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Quick Fix 锦囊妙句 Year-end Clean-up  年终大扫除 New Year’s Ideas  新鲜点子贺新年 Sound Camp 语音PK营 [g] vs. [k] 小组赛：爆破音 Life Talk 生活聊吧 Everyone Has A New Year’s Resolution  每个人都有一个新年决心 Part 1 Big Resolution, Small Steps  分步实现大目标 Part 2 Sticking to Your Resolution  坚持决心，难难难 Part 3 Understanding the New Year’s Resolution  新年决心不易懂 Have Fun With Cat!  趣味猫之语 Share the Olympic Games 共享奥运 Sports Programme  奥运比赛项目 Free Podcast 无限播客 Is Making a New Year’s Resolution Worthwhile?  新年表决心，做还是不做？ How to Stick to Your New Year’s Resolution?  将新年决心坚持到底！ Jukebox 英乐魔盒 Because of You  因为你 Screen Talk 影视派对 Words from the Old  听听老人言 The Old Man and the Child  老人与小孩 The Veteran and the Rookie  老车与新车 The Admiral and the Lieutenant  老兵与新兵 Hot words 潮爆新语 Hello 2008!  你好2008！ Business Talk 职场无忧 Part 1 Sick as a Dog Part 2 First Day on the Job Be Happy  50个快乐的理由 Small Words 小词大义 Stay Positive, Sta...[查看详细内容..]

Entertainment 娱乐信息 Bad Girls Oust Wild Men in Hollywood  坏女孩当道好莱坞 Newsstand 新闻综述 Brighter Future for Arabs and Jews in the School that Teaches Peace  “手牵手”学校拉近巴以距离 Feature 本期主题 Filling the Well-worn Shoes  把根留住 Stuffed with Traditions  感恩节填料 Dysfunctional Traditions  反观传统 Preserving Your Family Traditions  记录传统 Treasuring Our Elders’ Wisdom  珍视长者的智慧 New Traditions  周日聚餐 People 人物 Neuschwanstein Castle  路德维希二世：遗落凡间的精灵 Music Eden 仙乐飘飘 Indescribable Night  无可言说的夜 Peach Tree  桃树 Panorama 异域采风 Russia’s Space City Frozen in Time, but Rockets Still Fly  前苏联太空城：火箭依旧升起 Lifestyles 人生百味 Snowfall in Childhood  飘过童年的雪 A True Hollywood Story  一个真实的好莱坞故事 Fall on Me  乘爱飞翔 English Inkwell 地道英文 I Remember, I Remember  我记得呀，我记得 The Plot against People  与人对着干 Speaking in Tongues  俚语流行线 Be of One Voice  异口同声 Shout Out & Lette...[查看详细内容..]

The Must—Try Cheese 垂涎欲滴品奶酪 ——选自《疯狂英语57》 Cheese is one of the earliest man-made foods, with a history dating back more than 5,000 years. It’s enjoyed almost everywhere from remote villages high in the mountains to the tables of the finest restaurants. If you want to enjoy the world’s best 1)cheddar, then look no further than the beautiful county of Somerset in southwest England where this famous cheese first originated. Not far from Wincanton are two farms that produce cheddar in the traditional way. These are run by dairy farmers Jamie Montgomery and Stephen Keene. The Keene family have been making cheese at Morhays Farm for over a hundred years. So what makes Keene’s cheddar so special? All the cheese on this farm is made by hand, the traditional way, using only raw milk. Stephen: Our argument is that we’ve done exactly what we’ve always done. I mean, no one heard of 2)pasteurisation before. If you pasteurise, you’re killing off some of what’s in the milk and that’s partly what gives some of the flavours to our products. So why kill off what you need? Despite pressure to pasteurise his milk, Stephen now sells half his production to supermarkets in the ...[查看详细内容..]

Renouncement ——选自《疯狂英语57》 Written by Alice Meynell Read by Judi Dench I MUST not think of 2)thee; and, tired yet strong, I 3)shun the thought that 4)lurks in all delight— The thought of thee—and in the blue heaven’s height, And in the sweetest passage of a song. Oh, just beyond the fairest thoughts that 5)throng This breast, the thought of thee waits hidden yet bright; But it must never, never come in sight; I must stop 6)short of thee the whole day long. But when sleep comes to close each difficult day, When night gives pause to the long watch I keep, And all my 7)bonds I needs must loose apart, Must 8)doff my will as 9)raiment 10)laid away, — With the first dream that comes with the first sleep I run, I run, I am gather’d to 11)thy heart. 绝交 英式发音 适合背诵 赏析： 艾丽斯·梅内尔(Alice Meynell, 1847-1922)，英国诗人、作家、妇女参政主义者，颇为王尔德（Oscar Wilde）赏识。她的第一部诗集名为《序曲》。婚后的梅内尔虽然是八个孩子的母亲，但仍热衷于文学活动——她在其丈夫的出版社进行编辑工作的同时，还坚持进行个人诗歌和散文创作。梅内尔还是西赛莉·汉密顿（Cicely Hamilton）创立的“女作家参政权联盟”（Women Writers’ Suffrage League）的主要成员（该组织在19...[查看详细内容..]

The Rules of Life for Graduates 给毕业生的人生箴言 Written By Charles J. Sykes Read by Devon Presseau ——选自《疯狂英语》第57期 These rules are for high school and college graduates about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. The'11 things are: ◎Life is not fair, get used to it. ◎The world won’t care about your self-1)esteem. The world will expect you to 2)accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. ◎You will not make $40,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice president with a 3)car phone, until you earn both. ◎ If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have 4)tenure. ◎5)Flipping 6)burgers is not beneath your 7)dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity. ◎ If you 8)mess up, it’s not your parents fault, so don’t 9)whine about our mistakes, learn from them. ◎Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the 10)rain forest from the 11)parasites of your parents?generat...[查看详细内容..]

节选自《疯狂英语》第57期 伴读小贴示 本文有两个语言特色：一是注意文中指导性语言的特点：句短、用词简炼、连贯；二是有不少与健身有关的词汇。我们常常会被不少看似很专业的词难倒，其实这类词很多都是我们熟悉的词，如本文的warm-up、stretch、chin up等。 He trains models, movie stars and magazine editors. And with his own skin care line, 1)gourmet food delivery and state-of-the-art gym, David Kirsch has earned his title as New York’s fitness 2)guru. David’s 3)philosophy is all about the balance of mind, body and spirit. But eating right is only part of his plan. It goes 4)hand in hand with working out. So to get some fitness tips, we headed over to David’s gym, The Madison Square Club.David: Let’s get a 5)sweat going. 他训练模特儿、影星和杂志编辑，他拥有自己的护肤系列产品、供应美食佳肴和设备先进的健身房。大卫·基尔希因此赢得了纽约健身教主之称。他的理论就是心、身、灵三者的平衡。不过，健康饮食只是他方案中的一部分，它要和健身一起进行。现在，我们去他那家名为麦迪逊广场俱乐部的健身房，请教健身窍门。 大卫：我们先来出点汗。健身房遍布大江南北，健身方式五花八门，你找到适合自己的了吗？新奇不等于有效，传统的方法也会有出其不意的效果。 Shadow Boxing He starts me out with a good 6)cardio w...[查看详细内容..]

节选自《疯狂英语》第57期 April Fool’s Day Entertainment Prank Calling for Beginners 电话恶作剧 初级篇 Operator: Hello. Male: Customer service please. Operator: Hello. Male: Hi, uhm, I, I have a bit of a problem, with the glue? Operator: Uh huh. Male: I’m a single parent, uh, I mean I have visitation rights of my daughter Carol-Ann, Operator: Yeah. Male: And she’s with me all this week, and, uhm, I’ve been trying to toilet train her, Operator: Uh huh. Male: But she’s, uh, she won’t stay on the 1)potty. Operator: Go ahead. Male: I put a few drops of your, your glue on the toilet seat and I can’t get her off. Operator: Can I ask you another question? Male: What? Operator: Why did you put the glue on the toilet seat for? So she would stay on there to go to the bathroom? Male: Right. Operator: Oh, no. No. Male: But I’m gonna 2)sue you people because it does?.. Operator: You’re gonna sue us? Male: Well it doesn’t say anything about it on the... Operator: Sweetheart, listen to me. Male: No! Operator: You have a child. You do not put a child on a toilet seat to stay there with glue. Male: But I didn’t have an idea. Operator: You didn’t have an idea? Male: No. Operator: Call a...[查看详细内容..]

回收再生业 ——节选自《VOA慢速英语听力》 Recycling is on the increase here in the United States as more and more entrepreneurs discover the money-making potential of transforming one business' industrial waste into another's raw material. 美国的回收再生业目前呈上升趋势，因为愈来愈多的企业家发现了将一个行业的工业废料转化为另一个行业的原材料是颇为有利可图的。 "Triad Energy Resources" uses industrial end products to create soil additives for use in agriculture. 特拉德能源公司是一家利用工业废弃物来制造农业土壤添加剂的公司。 Triad President, Michael Daley, says his firm was born about 12 years ago as a result of an idea that came to him when he toured a tire-burning plant. 特拉德公司总裁麦克·达利称他的公司于12年前诞生，当时他是在参观一家轮胎焚烧厂时产生了创办这一公司的念头的。 "While I was walking along, they had this white material that was falling out of a chute, and I asked them what it was, and they said it was calcium sulfate, and I said 'well, what are you doing with it?' and they said 'we are paying 400 dollars a truck load to take it to a landfill.' Well, being in the agriculture business calcium sulfate I know is gypsum, and we use it as a soil amendment in California quit...[查看详细内容..]

谁颠覆了你的健康革命？ ——选自《疯狂英语》57期 The Truth of Vitamins Britain is in the middle of a health revolution. And every day, millions of people take vitamin 1)supplements, convinced of their power to keep them healthy. But there is a growing 2)anxiety from scientists that our habit of taking large 3)doses of some vitamins could have very different 4)consequences. Vitamins are nothing more than 5)chemicals that occur naturally in food. Our bodies cannot produce them themselves, and nearly a century ago scientists discovered just how vital they were for our health. Vitamin A, found in 6)dairy products, liver and fish prevents blindness and growth 7)deformities. Vitamin C, from oranges and other 8)citrus fruit, has all but ended 9)scurvy. And Vitamin D, found in fish, means children need no longer grow up with 10)rickets. But 40 years ago, someone came along who would transform the world’s 11)perception of vitamins. 12)Pauling became convinced that vitamins could not only prevent 13)deficiency diseases, they could do something far, far bigger. The key, according to Pauling, was to take them in huge doses, because that could prevent you from catching the most 14)irritating...[查看详细内容..]