聂成军，教育硕士，中学高级教师。现任北京市海淀区教师进修学校教研员、英语教研室主任。中央电教馆、教育部课程与教材发展中心特聘专家；北京教育考试院高考试题评价专家组成员、自主会考试题评价组组长；北京教育学院特聘英语骨干教师培训导师；海淀区教委名师工作站英语学科组导师；北师大版高中英语教材编者之一。

童凤雨，海淀区英语兼职教研员、海淀区学科带头人、海淀区青年先进教育工作者、海淀区青年岗位能手，工作将近二十年来一直在一线担任初、高中英语教师。在国家、市、区级教学比赛中多次获奖。自2005年担任海淀区英语兼职教研员后，多次承担教材分析、公开课与区统考命题及试卷分析。

Today the cowboy seems to be giving up wearing the bandanna handkerchief.
Perhaps he thinks it makes him look too much like a movie cowboy. Maybe he has
found something more useful to take its place. But not long ago, he felt that it was almost as necessary a part of his outfit as a rope. And it had almost as many different uses. He could not get along without it.
Though called a handkerchief, a bandanna was not what we usually think of when we use the word. It was a large, bright square of cloth, made either of cotton or of silk. A silk one was prized above one made of cotton. The bandanna had a solid-color background and was printed with small figures of some sort. The most common color was red, but some bandannas were blue, and some black.
When the cowboy got up in the morning, the first thing he did was to go down to the water hole and wash his face. He used his bandanna for a towel, and then, though it might be wet, tied it around his neck, letting the fold hang down in front so that it looked like a necktie. Dressed in this way, he looked quite neat at breakfast.
One of a cowboy’s jobs was to rope broncos. After he had roped out his bronc and tried to bridle him, he probably found that the horse had to be blindfolded before he could do anything with it. The bandanna was what he used for a blindfold. When he had mounted, he took the blindfold off the horse and put it again around his own neck.
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