新编英语阅读速通

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为了帮助广大读者提高英语初级阅读能力，本书由从事教学工作多年且经验丰富的教学一线的骨干教师经过精心选材编写而成。其目的是帮助学习者扩大词汇量，增加背景知识，提高英语语言能力，并学会仔细分析语言材料，透过文章的字面意义，深谙作者的真实含义。

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《新编英语阅读速通》共有200篇文章，其目的是帮助学习者扩大词汇量，增加背景知识，提高英语语言能力。

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An eight-year-old child heard her parents talking about herlittle brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they hadno money. Only a very expensive operation could save him now andthere was no one to lend them the money. When she heard her daddy say to her tearful mother, "Onlya miracle can save him now," the little girl went to her bedroomand pulled her money from its hiding place and counted itcarefully. She hurried to a drugstore with the money in herhand. "And what do you want？" asked the salesman. "It's for mylittle brother," the girl answered. "He's really, really sick and Iwant to buy a miracle. " "Pardon？" said the salesman. "My brother Andrew has something bad growing inside hishead and my daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how muchdoes a miracle cost？ We don't sell a miracle here, child. I'msorry," the salesman said with a smile. "Listen, if it isn't enough, ！ can try and get some more. Justtell me how much it costs. " A well-dressed man heard it and asked, "What kind of a miracle does your brother need？"on a hillside and use telescopes to watch dinosaurs in order to knowhow they lived and whether they were good parents. Instead, theyhave to search hard for information from dinosaurs' fossils because dinosaurs died out millions of years ago. It's very difficult for the scientists to reach an agreementbecause different results can be got from the same fossils; manyfossils of the same kind of dinosaurs have been dug out from oneplace. They might have formed when an entire group of dinosaursgot stuck all at once. Or they might have been the result ofdinosaurs getting stuck one after another over a course of a fewcenturies. Then we can say that dinosaurs might have in the firstcase lived in big groups and in the second lived alone. Though there are two different results, dinosaur scientists nowgenerally agree that at least some kinds of dinosaurs lived in biggroups. "That's pretty much settled at this point. " Says PaulSereno, a

作者简介

杨都林，1963年出生。英语硕士学位。北京理工大学珠海学院外语学院英语专业教研室主任，副教授。