1、点击添加标题 点击输入副标题第一部分主要内容01第二部分主要内容02第三部分主要内容03第一部分1 In the house where I grew up,it was our custom to leave the front door on the latch at night。None of us carried keys;the last one in for the evening would close up,and that was it。I dont know if that was a local term or if it is universal;on the latc
2、h meant the door was closed but not locked。One morning a fox sees a cock.He think,This is my breakfast.He comes up to the cock and says,I know you can sing very well.Can you sing for me?The cock is glad.He closes his eyes and begins to sing.It has been replaced by dead-bolt locks,1 security chains,e
3、lectronic alarm systems and trip wires hooked up to a police station or private guard firm。2Many suburban families have sliding glass doors on their patios,3with steel bars elegantly built in so no one can pry the doors open。4he fox sees that and caches him in his mouth and carries him away.The peop
4、le in the field see the fox.They cry,Look,look!The fox is carrying the cock away.The cock says to the fox,Mr Fox,do you understand?The people say you are carrying their cock away.Tell them it is yours.Not theirs.The fox opens his mouth ang says,The cock is mine,not yours.Just then the cock runs away
5、 from the fox and flies into the tree.Mr.Johnson had never been up in an aerophane before and he had read a lot about air accidents,01020304第二部分 The ad pointed out that,yes,it is the insurance companies that pay for stolen goods,but who is going to pay for what the new atmosphere of distrust and fea
6、r is doing to our way of life?so one day when a friend offered to take him for a ride in his own small phane,Mr.Johnson was very worried about accepting.Finally,however,his friend persuaded him that it was very safe,and Mr.Johnson boarded the plane.AWe have become so used to defending ourselves agai
7、nst the new atmosphere of American life,B输入标题First Flight请在这里输入您的标题内容His friend started the engine and began to taxi onto the runway of the airport.so he was extremely frightened and closed his eyes.内容文字内容文字内容文字Mr.Johnson had heard that the most dangerous part of a flight were the take-off and the l
8、anding,内容文字内容文字内容文字12第三部分After a minute or two he opened them again,looked out of the window of the plane,and said to his friend,Look at those people down there.They look as small as ants,dont they?Those are ants,answered his friend.Were still on the ground.Our neighborhoods are bathed in high-inten
9、sity light;we do not want to afford ourselves even so much a luxury as a shadow。An old gentleman whose eyesight was failing came to stay in a hotel room with a bottle of wine in each hand.On the wall there was a fly which he took for a nail.So the moment he hung them on,the bottles fell broken and t
10、he wine spilt all over the floor.Maybe the security guard at the front desk knows your face and will wave you in most days,but the fact remains that the business you work for feels threatened When a waitress discovered what had happened,she showed deep sympathy for him and decided to do him a favour
11、.It wasnt always like this。Even a decade ago,most private businesses had a policy of free access。Now the old man entered his room.The smell of the spilt wine reminded him of the accident.When he looked up at the wall,he found the fly was there again!He walked to it carefully adn slapped it with all
12、his strength.On hearing a loud cry,the kind-hearted waitress rushed in.To her great surprise,With electronic X-ray equipment,we seem finally to have figured out a way to hold the terrorists,real and imagined,at bay;it was such a relief to solve this problem that we did not think much aboutwhat such a state of affairs says about the quality of our lives。We now pass through these electronic friskers without so much as a sideways glance;the machines,and what they stand for,have won。