高中英语必修一课文及翻译(自己总结)打印版

实在没意思，因为大自然是需要真正体验的东西。

UNIT2

The road to modern English

At the end of the 16

th

century, about five to seven million people spoken English. Nearly

all of them lived in England. Later in the next century, people from England made

voyages

to conquer other parts of the world and

because of

that, English began to be spoken in

many other countries. Today, more people speak English as their first, second or a foreign

language than ever before.

Native

English speaks can understand each other even if they don

’

t speak the same kind

of English. Look at this example:

British Betty: Would you like to see my flat?

American Amy: yes. I like to

come up

to your

apartment

.

So why has English changed over time

？

Actually

all languages change and develop

when cultures meet and communicate with each other. At first the English spoken in England

between about

AD

450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken today. It was

based

more on German than English we speak

at present

. Then

gradually

between about

AD 800 and 1150, English became less like German because those who ruled England spoken

first

Danish

and later French. These new settlers enriched the English language and

especially its

vocabulary

. So by the 1600

’

s Shakespeare was able to

make use of

a wider

vocabulary than ever before. In 1620 some British settlers moved to America. Later in the

18

th

century some British people were taken to Australia too. English began to be spoken in

both countries.

Finally by the 19

th

century the language was settled. At that time too big changes in

English

spelling

happened: first Samuel Johnson wrote his dictionary and Noah Webster

wrote

The American Dictionary of the English Language.

The

latter

gave a separate

identity

to

American English spelling.

English now is also a spoken as a foreign or second language in South Asia. For example,

India has a very large number of

fluent

English speakers because Britain ruled India from

1765 to 1947. During that time English became language for government and education.

English is also spoken in

Singapore

and

Malaysia

and countries in Africa

such as

South

Africa. Today the number of people learning English in China is increasing rapidly. In fact,

China may have the largest number of English learners. Will Chinese English develop its own

identity? Only time will tell.

在

16

世纪末，大约有

500

万至

700

万人讲英语。几乎所有这些讲英语的人都住 在英格兰。在其后的一个世纪中，英格

兰人为征服世界航海到了世界其他一些地方，

结果世界的其他地方的人们也开始说英语了。

今天，

把英语作为自己的第一语

言、第二语言或外语来使用的人比以往任何时候都多。

以英语作为母语的人，即使他们所讲不是同一种英语，他们也 能彼此听懂。请看看这个例子：

英国人贝蒂：来看看我的公寓 （

flat

）吗？

< br>美国人艾米：好的，我来看看你的公寓（

apartment

）吧。

那么，

随着时间的推移英 语为什么发生了变化呢？实际上，

当不同文化相互交流渗透时，

所有的语言都会有所发展和变

化。开始，英格兰人在大约公元

4 50

年到

1150

年之间所说的英语与 我们今天所说的英语很不一样。当时的英语更多的是以

德语为基础的，不像我们现在说的 英语。后来，大约在公元

800

年至

1 150

年之间，英语慢慢变得不那么像德语，因为统治

英格兰的 那些人开始是说丹麦语，后来说法语。这些新来的定居者丰富了英语语言，尤其是丰富了英语词汇。所以到

17

世

纪初的时候，莎士比亚能够得以使用比 以往任何时候都丰富的词汇。

1620

年一些英国定居者来到了 美洲，后来到了

18

世纪

的时候，一些 英国人还被带到了澳大利亚。英语也就开始在这两个国家使用。

最后到

19

世纪的时候，英语这种语言就变得稳定了。当时， 英语的拼写发生了两个很大的变化：先是塞缪尔·约翰逊

编写了他的英语词典，后是诺亚 ·韦伯斯特出版了《美国英语词典》

。后者使得美式英语的拼写有了其独特的个性。

现在英语在南亚地区也被作为外语或第二语言使用。比如，印度就 有很多人说英语说得很流利，因为在

1765

年到

1947

年之间英国统治着印度。在此期间，英语成了印度政府和教育所用的 语言。在新加坡和马来西亚以及像非洲的南非，人们现

在也说英语。当今，在中国学英语 的人数正在快速增加，事实上，中国可能是学英语人数最多的国家。中国式英语是否也能

发展成一种具有自己独特个性的语言？这还有待时间去证明。

Unit3

Journey Down the Mekong

Part1

The dream and the play

My

name

is

Wang

Kun.

Ever

since

middle

school,

my

sister

Wang

Wei

and

I

have

dreamed about taking a great bike trip. Two years ago she bought an expensive mountain

bike and then she

persuaded

me to buy one. Last year, she visited our cousins, Dao Wei and

Yu Hang at their college if Kunming. They are Dai and grew up in western Yunnan Province

near the Lancang River, the Chinese part of the river that is called the Mekong River in other

countries.

Wang

Wei

soon

got

time

interested

in

cycling

too.

After

graduating

from

college, we

finally

got the chance to take a bike trip. I asked my sister, “Where are we

going?” It was my sister who

first had the idea to cycle along the entire Mekong River from

where it begins to where it ends. Now she is planning our

schedule

for the trip.

I

am

fond

of

my

sister

but

she

has

one

serious

shortcoming

.

She

can

be

really

stubborn

. Although she didn’t kno

w the best way of getting to places, she insisted that she

organize

the trip properly. Now I know that the proper way is always her way. I kept asking

her, “When are we leaving and when are we coming back?” I asked her whether she had

looked at a map yet.

Of course she hadn’t; my sister doesn’t

care about

details. So I told her

that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai Province. She gave me a

determined

look -- the

kind that said she would not

change her mind

. When I told her that our

journey

would

begin at an

altitude

of more than 5,000 meters, she seemed to be excited about it. When I

told her the air would be hard to breathe and it would be very cold, she said it would be an

interesting experience. I know my sister well. Once she has

made up her mind

, nothing can

change it. Finally, I had to

give in

.

Several months before our trip, Wang Wei and I went to the library. We found a large

atlas with good maps that showed details of world geography. From the atlas we could see

that the Mekong River begins in a glacier to move quickly. It becomes rapids as it passes

through

deep

valleys

,

traveling

across

western

Yunnan

Province.

Sometimes

the

river

becomes a water fall and enters wide valleys. We were both surprised to learn that half of the