英语短文两篇翻译.doc

英文阅读与翻译 Name_（1）Dear Mary,How are you? Im very well. I didnt write earlier because I was very busy.My family just moved to our new home in Atlanta. It is a lovely house. I have a big bedroom and from it I can see our garden. I helped Mon paint my bedroom walls yesterday. We used a pretty yellow color. Thats my favorite color.A boy called Mark lives next door. He is in the same class as me at school. Mark is very good at sports and English. He likes animals just as we do. He says he is going to be a vet(兽医) when he grows up, because he wants to take care of sick animals.I am still thinking about being a writer. I wrote a story last week. Do you want me to send it to you? It is about animals having adventures(冒险).Write back soon. I am really looking forward to hearing all your news.Love, Jenny（2）My name is David. Im thirteen years old. I like listeningto music and playing the drums. I have a sister. She isnt interested in playing the violin, but my mother wants her to learn it. So she has to learn it. My mother loves doing sports very much. She often does morning exercises before we get up. And my father likes reading newspapers. My grandpa s seventy years old and he likeslistening to classiccal music in the garden.（3）Hey! Im Jim. There are four people in my family. They are my parents, my brother and I. My parents are both doctors. They work in different hospitals. Their eating habits are pretty good. They eat fruit and drink milk every day. My elder brother(哥哥) is a policeman. He is very healthy. He runs every morning. Im a student. I study in Jinshan Middle School. I think Im kind of unhealthy because I hardly ever exercise.翻译（4）Mary has four cousins. They are Betty, Peter, Bill and Ann. Mary is the oldest of the five. Betty is thirteen years old. She is two years younger than Mary and one year older than Peter. Bill is nine, and Ann, the youngest, is seven.Betty and Peter are good runners, but Peter runs faster. Mary and Ann like to play basketball. Mary plays better than Ann. Bill is the best singer of the five. The five children are all good students, but Betty is the best. She works the hardest.（5）Ann and Carol are good friends. They are in the same class. They go to school together every morning. In some ways, theyre the same. But in some ways theyre different. Theyre both fourteen years old. Their favorite color is white. Theyre both quiet. But Anns favorite subject is math. Carols favorite subject is English. Anns favorite sport is baseball. She is good at it and often beats Carol. Carols favorite sport is basketball. She often plays basketball after school. Do you have any friends like Ann or Carol?（6）Jean and Jenny are both my friends. They look the same because theyre twin sisters. But in some ways, theyre different. Jean is more athletic than Jenny. She always beats Jenny in tennis. Jenny is smarter. She is better at physics and math than Jean. They go to school together every day. They ride their bikes. They both like to go to parties. However, this Sunday morning, they cant come to my birthday party. Jean has a tennis match. Jenny has to go to her guitar lesson. They say sorry to me.（7）Pedro and Paul are brothers. In some way they are the same. And in some way they are different. They both have blue eyes and yellow hair. But Pdro is taller than Paul. Paul is heavier than Pedro. They both like sports. But Pedros favorite sport is baseball, and Paul likes soccer best. Pedro is smarter. He is better at all the subjects than Paul. Paul is more outgoing. He is better at talking with others. Who do you like better, Pedro or Paul?翻译（8）Jim is hungry. He wants to make some chicken sandwiches. He needs a teaspoon of butter, an onion, a tomato, bread, lettuce and some chicken. First, put the butter on two slices of bread. Then cut up the onion and the tomato. Add these to the bread. Next, put some lettuce and the chichen on the bread. Finally, .oh, he has no relish. Hell go to the shop to buy some. Put the relish on the chicken, and hell hve great chicken sandwiches.（9）Dear Robbie, Thanks for your letter. I an glad that you had a good time with us. I hope you can come again next year. Maybe you can stay longer next time. A week is not really long enough, is it?Now we are back at school for three weeks. I think you are working very hard now because this year you are in Grade Eight. Tom and Ann wont be in Grade Eight until 2014. They climbed mountains yesterday, but I didnt go with them, because I had a cold.Best wishes to you. We hope to see you soon. （10）Jim is my friend. He is an actor. He is always busy, but yesterday he had a day off. In the morning, he went to the zoo and watched the animal show. He likes amimals and he has a dog in his house. Then, he went to a restaurant to eat beef noodles for lunch. In the afternoon, Jim went to visit his uncle. He played tennis with his uncle. Jim was good at it, so he beat his uncle. In the evening, Jim went to his friends party. He had a great time there.（11）Next year Linda is going back to her hometown. Her hometown is a small town near Sydney. Linda and her parents live in the center of Sydney and her grandparents live in the town. She is going to visit her grandparents.Linda loves the town. It is small but it is very beautiful. There are some trees and flowers in it. There are only five thousand people living in the town.Now Linda is in the store. She is shopping for presents. She wants to buy some presents for her grandmother.翻译（12）Linda was born in 1990. He is a great cook in our city. He started to learn to cook when he was ten. He can cook different Chinese food and American food, but he cant cook Japanese food. Last month, Larry had two weeks off. He went to Japan to learn to cook Japanese food. There he made two friends who are good at cooking Japanese food. They taught Larry how to make sushui and sashimi in the daytime. At night they talked about different food cultures. Larry had a great time in Japan.（13）Yesterday morning, all the students in my class and our teacher Mr Smith got on the school bus for a trip in Green Park. But it began to rain when we arrived. We had to stay in the bus and wait. At about 12:00, the rain stopped. We had lunch on the bus. I ate a big turkey sandwich. My mother made it for me. After that, we got off the bus to take a walk and take photos. Then, we met a famous basketball player near the lake. He was on vacation there with his family. He was friendly. I got his autograph. I was so happy（14）Dear Jack,How was your last weekend? Let me tell you what my family did last Saturday dnd Sunday. I had fun those two days. I went to the aquarium on Saturday. I watched a dolphin show there. On Sunday, I went to see tigers in the zoo. My father went to the library on Saturday. He read some books about history. The next day, he went fishing. My mother went shopping on Saturday. She bought a lot of food for us. On Sunday, she went to a party. On Sunday evening, we had a big dinner. I felt very happy. See you soon. （15）Li Leis home is far from his school. He has to get up early in the morning and run to school. His father wants to borrow some money to buy a bike for him. Li Lei doesnt agree because he knows his mother is always ill and the family needs much money to buy medicine for his mother. He keeps running every day.Last Friday there was a sports meeting in his school. Li Lei won the boys 1,500-meter race. He was very happy. He ran home fast to tell his parents about the good news.翻译（16）Charles was born in 1970 in the U.S.A. He began to draw pictures when he was four year old. His first picture was a beautiful house. It took the little boy about one day to finish it. His father thought Charles would be a successful artist in the future. So he asked a teacher to teach Charles to draw. Charles drew better and better. In 1986, he won his first prize in New York. Later, he worked harder and won lots of prizes. Now he is a famous artist and teaches art in a university.（17）Emmas brother likes playing volleyball very much. He began to play it when he was five years old. Hes going to be a professional volleyball player when he grows up. But how is he going to do that? First, hes going to join a volleyball club and practice it every day. Next, hes going to play volleyball for the national voleyball team. He wants to make lots of money and buy a big house for his parents. He also wants to take them to travel all over the world. What a good boy he is!（18）Hello, everyone. My name is Zhang Ping. Now let me tell you sth. about my vacation plans. First, Im going to a famous place to go sightseeing. Im staying there for a week. Next, Im visiting my friends. Im going to the movies and watching videos with them. Then, Im going shopping and swimming with my mother. Im buying some books. Swimming is my favorite sport. Im good at swimming. My mother likes swimming, too. At last, Im staying at home to finish my homework. Itll be a great vacation.（19）Jack is a 13-year-old boy. He is always happy, but today he is sad, because he has a cold. He is resting at home. The doctor said Jack needs to do more exercise and eat more vegetables and fruit. Then he will be healthier. The winter vacation is coming. Jack plans to exercise every day during the vacation. He is going bike riding for thirty minutes every morning and playing basketball three timems a week. He will also eat vegetables twice a day and fruit once a day. He believes he will be healthier after his vacation.翻译（20）Dear Dave,Thanks for your letter. Now let me tell you something about my vacation. October 1st is our National Day. On that day, it was a bit cloudy. My parents and I went to the Great Wall for vacation. We began to go sightseeing along the wall at 8 oclock in the morning. We saw many foreign visitors there. We had lunch on the Great Wall. We also took some photos. We had a lot of fun there. At 4:00 in the afternoon we began to go back. We were tired, but we were very happy. P（21）Kimiko is a Japanese girl and she was born in Tokyo. She is fitteen years old. Two years ago she moved to China with her parents. Now she lives in Beijing.Kimiko has travelled to several countries. Her favorite country is Britain. She has been to Britain twice. She has found some differences beween the British family and the Japanese family. In Britain, men do jobs like cooking and washing. But in Japan, men never do such jobs.（22）We did a survey of what kind of teachers students like in Jinshan Middle School. The following is what we learned. Most students like friendly teachers. They think its very easy to communicate with them. They like to tell the teachers about their problems and take their advice. Some students like funny teachers because their classes are always the most interesting. The survey also shows that all the students like the teachers who have a lot of teaching experience(经验).（23）Dear Lucy,Im going to visit Shanghai this weekend. I need your help. When you come over to my house on Sunday, could you help me sweep the floor? Could you help me take out the trash? Could you help me fold the clothes? Could you feed my cat? Ill come back next Monday morning. Then youll see a gift from me-a CD player. I think you will love it. Thanks, Uncle Brown翻译（24）I have a good friend called Mary. She is my new classmate. She is an American school girl. She is now in Beijing with her parents. She doesnt know Chinese, but she is trying to learn and speak it. She often tries to speak Chinese to her Chinese friends. Sometimes they dont understand her because she cant speak Chinese well. It is Sunday morning. Mary is going to the zoo to see the pandas, but she doesnt know how to get there. She asks a Chinese boy. The boy cant understand her. Then she takes out a pen and some paper. She draws a panda on it, and shows the picture to the boy. The boy smiles and then shows Mary the way to the zoo.（25）Toby is my friend. He had a birthday party yesterday evening. He invited seven of his friends to the party. I was one of them. It rained yesterday. At about 6:10, I left home and walked to Tobys house. When I arrived, they were singing a birthday song for Toby. I gave Toby a gift. It was a piano CD. I know Toby wants to be a pianist. Then we ate a big birthday cake and drank banana milk shakes. Tobys mother made the shakes yesterday afternoon. They were really delicious. We also sung, danced, watched videos. We had a good time.（26）Yao Ming, a well-known Chinese basketball player, was born on the 12th of September, 1980 in Shanghai. His parents are basketball players, too. He started to play basketball at the age of nine. He played for five years in the CBA. He won a championship in the CBA. He joined the National Team when he was eighteen. He joined the NBA in 2002. He was the tallest player in the NBA. He was the first Chinese player in NBA All-Star Game.（27）Here is the weather report in our city for the following week.Next Monday, it will be rainy with snow. And it will also be cold and wet. If you plan to go out, dont forget your raincoat or umbrella. The temperature will be lower on Tuesday. The third day, there will be heavy snow. If you ride your bike, please be careful. It will stop snowing the next day; it will be cloudy and windy. The last three days will be sunny. You can enjoy the sunshine with your friends.翻译（28）Dear Jay,Thanks for inviting me to your house last Sunday. I really liked your family. They were friendly to me. Your mother cooked so much delicious food. She was good