【正文】 South time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my was twelve years was in 1952 and Mandela was the black lawyer to whom I went for offered guidance to poor black people on their legal was generous with his time, for which I was needed his help because I had very little began school at school where I studied for only two years was three kilometers had to leave because my family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus could not read or write trying hard, I got a job in a gold , this was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in I did not have it because I was not born there, and I worried about whether I would bee out of day when Nelson Mandela helped me was one of my told my how to get the correct papers so I could stay in became more hopeful about my never forgot how kind Mandela he organized the ANC Youth League, I joined it as soon as I said:“The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all.‖It was the people could not vote or choose their could not get the jobs they parts of town in which they had to live were decided by white places outside the towns where they were sent to live were the poorest parts of South one could grow food fact as Nelson Mandela said:“?we were put into a position in which we had either to accept we were less important or fight the chose to attack the first broke the law in a way which was peaceful。t need to encourage climb the mountains was hard work but as we looked around us,we were surprised by the seemed to be able to see for one point we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through we began going down the was great fun especially as it gradually became much the valleys colourful butterflies flew around us and we saw many yaks and sheep eating green this point we had to change our caps,coats,gloves and trousers for Tshirts and the early evening we always stop to make put up our tent and then we supper Wang Wei put her head down on her pillow and went to sleep but I stayed midnight the sky became clearer and the stars grew was so was almost no windonly the flames of our fire for I lay beneath the stars I thought about how far we had already will reach Dali in Yunnan Province soon,where our cousins Dao Wei and Yu Hang will join can hardly wait to see them!Unit 4 EarthquakesReadingA NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN39。Reading and discussingJOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONGPART 2 A NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINSAlthough it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in legs were so heavy and cold that they felt like blocks of you ever seen snowmen ride bicycles? That39。而當(dāng)它進(jìn)入東南亞以后，流速減慢，河水變寬慢慢地穿過低谷，到了長著稻谷的平原。當(dāng)流出中國，流出高地后，湄公河就變寬，變暖了。有時(shí)，這條河形成瀑布進(jìn)入寬闊的峽谷。它穿過深谷時(shí)就變成了急流。我們從圖上可以看到，湄公河源于西藏一座山上的冰川。在我們旅行前的幾個(gè)月，王薇和我去了圖書館。我非常了解我的姐姐，她一旦下了決心，就什么也不能使她改變。當(dāng)我告訴她我們的旅行將從5000多米的的高地出發(fā)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。我老是問她：“我們什么時(shí)候動(dòng)身？什么時(shí)候回來？”我問她是否已經(jīng)看過地圖。盡管她對(duì)到某些地方的最佳路線并不清楚，她卻堅(jiān)持要把這次旅行安排的盡善盡美?，F(xiàn)在，她正為這次旅行制訂計(jì)劃。到大學(xué)畢業(yè)后，我們終于有了作一次騎車旅行的機(jī)會(huì)。他們是傣族人，在云南省西部靠近瀾滄江的地方長大，湄公河在中國境內(nèi)的這一段叫瀾滄江，流經(jīng)其他國家后就叫湄公河。兩年前，她買了一輛價(jià)錢昂貴的山地自行車，然后她還說服我也買了一輛。t care about I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai gave me a determined look—the kind that said she would not change her I told her that our journey would begin at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres, she seemed to be excited about I told her the air would be hard to breathe and it would be very cold, she said it would be an interesting know my sister she has made up her mind, nothing can change , I had to give months before our trip,Wang Wei and I went to the found a large atlas with good maps that showed details of world the atlas we could see that the Mekong River begins in a glacier on a Tibetan first the river is small and the water is clear and it begins to move bees rapids as it passes through deep valleys, travelling across western Yunnan the river bees a waterfall and enters wide were both surprised to learn that half of the river is in it leaves China and the high altitude,the Mekong bees wide，brown and it enters Southeast Asia, its pace makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice last, the river delta enters the South China 第一部分 夢(mèng)想與計(jì)劃我的名字叫王坤。t?！疽馑枷嗤脑~】subway←→underground（地鐵）righthand side←→right（右邊）street←→block 街道，街區(qū)第三單元Travel journal JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG PART 1 THE DREAM AND THE PLANMy name is Wang since middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike years ago she bought an expensive mountain bike and then she persuaded me to buy year, she visited our cousins, Dao Wei and Yu Hang at their college in are Dai and grew up in western Yunnan Province near the Lancang River, the Chinese part of the river that is called the Mekong River in other Wei soon got them interested in cycling graduating from finally got the chance to take a bike asked my sister, “Where are we going?” It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the entire Mekong River from where it begins to where it she is planning our schedule for the am fond of my sister but she has one serious can be really she didn39。艾米：多謝了。讀對(duì)話，然后圈出意思相同的詞。她們計(jì)劃去拜訪艾米的姑媽，并決定乘地鐵去，但是她們找不到最近的地鐵站。雖然許多美國人經(jīng)常搬家，但是他們?nèi)匀荒軌虮鎰e和理解彼此的方言。因此，美國東南部山區(qū)的人同美國西北部的人所說的方言就幾乎相同。住在美國東部山區(qū)的一些人說著比較古老的英語方言。美國英語之所以有這么多的方言是因?yàn)槊绹耸莵碜允澜绺鞯氐木壒?。美國英語有許多方言，特別是中西部地區(qū)和南部地區(qū)的方言，以及美國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)聽出人們?cè)谡f話時(shí)的差異。Using Language 語言運(yùn)用STANDARD ENGLISH AND DIALECTS What 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 people believe the English spoken on TV and the radio is standard is because in the early days of radio, those who reported the news were expected to speak excellent , on TV and the radio you will hear differences in the way people people use words and expressions different form ―standard language‖,