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把高中英语3500个单词巧妙地编成40篇小故事，将单词放在文段中去理解，联系上下文，加以一定的推测。而且文章是连贯的、具象的，更加能够加深印象，提升记单词的效率。

There are works, and this is one of them, that are best begun with a portrait of the author. And here, indeed, because of a very natural misunderstanding this is the only course to take. Throughout these papers sounds a note, a distinctive and personal note, a note that tends at times towards stridency; and all that is not, as these words are, in Italics, is in one Voice. Now, this Voice, and this is the peculiarity of the matter, is not to be taken as the Voice of the ostensible author who fathers these pages. You have to clear your mind of any preconceptions in that respect. The Owner of the Voice you must figure to yourself as a whitish plump man, a little under the middle size and age, with such blue eyes as many Irishmen have, and agile in his movements and with a slight tonsorial baldness-a penny might cover it-of the crown. His front is convex. He droops at times like most of us, but for the greater part he bears himself as valiantly as a sparrow. Occasionally his hand flies out with a fluttering gesture of illustration. And his Voice (which is our medium henceforth) is an unattractive tenor that becomes at times aggressive. Him you must imagine as sitting at a table reading a manuscript about Utopias, a manuscript he holds in two hands that are just a little fat at the wrist. The curtain rises upon him so. But afterwards, if the devices of this declining art of literature prevail, you will go with him through curious and interesting experiences. Yet, ever and again, you will find him back at that little table, the manuscript in his hand, and the expansion of his ratiocinations about Utopia conscientiously resumed.

In the Days of the Comet is a 1906 science fiction novel by H.G. Wells in which the vapors of a comet are used as a device which brings about a profound and lasting transformation in the attitudes and perspectives of humankind.

美籍墨西哥裔女诗人桑德拉·希斯内罗丝创作的短篇集。该书曾获1985年美洲图书奖，作为美国大中小学生修习阅读和写作的必读书，是美国当代最著名的成长经典之一。内容简介：芝加哥芒果小街上，居住在拉美贫民社区芒果街上的女孩埃斯佩朗莎，生就对他人痛苦的具有同情心和对美的感受力，她用清澈的明眸打量周围的世界，用美丽稚嫩的语言讲述成长、讲述沧桑、讲述生命的美好、讲述年轻的热望和梦想。埃斯佩朗莎梦想着有一所属于她自己的房子，梦想着在写作中追寻自我，获得自由和帮助别人的能力，早日远离贫困，飞出芒果街。

Charles Darwin's Autobiography was first published in 1887, five years after his death. It was a bowdlerized edition: Darwin's family, attempting to protect his posthumous reputation, had deleted all the passages they considered too personal or controversial. The present complete edition did not appear until 1959, one hundred years after the publication of The Origin of Species. Upon its appearance, Loren Eiseley wrote: "No man can pretend to know Darwin who does not know his autobiography. Here, for the first time since his death, it is presented complete and unexpurgated, as it exists in the family archives. It will prove invaluable to biographers and cast new light on the personality of one of the world's greatest scientists. Nora Barlow, Darwin's granddaughter, has proved herself a superb editor. Her own annotations make fascinating reading." The daring and restless mind, the integrity and simplicity of Darwin's character are revealed in this direct and personal account of his life—his family, his education, his explorations of the natural world, his religion and philosophy. The editor has provided page and line references to the more important restored passages, and previously unpublished notes and letters on family matters and on the controversy between Samuel Butler appear in an appendix.

Certain houses like certain persons manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuous smile; and yet a little of their company leaves the unalterable conviction that there is something radically amiss with their being: that they are evil.

“一八九四年的春天，整个伦敦对可敬的罗纳德·艾德尔十分不寻常而神秘的谋杀事件极其关切，上流社会的人们更因此事丧胆。一般大众已由警方的侦查结果得知 罪案的特点，但是在当时仍有许多内容事实隐而不宣，因为这案子的起诉理由十分有力，因此就没有必要把所有的事实分布出来。一直到十年后的今天，我才被允许 将整串事情的一些重要环节说出来。罪案的本身已经够令人感兴趣的了，但对我而言，这与随之发生的不可思议的事情比较起来，实在不算什么。这些随后发生的事 比我一生中任何奇异的经历都要使我震惊。就算是现在，经过了那么久的时间，我一想到这些事，仍使我震颤不已，也使我再一次地由心底涌起欢愉、惊叹与难以置 信之感，而完全掩盖了我的理智。那些偶尔对我提到对于一位十分卓越的人物的思想及行动兴趣的人们，我得说，请不要责怪我不与他们分享我所知道的事情，因为 如果不是这个人亲口绝对禁止我说出来，我会把将这些事公布出来视为我的第一要务。而这项禁令一直到上个月三日才撤销。”

童年是孤单的冒险。在我们生命中出现的人，一些给我们上课，一些让我们痊愈，有的用来分担分享，有的用来真爱。假如我又回到了童年，我会培养我的勇气和毅力，我会事事乐观，我会要求自己更礼貌地对待我的伙伴和那些陌生人，我会学着去为他人的幸福而努力。我会懂得，偶尔要回头看看，否则永远都在追寻，而不知道自己失去了什么。

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs Boynton, a tiny puncture mark on her wrist the only sign of what has killed her. Hercule Poirot has only 24 hours to solve the mystery. A tyrannical old martinet, a mental sadist and the incarnation of evil. These were only three of the character descriptions levelled at Mrs. Boynton, the matriarch who kept her family totally dependent on her. But did she really deserve to die on the excursion to beautiful Petra? Hercule Poirot hears about the murder and feels compelled to investigate-despite the family's request not to do so. Do they have something to hide and, if so, can they keep it hidden from this master sleuth?