2020年浙江版新教材 高一英语课文word版
学习雷锋寄语-庆祝六一
Unit1
THE FRESHMAN CHALLENGE
Hi! My name is Adam and I'm a freshman at
senior high school. Going from junior high
school to senior high school is a really big
challenge. The first week was a little confusing.
First, I had to think very carefully about
which courses I wanted to take. The school adviser
helped me choose the suitable ones: maths,
English, chemistry, world history, and Chinese. I
know that Chinese is a very difficult
language, but I hope to be fluent when I graduate.
My
adviser recommended that I should sign up
for advanced literature because I like English and
I'm
good at it.
I had to choose extra-
curricular activities, too. I tried to join the
school football team but the
coach told me
that I didn’t play well enough. Obviously, I was
unhappy, but I won't quit. I'll find a
way to
improve on my own so that I can make the team next
year. I joined a volunteer club
instead. Every
Wednesday, we work at a soup kitchen and hand out
food to homeless people in
the community.
I know I'll have to study harder as a senior
high school student and get used to being
responsible for a lot more. I’m a bit worried
about keeping up with the other students in my
advanced course, and it’ll be quite difficult
to get used to all the homework. Still, I’m happy
to be
here. Studying hard isn't always fun,
but I'll be well prepared for university or
whatever else
comes in the future.
How to write a letter of advice
10 September 2018
Dear Worried Friend,
You wrote that you are very worried about your
friend, Chen Lei. I understand quite well that
you are anxious and feel terrible. You think
that your friend plays computer games too often
and
spends too much time online.
I
recommend that you talk to your friend about his
behaviour. It is not unusual for teenagers of
your generation to be attracted to computer
games and the online world. But spending too much
time online is unhealthy and makes it very
difficult to focus on other things in life. Some
students
even become addicted to the Internet
and cannot concentrate on school and family life.
I think
you should encourage your friend to
try new hobbies. Why not discuss the problem
together? I
am sure he will listen to you
since you are his good friend.
All the best,
Susan
高考建议信模板
Dear________,
You have asked me for my advice with regard
to________________, and I will try to make
some conducive suggestions here.
Here are
a few suggestions(引出建议). First, it is important to
______________. Then, it
also helps to _______
____. Besides, it should be a good idea to _______
___.
You can also ___________.
I hope you
will find these proposals useful, and I would be
ready to discuss this matter with
you to
further details. Good luck with
your___________(祝愿).
Yours Sincerely,
Li
Hua
Unit 2
Travel
Peru
PERU is a country on the Pacific coast of
South America with three main areas: narrow, dry,
flat
land 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 lived in the
now-famous site Machu Picchu. Spain took
control of Peru in the 16
th
century and
ruled until
1821. It is for this reason that
Spanish is the main official language of Peru.
Amazon Rainforest Tour
A short flight from
Cusco takes you from the Andes into the Amazon
rainforest. From there,
you’ll spend one day
travelling by boat to your accommodation in the
middle of the forest. You
can then spend three
days exploring the rainforest with a local guide
and enjoying the plants and
animals unique to
the rainforest.
Machu Picchu Tour
This
four-day walking tour will take you on amazing
paths through the Andes Mountains on the
way
to the city of Machu Picchu. After reaching your
destination, you will have a day to 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 nothing was needed to hold walls together
other
than the perfect fit of the stones.
Cusco Tour
Spend four days enjoying the
unique Spanish and local Indian culture high in
the Andes at
Cusco, the capital of the Inca
Empire from the 13th until the 16th century Stay
in a local hotel,
visit the museums, admire
the architecture, enjoy the excellent local food,
and go shopping at
the local markets.
Lake
Titicaca Tour
Enjoy the beautiful countryside
as you spend a day driving along the new highway
connecting
Cusco to Lake Titicaca. There, a
boat will take you to stay with a local Uros
family on an island for
three days. Both the
island and the Uros homes are made of water plants
from the lake.
Write to
a friend about travel plan
Dear Xiao Li,
My time here in China is 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’ve heard
that it
is an amazing sight, and I can't wait
to go. To me, the story of the Terracotta Army is
almost
unbelievable. It's amazing that there
are more than 8,000 statues, and no one in modern
times
knew about them until the 1970s.
We're also planning to visit several other
places in Xi'an. My dad and I are both looking
forward to going to the Shaanxi History
Museum, because my dad loves history and I have
heard
that this museum is known as a to 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.
I guess
that's all for now! I'll write again soon and send
photos! Do you have any plans for the
coming
holiday? Hope to hear from you soon.
Your
friend,
Richard
TERRACOTTA ARMY
Come and see the Terracotta Army: more than
8,000 statues were made in the third
century
BCE to guard the 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. The
statues fill only
one part of the emperors huge tomb, which still
has not been completely
unearthed. More than
700, 000 people worked for nearly 40 years to
build this tomb.
However, no one in modern
times knew about the tomb or the terracotta
statues until 1974,
when some farmers
discovered the tomb while they were digging a
well.
Unit 3
Living
Legends
Lang Ping
As a player, Lang Ping
brought honour and glory to her country. As a
coach, she led the
China women's volleyball
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
preparing for the 2015 World Cup, her
determination was tested. The team that Lang Ping
had built was falling apart. One of the best
players had been injured, and the team captain
had to leave because of heart problems. Losing
two important players was a big challenge,
but
Lang Ping did not lose heart. She had faced
difficulties before, and she knew that her
young players could win if they worked
together as a team. Two weeks later, they were
world champions! Then in 2016, Lang Ping led
her volleyball team to Olympic gold in Brazil
Michael Jordan
When Michael Jordan’s
feet left the ground, time seemed to stand still.
The player who
became known as “Air Jordan”
changed basketball with his graceful moves and
jumps.
Jordan's skills 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.
something. But I can't
accept not trying.
never give up. In life,
Jordan has learnt to share his success with
others. The Boys and Girls
Club which he
started in Chicago has been helping young people
since 1996.
GOING POSITIVE
I always wanted
to look like the slim girls on TV even though I
knew that it was impossible.
I worried about
my weigh 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 article that said instead of
asking
had no idea a letter could make such a
difference. Once I started thinking about fitness
rather than weight, things began to change.
Instead of saying
would say
push-ups.”
Rather than cutting out the foods I enjoyed, I
added healthy foods to my meals. I
could still
have a burger now and then, but I would add a
salad or an apple.
Finally, I stopped
comparing myself with actresses and models and
looking for things that
were wrong with my
face or body. Instead, I made a list of the things
I liked about myself. By
being positive about
myself and my body, I became both happier and
healthier.
Unit4
THE NIGHT THE EARTH
DIDN’T SLEEP
Strange things were happening in
the countryside of northeastern Hebei. For several
days,
the water in the village wells rose and
fell, rose and fell. There were deep cracks that
appeared in the well walls. At least one well
had some smelly gas coming out of it. Chickens
and even pigs were too nervous to eat, and
dogs refused to go inside buildings. Mice ran out
of the fields looking for places to hide, and
fish jumped out of the water. At about 3:00 a.m.,
on 28 July 1976, bright lights were seen in
the sky outside the city of Tangshan and loud
noises were heard. But the city's one million
people were asleep as usual that 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 earthquakes of the 20
th
century had begun, a quake that even caused
damage more than 150 kilometres away in
Beijing. Nearly one third of the whole nation
felt it! A huge 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 one minute, a large city
lay in ruins. Two thirds of the people who lived
there were dead or injured. Thousands of
children were left without parents. The number of
people who were killed or badly injured in the
quake was more than 400,000.
Everywhere
survivors looked, there was nothing but ruins.
Nearly everything in the city
was destroyed.
About 75 percent of the city's factories and
buildings, 90 percent of its
homes, and all of
its hospitals were gone. Bricks covered the ground
like red autumn leaves,
but no wind could blow
them away. Most bridges had fallen or were not
safe to cross. The
railway tracks were now
useless pieces of metal. Tens of thousands of
cows, hundreds of
thousands of pigs, and
millions of chickens were dead. Sand now filled
the wells instead of
water. People were in
shock-and then, later that afternoon, another big
quake shook
Tangshan again. Even more
buildings fell down. Water, food, and electricity
were hard to get.
People began to wonder how
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
who were trapped and to bury the dead. More than
10.000 doctors and
nurses came to provide
medical care. Workers built shelters for survivors
whose 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 started to revive
itself and get back up on its feet. With strong
support from the
government and the tireless
efforts of the city’s people, a new Tangshan was
built upon the
earthquake ruins. The new city
has become a home to more than seven million
people, with
great improvements in
transportation, industry, and environment.
Tangshan city has proved
to China and the rest
of the world that in times of disaster, people
must unify and show the
wisdom to stay
positive and rebuild for a brighter future
TSUNAMI HITS ASIA: OVER 6,500 DEAD
By
Robert Woodhouse Monday, 27 December 2004
The
most powerful earthquake in the past 40 years
caused a tsunami that crashed into
coastlines
across 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
strong earthquake that reached a magnitude
of
9.0. The undersea quake struck around 7: 00 a.m.,
Sunday off the west coast of
Indonesia’s
Sumatra Island. In that area alone, at least 1,
870 people were killed.
In Sri Lanka, some
1,600 kilometres west of the quake centre, the
number of deaths stood
at 2498, 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. In
southern Thailand, 1,900
people were hurt and
many more were missing local officials said. “I
was having breakfast
with my three children
when water started filling my home. We had to
leave everything and
run to
safety,
Thousands of people are still missing,
and the number of deaths is expected to grow even
higher over the next few days. Foreign aid is
being organised for the tsunami-hit countries.
However, dangerous conditions and damaged
roads will make it difficult to deliver food and
supplies.
Unit 5
THE
CHINESE WRITING SYSTEM: CONNECTING THE PAST AND
THE PRESENT
China is widely known for its
ancient civilisation which has continued all the
way through
into modem times, despite the many
ups and downs in its history. There are many
reasons
why this has been possible, but one of
the main factors has been the Chinese writing
system.
At the beginning, written Chinese
was a picture-based language. It dates back
several
thousand years to the use of longgu-
animal bones and shells on which symbols were
carved
by ancient Chinese people. Some of the
ancient symbols can still be seen in today’s
hanzi.
By the Shang Dynasty (around 1600-1046
BCE), these symbols had become a
well-
developed writing system. Over the years, the
system developed into different forms, as
it
was a time when people were divided
geographically, leading to many varieties of
dialects
and characters. This, however,
changed under Emperor Qinshihuang of the Qin
Dynasty
(221-207BCE).
Emperor Qinshihuang
united the seven major states into one unified
country where the
Chinese writing system began
to develop in one direction. That writing system
was of great
importance in uniting the Chinese
people and culture. Even today, no matter where
Chinese
people live or what dialect they
speak, they can all still communicate in writing.
Written Chinese has also become an important
means by which China's present is
connected
with its past. People in modem times can read the
classic works which were
written by Chinese in
ancient times. The high regard for the Chinese
writing system can be
seen in the development
of Chinese characters as an art form, known as
Chinese calligraphy,
which has become an
important part of Chinese culture.
Today, the
Chinese writing system is still an important part
of Chinese culture. As China
plays a greater
role in global affairs, an increasing number of
international students are
beginning to
appreciate China's culture and history through
this amazing language.
Write a blog about English study
Wang Le:
Hey, everybody, what are your biggest problems
with learning English?
Liu Wen:
Hi! I’ve
been studying English since primary school, I used
to get high marks in English, but
now I’m
having a lot of trouble with my listening. When I
listen to native English speakers
talking in a
video, I can catch only a few words. I can never
quite get the main idea. Any
advice?
Jia
Xin:
Listening to 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 the language.
Sometimes
I even record my voice so I can
listen to myself and compare my pronunciation with
the
radio hosts! My biggest headache is how to
be polite in English. It's so much easier to just
say
who I'm talking to and then decide
whether to say,
you open the window, please?or
even longer you mind opening the window,
please?”
Li Rui:
Yeah, that’s really
hard! I think it all depends on who you're talking
to. If I’m talking to a
close friend I can use
short requests, like – our relationship is close
and
we’re equals, so I only need a few words
to bridge the gap between us. But if I’m talking
to
someone who isn't very close to me, I must
make my request longer - and I must make it a
question, not a demand, e.g., you open the
window, please?” If I’m talking to
someone
senior to me, then I should say,
For me,
vocabulary is my biggest problem - there are just
SO MANY new words! I can't keep
all the new
vocabulary straight in my head, and I certainly
can’t remember how to use them
all properly,
HELP!