精选新概念 3 必背优秀文章 20 篇经典教材精选美文 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提议必须背诵的素材。对这些文章最佳是听写、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，最终背诵。这个过程很花时间，不过也能提“高英语能力。背诵是一件很痛苦的事情，实在背不下来，可以给自己定一种量的规定： 50遍啊 50”“遍！ 甚至更强的 100 遍啊 100 遍！”。读了 50 遍以上就算背不出来也很纯熟了吧。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，作文必然有很好的提高！Lesson 14 A noble gangster 贵族歹徒There was a time whenThere was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for in return for ' protection .' If the money was not paid promptly, the gangsters would quickly put a man out of businessout of business by destroying his shop. Obtaining 'protection money' is not a modern crime. As long ago asAs long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable discovery that people would rather 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 himselfmade a name for himself and came to be known tocame to be known to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto. Whenever the Italian city-states were at war withat war with each other, Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes who were willing to pay the high price he demanded. In times ofIn times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would m...
