外研社高中英语必修1-5课文原文——试讲.doc

必修一Module 1 My First Day at Senior HighMy name is Li Kang.I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not far from Beijing.It is the capital city of Hebei Province. Today is my first day at Senior High school and Im writing down my thoughts about it.My new school is very good and I can see why.The teachers are very enthusiastic and friendly and the classrooms are amazing.Every room has a computer with a special screen, almost as big as a cinema screen.The teachers write on the computer, and their words appear on the screen behind them.The screens also show photographs, text and information from websites.Theyre brilliant!The English class is really interesting.The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman called Ms Shen.Were using a new textbook and Ms Shens method of teaching is nothing like the teachers at my Junior High school.She thinks that reading comprehension is important, but we speak a lot in class, too.And we have fun.I dont think I will be bored in Ms Shens class! Today we introduced ourselves to each other.We did this in groups.Some students were embarrassed at first but everyone was very friendly and it was really nice.Ms Shen gave us instructions and then we worked by ourselves.Ms Shen wants to help us improve our spelling and handwriting.We do this in a fun way, with spelling games and other activities.I like her attitude very much, and the behaviour of the other students shows that they like her, too.There are sixty-five students in my class more than my previous class in Junior High.Forty-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 write a description of the street where we live. Im looking forward to doing it!My After-school Activities.As the students of modern times, we have colorful school life. Everyday, we learn plenty of knowledge on different subjects in class.And our school organizes many extracurricular activities in order to help us put what we have learned into practice.After class, we take part in various activities, like playing football, basketball, badminton, etc. Besides, we are able to join in the lectures organized by literature association, music group, art group, where you can enjoy famous works, learn to play instruments or draw pictures.Also, there are chances for us to use computers in the laboratory and talk with some foreign teachers about anything we are interested in at the English corner.Now, most of us may operate computers freely and have a good command of spoken English.In addition to the after-class activities mentioned here, there are still many others such as sports meeting, debate, social investigation, etc.All those activities make our school life attractive and interesting.We will take advantages of the experience in the future.Module 2 My New TeachersThey say that first impressions are very important.My first impression of Mrs.Li was that she was nervous and shy.I think perhaps she was, as it was her first lesson with us.But now, after two weeks, the class really likes working with her.Shes kind and patient, and she explains English grammar so clearly that even I can understand it! She avoids making you feel stupid! Ive always hated making mistakes or pronouncing a word incorrectly when I speak English, but Mrs.Li just smiles, so that you dont feel completely stupid! I think maybe she goes a bit too slowly for the faster students, but for me its wonderful! I feel Im going to make progress with her.Id guess that Mrs.Chen is almost sixty.Shes very strictwe dont dare to say a word unless she asks us to.Shes also very serious and doesnt smile much.When she asks you to do something, you do it immediately! There are a few students in our class who keep coming to class late but theyre always on time for Mrs.Chens lessons! Some of our class dont like her, but most of us really appreciate her because her teaching is so well organized and clear. And a few students even admit liking her! During scientific experiments, she explains exactly what is happening and as a result my work is improving.Physics will never be my favourite lesson, but I think that Ill do well in the exam with Mrs Chen teaching me.Mr.Wus only been teaching us for two weeks and hes already very popular.I think this is because he really enjoys teaching Chinese literature -he loves it, in fact! Hes got so much energy, this is one class you do not fall asleep in! Hes about 28, I think, and is rather good-looking.He talks loudly and fast, and waves his hands about a lot when he gets excited.Hes really amusing and tells jokes when he thinks were getting bored.Even things like compositions and summaries are fun with Mr.Wu.I respect him a lot.Module 3 My First Ride on a TrainMy name is Alice Thompson.I come from Sydney, Australia and Im 18 years old.Recently I had my first ride on a long-distance train.And what a ride! A friend and I traveled on the famous Ghan train.We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs, right in the middle of Australia, more than four thousand kilometers away.We spent two days and nights on the train.The train was wonderful and the food was great.We ate great meals cooked by experts! For the first few hundred kilometres of the journey, the scenery was very colourful. There were fields and the soil was dark red. After that, it was desert.The sun shone, there was no wind and there were no clouds in the sky. Suddenly, it looked like a place from another time.We saw abandoned farms which were built more than a hundred years ago. The train was comfortable and the people were nice. During the day, I sat and looked out of the window, and sometimes talked to other passengers. I read books and listened to my Chinese cassettes (Im studying Chinese at school). One night,at about midnight, I watched the night sky for about an hour.The stars shone like diamonds. Why is the train called the Ghan? A long time ago, Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of the country. They tried riding horses, but the horses didnt like the hot weather and sand. A hundred and fifty years ago, they brought some camels from Afghanistan.Ghan is short for Afghanistan.一 Camels were much better than horses for traveling a long distance. For many years, trained camels carried food and other supplies, and returned with wool and other products. The Afghans and their camels did this until the 1920s. Then the government built a new railway line, so they didnt need the camels any more. In 1925,they passed a law which allowed people to shoot the animals if they were a problem. In 1935, the police in a town shot 153 camels in one day.Module 4 A lively cityXL=小李，JM=约翰马丁XL: Its great to see you again, John. JM: Its great to see you! Its been six years since we last saw each other, you know. And this is the first time Ive visited your hometown.XL: Yes, Im so glad you could come. JM: You know, Ive seen quite a lot of China and Ive visited some beautiful cities, but this is one of the most attractive places Ive been to.Its so lively, and everyone seems so friendly.XM: Yes, its one of the most interesting cities on the coast,everyone says so. I feel very fortunate living here.And I love living by the seaside.JM: You live in the northwest of Xiamen, is that right?XL: Yes, thats right. JM:Whats the climate like?XL:Pretty hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in the winter. JM: Sounds OK to me.There are a lot of tourists around.Dont they bother you? XL: Yes, they can be a nuisance in the summer because there are so many of them. JM: Oh, look at that huge apartment block!XL: Yes, theyve just completed it. The rent for an apartment there is very high.JM: I believe you! This areas so modern! XL: Yes, this is the business district.Theyve put up a lot of high-rise buildings recently.And there are some great shopping malls. See, were just passing one now.My wifes just bought a beautiful dress from one of the shops there. JM: Maybe I could buy a few presents there.XL: Ill take you there tomorrow.Now were leaving the business district and approaching the harbour. Were entering the western district, the most interesting part of the city.Its got some really pretty parks .JM: It seems lovely.Is that Gulangyu Island, just across the water? XL: Yes, it is.Its a gorgeous island with some really interesting architecture. JM: So they tell me.Do you think we could stop and walk around for a while? XL: Yes, I was just going to do that.We can park over there. A friends told me about a nice little fish restaurant near here.Shall we go there for lunch? JM: That sounds great.Im starving! Module 5 a lesson in a Lab It is hard to think of a world without metals. Different metals have different uses, for example, steel is used in cars, and iron is used in electrical equipment. When we use metals, it is important to know how they react with different substances, for example, water and oxygen. Module 6 the internet and telecommunications The Internet is the biggest source of information in the world, and its accessible through a computer. It consists of millions of pages of data. In 1969, DARPA, a U.S.defence organisation, developed a way for all their computers to talk to each other through the telephone. They created a network of computers called DARPANET. For fifteen years, only the U.S.army could use this system of communication. Then in 1984, the U.S.National Science Foundation (NSF) started the NSFNET network. It then became possible for universities to use the system as well. NSFNET became known as the Inter-Network, or Internet. The World Wide Web (the web) is a computer network that allows computer users to access information from millions of websites via the Internet. At the moment, about 80 percent of web traffic is in English, but this percentage is going down. By 2020, much web traffic could be in Chinese. The World Wide Web was invented in 1991 by an English scientist, Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee built his first computer while he was at university using an old television! He came up with the idea of the World Wide Web in 1989 while he was working in Switzerland. Berners-Lee made it possible for everyone to use the Internet, not just universities and the army. He designed the first web browser, which allowed computer users to access documents from other computers. From that moment on, the web and the Internet grew.Within five years, the number of Internet users rose from 600 000 to 40 million. The Internet has created thousands of millionaires, but Berners-Lee is not one of them. Everyone in the world can access the Internet using his World Wide Web system. He now works as a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.必修二Module 1 Zhou Kai (1)When Zhou Kais mother saw him heading towards the front door without a jacket on, she eyed him anxiously. “Zhou Kai, where are you going?” she asked.“To the park.Im gong to play football,” said Zhou Kai.“But its raining! Youll catch a bad cold,” said his mother.“No, I wont.Ill be fine,” said Zhou Kai, as he opened the door.“Zhou Kai, youll get ill.You know you will.You can at least go and get your jacket.” “OK, OK” Zhou Kai went and did as he was told.Zhou Kai (2)My mother has always made sure we eat very healthily, and fresh fruit and vegetables are a very important part of our diet. We live near the sea and we have fish about four times a week.We dont eat much fat or sugar. A lot of my school friends eat sweets every day but Im lucky because I dont have a sweet tooth. Id rather eat a nice piece of fruit. And Im not too heavy, so I never have to diet, or anything like that. Im quite healthy.I very rarely get colds, although, unusually for me, I had a bad cold and a bit of a fever last week. But thats because I was stupid enough to play football in the rain.I dont often get things like flu either. Last winter almost all my class mates got flu -but I didnt.I think I dont get these things because I take a lot of exercise and am very fit. Two years ago I broke my arm playing football.The injury was quite painful and I couldnt move my arm for month -I hated that So as you can see from what Ive said, Im a normal kind of person.But theres one thing I really love - Im crazy about football. Im captain of the class team at school and Im also a member of the Senior High team. Because of this, I make sure that I have a good diet, and as Ive said, this isnt a problem because my mother feeds us so well.Module 2 Article 1My name is Adam Rouse.Im 19 years old and I used to be a drug addict.I first started using drugs when I was 15. I bought cannabis from a man in the street.I continued to buy cannabis from the same man for about six months. One day, he offered me some crack cocaine.Cocaine is a powerfully addictive drug.Some drug users inject cocaine, others smoke it. Both ways are dangerous.Users who inject the drug are also in more danger if they share needles with other users. Article 21. Crack cocaine is the most addictive form of cocaine.Users become addicted to crack cocaine much more easily if they smoke it. Smoking allows cocaine to reach the brain very quickly. 2. When I went back to the man again, I wanted more crack cocaine.But he asked me for a lot of money.I didnt have enough money so he didnt give me any drugs.I was in terrible pain. 3. Next day, I broke into a house and stole a television and a video recorder.I took them to the drug dealer. He told me to take them to a shop in a nearby street.The man in the shop gave me some money. I took the money to the drug dealer and he gave me some more crack cocaine. 4. Using cocaine increases the users heart rate and blood pressure.As a result, cocaine users sometimes have heart attacks. Smoking crack cocaine also causes anti-social behavior. 5. By this time, I was addicted to crack cocaine.If I didnt have any drugs, I was in terrible pain. And I had to steal something every day to pay for the drugs.One day, the police took me to the police station. 6. The next day, a doctor came to see me.He told me that I could die if I didnt stop taking crack cocaine, so I took his advice and stopped immediately. Now I work in a center for drug addicts, helping others to stop taking drugs. Cocaine can be smoked and also injected. People who inject cocaine are in more danger if they share needles. Cocaine makes your heart go more slowly. Smoking crack cocaine can change peoples behavior.。 By this time, I was addicted to crack cocaine.If I didnt have any drugs, I was in terrible pain.And I had to steal something every day to pay for the drugs.One day, the police took me to the police station.The next day, a doctor came to see me.HE told me that I could die if I didnt stop taking crack cocaine, so I took his advice and stopped immediately.Now I work in a centre for drug addicts, helping others to stop taking drugs.Module3 Music Haydn Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) was an Austrian composer and is known as the father of the symphony. Other composers had written symphonies before Haydn, but he changed the symphony into a long piece for a large orchestra. He was born in a village in Austria, the son of a peasant.He had a beautiful singing voice. After studying music in Vienna, Haydn went to work at the court of a prince in eastern Austria, where he became director of music. Having worked there for 30 years, Haydn moved to London, where he was very successful. Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) was a composer, possibly the greatest musical genius of all time. He only lived 35 years and he composed more than 600 pieces of music.Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.His father Leopold was a musician and orchestra conductor.Wolfgang had musical talent from a very early age. He learned to play the harpsichord when he was four, he started composing music when he was five, and when he was six, he played the harpsichord in a concert for the Empress of Austria. Beethoven By the time he was 14, Mozart had composed many pieces for the harpsichord, piano and violin, as well as for orchestras. While he was still a teenager, Mozart was already a big star and toured Europe giving concerts. Haydn met Mozart in 1781 and was very impressed with him.He is the greatest composer the world has known, he said. The two were friends until Mozarts death in 1791.。 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) was born in Bonn, Germany. He showed musical talent when he was very young, and learned to play the violin and piano from his father, who was a singer. Mozart met Beethoven and was impressed by him.He will give something wonderful to the world, he said. Beethoven met Haydn in 1791, but was not impressed by the older man. After they had known each other for many years, Beethoven said, He is a good composer, but he has taught me nothing. However, it was Haydn who encouraged Beethoven to move to Vienna. Beethoven became very popular in the Austrian capital and stayed there for the rest of his life. As he grew older, he began to go deaf.He became completely deaf during the last years of his life, but he continued composing. Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory.MODULE 4 Fine Arts-Western Chinese and Pop Arts AThis is a painting by the Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso, considered to be the greatest western artist of the twentieth century. Picasso and another painter, George Braque, started Cubism, one of the most important of all modern art movements. Cubist artists painted objects and people, with different aspects of the object or person showing at the same time.B This painting by contempor