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梧桐叶-对联赏析
Unit 1
Dr. Rob Boll and his family were
enjoying their church's annual fund-raising dinner
when a 76-year-old lady choked on a piece of
turkey and lost consciousness. The old
lady's
family tried the Heimlich maneuver, but it did not
work.
Dr. Rob Boll rushed to the old lady's
rescue. Although under his direction Steve
Hoblin managed to pull out a piece of turkey,
the old lady was still not breathing. Dr.
Boll
realized that his only chance was to perform an
emergency tracheotomy.
Though he was only a
family doctor who had never done the operation
before,
seeing that the patient was in such a
critical situation, he went ahead with the
operation using a simple switchblade. Thanks
to Dr. Boll's brave heart and calm mind,
the
operation succeeded. Dr. Boll was so amazed by
this
the success to divine intervention.
Unit 3
With more and more kids logging on
to the Internet, cyber-bullying has become a
serious social problem. Cyber-bullying takes
various forms, such as sending
threatening
messages, displaying private messages, and posting
embarrassing videos
and photos online.
Researchers have pointed out that cyber-
bullying can have an even more detrimental
effect on the victim than conventional
playground bullying. There are two main
reasons for this: First, a sheer number of
people can view something posted online.
Secondly, the always-on feature of Internet
culture makes it impossible for the victim
to
escape cyber-bullying.
Anonymity is also to
blame for widespread cyber-bullying, as it
encourages people to
act aggressively online.
Anonymity amplifies the negative effect of cyber-
bullying, as
the victim has no idea who the
bully is. In the meanwhile, it tempts bullies to
new
levels of cruelty because they do not see
how miserable their victims are.
To protect
kids from cyber-bullying, legislative actions must
be taken, but more
importantly, the whole
society should get involved.
Unit 4
Near Sleepy Hollow is a village called
Tarry Town, in which there was a teacher
named
Ichabod Crane. He was tall and thin, just like a
crane. He fell in love with
Katrina, the only
daughter of a rich Dutch farmer, a blooming lass
of fresh eighteen.
Ichabod Crane's rival was a
strong young man named Brom Van Brunt, a hero to
all
the young ladies.
It was rumored that
in the valley a headless horseman could be seen at
night looking
for his lost head. One night, on
his way home after enjoying the big party at
Katrina's house, Ichabod Crane found himself
confronted with the headless
horseman. He
could not escape from this spectre, for all his
efforts. Then, to his
great horror, he saw the
headless horseman pick up his head and throw it
with a
powerful force. The head hit him in the
face and knocked him off his horse.
The next
day people found his horse, his hat, and a broken
pumpkin. Ichabod
disappeared once and for all,
and Katrina married Brom. Whenever Ichabod or the
pumpkin was mentioned, Brom would smile or
laugh.
Unit5
Of all the theories
concerned with the origin and evolution of the
universe, the Big
Bang model is the best
known. This model originated from Hubble's Law,
which was
formed by Edwin Hubble in 1929,
holding that the universe is expanding in every
direction. Therefore, it's reasonable to
assume that, if the universe is currently
growing, then the universe was smaller in the
past. Along this line of reasoning,
there must
have been a time when the universe was an
extremely small point. Out
of this point the
universe exploded into existence. The expansion of
the universe
lends strong support to the Big
Bang theory. Another major line of evidence is the
Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB).
The Big Bang model predicts that
once the
universe had reached 300,000 years old, photons
could move about freely.
The CMB, this
third major evidence is that the amounts of
elements observed all agree at least
roughly
with those predicted by the Big Bang theory. The
last is that the Big Bang
theory
comprehensively lays down a framework for the
eventual evolution of the
universe.
Unit7
One day I had a tiny
accident: I broke my key in the lock when trying
to unlock the
door to go to work. So I called
a locksmith, who came immediately. To my surprise,
he insisted on being paid cash in advance,
which I was incapable of providing, and
declaring professional ethics, then left me
alone! Thinking I could resort to other
solutions, I called some twenty locksmith
shops, but they all flatly refused me as I
had
been put on their blacklist. Then I called the
janitor, my girlfriend, and my
colleagues, who
all turned me down for various reasons. In
desperation, I shouted
from the tenth floor of
my building and even threw typed messages down
onto the
street, but nothing came of it. What
was worse, my telephone was cut off for
nonpayment and then they cut off my gas,
electricity, and water. So I was trapped
alone
indoors and had to survive on my own by catching
rain water, breeding insects
and spiders, etc.
Year after year, I have become used to this new
lifestyle and feel
relatively happy.
Unit8
In the story, the narrator wanted
accident insurance not for traveling by rail, but
for
lying at home in bed, which went contrary
to common sense — there always exists
the
likelihood of losing one's life in traveling by
air, by train, or in any vehicle. This is
because the narrator found that the peril lay
not in traveling, but in staying at home.
The
narrator compares the danger of traveling in a
vehicle, especially by train, with
that of
lying in bed. Availing himself of considerable
hard statistics he shows the
reader that
chances are greatest for human beings to die in
bed. Therefore, the
narrator suggests it would
be wise of us to stay away from home unless we
have to,
unless we have bought ourselves a
package of insurance tickets and sit up nights
without going to bed.