学前教育自考真题:谁告诉我一个和时事有关的英语小故事?

这篇可以参考,不是很难的:)~~

Before swimming in North Atlantic in winter and recalling Titanic, I come here, great the United States, from my motherland China for pushing on peace. I fell extraordinary honor and pride. I'm Gangyi Wang , 49 years old, lawyer, Ph．D of Jilin University, professor of Dalian University of Technology.
Ten years ago, I used to be here, Freedom Goddess location-New York, and influenced by the culture of Democrace, Freedom and Rule by law. Tady, after ten years, I come back greate city-New York for developing the peace sprit that Freedom Goddes geve us and for memory of those who died in september 11 event and Titanic.
Uder the bless and protect of God, I succecded in challinging the south pole, Lago grey of Chile,Han river of Korea, ice sea of Hokkaido in Japan and set the record of human being's survival in low-temprature waters.
I will start off here to Canada (St．Johns) to swim from the place in ice sea of North Atlantic in 17 Jan. 2004 and that sea area is just the place where Titanic sank 93 years ago. I hope that the winter swimming with the theme of love of life and swimming for pease is much concernd throughout the world.

给你一则美国之音Special English节目中的简明新闻,说的是今年新年伊始发生在美国的煤矿矿难.所用的单词都非常浅显,很适合于初中学生.

America produces more than half of its electric power from coal. Mineral experts say the country has the world's largest supply of coal waiting to be mined.

Coal mining in the United States is much safer than it used to be. Yet nineteen miners were killed in the first five weeks of two thousand six. That was almost as many as were killed in all of last year.

Most of the recent deaths happened in West Virginia. Twelve men died in a mine where inspectors found more than two hundred safety violations last year. Now, more than two hundred federal safety officials are examining the mines in West Virginia. West Virginia produces more coal than any other state except Wyoming.

The recent accidents led to a federal request for all coal mines in the nation to stop work for one hour on February sixth to discuss safety. And there have been other steps. In Pennsylvania, the governor ordered the re-inspection of all seventy-seven active underground mines in his state.

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