第一篇：高中英語必修一第一單元課文原文和翻譯（定稿）

必修1 第一單元 Reading 閱讀

ANNE’S BEST FRIEND

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 best friend.安妮最好的朋友

你想不想有一位無話不談能推心置腹的朋友？或者你會不會擔心你的朋友會嘲笑你，會不理解你目前的困境呢？安妮?弗蘭克想要的是第一種類型的朋友，所以她把的日記視為自己最好的朋友。

Anne lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands during World War II.Her family was Jewish so the had to hide or they would be caught by the German Nazis.She and her family hide away for two years before they were discovered.During that time the only true friend was her diary.She said, “I don’t want to set down a series of facts in a diary as most people do, but I want this diary itself to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty.” Now read how she felt after being in the hiding place since July 1942.在第二次世界大戰期間，安妮住在荷蘭的阿姆斯特丹。她一家人都是猶太人，所以他們不得不躲藏起來，否則就會被德國的納粹分子抓去。她和她的家人躲藏了25個月之后才被發現。在那段時期，她的日記成了她唯一忠實的朋友。她說：“我不愿像大多數人那樣在日記中記流水賬。我要把我的日記當作自己的朋友，我把我的這個朋友叫做基蒂。”現在，來看看安妮自1942年7月起躲進藏身處后的那種心情吧。

Thursday 15, June, 1944 Dear kitty, I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been able to be outdoors for so long that I’ve grown so 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 spellbound.That’s changed since I was here.?For example, when it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven one evening in order to have a good look at the moon for once by myself.But as the moon gave far too much light, I didn’t dare open a window.Another time some months ago, I happened to be upstairs one evening 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 that really must be experienced.Yours, Anne 1944年6月15日，星期四 親愛的基蒂：

我不知道這是不是因為我太久無法出門的緣故，我變得對一切與大自然有關的事物都無比狂熱。我記得非常清楚，以前，湛藍的天空、鳥兒的歌唱、月光和鮮花，從未令我心迷神往過。自從我來到這里之后，這一切都變了。??比如說，有一天晚上天氣很暖和，我故意熬到晚上11點半都不睡覺，為的就是能獨自好好地看看月亮。但是因為月光太亮了，我都不敢打開窗戶。還有一次，就在五個月以前的一個晚上，我碰巧在樓上，窗戶是開著的，我一直呆到非關窗不可的時候才下樓去。漆黑的雨夜，刮著大風，電閃雷鳴，烏云滾滾，我完全被這種景象鎮住了。這是我一年半以來第一次親眼目睹的夜晚??

??不幸的是??我只能透過那滿是灰塵的窗簾下那臟兮兮的窗戶看看大自然。只能隔著窗戶看那大自然實在沒意思，因為大自然是需要真正體驗的東西。你的安妮

Using Language 語言運用 Reading and listening 讀與聽

Read the letter that Lisa wrote to Miss Wang of Radio for Teenagers and predict what Miss Wang will say.After listening, check and discuss her advice.Dear Miss Wang, I am having some trouble with my classmates at the moment.I’m getting along well with a boy in my class.We often do homework together and we enjoy helping each other.We have become really good friends.But other students have started gossiping.They say that this boy and I have fallen in love.This has made me angry.I don’t want to end the friendship, but I hate others gossiping.What should I do? Yours, Lisa 1 讀讀琳達為青少年寫給電臺王小組的這封信，然后王小姐可能會怎么說。聽完錄音之后，核對并討論她的建議。親愛的王小姐：

現在我同班上的同學有些麻煩事。我跟我們班里的一位男同學一直相處的很好。我們常常一起做家庭作業，而且很樂意互相幫助。我們成了真正好朋友。可是，其他同學卻在背后議論起來，他們說我和這位男同學在談戀愛，這使我很生氣。我不想中斷這段友誼，但是，我又討厭人家背后說閑話。我該怎么辦呢？ 你的莉薩

Reading and writing 讀與寫

Miss Wang has received a letter from Xiaodong.He is also asking for some advice.Read the letter on the right carefully and help Miss Wang answer it.王小姐收到小冬的一封來信。小冬是要征求一些意見。仔細閱讀右邊的信，然后幫王小姐回復。

Dear Miss Wang, I’m a student from Huzhou Senior High School.I have a problem.I’m not very good at communicating with people.Although I try to talk to my classmates, I still find it hard to make good friends with them.So I feel quite lonely sometimes.I do want to change this situation, but I don’t know how.I would be grateful if you could give me some advice.Yours, Xiaodong 親愛的王小姐：

我是湖州高中的一名學生，我有一個難題，我不大善于與人們交際。雖然我試著和班上的同學交談，但是，我還是很難跟他們成為好朋友。因此，有時候我感到十分的孤獨。我確實想改變這種現狀，但是我卻不知道怎么辦。如果您能給我提些建議，我會非常感謝的。你的小東Decide which are the best ideas and put them into an order.Then write down your advice and explain how it will help.Each idea can make one paragraph.The following sample and the expressions may help you Dear Xiaodong, I’m sorry you are having trouble in making friends.However, the situation is easy to change if you follow my advice.Here are some tips to help you.First, why not??

If you do this,?

Secondly, you could / can ?

Then / That way, ?

Thirdly, it would be a good idea if ? By doing this, ?

I hope you will find these ideas useful.Yours Miss Wang 2 決定哪些是最好并把它們按順序組織起來。然后把你的建議寫出來，并解釋它為什么會有所幫助。每個想法可以自成一個段落。下面的例子和表達可能對你有所幫助。

親愛的小冬：

很遺憾聽說你在交朋友的過程中遇到了困難。但是，如果你聽聽我的建議，這種情況是很容易改變的。這些建議會對你有所幫助。

第一，為什么不??呢？ 如果你這樣做?? 第二，你可以?? 這樣的話??

第三，如果??那將是個不錯的主意。通過做??

我希望你會發現這些想法對你有所幫助。你的王小姐

LEARNING TIP 學習建議 It’s a good habit for you to keep a diary.It can help you remember past events.You can express your feelings and thoughts in it.It will help you improve your English if you write your diary in English.Why not have a try?

寫日記對你來說是一個好習慣。它可以幫你記住一些過去發生的事件。你還可以在日記中表達你的情感和思想。如果你用英語寫日記的話，還可以幫助你提高英語水平。為什么不試一試呢？

第二篇：高中英語必修一課文翻譯

我上高中的一天

我叫李康，住在石家莊，一個距離北京不遠的城市。它是河北的省會。今天是我上高中的第一天，我正在記載我的一些想法。

我的新學校很好，我能看出這是為什么。老師們非常熱情友好，教室令人驚奇。每間教室都有一臺電腦，配有特別的屏幕，幾乎和電影屏幕一樣大。老師們在電腦上打字，這樣他們打出的字就顯示在他們身后的屏幕上。屏幕上海能顯示圖片，文本及來自網上的信息。它們真是太棒了。

英語課確實很有趣。老師是一位非常熱情的叫沈老師的女士。我們使用新課本，并且沈老師的教學方法與我的初中老師的教學方法完全不同。她認為閱讀理解很重要，不過我們課堂英語也講得很多。我們上課很快樂。我認為我是不會對沈老師課厭煩的。

今天我們討論互相自我介紹

。我們是以小組討論式進行的。有些學生起初有些尷尬，不過每個人都很友善，這真是好。沈老師給我們提出要求，然后我們自己活動。

沈老師想幫助我們提高拼寫和書寫水平。我們用拼寫游戲和其他活動這類有趣的方式來進行。我很喜歡她的態度，其他學生的行為表明他們也喜歡她。

我班上有65個學生，比我原來初中班上的人數多。學生中49人是女生。換句話說，女生的人數是男生的三倍。他們說通常女生比男生學習更努力，但在這個班上，每個人都很努力。作為我們今晚的家庭作業，我們寫一篇描述我們所住街道的文章。

我的新教師 常言道第一印象非常重要，李老師給我的第一印象是緊張而且害羞。我想她那時可能就是這樣，因為那是她給我們上的第一堂課。但現在，兩周之后，全班同學都很喜歡上她的課了。她既和藹又有耐心，而且她講解英語語法如此清楚，以至于連我都明白。她避免使你感到自己很愚蠢。說英語時我一直很討厭出錯或發音有誤。可是李老師只是笑笑，這樣你就不會感到自己很蠢。我想可能對于成績好的學生來說，她講的有點慢，但是對我來說卻極好。我覺得我會在她的課上取得進步的。

我猜陳老師快60歲了，她非常嚴厲——除非她要求我們（講話），否則我們一句話也不敢說。她也很嚴肅而且不大愛笑。當她要你做什么事情時，你一定要馬上做。我們班有幾個學生上課老遲到，可是上陳老師的課他們一直都很準時。我們班有些同學不喜歡她，但是我們大多數人真的很佩服她，因為她講課非常有條理，也很清楚。甚至還有幾個學生表示喜歡她。在做科學實驗時，她講解的很確切，因此我的學習不斷進步。雖然物理永遠不會是我最喜歡的學科，但是我想由陳老師教我，我在考試中取得好成績。

吳老師只教了我們兩個星期就已經很受歡迎了。我想這是因為他真的喜歡語文數學——應該是熱愛。他總是充滿活力，這是一節你不會睡覺的課。我覺得他大約28歲，長得相當帥。他聲音洪亮而且說話快，他興奮的時候還會揮舞雙手。他非常有趣，覺得我們感到厭煩時就講笑話。上吳老師的課，即使向作文和總結這樣的東西都充滿了樂趣。我很敬重他。

我的首次火車之旅

我的名字叫愛麗絲.湯姆遜。我來自澳大利亞的悉尼，我18歲了。最近，我首次乘一列長途列車旅行。這次旅行真棒。我和我的朋友乘的著名的Ghan列車。我們在悉尼上車，在艾利斯斯普林下車，恰好在澳大利亞的中心，行程四千多里。我們在火車上度過了兩天兩夜。

這列火車非常不錯，吃的食物相當棒。我們吃的美味飯菜是由烹飪專家做的。旅途的前幾百公里景色非常豐富多彩。有土地，土壤是紅色的。然后就是沙漠，太陽照耀著，沒有一絲風，天空也沒有云彩。突然，它看起來好像另一個時代的某個地方。我們看到被遺棄的農莊，這些農莊的建立史有一百多年。

乘這列火車是舒服的，車上的人也很友好。在白天，我做在車里看窗外，有時和別的乘客說說話。我讀書，聽漢語磁帶。一天晚上，大約是午夜，差不多有一個多小時我都在注視著夜晚的天空。星星像鉆石一樣閃爍。

為什么這列火車叫Ghan？很久以前，澳大利亞人需要一種通往國家中部的途徑，他們試過馬，可是馬不適合炎熱的天氣和沙地。一百五十年前，他們從阿富汗帶回來一些駱駝。Ghan 是阿富汗的縮寫。

對于長途跋涉而言，駱駝比馬好得多。許多年以前，訓練有素的駱駝運出事物和其他供給物，然后帶回羊毛和其他產品。

阿富汗人和他們的駱駝穿梭其間，直到20世紀20年代。后來，政府建了一條新的鐵路線，因此他們不再需要駱駝了。1925年，他們通過了一項法律，如果這些動物成了麻煩，就允許人們可以射殺它們。1935年，一個鎮的警察曾在一天內在一天內射殺了153頭駱駝。

因特網的發展歷程

Internet是全世界最大的計算機網絡，它起源與美國國防部高級研究計劃局ARPA 于1968年主持研制的用于支持軍事研究的計算機實驗網ARPANET。ARPANET建網的初衷在幫助那些為美國軍方工作的研究人員通過計算機交換信息，它的設計與實現基于這樣一種主導思想：網絡要能夠經得住故障的考驗而維持正常工作，當網絡的一部分因受攻擊而失去作用時，網絡的其他部分仍能維持正常通信。

1985年當時美國國家科學基金NSF為鼓勵大學和研究機構，共享他們非常昂貴四臺計算機主機，希望通過計算機網絡把各個大學和研究機構的計算機與這些巨型計算機連接起來。開始他們想用現成的ARPANET，不過他們發覺與美國軍方打交道不是一件容易的事，于是他們決定利用ARPANET發展出來叫TCP/IP 的通訊協議自己出資建立名叫NSFNET 的廣域網。由于美國國家科學資金的鼓勵和資助，許多大學、政府資助的研究機構，甚至私營的研究機構紛紛把自己的局域網并入NSFNET。這樣使NSFET在1986年建成后取代ARPANET成為Internet的主干網。

90年代初期，隨著WWW的發展，Internet 逐漸走向民用，由于WWW良好的界面大大簡化了Internet操作的難度，使得用戶的數量急劇增加，許多政府機構、商業公司意識到Internet，這樣Internet上的點數大大增長，網絡上的信息 五花八門、十分豐富。如今Internet已經深入到人們生活的各個部分，通過WWW瀏覽、電子郵件等方式，人們可以及時地獲得自己所需的信息。Internet大大方便了信息傳播，給人們帶來了一種全新的通訊方式，可以說Internet是繼電報、電話發明以來人類通訊方式的又一次革命。

一個充滿生機的城市 XL：又見到你真是太好了，約翰。

JM：見到你真高興，你知道的，自從上次我們見面 到現在已經6年了。這是我第一次參觀你的家鄉。

XL：對，你能來這兒我很高興。

JM：你知道，我已經看過中國的一些地方，游覽過一些美麗的城市，但這是我到過的最吸引人的地方之一。這兒充滿生機，每個人看起來都那么友好。

XL：是的，每個人都說這兒是沿海最有趣的的城市之一。生活在這里我感到很幸運。我喜歡住在海邊。

JM：你住在廈門的西北部，對不對？ XL：是的，你說對了。JM：這兒氣候怎么樣？

XL：夏天想當炎熱潮濕，但冬天會很冷。

JM：對我來說聽起來不錯。這到處都有很多游客。難道他們不讓你厭煩嗎？ XL：是的，因為夏天游客太多了，可能會挺煩的。JM：奧，看看那棟高大的公寓樓。

XL：是的，那樓剛完工。那里公寓的租金很高。JM：我相信你，這一地區的現代化程度很高。

XL：對，這是商業區。最近他們建起了許多高樓大廈，還有一些大型購物中心。看，我們剛經過一個，我妻子剛經過一個。我妻子剛從那的一個商店里買了一件漂亮的衣服。

JM：也許我可以在那買些禮物。

XL：明天我帶你去。現在我們就要離開商業區，接近海港了。我們要進入西區，這里是全市最有趣的地方，有一些特別漂亮的公園。

JM：看起來真漂亮。剛剛穿過這片水域的是鼓浪嶼島嗎？ XL：是的，它是一個美麗的海島，島上有一些非常有趣的建筑。

JM：他們是這樣跟我說的。你覺得我們停下來，四處走一會兒怎么樣？

XL：好，我正有此意。我們可以把車停在那兒，一個朋友告訴我，附近有一家不大但挺不錯的魚餐館。我去那吃午餐怎么樣？ JM：聽起來是個好主意，我快餓死了。

第三篇：高中英語必修一課文及翻譯

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, “I don't 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.” Now read how 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 spellbound.ThatchangedsinceIwashere.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 ofEnglish.Lookatthisexample: BritishBetty:Wouldyouliketoseemyflat? AmericanAmy:Yes.I'dliketocomeuptoyourapartment.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 “standard language”, it is called a dialect......American English has so many dialects 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, “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 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, “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 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 changeit.Finally,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: “The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping our rights 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: “...we were put into a position in which we had either to accept we were less 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.第一單元 友誼 Reading 安妮最好的朋友

你是不是想有一位無話不談能推心置腹的朋友呢？或者你是不是擔心你的朋友會嘲笑你，會不理解你目前的困境呢？安妮·弗蘭克想要的是第一種類型的朋友，于是她就把日記當成了她最好的朋友。安妮在第二次世界大戰期間住在荷蘭的阿姆斯特丹。她一家人都是猶太人，所以他們不得不躲藏起來，否則他們就會被德國納粹抓去。她和她的家人躲藏了兩年之后才被發現。在這段時間里，她唯一的忠實朋友就是她的日記了。她說，“我不愿像大多數人那樣在日記中記流水賬。我要把這本日記當作我的朋友，我要把我這個朋友稱作基蒂”。現在，來看看安妮在藏身處躲了一年多之后的那種心情吧。

1944年6月15日 星期四 親愛的基蒂： 我不知道這是不是因為我長久無法出門的緣故，我變得對一切與大自然有關的事物都無比狂熱。我記得非常清楚，以前，湛藍的天空、鳥兒的歌唱、月光和鮮花，從未令我心迷神往過。自從我來到這里，這一切都變了。……比方說，有天晚上天氣很暖和，我熬到 11點半故意不睡覺，為的是獨自好好看看月亮。但是因為月光太亮了，我不敢打開窗戶。還有一次，就在五個月以前的一個晚上，我碰巧在樓上，窗戶是開著的。我一直等到非關窗不可的時候才下樓去。漆黑的夜晚，風吹雨打，雷電交加，我全然被這種力量鎮住了。這是我一年半以來第一次目睹夜晚…… 你的 安妮 Using Language Reading, listening and writing 親愛的王小姐： 我同班上的同學有件麻煩事。我跟我們班里的一位男同學一直相處很好，我們常常一起做家庭作業，而且很樂意相互幫助。我們成了非常好的朋友。可是，其他同學卻開始在背后議論起來，他們說我和這位男同學在談戀愛，這使我很生氣。我不想中斷這段友誼，但是我又討厭人家背后說閑話。我該怎么辦呢？ 莉薩 Reading and writing 尊敬的編輯： 我是蘇州高中的一名學生。我有一個難題，我不太善于同人們交際。雖然我的確試著去跟班上的同學交談，但是我還是發現很難跟他們成為好朋友。因此，有時候我感到十分孤獨。我確實想改變這種現狀，但是我卻不知道該怎么辦。如果您能給我提些建議，我會非常感激的。曉東

第二單元 世界上的英語 Reading 通向 通向現代英語之路 16世紀末期大約有5百萬到7百萬人說英語，幾乎所有這些人都生活在英國。在17世紀英國人開始往世界其它地區遷移。于是，許多別的國家開始說英語了。如今說英語的人比以往任何時候更多了，他們有的是作為第一語言來說，有的是作為第二語言或外語。中國也許是把英語作為外語來說的人數最多的國家。以英語作為母語的人，即使他們所講的語言不盡相同，也可以互相交流。然而，他們可能不是什么都懂。比方說，一個英國人可能對她的朋友說：“請到我的公寓（flat）里來坐坐，好嗎？”她的一位美國朋友可能會問她，“到哪兒去？”她的加拿大朋友可能會解釋說，“她的意思是要我們到她的房間（apartment）去。” 那么，英語在一段時間里為什么會起變化呢？當不同文化互相溝通時，所有的語言都會發生變化。從公元450年到1150年，人們所說的英語跟今天所說的英語就很不一樣。實際上，當時的英語更多地是以德語為基礎的，而現代英語不是。然后大約在公元 1150年到1500年期間，英語的變化就更大了，它不那么像德語，而更像法語了，因為那時的英國的統治者講法語，它變得更接近你們正在學習的這種語言。在17世紀，莎士比亞所用的詞匯量比以前任何時期都大。英語用法發生了一次大變化，那就是在諾厄·韋伯斯特編纂《美國英語詞典》的那個時期，這本詞典體現了美國英語的特色。后來，有些英國人到了澳大利亞，那里的人也開始說英語了。如今，澳大利亞英語也有它自己的特色了。英語在南亞也被當作外語或第二語言來使用。印度擁有眾多講英語的人，這是因為英國于1765 年到1947年統治過印度。在此期間，英語成了政府和教育的語言。在非洲和亞洲許多其它國家，比如南非、新加坡、馬來西亞等國，人們也說英語。在中國，大約從1842年起，香港就開始用英語了。目前在中國學習英語的人數正在迅速增長。中國英語將來會不會成為世界英語中的一種呢？這只好由時間來回答了。Using Language Reading and talking 什么是標準英語？是在英國、美國、加拿大、澳大利亞、印度、新西蘭所說的英語嗎？信不信由你，（世界上）沒有什么標準英語。許多人認為，電視和收音機里所說的就是標準英語，這是因為在早期的電臺節目里，人們期望新聞播音員所說的英語是最好的英語。然而，即使在電視和收音機里，你也會聽出人們在說話時的差異。當人們用不同于“標準語言”的詞語時，那就叫做方言。美國英語有許多方言，特別是中西部和南部地區的方言，以及黑人和西班牙人的方言。在美國有些地區，相鄰城鎮的兩地人所說的方言都可能稍有不同。美國英語之所以有這么多的方言是因為美國人是來自世界各地的緣故。地理位置對方言的產生也有影響。住在美國東部山區的某些人說著比較古老的英語方言。當美國人從一個地方搬到另一個地方時，他們也就把他們的方言隨著帶去了。因此，美國東南部山區的人同美國西北部的人所說的方言就幾乎相同。美國是一個大國，國內說著許許多多的方言。雖然許多美國人經常在搬家，但是他們仍然能夠辨別彼此的方言。

第三單元 游記 Reading 沿湄公河而下的旅程 第一部分 夢想與計劃 我的名字叫王坤。從高中起，我姐姐王薇和我就一直夢想作一次偉大的自行車旅行。到大學畢業時，我們終于有了機會。首先想到要沿湄公河從源頭到終點騎車旅游的是我的姐姐。她喜歡在鄉下作長途自行車旅行。兩年前，她買了一輛價錢昂貴的山地自行車，然后她還說服我也買了一輛（山地車）。去年她（騎車）去看望了我們的表兄弟——在昆明讀大學的刀衛和宇航。他們是傣族人，在云南省西部靠近瀾滄江的地方長大，湄公河在中國境內的這一段叫瀾滄江，在其他國家（境內）叫湄公河。很快，王薇使表兄弟也對騎車旅游產生了興趣。王薇有時確實很固執。盡管她對到某些地方的最佳路線并不清楚，她卻堅持我們要找到河的源頭，并從那里開始我們的行程。她告訴我，她要把這次旅游安排得盡善盡美。于是，我就知道這個盡善盡美的方式總是她的方式。我問她是否看過地圖。當然她并沒有看過——我的姐姐是不會考慮細節的。于是，我告訴她，湄公河的源頭在青海省。她給了我一個堅定的眼神——這種眼神表明她是不會改變主意的。我說，我們的旅行將從5, 000多米的高地出發，這時她似乎顯得很興奮。當我告訴她那里空氣稀薄，呼吸困難，而且天氣很冷時，她卻說這將是一次有趣的經歷。我非常了解我的姐姐，她一旦下了決心，什么也不能使她改變。最后，我只好讓步了。在我們旅行前的幾個月，王薇和我去了圖書館。我們找到一本大型地圖冊，里面有一些世界地理的明細圖。我老是問她，“我們什么時候動身？什么時候回來？”我們從圖上可以看到，湄公河發源于西藏一座山上的冰川。起初，江面很小，河水清澈而冷冽，然后它開始快速流動。它穿過深谷時就變成了急流，流經云南西部。有時，這條江進入寬闊的峽谷，就形成了瀑布。我們倆驚奇地發現這條河有一半是在中國境內。當流出中國，流出高地之后，湄公河就變寬了，變暖了，河水也變成了黃褐色。而當它進入東南亞以后，河水慢慢地穿過小山和低谷，以及長著稻谷的平原。最后，湄公河三角洲的各支流流入中國南海。Using Language Reading and speaking 夜晚的西藏山景 第二部分 山中一宿 雖然是秋天，但是西藏已經開始下雪了。我們感到腿又沉又冷，還以為腿結成冰了呢。你看到過雪人騎自行車嗎？像往常一樣，王薇在我的前面，我知道我用不著給她鼓勁兒。上山很艱難，而下山卻很好玩。等我們到達山谷，天氣就暖和多了，我們不得不把帽子、外衣、手套和長褲換成T恤衫和短褲。然后，當我們到達較冷的高地時，我們又得換衣服。剛到傍晚，我們就停下來宿營，先把帳篷支起來，然后吃飯。晚飯后，王薇就去睡覺了，而我卻睡不著。半夜里，天空變得清朗了，星星很亮。山里非常安靜——那天晚上幾乎沒有風，只有篝火的聲音。我們已經走得很遠了，馬上就要到達云南的大理。在那里，我們的表兄弟刀衛和宇航將加入我們的行列。我們迫不及待地想要見到他們！

四單元 地震 Reading 地球的一個不眠之夜 河北省東北部的農村不斷有些怪事發生：三天來，村子里的井水升升降降，起起伏伏。農夫注意到，水井的井壁上有深深的裂縫，裂縫里冒出臭氣。農家大院里的雞, 甚至豬都緊張得不吃食。老鼠從田地里跑出來找地方藏身。魚缸和池塘里的魚會往外跳。1976年7月28日凌晨3點左右，人們看到天上一道道明亮的光。即使天空沒有飛機，在唐山城外也可以聽到飛機聲。在市內，有些建筑物里的水管爆裂開來。但是，唐山市的一百萬居民幾乎都沒有把這些情況當一回事，當天晚上照常上床睡覺了。凌晨3點42分，一切都開始搖晃起來。世界似乎到了末日！二十世紀最大的一次地震就在唐山市正下方11公里處發生了，100公里以外的北京市都聽到了地震聲，全國1 / 3的地方都有震感。一條8公里長30米寬的巨大裂縫橫穿房舍、馬路和渠道。地上一些洞穴冒出了蒸氣。石頭山變成了泥沙河，在可怕的15秒鐘內，一座大城市就沉淪在一片廢墟之中。2/3的人在地震中死去或受傷。成千上萬個完整的家庭遇難，許許多多的孩子變成了孤兒。死傷的人數達到40多萬。幸存的人們又怎么能相信這是自然現象呢？人們無論朝哪里看，哪里的一切都幾乎被毀了。所有的市內醫院、75%的工廠和建筑物、90%的家園都消失了。殘磚就像秋天的紅葉覆蓋著大地，然而它們是不可能被風刮走的。兩座大壩垮了，多數橋梁不是塌了就是無法安全通行了。鐵軌如今成了一條條廢鋼。好幾萬頭牛再也擠不出奶來。50萬頭豬和幾百萬只雞全都死了。井里滿是沙子，而不是水。人們驚呆了。接著，在下午晚些時候，又一次強烈的地震震撼著唐山。有些醫生和救援人員被困在廢墟下面。更多的房屋倒塌了。水、電和食物都很難弄到。人們開始納悶，這場災難還會持續多久。不是所有的希望都破滅了。部隊派了15萬名戰士到唐山來協助救援人員，數十萬的人得到了援助。救援人員組成小分隊，將受困的人們挖出來，將死者掩埋。在唐山市的北邊，有一個萬名礦工的煤礦，其中多數人得救了。援救人員為那些家園被毀的幸存者蓋起了避難所，用火車、卡車和飛機向市內運來了水。慢慢地、慢慢地，這座城市又開始出現了生機。Using Language Reading, writing and speaking 200（）年7月5日 中國唐山市政府辦公室 親愛的同學： 恭喜你！我們很高興地告訴你，你在以新唐山為主題的中學演講比賽中獲得第一名。評委會的五位評委聽了你的演講，他們都認為你的那篇是今年收到的演講稿中最好的一篇。你的父母親和你的學校應該為你而驕傲！下個月我們市將開放一個新公園，以紀念在那次可怕的災難中死去的人們，并向那些曾經為幸存者提供過幫助的人們致敬。我們辦公室想請你在7月28日上午11點給來公園的參觀者進行演講。你知道，二十（）年前的這一天正是唐山發生地震的日子。在這個特殊的日子里，我們邀請你把家人和朋友一起帶來。張沙

第五單元 納爾遜·曼德拉——一位當代英雄 Reading 伊萊亞斯的故事 我的名字叫伊萊亞斯。我是南非的一個窮苦的黑人工人。第一次見到納爾遜·曼德拉的時候，是我一生中非常艱難的時期。當時我才12歲，那是在1952年，他開設了一家黑人律師事務所，為那些遇到麻煩的窮苦黑人提供咨詢服務。我六歲開始上學，我僅僅在那里讀了兩年的學校有三公里遠。我不得不輟學，因為我的家庭無法繼續支付學費和交通費。我既不會讀，也不會寫。幾經周折，我才在一家金礦找到一份工作。那個時候你要想住在約翰內斯堡就非得要有身份證不可。非常遺憾的是我沒有這個證件，因為我不是在那里出生的，我很擔心我是不是會失業。那天，納爾遜·曼德拉告訴我該怎么做，而且還幫我的忙，這是我一生中最高興的日子。他告訴我要在約翰內斯堡立住腳，應當如何獲取所需文件。我永遠也忘記不了他對我的恩情，當他組織了非國大青年聯盟時，我馬上就參加了這個組織。他說：“過去30年來所出現的大量法律剝奪我們的權利，阻擋我們的進步，一直到今天，我們還處在幾乎什么權利都沒有的階段。” 他說的是真話。當時黑人沒有選舉權，他們無權選擇管理他們的人。他們在城里的住宅區都是由白人決定的。他們不能做自己想要做的工作。他們被打發去居住的地方是南非最貧窮的地區。在那兒，沒有人能夠種莊稼。事實上，就像拉爾遜·曼德拉所說的： “……我們被置于這樣一個境地：要么我們被迫接受低人一等的現實，要么跟政府作斗爭。我們選擇向法律進攻。首先我們用和平的方式來破壞法律，而當這種方式也得不到允許時，……只有到這個時候，我們才決定用暴力反抗暴力。” 事實上，我并不喜歡暴力，但是在1963年的時候，我幫助他炸毀了一些政府大樓。那是很危險的事情，因為如果我被抓住了，可能就要坐幾年牢。但是，我樂于幫忙，因為我知道，這是為了實現我們的黑人和白人平等的夢想。Using Language Reading 伊萊亞斯的故事續篇 你無法想象羅本島這個名字聽起來多么令我們恐懼。那是一座任何人也逃不出去的監獄。在那里我度過了我一生中最艱難的歲月。但是我到那里時，納爾遜·曼德拉也在那兒。從某種意義上講，這倒幫了我的忙。曼德拉先生為我們那些幾乎沒有上過學的人開辦學校。他在午餐后的休息時間以及晚上本來該睡覺的時間教我們學習。我們躲在毯子下面讀書，我們用可以找到的任何東西作蠟燭來看書。我成了一名好學生，想要為我的學位而學習，但是別人不允許我這樣做。我知道我是夠聰明的，并且有能力拿到學位。曼德拉先生讓獄卒參加我們一起學習。他說他們不應該被剝奪學習的權利。他們并不比我更聰明，卻通過了考試，因此我就知道我也能夠拿到學位。這讓我覺得自己還不錯。在監獄里呆完四年之后，我去找工作。因為我受過比較好的教育，我得到了一份坐辦公室的工作。可是警察局發現了，告訴了我們那個行業的重要人物，說我因為炸政府大樓而坐過牢。于是我失業了。在曼德拉和非國大于1994年掌權之前，我有20年沒有工作。在此期間，我的妻兒只得從親戚朋友處討飯吃，并乞求幫助。幸虧曼德拉先生還記得我，給了我一份工作，叫我帶著旅行團去參觀羅本島上我住過的那座舊監獄。第一次給旅行團作講解時，我的心情很不好。我回憶起那時所有的恐怖和令人畏懼的情景。我記起了獄卒的鞭打和暴行，我想到了我那些死去的朋友，我覺得我不能做這份（導游的）工作。但是我的家人卻鼓勵我，他們說，從南非新政府得到的這份工作和薪餉，是我畢生為爭取黑人的平等權利而斗爭所得到的回報。現在，我51歲了，我還能給參觀者介紹有關監獄的情況，對此我感到非常驕傲，因為我曾經為黑人在自己的國土上爭取自由而出過力。

第四篇：高中英語必修一module1-6課文原文

Module 1

My First Day at Senior High My Name is Li Kang.I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not far from Beijing.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.My new school is very good and I can see why.The teachers are very enthusiastic and friendly and the classrooms are amazing.Every room has a computer with a special screen, almost as big as a cinema screen.The teachers write on the computer, and their words appear on the screen behind them.The screens also show photographs, text and information from websites.They're brilliant!The English class is really interesting.The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman called Ms Shen.We're using a new textbook and Ms Shen's method of teaching is nothing like that of the teachers at my Junior High school.She thinks that reading comprehension is important, but we speak a lot in class, too.And we have fun.I don't think I will be bored in Ms Shen's class!Today we introduced ourselves to each other.We did this in groups.Some students were embarrassed at first but everyone was very friendly and it was really nice.Ms Shen gave us instructions and then we worked by ourselves.Ms Shen wants to help us improve our spelling and handwriting.We do this in a fun way, with spelling games and other activities.I like her attitude very much, and the behaviour of the other students shows that they like her, too.There are sixty-five students in my class--more than my previous class in Junior High.Forty-nine of them are girls.In other words, there are three times as many girls as boys.They say that girls are usually more hard-working than boys, but in this class, everyone is hard-working.For our homework tonight, we have to write a description of the street where we live.I'm looking forward to doing it!

Module 2

My New Teachers They say that first impressions are very important.My first impression of Mrs Li was that she was nervous and shy.I think perhaps she was, as it was her first lesson with us.But now, after two weeks, the class really likes working with her.She's kind and patient, and she explains English grammar so clearly that even I can understand it!–She avoids making you feel stupid.I've always hated making mistakes or pronouncing a word incorrectly when I speak English, but Mrs Li just smiles, so that you don't feel completely stupid.I think maybe she goes a bit too slowly for the faster students, but for me it's wonderful.I feel I'm going to make progress with her.I'd guess that Mrs Chen is almost sixty.She's very strict—we don't dare to say a word unless she asks us to.She's also very serious and doesn't smile much.When she asks you to do something, you do it immediately.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.Some of our class don't like her, but most of us really appreciate her because her teaching is so well organised and clear.And a few students even admit liking her.During scientific experiments, she explains exactly what is happening and as a result my work is improving.Physics will never be my favourite lesson, but I think that I'll do well in the exam with Mrs Chen teaching me.Mr Wu's only been teaching us for two weeks and he's already very popular.I think this is because he really enjoys teaching Chinese literature—he loves it, in fact.He's got so much energy, this is one class you do not fall asleep in.He's about 28, I think, and is rather good—looking.He talks loudly and fast, and waves his hands about a lot when he gets excited.He's really amusing and tells jokes when he thinks we're getting bored.Even things like compositions and summaries are fun with Mr.Wu.I respect him a lot.Module 3

My First Ride on a Train My name is Alice Thompson.I come from Sydney, Australia and I'm 18 years old.Recently I had my first ride on a long-distance train.And what a ride!A friend and I travelled on the famous Ghan train.We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs, right in the middle of Australia, more than four thousand kilometres away.We spent two days and nights on the train.The train was wonderful and the food was great.We ate great meals cooked by experts!For the first few hundred kilometres of the journey, the scenery was very colourful.There were fields and the soil was dark red.After that, it was desert.The sun shone, there was no wind and there were no clouds in the sky.Suddenly, it looked like a place from another time.We saw abandoned farms which were built more than a hundred years ago.The train was comfortable and the people were nice.During the day, I sat and looked out of the window, and sometimes talked to other passengers.I read books and listened to my Chinese cassettes(I'm studying Chinese at school).One night, at about midnight, I watched the night sky for about an hour.The stars shone like diamonds.Why is the train called the Ghan? A long time ago, Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of the country.They tried riding horses, but the horses didn't like the hot weather and sand.A hundred and fifty years ago, they brought some camels from Afghanistan.Ghan is short for Afghanistan.Camels were much better than horses for travelling a long distance.For many years, trained camels carried food and other supplies, and returned with wool and other products.The Afghans and their camels did this until the 1920s.Then the government built a new railway line, so they didn't need the camels any more.In 1925, they passed a law which allowed people to shoot the animals if theywere a problem.In 1935, the police in a town shot 153 camels in one day.Module 4

A Lively City(XL—Xiao Lli JM--John Martin)XL：It’s great to see you again, john.JM：It’s great to see you!It’s been six years since we last saw each other,you know.And this is the first time I’ve visited your hometown.XL：Yes ,I’m so glad you could come.JM：You know ,I have 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.XL：Yes ,it’s one of the most intreresting cities on the coast,everyone says so.I feel very fortunate living here.And I love living by the seaside.JM：You live in the northwest of Xiamen ,is that right?

XL：Yes ,that’s right.JM：What’s the climate like?

XL：Pretty hot and wet in the summer,but it can be quite cold in the winter.JM：Sounds Ok to me.There are a lot of tourists around.Don’t they bother you?

XL：Yes, they can be a nuisance in the summer because there are so many of them.JM：Oh, look at that huge apartement block!

XL：Yes, they’re just completed it.The rent for an apartment there is very high.JM：I believe you!This area’s so modern!

XL：Yes, this is the business district.They’ve put up a lot high-rise buildings recently.And there are some great shopping malls.See,we’re just passing one now.My wife’s just bought a beautiful dress from one of the shops there.JM：Maybe I could buy a few presents there.XL：I’ll take you there tomorrow.Now we’re leaving the business district and approaching the harbour.We’re ehtering the western district, the most intererting part of the city.It’s got some really pretty parks…..JM：It seems lovely.Is that Gulangyu Island,just across the water?

XL：Yes, it is.It’s a gorgeous island with some really intereting architecture.JM：So they tell me.Do you think we could stop and walk aroud for a while ?

XL：Yes, I was just going to do that.We can park over there.A friend’s told me about a nice little fish restaurant near here.Shall we go there for lunch ?

JM：That sounds great.I’m starving!

Module 6

The Internet is the biggest source of information in the world, and it's accessible through a computer.It consists of millions of pages of data.In 1969, DARPA, a U.S.defence organisation, developed a way for all their computers to “talk” to each ot-her through the telephone.They created a network of computers called DARPANET.For fifteen years, only the U.S.army could use this system of communication.Then in 1984, the U.S.National Science Foundation(NSF)started the NSFNET network.It then became possible for universities to use the system as well.NSFNET became known as the Inter-Network, or “Internet”.The World Wide Web(the web)is a computer network that allows computer users to access information from millions of websites via the Internet.At the moment, about 80 percent of web traffic is in English, but this percentage is going down.By 2020, much web traffic could be in Chinese.The World Wide Web was invented in 1991 by an English scientist, Tim Berners-Lee.Berners-Lee built his first computer while he was at university using an old television!He came up with the idea of the World Wide Web in 1989 while he was working in Switzerland.Berners-Lee made it possible for everyone to use the Internet, not just universities and the army.He designed the first “web browser”, which allowed computer users to access documents from other computers.From that moment on, the web and the Internet grew.Within five years, the number of Internet users rose from 600 000 to 40 million.The Internet has created thousands of millionaires, but Berners-Lee is not one of them.Everyone in the world can access the Internet using his World Wide Web system.He now works as a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.Module 5

A Simple Scientific Experiment Below is a description of a simple scientific experiment.It shows us how iron reacts with air and with water.Aim: To find out iron rusts(a)in dry air;(b)in water that has no air in it(air-free water);(c)in ordinary water.Apparatus：3 clean iron nails；test tubes；test tube holder；cotton wool；oil；Bunsen burner.Iron in dry air Method

Method(1)Half-fill a test tube with water and two or three clean nails.(1)Put some iron nails at the bottom of a test tube.(2)Leave the tube for one week.(2)Push some cotton wool down the tube.Result(3)Leave the tube for one week.The nails rust in the tube with ordinary water.Result Conclusion After one week,the nails have not rusted.Iron rusts in ordinary water.Conclusion Iron does not rust in dry air.Iron in ordinary water Iron in air-free water Method

(1)Half-fill a test tube with water.(2)Boil the water for three minutes.(This makes

sure there is no air in the water.)

(3)Put two or three clean nails in the water.(4)Add some oil to the water.This will keep air out of the water.(5)Leave the tube for one week.Result The nails do not rust in the tube with air-free water.Conclusion Iron does not rust in air-free water.

第五篇：人教版高中英語課文原文和翻譯-必修1

必修1 第一單元 Reading 閱讀

ANNE’S BEST FRIEND

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 best friend.安妮最好的朋友

你想不想有一位無話不談能推心置腹的朋友？或者你會不會擔心你的朋友會嘲笑你，會不理解你目前的困境呢？安妮?弗蘭克想要的是第一種類型的朋友，所以她把的日記視為自己最好的朋友。

Anne lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands during World War II.Her family was Jewish so the had to hide or they would be caught by the German Nazis.She and her family hide away for two years before they were discovered.During that time the only true friend was her diary.She said, “I don’t want to set down a series of facts in a diary as most people do, but I want this diary itself to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty.” Now read how she felt after being in the hiding place since July 1942.在第二次世界大戰期間，安妮住在荷蘭的阿姆斯特丹。她一家人都是猶太人，所以他們不得不躲藏起來，否則就會被德國的納粹分子抓去。她和她的家人躲藏了25個月之后才被發現。在那段時期，她的日記成了她唯一忠實的朋友。她說：“我不愿像大多數人那樣在日記中記流水賬。我要把我的日記當作自己的朋友，我把我的這個朋友叫做基蒂。”現在，來看看安妮自1942年7月起躲進藏身處后的那種心情吧。[來源:學科網]

Thursday 15, June, 1944 Dear kitty, I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been able to be outdoors for so long that I’ve grown so 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 spellbound.That’s changed since I was here.?For example, when it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven one evening in order to have a good look at the moon for once by myself.But as the moon gave far too much light, I didn’t dare open a window.Another time some months ago, I happened to be upstairs one evening 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 that really must be experienced.Yours, Anne 1944年6月15日，星期四

親愛的基蒂：

我不知道這是不是因為我太久無法出門的緣故，我變得對一切與大自然有關的事物都無比狂熱。我記得非常清楚，以前，湛藍的天空、鳥兒的歌唱、月光和鮮花，從未令我心迷神往過。自從我來到這里之后，這一切都變了。[來源:學#科#網Z#X#X#K] ??比如說，有一天晚上天氣很暖和，我故意熬到晚上11點半都不睡覺，為的就是能獨自好好地看看月亮。但是因為月光太亮了，我都不敢打開窗戶。還有一次，就在五個月以前的一個晚上，我碰巧在樓上，窗戶是開著的，我一直呆到非關窗不可的時候才下樓去。漆黑的雨夜，刮著大風，電閃雷鳴，烏云滾滾，我完全被這種景象鎮住了。這是我一年半以來第一次親眼目睹的夜晚??

??不幸的是??我只能透過那滿是灰塵的窗簾下那臟兮兮的窗戶看看大自然。只能隔著窗戶看那大自然實在沒意思，因為大自然是需要真正體驗的東西。你的安妮

Using Language 語言運用

Reading and listening

讀與聽

[來源:學科網] 1 Read the letter that Lisa wrote to Miss Wang of Radio for Teenagers and predict what Miss Wang will say.After listening, check and discuss her advice.Dear Miss Wang, I am having some trouble with my classmates at the moment.I’m getting along well with a boy in my class.We often do homework together and we enjoy helping each other.We have become really good friends.But other students have started gossiping.They say that this boy and I have fallen in love.This has made me angry.I don’t want to end the friendship, but I hate others gossiping.What should I do? Yours, Lisa 1 讀讀琳達為青少年寫給電臺王小組的這封信，然后王小姐可能會怎么說。聽完錄音之后，核對并討論她的建議。親愛的王小姐：

現在我同班上的同學有些麻煩事。我跟我們班里的一位男同學一直相處的很好。我們常常一起做家庭作業，而且很樂意互相幫助。我們成了真正好朋友。可是，其他同學卻在背后議論起來，他們說我和這位男同學在談戀愛，這使我很生氣。我不想中斷這段友誼，但是，我又討厭人家背后說閑話。我該怎么辦呢？[來源:學+科+網] 你的莉薩

Reading and writing

讀與寫

Miss Wang has received a letter from Xiaodong.He is also asking for some advice.Read the letter on the right carefully and help Miss Wang answer it.王小姐收到小冬的一封來信。小冬是要征求一些意見。仔細閱讀右邊的信，然后幫王小姐回復。

Dear Miss Wang, I’m a student from Huzhou Senior High School.I have a problem.I’m not very good at communicating with people.Although I try to talk to my classmates, I still find it hard to make good friends with them.So I feel quite lonely sometimes.I do want to change this situation, but I don’t know how.I would be grateful if you could give me some advice.Yours, Xiaodong 親愛的王小姐：

我是湖州高中的一名學生，我有一個難題，我不大善于與人們交際。雖然我試著和班上的同學交談，但是，我還是很難跟他們成為好朋友。因此，有時候我感到十分的孤獨。我確實想改變這種現狀，但是我卻不知道怎么辦。如果您能給我提些建議，我會非常感謝的。你的小東 Decide which are the best ideas and put them into an order.Then write down your advice and explain how it will help.Each idea can make one paragraph.The following sample and the expressions may help you Dear Xiaodong, I’m sorry you are having trouble in making friends.However, the situation is easy to change if you follow my advice.Here are some tips to help you.First, why not…? If you do this,…

Secondly, you could / can … Then / That way, …

Thirdly, it would be a good idea if … By doing this, …

I hope you will find these ideas useful.Yours Miss Wang 2 決定哪些是最好并把它們按順序組織起來。然后把你的建議寫出來，并解釋它為什么會有所幫助。每個想法可以自成一個段落。下面的例子和表達可能對你有所幫助。親愛的小冬：

很遺憾聽說你在交朋友的過程中遇到了困難。但是，如果你聽聽我的建議，這種情況是很容易改變的。這些建議會對你有所幫助。第一，為什么不??呢？ 如果你這樣做??

第二，你可以?? 這樣的話??

第三，如果??那將是個不錯的主意。通過做??

我希望你會發現這些想法對你有所幫助。你的王小姐

LEARNING TIP 學習建議

It’s a good habit for you to keep a diary.It can help you remember past events.You can express your feelings and thoughts in it.It will help you improve your English if you write your diary in English.Why not have a try?

寫日記對你來說是一個好習慣。它可以幫你記住一些過去發生的事件。你還可以在日記中表達你的情感和思想。如果你用英語寫日記的話，還可以幫助你提高英語水平。為什么不試一試呢？

[來源:學科網ZXXK]

第二單元

Reading 閱讀

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 foreign language than ever before.通向現代英語之路

在16世紀末，大約有五至七百萬人講英語。幾乎所有這些講英語的人都住在英格蘭。在其后的一個世紀中，英格蘭人為征服世界航海到了世界其他一些地方，結果世界的其他地方的人們也開始說英語了。今天，把英語作為自己的第一語言、第二語言或外語來使用的人比以往任何時候都多。

Native English speakers 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’d like to come up to your apartment.以英語作為母語的人，即使他們所講不是同一種英語，他們也能彼此聽懂。請看看這個例子： 英國人貝蒂：來看看我的公寓嗎？

美國人艾米：好的，我來看看你的公寓吧。

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 the 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 18th century some British people were taken to Australia too.English began to be spoken in both countries.那么，隨著時間的推移英語為什么發生了變化呢？實際上，當不同文化相互交流滲透時，所有的語言都會有所發展和變化。開始，英格蘭人在大約公元450年到1150年之間所說的英語與我們今天所說的英語很不一樣。當時的英語更多的是以德語為基礎的，不像我們現在說的英語。后來，大約在公元800年至1150年之間，英語慢慢變得不那么像德語，因為統治英格蘭的那些人開始是說丹麥語，后來說法語。這些新來的定居者豐富了英語語言，尤其是豐富了英語詞匯。所以到17世紀初的時候，莎士比亞能夠得以使用比以往任何時候都豐富的詞匯。1620年一些英國定居者來到了美洲，后來到了18世紀的時候，一些英國人還被帶到了澳大利亞。英語也就開始在這兩個國家使用。

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.最后到19世紀的時候，英語這種語言就變得穩定了。當時，英語的拼寫發生了兩個很大的變化：先是塞繆爾?約翰遜編寫了他的英語詞典，后是諾亞?韋伯斯特出版了《美國英語詞典》。后者使得美式英語的拼寫有了其獨特的個性。

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 Chinese English develop its own identity? Only time will tell.現在英語在南亞地區也被作為外語或第二語言使用。比如，印度就有很多人說英語說得很流利，因為在1765年到1947年之間英國統治著印度。在此期間，英語成了印度政府和教育所用的語言。在新加坡和馬來西亞以及像非洲的南非，人們現在也說英語。當今，在中國學英語的人數正在快速增加，事實上，中國可能是學英語人數最多的國家。中國式英語是否也能發展成一種具有自己獨特個性的語言？這還有待時間去證明。

Using Language 語言運用

STANDARD ENGLISH AND DIALECTS What is standard English? Is it spoken in Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, India and New Zealand? Believe it or not, there is no such thing as standard English.Many people believe the English spoken on TV and the radio is standard English.This is because in the early days of radio, those who reported the news were expected to speak excellent English.However, on TV and the radio you will hear differences in the way people speak.[來源:學科網ZXXK] When people use words and expressions different form “standard language”, it is called a dialect.American English has many dialects, especially the midwestern, southern, African American and Spanish dialects.Even in some parts of the USA, two people from neighbouring towns speak a little differently.American English has so many dialects because people have come from all over the world.[來源:學#科#網Z#X#X#K] Geography also plays a part in making dialects.Some people who live in the mountains of the eastern USA speak with an older kind of English dialect.When Americans moved form one place to another, they took their dialects with them.So people from the mountains in the southeastern USA speak with almost the same dialect as people in the northwestern USA.The USA is a large country in which many different dialects are spoken.Although many Americans move a lot, they still recognize and understand each other’s dialects.什么是標準英語？是在英國、美國、加拿大、澳大利亞、印度、新西蘭所說的英語嗎？信不信由你，（世界上）沒有什么標準英語。許多人認為，電視和收音機里所說的英語就是標準英語，這是因為在早期的電臺節目里，人們期望新聞播音員所說的英語是最好的英語。然而，在電視和收音機里，你也會聽出人們在說話時的差異。

當人們使用不同于“標準語言”的詞語和表達時，那就叫做方言。美國英語有許多方言，特別是中西部地區和南部地區的方言，以及美國黑人和西班牙人的方言。即使在美國有些地區，兩個相鄰城鎮的人所說的方言也可能稍有不同。美國英語之所以有這么多的方言是因為美國人是來自世界各地的緣故。

地理位置對方言的形成也有所影響。住在美國東部山區的一些人說著比較古老的英語方言。當美國人從一個地方搬到另一個地方時，他們也就把他們的方言隨著帶去了。因此，美國東南部山區的人同美國西北部的人所說的方言就幾乎相同。美國是一個大國，有著許許多多彼此不同的方言。雖然許多美國人經常搬家，但是他們仍然能夠辨別和理解彼此的方言。

Reading and speaking 讀與說

Amy and her American friends are visiting London.They plan to visit Amy’s aunt and decide to go there by underground, but cannot find the nearest underground station.So she asks directions and then tells her friends.Read the dialogue and circle the words that mean the same.1 艾米和她的美國朋友正在參觀倫敦。她們計劃去拜訪艾米的姑媽，并決定乘地鐵去，但是她們找不到最近的地鐵站。所以她問問了路，然后告訴她的朋友。讀對話，然后圈出意思相同的詞。

AMY: Excuse me, Ma’ma.Could you tell me where the nearest subways is?

LADY: Er...the underground? Well, go round the corner on your left-hand side, straight on and cross two streets.It’ll be on your right-hand side.AMY: Thanks so much.FRIENDS: What did she say, Amy? AMY: She told us to go around the corner on the left and keep going straight for two blocks.The subway will be on our right.艾米：對不起，夫人，你能告訴我去最近的地鐵站怎么走嗎？[來源:學科網ZXXK] 夫人：呃??地鐵？哦，往左邊拐過去，一直往前走，走過兩條街，地鐵就是右邊。艾米：多謝了。

朋友：艾米，她說什么？

艾米：她叫我們往左邊拐過去，一直往前走，走過兩條街，地鐵就是右邊。【意思相同的詞】

subway←→underground（地鐵）right-hand side←→right（右邊）street←→block 街道，街區

第三單元

Travel journal JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG PART 1 THE DREAM AND THE PLAN

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 in 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 them 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 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, “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 metres, 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 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, travelling across western Yunnan Province.Sometimes the river becomes a waterfall and enters wide valleys.We were both surprised to learn that half of the river is in China.After it leaves China and the 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 the South China Sea.[來源:Zxxk.Com]

沿湄公河而下的旅行

第一部分 夢想與計劃

我的名字叫王坤。從高中起，我姐姐和我就一直夢想作一次偉大的自行車旅行。兩年前，她買了一輛價錢昂貴的山地自行車，然后她還說服我也買了一輛。去年她去看望了我們的表兄弟—在昆明讀大學的刀偉和宇航。他們是傣族人，在云南省西部靠近瀾滄江的地方長大，湄公河在中國境內的這一段叫瀾滄江，流經其他國家后就叫湄公河。很快，王薇使表兄弟也對騎車旅行產生了興趣。到大學畢業后，我們終于有了作一次騎車旅行的機會。我問姐姐：“我們要去哪里？”首先想到要沿湄公河從源頭到終點騎車旅行的是我的姐姐。現在，她正為這次旅行制訂計劃。

我很喜歡我姐姐，但是她有一個嚴重的缺點，她有時確實很固執。盡管她對到某些地方的最佳路線并不清楚，她卻堅持要把這次旅行安排的盡善盡美。現在我知道了這個盡善盡美的方式總是她的方式。我老是問她：“我們什么時候動身？什么時候回來？”我問她是否已經看過地圖。當然她并沒有看過，我的姐姐是不會考慮細節的。于是我告訴她湄公河的源頭在青海省。她給了我一個堅定的眼神—這種眼神表明她是不會改變主意的。當我告訴她我們的旅行將從5000多米的的高地出發時，她似乎顯得很興奮。當我告訴她那里空氣稀薄，呼吸會很困難，而且天氣會很冷時，她卻說這將是一次很有趣的經歷。我非常了解我的姐姐，她一旦下了決心，就什么也不能使她改變。最后，我只好讓步了。

在我們旅行前的幾個月，王薇和我去了圖書館。我們找到了一本大型的地圖冊，里面有一些世界地理的明細圖。我們從圖上可以看到，湄公河源于西藏一座山上的冰川。起初，河很小，河水清澈而冷冽，然后它開始快速流動。它穿過深谷時就變成了急流。流經云南西部。有時，這條河形成瀑布進入寬闊的峽谷。我們驚奇的發現這條河有一半是在中國境內。當流出中國，流出高地后，湄公河就變寬，變暖了。河水也變成了黃褐色。而當它進入東南亞以后，流速減慢，河水變寬慢慢地穿過低谷，到了長著稻谷的平原。最后，湄公河三角洲的各支流流入中國南海。

Reading and discussing

JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG [來源:學,科,網] PART 2 A NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS

Although it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in Tibet.Our legs were so heavy and cold that they felt like blocks of ice.Have you ever seen snowmen ride bicycles? That's what we looked like!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 did'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 valleys colourful butterflies flew around us and we saw many yaks and sheep eating green grass.At this point we had to change our caps,coats,gloves and trousers for T-shirts and shorts.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 Earthquakes

Reading

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 pigs were too nervois 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 sound of planes could be heard outside the city of Tangshan even when no planes were in the sky.In the city,the water pipes in some buildings cracked and burst.but the one million people of the city,who thiught 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 kilometres directly below the city the greatest earthquake of the 20th century had begun.It was felt in Beijing,which is more than two hundred kilometres away.One-third of the nation felt it.A huge crack that was eight kilometres long and thirty metres wide cut across houses,roads and canals.Steam burst from holes in the ground.Hard hills of rock became rivers of dir.In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.The suffering of the people was extreme.Two-thirds of them died or 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 oigs 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 begab 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 bu train,truck and plane.Slowly,the city began to breathe again.Office of the City Government Tangshan,Hebei

China

July5,2007

Dear____，Congratulations!We are pleased to tell you that you have won the high school speaking competition about new Tangshan.Your speech was heard by a group of five judges, all of whom agreed that it was the best one this year.Your parents and your school should be very proud of you!

Next month the city will open a new park to honour those who died in the terrible disaster.The park will also honour those who helped the survivors.Our office would like to have you speak to the park vistors on July 28 at 11:00 am.As you know,this is the day the quake happened thirty-____years ago.We invite you to bring your family and friends on that special day.Sincerely，Zhang Sha

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 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 my 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:

“The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping our rights 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:

“?we were put into a position in which we had either to accept we were less 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 escaped.There I spent the hardest time of my life.But when I got there Nelsom 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 used anything we could find to make candles to see the words.I became a good student.I wanted to study for my degree but I was not allowed 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 knwe 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 prinson for blowing up government buildings.So I lost my job.I did not work again for twenty years until M r Mandela and the ANC came to power in 1994.All that time my wife and children had to beg for good and help from relatives or friends.Luckily Mr Mandela remembered me and gave me a job taking tourists around my old prison on Robben Islannd.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.