【正文】 n TV and the radio you will hear differences in the way people ，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。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(mèng)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(duì)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 can be really ，但是她有一個(gè)很嚴(yán)重的缺點(diǎn)。Although she didn39。Now, I know that the proper way is always her ，我就知道這個(gè)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(shí)她似乎顯得很興奮。I know my sister she has made up her mind, nothing can change , 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 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。 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 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 ，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 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 can hardly wait to see them!我們很快就要到達(dá)云南的大理。我們迫不及待地想要見到他們！ A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN39。Farmers noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in 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 to jumped out of their bowls and 。At about 3:00 am on July 28,1976,some people saw bright lights in the ，有些人看到天上一道道明亮的光。In the city, the water pipes in some buildings cracked and the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that ，有些建筑物里的水管爆裂開來。At 3:42 am everything began to ，一切都開始搖晃起來。It was felt in Beijing, which is one hundred kilometres of the nation felt ，全國1 / 3的地方都有震感。Steam burst from holes in the 。The suffering of the people was 。Thousands of families were killed and many children were left without ，許多孩子變成了孤兒。But how could the survivors believe it was natural?幸存的人們又怎么能相信這是自然現(xiàn)象呢？Everywhere they looked nearly everything was ，哪里的一切都幾乎被毀了。s hospitals,75%of its factories and buildings and 90% of its homes were 、75%的工廠和建筑物、90%的家園都消失了。Two dams fell and most of the bridges also fell or were not safe for ，多數(shù)橋梁不是塌了就是無法安全通行了。Tens of thousands of cows would never give milk 。Sand now filled the wells instead of ，而不是水。Then, later that afternoon, another big quake which was almost as strong as the first one shook ，在下午晚些時(shí)候，又一次和第一次一樣的強(qiáng)烈的地震震撼著唐山。More buildings fell , food, and electricity were hard to 。People began to wonder how long the disaster would ，這場災(zāi)難還會(huì)持續(xù)多久。Soon after the quakes, the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to help the rescue of thousands of people were ，部隊(duì)派了15萬名戰(zhàn)士到唐山來協(xié)助救援人員，數(shù)十萬的人得到了救助。To the north of the city, most of the 10,000 miners were rescued from the coal mines ，有一個(gè)萬名礦工的煤礦，其中多數(shù)人得救了。Slowly, the city began to breathe 、慢慢地，這座城市又開始出現(xiàn)了生機(jī)。Your speech was heard by a group of five judges, all of whom agreed that it was the best one this ，他們都認(rèn)為你的演講是今年最好的。Our office would like to have you speak to the park visitors on July 28 at 11:00 。We invite you to bring your family and friends on that special ，我們邀請(qǐng)你把家人和朋友一起帶來。我是南非的一個(gè)窮苦的黑人工人。曼德拉的時(shí)候，是我一生中非常艱難的時(shí)期。He offered guidance to poor black people on their legal 。I needed his help because I had very little ，所以我需要他的幫助。I had to leave because my family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus ，因?yàn)槲业募彝o法繼續(xù)支付學(xué)費(fèi)和交通費(fèi)。After trying hard, I got a job in a gold ，我才在一家金礦找到一份工作。Sadly I did not have it because I was not born there, and I worried about whether I would bee out of ，因?yàn)槲也皇窃谀抢锍錾模液軗?dān)心我是不是會(huì)失業(yè)。曼德拉給予我?guī)椭哪且惶焓俏乙簧凶罡吲d的日子。I became more hopeful about my 。He 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.”他說：“過去30年來所出現(xiàn)的大量法律剝奪我們的權(quán)利，阻擋我們的進(jìn)步，一直到今天，我們還處在幾乎什么權(quán)利都沒有的階段。Black people could not vote or choose their ，他們無權(quán)選擇他們的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人。The parts of town in which they had to live were decided by white 。No one could grow food ，沒有人能夠種莊稼。曼德拉所說的：“…we were put into a positio