2012年突破高考英语——词汇篇（100篇短文）（1-5篇）

1、高考资源网（ ），您身边的高考专家第1篇part 1 heroes of our timean admirable manhe grew up in africa among great poverty（贫穷）and disease he came to a famous university on a scholarship to study medicine-but his coach got a look at him and had a different idea. he became a star in the nba, and a citizen of the united st

2、ates. but he never forgot the land of his birth, or the duty to distribute his fortune to others he built a new hospital in his old hometown and he is held in great affection there, a friend has said of this good-hearted man: “he believes that god has given him this chance to do great things.”我们时代的英

3、雄（hero）令人钦佩的（admirable）人他（迪坎贝穆托姆博）在非洲的贫困和疾病（disease）中长大（grow up），原想凭奖学金（scholarship）到一所著名的大学学习医学，但当他的教练（coach）（约翰汤普森）看到他后，却产生了一个不同的想法。于是他成了nba的一颗明星，而且成为美国公民（citizen）。但他从没有忘记过自己出生的地方，也从未忘记与他人分享自己的财富（fortune）。他在老家建了一座新医院。他在那儿极受爱戴（be held in great affection）。一位朋友评价这位心地善良的（good-hearted）人说：“他相信是上帝给他这个机会去

4、做一些伟大的事情。”part 2success and kindnessafter her daughter was born, julie searched for ways to share her love of music and art with her child. so she borrowed some equipment, and began filming childrens videos in her own house. a new company was born, and in just five years her business grew to more th

5、an $ 20 million in sales. and she is using her success to help others-producing child safety videos with john of the national center for missing and exploited children julie says of her new program:“i believe its the most important thing that i have ever done. i believe that children have the right

6、to live in a world that is safe. ”成功（success）和善良当她的女儿出生后，朱丽叶到处搜寻（search）办法与她的孩子分享（share）她对音乐（music）和艺术的爱。所以她借（borrow）了一些设备（equipment），然后开始在她自己的（own）房间（house）里录制（film）儿童录相（video）。就这样，一个新的公司（company）诞生了！在仅仅五年的时间里，她的商业（business）销售额（sales）就超过两千万。而且她一直在用自己的成功来帮助（help）别人和美国国家失踪（missing）与受剥削（exploited）儿童援助

7、中心的约翰一起制作生产（produce）儿童安全（safety）录相。谈到她的新节目（program）时，朱丽叶说：“我认为这是我曾做过的最重要的事情。孩子们有权力生活在一个安全的（safe）世界里。”part 3bravery and couragea few weeks ago, he was waiting at a subway platform with his two little girls when he saw a man fall into the path of a train with seconds to act, he jumped onto the tracks,

8、 pulled the man into the space between the rails, and held him as the train passed right above their heads, he insists hes not a hero. he says: “we have got to show each other some love ”勇气（bravery）和胆量（courage）几周前，他正在一个地铁（subway）的站台（platform）等他的两个女儿时，突然看到一个人掉入地铁的轨道（track）。只有几秒钟的时间，他跳上轨道，将那个人拉进铁轨（rai

9、l）的空间（space）里，并按住他，而列车就从他们的头（head）上（above）驶过。但他坚持（insist）说他不是英雄。他说：“我们必须向彼此展示（show）一些爱。” 第2篇online games, social- networking web sites, and chat rooms are empowering and motivating for teens and help with their development. when adults look at teens today, they think what they are doing is different

10、 and seem to be wasting a lot of time.and those activities seem quite foreign. but when we look closely at what kids are doing, its not much more different than what their parents did. they are hanging out with their friends, finding romantic (浪漫的) partners, and trying to identify themselves.todays

11、teens are being raised with technologies that allow them to have self-directed learning on their own terms, on their own time, and without the restrictions of a classroom setting (环境;背景). this gives the teens a feeling of freedom. this is very different from how kids learn in school when they are ha

12、nded a set body of knowledge required to master by their teachers.teens were motivated to engage online because they were either driven by interest or friendship. and there are some specific findings according to a research:one major finding is that there is a generation gap(代沟) in how parents and t

13、eens view the teens online activities. adults think the activities draw their attention from school work and are left in the dark about what their teens are doing online. teens, on the other hand, understand the value of the internet and are motivated to participate.another finding shows that teens

14、are not taking full advantage of the internet. they are using the social networks to chat and post photos and make friends, which are important to their development, but they are not making use of other existing opportunities(机会) to learn about astronomy, foreign languages, and other subjects only a

15、 few clicks away.teens are also improving their social skills online by learning the basic social and technical skills needed to interact(互动) in todays digital world. pressure from those of the same age also takes on a new role online teens are reporting that they are more motivated by those of thei

16、r age online with public paces that allow the teens to interact and provide feedback(反馈) to one another.while teens are using the internet for both social and intellectual(智力的;聪明的)development, they are also facing significant challenges on how to manage their relationships online.第2篇在线游戏(game)、社交性的(

17、social-networking)网站和聊天室使青少年有了更多的权力，激励(motivate)着他们，并促进他们的发展(development)。当成人(adult)看到今天的孩子时，他们以为孩子们正在做着与他们儿时不同的事情，似乎在浪费大量的时间。而且这些活动(activity)在成人看来似乎相当奇怪(foreign)。但当我们密切(closely)关注孩子们在做的事时，就会发现孩子们做的事事实上与他们父母的行为没有太大差异。他们与朋友一起玩(hang out with)，寻找浪漫的伙伴，努力确认(identify)自己的身份。今天的孩子们是伴随着科技(technology) -起而被抚养

18、(raise)长大的。今天的科技允许(allow)他们在自己的时间，以自己的方式进行自主性(self-directed)学习，而不必受教室环境的限制(restriction)。这给了孩子们一种自由(freedom)的感觉。这和孩子们在学校的学习方式是非常不同的。在学校里，他们被要求掌握(be required to master) 一堆老师传授的知识(knowledge)。孩子们上网是受到兴趣或友谊的激励。根据(according to)调查研究(research)，有关人员得出以下几个明确的(specific)发现：一个主要的(major)发现就是在如何看待(view)网络活动上，父母和孩子

19、之间存在代沟(generation gap)。成年人认为那些活动将孩子们的注意力从学校的功课吸引开，而且他们也无法了解十几岁的孩子在网上所做的事。而另一方面，孩子们却理解(understand)因特网的价值(the value of the internet)，而且渴望参与(participate)。另一个发现显示，孩子们并没有充分利用(take full advantage of)因特网。他们在用社交网站聊天、发布(post)照片、结交朋友，这对于他们的发展非常重要，但他们并没有用其他现存的(existing)机会来了解天文学(astronomy)、外语、和其他只要点击几下就可学习的科目(s

20、ubject)。孩子们也通过在线学习在今天的数字世界(digital world)互动所需要的基本的(basic)社交和技术上的(technical)技巧(skill)来提高(improve)他们的社交能力。那些来自同龄孩子的压力(pressure)也承担了新的角色(take on a new role)。孩子们报告(report)说在允许互动并能向彼此提供反馈的公共空间(public space)里，他们更多的受到网络同龄人的激励。当孩子们利用因特网来促进社交能力和智力发展时，他们在如何处理网络关系(manage their relationships online)上也面临着重大的挑战(s

21、ignificant challenge)。第3篇too often young people get themselves employed quite by accident, not knowing what lies in the way of opportunity for promotion, happiness and security. as a result, they are employed doing jobs that afford them little or no satisfaction. our school leavers face so much comp

22、etition that they seldom care what they do as long as they can earn a living. some stay long at a job and learn to like it; others quit from one to another looking for something to suit them, the young graduates who leave the university with a bachelors degree or higher look for jobs that offer a sa

23、lary up to their expectation very few go out into the world knowing exactly what they want and realizing their own abilities. the reason behind all this confusion is that there never has been a proper vocational(职业的) guidance in our educational institution the graduates chief concern when they look

24、for a job is to ask what salary is like. they never bother to think whether they are suited for the job or, even more important, whether the job suits them having a job is more than merely providing yourself and your dependants with daily bread and some money for leisure(空闲时间) and entertainment. it

25、sets a pattern of life and, in many ways, determines social status in life, selection of friends, leisure and interest.in choosing a career(职业;事业) you should first consider the type of work which will suit your interest. nothing is more poor than taking on a job in which you have no interest, for it

26、 will not only discourage your desire to succeed in life but also ruin your talents and finally make you an emotional (情感的;情绪的) failure and a bitter person.很多年轻人都是在无意中(by accident)找到工作的(get employed)，他们根本不了解未来晋升(promotion)的机会，幸福和保障(security)。因此，他们被雇用来做那些几乎不能为他们提供(afford)任何满足感(satisfaction)的工作。我们的学校毕

27、业生面临着如此激烈的竞争(competition)以至于只要(孙long as)能够谋生，他们很少(seldom)关心(care)自己在做什么。有一些人坚守着一份工作，并学会了喜欢它，另一些人不断的辞职(quit)去寻找适合自己的工作，而那些带着学士(bachelor)或更高学位离开(leave)大学的毕业生(graduate)们则期望能找到一份提供(offer)的薪水(salary)令他们满意(up to their satisfaction)的工作。很少有人在离开校园走入社会时确切地(exactly)知道他们想要什么，也很少有人能真正认识到(realize)自己的能力(ability)。这

28、些困扰(confusion)背后的原因(reason)就是在我们的教育机构(institution)里从来没有过适当的(proper)职业指导(guidance)。毕业生们寻找工作时关注的首要问题(chief concern)就是薪水如何。他们从未费心想(never bother to think)是否(whether)他们适合这项工作，甚至更重要的，这项工作是否适合他们。工作并不仅仅(merely)为你自己和依赖你生活的人(dependant)提供(provide)面包和休闲、娱乐(entertainment)所需的金钱。它为你的生活设定了模式(pattern)，并且在很多方面，决定(det

29、ermine)了你的社会地位(status)，对朋友的选择(selection)，休闲和爱好。在选择职业时，你首先应考虑(consider)那种适合你兴趣的工作。没有比从事一项你不感兴趣的工作最令人悲哀的了，因为它不仅会让你在生活中失去对成功的渴望(desire to succeed)，而且会毁掉(ruin)你的才华(talent)并最终(finally)令你成为情感上的失败者(failure)和一个牢骚满腹的怨天尤人者(a bitter person)。第4篇 education is not an end, but a means to an end. in other words, we

30、 do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them. our purpose is to fit them for life.in some modern countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all - one can solve（解决) all the problems of society and build a perfect nation but we can already se

31、e that free education for all is not enough; we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degree; they refuse to do what they think low work; and, in fact, work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries. but we have only to think a moment to understa

32、nd that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor; we can live without education, but we die if we have no food. what a mess it will be if no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our town

33、s.in fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever work suited to his brains and ability and, secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that is very bad t

34、o be ashamed of ones work. only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society.教育(education)并不是最终目的(end)，而是通向最终目的一种手段(means)。换句话说(in other words)，我们教育(educate)孩子的目的(purpose)并不仅仅是教育自身。同时也要使他们适应(fit sb. for)生活。在一些现代国家里，长期以来有一种很流行的(fashionable)观点，即通过对全民提供免费的(free)的义务教育可以解决社会(society)的所有

35、问题并建立(build) 一个完美的(perfect)国家。但是我们已经(already)看到全民义务教育还不够(not enough)，我们发现在这样的国家里有更多的人拥有大学文凭，他们拒绝做他们认为“低级的”工作，而且事实上，体力活在这样的国家里被认为是脏(dirty)而下贱，令人耻辱的(shameful)的工作。但是我们只要思考一下(think a moment)就能明白一个完全(completely)没有受过教育的农场主所做的工作远比一个教授(professor)的工作更重要。没有教育我们一样可以生存，但如果没了食物我们就将无法生活(ive)。如果没有人清理(clean)我们的街道，没

36、有人从我们的房子里取走垃圾(rubbish)，这个世界将l会多么的脏乱(what a mess)!我们也将会染上可怕的(terrible)疾病。事实上，当我们说所有人都必须接受教育以便为生活做准备时，这意味着(mean)我们必须以这样一种方式接受教育：首先，我们每一个人都能做适合(suit)其智力和能力的工作；其次，我们能意识到所有的工作都是社会所需要的，而且为自己的工作感到羞愧(ashamed)是很糟糕一件事情。只有这种形式的教育才能被认为是对社会有价值的。第5篇forty-five years ago martin luther king had a dream of an america

37、 where men and women would be judged not on the color of their skin but on the content of their character. today what america has done is turn that dream into a reality.after a hard-fought campaign, barack obama has won the us presidential election, and will become the 44th president of the united states-the first african-american in the co