【正文】 s best artists about ten years to make .In fact , the room was not made to be a gift . It was designed for the palace of Frederick Ⅰ. However, the next King of Prussia , Frederick William Ⅰ,to whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it. In 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great. In return , the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room because part of the Czar39。T SLEEPStrange things were happening in the countryside of northeast three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. Farmers noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in them. A smelly gas came out of the cracks. In the farmyards, the chickens and even the pigs were too nervous to eat. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish jumped out of their bowls and ponds. At about 3:00 am on July 28,1976,some people saw bright lights in the sky. The sound of planes could be heard outside the city of Tangshan even when no planes were in the sky. In the city, the water pipes in some buildings cracked and burst. but the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night.At 3:42 am everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world was at an end! Eleven kilometers directly below the city the greatest earthquake of the 20th century had begun. It was felt in Beijing, which is more than two hundred kilometers away. Onethird of the nation felt it. A huge crack that was eight kilometres long and thirty metres wide cut across houses, roads and canals. Steam burst from holes in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dir. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins. The suffering of the people was extreme. Twothirds of them died or were left without parents. The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.But how could the survivors believe it was natural? Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed. All of the city39。最后，湄公河三角洲的各支流流入中國南海。我們驚奇的發(fā)現(xiàn)這條河有一半是在中國境內。起初，河很小，河水清澈而冷冽，然后它開始快速流動。最后，我只好讓步了。她給了我一個堅定的眼神—這種眼神表明她是不會改變主意的?，F(xiàn)在我知道了這個盡善盡美的方式總是她的方式。我問姐姐：“我們要去哪里？”首先想到要沿湄公河從源頭到終點騎車旅行的是我的姐姐。去年她去看望了我們的表兄弟—在昆明讀大學的刀偉和宇航。 my sister doesn39。朋友：艾米，她說什么？艾米：她叫我們往左邊拐過去，一直往前走，走過兩條街，地鐵就是右邊。所以她問問了路，然后告訴她的朋友。美國是一個大國，有著許許多多彼此不同的方言。 地理位置對方言的形成也有所影響。 當人們使用不同于“標準語言”的詞語和表達時，那就叫做方言。中國式英語是否也能發(fā)展成一種具有自己獨特個性的語言？這還有待時間去證明。比如，印度就有很多人說英語說得很流利，因為在1765年到1947年之間英國統(tǒng)治著印度。約翰遜編寫了他的英語詞典，后是諾亞1620年一些英國定居者來到了美洲，后來到了18世紀的時候，一些英國人還被帶到了澳大利亞。當時的英語更多的是以德語為基礎的，不像我們現(xiàn)在說的英語。 Native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English. Look at this example:British Betty: Would you like to see my flat?American Amy: Yes, I’d like to e up to your apartment.以英語作為母語的人，即使他們所講不是同一種英語，他們也能彼此聽懂。為什么不試一試呢？第二單元Reading THE ROAD TO MODERN ENGLISHAt the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people spoke English. Nearly all of them lived in England. 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 countries. Today, more people speak English as their first, second or foreign language than ever before. 通向現(xiàn)代英語之路在16世紀末，大約有五至七百萬人講英語。你的王小姐 LEARNING TIP 學習建議 It’s a good habit for you to keep a diary. It can help you remember past events. You can express your feelings and thoughts in it. It will help you improve your English if you write your diary in English. Why not have a try?寫日記對你來說是一個好習慣。但是，如果你聽聽我的建議，這種情況是很容易改變的。然后把你的建議寫出來，并解釋它為什么會有所幫助。因此，有時候我感到十分的孤獨。小冬是要征求一些意見。我們成了真正好朋友。聽完錄音之后，核對并討論她的建議。漆黑的雨夜，刮著大風，電閃雷鳴，烏云滾滾，我完全被這種景象鎮(zhèn)住了。自從我來到這里之后，這一切都變了。”現(xiàn)在，來看看安妮自1942年7月起躲進藏身處后的那種心情吧。她和她的家人躲藏了25個月之后才被發(fā)現(xiàn)。必修1 第一單元ANNE’S BEST FRIEND Do you want a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your deepest feelings and thoughts? Or are you afraid that your friend would laugh at you, or would not understand what you are going through? Anne Frank wanted the first kind, so she made her diary her best friend.安妮最好的朋友 你想不想有一位無話不談能推心置腹的朋友？或者你會不會擔心你的朋友會嘲笑你，會不理解你目前的困境呢？安妮?弗蘭克想要的是第一種類型的朋友，所以她把的日記視為自己最好的朋友。在那段時期，她的日記成了她唯一忠實的朋友。 Thursday 15, June, 1944Dear kitty, 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 nature. I can well remember that there was a time when a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound. That’s changed since I was here. For example, when it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven one evening in order to have a good look at the moon for once by myself. But as the moon gave far too much light, I didn’t dare open a window. Another time some months ago, I happened to be upstairs one evening 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 clouds held me entirely in their power。 比如說，有一天晚上天氣很暖和，我故意熬到晚上11點半都不睡覺，為的就是能獨自好好地看看月亮。這是我一年半以來第一次親眼目睹的夜晚…… 不幸的是……我只能透過那滿是灰塵的窗簾下那臟兮兮的窗戶看看大自然。親愛的王小姐：現(xiàn)在我同班上的同學有些麻煩事?？墒牵渌瑢W卻在背后議論起來，他們說我和這位男同學在談戀愛，這使我很生氣。仔細閱讀右邊的信，然后幫王 。我確實想改變這種現(xiàn)狀，但是我卻不知道怎么辦。每個想法可以自成一個段落。這些建議會對你有所幫助。它可以幫你記住一些過去發(fā)生的事件。幾乎所有這些講英語的人都住在英格蘭。請看看這個例子：英國人貝蒂：來看看我的公寓嗎？美國人艾米：好的，我來看看你的公寓吧。后來，大約在公元800年至1150年之間，英語慢慢變得不那么像德語，因為統(tǒng)治英格蘭的那些人開始是說丹麥語，后來說法語。英語也就開始在這兩個國家使用。韋伯斯特出版了《美國英語詞典》。在此期間，英語成了印度政府和教育所用的語言。STANDARD ENGLISH AND DIALECTSWhat is standard English? Is it spoken in Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, India and New Zealand? Believe it or not, there is no such thing as standard English. Many people believe the English spoken on TV and the radio is standard English. This is because in the early days of radio, those who reported the news were expected to speak excellent English. However, on TV and the radio you will hear differences in the way people speak.When people use words and expressions different form “standard language”, it is called a dialect. American English has many dialects, espe