【正文】 her fami l y hid away for nearl y twentyfive months before they were discovered. During that time the onl y true friend was her diary. She said ,”I don’t want to set down a seri es of facts in a di ary as m ost peopl e do , but I want this diary itsel f to be my friend, and I shal l cal l my friend Kity . ”Now read how she fel t after being in the hiding pl ace si nce Jul y 1942. Thursday 15th June 1944 Dear Ki tty, I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been abl e to be outdoors for so l ong that I’ve grown so crazy about everything to do with nature. I can wel remember that there was a time when a deep bl ue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and fl owers coul d never have kept me spel bound. That’s changed since I was here. …For exampl e, one eveni ng when i t was so warm , I stayed awake on purpose unti l hal f pa。 二．招商培訓(xùn)內(nèi)容 必修一 Uni t 1 ANNE’S BEST FRIEND Do you want a fri end whom you coul d tel l everythi ng to, l i ke your deepest feeli ngs and thoughts? O r are you afrai d that your friend woul d l augh at you, or woul d not understand what you are going through? Anne Frank wanted the fi rst ki nd, so she m ade her best fri end. Anne l i ved i n Am sterdam i n N etherl ands duri ng Woul d WarⅡ . H er fami l y was Jewi sh so they had to hi de or they woul d be caught by the Germ an N azi . She and her fami l y hid away for nearl y twentyfive months before they were discovered. During that time the onl y true friend was her diary. She said ,”I don’t want to set down a seri es of facts in a di ary as m ost peopl e do , but I want thi s di ary i tsel f to be my friend, and I shal l cal l my friend Kity . ”Now read how she fel t after being in the hiding pl ace since Jul y 1942. Thursday 15th June 1944 Dear Ki tty, I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been abl e to be outdoors for so l ong that I’ve grown so crazy about everythi ng to do wi th nature. I can wel rem em ber that there was a tim e when a deep bl ue sky, the song of the bi rds, moonlight and fl owers coul d never have kept me spel bound. That’s changed since I was here. …For exampl e, one evening when it was so warm , I stayed awake on purpose unti l hal f past el even i n order to have a good l ok at the m oon by m ysel f. But as the m on gave far too much light, I didn’t dare open a window. Another time five months ago, I happened to be upstairs at dusk when the wi ndow was open. I didn’t go downstairs until the window had to be shut. The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering cl ouds hel d me entirel y in their power。t speak the sam e ki nd of Engli sh. Look at thi s ki nd of examp l e: Bri ti sh Betty: Woul d you li ke to see m y fl at? Am eri can Amy: Yes. I’d l i ke to e up to your apartm ent. So why has Engli sh changed over tim e? Actual l y al l l anguages change and devel op when cul tures m eet and m uni cate wi th each other. At fi rst the Engl ish spoken i n England betwen about AD 450 and 1150 was very di fferent the Engli sh spoken today. It was based m ore on Germ an than the Engli sh we speak at present. Then gradual y between about AD800 to 1150, Engl i sh becam e l es l i ke germ en because those who rul ed Engl and spoke fi rst Dani sh and l ater French. These new settl ers enri ched the Engl ish l anguage and especi al l y its vocabul ary. So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was abl e to make use of a wider vocabul ary than ever before. In 1620 some British settlers m oved to Ameri can. Later i n the 18th century som e Bri ti sh peopl e were taken to Australi a too. Engl i sh began to be spoken in both countries. Fi nal y by the 19th century the l anguage was settl ed. At that tim e two bi g changes in Engl ish spel i ng happened: first Sam uel Johnson wrote hi s dictionary and l ater N oah Webster wrote The Am eri can Dicti onary of the Engli sh Language. The latter gave a separate i denti ty to Am eri can Engl i sh spel li ng. Engl ish now is al so spoken as a forei gn or second l anguage i n South Asi a. For exam pl e, Indi a has a very l arge num ber of fl uent Engl ish speakers because Bri tai n rul ed Indi a from 1765 to 1947. duri ng that tim e Engl i sh becam e the l anguage for governm ent and educati on. Engli sh i s also spoken i n Si ngapore and Mal aysi a and countri es i n Afri ca such as South Afri ca. Today the num ber of peopl e l earning Engli sh i n Chi na is i ncreasi ng rapi dly. In fact, Chi na m ay have the largest num ber of Engli sh l earners. Wil l Chi nese Engl ish devel op its own i denti ty? O nl y tim e wil l tel l. STAN DARD EN GLISH AN D DIALECTS What is standard Engli sh? Is i t spoken i n Bri tai n, the US, Canada, Austral i a, Indi a and N ew Zealand? Bel ieve i t or not, there i s no such thi ng as standard Engli sh. Many peopl e bel i eve the Engl i sh spoken on TV and the radi o i s standard Engli sh. This i s because i n the earl y days of radi o, those who reported the news were expected to speak excel ent Engli sh. H owever, on TV and the radi o you wil l hear di fferences i n the way peopl e speak. When peopl e use words and expressi ons di fferent from the “standard language”, it is cal ed a dial ect. Am eri can Engli sh has m any dial ects, especi al l y the Mi dwestern, southern, African Am eri can and Spani sh dial ects. Even i n som e parts of the USA, two peopl e from nei ghbouri ng towns speak a li ttl e di fferently. Am eri can Engl i sh has so many di al ects because peopl e have e from al l over the worl d. Geography al so pl ays a part i n m aki ng di al ects. Som e peopl e who l i ve in the m ountai ns of the eastern USA speak with an ol der ki nd of Engli sh di al ect. When Am eri cans m oved from one pl ace to another, they took thei r di alects wi th them . So people from the m ountai ns i n the southeastern USA speak wi th al m ost the sam e dial ects as peopl e i n the northwestern USA. The USA i s a l arge country in which m any different di