Lesson 22, Boston: Hearth of American Culture 波士顿:美国文化重镇 When people think of American culture and values, they are unconsciously referring to a set of principles, a world view, and a lifestyle which can best be found in Boston, capi...
Lesson 21, What's So Big about Moby Dick? 白鲸记 A pretty, young lady goes swimming alone off the coast of New England in twilight. She is an agile swimmer, full of grace and speed. Without warning, though, she disappears from sight, only to...
Lesson 20, Scourge of the Plains: Tornadoes 平原之祸-龙卷风 Ellen Mae stepped out of her two-story home in certral Illinois. Fine morning, sae said to herself after checking the weather, and then went back inside. The radio had mentioned a seve...
Lesson 19, Asian Americans. In the last census conducted by the U.S. government in 1990, one fact caught manypeople by surprise: the percentage of Asian Americans had grown faster than any other segment of the population. European Americans had,...
Lesson 18, Hot Animals Around the World: The Koala 世界热门动物:无尾熊 Why are all those people standing in line in the hot sun at the zoo? Maybe the zoo just opened a koala exhibit. With the suvival rate of native Australian koalas on the rise...
Lesson 17, Precious and Semi-precious Stones 宝石和半宝石 My! What a beautiful ring you're wearing! This compliment never fails to flatter and honor the lucky wearer of the ring or other pieces of fewelry bedcked with precious or semi-precious st...
16, When is the best time? Some people go so far as to say that time does not really exist; it is all in the mind, they claim. Others note that according to astrophysicists, time really does exist; it is inseparable from space, coexistin...
Lesson 15 Webcams: Electronics tool or the end of privacy? 网络摄影机:电子工具还是隐私终结者? What are webcams? The word webcam is a compound word formed from two abbreviations, web from the World Wide Web and cam from camera. Webcams are came...
Lesson 14, Alpine Treasures 乐在阿尔卑斯山 From the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains stretches the continent of Europe. The most striking geographic feature within this densely-populated area is the Alps Mountain Range, commonly called the Alp...
Lesson 13, The Ivy League Schools: Excellence in Education. 常春藤盟校教育界的佼佼者 The first permanent English settlement in the New World was at Plymouth Bay in what in now the state of Massachusetts in 1620. Merely 16 years later, a group of...