50篇经典英语文章
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01 The Language of Music
A
painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a
wall, and
everyone can see it.
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02 Schooling and Education
Education is much more
open-ended and all-inclusive than
schooling. Education knows no bounds.
It can take place
anywhere, whether in
the shower or in the job, whether in a
kitchen or on a tractor. People are
engaged in education
from infancy on.
Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive
term.
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There are definite conditions surrounding the
formalized
process of
schooling.
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03 The Definition of “Price”
Prices determine how resources are to
be used.
This definition is, of
course, valid as far as it goes.
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04 Electricity
The modern
age is an age of electricity.
Nature
has apparently been experimenting in this field
for
million of years.
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All living cell send out tiny pulses of
electricity.
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The
electric
eel
is
an
amazing
storage
battery. (
An
electric
house
current is only one hundred twenty volts.)
.
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05 The Beginning of Drama
There
are
many
theories
about
the
beginning
of
drama
in
ancient
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Greece. The argument
for this view goes as follows.
Eventually stories arose which
explained or veiled the
mysteries of
the rites.
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06 Television
Television
is
more
than
just
an
electronic
system,
however.
It
is
a
means
of
expression,
as
well
as
a
vehicle
for
communication,
and as such
becomes a powerful tool for reaching other human <
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beings.
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First,
there
is
broadcast
television,
which
reaches
the
masses
through
broad-based
airwave
transmission
of
television
signals.
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Traditionally, television has been a
medium of the masses.
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07 Andrew Carnegie
Few
Americans have been left untouched by Andrew
Carnegie's
generosity.
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08 American Revolution
Significant changes were ushered in, but they were
not
breathtaking. What happened was
accelerated evolution rather
than
outright revolution. During the conflict itself
people
went on working and praying,
marrying and playing.
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America's War of Independence heralded
the birth of three
modern nations.
The third newcomer-the United States-based
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itself squarely on
republican
principles.
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09 Suburbanization
In 1854, for example, the city of
Philadelphia annexed
most
of
Philadelphia
County.
Similar municipal
maneuvers
took
place in Chicago and in
New York.
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This first phase of mass-scale
suburbanization was
reinforced by the
simultaneous emergence of the urban Middle
Class, whose desires for homeownership
in neighborhoods far
from the aging
inner city were satisfied by the developers of
single-family housing
tracts.
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10 Types of Speech
As such,
these words and expressions are well defined and
listed
in
standard
dictionaries.
Colloquial
expressions
and
even slang may be found in standard
dictionaries but will be
so
identified.
Both
colloquial
usage
and
slang
are
more
common
in
speech than in
writing.
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11
Archaeology
.
Not all
human behavior fossilizes. What is perhaps
worse,
most organic materials are
perishable.
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12 Museums
13 Skyscrapers and Environment
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Skyscrapers
are
also
lavish
consumers,
and
wasters,
of
electric
power.
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Glass-walled skyscrapers can be
especially wasteful.
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Skyscrapers put a severe strain on a
city's sanitation
facilities, too.
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14 A Rare Fossil Record
The
preservation
of
embryos
and
juveniles
is
a
rate
occurrence
in the fossil record. Given these
factors, some areas have
become a
treasury of well-preserved ichthyosaur fossils.
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The
deposits
at
Holzmaden,
Germany,
present
an
interesting
case
for analysis. The ichthyosaur remains
are found in black,
bituminous
marine
shales
deposited
about
190
million
years
ago.
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The quality of preservation is almost unmatched
and quarry
operations have been carried
out carefully with an awareness
of the
value of the fossils. But these factors do not
account
for the interesting question of
how there came to be such a
concentration of pregnant ichthyosaurs
in a particular place
very close to
their time of giving
birth.
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15 The Nobel Academy
For the
last 82years, Sweden's Nobel Academy has decided
who
will
receive
the
Nobel
Prize
in
Literature,
thereby
determining
who will be elevated from the great and
the near great to the
immortal.
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16 the war between Britain
and France
The
French
knew
that,
short
of
defeating
the
British
navy,
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their
only
hope
of
victory
was
to
close
all
the
ports
of
Europe
to
British ships.
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French strategists calculated that a
navy of 150 ships would
provide the
force necessary to defeat the British navy. Such
a
force
would
give
France
a
three-to-two
advantage
over
Britain.
This advantage was deemed necessary
because of Britain’s
superior sea
skills and
technology because of
Britain’s
superior sea skills and
technology, and also because Britain
would
be
fighting
a
defensive
war,
allowing
it
to
win
with
fewer
forces. Napoleon never lost substantial
impediment to his
control
of
Europe.
As
his
force
neared
that
goal,
Napoleon
grew
increasingly
impatient
and
began
planning
an
immediate
attack.
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17 Evolution
of sleep
Sleep is very ancient.
But why should
they
sleep deeply
at
all? Why
should a
state
of such deep
immobilization ever have evolved?
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Perhaps
one useful hint about the original function of
sleep
is
to
be
found
in
the
fact
that
dolphins
and
whales
and
aquatic
mammals in genera
seem to sleep very little. There is, by and
large, no place to hide in the ocean.
The point seems
particularly
clear
for
the
young
of
predatory
animals.
This
is
an
interesting notion and probably at least partly tr
ue.
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18 Modern American Universities
In
German
university
was
concerned
primarily
with
creating
and
spreading
knowledge,
not
morals. Some
of
them
return
to
become
presidents of venerable colleges-----
Harvard, Yale,
Columbia---and transform
them into modern universities.
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With
the
establishment
of
the
seminar
system,
graduate
student
learned to question,
analyze, and conduct their own
research.
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At the same time, the new university
greatly expanded in size
and course
offerings, breaking completely out of the old,
constricted
curriculum
of
mathematics,
classics,
rhetoric,
and
music. Students
were
also
trained
as
economists,
architects,
agriculturalists, social welfare
workers, and teachers.
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19 Children’s
numerical skills
People
appear to born to compute. Having thus mastered
addition, they move on to subtraction.
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Of course, the truth is not so simple.
This century, the work
of
cognitive
psychologists
has
illuminated
the
subtle
forms
of
daily learning on which
intellectual progress depends.
Children
were observed as they slowly grasped-----or, as
the
case might be, bumped into-----
concepts that adults take for
quantity
is unchanged as water pours from a short glass
into
a tall thin one. Such studies
have suggested that the
rudiments of
mathematics are mastered gradually, and with
effort.
,
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20 The Historical Significance of
American Revolution
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The Origin of Sports
Dogs and cats
wrestle and play ball games. Fishes and birds
dance. The
apes
have
simple,
pleasurable
games. Their
play,
and ours, appears to
serve no other purpose than to give
pleasure to the players, and
apparently, to remove us
temporarily
from the anguish of life in
earnest.
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Play
is
release
from
the
tedious
battles
against
scarcity
and
decline which are the incessant, and
inevitable, tragedies of
life.
This
is
a
grand
conception
that
excites
and
provokes.
The
holders of this view claim that the
origins of our highest
accomplishments
---- liturgy, literature, and law ---- can be
traced to a play impulse which,
paradoxically, we see most
purely
enjoyed by young beasts and children.
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22 Collectibles
Especially during cycles of high
inflation, investors try to
purchase
tangibles that will at least retain their current
market
values. Once
a
collectible
has
had
its
initial
play,
it appreciates at a
fairly steady rate, supported by an
increasing
number
of
enthusiastic
collectors
competing
for
the
limited
supply of collectibles that become increasingly
more
difficult to
locate.
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23 Ford
In order to
accommodate the shorter work day, the entire
factory was converted from two to three
shifts.
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Some efforts were even made to
hire the handicapped and
provide jobs
for former
convicts.
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Ford
explained
the
new
wage
policy
in
terms
of
efficiency
and
profit sharing.
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24 Piano
The ancestry of the
piano can be traced to the early keyboard
instruments of the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries --- the
spinet, the
dulcimer, and the virginal.
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The piano was perfected in the early
eighteenth century by a
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harpsichord maker in Italy (though
musicologists point out
several
previous instances ofthe instrument).
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NOTE:
Musical Instruments
strings (
弦乐
)
1) plectrum: harp, lute, guitar,
mandolin;
2) keyboard: clavichord,
harpsichord, piano;
3) bow: violin,
viola, cello, double bass.
2. The
Wood
（木管）—
winds : piccolo,
flute, oboe, clarinet,
bassoon, English
horn;
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3.
the
brass
（铜管）
: French
horn,
trumpet,
trombone,
cornet,
tuba,bugle,
saxophone;
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percussion
（打击组）
:
kettle
drum,
bass
drum,
snare
drum,
castanet, xylophone, celesta, cymbal, t
ambourine.
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25 Movie Music
Accustomed though we are to speaking of
the films made before
1927
as “silent”,
the
film has never
been,
in
the
full
sen
se
of
the
word,
silent.
At
first,
the
music
played
bore
no
special
relationship to the films; an
accompaniment of any kind was
sufficient.
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As movie theaters grew in number and
importance, a violinist,
and
perhaps
a
cellist,
would
be
added
to
the
pianist
in
certain
cases, and in the
larger movie theaters small orchestras were
formed.
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In 1909, for example, the Edison Company began
issuing with
their
films
such
indications
of
mood
as
“
pleasant”,
“sad”,
“lively”.
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Certain films had music especially
composed for them.
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Note:
美国通俗音乐分类：
1
．
Jazz;
1) traditional jazz---- a)
blues,
代表人物：
Billy Holiday
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b)ragtime(
切分乐曲
):
代表人物：
Scott Joplin
c)New
Orleans jazz (= Dixieland jazz)eg: Louis Armstron<
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d)swingeg: Glenn Miller, Duke
Ellington,etc.
e)bop (=bebop, rebop)eg:
Lester Young, Charlie Parker etc.
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2)modern jazz ------a) cool
jazz(=progressive
jazz)
高雅爵士
乐。
Eg:
Kenny G.
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b)third-stream : Charles Mingus, John L
ewis.
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c) main stream jazz.
d)avant-garde jazz.
e) soul
jazz. Eg: Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald
f) Latin jazz.
music
福音音乐，主要源于
Nero
spirituals. Eg. Dolly
Parker, Mahalia
Jackson
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y and Western music. Eg. John Denver,
Tammy Wynette,
Kenny Rogers,
etc.
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4.
Rock
music
-----------a)
rock
and
rolleg:
Elvis
Prestley(US)
,
the
Beatles(UK.)
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b)folk rock
c)punk rock
d)acid rock
e)rock jazz eg:
M.J. McLaughlin
f) Jurassic rock
for easy listening (i.e. light music )
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