人教版英語必修1課文—原文

1、必修 1 第一單元ANNE S BEST FRIENDDo you want a friend whom you could tell everyth ing to, like your deepest feeli ngs and thoughts? Or are youafraid that your friend would laugh at you, or would not un dersta nd what you are going through? Anne Frank wan ted thefirst kind, so she made her diary her best f

2、riend.Anne lived in Amsterdam in the Netherla nds duri ng World War II. Her family was Jewish so the had to hide orthey would be caught by the Germa n Nazis. She and her family hide away for two years before they were discovered. Duringthat time the only true friend was her diary. She said,I don t w

3、ant to set down a series of facts inda,diary as mbut I want this diary itself to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty.lt after beinNoiw tteadhiticng she feplace si nee July 1942.Thursday 15, Ju ne, 1944Dear kitty,I wonder if it because I haven been able to be outdoors for so long that I gr

4、own so crazy about everything to do withnature. I can well remember that there was a time when a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moon light and flowers could n ever have keptme spellbo und. That s cha nged since I was here.For example, whe n it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose un til hal

5、f past eleve n one eve ning in orderto have a good look at the moon for once by myself. But as the moon gave far too much light, I didn tAno ther time some mon ths ago, I happe ned to be upstairs one eve ning whe n the window was ope n. I did nuntil the window had to be shut. The dark, rainy evening

6、, the wind, the thundering clouds held me entirely in their power; itwas the first time in a year and a half that I d seen the night face to faceSadly I am only able to look at n ature through dirty curta ins hanging before very dusty win dows. Itpleasure look ing through these any Ion ger because n

7、 ature is one thi ng that really must be experie need.Yours,Anne必修 1 第二單元THE ROAD TO MODERN ENGLISHAt the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people spoke English. Nearly all of them livedin En gla nd. Later in the next cen tury, people from En gla nd made voyages to conq uer other

8、parts of the world and because of that,En glish bega n to be spoke n in many other coun tries. Today, more people speak En glish as their first, sec ond or foreig n Ian guagetha n ever before.Native English speakers can understand each other even if they don t speak the same kind of EnLook at this e

9、xample:British Betty: Would you like to see my flat?America n Amy: Yes, I like todcome up to your apartme nt.So why has En glish cha nged over time? Actually all la nguages cha nge and develop whe n cultures meetand com muni cate with each other. At first the En glish spoke n in En gla nd betwee n a

10、bout AD 450 and 1150 wasvery differe nt from the En glish spoke n today. It was based more on Germa n tha n the En glish we speak at prese nt.Then gradually between about AD 800 and 1150, English became less like German because those who ruledEngland spoken first Danish and later French. These new s

11、ettlers enriched the English Ianguage and especially itsvocabulary. So by the 1600 s Shakespeare was able to make use of a wider vocabulary tha n ever before .In 1620some British settlers moved to America. Later in the 18th century some British people were taken to Australia too.En glish bega n to b

12、e spoke n in both coun tries.Fin ally by the 19th cen tury the Ian guage was settled. At that time two big cha nges in En glish spelli nghappe ned: first Samuel Joh nson wrote his dictio nary and later Noah Webster wrote The America n Dictio nary ofthe English Language. The latter gave a separate id

13、entity to American English spelling.En glish now is also spoke n as a foreig n or sec ond Ian guage in South Asia. For example, In dia has a verylarge nu mber of flue nt En glish speakers because Brita in ruled In dia from 1765 to 1947. During that time En glishbecame the Ianguage for government and

14、 education. English is also spoken in Singapore and Malaysia and coun tries in Africa suchas South Africa. Today the nu mber of people lear ning En glish in China is in creas ing rapidly.In fact, China may have the largest nu mber of En glish lear ners. Will Chin ese En glish develop its own ide nti

15、ty? Onlytime will tell.必修 1第三單元Travel journalJOURNEY DOWN THE MEKON 沿湄公河而下的旅行PART 1 THE DREAM AND THE PLANMy n ame is Wang Kun. Ever since middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about tak ing a great biketrip. Two years ago she bought an expe nsive mountain bike and the n she persuaded

16、 me to buy one. Last year, she visited our cous ins,Dao Wei and Yu Hang at their college in Kunming. They are Dai and grew up in wester n Yunnan Province near the Lancang River, theChinese part of the river that is called the Mekong River in other coun tries. Wang Wei soon got them in terested in cy

17、cli ng too. Aftergraduat ing from college.we fin ally got the cha nce to take a bike trip. I asked my sister, Where are we going? It was my sister who firsthad the idea to cycle along the en tire Mekong River from where it begi ns to where it en ds. Now she is pla nning our schedule for thetrip.I am

18、 fond of my sister but she has one serious shortco ming. She can be really stubbor n. Although she did nt know the bestway 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, Whe n are we leavi ng and whe n are

19、 we coming back? I asked her whether she had looked at a map yet. Of course, she hadnt; my sister does nt care about details. So I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qin ghai Provi nce. She gave me a determ inedlookthe kind that said she would not cha nge hermind. When I told her that our

20、journey would begin at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres, she seemed to be excited about it. When Itold her the air would be hard to breathe and it would be very cold, she said it would be an in teresti ng experie nce. I know my sister well.Once she has made up her mind, nothing can cha nge it.

21、Fin ally, I had to give in.Several mon ths before our trip,Wa ng Wei and I went to the library. We found a large atlas with good maps that showeddetails of world geography. From the atlas we could see that the Mekong River begins in a glacier on a Tibetan mountain. At first theriver is small and the

22、 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 surprisedto learn that half of the river is in China. After it leaves

23、 China and the high altitude,the Mekong becomes wide , brown and warm. As itenters Southeast Asia, its pace slows. It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice grows. At last, theriver deltaen ters the South China Sea.PART 2 A NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINSAlthough it was aut

24、u mn, the snow was already begi nning 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? Thats what we looked like! Along the way childre n dressed in long wool coats stopped tolook at us. In the late after noon we found it wa

25、s so cold that our water bottles froze.However,the lakes shone like glass in the sett ingsun and looked won derful.Wa ng Wei rode in front of me as usual.She is very reliable and I knew I didt need to encourage her.To climbthe mountains was hard work but as we looked around us,we were surprised by t

26、he view.We seemed to be able to see for miles.At onepoint we were so high that we found ourselves cycli ng through clouds.The n we bega n going dow n the hills .It was great fun especiallyas it gradually became much warmern the valleys colourful butterflies flew around us and we saw many yaks and sh

27、eep eati ng green grass.At this point we had to cha nge 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 the n we eat.After supper Wang Wei put her head dow n onher pillow and went to sleep but I stayed awake.At midni

28、ght the sky became clearer and the stars grew brighter. It was so quiet.Therewas 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 Provi nee soon, where our cous ins Dao Wei and Yu Hang will

29、 join us.We can hardly waitto see them!必修 1 Un it 4 EarthquakesA NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEPStrange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei.For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell,rose andfell.Farmers no ticed that the well walls had deep cracks in them.A smel

30、ly gas came out of the cracks .In the farmyards,the chickens andeven 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 pon ds.Atabout 3:00 am on july 28,1976,some people saw bright lights in the sky.The sound of pla nes could be

31、 heard outside the city of Tan gshan even whe n no pla nes were in the sky.ln the city,the water pipes in some buildi ngs cracked and burst.but the one milli on people of thecity,who thiught little of these eve nts,were asleep as usual that ni ght.At 3:42 am everyth ing bega n to shake .It seemed as

32、 if the world was at an en d!Eleve n kilometres directly below the city the greatestearthquake of the 20th century had begun.lt was felt in Beijing,which is more than two hundred kilometres away.One-third of the nation feltit.A huge crack that was eight kilometres long and thirty metres wide cut acr

33、oss houses,roads and can als.Steam burst from holes in thegro un d.Hard hills of rock became rivers of dir.I n fiftee n terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.The suffering of the people wasextreme.Two-thirds of them died or were left without pare nts.The nu mber of people who were killed or inj

34、ured reached more tha n400,000.But how could the survivors believe it was natural?Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed.All of the cityshospitals,75%of its factories and buildings and 90% of its homes were gone.Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves.Nowind,however,could bl

35、ow them away.Two dams fell and most of the bridges also fell or were not safe for travelling.The railway tracks werenow useless pieces of steel.Tens of thousands of cows would never give milk aga in. Half a milli on oigs and millio ns of chicke ns weredead.Sa nd now filled the wells in stead of wate

36、r.People were shocked.The n, later that after noon,ano ther big quake which was almost asstrong as the first one shook Tan gsha n. Some of the rescue workers and doctors were trapped un der the ruin s.More buildi ngs felldow n. Water,food,a nd electricity werehard to get.people begab to won der how

37、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. Hun dreds of thousands of people were helped.The army orga ni zed teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.To the north of thecity,most

38、of the 10,000 miners were rescued from the coal mines there.Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had beendestroyed.Fresh water was taken to the city bu train,truck andpla ne.Slowly,the city bega n to breathe aga in.必修 1 Unit 5ELIAS STORYMy n ame is Elias. I am a poor black worker in Sout

39、h Africa. The time whe n I first met Nels on Man dela 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 guida nee to poor blackpeople on their legal problems. He was gen erous with his time, for which

40、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 threekilometers 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 Idid not have it because I was not born there, and I worried about whether I would become out of work.The day