【正文】 re always on time for Mrs. Chen39。t smile much. 我猜想陳老師幾乎快 60 歲了。d guess that Mrs. Chen is almost sixty. She39。t feel pletely stupid! 但是，李老師只是笑一笑，因此，你不會(huì)感到完全愚笨！ I think maybe she goes a bit too slowly for the faster students, but for me it39。但是，過(guò)了兩周了，全班學(xué)生真的喜歡上她的課。必修一Module 1 My First Day at Senior High My 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 I’m 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 puter with a special screen, almost as big as a cinema screen. The teachers write on the puter, and their words appear on the screen behind them. The screens also show photographs, text and information from websites. They’re brilliant! The English class is really interesting. The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman called Ms Shen. We’re using a new textbook and Ms Shen’s method of teaching is nothing like the teachers at my Junior High school. She thinks that reading prehension is important, but we speak a lot in class, too. And we have fun. I don’t think I will be bored in Ms Shen’s 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 sixtyfive students in my class — more than my previous class in Junior High. Fortynine of them are girls. In other words, there are three times as many girls as boys. They say that girls are usually more hardworking than boys, but in this class, everyone is hardworking. For our homework tonight, we have to write a description of the street where we live. I’m looking forward to doing it! My Afterschool 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. They are good for our health. 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 puters 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 puters freely and have a good mand of spoken English. In addition to the afterclass 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. Moudle 2 My New Teachers They say that first impressions are very important. My first impression of Mrs. Li was that she was nervous and shy. 人們常說(shuō)第一印象很重要。 She39。s wonderful! I feel I39。s very strict—we don39。她很?chē)?yán)格――――除非她讓我們講話，我們一句話也不敢說(shuō)。s lessons! 陳老師的課，我們班幾位不斷遲到的學(xué)生，總是準(zhǔn)時(shí)上陳老師的課。 Physics will never be my favourite lesson, but I think that I’ll do well in the exam with Mrs Chen teaching me. 物理絕對(duì)不是我最喜歡的科目，但我想由陳老師教我，我會(huì)考出好成績(jī)。他上課真很有趣，當(dāng)他認(rèn)為我們疲倦的時(shí)候，就給我們講笑話。湯普森。 We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs, right in the middle of Australia, more than four thousand kilometers away. 我們?cè)谙つ嵘宪?chē), 在澳大利亞中部的艾麗普林斯下車(chē),行程四千多公里。 For the first few hundred kilometres of the journey, the scenery was very colourful. 在旅程開(kāi)始的幾百公里, 風(fēng)景優(yōu)美。 Suddenly, it looked like a place from another time. We saw abandoned farms which were built more than a hundred years ago. 可是接著,時(shí)空像是突然發(fā)生了轉(zhuǎn)變。 I read books and listened to my Chinese cassettes (I39。 Why is the train called the Ghan? A long time ago, Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of the country. 為什么火車(chē)叫阿富汗號(hào)？很久以前,澳大利亞人到國(guó)家中部地區(qū)有很長(zhǎng)一段路程。Ghan是阿富汗的縮寫(xiě)。 Then the government built a new railway line, so they didn39。s great to see you again, John. 約翰，很高興又見(jiàn)到你了。 And this is the first time I39。 You know, I39。s so lively, and everyone seems so friendly. Yes, it39。s right. 生活在這里我感到很榮幸。s the climate like?Pretty hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in the winter. 這里氣候怎么樣?夏天相當(dāng)熱，相當(dāng)潮濕，可是冬天可能很冷。他們對(duì)你們有干擾嗎？ Yes, they can be a nuisance in the summer because there are so many of them. 是的，游客太多了，夏天有時(shí)候會(huì)有點(diǎn)討厭。s so modern! 租一套那兒的公寓要不少錢(qián)呢。 See, we39。 Maybe I could buy a few presents there. I39?，F(xiàn)在我們要離開(kāi)商業(yè)區(qū)去港口。那有一些非常漂亮的公園...... It seems lovely. Is that Gulangyu Island, just across the water? Yes, it is. It39。 So they tell me. Do you think we could stop and walk around for a while? Yes, I was just going to do that. We can park over there. 他們也是這么跟我說(shuō)的。s told me about a nice little fish restaurant near here. Shall we go there for lunch? That sounds great. I39。 Different metals have different uses, for example, steel is used in cars, and iron is used in electrical equipment. 當(dāng)我們使用金屬的時(shí)候，知道它們和不同物質(zhì)的反應(yīng)是很重要的，例如水和氧氣。s accessible through a puter. 它含有數(shù)以百萬(wàn)計(jì)的數(shù)據(jù)。 For fifteen years, only the . army could use this system of munication. 1984 年,美國(guó)的國(guó)家科學(xué)基金會(huì)發(fā)明了 NSFNET 網(wǎng)。 The World Wide Web (the web) is a puter network that allows puter users to access information from millions of websites via the Internet. 目前,大約百分之八十的網(wǎng)絡(luò)用語(yǔ)都是英語(yǔ),但這一比率正在下降。 He came up with the idea of the World Wide Web in 1989 while he was working in Switzerland. 。 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. 因特網(wǎng)已經(jīng)使得千萬(wàn)人成為百萬(wàn)富翁,但是,。 “Zhou Kai, where are you going?” she asked. “To the park. I’m gong to play footba