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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 inShijiazhuang, a city not farfrom Beijing. It is the capital cityof Hebei Province. Todayis my first day at Senior Highschool and Im writing downmy thoughts about it. My new school is very good and Ican see why. The teachers arevery enthusiastic a

2、ndfriendly and the classrooms areamazing. Every room hasa computer with a special screen,almost as big as acinema screen. The teachers writeon the computer, andtheir words appear on the screenbehind them. Thescreens also show photographs,text and information fromwebsites. Theyre brilliant! TheEnglis

3、h class is really interesting. The teacher is a veryenthusiastic womancalled Ms Shen. Were using anew textbook and MsShens method of teaching isnothing like that of theteachers at my Junior High school.She thinks thatreading comprehension isimportant, but we speak a lot inclass, too. And we have fun

4、. Idont think I will be bored inMs Shens class! Today weintroduced ourselves to eachother. We did this in groups. Some students wereembarrassed at first but everyonewas very friendly and itwas really nice. Ms Shen gave usinstructions and thenwe worked by ourselves. Ms Shenwants to help usimprove our

5、 spelling andhandwriting. We do this in a funway, with spelling games andother activities. I like herattitude very much, and thebehaviour of the otherstudents shows that they like her,too. There are sixty-five students in my classmore thanmy previous class inJunior High. Forty-nine of themare girls.

6、 In other words,there are three times as many girls-as boys. They say that girls areusually more hard-working thanboys, but in this class, everyone ishard-working. For our homeworktonight, we have to writea description of the street wherewe live. Im looking forward to doing it!Module 2They say that

7、first impressions arevery important. Myfirst impression of Mrs. Li wasthat she was nervous andshy. I think perhaps she was, as itwas her first lessonwith us. But now, after two weeks,the class really likesworking with her. Shes kind andpatient, and sheexplains English grammar so clearly that even I

8、canShe avoids making you feel stupid!Ive understand it!always hatedmaking mistakes or pronouncing awordincorrectly when I speak English,but Mrs. Li just smiles,so that you dont feel completelystupid! I think maybeshe goes a bit too slowly for thefaster students, but forme its wonderful! I feel Im go

9、ingto make progress withher. Id guess that Mrs. Chen is almostsixty. Shes verywe dont dare to say a word unlessshe asks us to. strictShes alsovery serious and doesnt smilemuch. Whenshe asks you to do something, youdo it immediately!There are a few students in ourclass who keep comingto class late bu

10、t theyre always ontime for Mrs. Chenslessons! Some of our class dontlike her, but most of us really appreciate her because herteaching is so wellorganised and clear. And a fewstudents even admitliking her! During scientificexperiments, she explainsexactly what is happening and asa result my work isi

11、mproving. Physics will never bemy favourite lesson,-but I think that Ill do well in theexam with Mrs. Chen teaching me.Mr. Wus only been teaching usfor two weeks and hesalready very popular. I think thisis because he reallyenjoys teaching Chinese literaturehe loves it, in fact!Hes got so much energy

12、; this isone class you do not fallasleep in! Hes about 28, I think,and is rather good-looking. Hetalks loudly and fast, and waveshis handsabout a lot when he gets excited. Hes really amusing andtells jokes when he thinks weregetting bored. Eventhings like compositions andsummaries are fun with Mr.Wu

13、. I respect him a lot.Module 3My name is Alice Thompson. Icome from Sydney,Australia and Im 18 years old.Recently I had my firstride on a long-distance train. Andwhat a ride! A friend and I travelled on the famousGhan train. We got on inSydney and we got off in AliceSprings, right in themiddle of Au

14、stralia, more thanfour thousand kilometresaway. We spent two days andnights on the train.The train was wonderful and thefood was great. We ategreat meals cooked by experts!For the first few hundredkilometres of the journey, the scenery was very colourful.There were fields and the soil wasdark red. A

15、fter that, itwas desert. The sun shone, therewas no wind and therewere no clouds in the sky.Suddenly, it looked like a placefrom another time. We sawabandoned farms which werebuilt more than a hundred yearsago.The train was comfortable and thepeople were nice.- -During the day, I sat and lookedout o

16、f the window, andsometimes talked to otherpassengers. I read books andlistened to my Chinese cassettes(Im studying Chinese atschool). One night, at aboutmidnight, I watched the nightsky for about an hour. The starsshone like diamonds.Why is the train called the Ghan? A long time ago,Australians need

17、ed a way to travelto the middle of thecountry. They tried riding horses,but the horses didntlike the hot weather and sand. Ahundred and fifty yearsago, they brought some camelsfrom Afghanistan.Ghan is short for Afghanistan.Camels were much better thanhorses for travelling along distance. For many ye

18、ars, trained camelscarried food and other supplies,and returned withwool and other products.The Afghans and their camels didthis until the 1920s.Then the government built a newrailway line, so theydidnt need the camels any more.In 1925, they passed alaw which allowed people toshoot the animals if th

19、eywere a problem. In 1935, the police in a town shot 153camels in one day.Module 4XIAO LI: Its great to see youagain, John.JOHN MARTIN: Its great to seeyou! Its been six yearssince we last saw each other, youknow. And this is thefirst time Ive visited yourhometown. -XIAO LI: Yes, Im so glad youcould

20、 come.JOHN MARTIN: You know, Iveseen quite a lot of Chinaand Ive visited some beautifulcities, but this is one of themost attractive places Ive been to.Its so lively, andeveryone seems so friendly.XIAO LI: Yes, its one of the most interesting cities onthe coast, everyone says so. I feelvery fortunat

21、e livinghere. And I love living by theseaside.JOHN MARTIN: You live in thenorthwest of Xiamen,is that right?XIAO LI: Yes, thats right.JOHN MARTIN: Whats theclimate like? XIAO LI: Pretty hot and wet inthe summer, but it can bequite cold in the winter.JOHN MARTIN: Sounds OK tome. There are a lotof tou

22、rists around. Dont theybother you?XIAO LI: Yes, they can be anuisance in thesummer because there are somany of them. JOHN MARTIN: Oh, look at thathuge apartment block!XIAO LI: Yes, theyve justcompleted it. The rent foran apartment there is very high.-JOHN MARTIN: I believe you!This areas so modern!X

23、IAO LI: Yes, this is the business district. Theyve putup a lot of high-rise buildingsrecently. And there aresome great shopping malls. See,were just passingone now. My wifes just bought abeautiful dress fromone of the shops there.JOHN MARTIN: Maybe I couldbuy a few presents there.XIAO LI: Ill take y

24、ou theretomorrow. Now were leaving the business district andapproaching the harbour.Were entering the western district,the most interestingpart of the city. Its got somereally pretty parks .JOHN MARTIN: It seems lovely.Is that Gulangyu Island,just across the water?XIAO LI: Yes, it is. Its agorgeous

25、island with somereally interesting architecture. JOHN MARTIN: So they tell me.Do you think wecould stop and walk around for awhile?XIAO LI: Yes, I was just going todo that. We can parkover there. A friends told meabout a nice little fishrestaurant near here. Shall we gothere for lunch?JOHN MARTIN: T

26、hat sounds great. Im starving!Module 5The Internet is the biggest sourceof information in the-world, and its accessible througha computer. Itconsists of millions of pages ofdata.In 1969, DARPA, a U.S. defence organisation, developeda way for all their computers toalk to each otherthrough the telepho

27、ne. Theycreated a network ofcomputers called DARPANET.For fifteen years, only theU.S. army could use this systemof communication. Thenin 1984, the U.S. National ScienceFoundation (NSF)started the NSFNET network. Itthen became possible foruniversities to use the system aswell. NSFNET became known as

28、the Inter-Network, orInternet.The World Wide Web (the web) isa computernetwork that allows computerusers to accessinformation from millions ofwebsites via the Internet.At the moment, about 80 percentof web traffic is inEnglish, but this percentage isgoing down. By 2020,much web traffic could be in C

29、hinese.The World Wide Web wasinvented in 1991 by anEnglish scientist, TimBerners-Lee. Berners-Lee builthis first computer while he was atuniversity using anold television! He came up withthe idea of the WorldWide Web in 1989 while he wasworking in Switzerland.Berners-Lee made it possible for everyon

30、e to use theInternet, not just universities andthe army. He designedthe first web browser, whichallowed computer users toaccess documents from othercomputers. From thatmoment on, the web and theInternet grew. Within fiveyears, the number of Internetusers rose from 600 000 to-40 million. The Internet

31、 has createdthousands of millionaires, butBerners-Lee is not one of them.Everyone in the world can accessthe Internet using his World WideWeb system.He now works as a lecturer atMassachusetts Institute ofTechnology in Boston.Passage A It is hard to think of aworld without metals.Different metals hav

32、e different uses, for example, steel isused in cars, and iron is used inelectrical equipment.When we use metals, it isimportant to know how theyreact with different substances, forexample, water andoxygen. The reaction of metalswith these substancescan be put in order. Here is a tablewith the metals

33、 thatreact most at the top, and themetals that react least atthe bottom. Passage BA Simple Scientific ExperimentBelow is a description of a simplescientific experiment. It shows ushow iron reacts with air and withwater.Aim: To find out if iron rusts (a) indry air; (b) in waterthat has no air in it (

34、air-free water);(c) in ordinary water.Apparatus: 3 clean iron nails; test tubes; test tube holder;cotton wool; oil; Bunsen burner.Iron in dry airMethod 1. Put some iron nails atthe bottom of a test tube.-2. Push some cotton wool downthe tube. 3. Leave the tube forone week.Result After one week, the

35、nails have notrusted.ConclusionIron does not rust in dry air.Iron in air-free waterMethodHalf-fill a test tube with water.1. Boil the water for threeminutes. (This makes sure 2.there is no air in the water.)Put two or three clean nails inthe water. 3. Add some oil to the water.This will keep air out

36、 of 4.thewater.Leave the tube for one week.5.ResultThe nails do not rust in the tubewith air-free water.ConclusionIron does not rust in air-freewater.Iron in ordinary water MethodHalf-fill a test tube with water andadd two or 1.three clean nails.Leave the tube for one week.2.ResultThe nails rust in

37、the tube withordinary water.-ConclusionIron rusts in ordinary water.-3. Add some oil to the water.This will keep air out of 4.thewater.Leave the tube for one week.5.ResultThe nails do not rust in the tubewith air-free water.ConclusionIron does not rust in air-freewater.Iron in ordinary water MethodH

38、alf-fill a test tube with water andadd two or 1.three clean nails.Leave the tube for one week.2.ResultThe nails rust in the tube withordinary water.-ConclusionIron rusts in ordinary water.-3. Add some oil to the water.This will keep air out of 4.thewater.Leave the tube for one week.5.ResultThe nails

39、 do not rust in the tubewith air-free water.ConclusionIron does not rust in air-freewater.Iron in ordinary water MethodHalf-fill a test tube with water andadd two or 1.three clean nails.Leave the tube for one week.2.ResultThe nails rust in the tube withordinary water.-ConclusionIron rusts in ordinary water.-