普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语必修1 Unit 1 Friendship-Readi
ANNE'S BEST FRIEND Do you want a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your deepest feelings and thoughts? Or are you afraid that your friend would laugh at you, or would not understand what you are going through ? Anne Frank wanted the fir
普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语必修1 Unit 2 English around t
FRIENDSHIP IN HAWAII Every culture has its own ways to show friendship. On the islands of Hawaii, friendship is part of the aloha spirit. In the language of the Hawaiians who first settled the islands long ago, aloha had a very special meaning. That
普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语必修1 Unit 2 English around t
STANDARD ENGLISH AND DIALECTS What is standard English? Is it spoken in Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, India and New Zealand? Believe it or not, there is no such thing as standard English. Many people believe the English spoken on TV and the ra
普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语必修1 Unit 2 English around t
THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. The spelling of English has always been a problem but it was more of a problem in the days before a dictionary. Then people could spell wo
普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语必修1 Unit 3 Travel Journal-R
JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG PART1 THE DREAM AND THE PLAN My name is Wang Kun. Ever since middle 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
普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语必修1 Unit 3 Travel Journal-U
Although it was autumn, the snow was already beginning 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? That's what we looked like! Along the way children dressed in long
普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语必修1 Unit 3 Travel Journal-R
JOURNEYDOWN THE MEKONG PART 6THEENDOF OURJOURNEY Cambodia was in many ways similar to Laos, although it has twice the population. At another inn, we talked with a teacher who told us that half of the people in her country couldn't read or write. Her
普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语必修1 Unit 4 Earthquakes-Read
A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDNT SLEEP Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei. For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. Farmers noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in them. A smelly gas c
普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语必修1 Unit 4 Earthquakes-Read
THE STORY OF AN EYEWITNESS by Jack London Never before in history has a city been so completely destroyed. San Francisco is gone. Nothing is left of it but memories and some houses far from the centre of the city. Its businesses are gone. The factori
普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语必修1 Unit 5 Nelson Mandela-a
ELIAS STORY My 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 1952 and Mandela was the black lawyer to whom I went for advic
普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语必修1 Unit 5 Nelson Mandela-a
THE REST OF ELIAS STORY You cannot imagine how the name of Robben Island made us afraid. It was a prison from which no one escaped. There I spent the hardest time of my life. But when I got there Nelson Mandela was also there and he helped me. Mr Ma
普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语必修1 Unit 5 Nelson Mandela-a
A FOLLOWER OF BILL CATES I have been a friend of Bill Gates for a long time. I knew him when he was a student at Harvard University. We were surprised when he left University to set up his own company Microsoft and make his own software. But he was
