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1、读书破万卷下笔如有神必修一Unit1Anne s Best FriendDo you want a friend whom you could tell everythingto, like your deepestfeelings and thoughts? Or are you afraid that your friend would laugh at you, orwould not understandwhat you are going through?Anne Frank wanted thefirst kind, so she made her diary her best f
2、riend.Anne lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands during World War. Her familywas Jewish so nearly twenty-five months before they were discovered. Duringthat time the only true friend was her diary. She said,” I don t want to set downa series of facts in a diary as most people do, but I want this dia
3、ry itself to bemy friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty.” Now read how she felt after being inthe hiding place since July 1942.Thursday15thJune, 1944Dear Kitty,I wonder if it s because I haven t been able to be outdoors for so long thatI ve grown so crazy about everything to do with nature. I can
4、 well remember that there was a time when a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlightand flower s could never have kept me spellbound. That s changed since I was here. 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
5、 the moon by my self. Butas the moon gave far too much light, I didn t dare open a window. Another timefive months ago, I happened to be upstairs at dusk when the window was open.I didn t go downstairs until the window bad to be shut. The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me
6、entirely in their power; it was the firsttime 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 hangingbefore very dusty windows. It s no pleasure looking through these any longer because nature is one thing that really must be ex
7、perienced.Yours,Anne读书破万卷下笔如有神Unit2the Road to Modern EnglishAt 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 becauseof that, Eng
8、lish began to be spoken in many other countries. Today, more people speak English as their first, second or a foreign language than ever before.Native English spea kers 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
9、see my flat?American Amy: Yes. I d like to come up to you apartment.So why has English changed over time? Actually all languages change and develop when cultures meet and communicate with each other. At fist the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the Engl
10、ish spoken today. It was base more on German than the Englishwe speak at present. Then gradually between about AD 500 and 1150, English became less like German because those who ruled England spoke first Danish and later French. These new settlers enriched the English language andespecially its voca
11、bulary. So by the 1600 Shakespeares 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 to. English began to be spoken in both countries.Finally by the 19th century the lang
12、uage 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.English now is also spoken as a foreig
13、n 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
14、 such as South Africa. Todaythe 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.读书破万卷下笔如有神Unit3Journey Down the MekongMy name is Wang Kun. Ever since m
15、iddle 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 if Kunming. They are Dai and grew up in western Yunnan
16、 Province near the Lancang River, the Chinese part of the river that is called the Mekong River in other countries.Wang Weisoon got time interested in cycling too. After graduatingfromcollege, we finally got the chance to take a bike trip. I asked my sister,are we going?” It was my sister whofirst h
17、ad the idea to cycle along the entireMekong River from where it begins to where it ends. Now she is planning ourschedule for the trip.I am fond of my sister but she has one serious shortcoming. She can bereally stubborn. Although she didnwtheknobest way of getting to places, she“ Whinsisted that she
18、 organize the trip properly. Now I know that the proper way is always her way. I kept asking her, “ Whenare we leaving and when are wecoming back? ” I asked her whether she had looked at a map yet.Of courseshe hadn t; my sister doesn t care about details. So I told her that the source ofthe Mekong i
19、s in Qinghai Province. She gave me a determined look - the kindthat said she would not change her mind. When I told her that our journeywould begin at an altitudeof more than 5,000 meters,she seemedto beexcited about it. When I told her the air would be hard to breathe and it wouldbe very cold, she
20、said it would be an interesting experience. I know my sisterwell. Once she has made up her mind, nothing can change it. Finally, I had togive 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 a
21、tlas we could see that the Mekong River begins in a glacier to move quickly. It becomes rapids as it passes through deep valleys, traveling across western Yunnan Province. Sometimes the river becomes a water fall and enters wide valleys. We were both surprised to learn that half of the river is in C
22、hina. 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 the South China Sea.读书破万卷下笔如有神Unit4A Night the Earth
23、 didn t SleepStrange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei. Forthree days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. Farmersnoticed that the well walls had deep cracks in them. A smelly gas came out ofthe cracks. In the farmyards, the chickens and even the pig
24、s were too nervousto eat. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish jumped out oftheir bowls and ponds. At about 3:00 am on July 28, 1976, some people sawbright lights in the sky. The sound of planes could be heard outside the city ofTangshan even when no planes were in the sky. In
25、 the city, the water pipes insome buildings cracked and burst. But the one million people of the city, whothought little of these events, were asleep as usual the night.At 3:42 am everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world was at anend! Eleven kilometers directly below the city the greates
26、t earthquake of the20th century had begun. It was felt in Beijing, which is more than two hundredkilometers away. One-third of the nation felt it. A hugecrack that waseightkilometers long and thirty meters wide cut across houses, roads and canals.Steam burst from holes in the ground. Hard hills of r
27、ock became rivers of dirt.In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins. The suffering of the peoplewas extreme. Two-thirds of them died or were injured during the earthquake.Thousands of families were killed of injured reached more than 400,000.But how could the survivors believe it was nat
28、ural? Everywheretheylooked nearly every thing was destroyed. All of the city s hospitals, 75% of itsfactories and buildings and 90% of its homes were gone. Bricks covered theground like red autumn leaves. No wind, however, could blow them away. Twodams fell and most of the bridges also fell or were
29、not safe for traveling. Therailway tracks were now useless pieces of steel. Tens of thousands of cowswould never give milk again. Half a million pigs and millions of chickens weredead. Sand now filled the wells instead of water. People were shocked. Then,later that afternoon, another big quake which
30、 was almost as strong as the firstone shook Tangshan. Some of the rescue workers and doctors were trappedunder the ruins. More buildings fell down. Water, food,and electricitywerehard to get. People began to wonder how long the disaster would last.All hope was not lost. Soon after thequakes, thearmy
31、 sent 150,000soldiers of thousands of people were helped. The army organized teams to digout 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. F
32、resh water was taken to the city by train, truck and plane. Slowly, the city began to breathe again.读书破万卷下笔如有神Unit5Elias StoryMy 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
33、 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 onl
34、y 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. Sad
35、ly 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
36、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 out rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage where we havealmost no rights at all.”It was the truth. Black people co
37、uld not vote or choose their leaders. Theycould not get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town in which they had to livewere decided by white people. The places outside the towns where they weresent tolive were the poorestparts of South Africa. No one could growfoodthere. In fact as Nelson Mandela
38、said:“ we were put into a position in which we had either to accept we wereless important or fight the government. We chose to attack the laws. We firstbroke the law in a way which was peaceful; when this was not allowed onlythen did we decide to answer violence with violence.”As a matter of fact, I do not like violence but in 1963 I helped him blowup 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.