日期：2011-10-21 Henry Ford didnt always pay attention in school. One day, he and a friend took a watch apart. Angry and upset, the teacher told him both to stay after school. Their punishment was to stay until they had fixed the watch. But the teacher did not know... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-14 BECK is the group manager of Pets and Aquatics（水上运动） , in charge of both departments of aquatics and pets of Evergreen garden centre. Everyday he works together with his staffs, he is a manager but did all the jobs what should to do by the oth... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-22 Andrew Carnegie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and, in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America. His success resulted in part from his ability to sell the product and in part from his poli... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-01 This is the letter that Mr. White wrote before his death about his three books for children: Dear Reader: I receive many letters from children and can't answer them all -- there wouldn't be time enough in a day. That is why I am sending you this pri... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-02 THE LIFE and History of Aesop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity（朦胧，阴暗） . Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and Cotiaeum, the chief cit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-01-12 Super Dan, as top-seeded Lin Dan of China is better known in the badminton（羽毛球） world, had his Olympic dream come true after claiming the men's singles gold by beating Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia on August 17 in the Beijing Olympics. His father,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-27 Most people often dream at night. When they wake in the morning they say to themselves, What a strange dream I had! I wonder what made me dream that. Sometimes dreams are frightening. Sometimes, in dreams, wishes come true. At other times we are tro... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-04-12 Marjorie Baer used to joke about her retirement plans. She wasn't married and had no kids, but she didn't intend to be aloneshe and all her single friends would move into a fictional（虚构的，小说的） home she called Casa de Biddies. Instead, Baer d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-04-12 当拳王阿里点燃亚特兰大奥运会的火炬时，他知道自己并没有被帕金森症打败。一直照顾他的妻子朗尼阿里说：谁能想到他是一个与病魔战斗的人呢？现在人们可以了解到他最真实的一面了。即使不开口讲话，他仍然拥有激励人心的力量。 Love doesn't stop when a parent, spous... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-24 Mark Twain was a famous American writer. He wrote many stories and many of them were funny stories. These stories are still read by many people all over the world. Besides writing, he also liked hunting and fishing very much, so one year he went to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-01-04 Like a lot of college freshmen, Sean Belnick has a job. He works for a company that brings in more than $20 million dollars a year. But Belnick is not just another employee; he is also the companys owner. We started off with a couple of orders a day... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-26 I started winning competitions. We still had very little money -- my father had to borrow $5,000 to pay for a trip to the International Young Pianists Competition in Ettlingen, Germany, in 1994, when I was 12. I realized later how much pressure he w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-26 As a boy growing up in Shenyang, China, I practiced the piano six hours a day. I loved the instrument. My mother, Xiu-lan Zhou, taught me to read notes, and my father, Guo-ren Lang, concertmaster（首席小提琴手） of a local folk orchestra（管弦乐队）... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-09-30 Married by arrangement at 13, Gandhi went to London to study law when he was 18. He was admitted to the bar in 1891 and for a while practiced law in Bombay. From 1893 to 1914 he worked for an Indian firm in South Africa. During these years Gandhi's... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-09-30 Benjamin Franklin is remembered as an inventor, author, statesman, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. But all great people were kids once and got into mischief. In writing about his life, Franklin recalled a youthful event that he later... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-09-30 Mystic, painter and Nobel laureate for literature, Rabindranath Tagore was a prolific writer (3,000 poems, 2,000 songs, 8 novels, 40 volumes of essays and short stories, 50 plays), who drew inspiration both from his native Bengal and from English li... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-09-30 He became a great reader. He read every book and newspaper he could get hold of, and if he came across anything in his reading that he wished to remember he would copy it on a shingle, because writing paper was scarce, and either learn it by heart o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-09-30 Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was the greatest British statesman of modern times. During his long, colorful public career he was a member of parliament for 63 years. He also held almost every government post. And, most important of all, he led h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-09-30 Confucius, the greatest teacher in the history of China, was born in 551 B.C. He began to devote himself to serious studies and made up his mind to become a scholar at the age of fifteen. When he began teaching in his early twenties, he soon began t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-09-30 Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was a man of many contrasts. He was the son of a bankrupt, but became a millionaire; a scientist with a love of literature, an industrialist who managed to remain an idealist. He made a for... 阅读全文>>