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上海新世纪英语高二全部课文（包括Additional Reading）及重点词组 高二第二学期 17. Words and their stories 18. English proverbs 19. Tips on making a public speech 20. Keep it short for the audience’s sake 21. Making friends 22. What does friendship mean to westerners? 23. Adjo 24. Ryan, his friends, and his incredible torch run 25. The father of modern physics 26. The survival of the fittest 27. Miracle in the rice field 28. Newton’s three important laws 29. Oliver wants more (Adapted from Oliver Twist Charles Dickens) 30. Enjoy the classics 31. Is she guilty? (Adapted from The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain) 32. Mark Twain 高二第二学期 17. Words and their stories EAGER BEAVER An eager beaver is a person who is always willing to do and is excited about doing what is expected of him. Suppose, for example, that a teacher tells his students they each must solve one hundred math problems before coming to school the next day. The children complain about so much homework. But one student does not protest at all. That student is an eager beaver. He loves to do math problems, and does not mind all the homework. The expression is said to have come from the name of a hard-working animal---the beaver. Beavers are strange-looking creatures. They spend a lot of time in the water, building dams to create little lakes or ponds. They use their huge teeth and work hard to cut down trees, remove branches and put them across streams. They use their tails to pack mud on the branches to make the dams solid. Few other animals work so hard. Historians say the beaver had an important part in the settlement of North America. There were hundreds of millions of beavers when European settlers first arrived. The settlers put great value on the fur of beavers. In fact, for two hundred years or more, beavers provided the most valuable fur in North America. Beaver skins often used as money. Young men looking for adventure headed west across the country to search for beavers. In their search, they explored much of the western territ