advice suggests this is shortsighted.Unit4I was up the next morning before the October sunrise, and away through the wildand the woodland. The rising of the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of it; peeping down the spread of light, he raised his shoulder heavily over the edge of gray mountain and wavering length of upland. Beneath his gaze the dew-fogs dipped and crept to the hollow places, then stole away the line and column, holding skirts and clinging subtly at the sheltering corners where rock hung over grass-land, while the brave lines of hills came forth, one beyond other gliding.I take heart from the fact that, the enemy, which boasts that it can occupy the strategicpoint in a couple of hours, has not yet been able to take even the outlying regions, because of the stiff resistance that gets in the way.Unit5Nineteenth-century life had dealt the ten-year-old London lad a bad hand. While his father languished in debtor‘s jail, painful pangs of hunger gnawed at his stomach.To feed himself, the boy took a job pasting labels on blacking bottles in a grim, rat-infested warehouse. He slept in a dismal attic room with two other street urchins, while secretly dreaming of becoming a writer. With only four years of schooling, he had little confidence in his ability. To avoid the jeering laughter he expected, he sneaked out in the dead of night to mail his first manuscript.(by Willy McNamara)19104(152)Unit61You have been invited to this forum today to exchange ideas on specialties in colleges and universities.2If the capitalist system is not guaranteed in Hong Kong and Taiwan, prosperity and stability there cannot be maintained and a peaceful settlement will become impossible.3During the war years before the Liberation lots of children were saved by Comrade Sung Chingling and the China Welfare Institute led by her........4Crowding down to the water are rows of low houses, dirty and dark, inhabited by countless thousands of poor folk, whose days are spent in unending toil and the struggle to keep alive.5Most of the questions have been settled satisfactorily, only a few of secondary importance remain to be discussed.Unit91We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives so that nation might live. Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Addressfinal resting place”gave their lives”2On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we found him in his armchair, peacefully gone to sleep——but forever. “Friederich Engels, Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx314——ceased to think“gone to sleep—but forever“died3……“It’s a long story,” answered Pao-yu, then told her his dream in full, concluding with his initiation by Discenchantment into the “sport of cloud and rain.” His-jen, hearing this, covered her face and doubled up in a fit of giggles.。