【正文】 ary of the English ，英語(yǔ)在拼寫上發(fā)生了兩大變化：首先，塞繆爾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(shí)期都大。It was based more on German than the English we speak at ，而現(xiàn)代英語(yǔ)不是。請(qǐng)看以下例子：British Betty: Would you like to see my flat?英國(guó)人貝蒂：“請(qǐng)到我的公寓（flat）里來看看，好嗎？”American Amy: Yes, I’d like to e up to your apartment.美國(guó)人艾米：“好的。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(jì)英國(guó)人開始航海征服了世界其它地區(qū)。So I feel quite lonely ，有時(shí)候我感到十分孤獨(dú)。I don’t want to end the friendship, but I hate others gossiping. What 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。Yours, Anne你的安妮2. 必修一Unit 1 Using LanguageDear Miss Wang, 親愛的王小姐：I am having some trouble with my classmates at the moment. 我同班上的同學(xué)有件麻煩事。The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me entirely in their power?！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(diǎn)半故意不睡覺，為的是獨(dú)自好好看看月亮。Now read how she felt after being in the hiding place since July ，現(xiàn)在，來看看她的心情吧。 months before they were 。弗蘭克想要的是第一種類型的朋友，于是她就把日記當(dāng)成了她最好的朋友。Anne lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands during World War 。During that time the only true friend was her ，她唯一的忠實(shí)朋友就是她的日記了。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(duì)一切與大自然有關(guān)的事物都無比狂熱。But as the moon gave far too much light, I didn’t dare open a ，我不敢打開窗戶。 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(fēng)吹雨打，雷電交加，我全然被這種力量鎮(zhèn)住了。 I’m getting along well with a boy in my class. often do homework together and we enjoy helping each other. 我們常常一起做家庭作業(yè)，而且很樂意相互幫助。我該怎么辦呢？Reading and writingDear Miss Wang,尊敬的編輯：I’m a student from Huzhou Senior High 。I do want to change this situation, but I don’t know ，但是我卻不知道該怎么辦。于是，許多別的國(guó)家開始說英語(yǔ)了。我很樂意到你的公寓（apartment）去。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(yǔ)不那么像德語(yǔ)了。In 1620 some British settlers moved to ，一些英國(guó)人搬遷到美洲定居。約翰遜編寫了詞典，后來，諾厄During that time English became the language for government and ，英語(yǔ)成了官方語(yǔ)言和教育用語(yǔ)。Will Chinese English develop its own identity? Only time will ？這只能由時(shí)間來回答了。This is because in the early days of radio, those who reported the news were expected to speak excellent ，人們期望新聞播音員所說的英語(yǔ)是最好的英語(yǔ)。Even in some parts of the USA, two people from neighbouring towns speak a little ，即使是相鄰城鎮(zhèn)的兩個(gè)人所說的語(yǔ)言都可能稍有不同。When Americans moved from one place to another, they took their dialects with ，他們也就把他們的方言隨著帶去了。5. 必修一Unit 3JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG沿湄公河而下的旅程PART 1 THE DREAM AND THE PLAN第一部分夢(mèng)想與計(jì)劃My name is Wang Kun. Ever since middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike 。They are Dai and grew up in western Yunnan Province near the Lancang River, the Chinese part of the river that is called the Mekong River in other ，在云南省西部靠近瀾滄江的地方長(zhǎng)大，湄公河在中國(guó)境內(nèi)的這一段叫瀾滄江，在其他國(guó)家（境內(nèi)）叫湄公河。Now she is planning our schedule for the 。t know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that she organize the trip ，她卻堅(jiān)持要自己把這次旅游安排得盡善盡美。t。She gave me a determined look—the kind that said she would not change her ——這種眼神表明她是不會(huì)改變主意的。最后，我只好讓步了。At first the river is small and the water is clear and cold. Then it begins to move ，江面很小，河水清澈而冷冽，然后它開始快速流動(dòng)。After it leaves China and the high altitude, the Mekong bees wide, brown and ，流出高地之后，湄公河就變寬了，變暖了，河水也變成了黃褐色。Our legs were so heavy and cold that they felt like blocks of ，感覺就像大冰塊。In the late afternoon we found it was so cold that our water bottles ，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)由于天冷我們的水壺都凍上了。At one point we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through ，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)自己置身高處，彷佛騎車穿越云層。In the early evening we always stop to make camp. We put up our tent and then we ，我們通常就停下來宿營(yíng)，（于是），我們先把帳篷支起來，然后吃飯。As I lay beneath the stars I thought about how far we had already ，我想著我們已經(jīng)走了多遠(yuǎn)。T SLEEP地球的一個(gè)不眠之夜Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast ：For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and ，村子里的井水升升降降，起起伏伏。魚缸和池塘里的魚會(huì)往外跳。但是，唐山市的一百萬(wàn)居民幾乎都沒有把這些情況當(dāng)一回事，當(dāng)天晚上照常睡著了。A huge crack that was eight kilometres long and thirty metres wide cut across houses, r