【正文】 l ies. When they hear al oha, vi si tors begin to feel at home. Al oha al so means “goodbye”, so visitors wil l hear it again when they l eave. It can al so mean “our hearts singing together”. Perhaps this is how m ost visitors wil l remem ber their new friendship. Unit 2 TH E RO AD TO MODERN EN GLISH At the end of the 16th century, about fi ve to seven mil li on peopl e spoke Engli sh. N early al of them l ived in Engl and. Later i n the next century, peopl e from Engl and made voyages to conquer other parts of the worl d and because of that, Engl ish begi n to be spoken in many other countri es. Today, m ore people speak Engl ish as their first, second or a forei gn l anguage than ever before. N ative Engli sh speakers can understand each other even if they don39。 sai d the voice of t he television announcer, 39。 we are taking you to t he macar oni fields of Calabr ia. Macar oni has been grown in this area for over six hundred years. Two of the leading grower s, Giuseppe Mol dova and Ricar do Br abante, tel me that they have been expecting a splendi d cr op t hi s year and harvesti ng has begun ear li er than usual. Here you can see t wo wor ker s who, between t hem, 必修一 Uni t 1 ANNE’S BEST FRIEND Do you want a fri end whom you could tel l everythi ng to, li ke your deepest feli ngs and thoughts? Or are you afrai d that your fri end woul d laugh at you, or woul d not understand what you are goi ng through? Anne Frank wanted the fi rst ki nd, so she m ade her best fri end. Anne li ved i n Am sterdam i n N etherl ands during Woul d WarⅡ .H er fam il y was Jewish so they had to hi de or they woul d be caught by the German N azi . She and her fam il y hi d away for nearl y twentyfive m onths before they were discovered. During that tim e the onl y true friend was her diary. She said , ”I don’t want to set down a seri es of facts i n a di ary as m ost peopl e do , but I want thi s di ary i tsel f to be m y fri end, and I shal cal l m y friend Kitty . ”Now read how she fel t after being in the hiding pl ace since Jul y 1942. Thursday 15th June 1944 Dear Ki ty, I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been able to be outdoors for so l ong that I’ve grown so crazy about everything to do wi th nature. I can wel l rem em ber that there was a tim e when a dep blue sky, the song of the bi rds, m oonli ght and fl owers could never have kept m e spel bound. That’s changed since I was here. …For example, one evening when it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose until half past el even i n order to have a god l ok at the moon by m yself. But as the moon gave far too m uch light, I didn’t dare open a window. Another time five months ago, I happened to be upstairs at dusk when the window 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。必修一 Uni t 1 ANNE’S BEST FRIEND Do you want a fri end whom you could tel l everythi ng to, li ke your deepest feli ngs and thoughts? Or are you afrai d that your fri end woul d laugh at you, or woul d not understand what you are goi ng through? Anne Frank wanted the fi rst ki nd, so she m ade her best fri end. Anne li ved i n Am sterdam i n N etherl ands during Woul d WarⅡ .H er fam il y was Jewish so they had to hi de or they woul d be caught by the German N azi . She and her fam il y hi d away for nearl y twentyfive m onths before they were discovered. During that tim e the onl y true friend was her diary. She said , ”I don’t want to set down a seri es of facts i n a di ary as m ost peopl e do , but I want thi s di ary i tsel f to be m y friend, and I shal cal l m y friend Kitty . ”Now read how she fel t after being in the hiding pl ace since Jul y 1942. Thursday 15th June 1944 Dear Ki ty, I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been able to be outdoors for so l ong that I’ve grown so crazy about everythi ng to do wi th nature. I can wel l rem em ber that there was a tim e when a dep blue sky, the song of the bi rds, m oonlight and fl owers could never have kept m e spel bound. That’s changed since I was here. …For example, one evening when it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose until half past el even i n order to have a god l ok at the moon by m yself. But as the moon gave far too m uch light, I didn’t dare open a window. Another time five months ago, I happened to be upstairs at dusk when the window 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。 it was the first tim e in a year and a half that I’d seen the night face to face…. …Sadl y…I am only able to look at nature through dirty curtains hanging before very dusty windows. it’s no pl easure l oking through these any l onger because nature i s one thing that real y m ust be experi enced. Your, Anne Fri day, 10 July 1942 When we arri ved at Pri nsengracht, we went qui ckl y upstairs and the hiding place. We cl osed the door behind us and we were al one. Margot had e faster on her bi cycl e and al ready waiti ng for us. Al l the rooms were ful of boxes. They lay on the floor and the beds. The li ttl e room was fi l ed wi th bedcl othes. We had to start cl eari ng up at once, if we wi shed to sl ep i n fortabl e beds that ni ght. Mumm y and Margot were not abl e to hel p. They were tired and lay down on their beds. But Daddy and I, the two “hel per” of the family, started at once. The whol e day we unpacked the boxes, fil ed the cupboards and ti di ed, until we were extremely tired. We di d sl eep i n clean beds that night. We hadn’t had any warm food to eat al l day, but we didn’t care. Mummy and Margot were too tired and worried to eat, and Dady and I were too busy. FRIENDSH IP IN H AWAII Every culture has its own ways to show friendship. On the islands of Hawaii, friendship is part of the “aloha spirit”. In the langu