【正文】 現(xiàn)代英語不是。因為那時的英國的統(tǒng)治者起初講丹麥語后來講法語。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。Later in the 18th century some British people were taken to Australia too. English began to be spoken in both countries. 后來，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。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，塞繆爾韋伯斯特編纂了《美國英語詞典》，The latter gave a separate identity to American English 。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，這是因為英國于1765年到1947年統(tǒng)治過印度。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。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。4. 必修一Unit2Many people believe the English spoken on TV and the radio is standard ，電視和收音機里所說的就是標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語。However, on TV and the radio you will hear differences in the way people ，在電視和收音機里，你也會聽出人們在說話時的差異。American English has many dialects, especially the midwestern, southern, African American and Spanish ，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。American English has so many dialects because people have e from all over the 。Some people who live in the mountains of the eastern USA speak with an older kind of English 。So people from the mountains in the southeastern USA speak with almost the same dialect as people in the northwestern ，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。Although many Americans move a lot, they still recognize and understand each other’s ，但是他們?nèi)匀荒軌虮鎰e、理解彼此的方言。從高中起，我姐姐王薇和我就一直夢想作一次偉大的自行車旅行。Last year, she visited our cousins, Dao Wei and Yu Hang at their college in ——在昆明讀大學(xué)的刀衛(wèi)和宇航。Wang Wei soon got them interested in cycling ，王薇使表兄弟也對騎車旅游產(chǎn)生了興趣。I asked my sister, Where are we going?我問我姐姐：“我們要去哪兒？” It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the entire Mekong River from where it begins to where it 。I am fond of my sister but she has one serious shorting. She can be really ，但是她有一個很嚴(yán)重的缺點。Although she didn39。Now, I know that the proper way is always her ，我就知道這個盡善盡美的方式總是她的方式。Of course, she hadn39。 my sister doesn39。So I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai ，我告訴她，湄公河的源頭在青海省。When I told her that our journey would begin at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres, she seemed to be excited about ，我們的旅行將從5, 000多米的高地出發(fā)，這時她似乎顯得很興奮。I know my sister well. Once she has made up her mind, nothing can change it. Finally, I had to give ，她一旦下了決心，什么也不能使她改變。Several months before our trip, Wang Wei and I went to the ，王薇和我去了圖書館。From the atlas we could see that the Mekong River begins in a glacier on a Tibetan ，湄公河發(fā)源于西藏一座山上的冰川。It bees rapids as it passes through deep valleys, travelling across western Yunnan ，流經(jīng)云南西部。We were both surprised to learn that half of the river is in 。As it enters Southeast Asia, its pace slows. It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice ，流速減緩，河水蜿蜒緩慢地穿過低谷，流向生長稻谷的平原。6. 必修一Unit3 夜晚的西藏山景PART 2 A NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS第二部分山中一宿Although it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in ，但是西藏已經(jīng)開始下雪了。Have you ever seen snowmen ride bicycles?你看到過雪人騎自行車嗎？That39。Along the way children dressed in long wool coats stopped to look at ，一些身著羊毛大衣的孩子們停下來看著我們。However, the lakes shone like glass in the setting sun and looked ，湖水在落日的余暉下閃亮如鏡，景色迷人。To climb the mountains was hard work but as we looked around us, we were surprised by the view. We seemed to be able to see for ，但是當(dāng)我們環(huán)顧四周，（眼前的）景色讓我們感到驚奇，我們似乎能看到幾百里以外的地方。Then we began going down the was great fun especially as it gradually became much warmer. 然后我們開始下山，這非常有趣，特別是天氣逐漸變得暖和多了。At this point we had to change our caps, coats, gloves and trousers for Tshirts and ，我們不得不把帽子、外衣、手套和長褲脫掉，換成T恤衫和短褲。After supper Wang Wei put her head down on her pillow and went to sleep but I stayed ，王薇把頭放在枕頭上就睡覺了，而我卻醒著。It was so quiet. There was almost no windonly the flames of our fire for pany.（夜晚）非常安靜——幾乎沒有風(fēng)，只有篝火的火焰和我們做伴。We will reach Dali in Yunnan Province soon, where our cousins Dao Wei and Yu Hang will join us. We can hardly wait to see them!我們很快就要到達云南的大理。我們迫不及待地想要見到他們！7. 必修一Unit4 A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN39。Farmers noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in them. A smelly gas came out of the ，水井的井壁上有深深的裂縫，裂縫里冒出臭氣。Mice ran out of the fields looking for places