段落背诵阐明：每周一段学生进行背诵，组员去组长处背诵，组长去课代表处背诵，课代表到老师处背诵，由组长和课代表做好背诵记录。每背一段，满分为 0.5 分，背满10 段最多可得 5 分。 NO 1 All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. NO 2 The quiet life of the country has never appealed to me. City born and city bred. I have always regarded the country as something you look at through a train window, or something you occasionally visit during the weekend. Most of my friends are forever talking about the friendly people, the clean atmosphere, the closeness to nature and the gentle pace of living in the country. Nothing can be compared, they maintain, with the sight of the rising sun shining on the trees and pastures. NO 3Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and good. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite. Life on a desert island is miserable. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures, but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.NO 4The great ship, Titanic, sailed for New York on April 10th, 1912. Even by modern standards, the 46,000...
