高一英语必修一课文原文与译文

我只能透过脏兮兮的窗帘观

看大自然，窗帘悬挂在沾满灰尘的窗前，但观

看这些已经不再是乐趣，因为大自然是你必须

亲身体验的。

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

? Reading and writing

尊

敬的编辑：

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

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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。

Unit2

the Road to Modern English At the end of the 16th

century, about five to seven million people spoke

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 speakers can

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understand each other even if they don

’

t s

same kind of English. Look at this example:

British Betty: Would you like to see my flat?

American Amy: Yes. I

’

d like to come up to you

apartment. So why has English changed over time?

Actually all languages change and develop when

cultures meet and communicate with each other. At

fist the English spoken in England between about

AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the

English spoken today. It was base more on

German than the English we speak at present.

Then gradually between about AD 500 and 1150,

English became less like German because those

who ruled 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

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18th century some British people were taken to

Australia to. English began to be spoken in both

countries. 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 identity to American

English spelling. English now is also 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

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Chinese English develop its own identity? Only

time will tell.

第二单元

世界上的

英语

Reading

通向现代英语之路

16

世纪末

期大约有

5

百万到

7

百万人说英语，几乎所有这

些人都

生活在英国。后来，在

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世纪英国人开

始航海征服了世界其它地区。于是，许多别的

国家开始说英语了。如今说英语的人比 以往任

何时候都多，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。

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。请看以下例子：

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英国人贝蒂：

“请

到我的公寓

(flat)

里来看看，好吗

?

”美国人艾米：

“好的。我很乐意到你的公寓

(ap artment)

去。

”