英语话里话外读书报告英语话里话外读书报告English and Its Cultural BackgroundsThere is no doubt that the book, Cracking the Nuts of Culture, is really an interesting book. I finished it within one week. It did bring me much fun, and what is more, I found the more I read, the more I acquired, and the more I could understand the abundant contents of English.As far as I am concerned, the most interesting part of the book is the English paradox. Like Chinese, there is also abundant paradox to help us express what we want to say. A paradox ispunny and vivid, which always contains significant meaning. For example, “He who always watches the clock will always be one of the hands” is paradox. It is short but you may not understand its meaning the first sight you see it. Only after you look for the hidden meaning of the words can you totally understand it. It means a man who do not do his work carefully and only care the closing time cant be an outstanding worker. Using this example, I mean if we want to learn English well and totally understand some words, we should learn to figure out the real meaning of the words instead of just taking all statements at face value.I have acquired a deeper understanding of English after reading this book. When I was a middle school student, my Chinese teacher always told us that Chinese is more beautiful and has more connotation than English. But now I can say that his judgment is unfair because there isa large quantity of interesting expressions in English. Some of them may seem meaningless unless they are put in the special language situation. Whats more, some words in regular collocation can express special meaning ,for example, “not so hot “ ,a regular collocation which is used to express the meaning of not good. These both enrich the internal meaning of English.In my point of view, language and culture are inseparable. A language is born to express a nations culture and the formation and development of a language is always influenced by the culture. Westerners are much more open-minded than Chinese, so we can see that in English the results are always said before the reasons, which is on the contrary in Chinese. Another example is that in English, the expression lucky dog means someone is lucky but in Chinese the expressions made with the word dog arealways related to something bad. In Chain, if you describe one with the expression made with the word dog, he will be very angry. The reason for this phenomenon is that in western, people love their dogs and look on them as their families, and in ancient Chai n, dog was concerned as a snobbish animal. When learn English, we may find that sometimes even we know the meaning of every word, we still cant understand the meaning of the whole sentence. So, to learn English, not only do we need to know the new symbols and the rules of using these symbols, but also we need to cultural background of English language.第二篇：英语读书报告 5000 字On Vicky Phillips Education in Cyberspace Aina WuThis is a paper about online teaching. The author is Vicky Phillips. Vicky Phillips is a pioneer in adult education and distance learning, and founder and CEO of “”.She is the author of the well-known book Never Too Late to Learn: The Adult Students Guide to College.This paper is a business trip around the run into a problem launch. once the author on a business trip a man asked her what she did for a living. The author gave him an honest answer without think. To make him understand, the author explained a lot. Through detailed introduction of the author, we got she designed Americas first online counseling center for distance learners. Distance learning, or educational programs where pupil and professor never meet face-to-face, are nothing new. And the author taught psychology and career development .Her post is the World Wide Web. Postingassignments to electronic bulletin boards and sending graded papers across the international phone lines in traffic-free email packets.From the author, it is hard to imagine teaching anywhere other than in the liberal freedom that is cyberspace. In cyberspace, teachers listen, read, comment and reflect on what students have to say-each of them in turn .What they know, they must communication to teachers inwords .They cannot sit passively in the back row twiddling their mental thumbs as the clock ticks away. This can be very good to promote students autonomous learning, let the students from the heart to learn. Whats more , Education in Cyberspace is beneficial to the old .They are telecommuting to campus because they could not ,or would not ,uproot their careers and kids or grandkids to move to a college campusan entity modeled after the learning monasteries of medieval times .A cyber-education suits the old because it respects their abilities to define for themselves what knowledge is and to go after it .It encourages them to argue their points and their perspectives without the interference of a professor, who might be tempted to st