2011-07-16 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：'At the time the murder was committed, I was travelling on the 8 o'clock train to London,' said the man.
'Do you always catch such an early train?' asked the inspector.
'

2011-07-16 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：I have just received a letter from my old school, informing me that my former headmaster, Mr. Stuart Page, will be retiring next week. Pupils of the school, old and new, will be sending him

2011-07-16 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：As the man tried to swing the speedboat round, the steering wheel came away in his hands. He waved desperately to his companion, who had been water skiing for the last fifteen minutes. Both

2011-07-15 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：Busmen have decided to go on strike next week. The strike is due to begin on Tuesday. No one knows how long it will last. The busmen have stated that the strike will continue until general a

2011-07-15 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：The former Prime Minister, Mr. Wentworth Lane, was defeated in the recent elections. He is now retiring from political life and has gone abroad. My friend, Patrick, has always been a fanatic

2011-07-15 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：When he had killed the guard, the prisoner of war quickly dragged him into the bushes. Working rapidly in the darkness, he soon changed into the dead man's clothes. Now, dressed in a blue u

2011-07-15 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：Fishermen and sailors sometimes claim to have seen monsters in the sea. Though people have often laughed at stories told by seamen, it is now known that many of these 'monsters' which have

2011-07-14 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：Perhaps the most extraordinary building of the nineteeth century was the Crystal Palace, which was built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Crystal Palace was different from

2011-07-14 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：After reading an article entitled 'Cigarette Smoking and Your Health' I lit a cigarette to calm my nerves. I smoked with concentration and pleasure as I was sure that this would be my last

2011-07-14 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：I used to travel by air a great deal when I was a boy. My parents used to live in South America and I used to fly there from Europe in the holidays. A flight attendant would take charge of m

2011-07-14 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 B.C. has just had an operation. The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes. As there were strange marks on th

2011-07-13 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：'To end our special news bulletin,' said the voice of the television announcer, 'we're going over to the macaroni fields of Calabria. Macaroni has been grown in this area for over six hu

2011-07-13 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：When a light passenger plane flew off course some time ago, it crashed in the mountains and its pilot was killed. The only passengers, a young woman and her two baby daughters, were unhurt.

2011-07-13 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：Children who play truant from school are unimaginative. A quiet day's fishing, or eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film over and over again, is usually as far as they get. They have

2011-07-13 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：An ancient bus stopped by a dry river bed and a party of famous actors and actresses got off. Dressed in dark glasses and old clothes, they had taken special precautions so that no one shoul

2011-07-12 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：When you visit London, one of the first things you will see is Big Ben, the famous clock which can be heard all over the world on the B.B.C. If the Houses of Parliament had not been burned d

2011-07-12 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：The great racing driver, Sir Malcolm Campbell, was the first man to drive at over 300 miles per hour. He set up a new world record in September 1935 at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. Bluebird,

2011-07-12 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：During a bullfight, a drunk suddenly wandered into the middle of the ring. The crowd began to shout, but the drunk was unaware of the danger. The bull was busy with the matador at the time,

2011-07-12 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：I was being tested for a driving licence for the third time. I had been asked to drive in heavy traffic and had done so successfully. After having been instructed to drive out of town, I beg

2011-07-11 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：I crossed the street to avoid meeting him, but he saw me and came running towards me. It was no use pretending that I had not seen him, so I waved to him. I never enjoy meeting Nigel Dykes.

2011-07-11 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：In 1963 a Lancaster bomber crashed on Wallis Island, a remote place in the South Pacific, a long way west of Samoa. The plane wasn't too badly damaged, but over the years, the crash was for

2011-07-11 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：Haroun Tazieff, the Polish scientist, has spent his lifetime studying active volcanoes and deep caves in all parts of the world. In 1948, he went to Lake Kivu in the Congo to observe a new v

2011-07-11 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：Last Christmas, the circus owner, Jimmy Gates, decided to take some presents to a children's hospital. Dressed up as Father Christmas and accompanied by a 'guard of honour' of six pretty

2011-07-10 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：In 1858, a French engineer, Aime Thome de Gamond, arrived in England with a plan for a twenty-one-mile tunnel under the English Channel. He said that it would be possible to build a platform

2011-07-10 所属栏目:新概念英语第二册视频讲解

课文内容：Firemen had been fighting the forest for nearly three weeks before they could get it under control. A short time before, great trees had covered the countryside for miles around. Now, smoke