【正文】 not understand what you are going through?或者你是不是擔心你的朋友會嘲笑你，會不理解你目前經(jīng)歷的困境呢？Anne Frank wanted the first kind, so she made her diary her best 弗蘭克想要的是第一種類型的朋友，于是她就把日記當成了她最好的朋友。Anne lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands during World War 。Her family was Jewish so they had to hide or they would be caught by the German ，所以他們不得不躲藏起來，否則他們就會被德國納粹抓去。She and her family hid away for nearly twentyfive months before they were 。During that time the only true friend was her ，她唯一的忠實朋友就是她的日記了。She said, “I don’t want to set down a series of facts in a diary as most people do, but I want this diary itself to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty.”她說，“我不愿像大多數(shù)人那樣在日記中記流水賬。我要把這本日記當作我的朋友，我要把我這個朋友稱作基蒂”。Now read how she felt after being in the hiding place since July ，現(xiàn)在，來看看她的心情吧。Dear kitty,親愛的基蒂：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 ，我變得對一切與大自然有關(guān)的事物都無比狂熱。I can well remember that there was a time when a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me ，以前，湛藍的天空、鳥兒的歌唱、月光和鮮花，從未令我心迷神往過。That’s changed since I came ，這一切都變了?！璅or example, one evening when it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven in order to have a good look at the moon for once by myself.…比方說，有天晚上天氣很暖和，我熬到11點半故意不睡覺，為的是獨自好好看看月亮。But as the moon gave far too much light, I didn’t dare open a ，我不敢打開窗戶。Another time five months ago, I happened to be upstairs one evening when the window was ，就在五個月以前的一個晚上，我碰巧在樓上，窗戶是開著的。I didn’t go downstairs until the window had to be 。The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me entirely in their power。it was the first time in a year and a half that I’d seen the night face to face…漆黑的夜晚，風吹雨打，雷電交加，我全然被這種力量鎮(zhèn)住了。這是我一年半以來第一次目睹夜晚………Sadly…I am only able to look at nature through dirty curtains hanging before very dusty windows.……令人傷心的是……我只能透過臟兮兮的窗簾觀看大自然，窗簾懸掛在沾滿灰塵的窗前。It’s no pleasure looking through these any longer because nature is one thing that really must be ，因為大自然是你必須親身體驗的。Yours，Anne你的安妮 1 Using LanguageDear Miss Wang, 親愛的王小姐：I am having some trouble with my classmates at the 。I’m getting along well with a boy in my often do homework together and we enjoy helping each ，而且很樂意相互幫助。We have bee really good 。But other students have started ， say that this boy and I have fallen in has made me ，這使我很生氣。I don’t want to end the friendship, but I hate others should I do? 我不想中斷這段友誼，但是我又討厭人家背后說閑話。我該怎么辦呢？ Reading and writing Dear Miss Wang,尊敬的編輯：I’m a student from Huzhou Senior High 。I have a ’m not very good at municating with ，我不太善于同人們交際。Although I try to talk to my classmates, I still find it hard to make good friends with ，但是我還是發(fā)現(xiàn)很難跟他們成為好朋友。So I feel quite lonely ，有時候我感到十分孤獨。I do want to change this situation, but I don’t know ，但是我卻不知道該怎么辦。I would be grateful if you could give me some ，我會非常感激的。Yours, Xiaodong THE ROAD TO MODERN ENGLISH通向現(xiàn)代英語之路At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people spoke all of them lived in 。Later in the next century, people from England made voyages to conquer other parts of the world and because of that, English began to be spoken in many other ，在17世紀英國人開始航海征服了世界其它地區(qū)。于是，許多別的國家開始說英語了。Today, more people speak English as their first, second or foreign language than ever ，他們有的是作為第一語言來說，有的是作為第二語言或外語。Native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of at this example:以英語作為母語的人，即使他們所講的語言不盡相同，也可以互相交流。請看以下例子： British Betty: Would you like to see my flat? 英國人貝蒂：“請到我的公寓（flat）里來看看，好嗎？” American Amy: Yes, I’d like to e up to your ：“好的。我很樂意到你的公寓（apartment）去。”So why has English changed over time?那么，英語在一段時間里為什么會起變化呢？Actually all languages change and develop when cultures meet and municate with each ，當不同文化互相交流滲透時，所有的語言都會有所發(fā)展，有所變化。At first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken ，在公元450年到1150年間，人們所說的英語跟今天所說的英語就很不一樣。It was based more on German than the English we speak at ，而現(xiàn)代英語不是。Then gradually between about AD 800 and 1150, English became less like German because those who ruled England spoke first Danish and later ，漸漸地，大約在公元800年到1150年期間，英語不那么像德語了。因為那時的英國的統(tǒng)治者起初講丹麥語后來講法語。These new settlers enriched the English language and especially its ，特別是在詞匯方面。So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was able to make use of a wider vocabulary than ever ，莎士比亞所用的詞匯量比以前任何時期都大。In 1620 some British settlers moved to ，一些英國人搬遷到美洲定居。Later in the 18th century some British people were taken to Australia began to be spoken in both ，到了19世紀，有些英國人也被送往澳大利亞，兩個國家的人都開始說英語了。Finally by the 19th century the language was ，到20世紀，英語才真正定形。At that time two big changes in English spelling happened: first Samuel Johnson wrote his dictionary and later Noah Webster wrote The American Dictionary of the English ，英語在拼寫上發(fā)生了兩大變化：首先，塞繆爾約翰遜編寫了詞典，后來，諾厄韋伯斯特編纂了《美國英語詞典》，The latter gave a separate identity to American English 。English now is also spoken as a foreign or second language in South ，英語在南亞也被當作外語或第二語言來說。For example, India has a very large number of fluent English speakers because Britain ruled India from 1765 to ，印度擁有眾多講英語很流利的人，這是因為英國于1765年到1947年統(tǒng)治過印度。During that time English became the language for government and ，英語成了官方語言和教育用語。English is also spoken in Singapore and Malaysia and countries in Africa such as South 、馬來西亞和非洲其它國家，比如南非，人們也說英語。Today the number of people learning English in China is increasing 。In fact, China may have the largest number of English ，中國可能擁有世界上最多的英語學習者。Will Chinese English develop its own identity? Only time will ？這只能由時間來回答了。 STANDARD ENGLISH AND DIALECTS標準英語和方言What is standard English?什么是標準英語？Is it spoken in Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, India and New Zealand?是在英國、美國、加拿大、澳大利亞、印度、新西蘭所說的英語嗎？Believe it or not, there is no such thing as standard ，（世界上）沒有什么標準英語。Many people believe the English spoken on TV and the radio is standard ，電視和收音機里所說的就是標準英語。This is because in the early days of radio, those who reported the news were expected