文章题目 Dust and American

　　题材 环保

　　题型 判断 7+填空 6

　　文章大意 美国沙漠化问题。美国西南沙尘的起源，历史，调查对大平原地带的影响，产生的问题。

　　文章题目 The meaning of history study

　　题材 人文社科

　　题型 配对 9+填空 4

　　文章大意 本文讲了历史研究的意义。列举了名人对于学习历史的观点。历史学家和教育家都认为历史不仅具有学术研究的意义，更有助于其他领域。

　　参考阅读： The purpose of historical inquiry is not simply to present facts but to search for an interpretation of the past. Historians attempt to find patterns and establish meaning through the rigorous study of documents and artifacts left by people of other times and other places.

　　The study of history is vital to a liberal arts education. History is unique among the liberal arts in its emphasis on historical perspective and context. Historians insist that the past must be understood on its own terms; any historical phenomenon--an event, an idea, a law, or a dogma for example--must first be understood in its context, as part of a web of interrelated institutions, values, and beliefs that define a particular culture and era. Among the liberal arts, history is the discipline most concerned with understanding change. Historians seek not only to explain historical causality--how and why change occurs within societies and cultures. They also try to account for the endurance of tradition, understand the complex interplay between continuity and change, and explain the origins, evolution, and decline of institutions and ideas. History is also distinguished by its singularly broad scope. Virtually every subject has a history and can be analyzed and interpreted in historical perspective and context; the scope of historical inquiry is bound only by the quantity and quality of surviving documents and artifacts

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　　文章题目 Japan's ancient pottery

　　题材 历史

　　文章大意 本文讲了日本的古陶艺。这是一种特殊意义的传统技艺，后来某年间得到发展，在某地如何被做出来等等。讲到了一个大师先后跟父亲学习技艺，后来和哥哥一起做获得成就等。

　　文章题目 Children's adults

　　重复年份 20151219 20140802 20111026

　　题材 文学

　　题型 选择 4+句子配对 4+判断 4+简答 1

　　文章大意 讲了儿童文学。探讨了从成人角度去写儿童文学的视角不同。

　　参考阅读： CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

　　A Stories and poems aimed at children have an exceedingly long history: lullabies, for example, were sung in Roman times, and a few nursery games and rhymes are almost as ancient. Yet so far as written-down literature is concerned, while there were stories in print before 1700 that children often seized on when they had the chance, such as translations of Aesop’s fables, fairy-stories and popular ballads and romances, these were not aimed at young people in particular. Since the only genuinely child-oriented literature at this time would have been a few instructional works to help with reading and general knowledge, plus the odd Puritanical tract as an aid to morality, the only course for keen child readers was to read adult literature. This still occurs today, especially with adult thrillers or romances that include more exciting, graphic detail than is normally found in the literature for younger readers.

　　B By the middle of the 18th century there were enough eager child readers, and enough parents glad to cater to interest, for publishers to specialize in children’s books whose first aim was pleasure rather than education or morality. In Britain, a London merchant named Thomas Boreham produced Cajanus, The Swedish Giant in 1742, while the more famous John Newbery published A Little Pretty Pocket Book in 1744. Its contents—rhymes, stories, children’s games plus a free gift (‘A ball and a pincushion’)— in many ways anticipated the similar...

　　文章题目 Ocean power

　　重复年份 20150829A 20091024

　　题材 能源

　　题型 选择 3+配对 5+句子填空 5

　　文章大意 本文介绍了各种海洋资源，包括了潮汐能、洋流能、波浪能和海底热能