高中英语课文背诵节选

朗读高中英语课文A Selection of ReadingFrom Senior English TextbooksUNIT 1 Friendship1.do you want a friend whom you could tell everything to，like your deep pest 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 first kind，so she made her diary her best friend。from Annies Best Friend 2.I wonder if it s because I haven t been able to be outdoors for so long that I ve grown so crazy about everything to do with nature。I can well remembe R that there was a time when a deep blue sky，the song of the bird，monlight and flowers could never have kept me spell bound。thats changed since I was here。3.Dear Miss Wang，I m a student from Huzhou senior high school。I have a problem . I m not very good at communicating with people .although I try to talk to my class mates，I still find it hard to make good friends with them。so I feel quite lonely some times。I do want to change this situation，but I dont know how .I would be grate ful if you could give me some advice。Yours，小东家UNIT 2 Friendship1.English now is also spoken as a foreign or second language in southasia。for example，India has a very large number of fluent English speakers because Britain ruled India from 1765 to 1947。English is also spoken in Singapore and Malays Ia。today the number of people lealish 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。 from the road to modern English 2.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 radio is standard English . this isUNIT 3 Travel Journal1.I am fond of my sis ter but she has one serious short coming .she can be really stubborn。although She didnt know the best way of getting to places，She insisted that She organizee the trip properly . now，I know that the proper way isI kept asking her，“when are we leaving and when are we coming back？”Of course，my sis ter dosnt care about details。she gave me a determined lookthe kind that said she would not change her mind。when I told her the air would be hard to breakthe and it would be very c Old，she said it would be an interesting experience . I know my sis terwell . once from“journey down the meikong”2.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？Thats what we looked like！along the way children dressed in long wool coat stopped to look at us。in the late afternoon we found it was so cold that our water botles frozze . ho Wever，the lakes shone like glass in the setting sun and looked wonder urUNIT 4 Earthquakes1.strange things were happing in the country ide of northeast Hebei。for three days the water in the village well rose and fell，Rose and fell。farmers notiiced that the well walls had deep cracks in them。a smelly gas came out of the cracks .in the farmyards，The chickens and even The pigs were too nervous to eat。mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide。fish jumped out of their bows and ponds。2.Dear LiMing、Congratulations！we are pleased to tell you that you have won the high school speaking competition about new tanshane。your speech was heard by a group of five judges，All of whom agreed that it was the best one this year。your parents and your school should be very proud of you！next month the city will open a new park to honor those who died in the terrible disaster .the park will also honor those who helded the surviors . our Office would like to have you speak to the park vistors on July 28 at 1133600am。we invite you to bring your family and friends on that special day。Yours sincerely单元5 Nelson Mandela1.“the last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and progress，Until today we have reached a stage where we have aveit was the truth。black people could not vote or choose their leaders。they could not get the jobs they wanted .的fact as Nelson mandela said，“wewere put into a position in which we had either to accept web were less important or fight the government .we chose to attack the laws。we first broke the law in a peace ful way；When this was not allowed.only then did we decide to answer vioence with violence。 from elias story 2.you cannot imagine how the name of Robben island made us afraid。it was a prison from which no one escapd。there I spent the harest time of my life。all the terror and fear of that time came back to me。I remembered the beatings and the cruelty of the guards and my friends who hadied .I felt I wou Ld not be able to do it，but my family encouraged me。UNIT 1 Cultural Relics1.In fact，the room was not made to be a gift。it was designed for the palace of frederick I。however，the next king of Prussia，To whom the amber room belonged，decided not to keep it。in 1716 he gave it to Peter the great。in return，The czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers