上海新世纪英语_高一第一学期全部课文

上海新世纪英语高一第一学期全部课文

1. People from all walks of life

When a person grows up, he will take up different occupations in various work plac es. A society is thus made up of all walks of life. What kind of person do you wan t to be in the future? The following introductions may give you some idea.

TEACHER Teachers are professionals. They work in schools, colleges, universities an d other educational institutions. They try their best to help students gain new knowl edge and become useful people in society. Teachers are involved in many tasks, su ch as explaining lessons, giving homework and correcting papers. At the end of eve ry term, they mark test papers and give grades to their students. Actually teachers do more. Often their impact on students stays all through their lives.

SURGEON Surgeons, like teachers, are also professionals. As a special group of doct ors, surgeons operate on sick people and repair the organs that no longer work pro perly. Hospitals are their work places. After an operation, a surgeon takes care of t he patient’s medical treatment until he gets well. The skills of a surgeon sometimes mean the differences between life and death.

SECRETARY A secretary works in an office. The job of a secretary often involves wr iting letters, answering telephone calls, and receiving people. A secretary stores info rmation on a computer and puts papers in good order in file cabinets. As a link bet ween the boss and the visitors, a secretary also helps the boss work out plans and timetables. Traditionally, more girls than boys work as secretaries.

FASHION MODEL Fashion models wear the latest styles of clothes and show them t o us through television, newspapers and magazines. Fashion show programmes usua lly have a large audience. The clothes and hairstyles of fashion models may seem s trange to the elderly, but a large number of young people enjoy following trends a nd want to be dressed like the models. They collect fashion pictures and admire th ose superstars of the catwalk.

Would you like to be one of the people introduced here? What do you want to do in the future?

2. What to choose?

Today more and more high school graduates go on to college. Most young people decide their courses of study for themselves. They do not wait for their parents to tell them what career to choose.

For example, Jack’s father practices medicine. Even though he wants his son also t o become a doctor, he doesn’t insist that Jack study medicine when he finishes hi g h school.

He believes that Jack must make up his own mind about his courses of study. His wife, on the other hand, disagrees with him. She thinks that Jack should become a doctor, and so he can become a partner with his father.

Jack isn’t sure what he wants to study in college. One day he feels that he’d like t o become an engineer. However, the next day he thinks that perhaps he should st udy business management. Right now he is studying chemistry, biology, and physics. All of them will be useful if he finally chooses to study medicine in college.

Jack likes his father’s attitude, and is grateful that his father isn’t forcing him to be come a doctor.

In some countries parents often decide what careers their children will follow --- es pecially their sons. Tchaikovsky(柴可夫斯基，1840-1893，俄国作曲家), the composer of Swan Lake(芭蕾舞剧《天鹅湖》), was asked to study law. He, however, didn’t tak e an interest in it. Tchaikovsky made a great decision on his own. He gave up his government service later and started to study music.

Some people think the young are probably going to be successful because they are doing the things they most want to do in life. Many people, however, disagree wit

h them.

3. Michelangelo

Michelangelo(米开朗琪罗，1475-1564，意大利文艺复兴时期成就卓著的科学家、艺术家) was an Italian artist about 500 years ago. Today he is still remembered as a great sculptor, painter, and architect.

Michelangelo came from a poor family. He was trained at an early age like any oth er craftsman in Italy. At thirteen, he started to work and learn in a workshop. The workshop belonged to one of the leading masters at that time. In the workshop Mi chelangelo was able to learn all the skills of sculpture. However, he wasn’t satisfied, and went on to study the work of the great masters of the past. Michelangelo wo rked hard and he mastered one problem after another. By the time he was 30, he was generally regarded as one of the outstanding sculptors of the age.

In 1508, Michelangelo was given a task --- to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (位于罗马梵蒂冈的西斯廷教堂). At first, he tried to turn down this job, saying that h e was not really a painter, but a sculptor. Finally, he agreed to do it. He then shut himself up in the chapel, let no one come near him, and got ready to work alone. It took him four years to complete the paintings on the ceiling. Any ordinary person would find it hard to imagine what Michelangelo had gone through in those four y ears of hard and lonely work. Michelangelo, while working, had to lie on his back a nd paint. As a result, he became so used to looking upward that when he received a letter during that period, he had to hold it over his head to read it. Finally, the paintings were completed. The great and huge paintings on the ceiling and walls of