目录
Unit 1 Teenage life
Unit 2 Travelling around
Unit 3 Sports and fitness
Unit 4 Natural disasters
Unit 5 Languages around the world
Welcome unit 微课教学
电子课本+朗读
Unit1 朗读+电子教材
Unit2 朗读+电子教材
Unit3 朗读+电子教材
Unit4 朗读+电子教材
Unit5 朗读+电子教材
基础音标入门解读(一) 基础音标入门解读(二)
基础音标入门解读(三) 基础音标入门解读(四)
基础音标入门解读(五) 基础音标入门解读(六)
课文翻译
Welcome unit
Reading andThinking
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
第一印象
Han Jing’s World 韩静的世界7:00 a.m. 上午7:00 So this is it—senior high school at last! I’m not outgoing so I’ma little anxious right now. I want to make a good first impression. Will I makeany friends? What if no one talks to me?
I just had my firstmaths class at senior high school! The class was difficult, but the teacher waskind and friendly. He even told us a funny story, and everyone laughed so much!I found most of my classmates and teachers friendly and helpful.
This afternoon, we hadour chemistry class in the science lab. The lab is new and the lesson wasgreat, but the guy next to me tried to talk to me the whole time. I couldn’tconcentrate on the experiment. I really wanted to tell him to please be quietand leave me alone!
What a day! Thismorning, I was worried that no one would talk to me. But I was wrong. I didn’tfeel awkward or frightened at all. I miss my friends from junior high school,but I believe I will make new friends here, and there’s a lot to explore atsenior high. I feel much more confident than I felt this morning. I think thattomorrow will be a great day!
My name is Ann Wellsand I’m a Grade 10 student at Lakeside High School. I’m an active person and Ilove sports. I’m curious about everything. I often ask questions, but I learnbest by doing. My favourite subject is physics. Dancing and skating are myhobbies, and I also like to read short stories. I plan to become an engineer inthe future.
I’m Thando Gowon. I’m16 this year. I come from South Africa. I’m a Grade 10 student at South HillHigh School. I look good, think fast, and play hard. You’ll never see mewithout a book or a pen. If I’m not in class, I’m either in the library or inthe computer lab. At the weekends, I play computer games if I’m not busystudying. My dream is to start my own IT company!
Hi! My name is Adam andI’m a freshman at senior high school. Going from junior high school to seniorhigh school is a really big challenge. The first week was a little confusing.
嗨!我叫亚当,是高中一年级的新生。从初中过渡到高中真是一项巨大的挑战。第一周有点让人迷茫。
First, I had to thinkvery carefully about which courses I wanted to take. The school adviser helpedme choose the suitable ones: maths, English, chemistry, world history, andChinese. I know that Chinese is a very difficult language, but I hope to befluent when I graduate. My adviser recommended that I should sign up for advancedliterature because I like English and I’m good at it.
I had to chooseextra-curricular activities, too. I tried to join the school football team, butthe coach told me that I didn’t play well enough. Obviously, I was unhappy, butI won’t quit. I’ll find a way to improve on my own so that I can make the teamnext year. I joined a volunteer club instead. Every Wednesday, we work at a soupkitchen and hand out food to homeless people in the community.
I know I’ll have tostudy harder as a senior high school student and get used to being responsiblefor a lot more. I’m a bit worried about keeping up with the other students inmy advanced course, and it’ll be quite difficult to get used to all thehomework. Still, I’m happy to be here. Studying hard isn’t always fun, but I’llbe well prepared for university or whatever else comes in the future.
You wrote that you arevery worried about your friend, Chen Lei. I understand quite well that you areanxious and feel terrible. You think that your friend plays computer games toooften and spends too much time online.
I recommend that youtalk to your friend about his behaviour. It is not unusual for teenagers ofyour generation to be attracted to computer games and the online world. Butspending too much time online is unhealthy and makes it very difficult to focuson other things in life. Some students even become addicted to the Internet andcannot concentrate on school and family life. I think you should encourage yourfriend to try new hobbies. Why not discuss the problem together? I am sure hewill listen to you, since you are his good friend.
PERU is a country onthe Pacific coast of South America with three main areas: narrow, dry, flatland running along the coast, the Andes Mountains, and the Amazon rainforest.
In the 1400s and 1500s,Peru was the centre of the powerful ancient Inca Empire. The Inca emperor livedin the now-famous site Machu Picchu. Spain took control of Peru in the 16thcentury and ruled until 1821. It is for this reason that Spanish is the mainofficial language of Peru.
A short flight fromCusco takes you from the Andes into the Amazon rainforest. From there, you’llspend one day travelling by boat to your accommodation in the middle of theforest. You can then spend three days exploring the rainforest with a localguide and enjoying the plants and animals unique to the rainforest.
This four-day walkingtour will take you on amazing paths through the Andes Mountains on the way tothe city of Machu Picchu. After reaching your destination, you will have a dayto explore and be amazed by this ancient city. Especially amazing is the Incas’dry stone method of building. Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that nothingwas needed to hold walls together other than the perfect fit of the stones.
Spend four days enjoyingthe unique Spanish and local Indian culture high in the Andes at Cusco, thecapital of the Inca Empire from the 13th until the 16th century. Stay in alocal hotel, visit the museums, admire the architecture, enjoy the excellentlocal food, and go shopping at the local markets.
Enjoy the beautifulcountryside as you spend a day driving along the new highway connecting Cuscoto Lake Titicaca. There, a boat will take you to stay with a local Uros familyon an island for three days. Both the island and the Uros homes are made ofwater plants from the lake.
So come and experiencewhat Peru has to offer: everything from the ancient Inca culture andcenturies-old Spanish villages to deep rainforests, high mountains, and abeautiful coastline.
My time here in Chinais going well. I love my new school and classmates. Over the October holiday,my parents and I are planning to go to Xi’an to see the Terracotta Army. I’veheard that it is an amazing sight, and I can’t wait to go. To me, the story ofthe Terracotta Army is almost unbelievable. It’s amazing that there are morethan 8,000 statues, and no one in modern times knew about them until the 1970s.
We’re also planning tovisit several other places in Xi’an. My dad and I are both looking forward togoing to the Shaanxi History Museum, because my dad loves history and I haveheard that this museum is known as a “Chinese treasure house”! We’re also goingto the Xi’an City Wall and a few other famous sights.
We’re taking the train,leaving the day before the October holiday begins. We’re arriving at 9: 30 a.m.and will start sightseeing right away, so I hope we sleep well on the train!
Come and see theTerracotta Army:more than 8,000 statues were made in the third century BCE to guardthe tomb of the Chinese Emperor Qinshihuang! Each statue has a different face,leading researchers to believe that each one is a copy of a real soldier. Thestatues fill only one part of the emperor’s huge tomb, which still has not beencompletely unearthed. More than 700,000 people worked for nearly 40 years tobuild this tomb. However, no one in modern times knew about the tomb or theterracotta statues until 1974, when some farmers discovered the tomb while theywere digging a well!
Help us choose some“Living Legends of Sports”. They must be athletes who are masters in theirsports and also set good examples for others. Here are our first two choices.
As a player, Lang Pingbrought honour and glory to her country. As a coach, she led the China women’svolleyball team to medals at world championships and the Olympics. As a person,Lang Ping is loved by fans at home and abroad. When the Chinese team was preparingfor the 2015 World Cup, her determination was tested. The team that Lang Pinghad built was falling apart. One of the best players had been injured, and theteam captain had to leave because of heart problems. Losing two importantplayers was a big challenge, but Lang Ping did not lose heart. She had faceddifficulties before, and she knew that her young players could win if theyworked together as a team. Two weeks later, they were world champions! Then in2016, Lang Ping led her volleyball team to Olympic gold in Brazil.
When Michael Jordan’sfeet left the ground, time seemed to stand still. The player who became knownas “Air Jordan” changed basketball with his graceful moves and jumps. Jordan’sskills were impressive, but the mental strength that he showed made him unique.In the final seconds of a game, Jordan always seemed to find a way to win.Jordan says that the secret to his success is learning from his failures. “Ican accept failure; everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept nottrying.” Losing games taught him to practise harder and never give up. In life,Jordan has learnt to share his success with others. The Boys and Girls Clubwhich he started in Chicago has been helping young people since 1996.
Send your suggestionsfor ““Living Legends of Sports” to LLS@sport.net.
请将你推荐的“体育界的活传奇”发送至LLS@sport.net。
Reading forWriting
GOING POSITIVE
积极向上
I always wanted to looklike the slim girls on TV even though I knew that it was impossible. I worriedabout my weight and tried every new diet I read about online. I tried no-fat,low-fat, 5: 2, only bananas, no bananas—I almost went bananas, too.
Then I read an articlethat said instead of asking “Am I fat?” I should be asking “Am I fit?” I had noidea a letter could make such a difference! Once I started thinking aboutfitness rather than weight, things began to change. Instead of saying “I wantto lose three kilos”, I would say “I want to run two kilometres in eightminutes” or “I want to be able to do 30 push-ups”. Rather than cutting out thefoods I enjoyed, I added healthy foods to my meals. I could still have a burgernow and then, but I would add a salad or an apple.
Finally, I stoppedcomparing myself with actresses and models and looking for things that werewrong with my face or body. Instead, I made a list of the things I liked aboutmyself. By being positive about myself and my body, I became both happier andhealthier.
Strange things werehappening in the countryside of northeastern Hebei. For several days,the water inthe village wells rose and fell,rose and fell. There were deep cracks that appeared in the wellwalls. At least one well had some smelly gas coming out of it. Chickens andeven pigs were too nervous to eat,and dogs refused to go inside buildings. Mice ran out of the fieldslooking for places to hide,and fish jumped out of the water. At about 3:00 a.m., on28 July 1976,bright lights were seen in the sky outside the city of Tangshan andloud noises were heard. But the city’s one million people were asleep as usualthat night.
At 3:42 a.m.,everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world were coming to an end!Eleven kilometres directly below the city, one of the most deadly earthquakesof the 20th century had begun, a quake that even caused damage more than 150kilometres away in Beijing. Nearly one third of the whole nation felt it! Ahuge crack, eight kilometres long and 30 metres wide, cut across houses, roads,and waterways. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In less than oneminute, a large city lay in ruins. Two thirds of the people who livedthere were dead or injured. Thousands of children were left without parents. Thenumber of people who were killed or badly injured in the quake was more than400,000.
Everywhere survivorslooked,there was nothing but ruins. Nearly everything in the city wasdestroyed. About 75 percent of the city’s factories and buildings,90 percentof its homes,and all of its hospitals were gone. Bricks covered theground like red autumn leaves,but no wind could blow them away. Most bridges had fallen or werenot safe to cross. The railway tracks were now useless pieces of metal.Tens of thousands of cows,hundreds of thousands of pigs,and millions ofchickens were dead. Sand now filled the wells instead of water. Peoplewere inshock—and then,later that afternoon,another big quake shook Tangshan again. Even more buildings felldown. Water,food,and electricity were hard to get. People began to wonderhow long the disaster would last.
But hope was not lost.Soon after the quakes,the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to dig out those whowere trapped and to bury the dead. More than 10,000 doctorsand nurses came to provide medical care. Workers built shelters for survivorswhose homes had been destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people were helped.Water and food were brought into the city by train,truck,and plane.Slowly,the city began to breathe again.
Tangshan startedto revive itself and get back up on its feet. With strong supportfrom the government and the tireless efforts of the city’s people,a newTangshan was built upon the earthquake ruins. The new city has become a home tomore than seven million people,with great improvements in transportation,industry,andenvironment. Tangshan city has proved to China and the rest of the world thatin times of disaster,people must unify and show the wisdom to staypositive and rebuild for a brighter future.
The most powerfulearthquake in the past 40 years caused a tsunami that crashed into coastlinesacross Asia yesterday, killing more than 6,500 people in Indonesia, India,Thailand, Malaysia, and at least four other countries. Fishermen, tourists,hotels, homes, and cars were swept away by huge waves caused by the strongearthquake that reached a magnitude of 9.0. The undersea quake struck around7:00 a.m., Sunday off the west coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island. In thatarea alone, at least 1,870 people were killed.
In Sri Lanka, some1,600 kilometres west of the quake centre, the number of deaths stood at 2,498,and one million more were affected by the tsunami, government officials said.Indian officials said as many as 1,900 had been killed along the southern coast.Another 254 were found dead in Thailand and 54 in three other countries. Insouthern Thailand, 1,900 people were hurt and many more were missing, localofficials said. “I was having breakfast with my three children when waterstarted filling my home. We had to leave everything and run to safety,” saidChandra Theeravit, a local Thai woman.
Thousands of people arestill missing, and the number of deaths is expected to grow even higher overthe next few days. Foreign aid is being organised for the tsunami-hitcountries. However, dangerous conditions and damaged roads will make itdifficult to deliver food and supplies.
China is widely knownfor its ancient civilisation which has continued all the way through intomodern times, despite the many ups and downs in its history. There are manyreasons why this has been possible, but one of the main factors has been theChinese writing system.
At the beginning,written Chinese was a picture-based language. It dates back several thousandyears to the use of longgu—animal bones and shells on which symbols were carvedby ancient Chinese people. Some of the ancient symbols can still be seen intoday’s hanzi.
By the Shang Dynasty(around 1600-1046 BCE), these symbols had become a well-developed writingsystem. Over the years, the system developed into different forms, as it was atime when people were divided geographically leading to many varieties ofdialects and characters. This, however, changed under Emperor Qinshihuang ofthe Qin Dynasty (221-207BCE).
Emperor Qinshihuangunited the seven major states into one unified country where the Chinesewriting system began to develop in one direction. That writing system was ofgreat importance in uniting the Chinese people and culture. Even today, nomatter where Chinese people live or what dialect they speak, they can all stillcommunicate in writing.
Written Chinese hasalso become an important means by which China’s present is connected with itspast. People in modem times can read the classic works which were written byChinese in ancient times. The high regard for the Chinese writing system can beseen in the development of Chinese characters as an art form, known as Chinesecalligraphy, which has become an important part of Chinese culture.
Today, the Chinesewriting system is still an important part of Chinese culture. As China plays agreater role in global affairs, an increasing number of international studentsare beginning to appreciate China’s culture and history through this amazinglanguage.
Wang Le:Hey, everybody,what are your biggest problems with learning English?
王乐:嘿,各位,请问你们在学习英语时遇到的最大问题是什么?
Liu Wen: Hi! I’vebeen studying English since primary school. I used to get high marks inEnglish, but now I’m having a lot of trouble with my listening. When I listento native English speakers talking in a video, I can catch only a few words. Ican never quite get the main idea. Any advice?
Jia Xin: Listeningto English radio programmes helps me get used to how fast native speakers talk.I also repeat what I hear to help myself to experience the feeling of thelanguage. Sometimes I even record my voice so I can listen to myself andcompare my pronunciation with the radio host’s! My biggest headache is how tobe polite in English. It’s so much easier to just say “Open the window!”, butin English that can sound really terrible. I have to think about who I’mtalking to and then decide whether to say, “Open the window, please!” or “Couldyou open the window, please?” or even longer “Would you mind opening thewindow, please?”
Li Rui: Yeah,that’s really hard! I think it all depends on who you’re talking to. If I’mtalking to a close friend, I can use short requests, like “Open the window”—ourrelationship is close and we’re equals, so I only need a few words to bridgethe gap between us. But if I’m talking to someone who isn’t very close to me, Imust make my request longer—and I must make it a question, not a demand, e.g.,“Could you open the window, please?” If I’m talking to someone senior to me,then I should say, “Would you mind opening the window, please?” For me,vocabulary is my biggest problem—there are just SO MANY new words!I can’t keepall the new vocabulary straight in my head, and I certainly can’t remember howto use them all properly. HELP!