NCE 4 Best sentences for reciting

(Apr. 29, 2013 Begin)
Lesson 1: Find fossil man
1) The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas--legends handed down from one generation of storytellers to another.
2) But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they had any, are forgotten.

Lesson 2:
1) How much of each year do spiders spend killing insects?
2) Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends?
3) Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our crops and kill our flock and herds, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals.
4) Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never do the least harm to us or our belonging.
5) Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them.
6) How many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf?


Lesson 3:
1) Modern alpinists try to climb mountains by a route which will give them good sport, and the more difficult it is, the more highly it is regarded.
2) In the pioneering days, however, this was not the case at all. The early climbers were looking for the easiest way to the top, because the summit was the prize they sought, especially if it had never been attained before. It is true that during their explorations they often faced difficulties and dangers of the most perilous nature, equipped in a manner which would make a modern climber shudder at the thought, but they did not go out of their way to court such excitement. They had a single aim, a solitary goal--the top!
3) Invariably the background is the same: dirt and poverty, and very uncomfortable.

Lesson 4:
1) Several cases have been reported recently in Russia of people who can read and detect colors with their fingers, and even see through solid doors and walls.
2)Once case concerns an eleven-year-old schoolgirl, Vera Petrova, who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin.
3) It was also found that although she could perceive things through her fingers this ability ceased the moment her hands were wet.

Lesson 5:
1)People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'. If there is one----which I take leave to doubt----then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings----people just like their elders.There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is.

Lesson 6: The sporting spirit
1) Even if one did not know from concrete examples(the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance), one can deduce it from general principles.
2) Nearly all the sports practiced nowadays are competitive.  You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win.
3) At the international level, sports is frankly mimic warfare. But the significant thing is not the behavior of the players but the attitude of the spectators  and, behind the spectators, of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe----at any rate for short periods----that running, jumping and kicking a ball are tests of national virtue.

Lesson 7: Bats
1) To get a full appreciation of what this means we must turn first to some recent human inventions. Everyone  knows if he shouts in the vicinity of a wall or mountainside, an echo will come back. The further off this solid obstruction, the longer time will elapse for the return of the echo.
2) So it is a comparatively simple step from locating the sea bottom to location a shoal of fish.