外研高中新标准英语必修一必修二课文.doc

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 ent husias tic woman called Ms She n. We' re using a new text book and Ms Shen，s met hod of t eaching is not hing like that of the t eachers 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 instruetions 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 to nigh t, we have to write a descrip tion of the street where we live・ I'm looking forward to doing it!
My New Teachers
I hey say that first impressions are very important.
[12:52.16]My first impression of Mrs Li was that she was nervous and shy. [12:58.45] I think perhaps she was, as it was her first lesson with us.
[13:03.88] But now, after two weeks, the class really likes working with her. [13:09.59]She's kind and patient,
[13:12.05]and she explains English grammar so clearly that even I can understand it!—
[13:17.81 ]She avoids making you feel stupid! I've always hated making mistakes
[13:23.12]or pronoun cing a word in correctly when I speak En glish,
[13:26.95]but Mrs Li just smiles, so that you don't feel completely stupid!
[13:32.84] I think maybe she goes a bit too slowly for the faster students,
[13:37.24]but for me it's wonderfulil feel I'm going to make progress with her.
[13:43.70] I'd guess that Mrs Chen is almost sixty.
[13:48.09]She's very strict — we don't dare to say a word unless she asks us to.
[13:54.15]She's also very serious and doesn't smile much.
[13:59.00]When she asks you to do something, you do it immediately!
[14:04.32]There are a few students in our class who keep coming to class late
[14:09.1 8]but they're always on time for Mrs Chen's lessons!
[14:13.23]Some of our class don't like her, but most of us really appreciate her
[14:18.72]because her teachi ng is so well orga nised and clear.
[14:22.84] A nd a few students even admit liking her!
[14:27.18]During scientific experiments, she explains exactly what is happeni ng
[14:32.90] a nd as a result my work is improving.
[14:36.88]Physics will never be my favourite lesson,
[14:40.04]but I think that I'll do well in the exam with Mrs Chen teaching me.
[14:45.34] Mr Wu's only been teachi ng us for two weeks and he's already very popular [14:52.15]l think this is because he really en joys teachi ng Chin ese literature —
[14:57.00]he loves it,in fact!
[14:59.63]He's got so much energy, this is one class you do not fall asleep in!
[15:05.69]He's about 28, I think, and is rather good-looking.
[15:1 0.60] He talks loudly and fast, and waves his hands about a lot when he gets excited [15:1 7.62] He's really amusing and tells jokes when he thinks we're getting bored.
[15:22.87] Even things like compositions and summaries are fun with Mr Wu. [15:27.62]! respect him a lot.
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 (「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 they
were a problem. In 1935, the police in a town shot 153 camels in one day.
A Lively City
(XL一Xiao Lli JM—John Martin)
XL: It's great to see you againjohn.
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 Fve visited your hometown.
XL: Yes ,I'm so glad you could come .
JM:You know ,1 have seen quite a lot of china and Fve visited some beautiful cities ,but this is one of the most attractive places Fve been to.Ifs 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 aroimd.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^e put up a lot high-rise buildings recently.And there are some great shopping malls.See,we9re 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：ril 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.?m starving!
MODULE 5 A Lesson in a Lab
Passage A It is hard to think of a world without metals.
[02:01.75]Different metals have different uses, for example, steel is used in cars,
[02:08.94]and iron is used in electrical equipment. When we use metals, [02:14.81 ]it is important to know how they react with different substances, [02:19.43]for example, water and oxygen.
[02:23.37]The reaction of metals with these substances can be put in order. [02:29.50]Here is a table with the metals that react most at the top, [02:34.36]and the metals that react least at the bottom.
Passage B A Simple Scientific Experiment
[02:52.88]Below is a description of a simple scientific experiment.
[02:58.04] It shows us how iron reacts with air and with water.
[03:03.50]Aim:To find out if iron rusts (a) in dry air;
[03:09.93](b) in water that has no air in it (air-free water);
[03:1 6.67] (c) in ordinary water.
[03:20.45]Apparatus:3 clean iron nails; test tubes; test tube holder;
[03:28.51]cotton wool; oil; Bun sen burner.
[03:34.33] Iron in dry air keep air out of the water. Method
[03:37.56](1) Put some iron nails at the bottom of a test tube.
[03:43.59] (2) Push some cotton wool down the tube. (3) Leave the tube for one week.
[03:53.91] Result After one week, the nails have not rusted.
[04:00.44]Conclusion Iron does not rust in dry air.
[04:07.73] I ron in air-free water Method
[04:12.14](1) Half-fill a test tube with water. (2) Boil the water for three minutes.
[04:21.20](This makes sure there is no air in the water.)
[04:25.45](3) Put two or three clean nails in the water.
[04:31.37] (4) Add some oil to the water. This will keep air out of the water.
[04:38.90](5) Leave the tube for one week.
[04:44.06] Result The nails do not rust in the tube with air-free water.
[04:52.02]Conclusion Iron does not rust in air-free water.
[04:59.31] Iron in ordinary water Method
[05:04.86](1) Half-fill a test tube with water and add two or three clea n n ails.
[05:14.89](2) Leave the tube for one week.
[05:19.70] Result The nails rust in the tube with ordinary water.
[05:27.35]Conclusion Iron rusts in ordinary water.
Module6 Internet
[14:44.61]The Internet is the biggest source of information in the world, [14:49.27]and it's accessible through a computer.
[14:52.86] It consists of millions of pages of data.
[14:57.77] In 1969, DARPA, a US defence organisation developed a way [15:04.15]for all their com- puters to "talk" to each other through the telepho ne.
[15:09.22]They created a net- work of computers called DARPANET.
[15:14.84] For fifteen years, only the US army
[15:18.32]could use this system of communication.
[15:21,71]Then in 1984, the US National Science Foundation
[15:26.72](NSF) started the NSFNET network.
[15:32.20] It then became possible for universities to use the system as well.
[15:37.81]NSFNET became known as the Inter-Network or "Internet".
[15:46.20]The World Wide Web (the web) is a computer network
[15:51.02]that allows computer users to access information
[15:54.31]from millions of websites via the Internet.
[15:58.50]At the moment, about 80 percent of web traffic is in English,
[1 6:03.22]but this percentage is going down.
[1 6:06.36] By 2020, much web traffic could be in Chinese.
[16:12.72]The World Wide Web was invented in 1 991 by an English scientist, [1 6:18.45]Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee built his first computer
[16:23.45]while he was at university using an old television!
[16:28.06]He came up with the idea of the World Wide Web in 1989 [16:32.72]while he was working in Switzerland.
[16:36.27] Derners・Lee made it possible for everyone to use the Internet,
[16:40.22]not just univer- sities and the army. He designed the first "web browser",
[1 6:46.24]which allowed computer users to access documents from other computers
[16:52.00]From that moment on, the web and the In ternet grew.
[1 6:56.56]Within five years, the number of Internet users rose
[17:00.97]from 600,000 to 40 million.
[1 7:05.26]The In ter net has created thousa nds of millionn aires,
[17:09.06]but Berners-Lee is not one of them.
[17:12.51 ] Every one in the world can access the Internet
[17:15.43]using his World Wide Web system.
[17:18.62] He now works as a lecturer
[17:20.54]at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.
MODULE 1 Our Body and Healthy Habits
Zhou Kai(1)
When Zhou Kai's mother saw him heading towards the front door without a jacket on, she eyed him anxiously.
"Zhou Kai, where are you going?" she asked.
To the park. I'm going to play football," said Zhou Kai.
"But it's raining! You'll catch a bad cold," said his mother.
"No, I won't. I'll be fine," said Zhou Kai, as he opened the door. "Zhou Kai, you'll get ill. You know you will.
You can at least go and get your jacket."
"OK, OK." Zhou Kai went and did as he was told.
Zhou Kai (2)
My mother has always made sure we eat very healthily, and fresh fruit and vegetables are a very important part of our diet.
We live near the sea and we have fish about four times a week.
We don't eat much fat or sugar.
A lot of my school friends eat sweets every day
but I'm lucky because I don't have a sweet tooth 一
I'd rather eat a nice piece of fruit.
And I'm not too heavy, so I never have to diet, or anything like that.
I'm quite healthy. I very rarely get colds, although, unusually for me,I had a bad cold and a bit of a fever last week.
But that's because I was stupid enough to play football in the rain.
I don't often get things like flu either.
Last winter almost all my classmates got flu — but I didn't.
I think I don't get these things because I take a lot of exercise and am very fit. Two years ago I broke my arm playing football.
The in jury was quite painful
and I couldn't move my arm for a month 一I hated that.
So as you can see from what I've said, I'm a normal kind of person.
But there's one thing I really love 一I'm crazy about football.
I'm captain of the class team at school
and I'm also a member of the Senior High team.
Because of this, I make sure that I have a good diet, and as I've said, his isn't a problem because my mother feeds us so well.
NO drugs
My name is Adam Rouse. Tm 19 years old and I used to be a drug addict. I first started using drugs when I was 15. I bought carinabis from a man in the street. I continued to buy carin abis
from the same man for about six mon ths. One day, he offered me some crack cocaine. Article 2
Cocaine is a powerful addictive drug. Some drug users inject cocaine, others smoke it. Both ways are dangerous. Users who inject the drug are also in more danger if they share needles with other users.
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Crack cocaine is the most addictive form of cocaine much more easily if they smoke it. Smoking allows cocaine to reach the brain very quickly.
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When I went back to the man again, I wanted more crack cocaine. But he asked me for a lot of money. I didn't have enough money so he didn't give me any drugs I was in terrible pain.
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The next day, I broke into a house and stole a television and a video recorder. I took them to the drug dealer. He told me to take them to a shop in a nearby street. The man in the shop gave me some money. I took the money to the drug dealer and he gave me some more crack cocaine.
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Using cocaine increases the user's heart rate and blood pressure. As a result, cocaine users sometimes have heart attacks. Smoking crack cocaine also causes anti-social behavior.
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By this time, I was addicted to crack cocaine. If I didn't have any drugs, I was in terrible pain. And I had to steal something every day to pay for the drugs. One day, the police took me to the police station.
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The next day, a doctor came to see me. He told me that I could die if I didn't stop taking crack cocaine, so I took his advice and stopped immediately. Now I work in a centre for drug addicts, helping others to stop taking drugs.
Three Great Child Composers
[25:54.29]Joseph Haydn (1732 -1809) was an Austrian composer [26:00.38]and is known as "the father of the symphony” .
[26:04.44]Other composers had written symphonies before Haydn, [26:08.01]but he changed the symphony into a long piece for a large orchestra.
[26:13.68] He was born in a village in Austria,
[26:13.67] He was born in a village in Austria, the son of a peasant.
[26:18.32] He had a beautiful singing voice. After studying music in Vienna, [26:24.12]Haydn went to work at the court of a prince in eastern Austria, [26:28.39]where he became director of music. Having worked there for 30 years,
[26:34.31]Haydn moved to London, where he was very successful. [26:39.90]Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 一1 791) was a composer, [26:47.00]possibly the greatest musical genius of all time.
[26:51.33]He only lived 35 years and he composed more than 600 pieces of music.
[26:58.59]Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.
[27:02.41] His father Leopold was a musicia n and orchestra con ductor.
[27:07.36] Wolfga ng had musical tale nt from a very early age.
[27:12.02] He learned to play the harpsichord when he was four,
[27:15.1 8]he started composing music when he was five, and when he was six,
[27:19.84] he played the harpsichord in a con cert for the Empress of Austria. [27:25.43] By the time he was 14, Mozart had composed many pieces for the harpsichord,
[27:30.96]piano and violin, as well as for orchestras.
[27:35.66] While he was still a teenager, Mozart was already a big star
[27:40.36]and toured Europe giving concerts.
[27:43.91 ]Haydn met Mozart in 1781 and was very impressed with him. [27:49.59]"He is the greatest composer the world has known," he said. [27:54.79]The two were friends until
Mozart's death in 1791.
[27:59.86] Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 —1827) was born in Bonn, Germa ny.
[28:07.86] He showed musical tale nt when he was very young,
[28:11.11 ]and learned to play the violin and piano from his father, who was a singer.
[28:1 6.92]Mozart met Beethoven and was impressed by him.
[28:21.05]"He will give something wonderful to the world," he said.
[28:25.68]Beethoven met Haydn in 1 791, but was not impressed by the older man.
[28:32.61]After they had known each other for many years,Beethoven said [28:36.84]"He is a good composer, but he has taught me nothing."
[28:41.63]However,it was Haydn who encouraged Beethoven to move to Vienna.
[28:46.83]Beethoven became very popular in the Austrian capital
[28:50.97]and stayed there for the rest of his life.
[28:54.27]As he grew older, he began to go deaf.
[28:57.86]He became completely deaf during the last years of his life, [29:01.67]but he continued composing.
paragraphs E and F.
[38:03.09]A This is a painting by the Spanish artist,
[38:08.13] Pablo Picasso,
[38:1 0.28]considered to be the greatest western artist of the twentieth century.
[38:15.61 ] Picasso and another pain ter,George Braque, started Cubism, [38:21.50 Jone of the most im porta nt of all modern art moveme nts. [38:26.23]Cubist artists pain ted objects and people,
[38:30.18]with different aspects of the object
[38:32.72]or person showing at the same time.
[38:37.1 5] B This painting
[38:39.70]by contemporary American artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923 — 1997) [38:48.70]is a world famous example of pop art.
[38:52.81 ]Pop art (from the word "popular") was an important modern art moveme nt
[38:58.90]that aimed to show ordinary twentieth- century city life. [39:03.64] For example,it
shows things such as soup cans and advertisements.
[39:10.88]c Qi Baishi(1863 - 1957),one of China's greatest painters, [39:22.51 ]followed the traditional Chinese style of painting.
[39:27.17]Chinese painting is known for its brush drawings in black inks [39:32.75]and natural colours.
[39:34.81]Qi Baishi observed the world of nature very carefully,
[39:40.02]and his paintings are special because of this.
[39:45.90]D Xu Beihong (1895 - 1953)
[39:53.74]was one of China's best-known twentieth -century artists. [39:58.59]Like Qi Baishi, Xu painted in the traditional Chinese style. [40:04.86]Both painters have a beautiful brush line. [40:08.07]Xu Beihong believed that artists should show reality,but not just imitate it.
[40:1 5.02] I nstead, a picture should try to show the "life" of its subject. [40:21.06]He is most famous for his lively paintings of horses.
[40:27.29]E I'm studying art at school, and I enjoy it a lot,
[40:33.38]although I can get tired of looking at pictures all the time. [40:38.79]I'm crazy about the paintings of Qi Baishi,
[40:42.56]and this delightful picture of the little shrimps
[40:46.33]is such a lovely example of his work.
[40:50.1 3]But I can't stand that picture of a golden-haired girl.
[40:55.29] I think it's stupid.
[40:59.86]F My parents are fond of going to art galleries
[41:06.21]and often take me with them, so I've developed an interest in art.
[41:10.64] I must say, I love that picture of the six horses. They look so alive. [41:17.54] It's by a Chinese artist, is n't it? I can tell by the style.
[41:23.97] I think the painting of the young girl is probably by Picasso. I really like him.
[41:31.00] I think he's an extraordinary artist.
Chinese Taikonaut Back on Earth! [00:21.04] 1 .China's first taikonaut Lieutenant Colonel Yang Liwei [00:26.60] landed safely this morning in the Shenzhou V capsule in Inner
Mongolia,
[00:32.24]300 kilometres northwest of Beijing.
[00:36.1 8]Yang was in space for twenty-one and a half hours
[00:39.75]and made 14 orbits of the earth.
[00:44.34]"lt is a great moment in the history of China 一
[00:47.47]and also the greatest day of my life," said Yang.
[00:52.33]When he was orbiting in the capsule, he took photographs of planet earth.
[00:57.97]"Our planet is so beautiful," he said.
[01:02.31]The Beijing Space Control Centre said the flight was a "complete success".
[01:08.75]When Yang landed, Premier Wen』abao telephoned the Control Centre
[01:13.60]to offer his congratulations.
[01:17.54]When Yang took off from』uquan in northwest China at 9 am yesterday,
[01:23.1 0]China became the third nation to send a man into space.
[01:28.29]Yang is the 438th person to travel in space,
[01:33.00]including astronauts from 32 countries.
[01:37.50]ln total,
[01:38.70]these astronauts have spent more than 26,000 days in space.
[01:45.61]2 While he was travelling in space,
[01:49.20]Yang spoke to two astronauts aboard the International Space Station,
[01:54.02]which is orbiting the earth,
[01:55.99]American astronaut Edward Lu and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.
[02:02.23] Lu, whose parents were born in China,
[02:04.88]spoke to Yang in Chinese during his flight.
[02:08.42]"Welcome to space," he said. Malenchenko said,
[02:13.22]"l am glad there is somebody else in space with us.
[02:16.86] It's great work by thousands and thousands of people from China."
[02:22.54]3 Many countries aro und the world sent messages of congratulations.
[02:29.84]Sean O'Keefe from NASA
[02:32.22](National Aeronau -tics and Space Administration) in the US
[02:36.49]said that Yang's space flight was
[02:38.68]"an important historical achievement
[02:41,34]and NASA wishes China continuing success
[02:44.1 5]with its space flight programme".
[02:47.13]United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called the flight
[02:51.84]"a step forward for the whole world".
Film Review: Crouch ing Tiger, Hidde n Drag on
[13:35.22]Martial arts films are often enjoyable but they are seldom great art.
[13:41.50]Now, to everyone's surprise, Ang Lee, director of a number of excellent films, [13:48.40]has made a martial arts film called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
[13:54.31 ]The result is a masterpiece.
[13:58.36]The film belongs to a type of Chinese story called wuxia. [14:04.40]These stories tell of nineteenth- century martial arts masters [14:09.63]with unusual abilities. Wuxia films are popular in China, [14:16.44]and they are now popular in the west too.
[14:20.94]The story takes place in the early 1800s in China.
[14:26.1 5]A man and a woman, Li Mubai (played by Chow Yun-Fat) [14:31.70]and Yu Xiulian (played by Michelle Yeoh),
[14:35.97]both masters of the martial arts, are in love with each other. [14:41.38]But Xiulian had a fiance who has died.
[14:46.1 5]Because this fiance was a good friend of Mubai,
[14:50.16]Mubai feels that he cannot marry Xiulian.
[14:54.27]Whe n some one steals Xiulia n's sword, Mubai and Xiulian try to get it back. [15:01.91]The action takes place on Peking rooftops,
[15:05.69]and in places as far away as the deserts of western China.
[15:11.00] As in the old wuxia stories, characters leap through the air every now and then,
[15:17.04]with beautiful, graceful movements, while audiences shout in surprise.
[15:24.68]Unusually, it is the female characters that interest us most.
[15:30.13]Brave, good and strong, Xiulian is the character we care about most.
[15:36.81]Beautiful Zhang Ziyi plays the part of Yu』aolong, [15:41,88]a young woman who is not as good as she seems.
[15:46.1 8]The fight scenes between Jiaolong and Xiulian
[15:49.75]are some of the most exciting moments in modern cinema.
[15:53.77]But one cannot forget the wonderful Chow Yun-Fat,
[15:57.83]who is as good with a sword as he is with a gun.
[16:01.84] His romantic scenes with Yu Xiulian are very moving,
[16:07.1 5]as their eyes show all the love that they must not express in words.
[16:14.93]Films like this rarely reach the cinema.
[16:18.40]Go and see Crouching Tiger,Hidden Drag on.
[16:21.51] It will make your heart leap with excitement at its beauty.。