【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ean “our hearts singing together”. Perhaps this is how m ost visitors wil l rem em ber their new fri endshi p. Uni t 2 TH E RO AD TO MO DERN EN GLISH At the end of the 16th century, about fi ve to seven mil li on peopl e spoke Engl ish. N earl y al l of them l i ved in Engl and. Later i n the next century, peopl e from Engl and m ade voyages to conquer other parts of the worl d and because of that, Engli sh begin to be spoken i n m any other countri es. Today, m ore people speak Engli sh as thei r first, second or a forei gn l anguage than ever before. Nati ve Engl ish speakers can understand each other even i f they don39。t speak the sam e ki nd of Engli sh. Look at thi s ki nd of exam pl e: Briti sh Betty: Woul d you l i ke to see m y fl at? Am eri can Am y: Yes. I’d l ike to e up to your apartm ent. So why has Engli sh changed over ti m e? Actual y al l anguages change and devel op when cul tures m eet and m unicate wi th each other. At fi rst the Engli sh spoken i n Engl and between about AD 450 and 1150 was very di fferent the Engli sh spoken today. It was based m ore on Germ an than the Engl ish we speak at present. Then gradual ly between about AD800 to 150, 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 enriched the Engl ish l anguage and especial l y its vocabul ary. So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was abl e to m ake use of a wi der vocabul ary than ever before. In 1620 som e Bri ti sh settl ers moved to Am eri can. Later i n the 18th century som e Briti sh peopl e were taken to Austral i a too. Engli sh began to be spoken i n both countri es. Fi nal ly by the 19th century the l anguage was setl ed. At that tim e two big changes i n Engli sh spel li ng happened: fi rst Sam uel Johnson wrote hi s di cti onary and l ater N oah Webster wrote The Am eri can Di cti onary of the Engl ish Language. The l atter gave a separate i denti ty to Am eri can Engl ish spel i ng. Engli sh now i s 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 Engli sh speakers because Bri tai n rul ed Indi a from 1765 to 1947. duri ng that ti m 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 Africa. Today the num ber of peopl e l earning Engl ish i n Chi na i s i ncreasi ng rapi dl y. In fact, Chi na m ay have the l argest num ber of Engli sh l earners. Wi l Chi nese Engl ish devel op its own s festi val i s a cheerf ul occasi on, f or on thi s day, the dead ar e sai d t o r et urn t o t hei r hom es and t hey ar e wel ed by t he li vi ng. As they are expect ed t o be hungr y af t er t hei r l ong j our ney, f ood i s lai d out f or them . Speci al lym ade lanter ns ar e hung out si de each house t o hel p t he dead t o f i nd t hei r way. Al ni ght l ong, people dance and si ng. I n t he earl y m or ning, the f ood t hat had been l ai d out f or the dead is t hrown i nto a 廣西科學研究與技術開發(fā)計劃項目 建議書 項目名稱： 黑波爾山羊引進及選育研究 項目承擔單位： 廣西咪咩波爾山羊有限公司 聯(lián) 系 人： XXX 聯(lián)系電話： 135XXXXXXXX 電子信箱： 地址 ： 南寧市 郵編： 530003 日期： 2020 年 6 月 17 日 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 fri end woul d l augh 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 l ived i n Am sterdam i n N etherl ands duri ng Woul d WarⅡ .H er famil 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 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 series of facts i n a di ary as most people do , but I want this diary itsel f to be m y friend, and I shal cal m y friend Kitty . ”Now read how she fel t after being i n the hi di ng 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 l rem em ber that there was a tim e when a deep bl ue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and fl owers coul d never have kept m e spel bound. That’s changed since I was here. …For exam pl e, one eveni ng when i t was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose until hal f past el even i n order to have a good l ook at the m oon by m ysel f. But as the m oon gave far too m uch l ight, I didn’t dare open a window. Another tim e five m onths 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 m e entirely in their power。 it was the first tim e in a year and a hal f that I’d seen the night face to face…. …Sadly…I am onl y abl e to l ook at nature through dirty curtains hanging before very dusty windows. it’s no pl easure l ooking through these any l onger because nature is one thing that real ly m ust be experienced. Your, Ane Fri day, 10 Jul y 1942 When we arri ved at Prinsengracht, we went qui ckl y upstai rs and the hi di ng pl ace. We cl osed the door behi nd us and we were al one. Margot had e faster on her bi cycl e and al ready wai ti ng for us. Al the room s were ful l of boxes. They l ay 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, i f we wished to sl eep i n fortabl e beds that night. Mumm y and Margot were not abl e to hel p. They were ti red and l ay down on their beds. But Daddy and I, the two “hel per” of the famil y, started at once. The