【正文】 ingyu found the Queen39。第一篇：高中英語必修1unit4課文Unit 4 Earthquakes ReadingA NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN39。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 jewels guarded by special royal soldiers who, on special occasions, still wore the fourhundredyearold uniform of the time of Queen Elizabeth followed St Paul39。s house in , she had so much to tell her friends!The second day the girl visited Greenwich and saw its old ships and famous clock that sets the world interested her most was the longitude is an imaginary line dividing the eastern and western halves of the world and is very useful for passes through Greenwich, so Pingyu had a photo taken standing on either side of the last day she visited Karl Marx39。 pany, called “Future Tours”, transported me safely into the future in a time can still remember the moment when the space stewardess called us all to the capsule and we climbed in through a small seats were fortable and after a calming drink, we felt sleepy and closed our capsule began swinging gently sideways as we lay relaxed and few minutes later, the journey was pleted and we had was still on the earth but one thousand years in the would I find? At first my new surroundings were difficult to air seemed thin, as though its bination of gases had little oxygen by a lack of fresh air, my head as I tried to make the necessary adjustment to this new situation, Wang Ping appeared.“Put on this mask,” he advised.“It39。ll be ready for some visits.” Having said this, he spread some food on the table, and produced a bed from the he left, I had a brief meal and a hot , I slid into bed and fell fast news later from your loving son，Li QiangUsing LanguageI HAVE SEEN AMAZING THINGSMy first visit was to a space station considered the most modem in as an enormous round plate, it spins slowly in space to imitate the pull of the earth39。re going to examine one of the latest forms ofmunication among our space more typists working on a typewriter or puter!No more postage or postcodes!Messages can now be sent using a “thoughtpad”.You place the metal band over your head, clear your mind, press the sending button, think your message and the next instant it39。s stored on the “thoughtpad” of the 39。s a system where the waste is disposed of using the principles of giant machine, always greedy for more, swallows all the waste rubbish is turned into several grades of useful material, such as “fertilizer” for the fields and “soil” for is wasted, and everything, even plastic bags, is great idea, isn39。 it? I stared at the moving model of the waste machine, absorbed by its again we moved :Our third stop shows the changes that have happened to work no longer takes place on the earth but on space stations like this group of engineers programme robots to perform tasks in robots produce goods such as drugs, clothes, furniture, hovering carriages, is no waste, no pollution and no environmental damage!However, the panies have to train their representatives to live and work in space have to monitor the robots and the the goods are ready they39。re delighted you39。 s admirable, but I39。 re more we39。ll have a professional photographer with you to take 39。 re :Thank only am I interested in photography, but I took an amateur course at university to updatemy : :What do I need to remember when I go out to cover a story? HX: You need to be if you ask many different questions will you acquire all the information you need to say a good journalist must have a good “nose” for a means you must be able to assess when people are not telling the whole troth and then try to discover must use research to inform themselves of the missing parts of the :What should I keep in mind? HX:Here es my list of dos and don39。t miss your deadline, don39。t talk too much, but make sure you listen to the interviewee :Why is listening so important? HX: Well, you have to listen for detailed you have to prepare the next question depending on what the person :But how can I listen carefully while taking notes? HX: This is a trick of the trade, If the interviewee agrees, you can use a recorder to get the facts 39。s body language that he was not telling the we wrote an article suggesting he was was a dilemma because the footballer could have demanded damages if we were tried to stop us publishing it but later we were proved :Wow!That was a real “scoop”.I39。ll get a scoop too!HX:Perhaps you never LanguageGETTING THE “SCOOP” “Quick,” said the editor.“Get that story need it in this edition to be ahead of the other is a scoop.” Zhou Yang had just e back into the office after an interview with a famous film star.“Did he rea