-
Unit1,Book1
Anne'sbestfriend
Do you want a friend whom
you could tell everything to, like your deepest
feelings and thoughts? Or are you
afraid that your friend would laugh at you, or
would not understand what you are going
through? Anne Frank wanted the first
kind, so she made her diary her
bestfriend.
Annie lived in Amsterdam in
the Netherlands during World War II. Her family
was Jewish so they had to hide or they
would be caught by the German Nazis.
She and her family hid away for nearly
twenty-five months before they were
discovered. During that time the only
true friend was her diary. She said,
want to set down a series of facts in a
diary as most people do, but I want this
diary itself to be my best friend, and
I shall call my friend Kitty.
she felt
after being in the hiding place since July 1942.
Dearkitty,
I wonder if it's
because I haven't been able to be outdoors for so
long that I've
grown crazy about
everything to do with nature. I can well remember
that there
was a time when a deep blue
sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers
could never have kept me
angedsinceIwashere.
For example, one
evening when it was so warm, I stayed awake on
purpose until
half past eleven in order
to have a good look at the moon by myself. But as
the
moon gave far too much light, I
didn't dare open a window. Another time five
months ago, I happened to be upstairs
at dusk when the window was open. I
didn't go downstairs until the window
had to be shut. The dark, rainy evening,
the wind, the thundering clouds held me
entirely in their power; it was the first
time in a year and a half that I'd seen
the night face to face...
...Sadly... I
am only able to look at nature through dirty
curtains hanging before
very dusty
windows. It's no pleasure looking through these
any longer because
nature is one thing
thatreallymustbeexperienced.
Yours,
Anne
Unit2
TheroadtomodernEnglish
At
the end of the 16th century, about five to seven
million people speak 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 languagethaneverbefore.
Native English speakers can understand
each other even if they don't speak the
same kind thisexample:
BritishBetty:Wouldyouliketoseemyflat? <
/p>
AmericanAmy:Yes.I'dliketocomeuptoyourapa
rtment.
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 we spoke today. It was
based more on German than the English
we speak at present. Then gradually
between about AD 800 and 1150, English
became less like German because those
who rules England spoke 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 18th century some
British people were taken to Australia
too. English
begantobespokeninbothcountries.
Finally
by the 19th century the language was settled. At
that time two big
changes in English
spelling happened: first Samuel Johnson wrote his
dictionary
and later Noah Webster wrote
the American Dictionary of the English language.
The latter gave a separate
identitytoAmericanEnglishspelling.
English now is 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 the
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
ownidentity?Onlytimewilltell.
StandardEnglishanddialects
....When people use words and
expressions different from the
language
because people have
come fromallovertheworld.
Geography
also plays a part in making dialects. Some people
who live in
mountains of the eastern
USA speak with an older kind of English
dialect......Although many Americans
move a lot, they still recognize and
understand each other's dialects.
Unit3
JourneydowntheMekong
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 then she persuaded me to
buy one. Last year
, she visited our
cousins, Dao Wei and Yu Hang at their
college in Kunming. They are Dai and
grew up in western Yunnan Province near
Lancang River
, the Chinese part of the
river that is called the Mekong River
in other countries. Wang Wei soon got them
interested in cycling too. After
graduating from college, we finally got the
chance to take a bike trip. I asked my
sister
,
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 know 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
,
coming
back?
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 5000
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
y,Ihadtogivein.
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 on a Tibetan
mountain. At first the river is small
and the water is clear and cold. Then it
begins to move quickly. It becomes
rapids as it passes through deep valleys,
traveling across western Yunnan
Province. Sometimes the river becomes a
waterfall and enrers wide valleys. We
were both surprised to learn that half of
the river is in China. After it leaves
China and high altitude, the Mekong becomes
wide, brown and warm. As it enters
Southeast Asia, its pace slows. It makes
wide bends or meanders through low
valleys to the plains where rice grows. At
last, the river delta enters
theSouthChinaSea.
Part2
...Along the way children dressed in
long wool coats stopped to look at us. In the
late afternoon we found it was so cold
that our water bottles froze. However
,
the
lakes shone like glass in the
setting sun and looked wonderful. Wang Wei rode
in front of me as usual. She is very
reliable and I knew I didn't need to
encourage her
. To climb the
mountains was hard work but as we looked around
us, we were surprised by the view. We
seemed to be able to see for miles. At one
point we were so high that we found
ourselves cycling through clouds. Then we
began going down the hills. It was
great fun especially as it gradually became
much warmer
. ....
In the early evening we always stop to
make camp. We put up our tent and then
we eat. After supper Wang Wei put her
head down on her pillow and went to
sleep but I stayed awake. At midnight
the sky became clearer and the stars grew
brighter
. It was so quiet.
There was almost no wind---only the flames of our
fire
for company. As I lay beneath the
stars I thought about how far we had already
travelled.
We will reach
Dali in Yunnan Province soon, where our cousins
Dao Wei and Yu
Hang will join us. We
can hardly wait to see them!
Unit 4
A night the earth didn't sleep
Strange things were happening in the
countryside of northeast Hebei. For three
days the water in the village wells
rose and fell, rose and fell. Farmers noticed
that the well walls had deep cracks in
them. A smelly gas came out of the cracks.
In the farmyards, the chickens and even
the pig were too nervous to eat. Mice
ran out of the fields looking for
places to hide. Fish jumped out of their bowls
and ponds. At about 3:00 am on July 28,
1976, some people saw bright lights in
the sky. The sounds of planes could be
heard outside the city of Tangshan even
when no planes were in the sky. In the
city, who thought little of these events,
were asleep as usual that night.
At 3:42 am everything began to shake.
It seemed as if the world was at an end!
Eleven kilometers directly below the
city the greatest earthquake of the 20th
century had begun. It was felt in
Beijing, which is more than two hundred
kilometers away. One-third of the
nation felt it. A huge crack that was eight
kilometers long and thirty meters wide
cut across houses, roads and canals.
Steam burst from holes in the ground.
Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In
fifteen terrible seconds a large city
lay in ruins. The suffering of the people was
extreme. Two-third of them died or were
injured during the earthquake.
Thousands of families were killed and
many children were left without parents.
The number of people who were killed or
injured reached more than 400.000.
But
how could the survivors believe it was natural?
Everywhere they looked
nearly
everything was destroyed. All of the city's
hospitals, 75%of its factories
and
buildings and 90%of its homes were gone. Bricks
covered the ground like
red autumn
leaves. No wind, however
, could blow
them away. Two dams fell and
most of
the bridges also fell or were not safe for
travelling. The railway tracks
were now
useless pieces of steel. Tens of thousands of cows
would never give
milk again. Half a
million pigs and millions of chickens were dead.
Sand now
filled the wells instead of
water
. People were shocked. Then, later
that afternoon,
another big quake which
was almost as strong as the first one shook
Tangshan.
Some of the rescue workers
and doctors were trapped under the ruins. More
buildings fell down. Water
,
food, and electricity were hard to get. People
began
to wonder how long the disaster
would last.
All hope was not lost. Soon
after the quakes, the army sent 150,000 soldiers
to
Tangshan to help the rescue workers.
Hundreds of thousands of people were
helped. The army organized teams to dig
out those who were trapped and to
bury
the dead. To the north of the city, most of the
10,000 miners were rescued
from the
coal mines there. Workers built shelters for
survivors whose homes had
been
destroyed. Fresh water was taken to the city by
train, truck and plane.
Slowly, the
city began to breathe again.
Unit 5
Elias' story
My name is
Elias. I am a poor black worker in South Africa.
The time when I first
met Nelson
Mandela was a very difficult period of my life. I
was twelve years old.
It was in 1952
and Mandela was the black lawyer to whom I went to
for advice.
He offered guidance to poor
black people on their legal problems. He was
generous with his time, for which I was
grateful.
I needed his help because I
had very little education. I began school at six.
The
school where I studied for only two
years was three kilometers away. I had to
leave because my family could not
continue to pay the school fees and the bus
fare. I could not read or write well.
After trying hard, I got a job in a gold mine.
However
, this was a time
when one had got to have a passbook to live in
Johannesburg. Sadly I did not have it
because I was not born there, and I
worried about whether I would become
out of work.
The day when Nelson
Mandela helped me was one of my happiest. He told
me
how to get the correct papers so I
could stay in Johannesburg. I became more
hopeful about my future. I never forgot
how kind Mandela was. When he
organized
the ANC Youth League, I joined it as soon as I
could. He said:
and
progress, until today we have reached a stage
where we have almost no
rights at
all.
It was the truth. Black people
could not vote or choose their leaders. They could
not get the jobs they wanted. The parts
of town in which they had to live were
decided by white people. The places
outside the towns where they were sent to
live were the poorest parts of South
Africa. No one could grow food there. In fact
as Nelson Mandela said:
important, or fight the
government. We chose to attack the laws. We first
broke
the law in a way which was
peaceful; when this was not allowed...only then
did
we decide to answer violence with
violence.
As a matter of fact, I do not
like violence...but in 1963 I helped him blow up
some government buildings. It was very
dangerous because if I was caught I
could be put in prison. But I was happy
to help because I knew it would help us
achieve our dream of making black and
white people equal.
The rest of Elias'
story
You cannot imagine how the name
of Robben Island made us afraid. It was a
prison from which no one can escape.
There I spent the hardest time of my life.
But when I got there Nelson Mandela was
also there and he helped me. Mr
Mandela
began a school for those of us who had little
learning. He taught us
during the lunch
breaks and the evenings when we should have been
asleep. We
read books under our
blankets and use anything we could find to make
candles
to do that. Later
,
Mr Mandela allowed the prison guards to join us.
He said they
should not be stopped from
studying for their degrees. They were not cleverer
than me, but they did pass their exams.
So I knew I could get a degree too. That
made me feel good about myself.
When I finished the four years in
prison, I went to find a job. Since I was better
educated, I got a job working in an
office. However
, the police found out
and
told my boss that I had been in
prison for blowing up government buildings. So
I lost my job. I did not work again for
twenty years until Mr Mandela and the ANC
came to power in 1994. All that time my
wife and children had to beg for food
and help from relatives or friends.
Luckily Mr Mandela remembered me and gave
me a job taking tourists around my old
prison on Robben Island. I felt bad the
first time I talked to a group. All the
terror and fear of that time came back to me.
I remembered the beatings and the
cruelty of the guards and my friends who
had died. I felt I would not be able to
do it, but my family encouraged me. They
said that the job and the pay from the
new South African government were my
reward after working all my life for
equal rights for the blacks. So now at 51 I am
proud to show visitors over the prison,
for I helped to make our people free in
their own land.
第一单元
友谊
Reading
安妮最好的朋友
< br>你是不是想有一位无话不谈能推心置腹的朋友呢?或者你是不是担心你的
朋友会嘲
笑你,会不理解你目前的困境呢?
安妮
·
弗兰克
想要的是第一种类型
的朋友,于是她就把日记当成了她
最好的朋友。
安妮在第二次世界大战期间
住在荷兰的
阿姆斯特丹
。
她一家人
都是犹太人,
所以他们不得不躲藏起来,
否
则他们就会被德国纳粹抓去。
她和她的家人躲藏了两年之后才被发现。
在这段
时间里,她唯一的忠实朋友就是她的日记了。她说,
< br>“
我不愿像大多数人那样
在日记中记流水账。
我要把这本日记当作我的朋友,
我要把我这个朋友称作基
< br>蒂
”
。现在,来看看安妮在藏身处躲了一年多之后的那种
心情吧。
1944
年
6
月
15
日
星期四
亲爱的基蒂:
我不知道这是不是因为
我长久无
法出门的缘故,
我变得对一切与大自然有关的事物都无
比狂热。
我记得非常清
楚,以前,湛蓝的天空、鸟儿的歌唱、月
光和鲜花,从未令我心迷神往过。自
从我来到这里,这一切都变了。
……
比方说,有天晚上天气很暖和,我熬到
11
点半故意不睡觉,为的是独自好好看看月亮。
但是因为月光太亮了,我不
敢打开窗户。还有一次,就在五个月以前的一个晚上,我碰巧
在楼上,窗户是
开着的。我一直等到非关窗不可的时候才下楼去。漆黑的夜晚,风吹雨打
,雷
电交加,
我全然被这种力量镇住了。
这是我一年半以来第一次目睹夜晚
……
你
的
安妮
Using Language Reading,
listening and writing
亲
爱的王小姐:
我同班上的同学有件麻烦事。我跟我们班里的一位男同学一直
相处很好,
我们常常一起做家庭作业,
而且很乐意相互帮助。
我们成了非常好
的朋友。
可是,
其他同
学却开始在背后议论起来,
他们说我和这位男同学在谈
恋爱,这
使我很生气。我不想中断这段友谊,但是我又讨厌人家背后说闲话。
我该怎么办呢?
p>
莉萨
Reading and writing
尊敬的编辑:
<
/p>
我是苏州高中的一名学生。
我有一个难题,
我不太善于同人们交际。
虽然我的确试着去跟班上的同学交谈,
但是我还是发现很难跟他们成为好朋友。
因此,
有时候我感到
十分孤独。
我确
实想改变这种现状,
但
是我却不知道该怎么办。
如果您能给我提些建议,
我会
非常感激的。
晓东
第二单元
世界上的英语
Reading
通向
通向现代英语之路
16
世纪末期
p>
大约有
5
百万到
7
百万人说英语,几乎所有这些人都生活在英国。在
17
世
纪英国人开始往世界其它地区迁移。
于是,<
/p>
许多别的国家开始说英语了。
如今
说英语
的人比以往任何时候更多了,
他们有的是作为第一语言来说,
有
的是作
为第二语言或外语。中国也许是把英语作为外语来说的人数最多的国家。
以
英语作为母语的人,即使他们所讲的语言不
尽相同,也可以互相交流。然而,
他们可能不是什么都懂。比方说,一个英国人可能对她
的朋友说:
“
请到我的
公寓
(
flat
)
里来坐坐,
好吗?
”
她的一位美国朋友可能会问她
,
“
到哪儿去?
”
她的加拿大朋友可能会解释说,
“
她的意思是要我们到她的
房间(
apartmen
t
)去。
p>
”
那么,英语在一段时间里为什么会起变化呢?当不同文化互相沟
通
时,所有的语言都会发生变化。从公元
450
年到
1150
年,人们所说的英语
跟今天所说的英语就很不一样。
实际上,
当时的英语更多地
是以德语为基础的,
而现代英语不是。然后大约在公元
115
0
年到
1500
年期间,英语的变化就
更大了,它不那么像德语,而更像法语了,因为那时的英国的统治者讲法语,
它变得更接近你们正在学习的这种语言。在
17
世
纪,莎士比亚所用的词汇量
比以前任何时期都大。英语用法发生了一次大变化,那就是在
诺厄
·
韦伯斯特
编纂《
美国英语词典
》的那个时期,这本词典体现了美国英语的特色。后来,
有些英国人到了澳大利亚,
那里的人也开始说英语了。
< br>如今,
澳大利亚英语
也
有它自己
的特色了。
英语在南亚也被当作外语或第二语言来使用。印度
拥有
众多讲英语的人,这是因为英国于
1765
年到
1947
年统治过印度。在此期
间,英语成了政府和教育的语言。在非洲和亚洲许多其它国家,比如南非、新
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
上一篇:必修一(高一英语)unit1-5课文原文及其译文
下一篇:英语谚语简介