练习：1. "...these are cities concerned with the past" in the first paragraph refer to cities that A) are worried about their past. B) have a g...
第三十六篇 A Tale of Scottish Rural LifeLewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song (1932) was voted "the best Scottish novel of all time" by Scottish...
练习：1. What is Sunset Song mainly about? A)The First World War. B)The beauty of the sunset. C)The new European world. D)The lives of rural Scottish far...
第三十七篇 Who Wants to Live Forever?If your doctor could give you a drug that would let you live a healthy life for twice as long, would you take it?The g...
词汇：Mice n. 老鼠（复数）bioethicist n. 生物伦理学家Sibling n. 兄弟姐妹注释：1. brothers and sisters born 50 years apart 出生年份相隔50年的兄弟姐妹2. We had better not go anywhere nea...
第四十四篇 Who (Doesn't) Let the Dogs Bark?For the past year, Cornelia Czarnecki said, the barking of her neighbor's German shepherd1 has awakened ...
练习：1. What's the reaction of Mrs. Czarnecki when she was annoyed by the barking of her neighbor's dog? A) She went to her neighbor's door ...
第四十七篇 The Best Way to Reduce Your WeightYou hear this: "No wonder you are fat. All you ever do is eat." You feel sad: "I skip my breakf...
练习：1. What determines your weight? A)Your working manner. B)Your eating habit. C)Your life style. D)Your genes.2. What did Jules Hirsch do in his stud...
第四十八篇 Finding Enlightenment in ScotlandIn the 1740s, the famous French philosophy Voltaire said "We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civiliz...