【正文】 lds 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 sounds of planes could be heard outside the city of Tangshan even when no planes were in the 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 injured during the of families were killed and many children were left without number of people who were killed or injured reached more than how could the survivors believe it was natural? Everywhere they looked nearly everything was of the city39。t care about I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai gave me a determined lookthe kind that said she would not change her I told her that our journey would begin at an altitude of more than 5000 meters, 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 , 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, traveling across western Yunnan the river bees a waterfall and enrers wide were both surprised to learn that half of the river is in it leaves China and 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 ...Along the way children dressed in long wool coats stopped to look at the late afternoon we found it was so cold that our water bottles , the lakes shone like glass in the setting sun and looked Wei rode in front of me as is very reliable and I knew I didn39。t。s JourneydowntheMekong My 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 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 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 college, we 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。 why has English changed over time? Actually all languages change and develop when cultures meet and municate with each first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English we spoke was based more on German than the English we speak at gradually between about AD 800 and 1150, English became less like German because those who rules England spoke first Danish and later new settlers enriched the English language and especially its by the 160039。s no pleasure looking through these any longer because nature is one thing , Anne Unit2 TheroadtomodernEnglish At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people speak all of them lived in 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 , more people speak English as their first, second, or a foreign English speakers can understand each other even if they don39。it was the first time in a year and a half that I39。t dare open a time five months ago, I happened to be upstairs at dusk when the window was didn39。t been able to be outdoors for so long that I39。t want to set down a series of facts in a diary as most people do, but I want this diary itself to be my best friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty.” Now read how she felt after being in the hiding place since July , I wonder if it39。第一篇：高中英語必修一課文及翻譯Unit1,Book1 Anne39。sbestfriend 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 lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands during World War family was Jewish so they had to hide or they would be caught by the German and her family hid away for nearly twentyfive months before they were that time the only true friend was her said, “I don39。s because I haven39。ve grown crazy about everything to do with 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 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 by as the moon gave far too much light, I didn39。t go downstairs until the window had to be dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me entirely in their power。d seen the night face to face......Sadly...I am only able to look at nature through dirty curtains hanging before very dusty 39。t speak the same kind : BritishBetty:Wouldyouliketoseemyflat? AmericanAmy:39。s Shakespeare was able to make use of a wider vocabulary than ever 1620 some British settlers moved to in the 18th century some Br