每天早餐时间更新！ 让小小的美文开启你一天的好心情~ Hints：  none 主持: mangiferin 任何疑问欢迎 @mangiferin ！ An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer contractor of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife, enjoying his extended family. He would miss

来问：“嘿，你要搬家吗？”“不是的，我们只是每周打包一两次东西，然后看看能有多少个包裹。”这只是个习美文惯了。”两个月前，我和我的一个哥们出门钓鱼。我把他的船拖到码头，举起那条大而老的鲈鱼在码头上走着。“嘿，这些鱼都是你钓到的吗？”“不是，是它们自愿上钩的。”这样调侃的说话也是一种习惯。 这篇材料你能听出多少？点击这里做听写，提高外语水平>>

每天早8点准时更新！ 让小小的美文开启你一天的好美文心情~ Hints： cellist Pablo Casals Bach an elixir Samuel Ullman   主持: mangiferin At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. Music, for Casals, was an elixir that made life a never ending adventure. As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." 正是这种孩子气的好奇给了热情的人们（不论年龄大小） 一种青春的气息大提琴家帕布罗•卡萨尔斯在90岁时还坚持以拉巴赫开始他的每一天音乐从他的指间流出， 他弯着的背挺直起来， 欢乐再度溢满他的眼眸音乐对卡萨尔斯来说, 是使人生变成无止境的探索之旅的灵丹妙药就像作家兼诗人塞缪尔•厄尔曼曾写过的：“岁月使皮肤起了皱纹， 但如果失去热情， 便会使灵魂起皱纹”。 这篇材料你能听出多少？点击这里做听写，提高外语水平>>

心情~ Hints：  the Northern California Championship game Division I, NCAA women's basketball team 有引号 主持: mangiferin 任何疑问欢迎 @mangiferin ！ She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She lifted her head from her hands and told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just did not understand the power of a dream. He told her that if she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, that nothing could stop her except one thing, her own attitude. He told her again, "if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count." The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college recruiter. She was indeed offered a scholarship, to a Division I, NCAA women's basketball team. She was going to get the college education that she had dreamed of and worked toward for all those years. It's true. If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count. 她很伤心，由于感受到了她的失望，我也觉得自己的喉咙发紧。我问她是否与她的爸爸谈过这件事。她从臂弯里抬起头，告诉我，她父亲说那些教练讲得不对。他们根本不懂得梦想的力量。她父亲说，如果她真地有心去代表一个好的大学打篮球，如果她真的想获得奖学金，任何东西也不能阻止她，除非她自己没有这个心。他又一次跟她说：“如果梦想远大，就一定可以克服艰难险阻。” 第二年，当她和她的球队去参加北加利福尼亚州冠军赛时，她被一位大学的招生人员看中了。那所大学真地为她提供了一份全面资助的奖学金，并且她进美文入了美国全国大学体育协会其中一个女子甲组篮球队。她将接受到她梦想过的并为之奋斗了多年的大学教育。 这句话说得真好：如果梦想远大，就一定可以克服艰难险阻。 这篇材料你能听出多少？点击这里做听写，提高外语水平>>

国是个移民之地，所以美国人吃的食物来自许多不同的国家，当人们移居美国，他们也将美文自己的烹调带了进来。那也就是为什么在美国你几乎可以看到所有不同民族的食物。在某些情况中，美国人把外国的食物视为最爱。美国人喜爱意大利的披萨，墨西哥的玉米饼和中国的春卷，但是这些东西的美国版味道却不很道地！ 和许多大国一样，美国有数个截然不同的地区，每个地区都以自己特有的食物夸口。走访美国南部享受乡村式的烹调. 这篇材料你能听出多少？点击这里做听写，提高外语水平>>

行了一场盛大的结婚庆典。 所有的朋友和家人都美文来到结婚典礼上参加欢宴和庆祝活动。大家都过得很开心。 穿着白色婚纱的新娘漂亮迷人，穿着黑色礼服的新郎英俊潇洒。每个人都能看出他们彼此的爱是真诚的。 几个月后，妻子走近丈夫提议说：“我刚才在杂志上看到一篇文章，说的是怎样巩固婚姻。”她说：“我们两个人都各自把对方的小毛病列在一张纸上，然后我们商量一下怎样解决，以便使我们的生活更幸福。” 这篇材料你能听出多少？点击这里做听写，提高外语水平>>

心情~ Hints：  none 主持: mangiferin 任何疑问欢迎 @mangiferin ！ But he was very surprised that the parrot was clinging to the bars of the cage. He said to him again and again, "Have you forgotten about freedom? Just get out! The door is open and the owner is fast asleep; nobody will ever know. You just fly into the sky, the whole sky is yours." But the parrot was clinging so deeply, so hard, that the man said, "What is the matter? Are you mad?" He tried to take the parrot out with his own hands, but the parrot started pecking at him, and at the same time he was shouting, "Freedom! Freedom!" The valleys in the night echoed and re-echoed, but the man was also stubborn, he was a freedom fighter. 但是令他吃惊的是这只鹦鹉竟抓着鸟笼的横木不放。他对它一遍又一遍地说：“你忘了自由了吗？快出去！门美文开着，店主熟睡着，没有人会看到。你只要飞向天空，整片天空就是你的了。” 但是鹦鹉仍然牢牢地用力抓着横木不放，于是他说：“怎么了？你疯了吗？”他试图用手把鹦鹉弄出来，但是鹦鹉却开始啄他，同时大喊：“自由！自由！”深夜的山谷里荡起了一声又一声的回音，可是这个人也一样地顽固，谁让他是个自由之士呢。 这篇材料你能听出多少？点击这里做听写，提高外语水平>>

每天早餐时间更新！ 让小小的美文开启你一天的好心情~ Hints：  South Carrick Hall CD-ROMs brico-block  主持: mangiferin 任何疑问欢迎 @mangiferin ！ 404 South Carrick Hall is just a place to sleep, study, and watch my roommate watch TV. It's filled with textbooks, CD-ROMs, and dishes, things that aren't supposed to be in a bedroom. There's only room for one stuffed animal and three posters which have a hard time staying on brico-block walls. I hate the fact that there's a microwave and refrigerator in the room where I sleep, and I hate that I'm responsible for filling them. 南卡尔克宿舍404房只是一个睡觉、学习和看着我室友看电视的地方。房间里摆满了课本、光碟和美文盘子，尽是一些不应该出现在卧室里的东西。剩下的空间只够放一只毛公仔和三张海报，要呆在粗糙的墙壁上，这些海报可真够呛的。我讨厌把微波炉和电冰箱摆在我睡觉的地方，也讨厌自己总要往里面塞放食物。 这篇材料你能听出多少？点击这里做听写，提高外语水平>>

每天早餐时间更新！ 让小小的美文开启你一天的好心情~ Hints：  next-door   本文附有原文翻译和生词注解哦，欢迎在听写后查看学习！≧▽≦y 主持: mangiferin Tell me the truth about love. Some say that love's a little boy, And some say it's a bird, Some say it makes the world go round, And some say that's absurd, And when I asked the man next-door, Who looked as if he knew, His wife got very cross indeed, And said it wouldn't do. 哦，告诉我爱情的真相 有人说爱情是个小男孩，也美文有人说像只小鸟，有人说它令世界运行，也有人说那是荒谬，当我去询问邻居的男子，他仿佛对爱情了然而他的妻子怒火填膺，说那并无可能。 这篇材料你能听出多少？点击这里做听写，提高外语水平>>

每天早8点准时更新！ 让小小的美文开启你一天的好心情~ Hints: Trisha, Monte and I, George Jr. Tennessee Waltz, Harbor Lights rendition of Silver Bells "Silver Bells, Silver Bells, its Christmas time in the city" "The Old Rugged Cross" "Davey, Davey Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier" 主持: mangiferin Occasionally, Dad would