【正文】 即使天空沒(méi)有飛機(jī)，在唐山城外也可以聽(tīng)到飛機(jī)聲。魚(yú)缸和池塘里的魚(yú)會(huì)往外跳。農(nóng)家大院里的雞,甚至豬都緊張得不想吃食。我們迫不及待地想要見(jiàn)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(lái)，村子里的井水升升降降，起起伏伏。我們已經(jīng)走得很遠(yuǎn)了，馬上就要到達(dá)云南的大理。半夜里，天空變得清朗了，星星很亮。剛到傍晚，我們就停下來(lái)宿營(yíng)，先把帳篷支起來(lái)，然后吃飯。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(zhǎng)褲換成T恤衫和短褲。你看到過(guò)雪人騎自行車嗎？像往常一樣，王薇在我的前面，我知道我用不著給她鼓勁兒。Using LanguageReading and speaking沿湄公河而下的旅程第二部分 山中一宿雖然是秋天，但是西藏已經(jīng)開(kāi)始下雪了。而當(dāng)它進(jìn)入東南亞以后，流速減緩，河水蜿蜒緩慢地穿過(guò)低谷，流向生長(zhǎng)稻谷的平原。我們倆驚奇地發(fā)現(xiàn)這條河有一半是在中國(guó)境內(nèi)。它穿過(guò)深谷時(shí)就變成了急流，流經(jīng)云南西部。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。在我們旅行前的幾個(gè)月，王薇和我去了圖書(shū)館。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。我說(shuō)，我們的旅行將從5, 000多米的高地出發(fā)，這時(shí)她似乎顯得很興奮。于是，我告訴她，湄公河的源頭在青海省。我不停地問(wèn)她，“我們什么時(shí)候出發(fā)？什么時(shí)候回來(lái)？”我還問(wèn)她是否看過(guò)地圖。盡管她對(duì)去某些地方的最佳路線并不清楚，她卻堅(jiān)持要自己把這次旅游安排得盡善盡美。我很喜歡我姐姐，但是她有一個(gè)很嚴(yán)重的缺點(diǎn)。我問(wèn)我姐姐：“我們要去哪兒？”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。很快，王薇使表兄弟也對(duì)騎車旅游產(chǎn)生了興趣。去年她去看望了我們的表兄弟——在昆明讀大學(xué)的刀衛(wèi)和宇航。從高中起，我姐姐王薇和我就一直夢(mèng)想作一次偉大的自行車旅行。雖然許多美國(guó)人經(jīng)常搬遷，但是他們?nèi)匀荒軌虮鎰e、理解彼此的方言。因此，美國(guó)東南部山區(qū)的人同美國(guó)西北部的人所說(shuō)的方言就幾乎相同。住在美國(guó)東部山區(qū)的某些人說(shuō)著比較古老的英語(yǔ)方言。美國(guó)英語(yǔ)之所以有這么多的方言是因?yàn)槊绹?guó)人是來(lái)自世界各地的緣故。美國(guó)英語(yǔ)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。然而，在電視和收音機(jī)里，你也會(huì)聽(tīng)出人們?cè)谡f(shuō)話時(shí)的差異。Using LanguageReading and talking什么是標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語(yǔ)？是在英國(guó)、美國(guó)、加拿大、澳大利亞、印度、新西蘭所說(shuō)的英語(yǔ)嗎？信不信由你，（世界上）沒(méi)有什么標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語(yǔ)。事實(shí)上，中國(guó)可能擁有世界上最多的英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)者。在新加坡、馬來(lái)西亞和非洲其它國(guó)家，比如南非，人們也說(shuō)英語(yǔ)。比如說(shuō)，印度擁有眾多講英語(yǔ)很流利的人，這是因?yàn)橛?guó)于1765年到1947年統(tǒng)治過(guò)印度。那時(shí)，英語(yǔ)在拼寫(xiě)上發(fā)生了兩大變化：首先，塞繆爾?約翰遜編寫(xiě)了詞典，后來(lái)，諾厄?韋伯斯特編纂了《美國(guó)英語(yǔ)詞典》，后者體現(xiàn)了美國(guó)英語(yǔ)拼寫(xiě)的不同特色。后來(lái)，到了19世紀(jì)，有些英國(guó)人也被送往澳大利亞，兩個(gè)國(guó)家的人都開(kāi)始說(shuō)英語(yǔ)了。所以到17世紀(jì)，莎士比亞所用的詞匯量比以前任何時(shí)期都大。因?yàn)槟菚r(shí)的英國(guó)的統(tǒng)治者起初講丹麥語(yǔ)后來(lái)講法語(yǔ)。當(dāng)時(shí)的英語(yǔ)更多地是以德語(yǔ)為基礎(chǔ)的，而現(xiàn)代英語(yǔ)不是?！蹦敲矗⒄Z(yǔ)在一段時(shí)間里為什么會(huì)起變化呢？事實(shí)上，當(dāng)不同文化互相交流滲透時(shí)，所有的語(yǔ)言都會(huì)有所發(fā)展，有所變化。請(qǐng)看以下例子：英國(guó)人貝蒂：“請(qǐng)到我的公寓（flat）里來(lái)看看，好嗎？”美國(guó)人艾米：“好的。如今說(shuō)英語(yǔ)的人比以往任何時(shí)候都多，他們有的是作為第一語(yǔ)言來(lái)說(shuō)，有的是作為第二語(yǔ)言或外語(yǔ)。后來(lái)，在17世紀(jì)英國(guó)人開(kāi)始航海征服了世界其它地區(qū)。如果您能給我提些建議，我會(huì)非常感激的。因此，有時(shí)候我感到十分孤獨(dú)。我有一個(gè)難題，我不太善于同人們交際。我不想中斷這段友誼，但是我又討厭人家背后說(shuō)閑話。我們成了非常好的朋友。你的安妮Using LanguageReading and親愛(ài)的王小姐：我同班上的同學(xué)有件麻煩事。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。還有一次，就在五個(gè)月以前的一個(gè)晚上，我碰巧在樓上，窗戶是開(kāi)著的。??比方說(shuō)，有天晚上天氣很暖和，我熬到11點(diǎn)半故意不睡覺(jué)，為的是獨(dú)自好好看看月亮。我記得非常清楚，以前，湛藍(lán)的天空、鳥(niǎo)兒的歌唱、月光和鮮花，從未令我心迷神往過(guò)。安妮自從1942年7月起就躲藏在那兒了，現(xiàn)在，來(lái)看看她的心情吧。她說(shuō)，“我不愿像大多數(shù)人那樣在日記中記流水賬。她和她的家人躲藏了兩年之后才被發(fā)現(xiàn)。安妮在第二次世界大戰(zhàn)期間住在荷蘭的阿姆斯特丹。T SLEEPStrange 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 pigs 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 sound of planes could be heard outside the city of Tangshan even when no planes were in the 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 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 left without number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400, how could the survivors believe it was natural?Everywhere they looked nearly everything was of the city39。s quick thinking and the first aid skills he learned at school saved Ms Slade39。m proud of what I did but I was just doing what I39。s immediately asked a number of nearby people for bandages, but when nobody could put their hands on any, his father got some tea towels and tape from their used these to treat the most severe injuries to Ms Slade39。may be pain around edge ofinjured aid treatment 1Remove clothing using scissors if necessary unless it is stuck to the off other clothing and jewellery near the Cool burns immediately with cool but not icy is best to place burns under gently running water for about 10 minutes.(The cool water stops the burning process, prevents the pain being unbearable and reduces swelling.)Do not put cold water on third degree For first degree burns, place cool, clean, wet cloths on them until the pain is not so second degree burns, keep cloths cool by putting them back in a basin of cold water, squeezing them out and placing them on the burned area over and over again for about an hour until the pain is not so Dry the burned area not rob, as this may break any blisters and the wound may get Cover the burned area with a dry, clean bandage that will not stick to the the bandage in place with put butter, oil or ointment on bums as they keep the heat in the wounds and may cause If bums are on arms or legs, keep them higher than the heart, if bums are on the face, the victim should sit the injuries are second or third degree bums, it is vital to get the victim to the doctor or hospital at Language HEROIC TEENAGER RECEIVES AWARDSeventeenyearold teenager, John Janson, was honoured at the Lifesaver Awards last night in Rivertown for giving lifesaving first aid on his neighbour after a shocking knife was presented with his award at a ceremony which recognized the bravery of ten people who had saved the life of was studying in his room when he heard he and his father rushed outside, a man ran from the discovered that Anne Slade, mother of three, had been stabbed repeatedly with a was lying in her front garden bleeding very hands had almost been cut was John39。it is where you feel cold, heat or pain and it gives you your sense of as you can imagine, if your skin gets burned it can be very aid is a very important first step in the treatment of of burns You can get burned by a variety of things: hot liquids, steam, fire, radiation(by being close to high heat or fire, etc), the sun, electricity or of burns There are three types of are called first, second or third degree burns, depending on which layers of the skin are burned.◎ First degree burnsThese affect only the top layer of the burns are not serious and should feel better within a day