Reading stories, reciting vocabulary for CET-4

第一部分　寓言故事
　passage 1
　　an optimist
　passage 2
　　choice of counsellors
　passage 3
　　the horse and the dog
　passage 4
　　the goose that laid the gold eggs
　passage 5
　　the cook and the cat
　passage 6
　　the shepherd and the nightingale
　passage 7
　　the wolf and the lion
　passage 8
　　a subtle hint
　passage 9
　　the cat and the cock passage 10
　　each to his own kind
　passage 11
　　the ant and the fly
　passage 12
　　safety in numbers
　passage 13
　　the miser
　passage 14
　　more threatening than tigers
第二部分　成语故事
　passage 1
　　the more one tries to hide, the more one is exposed
　passage 2
　　decadent music
　passage 3
　　learning from past mistakes to avoid future ones
　passage 4
　　an arrow at the end of its flight
　passage 5
　　swollen with arrogance
　passage 6
　　being extremely exhausted
　passage 7
　　letting the one who tied the bell on the
　　tiger take it off
　passage 8
　　like a crane standing among chickens
　passage 9
　　as pressing as a fire singeing one's eyebrows
　passage 10
　　more than sufficient
　passage 11
　　raising the standard of revolt
　passage 12
　　arrogantly overbearing
　passage 13
　　extremely skillful
　passage 14
　　exhausted its tricks
　passage 15
　　the snipe and the clam grappled
第三部分　幽默笑话
　passage 1
　　the lawyer and the rancher
　passage 2
　　blonde at work
　passage 3
　　he's mine
　passage 4
　　relax
　passage 5
　　a call-in tape
　passage 6
　　where there's a will
　passage 7
　　false alarm
　passage 8
　　man arrested
　passage 9
　　mad martin
　passage 10
　　such a neighbor
　passage 11
　　the three monks
第四部分　名人铁事
　passage 1
　　carver's pioneer work with peanuts
　passage 2
　　jefferson and the jockey
　passage 3
　　his company was valued $ 500 million
　passage 4
　　refused because she was a woman
　passage 5
　　jim thorpe, a sad, bewildered man
　passage 6
　　the presidents' pets
　passage 7
　　innocent of any sense of responsibility
　passage 8
　　mark twain's speechmaking strategy ( i )
　passage 9
　　mark twain's speechmaking strategy ( ii )
　passage 10
　　"roosevelt", a bad word?
　passage 11
　　king john and the abbot
　passage 12
　　lincoln's beard
　passage 13
　　the columbian exchange
第五部分　人物先锋
　passage 1
　　gates' way
　passage 2
　　web inventor wins millennium technology prize
　passage 3
　　the s2nd president of the united states
　passage 4
　　albert einstein
　passage 5
　　should shakespeare be made modern?
　passage 6
　　first flight: how wright brothers changed world
　passage 7
　　part-time job is a full-time success
　passage 8
　　economics nobelists tackle time
　passage 9
　　einstein wins again
　passage 10
　　"old" europe has more millionaires than u.s. , study finds
　passage 11
　　then and now
　passage 12
　　discovering the key to the secret of life
　passage 13
　　new loc chief seen as "mr. clean"
第六部分　民间故事
　passage 1
　　traditional witchcraft
　passage 2
　　parapsychology
　passage 3
　　robin hood
　passage 4
　　robert bruce and the spider
　passage 5
　　pecos bill
　passage 6
　　phrenology
　passage 7
　　astrology
　passage 8
　　the unicorn
　passage 9
　　giants
　passage 10
　　sneezing
　passage 11
　　jack and the beanstalk
　附录 四级高分必备词汇