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Lesson59 Down with School!
　School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidenc

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Lesson60 Zen and the Art of Burglary
　If people ask me what Zen is like, I will say that it is like learning the art of burglary. The son of a burglar saw his father growing older and thought, "If h

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Lesson58 A-level Disillusionment
　Anne Barrie's "Do We Over-educate Our Children?" reminded me that the German author Gunter Grass once said that failing his school leaving exams was a blessing wit

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Lesson56 Smoking Facts and Figures
　Many people, including doctors, parents, teachers, and others, are concerned about the health risks of cigarette smoking. According to the latest statistics, acti

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Lesson57 Value of Praise
　Sister Mroslas, in 1962, was a teacher at St. Mary's School in Morris, Minnesota.
One of her students was called Eklund and he was handful. He often got in trouble. But S

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Lesson54 The Press in the US
The press in the United States produces a wide variety of printed media, possible more than in any other country. There is a publication for almost every subject, from na

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Lesson55 Potatoes
In many parts of the world, particularly in Northern Europe and North America, people eat a lot of potatoes. Like many important foods, it was introduced to England from North Ameri

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Lesson53 The Appreciation of Good Literature
When one reads a number of good authors and feels that one author describes things very vividly, that another shows great tenderness of delicacy, a third

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Lesson52 Happy Vacation
Of course you do not want to spend your vacation sick in bed. So what can you do to stay in good health while travelling? There are three things you should remember when you t

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Lesson51 Dolphins
Some people think that dolphins have a real language and that if we could learn their language; we could eventually start talking to them and discussing the important news of the da

2009-05-29 所属栏目:背诵为王第四册

Lesson50 On the Origin of Middle Class
The rise of the merchant class was intimately linked with the growth of towns and trade; that is to say that they were linked with the most dynamic element in m

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Lesson49 The Jonker Diamond
Jacobus Jonker was a diamond prospector in South Africa. He never really had much luck, and the longer he prospected, the less he believed in ever making his fortune. Imag

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Lesson48 Credit and Modern Consumers
　Credit is now being promoted and advertised as never before. People are being persuaded to buy money and then being told by other advertisements what to spend i

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Lesson47 The History of Money
Today, our currency is a mixture of coins and paper money, but it wasn't always that way. Before metal coins and paper bills existed, people used a lot of unusual thing

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Lesson46 Tigers
Tigers are found in India and most of the countries of South-east Asia. They live in forests and grassy plains, where there are plenty of other animals for them to hunt for food.
If

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Lesson45 The Parable of the Mule
Once there was a farmer who owned an old mule. One day the mule fell into the farmer's well. After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the

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Lesson44 Can War Be Abolished?
Is it possible to persuade mankind to live without war? War is an ancient institution which has existed for at least six thousand years. It was always wicked and usuall

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Lesson43 Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream"
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five scor

2009-05-29 所属栏目:背诵为王第四册

Lesson42 The Crippled Butterfly
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through tha

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Lesson41 Speech by President Bush on the Loss of Space Shuttle Columbia
My fellow Americans, this day has brought terrible news and great sadness to our country. At 9:00 this morning, Mission Control

2009-05-28 所属栏目:背诵为王第四册

Lesson40 Feathered Dinosaur
Two summers ago, a farmer in northeast China was digging in a dried-up lake. He dug up some strange-looking fossilized bones. He wondered: Could these be the remains of an

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Lesson39 Distance Learning
Open learning is a general term for any education or training scheme that tries to make learning available to more people. With open learning, people take responsibility fo

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Lesson38 The Cherokee
Long before the white man came to the Americas, the land belonged only to the Indian. The Cherokee lived in what is now the southeastern part of the United States. They were pea

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Lesson37 English Education
Polak and I had often very heated discussions about the desirability of giving the children an English education. It has always been my conviction that Indian parents who t

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Lesson36 No Place to Hide
In an interview last month, Frank Church, chairman of the Senate committee that is investigating the CIA, issued an oblique but impassioned warning, that the technology of e