The expensive shops in a famous arcade (有拱廊的街道) near Piccadilly were just opening. At this time of the morning, the arcade was almost empty. Mr. Taylo...
Mary and Peter were having a picnic with some friends near a river when Mary notice an object overhead. "Look!" she shouted to her friends. ...
It began as a game: high school and college students studying computer technology figured out (领会到，想象出来) they could use personal computers to break in...
Animal experimentation(实验) is the backbone(支柱，基础) of American research and treatment of disease. Each year, 17 million to 22 million animals are sacri...
A Father’s day is a day set aside for honouring fathers in church services and in the home. It’s celebrated in the U.S. in the third Sunda...
Few can refuse to accept the strange coincidences (巧合) in the deaths of John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln. For example, Kennedy was elected in 1960 ...
The man from the west stopped and drew back his arm. "You’re not Jimmy Wells," he said in a quick and angry way, "Twenty years is...
Shopping ──bag ladies don’t beg publicly, but they do not refuse what is offered. Once a shopping ──bag lady appears where you live, it is as ha...
No one could have failed to be moved had he watched the live televised volleyball game between the Chinese and Cuban women’s teams. As we sat be...
George Banks was a clever journalist. He worked for a good newspaper, and he liked arguing very much. He argued with anybody, and about anything. Some...