世纪学生英文报

1、21世纪学生英文报高一版 第446期September 12, 2011Jump To:Frontpage | Our World | Campus Trends | Fun Time | Quiz Time | Learning KIT | Culture and DiscoveryComic barPotato chips are diet food. The vibrations (振动) from loud crunching (嘎吱嘎吱地嚼) loosen your fat cells.Sing alongHeroTheres a heroIf you look inside you

2、r heartYou dont have to be afraidOf what you are.So when you feel like hope is goneLook inside you and be strongAnd youll finally see the truthThat a hero lies in youSung by Mariah Carey,(American pop singer, 1970)Self-made songwriter许嵩：坚持自我，为了梦想而歌唱。词数 369 建议阅读时间 7分钟HE sings; he writes songs; he has

3、 made albums all by himself. You may not know his face. But you will definitely (肯定地) know his soft voice, rhythmic (有节奏的) music and beautiful lyrics. He is not “the second Jay Chou”, but “the first Xu Song”.Five years ago, Xu was an ordinary college student majoring in medical management (管理). He p

4、layed the piano and wrote songs in his spare time. But one day he put his music on the Internet. His life soon changed.麻辣酷词 宅When a person prefers to stay at home a lot and doesnt go out very often, we say that he or she is very zhai (宅). Obviously, “zhai” is used as an adjective here. In English, i

5、t is “indoorsy”.例如: Jimmy is a very indoorsy person. He hates camping.“zhai” can also be used as a verb, and here the English expression should be simply “stay indoors”.A little goodness?平凡英雄就在我们身边。词数 442 建议阅读时间 9分钟RECENTLY Xu Yunhe, a young man in Tianjin, stopped his car. An old woman had fallen o

6、ver and he wanted to help her. Soon after, Xu was in court. The woman blamed him for her fall.Stories like this can make us lose faith in society. However, there are still good people living around us. We just have to look for them.Top of the chart for teaching词数 268 建议阅读时间 5分钟剑桥大学蝉联世界大学排名第一。ARE you

7、 thinking about which university to go to after you graduate from high school? The QS World University Rankings (排名) could help you get a better understanding of how good a university is among hundreds of others around the world.According to this years QS World University Rankings published on Septe

8、mber 5, the University of Cambridge was ranked as the worlds best university. Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (麻省理工学院) came second and third. It is the second year that Cambridge has taken the top spot.重点讲解【核心词汇】blame vt. 责备，怪罪Dont blame me for your problems.suffer vt./vi. 受苦，遭受She

9、 was suffering from a headache.condition n. 情况，状态The car is in very good condition.immediately adv. 立即We need to leave immediately.spread vt./vi. 传播，蔓延The fire spread from the factory to the houses nearby.【考点看台】An old woman had fallen over and he wanted to help her.该句中使用了过去完成时态，表示在过去某个时间之前已经完成的动作，在文

10、中表示老太太摔倒在前。Magic wisdom哈利波特的故事充满人生智慧。词数 359 建议阅读时间 5分钟I READ Harry Potter for the first time in Grade 2. I didnt pay much attention to it. But as the story went on and Harry grew up, I became more and more interested in his life. Now when I read these stories about magic, I see a real world with rea

11、l people living real lives. I feel the happiness and sorrow (悲伤) of the characters. Harry Potter stories have taught me a lot.The school of Sun Yat-sen国父孙中山的母校有何不同？词数 254 建议阅读时间 4分钟“I FEEL as though I have returned home, because Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are my intellectual (智力

12、的) birthplace.” These were the words of Sun Yat-sen when he visited the HKU in 1923. This year the university celebrates its 100th birthday.HKU is the oldest university in Hong Kong. It is not only the “intellectual birthplace” of the great Sun, but also of popular writer Eileen Chang (张爱玲), father

13、of Chinese modern aesthetics (美学) Zhu Guangqian, and hundreds of important politicians (政治家) and business people.What would you feed to a foreigner?如果外国游客来到你的家乡，你会请他们品尝什么？Jiang Yining (Hefei): How about serving them stinky salmon (臭鲑鱼) Its a famous snack in Hefei, Anhui. Like stinky tofu in Hunan, s

14、tinky salmon also smells smelly but tastes tasty. The guests will be amazed that Chinese people can produce such a wonderful and unusual snack.Hua Yinze (Wuxi)：I will definitely (肯定地) treat (招待) the foreign guests to a bowl of rice noodles with beef and eggs. In Wuxi, Jiangsu, we often serve rice no

15、odles to guests on their first visit. Its a sign of hospitality (好客).Scanners against snakesTHE new full-body scanners (扫描仪) at US airports proved themselves late last month - they kept snakes off a plane. A man stuffed (塞) live snakes down his pants. He was trying to get them past security (安检) at

16、Miami Airport. Authorities said the man was behaving strangely and looked like he had “ants in his pants”. Officers from the US Department of Fish and Wildlife took away the animals. They arrested (逮捕) the man for illegal (非法的) wildlife trade.By Gabriella Van Leuven, 21st Century Teens staffSpotPIAN

17、IST Lang Lang played the score (配乐) for the movie Flying Machine (梦幻飞琴). Then he got lucky the director chose him to play the male lead (男主角). His acting talent was spotted at the global premiere (全球首映式) of the movie. The movie was produced for the 200th anniversary (纪念日) of the musician Chopins bir

18、thday. The film follows a familys amazing musical adventure on a strange flying machine.Coffee: buy one get one free!A GUY walks into a coffee shop and asks the waitress: “How much is a coffee?”“Coffee is $3,” the waitress says.“How much is a refill (续杯)?” the man asks.“Free!” says the waitress.“The

19、n Ill take a refill.”101FUNJOKESThe great Dutch mountainTHE Netherlands is famous for being a very flat country. Recently Dutch (荷兰的) journalist Thijs Zonneveld joked on his blog that Dutch people should build a 2,000-meter mountain. The idea soon caught on. Several Dutch engineering (工程) groups, in

20、cluding Oranjewoud and Bartels, are planning to build the mountain. They hope that the man-made mountain will be a tourist destination (目的地) for skiers and all Dutch people across the flat Netherlands.Quiz TimeDay 1Saving it for the. (P4-5)Choose the best answer:1. It is difficult for goalkeepers to

21、 stand out in Real Madrid because _.A. even if they save many goals, it is just their dutyB. they do not have amazing footworkC. the team is full of great playersD. there are not enough chances to prove themselves2. According to the article, Iker Casillas _.Enough to scare a Swan Queen黑天鹅(Black Swan

22、)芭蕾舞者妮娜接受挑战，努力争取在即将上演的天鹅湖中分饰白天鹅和黑天鹅两个截然不同的角色。娜塔莉波特曼(Natalie Portman)也因主演此片而被评为2011年奥斯卡金像奖最佳女主角。在下面的片断中，总监在酒会上宣布妮娜将取代贝丝成为剧团的新领舞，酒会结束后，妮娜在洗手间里遇见了自己幻想中的竞争对手莉莉。精彩回放Nina: Just a second. Just a second!写作兵法欣赏下列句子,然后根据所给情境或括号中的中文提示完成句子：1.A mixture of styles makes for the best education. (第445期，P3)本句中make fo

23、r意为“有助于，促成”，相当于contribute to。在具体语境中，也可以翻译为“导致”。To say that it is never exciting to read job descriptions: _.2.Within days, the e-mail was all over the Internet, and the subject of manners hit UK national news. (第445期，P4)Words in focusabsorb vt. take up the whole interest or attention of sb 使全神贯注用法：b

24、e absorbed in sth 全神贯注于He quickly found himself absorbed in the movie.ignore vt. behave as if you had not heard or seen sb or sth 忽视，不理The phone rang, but she ignored it.nerve n. courage in a dangerous, difficult situation 勇气，胆量You have a lot of nerve to talk to me that way.Sentence bank释义：她试图装作没看见，

25、以免发生争执。重点词：scene在这里的意思是“发脾气，吵闹”。avoid a scene意为“避免吵闹”，make a scene意为“当众大吵大闹”。例如：I was angry, but I didnt want to make a scene.时间一分一秒地过去，她越来越生气，心想：“要不是我脾气好，我早把他的眼睛打青了！”重点词：tick by/past/away （时间一分一秒地）过去。例如：The minutes ticked by and still she didnt call.Sharing, caring词数 312 建议阅读时间 6分钟 ?教案和课件见网站 测试见7版A

26、 woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours to go before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shops, bought a bag of biscuits and found a place to sit down.At first she was absorbed in reading her book. But suddenly she noticed that the man sitting beside her, as

27、bold (大胆的) as could be, had grabbed (抓取) a biscuit or two from the bag in between the two of them. She tried to ignore it to avoid a scene.Get me a pair of skinny genes!词数 321 建议阅读时间 6分钟?教案和课件见网站 测试见7版柴火棍身材由基因决定DO you ever get annoyed that you try to diet while others never seem to put on weight Sci

28、entists at Imperial College London (伦敦帝国理工学院) and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland have discovered a “skinny gene (瘦身基因)”. They say it explains why some people are always thin.Which ice is really nice?哪种口味的冰激凌最流行？词数 70 建议阅读时间 1分钟It may take a while to count how many ice creams you have had

29、this summer. But when it comes to choosing your favorite flavor (口味), that only takes a second vanilla (香草), strawberry (草莓) or milk?The chart (图表) on the left shows the most popular flavors in the US.It seems that people around the world share some similar interests: chocolate and vanilla score hig

30、hest. Are there any other flavors you want to try? ?Get international get InterRailing坐火车游历异国让我感受别样文化，体味成长苦乐。词数 278 测试见7版?建议阅读时间 5分钟Get on a train in Paris, jump off in Berlin. Travel through tiny Spanish towns and past Italian wine fields.With sales of InterRail (欧洲火车通票) tickets on the increase, more and more young people are choosing train travel for their gap year.InterRail tickets offer EU travelers the chance to travel for free or at a reduced (优惠的) price on trains across 30 countries in Europe.Saving it for the team门神圣卡西如何平衡竞争和友谊？词数 330 建议阅读时间