新概念精选必背.doc

经典教材精选美文20篇
这个优秀文章20篇是从新概念三教材里精心挑选出来的。这些精选出来的文章是建议必须背诵的素材。对这些文章最好是听写、翻译、背诵一步步来。先听mp3努力把文章听写出来,然后翻译成中文,再把中文翻译成英文,最后背诵。这个过程很花时间,但是也能提高英语能力。背诵是一件很痛苦的事情,实在背不下来,可以给自己定一个量的要求:“50遍啊50遍!”甚至更强的“100遍啊100遍!”(够了!!)。读了50遍以上就算背不出来也很熟练了吧。模仿磁带的读音,大声跟读大声的背,将可以达到听说读写齐头并进的神奇效果!!要提高写作水平,要把从例文中学到单词、短语、句型用在自己想象到的作文情景中,也就是要写出模拟例句。长期这样训练,作文必定有很好的提高!
Lesson 14 A noble gangster 贵族歹徒
There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for 'protection.' If the money was not paid promptly, the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by destroying his shop. Obtaining 'protection money' is not a modern crime. As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.
Six hundred years ago, Sir Johan Hawkwood arrived in Italy with a band of soldiers and settled near Florence. He soon made a name for himself and came to be known to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto. Whenever the Italian city-states were at war with each other, Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes who were willing to pay the high price he demanded. In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and, after burning down a few farms, would offer to go away if protection money was paid to them. Hawkwood made large sums of money in this way. In spite of this, the Italians regarded him as a sort of hero. When he died at the age of eighty, the Florentines gave him a state funeral and had a pictured painted which was dedicated to the memory of 'the most valiant soldier and most notable leader, Signor Giovanni Haukodue.'
曾经有一个时期,芝加哥的店主和商行的老板们不得不拿出大笔的钱给歹徒以换取"保护"。如果交款不及时,歹徒们就会很快捣毁他的商店,"保护金",:"人们情愿拿出大笔的钱,也不愿毕生的心血毁于歹徒之手.
600年前,,在佛罗伦萨附近驻扎下来,,霍克伍德把他的士兵雇佣给愿给他出高价的君主。和平时期,当生意