【正文】 一個(gè)萬名礦工的煤礦，其中多數(shù)人得救了。慢慢地、慢慢地，這座城市又開始出現(xiàn)了生機(jī)。評委會的五位評委聽了你的演講，他們都認(rèn)為你的演講是今年最好的。我們辦公室想請你在7月28日上午11點(diǎn)給來公園的參觀者進(jìn)行演講。在這個(gè)特殊的日子里，我們邀請你把家人和朋友一起帶來。曼德拉—— 一位當(dāng)代英雄Reading伊萊亞斯的故事我的名字叫伊萊亞斯。第一次見到納爾遜（當(dāng)時(shí)）我才12歲，那是在1952年，曼德拉是我尋求幫助的一位黑人律師。他十分慷慨地給予我時(shí)間，我為此非常感激。我六歲開始上學(xué)，我僅僅在那里讀了兩年的學(xué)校有三公里遠(yuǎn)。我既不太會讀，也不怎么會寫。然而在那個(gè)時(shí)候，你要想住在約翰內(nèi)斯堡就非得要有身份證不可。納爾遜他告訴我要想在約翰內(nèi)斯堡立住腳，應(yīng)當(dāng)如何獲取所需證件。我永遠(yuǎn)也忘記不了他對我的恩情，當(dāng)他組織了非國大青年聯(lián)盟時(shí)，我馬上就參加了這個(gè)組織?！彼f的是真話。他們不能做自己想要做的工作。他們被打發(fā)去住的城外地區(qū)是南非最貧窮的地區(qū)。事實(shí)上，就像拉爾遜我們選擇向法律進(jìn)攻。”事實(shí)上，我并不喜歡暴力，??但是在1963年的時(shí)候，我?guī)椭Я艘恍┱髽?。但是，我樂于幫忙，因?yàn)槲抑溃@是為了實(shí)現(xiàn)我們的黑人和白人平等的夢想。弗蘭克想要的是第一種類型的朋友，于是她就把日記當(dāng)成了她最好的朋友。Her family was Jewish so they had to hide or they would be caught by the German ，所以他們不得不躲藏起來，否則他們就會被德國納粹抓去。During that time the only true friend was her ，她唯一的忠實(shí)朋友就是她的日記了。我要把這本日記當(dāng)作我的朋友，我要把我這個(gè)朋友稱作基蒂”。Dear kitty,親愛的基蒂：I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been able to be outdoors for so long that I’ve grown so crazy about everything to do with ，我變得對一切與大自然有關(guān)的事物都無比狂熱。That’s changed since I came ，這一切都變了。But as the moon gave far too much light, I didn’t dare open a ，我不敢打開窗戶。I didn’t go downstairs until the window had to be 。it was the first time in a year and a half that I’d seen the night face to face…漆黑的夜晚，風(fēng)吹雨打，雷電交加，我全然被這種力量鎮(zhèn)住了。It’s no pleasure looking through these any longer because nature is one thing that really must be ，因?yàn)榇笞匀皇悄惚仨氂H身體驗(yàn)的。I’m getting along well with a boy in my often do homework together and we enjoy helping each ，而且很樂意相互幫助。But other students have started ， say that this boy and I have fallen in has made me ，這使我很生氣。我該怎么辦呢？ Reading and writing Dear Miss Wang,尊敬的編輯：I’m a student from Huzhou Senior High 。Although I try to talk to my classmates, I still find it hard to make good friends with ，但是我還是發(fā)現(xiàn)很難跟他們成為好朋友。I do want to change this situation, but I don’t know ，但是我卻不知道該怎么辦。Yours, Xiaodong THE ROAD TO MODERN ENGLISH通向現(xiàn)代英語之路At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people spoke all of them lived in 。于是，許多別的國家開始說英語了。Native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of at this example:以英語作為母語的人，即使他們所講的語言不盡相同，也可以互相交流。我很樂意到你的公寓（apartment）去。At first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken ，在公元450年到1150年間，人們所說的英語跟今天所說的英語就很不一樣。Then gradually between about AD 800 and 1150, English became less like German because those who ruled England spoke first Danish and later ，漸漸地，大約在公元800年到1150年期間，英語不那么像德語了。These new settlers enriched the English language and especially its ，特別是在詞匯方面。In 1620 some British settlers moved to ，一些英國人搬遷到美洲定居。Finally by the 19th century the language was ，到20世紀(jì)，英語才真正定形。約翰遜編寫了詞典，后來，諾厄English now is also spoken as a foreign or second language in South ，英語在南亞也被當(dāng)作外語或第二語言來說。During that time English became the language for government and ，英語成了官方語言和教育用語。Today the number of people learning English in China is increasing 。Will Chinese English develop its own identity? Only time will ？這只能由時(shí)間來回答了。Many people believe the English spoken on TV and the radio is standard ，電視和收音機(jī)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(jī)里，你也會聽出人們在說話時(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 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 Yu