新概念英语Lesson 41 The Origin of ThingsEducation is one of the key words of our time. A man without an education, many of us believe, isan...

新概念英语Lesson 42 Journey Through Adolescence青少年旅程Parents are often upset when their children praise the Homesof their friends and r...

新概念英语Lesson 43 Our Developing World我们发展中的世界Faith in controlled nuclear fission is now being shown by the construction of atom...

新概念英语Lesson 44 The Backward Society落后的社会If a nation is essentially disunited, it is left to the government to hold it together. T...

新概念英语Lesson 45 The Process of Ageing老化的过程At the age of twelve years, the human body is at its most vigorous. It has yet to reach...

L46 The Menace of Urban Explosion from The ListenerAfter millennia of growth so slow that each generation hardly noticed it, the cities ar...

L47 Plato Today The modern Plato, like his ancient counterpart, has an unbounded contempt for oliticians and statesmen and party leaders w...

L48 What Every Writer Wants from Harper'sI have known very few writers, but those I have known, and whom I respected, confess at once that...

L49 Balloon AstronomyRockets and artificial satellites can go far above the ionosphere, and even escape from the Earth. Yet they are compl...

L50 British CanalsIn mediaeval times rivers were the veins of the body politic as well as economic. Boundaries between states or shires, t...

L51 ElephantsTwo main techniques have been used for training elephants, which we may call respectively the tough and the gentle. The forme...

L52 The Earth BeneathAn earthquake comes like a thief in the night, without warning. It was necessary, therefore, to inventinstruments tha...

L53 The Story of the French Foreign LegionThe French Foreign Legion was founded by a Royal Ordinance, written on a small piece of official...

L54 Are There Strangers in Space?We must conclude from the work of those who have studied the origin of life, that given a planet only ap...

L55 Patterns of CultureCustom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we fee...

新概念英语Lesson 56 The Age of Automation自动化时代science and technology have come to pervade every aspect of our lives and, as a result, ...

新概念英语Lesson 57 Of Men and Galaxies人和星系In man's early days, competition with other creatures musthave been critical. But this phas...

新概念英语Lesson 58 Painting as a Pastime绘画消遣A gifted American psychologist has said, 'Worry is a spasm of the emotion; the mind catche...

新概念英语Lesson 59 The Great Escape 大逃亡Economy is one powerful motive for camping, since after the initial outlay upon equipment, or th...

Lesson 60 On Moral Courage 论道德勇气 Although truth and justice1 may be the most powerful impulses to show moral courage, there are other...