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初中英语阅读
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p1
P7
(10)
An
old
woman
opens
her
windows
and
looks
out
of
it.
The
sun
shines
brightly.
Ther
e
is
a
man
in
the
garden
in
the
front
of
her
house.
The
old
woman
looks
at
him
a
nd
says,
“He
is
eating
grass.”
She
goes
out
into
the
ga
rden
and
says
to
the
man,
“Are
you
very
hungry?”
The man
says, “Yes, I am. I’m a poor man. I haven’t got my
breakfast today, and I’m
hungry.
”
The old woman says to him,
“Come to the back of my house.” And she goes in
again.
The man smiles
happily and goes to the back door of the house.
The old woman opens
the door and says
to the poor man, “The grass is longer behind the
house.”
P8
（
1
1
）
Mr. White
looks out of his window. There is a boy in the
street. He is eating some food.
There is a dog in the street, too. The
boy says,
“Come here, I’m going to give
you
some bread.
”
The dog comes up. The boy kicks the
dog. The dog runs away.
Mr.
White comes out of his home and says to
the boy, “Come here, I’m going to give
you some money.”
The boy is
happy and he goes to Mr. White. But Mr. White
doesn’t give
him any money. He kicks
the boy.
The boy cries and says, “Why
do you kick me? I don’t ask
“The dog
doesn’t ask you for any bread,” Mr. White says,
“but you kick it.”
P8
（
12
）
Helen was going to have her first
baby very soon. One evening it was time to take
her to
the hospital, so her husband,
Sam, helped her get into the car and drove her
there. A
nurse took Helen to her room
and told Sam that he could go home and she would
call him
when the baby arrived, but Sam
said he would rather wait at the hospital. The
nurse
smiled and said, “There’s a
waiting room at the end of the hall.”
Sam was walking up and down near the
waiting room at about midnight when the nurse
came our of
his wife’s room
and said, with a happy smile, “Which would you
have
preferred, a boy or a girl?” “A
girl,” answered the husband. “I have an old
sister, and she
was always very kind to
me when I was a child.”
“Well,” said the nurse, “It’s a boy
this time.”
you
for any money. ”
“That’s all
right,” answered Sam happily, “That was my second
choice.”
P9
（
13
）
Anna Louise Strong was a famous
American writer. She was born in 1885. She spent
her
first thirty years in the west of
America.
She was in China
for time in 1925. Later she came to China several
times. In August
1946, on her fifth
trip through China, she went to Yan’an. She was
very glad to have a
chance to meet Mao
Zedong. In the spring of 1958, at the age of 72,
she came to China
again and lived in
Beijing until her death in 1970.
In her later years, she wrote some
books about China in order to help the people all
over the world understand New China.
Among them are
Why I Came to China at
the Age
of 72
and
Letters from China
.
Anna Louise Strong was our
true friends. Her name will be remembered by the
China
people for ever.
P
10
（
14
）
Joe had a shop. He sold beef in his
shop. One day a woman came into his shop at about
five. “I’m sorry I’m late,” she said,
“I need some more beef for my dinner tonight.”
Joe had only one
pi
ece of beef in his shop. He took it
out of the fridge and said, “This
is
6.50 dollars.”
“That piece
is too small,” the woman said , “Haven’t you got
anything bigger?” Joe
went into the
room behind his shop, put the piece of beef into
the fridge, took it out
again and
closed the door with a loud noise. Then he brought
the piece of the beef to the
woman and
said, “This piece of beef is bigger and more
expensive. It’s 8.75 dollars.”
“Good,” the woman said with a smile,
“Give me both of them, please.”
P
11
（
15
）
Jack had a dog. One day he tied his dog
to a tree by a rope. He put his dish of food on
the
grass. Then he watched his dog out
of his window. He saw the dog take the food. But
all of
a sudden, the dog stopped. He
saw the fox watching the dog eating the food. The
fox
wanted to eat the dog’s food. The
fox came nearer and ran around the tree. The dog
ran
after it. The rope went round the
tree, too. Round and round went the fox. Round and
round went the rope. Soon all the rope
was round the tree. Now think what happened
next.
P3
5
（
49
）
Shumei has many pen-friends around the
world. She likes writing to them and
receiving their letters in return. She
stated writing to her first pen-friend, Thomas
Wright from Britain, when she was ten
years old. They have been writing to each other
for two years now.
Shumei enjoys writing to people from
other counties because she finds it very
interesting to learn more about those
counties and the different things.
She hopes to visit her pen-friends some
day, but she will continue writing to them
and enjoying their friendship.
She will also try to look
for pen-friends from other counties such as Japan,
China
and France.
Shumei
有很多世界各地的笔友。她喜欢写信给他们，喜欢收到他们的回信。当
她
10
岁时，
开始给第一位来自英国的
笔友
Thomas
Wright
写信。他们互相写信至今已有两年了。
Shumei
之所以喜欢写信给外国人，是因为她觉得更多地了解那些国
家和不同的事物是件很
有趣的事情。
她希望有一天去拜访她的笔友，但是她会继续写信给他们，分享他们的友谊。
她也期待着来自外国的笔友，如日本，中国和法国的朋友。
<
/p>
P35
（
50
）
The boss found a boy in the
stock room just standing
around doing
nothing. “How
much do you get paid a
week?” He asked the boy. The boy replied, “Twenty
dollars.”
Taking a twenty dollar bill
out of his wallet, the boss gave it to the boy and
said, “Here,
take this. Now get out of
here and don’t come back.”
As the boy
walked out the door, the
boss said to
the manager, “How long has that lazy kid been
working for us?” “He doesn’t
work for
us,” replied the manager. “He just delivered a
package.”
老板在储藏室里看见一个男孩正站着，无
所事事。他问这个男孩：“你一个星期得到多少
报酬？”。这个男孩回答说：
“
20
美元。”老板从他的钱包里拿出了
20
美元的钞票，给了这男
孩，说：“收好了。
现在，从这里滚出去，不要回来了”。当男孩走出门去，老板对经理说：
“这么懒惰的孩
子为我们工作多长时间了？”
“他不适合为我们工作，”
“经理回答说。
“他
刚才来送包裹的。
P36
（
5
1
）
“Peter has just come back from the
shops,”said Mrs. James. “He wanted t
o
buy
some new football boots, but he
wasn’t able to find any that were right for
him.”
“Were they all the
same?”I asked.
“He said
they showed him different pairs but he didn’t like
any of them.”
“What is Peter
going to do about his boots, then?”I asked.
“Well, the shop told him to
come back the next week. It’s out a big problem
because
he doesn’t need to have them
before the new school term. But he always begins
to get his
things ready early. For
example, he has never been late for
school.”
“My daughter is
different,”I said, “I have to throw her out when
it’s time for
school.”
“彼得刚刚从商店回来，
”
詹姆斯太太说。
“他想买新的足球鞋，
但他没能找到适合他的。
”
“球鞋款式都一样吗？”我问道。
“他说店员给他看了不同的样式，但他都不喜欢。”
“
那么，彼得怎么办呢？
”我问。
“嗯，
店员告诉他下周再来。
这不是个大问题，
因为在新学年开始之前，
他还不需要球鞋
。
但他总是提前做准备工作。比如，他从不迟到。”
“我的女儿就不同了，”我说，“
每到上学时间我都不得不‘扔’她出去
。
”
P37
(52)
The world is filled
with many interesting sounds. Some are unpleasant
to our ears
while others are very
pleasant to hear. In a single day you probably
hear hundreds of
different sounds. All
sounds are different. Some may be loud. Some are
high; others are
low. Some sounds are
useful.
Without sound we
cannot talk or listen to one another. The ringing
of the alarm
clock wakes people up. The
hooting of a car warns people of danger.
Some sounds are harmful.
When planes fly low over the land, the very loud
sounds
can damage the houses. Very loud
sounds can even make people deaf.
We know sound travel about one
kilometer in three seconds. In a thunder storm
you see the lightning first and then
hear the thunder. This is because light travels
much
faster than sound.
Next time you see lightning; count the
number of seconds before you hear the
thunder. Divide this number of seconds
before you hear thunder. Divide this number by 3.
This will tell you how many kilometers
away the thunder storm is.
这个世界充满了许多有趣的声音。对于我们的耳朵而言，有些是不舒适的，有些则是悦耳
动听的。在一天之内你可能听到数以百计的不同声音。所有的声音是不同的。有些可能是响亮
的。有些高的，有些低的。有些声音是有用的。
没有声音
，我们彼此不能听说。闹钟铃声唤醒人们。汽车的啼声警示处于危险状况的人们。
有些声音是有害的。当飞机在陆地上方低空飞行，巨大的声音可能会损坏房屋。巨大的声
音，甚至可以使人耳聋。
我们知道，
3
秒钟里声音传播约
1
公里。在雷雨天你先看到闪电，然后再听到雷声。这是
因为光的速度比声音的速度传播得快的多。
下次
看到闪电，在听到雷声之前，你计算闪电秒数。均分听到雷声之前的秒数，即除以
3
。
这会告诉你多少公里外有雷雨风暴。
P37 (53)
Tommy has a little
dog. Her name is Goldier. She is pretty and
interesting. Tommy
loves her very much.
The other day, Goldier was
out walking with Tommy. She cut her paw on a bit
of
glass. Wh
en they arrived
home, Tommy’s mother thought that the cut was
deep. She
asked Tommy to take Goldier
to the vet. The vet was very kind, and he gave her
an
injection. Then he stitched up the
cut and put on a bandage.
Goldier looks ever so funny as she
walks on three legs, holding her paw as if she has
been to war!
汤米有
一只小狗。它名叫
Goldier
。它可爱而有趣。汤米很喜欢
它。
几天前，
Goldier
跟着汤米外出散步。它的爪子踩到了碎玻璃。当他们回到家里，汤米的母
亲认为它的伤口深。她让汤米带
Goldier
去兽医那儿检
查。兽医非常和气，他给
Goldier
打了
< br>针，然后缝合伤口并缠上绷带。
Goldier
只用三条腿走路，看上去太好笑了，它抬起伤爪子，好像是刚刚去过战场！
P38 (54)
Long ago people
used bells more than they do today. The postman
used to ring a
hand when he delivered
the letters. Fire engines had bells instead of
sirens. People who
sold things came
past houses, ringing a bell and shouting what was
for sale.
Every village had
its church bell to let people know it was time to
go to church. At
night, this bell was
rung so that traveler would find the village in
the dark.
In most counties,
bells were hung around the necks of animals. The
bells helped
owners to find lost cows
or goats. Today, in India, animals still wear
bells.
Now bells are used
less and less. Buzzers, sirens and horns have
taken their place.
Now people try to
keep the old bells in schools and churches so they
will not lose their
beautiful sounds
forever.
从前人们使用铃声比现在使用得更广泛。
邮递员在投递信件的时候使用手打铃。消防车使
用警铃，而不是警报器。卖东西的人来到
老式住宅区，摇响铃声，高喊吆呼卖东西。
每个村庄里使用各
自的教堂钟声告知人们去教堂的时间。晚上，教堂钟声响起，能让旅行
者在黑暗中找到村
庄。
在大多数国家，响铃挂在动物的脖子上。响铃帮助业主寻
找丢失的牛或山羊。今天，在印
度，动物仍然挂着响铃。
现在钟声使用得越来越少。蜂鸣器，警报器及喇叭已占有一席之地，人们尽量在学校和教
堂使用老式钟，那些美丽的钟声将永远不会消失。
P39 (55)
A good breakfast in
important. We can easily underground it. We have
not eaten
anything for about twelve
hours by breakfast time. Our bodies need food for
morning
activities.
One good breakfast should be rice or
bread, an egg, milk and fruit. On cold morning
a cup of hot drink is necessary.
We must get up early to
have plenty of time to eat breakfast. A good
breakfast
helps us to be
more friendly
and also to
work better and play more happily.
一份营养早餐是重要的。我们可以很容易理解。到早餐时间之前我们约
12
个小时没有吃任
何东西了。我们的身体需要补充食物以应对
整个上午的活动。
一份营养早餐应该包括大米，面包，鸡蛋，
牛奶和水果。在寒冷的早晨，一杯热饮品是必
要的。
我们必须早起以便有充足的时间吃早餐。一份营养早餐有助于我们更加友善，也有助于我
们将工作做得更好，玩得更快乐。
P40
(56)
In Britain every town has a public
library and there are branch libraries in many
villages. Anyone may borrow books, and
it costs nothing to borrow them. In some places
you may borrow as many books as you
want, but in others you are limited to a certain
number of books for several weeks so
that you can have enough time to finish all the
books you’ve borrowed.
The latest novels are always in great
need, and non-fiction books, such as books on
history, science and gardening, are
well-loved, too.
If the
books you need are out, you may ask for them to be
kept for you when they
are returned,
and if you pay the cost of sending a postcard, the
librarian will let you know
when the
books are back and are ready for you.
Most public libraries also have a
reading-room there are tables and desks at which
you can sit and read the daily
newspapers and all the other important periodicals
(the
weeklies, the monthlies and the
quarterlies). In the reference library there are
encyclopedias, dictionaries, books of
maps and other useful books. But you can only use
these books there. You cannot take them
out.
在英国，每个乡镇都有公共图书馆，很多乡村有分
馆。任何人都可以借阅图书且无需费用。
在一些地方，你想借多少本书籍就可以借多少本
，
但在别处，你几个星期内借阅一定数量的图
书是受限制的，<
/p>
这样你有足够的时间来完成你借的所有书籍。
最新小说总有很强的借阅需求，非小说类书籍，如历史，科学和园艺书籍，也深受喜爱。
如果你需要借阅的书籍已借出了，你可以要求他们当该书归还时为你保留，如
果你付费发
送明信片，图书管理员将告知你书籍什么时候归还的，并为你备妥。
大多数公共图书馆都有一个阅读室，那里有
[tables
and
？
desks]
桌子和椅子，
你可以坐
下来阅读报纸和所有其他重要期刊（周刊，月刊和季刊）。在图书馆的参考室里
，有百科全书，
字典，地图册和其他有用的书籍。但你只可以在那里使用这些书籍。你不
能外借。
P42 (57)
Every morning Mike goes to work by
train. As he has a long trip, he always buys a
newspaper. It helps to make the time
pass more quickly.
One
Tuesday morning, he turned to the sports page. He
wanted to read the report
about an
important football match. The report was so
interesting that he forgot to get
off
at his station. He didn’t know it until he saw the
sea. He got off at the next station,
and had to wait a long time for a train
to go back. Of course, he got to the office very
late. His boss was very angry.
每天早晨，
Mike
坐火车去上班。由于路程漫长，他总是买张报纸。这有助于快速消磨时间。
<
/p>
一个星期二的早上，他翻到了体育版。他想阅读有关一场重要的足球比赛的报道。该报道<
/p>
非常有趣，他到站忘记下车了。直到看到了大海，他才知道过站了。他在下一站下了车，不
得
不等待很长时间坐车返回。当然，他很晚才到办公室。他的老板非常生气。
P43 (58)
Molly was
the only little girl on her street, but when she
was eight years old,
another girl came
to live in the house opposite hers. The new girl
was eight years old too,
and her name
was Joan. Joan had two brothers. She didn't go to
the same school as Molly,
but they soon
began to play together after school.
One day Joan came home, had her
m
ilk and cookies, and then went to
Molly’s house.
She said to her friend,
“Hi Molly, will you come to my house to play? I’ve
got a nice new
game. ”Molly answered,
“I’ve sorry, Joan, but my mother won’t let me play
with you today,
because your brother
George
has a bad cold, and she doesn't
want me to get it, too.”
“Oh, that’s all right, Molly,” Joan
answered quickly. “George isn’t really my brother.
He’s my
step-
brother.
”
[
step-
brother
继父或者继母的儿子
]
Molly
是她街区里唯一的小女孩，但是当她
8
岁时，另一名女孩搬来了，就住在她家对面。
新来的
女孩也是
8
岁，
她的名字叫
Joan
。
Joan
有两
个兄弟。
她没有在
Molly
的同一所
学校上学，
但在放学后，他们很快就开始一起玩了。
有一天，
Joan
回到家里，吃完牛奶和饼干，
然后前往
Molly
的家。她对她的朋友说，
< br>“嗨，
Molly
，你来我家玩吗？我有一个好玩的新游
戏。”
Molly
回答，
“对不起，
Joan
，今天我的母
亲不让我跟你玩
了，因为你的兄弟
George
得了重感冒，她不想让我也得重
感冒。”
“哦，没事，
Molly<
/p>
，”
Joan
很快回答。
“
George
不是我的嫡亲兄弟。他是我的非亲兄
弟
。”
P44
（
59
）
“Daddy, can
I learn to play the violin?” young Sarah asked her
father. She was
always asking for
things and her father was not pleased. “You cost
me a lot of money,
Sarah,” he said.
“First you wanted to learn horse riding, then
dancing, then swimming. Now
it’s
violin.” “I’ll play it every day, Daddy,” Sarah
said. “I’ll try very hard.” “All right,” her
father said. “This is what I’ll pay for
you to have lessons for six weeks. At the end of
six
weeks you must play something for
me. If you play well, you can have more lessons.
If you
play badly, I will stop the
lessons.” “OK, Daddy,” Sarah said. “This is
fair.”
He soon found a good
violin teacher and Sarah began her lessons. The
teacher was
very expensive, but her
father kept his promise.
Six weeks
passed quickly. The time came for Sarah to play
for her father. She
went to the living
room and said, “I’m ready to play for you, Daddy.”
“Fine, Sarah,” her
father said.
“Begin.” She began to play. She played very badly.
She made a terrible noise.
Her father
had one of his friends with him, and his friend
put his hands over his ears.
When Sarah
finished, her father said, “Well done, Sarah. You
can have more
lessons.” Sarah ran
happily out of the room. Her father’s friend
turned to him. “You’ve
spent a lot of
money, but she still plays
very badly,”
he said. “Well, that’s true,” her
father said. “But since she started
learning the violin I’ve been able to buy five
flats in
this building very cheaply. In
another six weeks I’ll own the whole
building!”
“爸爸，我可以学习拉小提琴吗？”小
Sarah
问她的父亲。她总是要这要那的，她的父亲
很不高兴。
“
Sar
ah
，你让我花费很多钱了，”他说。“一开始，你想学骑马，然后想学跳舞，
然后想学游泳。现在又想学小提琴。”“爸爸，我会每天都练习的，”
S
arah
说。“我会尽最大
的努力。”“好吧，”她的父亲说。
“我将为你支付
6
周课程的意思是：到
6
周末，你必须拉
给我听听。如果你拉得好，你可以上后面的课
程。如果你拉得不好，我将停止后面的课程。”
“行，爸爸，”
Sarah
说。“这是公平的。”
他
很快找到了很好的小提琴教师，
Sarah
就开始了她的课程。
学费很昂贵，
但她的父亲信守
自己的承
诺。
六个星期很快就过去了。
Sa
rah
向她父亲汇报的时间来到了。她走到客厅，说：
“爸爸，
我
准备好了。”“好吧，
Sarah
，
”她的父亲说。“开始吧。”她开始拉琴。她拉得非常糟糕。她
拉出了一种极难听的声响
。她父亲的一个朋友也在，他的朋友把双手捂着耳朵。
当
Sarah
拉完后，她的父亲说：“干得好，
Sarah
。你可以上后面的课程。”
Sarah
高兴地
跑出了房间。她父亲的朋友转过来，面对他说：“你花了那么多钱，
她还是拉得那么糟糕，”
“嗯，就是这样子，”她的父亲说。“但自从她开始学习小提琴
，我已经在这座大楼里非常便
宜地购买了
5
个单位。再过
6
个星期，我将拥有整座大楼！”
P46
（
60
）
When Mary was
fourteen, her mother gave her a beautiful ring. It
was a birthday
present, and Mary was
very pleased. But a week later, she was very sad,
because when she
was working in the
kitchen,
she lost the ring. She looked
everywhere, but she couldn’t
find it.
She even looked in the drain outside the kitchen,
but the ring was not there.
That evening her brother Tom was eating
some cakes. “Who made these cakes?” he
said. “They are excellent.”
“I
made them,”
Mary said. She was pleased that her brother liked
them. Mary liked
cooking very much.
“Are there any …?” tom
started to ask. Then he stopped suddenly. He
opened his
mouth and took a ring out.
“Where did this come from?” he asked. “This is a
s
trange type
of cake!”
Mary was pleased. “My
ring!” she said. She took it to the kitchen. She
washed it and
then went back and
thanked her brother.
“I’m
sorry you had a surprise,” she said, “but thank
you very much for finding my
ring. I’ll
cook some more
cakes for you
tomorrow as a reward.”
Mary
14
岁时，她的母亲给了她一个漂亮的戒指。这是一个生日礼物
，
Mary
感到非常高兴。
但一个星期
之后，她很伤心，因为当她在厨房里工作时，她丢失去了戒指。她到处都找遍了，
但她无
法找到它。她甚至查看了厨房外的排水管道，但是戒指不在那儿。
< br>那天晚上，她的兄弟
Tom
正在吃蛋糕。“这些蛋糕是谁
做的？”他说，“太棒啦。”
“我做的，”
Mary
说。她感到高
兴的是她的哥哥喜欢这些蛋糕。
Mary
很喜欢烹饪。
“什么啊
...
？
”
Tom
开始问。他突然停了。他张开他的嘴，取出了戒指。<
/p>
“这是从哪里来
的？”他问。
“这是一个奇异的蛋糕！”
Mary
很高兴。
< br>“我的戒指！”她说。她拿着戒指进了厨房。她清洗一下，然后回来并向她
的兄弟
表示感谢。
“对不起，让你受惊了，”她说，“但是非常谢
谢你帮我找到了戒指。为了表示感谢，明
天我将为你多做一些蛋糕。”
< br>
P47
（
61
）
Tom is a little
boy, and he is only seven years old. One day he
went to the cinema. It is
the first
time for him to do that. He bought a ticket and
then went in. but after two or
three
minutes he came out, bought a second ticket and
went in again. After a few minutes
he
came out and bought a third ticket. Two or three
minutes later he came out and asked
for
another ticket. Then the girl
in the
ticket office asked him, “Why do you buy so many
tickets? How many friends do you meet?”
tom answered, “No, I have no friend here. But a
big boy always stops me at the door and
tears my ticket to pieces.”
Tom
是一个小男孩，
他只有
7
岁。
有一天，
他到戏院看戏。
这是他第一次去看戏。
他买了票，
然后走了进去，但是
过了两，三分钟，他出来了，买了第二张票，再次进去。几分钟后他出来
买了第三张票。
两，三分钟后，他又走了出来，重新要买票。于是，售票处里的女孩问他：
“你
为什么买这么多票？你遇见了多少朋友？”
汤姆回答说：
“不，
这里没有我朋友。
但
是在门口，
一个大男孩总是挡住我，把我的票撕成碎片。”
<
/p>
P48
（
62
）
A detective is a policeman
but doesn’t wear a uniform. He wor
ks in
his ordinary
clothes. If he wears a
uniform, robbers will know that he is a policeman.
Then they will
avoid him.
To detect means to “find out”. A
detective finds out who does bad things. He can
sit in a coffee-shop with other people.
He can listen to people talking. Some thieves
come,
the policemen will catch them.
A detective can go to a
football match. He can watch for pick-pockets are
people
who steal things from other
people’s pockets.
A
detective must be clever, honest and brave. He
works hard and helps to protect
us.
侦探是一名警察，但不穿制服。他穿便服工作。如果他穿着制
服，匪徒会知道他是一名警
察。然后，他们就会避开他。
<
/p>
做侦探意味着“发现”。侦探发现谁做了坏事。他可以与其他人一样坐在咖啡馆里。他可<
/p>
以听人说话。小偷出现了，侦探将抓住他们。
侦探可以到足球比赛场。他可以监视从别人口袋里窃取财物的扒手们。
侦探必须聪明，诚实和勇敢。他努力工作，保护着我们。
P49 (63)
Dong Jianhua was
born in Shanghai in 1937. His father was Dong
Haoyun, the king
of the ship in Hong
Kong. Dong Jianhua was his elder son.
In 1949, he came to Hong Kong with his
father. At the age of thirteen, he studied
in Zhonghua Middle School. In 1954, he
went to England to study the mechanical
engineering. Five years later, he
received a Bachelor of Science in Liverpool
University.
Later he went to America
and he worked in the General Electrical Company in
America.
There he had
stayed for ten years. He returned to Hong Kong
again in 1969. In
Hong Kong, he helped
his father do business in shipping and opened an
airline from Hong
Kong to Europe and
America. He never stressed the food or clothing.
In his spare time, he
likes reading
newspapers and studying Chinese history. He also
likes sports.
On December 11, 1996,
Dong Jianhua was elected the first senior office
of Hong
Kong. He took office on July 1,
1997.
1937
年董建华在上海出生。他的父亲董好运，
是香港的船王。董建华是他的大儿子。
1949
年，他随父亲来到香港。
13
岁时，他在中华中学读
书。
1954
年，他到英国学习机械
工程。
五年后，
他获得英国利物浦大学的理科学士学位。
此后，
他到美国，
在美国
GE
公司工作。
他在那里呆了十
年。他在
1969
年回到香港。在香港，他帮助父亲做航运业务
，开辟香港至
欧美航线。他从来不讲究吃穿。在业余时间，他喜欢阅读报纸和学习中国历
史。他还喜欢运动。
在
1996<
/p>
年
12
月
11<
/p>
日
，董建华当选为第一任香港特首。他
于
1997
年
7
月
1
日
就任。
P51
(64
）
The
classroom was very quiet. Twenty-four girls were
having a history lesson.
They
had books open in front of them on
their desks,
and their teacher was
talking to them.
The school
was in Poland. The time was 1877. At that time
much of Poland was a
part of Russia.
Children could not learn the history of their own
country in school or even
use their own
language. But the teacher was still teaching
Polish history in Polish.
Suddenly the bell rang. Two long rings,
two short rings. The girls knew what that
meant. Quick hands closed all the
Polish books. Four girls ran up and down the
classroom
and picked them up, and then
they ran out through a door with the books. The
girls
quickly took some sewing from
their desks and the teacher got out a Russian
book. Just
then a Russian official came
in, and asked the teacher, “What are you reading
to the
class?” the teacher said,
“Russian stories.” “Now,” he said, “I’d like to
ask one of you some
questions.” “Manya,
please stand up,” the teacher ordered quietly. A
l
ittle girl stood up.
After
Manya answered all his questions, the Russian
official walked out of the classroom.
The little girl Manya became Madame
Curie, the great woman scientist.
教室里非常安静。
24
个女孩正在上
历史课。
在他们面前的课桌上他们打开着书，
他们的老
师在讲课。
学校在波兰。当时是
1877
年，波兰的许多地方已沦为俄国的一部分了。在学校里，孩子不<
/p>
能学习自己国家的历史，甚至不能使用自己的母语。但老师仍然用波兰语讲授波兰历史。<
/p>
突然间铃响了。两声长铃，两声短铃。女孩们知道这意味着什
么。双手快速合上所有的波
兰书本。四个女孩在教室里跑前跑后，收起书本，然后她们拿
着书本从另一扇门跑出去。其他
女孩们很快从课桌里取出针线物品，老师很快取出一本俄
语书。就在这时，一名俄国官员走了
进来，问老师，“你在上什么课？”老师回答，“俄
国的故事。”“现在，”他说，“我想问
问你们其中的一些问题。”
“
Manya
，请起立，”老师悄悄地下令。一个小女孩站
了起来。
Manya
回答俄国官员的所有问题后，俄国官员离开
了教室。
小女孩
Manya
成为居里
夫人，伟大的女科学家。
P52
(65)
Mr. Mill arrived at London Airport
at the end of a three week holiday in France. He
was a man with a beard. Since it was
hot there, he took off the beard. But his passport
photo showed him with his beard.
An office looked at the
photo and him for a moment, and said, “Will you
excuse me?
Please sit dawn. I shan’t
keep you long.” with this, he walked away, showed
the p
hoto to a
second
officer and said, “Do you know that face?” the
second officer looked at the
passport
and asked where Mr. Mill had come from. When he
heard that Mr. Mill had just
arrived
back from Pairs, the second officer smiled and
said, “An Englishman w
ith a beard
stole a painting in Pairs on Friday.
And that man looks just like the kind of
man…”
Suddenly, it came to
the first officer who Mr. Mill was. He returned to
him and
asked, “Did you teach at the
No.2 Middle School?” when Mr. Mill answered in
surp
rise
that he did, the
first officer smiled and said, “I though so. I’m
Jack Smith. You taught
me French. You
haven’t changed a bit.”
Mil
l
先生结束在法国为期三周的假期后抵达伦敦机场。他是一个长大胡子的人。由于那里<
/p>
天气炎热，他刮光了胡子。但他的护照照片显示他长大胡子。
一个工作人员一会儿看看他，一会儿看看照片，说：“请原谅，我走开一下。您请坐下，
不会让您久等。”于是，他走开了，把照片给另一个工作人员看，并说：“你辨认得出那
张脸
吗？”
那个工作人员看着护照，
并问
Mill
先生从哪来。当那个工作人员听到
Mill
先生刚刚从
巴黎过来时，他笑着说，“上周五
在巴黎，一个长大胡子的英国人偷走了一幅画。而这名男子
看起来就像那种人??”
突然，第一个工作人员走向
Mill<
/p>
先生。他回到他身旁，问：“你在第二中学教书吗？”就
在
Mill
先生惊讶地回答他是的时侯，
第一个
工作人员微笑着说，
“我想是这样。
我是
Jack
Smith
。
你教我法语
。你没有丝毫变化。”
P54
(66
）
A taxi hit a
truck. A policeman spoke to the taxi driver and to
the truck driver. He
also spoke to Tom.
He was a witness.
This is
what they said.
Truck
driver:
I was driving from the airport
toward Newton. A car crossed the
road,
so I slowed down. I did not stop. A taxi hit the
back of the truck. Nobody was
seriously
injured but both cars were damaged.
Car driver:
I was
driving behind a truck several miles from
Newton
. The truck
stopped
suddenly. The driver did not give me a warning. I
was driving very slowly. I could
not
pass the truck because there were two cars coming
near from Newton. My taxi hit
the
truck, and some glass cut my left hand.
Tom:
I was watching the
traffic about a mile from the airport. A truck was
going
to Newton. It was not going very
quickly. There was a taxi about two hundred feet
behind
the truck. It was going fast.
When the truck slowed down, the taxi hit it. The
taxi driver
was not looking at the
truck. He was looking out of the window at
something. My friend
saw the accident,
too.
Later, Tom’s friend
spoke to the policeman and agreed with Tom.
一辆出租车撞上一辆卡车。
一名警察
向出租车司机和卡车司机询问情况。
他也问了
Tom
。
他
是个目击者。
下面是他们证词。
卡车司机
：我正从机场向
Newton
道行驶。一辆小
轿车横穿马路，所以我放慢车速。我没刹
车。出租车追尾卡车。没有人受重伤，但两辆车
撞坏了。
出租车司机
：
我在卡车后面约有几英里驶向牛顿道。
卡车突然刹车。卡车司机没有给我一
个警示。我行驶得非常慢。我没能超卡车，是因为有两辆车从
N
ewton
道驶来。我的出租车撞上
了卡车，一些碎玻璃割伤了
我的左手。
Tom
:
我看到了距离机场约一英里的交通事故。一辆卡车驶向
Newton
道。卡车没有行驶得很
快。有一辆出租车在卡车后面约二百英尺。出租车
开得飞快。当卡车放慢了车速，出租车就撞
了上去。出租车司机当时没注意到卡车减速。
他正朝着窗外东张西望。我的朋友也目睹了意外
发生。
接着，
Tom
的朋友向警察提供了赞同
Tom
的证词。
初中英语阅读
300
篇基础卷
p56-p80
P56
（
1
）
American
schools begin in September after a long summer:
There are two terms in
a school year.
The first term is from September to January, and
the second is from
February to June.
Most American children begin to go to school then
they finish high
school.
High school students take only 4 or 5
subjects each term. They usually go to the
same classes, and they have homework
for every class. After class they do many
interesting things.
After high school, many students go to
college. They can go to a small one
or
a large
one.
They usually have to pay a lot of money. So many
college students work after class to
get money for their studies.
长夏过后美国学校在
9
月开学：每一学年有两个学期。第一学期是从
9
月至
来年
1
月，第
二学期是从
2
月到
6
月。大多数美国儿
童从小上学，直至他们完成高中学业。
每学期高中学生只需要
学
4
或
5
种科
目。他们通常一起上大课，也有每课的功课。下了课
他们参加多种兴趣活动。
高中毕业后，很多学生进入大学。
他们可以上小
型学院或者大型学院
。他们通常要支付很
多学费。因此，许多大
学生课余勤工俭学。
P56
（
2
）
When you are reading something in
English.
You may often meet
a new word. What’s
the best the best
way to know it?
You may look it up in
the English-Chinese dictionary. It will tell you
something about
the word: the
pronunciation,
the part of
speech,
the Chinese meaning and also
how to use
this word. But how can you
know where the word is in thousands of English
words? How to
find it in a dictionary
quickly?
First, all the English words
are in the alphabetical order. In the dictionary
you can
first see the words beginning
with the letter A then B, C, D, E… That
means, if there are
two words “do” and
“put”, “do” will be certainly before “put”, Then
if there are two words
both beginning
with the same letter, you may look at the second
letter. Then the third,
the forth… for
example, “pat” is before “picture”, “bald” before
“balloon.”
Do you understand
how to look up a word in a dictionary?
The dictionary will be your good
friend, I hope you’ll use it as often as possible
in
your English learning.
当你
在看英文读物时。你可能会经常碰到生词。认生词的最佳方法是什么呢？
你可以查英汉词典。词典会告诉你这个词的内容：语音，
一部分引语
，中文意义，以及如
何使用这个词。但是你如何在成千上万的英语单词中
查找这个词呢？如何快速在词典中找到它
呢？
首先，所有的英文单词按字母顺序排列。在词典中，您可以先看到以字母
A
开头的单词，
然后是
B, C, D, E
...
这意味着，如果有两个单词“
do
”和“
put
”，
“
do
”将肯定在“
put
”之
前，
如果有两个单词都以相同的字母开头，你可以看第二个字母。依此类推，看第三个，
看第四个
......
例如，“
pat
”在“
pi
cture
”之前，“
bald
”在“
balloon
”之前。
你理解怎样查词典了吗？
词典将是你
的好朋友，我希望你在英语学习中尽量经常翻翻词典。
P57
（
3
）
What are middle school
students thinking about these days? It’s a word
that
starts with “s”. Sunshine,
swimming, sports… summer, Yes, that’s it, summer,
with
sunshine, swimming and sports!
Of course, you can try to make this
summer a little bit special. It’s not difficult.
There are usually a couple of things
that you’re been thinking about doing for a long
time,
but haven’t done yet. When the
summer comes, it’s t
ime to do them! For
example, you can
join spend sports
team, go to a park, fly a kite, lie in the grass,
or just spend some time
with friends.
Summer is a great time to
relax and it can also be a great time to have fun
and to
learn! You can go to a botanical
garden and get to know 5 or 6 different plants or
flowers.
If you have planned for a
summer trip with your family, it will be exciting
to write down
the details of your trip
along with your photos. And it you prefer to stay
indoors, you can
learn to make some
easy crafts, such as paper cups, brown paper bags,
or cool cards. You
can make some
birthday gifts to give on your friends’
birthday!
It’s hard to
say
what is the best way to spend the
summer, just do something new
that you
haven't done before.
现今什么是中学生所想的？有一个以“<
/p>
s
”开头的词语。阳光，游泳，运动
..
.
夏天，是的，
就是这样，夏天，充满阳光，尽情游泳和运动！
当然，你可以尝试使这个夏天特别
一点。这并不困难。通常有一两件事是你一直想做，但
没做的。夏天来临，正是做它们的
时候！例如，你可以参加运动队，去公园，放风筝，躺在草
地上，或者只与朋友一起共度
。
夏天是一个休闲的好时光，也是
一个娱乐和学习的好时光！你可以到植物园，了解
5
，
6
种
不同的植物或花卉。如果你计划与你的家人
一起夏季旅行，用照片记录一些你们的旅行细节，
这将是令人兴奋的。如果你喜欢留在家
里，你可以学做一些简易工艺品，比如，纸杯，牛皮纸
袋，或者酷酷的卡片。你还可以给
你朋友做一些生日礼物！
很难说什
么是度过夏天的最好方式，只要做一些你以前没做过的新鲜事就行。
P58
（
4
）
There would be
a school party on Friday evening. The girls were
talking about what
they were going to
wear.
“I’m going to wear a
black dress, so everybody will notice me,” said
Emily. “
How
about you,
Linda?”
“I’m not
sure.
May be jeans, an old skirt, and a
hat.
People will notice me more than
you!” Linda said.
“What are we going to do about the
boys?” asked Jane. “Do you remember the last
school party last ye
ar? They
just stood there, and we girls had to by
ourselves!”
“I heard that
some of the boys learned how to dance better this
summer. Maybe
it’ll be better this
time,” said Mary.
The party
was held in Friday evening. Groups of students
arrived. The music began.
The girls
stood in a line in one side, and to boys in
another side. Mr. Green, their teacher,
tried to get them together, but failed.
After a while Tim said, “I don’t want to stand
here
the whole time. The party is only
for two hours. It’ll be over soon.” He started to
dance.
All the others watched him. Then
David asked Emily if she wanted to dance.
Then Jack
and
Linda.
Then, all began to dance. Soon
there were more dancers then watchers.
星期五晚上将举行一次校园聚会。姑娘们都在谈论她们准备穿些什么。
< br>
“我会穿黑色礼服，这样大家会注意我，”埃米莉说，
“琳达，你会穿什么？”
“我不清楚
。可能是牛仔裤，旧裙子，一顶帽子。与你相比，人们会更注意我！”琳达说。
“说起男生，我们到底要做些什么？”简问。
“你记得去年校园聚会吗？他们只是站在那
里，我们女生不得不自娱自乐！”<
/p>
玛丽说：“我听说，今年夏天男生中的一些人学习了如何更好地
跳舞。也许这次情况将会
好一点。”
聚会在星期五晚上举行。学生们成群结队而来。音乐响起。女生们站在线的一边，男生站
在线的的另一边。他们的老师，格林先生，试图让他们站在一起，但没有成功。过了一会
，蒂
姆说：“我可不想全部时间里只站在这里。聚会仅仅两个小时。它会很快结束的。<
/p>
“他开始跳
舞。所有的人看着他。接着
，大卫邀请埃米莉是否愿意一起跳舞。然后，杰克和琳达。然后，
都开始跳舞。不久，起
舞者比站观者多了。
P60
（
5
）
At the end of a busy week, I was
anxious because I didn’t have a “how to” speech
for my class.
My ride home
was leaving immediately after the
class
, and I hadn’t packed
yet. Then I thought of a solution for
both problems.
Rushing back
to my room, I threw everything I needed into my
traveling bag and
ran to class
hurriedly. When I was asked to speak, I carried my
bag to the front of the
room and put it
on the table. All the disorderly things in the bag
went out suddenly.
“This is
not the way to pack a bag,” I said. I then
explained the right way to pack
clothing and books, showing clearly as
I went along. By the time my speech was finished,
my traveling bag was packed. I received
an “A” for my speech and didn’t miss my ride
home.
在一个繁忙的周末，我
因为没有准备好题为“如何”的课上发言而发愁。我回家的班车会
在课后很快离站的，可
我还没有整理完毕。稍顷，我想出了这两个问题的解决方案。
我赶回寝室，我把所需的东西统统塞进旅行包，而后匆匆跑去上课。轮到我发言了，我提
着旅行包来到教室前方，再把包放在桌上。包里所有未整理的东西一下子都“跑”了出来。
“这不是收拾行李包的方法，”我说。然后我解释了收拾衣物和书籍的正确的方式，
同时
我清晰地演示操作。到我发言完毕时，我的旅行包也整理完毕。我的发言得了一个“
A
”级分，
并且没有耽误搭车回家。<
/p>
P61
（<
/p>
6
）
Many
people go to school for me education. They learn
languages, history, politics,
geography, physics, chemistry and
mathematics. Others go to school to learn skills
in
order to make a living. School
education is very important and useful. Yet, no
one can learn
everything from school. A
teacher, no matter how much he knows, can not
teach his
students everything they want
to know. The t
eacher’s job is to show
his students how to
learn. He teaches
them how to read and how to think. So, much more
is to be learned
outside school by the
students themselves.
It is
always more important to know how to study by
oneself than to remember
some facts or
a formula. It is actually quite easy to learn a
certain fact in history or a
formula in
mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a
formula in working out a math
problem.
Great scientists before us didn’t get everything
from school. Their teacher
s
only showed them the way. Edison didn’t
even finish primary school. But they were all so
successful. He invented so many things
for human being. The reason for their success is
that they know how to study. They read
books that were not taught at school. They would
ask many questions as they read. They
did thousands of experiments. They worked hard
all their lives, wasting not a single
moment. Most important is that they knew how to
use
their train.
很多人去学校接受教育。他们学习语文，历史，政治，地理，物理，化学和数学。也有部
分人去学校学习技能，以便谋生。学校教育是非常重要的，非常实用的。然而，人不可能从学
< br>校学到每样东西。一位老师，无论他知道多少知识，都不可能讲授给学生们所想知道的每样东
西。教师的工作是给学生讲授如何学习。他讲授如何阅读和如何思考。所以，更多的是由学生
自己在校外学习。
知道如何通过自己的研习，
比起死记一些事例或公式总是更重要的。其实学习一个历史事
件或某一个数学公式很容易
。不过运用一个数学公式解答数学问题却是非常困难的。我们面前
的科学伟人并不是从学
校里学到一切的。他们的老师仅仅给他们讲授读书方法。
爱迪
生甚至没有念完小学。但他们都非常成功。他为人类发明了这么多事情的人。他们获
得成
功的原因是他们知道如何去学习。他们读了不止在学校学到的书籍。他们在阅读的同时还
会提出许多问题。他们做过数以千计的实验。他们辛劳一生，没有浪费过一分一秒。最重要的
是他们知道如何使用自己的经验。
P63
（
7
）
“Cool” is a word with many meanings.
Its old meaning is used to describe a
temperature that is a little bit cold.
As the world has c
hanged, the world
“cool” has had
many different meanings.
“Cool” can be used to describe feelings
of interest in almost anything. When you see a
famous car in the street, maybe you
will say, “It’s cool.” you may think, “He’s so
cool”,
when you see your favorite
footballer.
What's more,
you can use “cool” instead of many words such as
“new” or “surprising”.
Here’s an
interesting story to show the way the word is
used. A teacher asked her
students to
write about the waterfall they had visited. On one
student
’s paper was just
one
sentence, “It’s so cool.” maybe he thought it was
the best way to show what he saw
and
felt.
But in fact, many
other words can make your life as colorful as the
word “cool”. And I
think they are also
very cool, too.
“酷”是一个多义词。本
义是用来形容一个有点冷的温度。由于时代的发展变化，世间的
“酷”已经有许多不同的
含义。
“酷”，可以用来描述对几乎所有的东西感兴趣的感觉
。当你在街上看到一辆名车时，也
许你会说，“这很酷。”，当你看到你喜欢的足球运动
员时，你可能认为“他太酷了”。
更重要的是，你可以使用“
酷”代替许多词语，如“新”或“令人惊讶”。这里有一个有
趣的故事，以显示该单词的
使用方式。老师要求学生们就观赏过的瀑布作文。在一个学生的作
文里只有一句话，“这
太酷了。”也许他觉得这是最好的方式来展示他所看到和感受到的。
< br>但事实上，
很多其他词汇也能描述你的生活如同“酷”字一样的丰富多彩
。而且我认为他
们也非常酷。
P64
（
8
）
Mr. Jenkins is
fifty years old. He’s taught math in a middle
school for twenty
-six
years.
He works hard and always comes to his office on
time. He hopes his students will
be
honest and he is strict with them. Some of his
students have become to him. Of course
the man is proud of them.
This term he began to teach Grade One.
Some of the new students were told about
him, but the others didn’t know about
him. On the first day of school he told the
students
how to be an hones
t
person. He gave them some examples and said, “I
don’t like telling a
lie.” Before class
was over, he told all his students to finish
Exercise 8 in Lesson 1.
The
next morning, as soon as he came into the
classroom, he asked, “Who’s finished
Exercise 8 in
Lesson
1.”
The students had a look
at their workbooks and their faces turned red at
once.
詹金斯先生
50
岁。他在中学执教数学
26
年了。他工作努力
，总是准时上班。他希望他的
学生们诚实守信并对他们严格要求。他的学生有的已成为他
那样。当然，他为此感到骄傲。
这个学期，他开始教一年级。
一些新生听说过他，但其余的都不认识他。在开学第一天，
他告诉学生如何做一个诚实守
信的人。他给他们举了一些例子，说：“我不喜欢说谎的。”下
课之前，他布置全体学生
完成第
1
课练习
8
。
第二天早晨，他一走进教室就问：“谁完成了第
1
课练习
8
。”
学生们看了看他们的作业簿，他们的脸一下子变红了。
P65
（
9
）
Do you know how to play a game called
“Musical Chairs”? It is easy to play and most
people and some way of making music.
You may use a piano or any other musical
instrument, if someone can play it. You
may use a tape-recorder. You can even use a radio.
Put the chairs in a row.
The chairs may be put in twos, back to back. A
better way is
to have the chairs in one
row with each chair facing in the opposite
direction to the chair
next to it.
The game is easy. When the
music starts, the players walk round the chairs.
Every
one goes in the same direction,
of course. They should walk in time to the music.
If the
music is fast they should walk
quickly. If the music is slow, they should walk
slowly.
The person playing
music cannot see the people in the game. When the
music stops,
the players try to sit on
the chairs. If a person cannot find a chair to sit
on, he drops out.
Then, before the
music stops again, one more player will be out.
At last, there will be two
players and one chair! The one who sits on the
chair when
the music when the music
stops is the winner.
你知道如何玩
耍名叫“音乐椅”的游戏吗？这是很容易玩的，大多数人游戏及小部分人播
放音乐。如果
有人会弹奏，可以使用一架钢琴或任何其他乐器。你也可以使用一个录音机。你
甚至可以
使用收音机。
把椅子排成一排。椅子需背对背成双摆放。一个
更好的办法是把椅子面对面一把挨一把地
摆放成一行。
这个游戏是容易玩的。当音乐开始，游戏者轮着椅子转圈。每个人按同一个方向走，当然，
他们应该跟着音乐走。如果音乐节奏快，他们应该快走。如果音乐节奏慢，他们应该慢慢走。
播放音乐的人不可以看到游戏中的人。当音乐停止时，游戏者
设法坐在椅子上。如果有人
不能找到椅子坐下，他就出局了。然后，在音乐停止之前，会
有更多的游戏者出局。
最后，将有两名游戏者，一把椅子！当
音乐停止时，一个坐到椅子上的人就是赢家。
P66
（
10
）
Chinese children are very
obedient. In China, children are taught to obey
and
respect their parents, teachers and
elders. But children is Western counties do not
obey
every time.
Most parents and teachers in the West
expect some bad behavior in children. They
expect to see it in teenagers as they
are becoming adults.
In
China students stand respectfully when they answer
questions from the
teacher.
In the West they don’t
stand and often several answer the
teacher’s questions
at the same time.
This sometimes makes the classroom noisy and hard
to control. But
students in these
classrooms can also have good talks about
interesting ideas. Not all the
ideas
come from the teacher.
Is
it good to be an obedient child at all times? Do
you sometimes feel that your
parents
are being unfair when they ask you to do
something? Perhaps the answer is
somewhere between the two days-the
Western way and the Chinese way. If you disagree
sometimes, it might be a good way to
speak out your ideas politely. That was your
parents
or teachers can listen and
perhaps learn to see your point of view. So you
can disagree
sometimes as long as you
do so politely and with respect.
中国孩子很听话。在中国，儿童被教导要服从和尊重他们的父母，老师和长辈。但是西方< p>
国家的儿童不都是这样。
在西方大多数家长和老
师期望发现孩子们的一些不良行为，他们希望在青少年阶段发现这
些，因为孩子们正在成
长为成年人。
在中国，当老师提问时，学生需恭敬地站着回答
。在西方，学生不必站着，往往会在同时
有几个人回答老师的提问。有时候这样会使课堂
嘈杂和难以控制。但是，在这些教室里的学生
可以对感兴趣的想法作活跃的讨论。并非所
有的观点都来自于老师。
在任何时候都听话的孩子是一个好孩
子吗？当你父母要求你做某事，有时候你会感觉到他
们的要求不太公平吗？也许答案是介
于上述两种，中国式和西方式。如果有时候你不同意，有
礼貌地说出你的想法可能是一个
好的方式。这样，你的父母或老师听过后，也许能采纳你的观
点。因此，只要你这样，有
礼貌地和尊重地行事，有时候你可以持不同意见。
P68
（
11
）
Jack went to school to study
history. But when he finished his first year, he
didn’t
pass the exam and the teacher
said to him, “You have to leave
school.”
When the boy’s
father heard the news, he was worried. He came to
the school to see
the teacher. He found
the teacher in the office and asked the teacher to
let Jack study
in school the next year.
“He is a good boy. He
always does well in history.” said Jack’s father,
“He will do
better next year and pass
the exam.”
“No, no, that is
not right!” answered the teacher, “Last month I
asked him, 'When did
Napoleon die?’ and
he didn’t know.”
“Please
sir, give him another chance,” said Jack’s father,
“You know we don’t have any
newspapers
in our house, so nobody on our family knew that
Napoleon was ill.”
杰克去学校学习历史
。但是，当他学完了第一年，他没有通过考试，老师对他说：“你必
须退学。”
当男孩的父亲听到这个消息，他担心起来。
他来到学校见老师。他在办公室里见到了老师，
并请求老师让杰克明年能在学校学习。<
/p>
“他是一个好孩子。他学历史一直很
认真。”杰克的父亲说，“明年他会更努力，并通过
考试。“
“不，不，不是这样！”老师回答说：“上个月，我问他，<
/p>
'
拿破仑什么时候死的？
'
，而他
不知道。”
“对不起，老师，再给他一次机会吧，”杰克的父亲说，“要知道在我们家里没有任何报
纸，所以我们家没有人知道拿破仑病了。”
P69
（
1
2
）
A middle
school organized a “No TV Week” programme. All the
teachers, parents
and students worked
together for this programme and most of them found
it to be a very
good one. The
headmaster said, “The idea was not to stop
watching TV completely but for
the
students just to find how much time they watch TV
and try to use this time for other
things.”
What did
the students say about
this “No TV
Week”? One boy said, “I can’t believe
I
haven’t watched TV for a week, but it’s been fun
doing it. ”A girl student said, “I’m going
to give up all TV programme except for
'Our Animal World’ and other
language
-teaching
programme.
I’m really ple
ased that I have more
time to do things like walking and
thinking. I enjoy this 'No TV Week’
very much……”But not all the students thought it
was
good. Here one student said
something different, “I don’t like 'No TV Week’
because I
like watching TV. I have
lots of favourite programmes and I
don’t want to miss them. But
we have to
do it.”
一所中学组织了一次“无电视周”活动。所有
的老师，家长和学生一起参与其中，大部分
参与者发现这是一个非常好的活动。校长说：
“这个想法不是完全禁止学生观看电视，而是为
了调查他们多少时间用于看电视，并尝试
使用这些时间做其他事情。”
有关
这个“无电视周”学生们说了些什么呢？一个男生说：“真不敢相信我一个星期没有
看过
电视，但我一直乐在其中。”一个女生说：“除了
'
我们的动物
世界
'
和其他语言教学节目，
我将放弃
所有的电视节目。我真的很高兴，我有更多的时间做其它事情，比如散步和思考。我
非常
喜欢这个
'
无电视周
'... ...
”但是，并非所有的学生都认为这是好的。这里有位学生说了一
些不同的看法，
“我不喜欢
'
无电视周
'
，因为我喜欢看电视。我有很多十分喜爱的节目，我不想
错过它们。但是，我们不得不这样做。”
P70
（
13
）
When you are reading
something in English, you may often come across a
new word.
What’s the best way to know
it?
You may look it up in
the English-Chinese Dictionary. It will tell you a
lot about the
word: the pronunciation,
the part of speech, the Chinese meaning and also
how to use this
word. But how can you
know where the word is in thousands of English
words? How to find
it in the dictionary
both quickly and correctly?
First, all
the English words are arranged in the alphabetical
order. In the
dictionary you can first
see the words beginning with the letter A, then B,
C, D, E… That
means if there are two
words “desert” and “pull”, “desert” will be
certainly
before “pull”.
Then if there are two words both
beginning with the same letter, you may look at
the
second letter. Then the third, the
fourth…For example, “pardon” is before “plough”,
“judge” before “just”, etc.
Do you understand how to look up a word
in a dictionary?
The dictionary will be
your good friend. I hope you’ll use it as often as
possible in
your English learning.
当你在看英文读物时。你可能会经常碰到生词。认生词的最佳
方法是什么呢？
你可以查英汉词典。词典会告诉你这个词的内
容：语音，一部分引语，中文意义，以及如
何使用这个词。但是你如何在成千上万的英语
单词中查找这个词呢？如何快速在词典中找到它
呢？
首先，所有的英文单词按字母顺序排列。在词典中，您可以先看到以字母
A
开头的单词，
然后是
B, C,
D, E...
这意味着，
如果有两个单词
“
desert
”
和
“
pull
”
，
“
desert
”
将肯定
在
“
pull
”
之前，如果有两个单词都以相同的字母开头，你可以看第二个字母。依此类推，看第三个，
看第四个
......
例如，“
pardon
”在“
plough
”之前，“
judge
”在“
just
”之前。
你理解怎样查词典了吗？
词典将是你
的好朋友，我希望你在英语学习中尽量经常翻翻词典。
P72
（
14
）<
/p>
A good way to pass an exam
is to work hard every day. You may not pass an
exam if
you don’t work hard for most
time and then work hard only a few days
before the exam.
If you are taking an
English exam, do not only learn rules of grammar.
Try to read
stories in English and
speak English whenever you can.
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