【正文】 hina 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 sleep Strange 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 pig 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 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。 story My name is am a poor black worker in South time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my was twelve years was in 1952 and Mandela was the black lawyer to whom I went to for offered guidance to poor black people on their legal was generous with his time, for which I was needed his help because I had very little began school at school where I studied for only two years was three kilometers had to leave because my family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus could not read or write trying hard, I got a job in a gold , this was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in I did not have it because I was not born there, and I worried about whether I would bee out of day when Nelson Mandela helped me was one of my told me how to get the correct papers so I could stay in became more hopeful about my never forgot how kind Mandela he organized the ANC Youth League, I joined it as soon as I 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.” It was the people could not vote or choose their could not get the jobs they parts of town in which they had to live were decided by white places outside the towns where they were sent to live were the poorest parts of South one could grow food fact as Nelson Mandela said: “...we were put into a position in which we had either to accept we were less important, or fight the chose to attack the first broke the law in a way which was peaceful。 story You cannot imagine how the name of Robben Island made us was a prison from which no one can I spent the hardest time of my when I got there Nelson Mandela was also there and he helped Mandela began a school for those of us who had little taught us during the lunch breaks and the evenings when we should have been read books under our blankets and use anything we could find to make candles to do , Mr Mandela allowed the prison guards to join said they should not be stopped from studying for their were not cleverer than me, but they did pass their I knew I could get a degree made me feel good about I finished the four years in prison, I went to find a I was better educated, I got a job working in an , the police found out and told my boss that I had been in prison for blowing up government I lost my did not work again for twenty years until Mr Mandela and the ANC came to power in that time my wife and children had to beg for food and help from relatives or Mr Mandela remembered me and gave me a job taking tourists around my old prison on Robben felt bad the first time I talked to a the terror and fear of that time came back to remembered the beatings and the cruelty of the guards and my friends who had felt I would not be able to do it, but my family encouraged said that the job and the pay from the new South African government were my reward after working all my life for equal rights for the now at 51 I am proud to show visitors over the prison, for I helped to make our people free in their own 友誼 Reading 安妮最好的朋友你是不是想有一位無(wú)話不談能推心置腹的朋友呢？或者你是不是擔(dān)心你的朋友會(huì)嘲笑你，會(huì)不理解你目前的困境呢？安妮安妮在第二次世界大戰(zhàn)期間住在荷蘭的阿姆斯特丹。她和她的家人躲藏了兩年之后才被發(fā)現(xiàn)。她說(shuō)，“我不愿像大多數(shù)人那樣在日記中記流水賬?，F(xiàn)在，來(lái)看看安妮在藏身處躲了一年多之后的那種心情吧。我記得非常清楚，以前，湛藍(lán)的天空、鳥(niǎo)兒的歌唱、月光和鮮花，從未令我心迷神往過(guò)。……比方說(shuō)，有天晚上天氣很暖和，我熬到 11點(diǎn)半故意不睡覺(jué)，為的是獨(dú)自好好看看月亮。還有一次，就在五個(gè)月以前的一個(gè)晚上，我碰巧在樓上，窗戶是開(kāi)著的。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。我跟我們班里的一位男同學(xué)一直相處很好，我們常常一起做家庭作業(yè)，而且很樂(lè)意相互幫助?？墒?，其他同學(xué)卻開(kāi)始在背后議論起來(lái)，他們說(shuō)我和這位男同學(xué)在談戀愛(ài)，這使我很生氣。我該怎么辦呢？ 莉薩 Reading and writing 尊敬的編輯： 我是蘇州高中的一名學(xué)生。雖然我的確試著去跟班上的同學(xué)交談，但是我還是發(fā)現(xiàn)很難跟他們成為好朋友。我確實(shí)想改變這種現(xiàn)狀，但是我卻不知道該怎么辦。曉東第二單元 世界上的英語(yǔ) Reading 通向 通向現(xiàn)代英語(yǔ)之路 16世紀(jì)末期大約有5百萬(wàn)到7百萬(wàn)人說(shuō)英語(yǔ)，幾乎所有這些人都生活在英國(guó)。于是，許多別的國(guó)家開(kāi)始說(shuō)英語(yǔ)了。中國(guó)也許是把英語(yǔ)作為外語(yǔ)來(lái)說(shuō)的人數(shù)最多的國(guó)家。然而，他們可能不是什么都懂?！?那么，英語(yǔ)在一段時(shí)間里為什么會(huì)起變化呢？當(dāng)不同文化互相溝通時(shí)，所有的語(yǔ)言都會(huì)發(fā)生變化。實(shí)際上，當(dāng)時(shí)的英語(yǔ)更多地是以德語(yǔ)為基礎(chǔ)的，而現(xiàn)代英語(yǔ)不是。在17世紀(jì)，莎士比亞所用的詞匯量比以前任何時(shí)期都大。韋伯斯特編纂《美國(guó)英語(yǔ)詞典》的那個(gè)時(shí)期，這本詞典體現(xiàn)了美國(guó)英語(yǔ)的特色。如今，澳大利亞英語(yǔ)也有它自己的特色了。印度擁有眾多講英語(yǔ)的人，這是因?yàn)橛?guó)于1765 年到1947年統(tǒng)治過(guò)印度。在非洲和亞洲許多其它國(guó)家，比如南非、新加坡、馬來(lái)西亞等國(guó)，人們也說(shuō)英語(yǔ)。目前在中國(guó)學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)的人數(shù)正在迅速增長(zhǎng)。Using Language Reading and talking 什么是標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語(yǔ)？是在英國(guó)、美國(guó)、加拿大、澳大利亞、印度、新西蘭所說(shuō)的英語(yǔ)嗎？信不信由你，（世界上）沒(méi)有什么標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語(yǔ)。然而，即使在電視和收音機(jī)里，你也會(huì)聽(tīng)出人們?cè)谡f(shuō)話時(shí)的差異。美國(guó)英語(yǔ)有許多方言，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。美國(guó)英語(yǔ)之所以有這么多的方言是因?yàn)槊绹?guó)人是來(lái)自世界各地的緣故。住在美國(guó)東部山區(qū)的某些