100篇短文突破高考英语词汇--word文档及朗读MP3（66-70篇）.docVIP

第66篇 When you sneeze, Americans would say God Bless You to you In many European cultures, sneezing traditionally is associated with death and Americans believe that you are very close to death when you sneeze, because sneezing can drive out the soul, and thus life will escape from the body. So they say God Bless You to a sneezer as a spell against the danger of the moment.They assume that the sneezer would end up in the next world without this magical words. However, many peoples around the world are cheered by hearing someone sneeze. The Maori of New Zealand believe that the creator god Tiki sneezed life into the first human being; some people of southern Africa take the sneeze as the sign of a kind-hearted spirit; and the ancient Hebrews(希伯来人) identified(认为同一)sneezing with life, because they recognized that the dead never sneeze Some American Indian peoples say that a good sneeze clears the brain 当你打喷嚏(sneeze)时，美国人总会说“上帝保佑你(God bless you)”。在很多欧洲文化里，打喷嚏习惯上与死亡联系在一起，美国人则认为打喷嚏时你离死亡很近，因为打喷嚏会驱赶走灵魂，因而生命会从体内逃走。所以他们才会对一个打喷嚏的人说“上帝保佑你”，以便对抗此时的危险。他们认为如里没有这些有魔力的(magical)话，打喷嚏者有可能会死亡。 然而，世界上很多地方的人会因为听到别人打喷嚏而感到鼓舞(cheer)。新西兰的毛利人认为造物主Tiki是通过打喷嚏将生命注入第一个人的体内，一些南非人将打喷嚏视为善良鬼魂(spirit)的象征，而古希伯来人则将喷嚏与生命统一起来，因为他们认为死人从不打喷嚏。一些美国印第安人认为好的喷嚏可以提神醒脑。 第67篇 The world is made up of matter. Air, water and everything on the earth are different kinds of matter. Matter exists in one of three states: solid, liquid or gas. Coal is in the solid state. Water is in the liquid state. Air is in the gaseous state. Matter is in constant change. Matter changes from one state to another under different conditions. When water boils, it changes into the gaseous state. If water changes into ice, we say that it has changed to a solid state The changing material world has so much for us to learn. We must constantly study this world so that we understand it better. 世界是物质组成的。空气、水和世上的一切都是不同的物质。物质以三种形态存在：固体、液体(liquid)和气体。煤(coal)是固体形态。水是液体形态。空气是气体形态。物质处于持续的(constant)变化中。物质在不同的条件下(under different conditions)会从一种形态转变为另一种形态