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1、 外研版高中英语课文文本 必修一Module 1My Name is Li Kang. I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not farfrom Beijing. It is the capital city of Hebei Province. Todayis my first day at Senior High school and Im writing downmy thoughts about it. My new school is very good and Ican see why. The teachers are very enthusiasti
2、c andfriendly and the classrooms are amazing. Every room hasa computer with a special screen, almost as big as acinema screen. The teachers write on the computer, andtheir words appear on the screen behind them. Thescreens also show photographs, text and information fromwebsites. Theyre brilliant! T
3、he English class is reallyinteresting. The teacher is a very enthusiastic womancalled Ms Shen. Were using a new textbook and MsShens method of teaching is nothing like that of theteachers at my Junior High school. She thinks thatreading comprehension is important, but we speak a lot inclass, too. An
4、d we have fun. I dont think I will be bored inMs Shens class! Today we introduced ourselves to eachother. We did this in groups. Some students wereembarrassed at first but everyone was very friendly and itwas really nice. Ms Shen gave us instructions and thenwe worked by ourselves. Ms Shen wants to
5、help usimprove our spelling and handwriting. We do this in a funway, with spelling games and other activities. I like herattitude very much, and the behaviour of the otherstudents shows that they like her, too. There are sixty-fivestudents in my class more than my previous class inJunior High. Forty
6、-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 writea description of the street where we live. Im lookingforward to do
7、ing it!Module 2They say that first impressions are very important. Myfirst impression of Mrs. Li was that she was nervous andshy. I think perhaps she was, as it was her first lessonwith us. But now, after two weeks, the class really likesworking with her. Shes kind and patient, and sheexplains Engli
8、sh grammar so clearly that even I canunderstand it! She avoids making you feel stupid! Ivealways hated making mistakes or pronouncing a wordincorrectly when I speak English, but Mrs. Li just smiles,so that you dont feel completely stupid! I think maybeshe goes a bit too slowly for the faster student
9、s, but forme its wonderful! I feel Im going to make progress withher.Id guess that Mrs. Chen is almost sixty. Shes verystrictwe dont dare to say a word unless she asks us to.Shes also very serious and doesnt smile much. Whenshe asks you to do something, you do it immediately!There are a few students
10、 in our class who keep comingto class late but theyre always on time for Mrs. Chenslessons! Some of our class dont like her, but most of usreally appreciate her because her teaching is so wellorganised and clear. And a few students even admitliking her! During scientific experiments, she explainsexa
11、ctly what is happening and as a result my work isimproving. Physics will never be my favourite lesson,- but I think that Ill do well in the exam with Mrs. Chenteaching me.Mr. Wus only been teaching us for two weeks and hesalready very popular. I think this is because he reallyenjoys teaching Chinese
12、 literature he loves it, in fact!Hes got so much energy; this is one class you do not fallasleep in! Hes about 28, I think, and is rather good-looking. He talks loudly and fast, and waves his handsabout a lot when he gets excited. Hes really amusing andtells jokes when he thinks were getting bored.
13、Eventhings like compositions and summaries are fun with Mr.Wu. I respect him a lot.Module 3My name is Alice Thompson. I come from Sydney,Australia and Im 18 years old. Recently I had my firstride on a long-distance train. And what a ride! A friendand I travelled on the famous Ghan train. We got on i
14、nSydney and we got off in Alice Springs, right in themiddle of Australia, more than four thousand kilometresaway. We spent two days and nights on the train.The train was wonderful and the food was great. We ategreat meals cooked by experts! For the first few hundredkilometres of the journey, the sce
15、nery was very colourful.There were fields and the soil was dark red. After that, itwas desert. The sun shone, there was no wind and therewere no clouds in the sky. Suddenly, it looked like a placefrom another time. We saw abandoned farms which werebuilt more than a hundred years ago.The train was co
16、mfortable and the people were nice.- During the day, I sat and looked out of the window, andsometimes talked to other passengers. I read books andlistened to my Chinese cassettes (Im studying Chinese atschool). One night, at about midnight, I watched the nightsky for about an hour. The stars shone l
17、ike diamonds.Why is the train called the Ghan? A long time ago,Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of thecountry. They tried riding horses, but the horses didntlike the hot weather and sand. A hundred and fifty yearsago, they brought some camels from Afghanistan.Ghan is short for Afghan
18、istan.Camels were much better than horses for travelling along distance. For many years, trained camelscarried food and other supplies, and returned withwool and other products.The Afghans and their camels did this until the 1920s.Then the government built a new railway line, so theydidnt need the c
19、amels any more. In 1925, they passed alaw which allowed people to shoot the animals if theywere a problem. In 1935, the police in a town shot 153camels in one day.Module 4XIAO LI: Its great to see you again, John.JOHN MARTIN: Its great to see you! Its been six yearssince we last saw each other, you
20、know. And this is thefirst time Ive visited your hometown.- XIAO LI: Yes, Im so glad you could come.JOHN MARTIN: You know, Ive seen quite a lot of Chinaand Ive visited some beautiful cities, but this is one of themost attractive places Ive been to. Its so lively, andeveryone seems so friendly.XIAO L
21、I: Yes, its one of the most interesting cities onthe coast, everyone says so. I feel very fortunate livinghere. And I love living by the seaside.JOHN MARTIN: You live in the northwest of Xiamen,is that right?XIAO LI: Yes, thats right.JOHN MARTIN: Whats the climate like?XIAO LI: Pretty hot and wet in
22、 the summer, but it can bequite cold in the winter.JOHN MARTIN: Sounds OK to me. There are a lotof tourists around. Dont they bother you?XIAO LI: Yes, they can be a nuisance in thesummer because there are so many of them.JOHN MARTIN: Oh, look at that huge apartment block!XIAO LI: Yes, theyve just co
23、mpleted it. The rent foran apartment there is very high.- JOHN MARTIN: I believe you! This areas so modern!XIAO LI: Yes, this is the business district. Theyve putup a lot of high-rise buildings recently. And there aresome great shopping malls. See, were just passingone now. My wifes just bought a be
24、autiful dress fromone of the shops there.JOHN MARTIN: Maybe I could buy a few presents there.XIAO LI: Ill take you there tomorrow. Now wereleaving the business district and approaching the harbour.Were entering the western district, the most interestingpart of the city. Its got some really pretty pa
25、rks .JOHN MARTIN: It seems lovely. Is that Gulangyu Island,just across the water?XIAO LI: Yes, it is. Its a gorgeous island with somereally interesting architecture.JOHN MARTIN: So they tell me. Do you think wecould stop and walk around for a while?XIAO LI: Yes, I was just going to do that. We can p
26、arkover there. A friends told me about a nice little fishrestaurant near here. Shall we go there for lunch?JOHN MARTIN: That sounds great. Im starving!Module 5The Internet is the biggest source of information in the- world, and its accessible through a computer. Itconsists of millions of pages of da
27、ta.In 1969, DARPA, a U.S. defence organisation, developeda way for all their computers to talk to each otherthrough the telephone. They created a network ofcomputers called DARPANET. For fifteen years, only theU.S. army could use this system of communication. Thenin 1984, the U.S. National Science F
28、oundation (NSF)started the NSFNET network. It then became possible foruniversities to use the system as well. NSFNET becameknown as the Inter-Network, or Internet.The World Wide Web (the web) is a computernetwork that allows computer users to accessinformation from millions of websites via the Inter
29、net.At the moment, about 80 percent of web traffic is inEnglish, but this percentage is going down. By 2020,much web traffic could be in Chinese.The World Wide Web was invented in 1991 by anEnglish scientist, Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee builthis first computer while he was at university using anold
30、 television! He came up with the idea of the WorldWide Web in 1989 while he was working in Switzerland.Berners-Lee made it possible for everyone to use theInternet, not just universities and the army. He designedthe first web browser, which allowed computer users toaccess documents from other comput
31、ers. From thatmoment on, the web and the Internet grew. Within fiveyears, the number of Internet users rose from 600 000 to- 40 million.The Internet has created thousands of millionaires, butBerners-Lee is not one of them. Everyone in the worldcan access the Internet using his World Wide Web system.
32、He now works as a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology in Boston.Passage A It is hard to think of a world without metals.Different metals have different uses, for example, steel isused in cars, and iron is used in electrical equipment.When we use metals, it is important to know how theyr
33、eact with different substances, for example, water andoxygen. The reaction of metals with these substancescan be put in order. Here is a table with the metals thatreact most at the top, and the metals that react least atthe bottom.Passage BA Simple Scientific ExperimentBelow is a description of a si
34、mple scientific experiment.It shows us how iron reacts with air and with water.Aim: To find out if iron rusts (a) in dry air; (b) in waterthat 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
35、dry airMethod 1. Put some iron nails at the bottom of a test tube.- 2. Push some cotton wool down the tube.3. Leave the tube for one week.ResultAfter one week, the nails have not rusted.ConclusionIron does not rust in dry air.Iron in air-free waterMethod1. Half-fill a test tube with water.2. Boil th
36、e water for three minutes. (This makes surethere 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 ofthe water.5. Leave the tube for one week.ResultThe nails do not rust in the tube with air-free water.ConclusionIron does not rust in air-free water.Iron in ordinary waterMethod1. Half-fill a test tube with water and add two orthree clean nails.2. Leave the tube for one week.ResultThe nails rust in the tube with ordinary water.- ConclusionIron rusts in ordinary water.-