【正文】 were too nervous to ,甚至豬都緊張得不想吃食。T SLEEP地球的一個不眠之夜Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast ：For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and ，村子里的井水升升降降，起起伏伏。在那里，我們的表兄弟刀衛(wèi)和宇航將加入我們的行列。As I lay beneath the stars I thought about how far we had already ，我想著我們已經(jīng)走了多遠(yuǎn)。At midnight the sky became clearer and the stars grew ，天空變得清朗了，星星更亮了。In the early evening we always stop to make put up our tent and then we ，我們通常就停下來宿營，（于是），我們先把帳篷支起來，然后吃飯。In the valleys colourful butterflies flew around us and we saw many yaks and sheep eating green ，五彩斑斕的蝴蝶翩翩飛舞在我們身旁，我們還看到牦牛和羊群在吃草。At one point we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through ，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)自己置身高處，彷佛騎車穿越云層。Wang Wei rode in front of me as is very reliable and I knew I didn’t need to encourage ，王薇在我的前面，她很可靠，我知道我用不著給她鼓勁兒。In the late afternoon we found it was so cold that our water bottles ，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)由于天冷我們的水壺都凍上了。s what we looked like!我們看上去就像那樣。Our legs were so heavy and cold that they felt like blocks of ，感覺就像大冰塊。At last, the river delta enters the South China ，湄公河三角洲的各支流流入中國南海。After it leaves China and the high altitude, the Mekong bees wide, brown and ，流出高地之后，湄公河就變寬了，變暖了，河水也變成了黃褐色。Sometimes the river bees a waterfall and enters wide ，這條江形成瀑布，進(jìn)入寬闊的峽谷。At first the river is small and the water is clear and it begins to move ，江面很小，河水清澈而冷冽，然后它開始快速流動。We found a large atlas with good maps that showed details of world ，里面有一些世界地理的明細(xì)圖。最后，我只好讓步了。When I told her the air would be hard to breathe and it would be very cold, she said it would be an interesting ，呼吸困難，而且天氣很冷時，她卻說這將是一次有趣的經(jīng)歷。She gave me a determined look—the kind that said she would not change her ——這種眼神表明她是不會改變主意的。t care about ——我的姐姐是不會考慮細(xì)節(jié)的。t。I kept asking her, “When are we leaving and when are we ing back?” I asked her whether she had looked at a map ，“我們什么時候出發(fā)？什么時候回來？”我還問她是否看過地圖。t know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that she organize the trip ，她卻堅持要自己把這次旅游安排得盡善盡美。她有時確實(shí)很固執(zhí)。Now she is planning our schedule for the 。After graduating from college, we finally got the chance to take a bike ，我們終于有了機(jī)會騎自行車旅行。They 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 ，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，在其他國家（境內(nèi)）叫湄公河。Two years ago she bought an expensive mountain bike and then she persuaded me to buy ，她買了一輛昂貴的山地自行車，然后還說服我買了一輛（山地車）。 3JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG沿湄公河而下的旅程PART 1 THE DREAM AND THE PLAN第一部分夢想與計劃My name is Wang since middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike 。The USA is a large country in which many different dialects are 。When Americans moved from one place to another, they took their dialects with ，他們也就把他們的方言隨著帶去了。Geography also plays a part in making 。Even in some parts of the USA, two people from neighbouring towns speak a little ，即使是相鄰城鎮(zhèn)的兩個人所說的語言都可能稍有不同。When people use words and expressions different from “standard language”, it is called a “標(biāo)準(zhǔn)語言”的詞語時，那就叫做方言。This is because in the early days of radio, those who reported the news were expected to speak excellent ，人們期望新聞播音員所說的英語是最好的英語。 STANDARD ENGLISH AND DIALECTS標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語和方言What is standard English?什么是標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語？Is it spoken in Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, India and New Zealand?是在英國、美國、加拿大、澳大利亞、印度、新西蘭所說的英語嗎？Believe it or not, there is no such thing as standard ，（世界上）沒有什么標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語。In fact, China may have the largest number of English ，中國可能擁有世界上最多的英語學(xué)習(xí)者。English is also spoken in Singapore and Malaysia and countries in Africa such as South 、馬來西亞和非洲其它國家，比如南非，人們也說英語。For example, India has a very large number of fluent English speakers because Britain ruled India from 1765 to ，印度擁有眾多講英語很流利的人，這是因?yàn)橛?765年到1947年統(tǒng)治過印度。韋伯斯特編纂了《美國英語詞典》，The latter gave a separate identity to American English 。At that time two big changes in English spelling happened: first Samuel Johnson wrote his dictionary and later Noah Webster wrote The American Dictionary of the English ，英語在拼寫上發(fā)生了兩大變化：首先，塞繆爾Later in the 18th century some British people were taken to Australia began to be spoken in both ，到了19世紀(jì)，有些英國人也被送往澳大利亞，兩個國家的人都開始說英語了。So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was able to make use of a wider vocabulary than ever ，莎士比亞所用的詞匯量比以前任何時期都大。因?yàn)槟菚r的英國的統(tǒng)治者起初講丹麥語后來講法語。It was based more on German than the English we speak at ，而現(xiàn)代英語不是?！盨o why has English changed over time?那么，英語在一段時間里為什么會起變化呢？Actually all languages change and develop when cultures meet and municate with each ，當(dāng)不同文化互相交流滲透時，所有的語言都會有所發(fā)展，有所變化。請看以下例子： British Betty: Would you like to see my flat? 英國人貝蒂：“請到我的公寓（flat）里來看看，好嗎？” American Amy: Yes, I’d like to e up to your ：“好的。Today, more people speak English as their first, second or foreign language than ever ，他們有的是作為第一語言來說，有的是作為第二語言或外語。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 ，在17世紀(jì)英國人開始航海征服了世界其它地區(qū)。I would be grateful if you could give me some ，我會非常感激的。So I feel quite lonely ，有時候我感到十分孤獨(dú)。I have a ’m not very good at municating with ，我不太善于同人們交際。I don’t want to end the friendship, but I hate others should I do? 我不想中斷這段友誼，但是我又討厭人家背后說閑話。We have bee really good 。Yours，Anne你的安妮 1 Using LanguageDear Miss Wang, 親愛的王小姐：I am having some trouble with my classmates at the 。這是我一年半以來第一次目睹夜晚………Sadly…I am only able to look at nature through dirty curtains hanging before very dusty windows.……令人傷心的是……我只能透過臟兮兮的窗簾觀看大自然，窗簾懸掛在沾滿灰塵的窗前。The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me entirely in their power。Another time five months ago, I happened to be upstairs one evening when the window was ，就在五個月以前的一個晚上，我碰巧在樓上，窗戶是開著的?！璅or example, one evening when it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven in order to have a good look at the moon for once by myself.…比方說，有天晚上天氣很暖和，我熬到11點(diǎn)半故意不睡覺，為的是獨(dú)自好好看看月亮。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 ，以前，湛藍(lán)的天空、鳥兒的歌唱、月光和鮮花，從未令我心迷神往過。Now