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1.
必修一
MODULE 1 My First Day at Senior High
升入高中的第一天
My name
is Li Kang. I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not far
from Beijing.
我叫李康，
住在离北京不远的石家庄市，
它是河北省的首府。
It
is
the
capital
city of Hebei Province. Today is my
first day at Senior High school and
I'm
writing down my thoughts about it.
我就写写我这一天的感想。
My
new school is very good and I can see why. The
teachers are very
enthusiastic and
friendly and the classrooms are amazing.
常好，理由如下，老师们很热情、很友好，而且教室很棒。
computer with a special screen, almost
as big as a cinema screen.
教室部配备有一台电脑，电
脑屏幕是像电影院屏幕大小差不多的特殊屏幕。
teachers
write
on
the
computer,
and their
words appear on the
screen
behind
them.
老师在电脑上写字，这些字就出现在老师身后的屏幕上。
also show photographs, text and
information from websites. They're
brilliant!
屏幕也能显示照片、文本以及网站下载的信息。真是太棒了
! The
The screens
我的新学校非
Every room
has a
每间
The
今天是我升入高中的第一天，现在
English
class
is
really
interesting.
enthusiastic
英语课很有趣。
The
teacher
is
a very
womancalled
MsShen.
老师是一位姓沈的非常热心的女士。
We're
’
s method of teaching is
nothing like
由于我们使用的是新课本，
She thinks that reading
她认为阅
using a new
textbook and Ms Shen
that of the
teachers at my Junior High school.
沈老师的教学方法跟初中老师完全不一样。
comprehension is important, but we
speak a lot in class, too.
读理解很重要，而我们在课堂上说得也很多。
And we have fun. I don't think
I will be bored
in Ms Shen's class!
我们过得很快乐。我认为上沈老师的课
我是不会感到厌倦的
! Today
we introduced ourselves to each other. We did
this
in
groups.
今天我们以小组的形式互相作了自我介绍。
Somestudents
were
embarrassed at
first
but
everyone
was
v
ery
friendly
and it
was
r
eally
nice.
有些同学开始还有些难为情，
不过大家都很友好，
真是太好了。
Ms Shen
g
ave us
instructions and then we worked by
ourselves.
沈老师给了我们一些指导，
然后我们自己活动。
Ms Shen
wants to help us improve our spelling and
handwriting.
沈老师要帮助我们提高拼写和书写水乎。
Wedo this
in
a
fun
way,
我们用有趣的拼写游戏和其他活
very
much, and the
behavior
of
the
other
我非常喜欢她的教态，其他同学的
with spelling games and other
activities.
动做完了这些。
I
like
her
attitude
students shows that
they like her, too.
行为表明他们也喜欢沈老师。
There
are
sixty-
five
in Junior High.
students
in
my
c
lass ---more
than
my
p
revious
class
我们班共有
65
名同学
比我以前初中时的班级人数还要多。
其中
49
名是女生。
In
other
words,
there
are
They
Forty-nine
of
them are
girls.
three
times
as
manygirls
as boys.
换句话说，女生人数是男生的三倍。
say
that
girls
are
usually
more
hard-working
than
boys,
but
in
this
class,
everyone
is
hard-working.
据说女生通常比男生用功，但在我们班，每个人都
很用功。
For our
homework tonight, we have to write a description
of the
street where we live.
forward to doing it!
今晚的家庭作业是描述我们居住的街道。
I'm looking
我正盼望着做家庭作业呢。
2.
必修一
MODULE2 My
New Teachers
我的新老师
They say that first impressions are
very important.
人们说第一印象很重
我
要。
My
first impression of Mrs. Li was that she was
nervous and shy.
对李老师最初的印象是她既紧张又害羞。
I
think
perhaps
she was
a
s it
was
h
er
first lesson with us.
我想她这样也许是因为她给我们上第一节课的缘故吧。
But now. after two weeks, the class
really likes working with her.
个星期过去了，现在全班同学都很喜欢上她的课。
She's
kind
and
patient,
两
and
she explains English grammar so clearly
that even I can understand it!
她友善、
耐
心，把英语语法解释得清清楚楚，
连我都懂了
! ---
She
a
voids
making
you feel stupid!
她不会让你感到自己是个笨蛋
!
I've always hated making
when I
speak
English,
but
Mrs
我总是不愿意
mistakes
or
pronouncing
a
word incorrectly
Li just
smiles, so that you don't feel completely stupid!
犯错误或者在说英语时念错词，
李老师只是笑笑，
因此你就不会感到自己是个大
笨蛋
! I
think
maybeshe goes
a bit
too
slowly
for
the
faster
students,
but
for
me it's wonderful!1feel I'm going to make progress
with her.
对于那些学习较好的学生来说，她的进度也许有些慢，但对我来说
正好
跟着她学习一定能取得进步。
I'd
guess that
Mrs Chen
i
s
almost
sixty.
我猜陈老师差不多有
60
岁了。
She's
她
我想
!
我觉得
very strict --- we don't dare to say a
word unless she asks us to.
很严格
---
如果她不要求，
我们连一句话也不敢说。
She's
also
very
serious
and
doesn't
smile
much.
她也很严肃，不苟言笑。
Whenshe asks you
to
do something,
you do it
immediately!
她要你做什么事，你就赶快做
!
There are a few
students in our
class who keep coming to class late but they're
always
on time for Mrs Chen's lessons!
班上有些同学上课老是迟到，可上陈老师的
课都很准时
!
Some of our class don't like her, but
most of us really
appreciate her
because her teaching is so well organized and
clear.
些学生不喜欢她，可班上大多数人确实欣赏她的课，因为她的讲解非常有
条理，
很清楚。
And a few students even admit liking
her!
喜欢她
!
During
scientific experiments, she explains exactly what
is
happening and as a result my work is
improving .
做科学实验时，她准确
无误地解释发生的一切，就这样，我的学习正在进步。
Physics
will
never
be my
favorite lesson, but I think that I'll
do well in the exam with Mrs Chen
teaching me.
物理从来不是我最喜欢的学科，但我觉得有陈老师教我，今后考
有一些学生甚至承认
有
试我一定会考得不错的。
Mr
W'u's
only
been teaching
us for
two weeks and he's
already
very
popular.
吴老师只教了我们两星期就已经很受大家欢迎了。
I
think
this
is
because he
我觉
! He's got so
much
really enjoys teaching Chinese
literature---he loves it, in fact!
得这是因为他很喜欢教中国文学事实上，他很热爱中国文学
energy, this is one class you do not
fall asleep in!
一节你不会想睡觉
(
感到困倦
)
的课。
He's about
28,Ithink, and is rather
他精力充沛，这是
good-
looking.
我猜他大约
28
岁，长得相当英俊。
He
talks
loudly
and fast.
他说起话来响亮快
jokes
when he
and waves his hands
about a lot when he gets excited.
速，激动时不停地挥动双手。
He
’
s
really
amusing
and tells
thinks
we're
getting
bored.
他很能逗乐，当他觉得我们开始无聊时就给我们
说笑话。
Even
things
like
compositions
and summaries
are
fun
with
Mr
Wu.
I respect him a lot.
很有趣，我很尊敬他。
3.
必修一
MODULE 3 My
First Ride on a Train
第一次乘火车
and I'm
18 years
上吴老师的课，就连作文和归纳大意这样的事情也变得
My
n
ame
i
s
Alice
Thompson. I
come
f
rom
Sydney,
Australia
old.
我是艾丽斯，汤姆逊，来自澳大利亚悉尼，今年
first
a ride!
ride
on a long
distance
train.
18
岁。
Recently
I
had my
最近我第一次乘坐了长途火车。
And
w
hat
一次多么奇妙的乘车经历
!
A friend and I travelled on the famous
我和一位朋友乘坐著名的火车
Ghan
去旅行。
We
g
ot
on in
Sydney
Ghantrain.
and we got off in
Alice Springs, right in the middle of Australia,
more
than four thousand kilometres
away.
我们在悉尼上车，在
4,000
多公里以
外的澳大利亚中部的艾丽斯斯普林斯下车，
Wespent
two days and nights
on the
train.
并在火车上呆了两天两夜。
火车很棒，食品又美味。
The
train was wonderful and the food was great.
We ate great meals cooked by experts!
我们吃的美味饭菜是由烹任大师们做
的
! For the first few hundred
kilometres of the journey, the scenery was
very colorful.
旅途开始的几百公里，景色多姿多彩
. There were fields and
the
soil
was
d
ark
red.
有田野，泥土是深红色的。
After
that,
it
was
d
esert.
过后就是沙漠。
The sun
shone, there was no wind and there were no clouds
in
the
sky.
太阳高照，空中没一丝风、一朵云彩。
Suddenly,
it
looked
like
a
place
from
another
time.
突然之间又好像来到了另一个时代的某地。
Wesaw
abandoned farms which
were built more than a hundred years ago.
我们看
到被遗弃了的
100
年前建造的农庄。
The
train was comfortable and the people were nice.
火车很舒服，大家部
很友好。
During
the
day,
I
sat
and looked
out
of
the
window,
and sometimes
talked
to
other
passengers.
在白天，我坐着看窗外，
有时和别的旅客说说话。
I
read books and listened to my Chinese cassettes
(I'm studying Chinese
at school).
我读读书，听听汉语磁带
(
我正在学校学汉语
)
。
One night, at
I
watched
the
night
sky
for
about
an hour.
有一个晚上，
The
stars
shone
about
mid-night,
大约是在半夜，差不多有整整一小时我部在注视夜晚的天空。
like diamonds.
星星闪着如钻石般的光芒。
Why
is the train called the Ghan?
ago,
Australians
为什么这种火车叫
Ghan
呢
? A long
time
很
needed a
way to
travel
to
the
middle of
the
country.
They tried riding
久以前，澳大利亚人需要一条去往这个国家中部的通道。
horses, but the horses didn't like the
hot weather and sand.
他们试着
years
ago,
they
骑马，但那些马不喜欢炎热的天气和沙漠。
A
h
undred and
fifty
brought some camels from
Afghanistan.
150
年前，他们从阿富汗引进了一些
骆驼。
Ghanis
short
for
Afghanistan.
Ghan
是阿富汗的缩写。
Camels
w
ere much
better
than horses for travelling a long distance.
对于长途旅行而言，
骆驼比马匹要好得多。
For
manyyears,
trained
camels
carried
food
and other
supplies, and returned with wool and
other products.
许多年以来，经过
训练的骆驼运走食品和其它供给物，带回羊毛和其他产品。
their camels did this until the1920s.
The Afgnans and
直到
20
世纪
20
年代，阿富汗人和他
们的骆驼还在做着这样的工作。
Then
t
he
government built
a
newrailway
line,
so
they
didn't
need the
camels
any
more.
后来，政府修了一条新的铁路线，
他们就再也不需要骆驼了。
In
1925,they
passed a
law
which
allowed
people
to shoot the animals
if they were a problem.
1925
年通过了一条法令，规
定如果这些动物成为问题，
就允许人们杀死它们。
In
1935,
the
police
in
a town
shot
153 camels in one day.
头骆驼。
4.
必修一
MODULE 4 A Lively City
(XL=
小李
JM=
约翰
·
马丁
)
XL: It's great to see you again, John.
XL:
约翰，很高兴又见到你了。
一个生机勃勃的城市
1935
年，一座镇上的警察一天之内就射杀了
153
JM: It's
great
to
see you!
It's
been six
years
since
we
l
ast
saw
e
ach other,
you
know. And this is the first time I've visited your
hometown.
JM:
见
到你真是太好了
!
要知道，我们六年没见面了。
而且这是我第一次来到你的家乡。
XL: Yes, I'm so glad you could come.
XL:
是的，你能来，我真是很高兴。
JM
: You
k
now, I've
seen quite
a lot
of
China
and I've
visited some beautiful cities, but this is one of
the most
attractive places I've been
to. It's so lively, and everyone seems so
friendly.
JM:
你知道，
我去过中国很多地方，也见过一些美丽的城市，但这是我
到过
的最吸引人的地方之一。它生机勃勃，人们看上去都那么地友好。
XL: Yes, it's one of the most
interesting cities on the coast, everyone
says so. I feel very fortunate living
here. And I love living by the
seaside.
XL:
是的，大家都说这是最富有趣味的沿海城市之一。生活在
这里我感
到很幸运。我喜欢在海边生活。