【正文】 half that I39。 why has English changed over time? Actually all languages change and develop when cultures meet and municate with each first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English we spoke was based more on German than the English we speak at gradually between about AD 800 and 1150, English became less like German because those who rules England spoke first Danish and later new settlers enriched the English language and especially its by the 160039。t。t sleep Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in smelly gas came out of the the farmyards, the chickens and even the pig were too nervous to ran out of the fields looking for places to jumped out of their bowls and about 3:00 am on July 28, 1976, some people saw bright lights in the sounds of planes could be heard outside the city of Tangshan even when no planes were in the the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that 3:42 am everything began to seemed as if the world was at an end!Eleven kilometers directly below the city the greatest earthquake of the 20th century had was felt in Beijing, which is more than two hundred kilometers of the nation felt huge crack that was eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide cut across houses, roads and burst from holes in the hills of rock became rivers of fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in suffering of the people was of them died or were injured during the of families were killed and many children were left without number of people who were killed or injured reached more than how could the survivors believe it was natural? Everywhere they looked nearly everything was of the city39。 story You cannot imagine how the name of Robben Island made us was a prison from which no one can I spent the hardest time of my when I got there Nelson Mandela was also there and he helped Mandela began a school for those of us who had little taught us during the lunch breaks and the evenings when we should have been read books under our blankets and use anything we could find to make candles to do , Mr Mandela allowed the prison guards to join said they should not be stopped from studying for their were not cleverer than me, but they did pass their I knew I could get a degree made me feel good about I finished the four years in prison, I went to find a I was better educated, I got a job working in an , the police found out and told my boss that I had been in prison for blowing up government I lost my did not work again for twenty years until Mr Mandela and the ANC came to power in that time my wife and children had to beg for food and help from relatives or Mr Mandela remembered me and gave me a job taking tourists around my old prison on Robben felt bad the first time I talked to a the terror and fear of that time came back to remembered the beatings and the cruelty of the guards and my friends who had felt I would not be able to do it, but my family encouraged said that the job and the pay from the new South African government were my reward after working all my life for equal rights for the now at 51 I am proud to show visitors over the prison, for I helped to make our people free in their own 友誼 Reading 安妮最好的朋友你是不是想有一位無話不談能推心置腹的朋友呢？或者你是不是擔(dān)心你的朋友會(huì)嘲笑你，會(huì)不理解你目前的困境呢？安妮她和她的家人躲藏了兩年之后才被發(fā)現(xiàn)?，F(xiàn)在，來看看安妮在藏身處躲了一年多之后的那種心情吧?！确秸f，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。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?？墒?，其他同學(xué)卻開始在背后議論起來，他們說我和這位男同學(xué)在談戀愛，這使我很生氣。雖然我的確試著去跟班上的同學(xué)交談，但是我還是發(fā)現(xiàn)很難跟他們成為好朋友。曉東第二單元 世界上的英語 Reading 通向 通向現(xiàn)代英語之路 16世紀(jì)末期大約有5百萬到7百萬人說英語，幾乎所有這些人都生活在英國。中國也許是把英語作為外語來說的人數(shù)最多的國家?！?那么，英語在一段時(shí)間里為什么會(huì)起變化呢？當(dāng)不同文化互相溝通時(shí)，所有的語言都會(huì)發(fā)生變化。在17世紀(jì)，莎士比亞所用的詞匯量比以前任何時(shí)期都大。如今，澳大利亞英語也有它自己的特色了。在非洲和亞洲許多其它國家，比如南非、新加坡、馬來西亞等國，人們也說英語。Using Language Reading and talking 什么是標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語？是在英國、美國、加拿大、澳大利亞、印度、新西蘭所說的英語嗎？信不信由你，（世界上）沒有什么標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語。美國英語有許多方言，特別是中西部和南部地區(qū)的方言，以及黑人和西班牙人的方言。住在美國東部山區(qū)的某些人說著比較古老的英語方言。雖然許多美國人經(jīng)常在搬家，但是他們?nèi)匀荒軌虮鎰e彼此的方言。首先想到要沿湄公河從源頭到終點(diǎn)騎車旅游的是我的姐姐。他們是傣族人，在云南省西部靠近瀾滄江的地方長大，湄公河在中國境內(nèi)的這一段叫瀾滄江，在其他國家（境內(nèi)）叫湄公河。她告訴我，她要把這次旅游安排得盡善盡美。于是，我告訴她，湄公河的源頭在青海省。我非常了解我的姐姐，她一旦下了決心，什么也不能使她改變。我老是問她，“我們什么時(shí)候動(dòng)身？什么時(shí)候回來？”我們從圖上可以看到，湄公河發(fā)源于西藏一座山上的冰川。我們倆驚奇地發(fā)現(xiàn)這條河有一半是在中國境內(nèi)。Using Language Reading and speaking 夜晚的西藏山景 第二部分 山中一宿 雖然是秋天，但是西藏已經(jīng)開始下雪了。等我們到達(dá)山谷，天氣就暖和多了，我們不得不把帽子、外衣、手套和長褲換成T恤衫和短褲。半夜里，天空變得清朗了，星星很亮。我們迫不及待地想要見到他們！四單元 地震 Reading 地球的一個(gè)不眠之夜 河北省東北部的農(nóng)村不斷有些怪事發(fā)生：三天來，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，唐山市的一百萬居民幾乎都沒有把這些情況當(dāng)一回事，當(dāng)天晚上照常上床睡覺了。地上一些洞穴冒出了蒸氣。死傷的人數(shù)達(dá)到40多萬。兩座大壩垮了，多數(shù)橋梁不是塌了就是無法安全通行了。井里滿是沙子，而不是水。更多的房屋倒塌了。部隊(duì)派了15萬名戰(zhàn)士到唐山來協(xié)助救援人員，數(shù)十萬的人得到了援助。慢慢地、慢慢地，這座城市又開始出現(xiàn)了生機(jī)。我們辦公室想請你在7月28日上午11點(diǎn)給來公園的參觀者進(jìn)行演講。曼德拉——一位當(dāng)代英雄 Reading 伊萊亞斯的故事 我的名字叫伊萊亞斯。當(dāng)時(shí)我才12歲，那是在1952年，他開設(shè)了一家黑人律師事務(wù)所，為那些遇到麻煩的窮苦黑人提供咨詢服務(wù)。幾經(jīng)周折，我才在一家金礦找到一份工作。曼德拉告訴我該怎么做，而且還幫我的忙，這是我一生中最高興的日子?！?他說的是真話。他們被打發(fā)去居住的地方是南非最貧窮的地區(qū)。我們選擇向法律進(jìn)攻。但是，我樂于幫忙，因?yàn)槲抑?，這是為了實(shí)現(xiàn)我們的黑人和白人平等的夢想。但是我到那里時(shí)，納爾遜他在午餐后的休息時(shí)間以及晚上本來該睡覺的時(shí)間教我們學(xué)習(xí)。曼德拉先生讓獄卒參加我們一起學(xué)習(xí)。在監(jiān)獄里呆完四年之后，我去找工作。在曼德拉和非國大于1994年掌權(quán)之前，我有20年沒有工作。我回憶起那時(shí)所有的恐怖和令人畏懼的情景。第二篇：高中英語必修一課文翻譯我上高中的一天我叫李康，住在石家莊，一個(gè)距離北京不遠(yuǎn)的城市。老師們非常熱情友好，教室令人驚奇。它們真是太棒了。她認(rèn)為閱讀理解很重要，不過我們課堂英語也講得很多。我們是以小組討論式進(jìn)行的。我們用拼寫游戲和其他活動(dòng)這類有趣的方式來進(jìn)行。換句話說，女生的人數(shù)是男生的三倍。我想她那時(shí)可能就是這樣，因?yàn)槟鞘撬o我們上的第一堂課。說英語時(shí)我一直很討厭出錯(cuò)或發(fā)音有誤。我猜陳老師快60歲了，她非常嚴(yán)厲——除非她要求我們（講話），否則我們一句話也不敢說。我們班有些同學(xué)不喜歡她，但是我們大多數(shù)人真的很佩服她，因?yàn)樗v課非常有條理，也很清楚。吳老師只教了我們兩個(gè)星期就已經(jīng)很受歡迎了。他聲音洪亮而且說話快，他興奮的時(shí)候還會(huì)揮舞雙手。我的首次火車之旅。我和我的朋友乘的著名的Ghan列車。我們吃的美味飯菜是由烹飪專家做的。突然，它看起來好像另一個(gè)時(shí)代的某個(gè)地方。我讀書，聽漢語磁帶。一百五十年前，他們從阿富汗帶回來一些駱駝。阿富汗人和他們的駱駝穿梭其間，直到20世紀(jì)20年代。因特網(wǎng)的發(fā)展歷程Internet是全世界最大的計(jì)算機(jī)網(wǎng)絡(luò)，它起源與美國國防部高級研究計(jì)劃局ARPA 于1968年主持研制的用于支持軍事研究的計(jì)算機(jī)實(shí)驗(yàn)網(wǎng)ARPANET。由于美國國家科學(xué)資金的鼓勵(lì)和資助，許多大學(xué)、政府資助的研究機(jī)構(gòu)，甚至私營的研究機(jī)構(gòu)紛紛把自己的局域網(wǎng)并入NSFNET。Internet大大方便了信息傳播，給人們帶來了一種全新的通訊方式，可以說Internet是繼電報(bào)、電話發(fā)明以來人類通訊方式的又一次革命。XL：對，你能來這兒我很高興。生活在這里我感到很幸運(yùn)。JM：對我來說聽起來不錯(cuò)。XL：是的，那樓剛完工。最近他們建起了許多高樓大廈，還有一些大型購物中心。XL：明天我?guī)闳ァ倓偞┻^這片水域的是鼓浪嶼島嗎？ XL：是的，它是一個(gè)美麗的海島，島上有一些非常有趣的建筑。我去那吃午餐怎么樣？ JM：聽起來是個(gè)好主意，我快餓死了。Our parents are concerned about our study and health all the。Please set down all that i 。The country has gone through too m