根据对4万名海外投票者和英国文化协会在世界各地英语中心的学习者的调查显示，“母亲”(Mother) 是英语当中最优美的单词。此项调查为庆祝英国文化协会成立70周年而举办。 　　 英国文化协会在华作为英国大使馆文化教育处开展工作。为开展上述调查工作，英国文化协会征求了46个国家7000多名英语学习者对英语中最优美单词的意见。此外，英国文化协会还通过自己的网站在网上征求了非英语国家的意见。非英语国家中35000多人参加了投票，...

The Greatest Pleasure of Learning  Learning can result in many kinds of good things. It can help us earn money, support our family and know something we don’t know before. But its greatest pleasure is the happiness felt during the process of learning.  Every life-form has the desire to explore new matters, humans included. We’re inborn with this ability. It can be reflected among babie...

The Greatest Pleasure of Learning  Learning can result in many kinds of good things. It can help us earn money, support our family and know something we don’t know before. But its greatest pleasure is the happiness felt during the process of learning.  Every life-form has the desire to explore new matters, humans included. We’re inborn with this ability. It can be reflected among babie...

The Greatest Pleasure of Learning  Learning can result in many kinds of good things. It can help us earn money, support our family and know something we don’t know before. But its greatest pleasure is the happiness felt during the process of learning.  Every life-form has the desire to explore new matters, humans included. We’re inborn with this ability. It can be reflected among babie...

不少英语学习者都有这样的困惑：学了十几年的英语，通过了考试，能完全听懂标准语速的英语新闻广播，可就是听（看）不懂英语原版影视剧（无中文字幕），这使他们开始怀疑自己的听力能力。　　 要解决这个问题，我们先来了解一下新闻英语和影视英语之间的区别。首先，两者在语体上有较大的区别。前者是书面语体的口头形式，用于正式的交际场合，经过加工和润饰，比较文雅，是合乎标准的书面语言，因而使较多使用长句、复句、结构严谨的完整句。布局层次分明、逻辑关...

The Greatest Pleasure of Learning  Learning can result in many kinds of good things. It can help us earn money, support our family and know something we don’t know before. But its greatest pleasure is the happiness felt during the process of learning.  Every life-form has the desire to explore new matters, humans included. We’re inborn with this ability. It can be reflected among babie...

The Role Humor Plays in Our Life In my opinion, Humor plays the role as grease in our life. Many occasions need it to solve trouble, and indeed humor can make it. I will give you two examples.  The fist is about family. Mike and Lily had a quarrel, and they both should bear some obligation. But it was embarrassing to apologize directly. Thus Mike used a new way. “Person-to-person for Mrs.I....

How to Protect Yourself from a Tsunami?        In general, if you think a tsunami may be coming, the ground shakes under your feet or you hear there is a warning, tell your relatives and friends, and move quickly to higher ground. If you are in school and you hear there is a tsunami warning, you should follow the advice of teachers and other school personnel.   ...

Distinguished Managing Direcror,  As the designer of "Americash", I think I have the responsibility to intrioduce its advantages. From the very beginning, we should understand our company's conservative image and our aim. We need some strong brand to get rid of the image! And I think "Americash" can make it!  "Americash" could let people understand our company's work easily. It conv...