100篇短文突破高考英语词汇及朗读MP3(26-30篇)

1、第26篇The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families . But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents , which is the opposite of the popularly -held （普遍认为的）image（印象）of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrelsAn important new stud

2、y into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious （和谐的）than it has ever been in the past . " Wewere surprised by just how positive today's young people seem to be about their families ," said one memberof the research team " They're expected

3、 to be rebellious （叛逆的）and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well There's more negotiation（商议）and discussion between parents and children , and children expectto take part in the fam

4、ily decision -making process . They don't want to rock the boat. "So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30years ago to treat their children as friends . "Myparents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listento me ” says 17- year -

5、 old Daniel . "I always tellthemwhen I 'm going out to a club . As long as they know what I'm doing , they're fine with it . ” Susan Crome who is now 21, agrees . " Looking back on the last lo years , there was a lot of what you could call negotiation For example, as long as I&

6、#39;d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night . But I assumemygrandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that ."Maybe this positive view of family Life should not be unexpected . It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts . A resear

7、cher comments" Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history whenteenagers were regarded as diverse beings . But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time i

8、n the 1960s when everyone rebelled . The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over.在一些家庭中，和谐的证据(the evidence for harmony)可能不明显(not obvious )。但是似乎 五分之四的年轻人与他们的 (their )父母处得来，这与普遍持有的不幸福的未成年人形象相反(beopposite to )。在人们印象中，他们总是在

9、无休止的家庭争吵(endless family quarrels )后被父母锁在家中。一项新的对于年轻人态度的重要研究令人惊讶地显示他们的家庭生活(family life )比以前更和谐。“我们惊讶地发现今天的年轻人对于家庭所持的态试非常积极，” 一位研究小组的成员说。原以为他们会叛逆、自私(selfish )，但事实上他们也考虑其他的事情；他们想要车和物质商品，他们担心(worry about)学校是否能为他们提供良好服务 (serve them well )。在父母和孩子之间还有更多的协商和讨论，孩子们 期盼参与家庭的决策过程。他们不想制造麻烦(rock the boat)。所以看起来这一

10、代父母比30年前的父母更有可能像朋友一样对待他们的孩子。“我的父母很高兴与我讨论问题，而且愿意倾听我的讲话(My parents are happy to discuss things with me andwilling to listen to me , ” 17岁的丹尼尔说。“我去俱乐部(club )时总是告诉他们。只要他们知 道我在做什么，他们就不担心。”现年21岁的苏珊克罗默认同这种说法。“回顾一下过去的十年，有很多事情都是协商解决的。例如，只要我做完了家庭作业，我就能在周六晚上出去。但是我想(assume)我的(外)祖父母对我父母就要严格多了。”或许我们不应当对这种积极的家庭生活观

11、感到意外。可能年轻人的叛逆并没有根植于(be rooted in )现实中。一位研究人员评论 (comment)说：“我们之所以对年轻人说他们与父母相处地好感到惊奇是因为 在我们的社会历史上有过一段短暂的时期(a brief period )，那时十几岁的孩子被认为(be regarded as)是不同的(diverse )人”。但是这种叛逆和摆脱家庭的思潮实际上只在二十世纪六十年代发生过一次，而 那时每个人都叛逆。贯穿历史的正常情况(normal situation)是从帮助家庭事务到接管(家庭事务)的平稳的改变(a smooth change)。第27篇Learning online sh

12、ould make use of a number of Internet tools : e-mail lets you exchange letters between continents very cheaply and almost immediately . Large groups of people can share their discussions by using electronic lists to send every letter to everyone on the list Electronic magazines bring you up-to - dat

13、e topics , such as news, arts , and sports . Search engines allow you to look for anything you want on the Internet , including the h dings of major libraries . In a chat room you can have a real -time （实时）written talk Audio （听觉的；音频的）and video bring the world to your computer - you can listen to the

14、 world's radio stations , watch the evening news from another continent , And in an online conference you can even talk to your teacher and fellow students abroad.Doyou have e- mail ? Howmuchdo you communicate with your friends over the Internet 1 Internet , the newest child in technology , is l

15、ike a modern communication highway. It 's also a kind of super - shop, almost anything you can buy in a store you can get it through Internet , without leaving home at all .在线学习要利用的几个因特网工具：电邮让你可以在大洲（continent ）间非常便宜地（cheaply）交流信息，而且发出后可以立即地（immediately ）送达对方。大的（large ）群体可以通过电子列表（electronic list

16、）给每人发送信件。电子杂志（magazine）可以带给你最时尚的主题，如新闻、艺术和 体育。搜索引擎（search engine ）允许你在网上搜寻任何你想要的东西，包括主要图书馆的藏书。在聊天 室里你可以进行实时打字聊天。音视频将世界联到你的电脑上一一你可以听世界的广播电台，观看另一个大洲的晚间新闻。在在线会议（online conference ）上你甚至可以给你海外的（abroad ）老师和同学谈话。你有电邮吗？你和网上的朋友交流的多吗？因特网是最新的技术成果，就像一条现代的通讯公路（highway）o它也是一种（a kind of）超级商店，几乎所有可以在商店里买到的商品，你都可以足不

17、出户 地通过因特网获得。第28篇Chinese President HuJintao congratulated the country 's space scientists and astronauts , or Taikonauts （太空人）on the successful launch （发射）of the manned spaceship （载人飞船）Shenzhou-7 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Thursday .aThe successful launch marked the first victoryof

18、 the Shenzhou-7 mission （使命）," Hu told Chinese experts and other work staff at the center after officials declared the spacecraft entered the preset orbit （预定轨道）.“Onbehalf of the （Communist） Party Central Committee （党中央），I'd like to extend warm congratulations to all work staff and army for

19、ces participating in the mission , " said Hu“The Shenzhou-7 mission is the most representative and influential （有影响的）scientificand research practice of our country this year," added Hu中国主席胡锦涛就星期二神州七号载人飞船在酒泉卫星(satellite )发射中心成功发射向国家太空 科学家和宇航员(astronaut ),或者说太空人表示 祝贺(congratulate )。“这次的成功发射标

20、志(mark)着神七使命的第一个胜利，”胡在官方宣布(declare )飞船 (spaceship )进入预定轨道后对中心的中国专家和其他工作人员说。“我代表(on behalf of)党中央中国共产党(Communist Party )中央委员会(CentralCommittee)向所有工作人员和参与这次使命的军队(army)表示热烈的祝贺，"胡说。“神七是我们国家今年最具有影响力和代表性的科研实践， ”胡补充说(add)。第29篇Over the last 70 years , researchers have been studying happy and unhappy pe

21、ople and finally found out ten factors （因素）that make a difference . Our feelings of well -being （幸福等的状况）at any moment are determined to a certain degree by genes （基因）.However of all the factors , wealth and age are the top two.Money can buy a degree of happiness . But once you can afford to feed, cl

22、othe and house yourself , each extra dollar makes less and less difference .Researchers find that , on average, wealthier people arehappier . Butthelinkbetween money and happiness is complex. In the past half - century , average income has sharply increased in developed countries , yet happiness lev

23、els have remained almost thesame Once your basic needs are met, money only seems toincreasehappinessifyouhave more than your friends , neighbors and colleagues ."Dollars buy status , and status makespeople feel better , " conclude someexpertswhich helps explain why people whocan seek statu

24、s in other ways- scientistsor actors for example - may happily accept relatively poorly - paid jobs.In a research , a professor found that the people whose desires -not just for money but for friends , family , job , health -rose furthest beyond what they already had, tended to be less happy than th

25、ose who felt a smaller gap （差足巨）.Indeed, the size of the gap predicted happiness about five times better than income alone . "The gap measures just blow away the only measures of income," says the professor .Another factor that has to do with happiness is age. Old age may not be so awful “

26、Given all the problems of aging （老化）， how could the elderly be more satisfied ?" asks a professor .In one survey （调查）,a researcher interviewed 184 people between the ages of 18 and 94, and asked them to fill out an emotions （情感；感情）questionnaire . She found that old people reported positive emot

27、ions just as often as young people . Somescientists suggest older people may expect life to be harder and learn to live with it , or they ' re more realistic （现实的）about their time running out, older people have learned to focus on things that make them happy and let go of those that don't.“P

28、eople realize not only what they have, but also that what they have cannot last forever ," she says. "Agoodbye kiss to a husband or wife at the age of 85, for example, may bring far more complex emotional responses （反应；答复） than a similar kiss to a boy or girl friend at the age of 20.”第29篇在

29、过去的70年里，研究人员一直在研究幸福和不幸福的人们，并最终发现了十个影响人们幸福感的 因素。我们在任何时刻对幸福的感觉在某种程度上由基因决定。然尔（however）,在所有的因素中，财富（wealth ）和年龄是最主要的两个。金钱在一定程度上可以买到幸福。但是一旦你能满足自己食物、衣服和居住方面的需求，额外的（extra ）金钱则不会再让你的幸福感有太大的变化。研究人员发现， 平均（on average）来看，越富有越幸福。但是金钱和幸福的联系（link ）很复杂（complex）。在过去的 半个世纪（half century ）里，发达国家的 平均收入（average income）急剧增

30、长 （sharply increase ），但是幸福程度却基本保持不变。一旦你的基本需要得到满足，似乎只有在拥有的 金钱比你的朋友、邻居和 同事(colleague )多时才会增加幸福感。“美元可以买来地位，地位可以使人们感觉更好，” 一些专家总结(conclude )说。这也有助于解释为什么那些以其他方式 寻求(seek)地位的人们，如科学家和演员，能够开心地接受相对低报酬的工作。在一项研究中，一位教授发现那些欲望远超过(beyond)他们已有的一切的人们，比那些欲望和现实相差不大的人相比更不容易感到幸福。这儿所说的欲望不仅是对金钱的欲望，也包括对朋友、家庭、工作和健康的欲望。的确(inde

31、ed ),差距的大小 预示(predict )出的幸福感比单纯的金钱所能带来的幸福感高 五倍多。“这种差距吹走(blow away) 了仅用收入衡量的标准，”这位教授说。另外一个与幸福相关的因素是年龄。年老并不可怕(awful )。“在有这么多老年问题的情况下，老年人的生活怎么样才能更加令人满意呢？” 一位教授问道。在一次调查中，一位研究员 采访(interview )了 184位年龄在18至94岁之间的人，并请他们 填写 (fillout)一个情感问卷调查(questionnaire )。她发现老年人的积极情感体验和年轻人一样多。一些科学家提出可能老年人对生活会更加困难有心理准备并学会了适应

32、这种生活，或者他们对于时间的流失 有更加现实的体验，老年人已学会将精力集中于(focus on)可以让他们开心的事情上，而忽视那些让他们不开心的事物。“人们不仅清楚他们拥有的一切，而且明白他们拥有的一切不会永远存在(last forever ) ”，她说。“例如，同一位85岁的丈夫或妻子吻别，可能会带来比和小孩子吻别更加复杂的情感反应。”第30篇Howmanypeople have I met who have told meabout the book they have been planning to write but have never yet found the time ? F

33、ar too manyThis is Life , all right , but wedo treat it like a rehearsal (排演)and, unhappily , we do miss so many of its best momentsWe take jobs to stay alive and provide homes for our families always making ourselves believe that this style of life is merely a temporary state of affairs along the r

34、oad to what we really want to do. Then, at 60 0r 65, we are suddenly presented with a clock and several grandchildren and we look back and realize that all those years waiting for Real Life to come along were in fact real lifeIn America they have a saying much laughed at by the English : "Have

35、a nice day” they speak slowly and serious l y in their shops, hotels and sandwich bars. I think it is a wonderful phrases, reminding us, in effect , to enjoy the moment to value this very day.Howoften do we say to ourselves , "I 'll take up horse - riding （or golf, or sailing ） as soon as I get a higher position ," only to do none of those things when I do get the higher positionWhen I first became a reporter I knew a man who gave up a very well paid respectable （令人尊敬的）job at the Daily Telegraph每日电讯报to go and edit （编辑）a small weekly newspaper, At the time