- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson01 The Language of Music2008-01-02 13:20:01
- A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great res
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson02 Schooling and Education2008-01-02 13:20:02
- It is commonly believed in United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The distincti
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson03 The Definition of2008-01-02 13:20:03
- Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a c
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson04 Electricity2008-01-02 13:20:04
- The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a powe
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson05 The Beginning of Drama2008-01-02 13:20:05
- There are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The on most widely accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evolved from ritual. The argument for this view goes as
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson06 Television2008-01-02 13:20:06
- Television-----the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth-is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophistication and versatility, which promi
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson07 Andrew Carnegie2008-01-02 13:20:07
- 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 abi
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson08 American Revolution2008-01-02 13:20:08
- The American Revolution was not a sudden and violent overturning of the political and social framework, such as later occurred in France and Russia, when both were already independent nations. Signifi
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson09 Suburbanization2008-01-02 13:20:09
- If by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city in the s
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson10 Types of Speech2008-01-02 13:20:10
- Standard usage includes those words and expressions understood, used, and accepted by a majority of the speakers of a language in any situation regardless of the level of formality. As such, these wor
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson11 Archaeology2008-01-02 13:20:11
- Archaeology is a source of history, not just a bumble auxiliary discipline. Archaeological data are historical documents in their own right, not mere illustrations to written texts, Just as much as an
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson12 Museums2008-01-02 13:20:12
- From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered f
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson13 Skyscrapers and Environment2008-01-02 13:20:13
- In the late 1960's, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists pointed out that a cluster of
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson14 A Rare Fossil Record2008-01-02 13:20:14
- The preservation of embryos and juveniles is a rate occurrence in the fossil record. The tiny, delicate skeletons are usually scattered by scavengers or destroyed by weathering before they can be foss
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson15 The Nobel Academy2008-01-02 13:20:15
- 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. Bu
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson16 the war between Britain and France2008-01-02 13:20:16
- In the late eighteenth century, battles raged in almost every corner of Europe, as well as in the Middle East, south Africa ,the West Indies, and Latin America. In reality, however, there was only one
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson17 Evolution of sleep2008-01-02 13:20:17
- Sleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic sense we share it with all the primates and almost all the other mammals and birds: it may extend back as far as the reptiles.
There is some evid - 新东方背诵文选 Lesson18 Modern American Universities2008-01-02 13:20:18
- Before the 1850's, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the mora
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson19 children's numerical skills2008-01-02 13:20:19
- people appear to born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not lo
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson20 The Historical Significance of American R2008-01-02 13:20:20
- The ways of history are so intricate and the motivations of human actions so complex that it is always hazardous to attempt to represent events covering a number of years, a multiplicity of persons, a
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson21 The Origin of Sports 2008-01-02 13:20:21
- When did sport begin? If sport is, in essence, play, the claim might be made that sport is much older than humankind, for , as we all have observed, the beasts play. Dogs and cats wrestle and play bal
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson22 Collectibles2008-01-02 13:20:22
- Collectibles have been a part of almost every culture since ancient times. Whereas some objects have been collected for their usefulness, others have been selected for their aesthetic beauty alone. In
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson23 Ford2008-01-02 13:20:23
- Although Henry Ford's name is closely associated with the concept of mass production, he should receive equal credit for introducing labor practices as early as 1913 that would be considered advanced
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson24 Piano2008-01-02 13:20:24
- 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. In the seventeenth century the organ,
- 新东方背诵文选 Lesson25 Movie Music2008-01-02 13:20:25
- Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as "silent", the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as
