【正文】 ssical music help develop one39。s , this improvement only lasts for a short you want to improve your intelligence, what should you do? Scientists think that learning a musical instrument is helpfullearning a musical instrument is helpful,Especially for improving maths is because maths and music both use the same part of the if you want to be good at maths, perhaps you should go to a music class!The music of Bach（72頁(yè)聽力）Classical music does not have tries to describe feelings with musical is called classical music because it was written at a time when there was no pop or rock music was written to a special the cleverest posers could make beautiful music using this of these clever posers was was not famous during his life, but became very famous after his worked in a small church and had to write new songs to sing every he posed beautiful choral also wrote music for people to listen to as they left the of his music is very mathematical with different parts that repeat each other in a very peaceful his music was written for God and some of it is very never became rich but his music has a special place in classical is remembered today for the beauty of his musical can listen to one of his pieces of music now.第二篇：高中英語(yǔ)必修2課文及原文高中英語(yǔ)必修2（人教版）Unit1 Cultural relics IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM Frederick William I, the King of Prussia, could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make amber which was selected had a beautiful yellowbrown colour like design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country39。s best artists about ten years to fact, the room was not made to be a was designed for the palace of Frederick , the next King of Prussia, Frederick William I, to whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep 1716 he gave it to Peter the return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best the Amber Room became part of the Czar39。s winter palace in St four metres long, the room served as a small reception hall for important , Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her told her artists to add more details to 1770 the room was pleted the way she six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like , although the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world, it is now September 1941, the Nazi army was near St was a time when the two countries were at the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians were able to remove some furniture and small art objects from the Amber , some of the Nazis secretly stole the room less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twentyseven wooden is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic that, what happened to the Amber Room remains a , the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room at the summer studying old photos of the former Amber Room, they have made the new one look like the old 2003 it was ready for the people of St Petersburg when they celebrated the 300th birthday of their FACT OR AN OPINION? What is a fact? Is it something that people believe? fact is anything that can be example, it can be proved that China has more people than any other country in the is a what is an opinion? An opinion is what someone believes is true but has not been an opinion is not good evidence in a example, it is an opinion if you say “Cats are better pets than dogs”.It may be true, but it is difficult to people may not agree with this opinion but they also cannot prove that they are a trial, a judge must decide which eyewitnesses to believe and which not to judge does not consider what each eyewitness looks like or where that person lives or , which must be facts rather than kind of information is called 文化遺產(chǎn) 閱讀一 尋找琥珀普魯士國(guó)王腓特烈威廉一世從未想過他送個(gè)普魯士人民偉大的禮物會(huì)有一點(diǎn)如此驚奇的歷史。這個(gè)禮物是因?yàn)橛蓭讎嶇曛瞥啥溺晡荨＿@些被挑選的琥珀都有著像蜂蜜一樣漂亮的黃棕色。這間屋的設(shè)計(jì)是當(dāng)時(shí)最流行的奇特的風(fēng) 格。這同樣是一件花了當(dāng)時(shí)最好的藝術(shù)家大約十年用黃金和珠寶修飾制成的寶物。事實(shí)上，這間屋不是制來當(dāng)禮物的。這是為腓特烈一世的領(lǐng)土而設(shè)計(jì)的。然而，普魯士下一任國(guó)王同樣是琥珀屋的擁有者，腓特烈威廉一世決定不保留琥珀屋。在1716年他把琥珀屋送給了彼得大帝。作為報(bào)答，沙皇給了腓特烈一隊(duì)他最好的士兵。因此琥珀屋成為了沙皇避寒圣地圣彼得堡的一部分。琥珀屋作為一個(gè)大概四米長(zhǎng)的只為重要訪客的小接待處。后來，葉卡捷琳娜二世把琥珀屋在圣彼得堡之外的一個(gè)她避暑的地方。她讓她的藝術(shù)家加了跟多的細(xì)節(jié)在里面。在1770年琥珀屋完全成了她想要的樣子。接近600只蠟燭在屋內(nèi)燃燒著，把鏡子和圖畫都照得像金子一樣。令人傷心的，雖然被譽(yù)為是世界奇跡之一的琥珀屋現(xiàn)在丟失了。在1941年9月，納粹軍隊(duì)在圣彼得堡附近。這正是兩個(gè)國(guó)家在交戰(zhàn)的時(shí)候。在納粹去到避暑地方之前，俄國(guó)人民能夠從琥珀屋里搬走一些家具和小的藝術(shù)品。然而，一些納粹神秘的偷走了琥珀屋。至少兩天內(nèi)100000多片琥珀被放進(jìn)27個(gè)木箱里。這些箱子無(wú)疑會(huì)被放進(jìn)一艘去往當(dāng)時(shí)德軍駐扎的菠蘿的海的哥尼斯堡的船上。之后，琥珀屋發(fā)生了神馬仍然是個(gè)迷。最近，俄國(guó)和德國(guó)人民在避暑的地方制造了一座新的琥珀屋。通過研究之前的琥珀屋的照片，他們制造了一座新的琥珀屋像舊的那座一樣。在2003年它被圣彼得堡的人民用來慶祝這座城市的300歲生日。閱讀二一個(gè)事實(shí)還是一個(gè)觀點(diǎn)神馬是事實(shí)？是一些人們相信的東西嗎？不！事實(shí)是可以被證明的任何事。例如，可以證明中國(guó)人口比世界上任何其他國(guó)家的人口都要多。這是一個(gè)事實(shí)。那么神馬是一個(gè)觀點(diǎn)？一個(gè)觀點(diǎn)是人們相信那是真的但還沒有被證明的。所以一個(gè)觀點(diǎn)在一個(gè)審判中不是一個(gè)好的證據(jù)。例如，如果你說“貓是比狗好的寵物”這會(huì)是一個(gè)觀點(diǎn)。這可能是真的，不過很難去證明。一些人可能不同意這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)不過他們也不能去證明他們是對(duì)的。在一場(chǎng)審批中，一個(gè)審判官一定要去決定相信哪個(gè)目擊者哪個(gè)目擊者不應(yīng)該相信。這個(gè)審判官不會(huì)去考慮每個(gè)目擊者的長(zhǎng)相或人們?cè)谀睦锞幼』蚬ぷ?。?她 只關(guān)心目擊者是否會(huì)提供真是的信息，信息一定是事實(shí)而不是觀點(diǎn)。這類的信息被稱為證據(jù)。Unit 2 The Olympic GamesAN INTERVIEW Pausanias, who was a Greek writer about 2,000 years ago, has e on a magical journey on March 18th 2007 to find out about the presentday Olympic is now interviewing Li Yan, a volunteer for the 2008 Olympic : My name is lived in what you call “Ancient Greece” and I used to write about the Olympic Games a long time ’ve e to your time to find out about the presentday Olympic Games because I know that in 2004 they were held in my I ask you some questions about the modern Olympics? L: Good heavens!Have you really e from so long ago? But of course you can ask any questions you would you like to know? P: How often do you hold your Games? L: Every four are two main sets of Gamesthe Winter and Summer Olympics, and both are held every four years on a regular Winter Olympics are usually held two years before the Summer athletes who have reached the agreed standard for their event will be admitted a