牛津高中英语模块一模块二课文原文
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M1U1 school life in the UK
Going
to a British high school for one year was a very
enjoyable and experience
for me .I was very
happy with the school hours in Britain because
school starts around
9 ends about 3.30 means
I could get up an hour later than usual ,as
schools in China begin before 8 a.m.
On
the first day ,all of the new students attended an
assembly in the school hall .I
sat next to a
girl whose name was Diana .We soon became best
friends. During the
assembly ,the headmaster
told us about the rules of the school . He also
told us that
the best way to earn respect was
to devote ourselves to study and achieve high
grades .
This sounded like my school in China
.
I had many teachers in the past year . Mr
Heywood , my class teacher , was very
helpful
.My favourite teacher was Miss Burke--I loved the
lessons that she gave in
English Literature
.In our class there were 28 students .This is
about the average size
for British schools .
We had to move to different classrooms for
different classes. We
also had different
students in some classes , so it was a struggle
for me to remember
all the faces and names.
I found that the homework was not as heavy
as what I used to get in my old school .
However , it was a bit challenging for me at
first , because all the homework was in
English . I felt lucky , as all my teachers
gave me much enjoyment and I enjoyed all
my
subjects: English , History , English Literature,
Computer Science , Maths ,
Science , PE ,Art ,
Cooking and French.
My English improved a
lot , as I used English every day and spent an
hour each day
reading English books in the
library . I usually went to the Computer Club
during the
lunch break , so I could send
e-mails to my family and friends back home for
free. I
also had an extra French class on
Tuesday evenings .Cooking was really fun as I
learnt how to buy ,prepare and cook food .At
the end of term we held a class party and
we
all had to cook something .I was glad that all my
classmates were fond of the cake
that I made .
Students at that school have to study Maths
, English and Science , but can stop
studying
some subjects if they do not like them , for
example , History and French .
They can choose
other subjects like Art and Computer Science, or
languages such as
Spanish and German. Though
it did not look very beautiful when it was
finished , I
still liked it very much .
I missed Chinese food a lot at lunch .British food
is very different . British people
like eating
dessert at the end of their main meal . After
lunch , we usually played on
the school field
. Sometimes I played football with the boys .
Sometimes I just relaxed
under a tree or sat
on the grass.
I was very lucky to experience
this different way of life .I look back on my time
in
the UK with satisfaction , and I really
hope to go back and study in Manchester
again
.
M1U2 Home Alone
Act
one
Mom and Dad arrive back from
vacation a day earlier than expected. The
curtains are closed and the living room is
dark when Mom and Dad enter.
Dad: It’s so
nice to be home!
Mom: Yes, I can’t wait to
surprise the boys!
Suddenly a door opens and
a soccer ball flies through the room. Eric runs in
after
it, followed by a big dog, walking very
slowly.
Eric: Mom! Dad! You’re back early!
(looking around room, sounding frightened)
But, but--- you weren’t supposed to come home
until tomorrow!
The dog slowly walks to Mom
and Dad.
Mom: (bending to touch dog) Eric,
he’s so tired and hungry! (looking at table)
The money with which you were to buy dog food
is gone, but Spot looks so hungry!
What did
you do with the money we left?
Dad: And look
at the room --- garbage all over the place! Where
is your brother?
(shouting angrily) Daniel!
Daniel: (running into room) Mom, Dad, I can
explain---
Dad opens the curtains and light
comes into the room. The room is in a mess,
with pizza boxes on the floor and dirty dishes
in the sink. In the corner, there is a
garbage
can around which are pieces of garbage and waste
paper.
Mom and Dad both turn towards Daniel.
Dad: (sounding very angry) Listen to me,
young man---- we left you in charge!
We
thought you could act like an adult, but look at
the mess. I don’t know why the
house is so
dirty---
Mom: Daniel, we thought you were an
adult, a person who would make good
decisions…….
Dad: How can we trust you
any more? We won’t tolerate such behavior in our
house!
Daniel: ( shouting) Stop shouting
at me. I’m still a teenager! Why is everything
always my fault?
Daniel runs into his
bedroom and shuts the door angrily. Mom and Dad
look at
each other as lights go out.
Act
two, scene one
Daniel and Eric’s bedroom. Eric
sits on his bed. Daniel has his arms crossed and
looks upset.
Daniel: They never even
gave me a chance to defend myself. I hate them!
Eric: You don’t hate them. I can tell them
we had an emergency. Then they
won’t be mad
anymore.
Daniel: No, don’t tell them
anything. Anyhow,they didn’t trust me. They don’t
deserve an explanation . Let them think what
they want.
Eric: But Daniel, if they knew
that Spot was sick and we used the money to take
him to the clinic---
Daniel: And
that we spent all of yesterday waiting there for
him and that is why
we had no time to clean
the house --- but no Eric, why didn’t they ask me
what
happened instead of shouting at me?
Act two, scene two
Mom: Do you think we were
too hard on Daniel? Perhaps there’s a reason why
the house is a mess…..
Dad: Maybe, but
now that he has been so rude to us, I feel like we
have to punish
him or he won’t respect us.
Mom: Oh, why does this have to be so
difficult?
Mom sighs.
End of act two.
M1U3
Dying to be thin...
Hi Zhou Ling
How are
you? I haven’t heard from you for weeks. Is
everything OK with you?
Do you still go
to the gym every day? I used to go to the gym
three times a week, but
I don’t work out any
more. I know another way to stay slim. Looking
good is
important to women, isn’t it? Most
young women want a slim figure these days,
especially here in Canada. I’m trying to lose
weight because I’m so ashamed of my
body.
Since I’m preparing to act in a new TV show, I’m
taking weight-loss pills
called Fat-Less,
which are quite popular among young women here. I
hope to lose at
least 10 kilograms. I take two
pills a day and don’t need to exercise.
The pills really work! I’m becoming slimmer and
slimmer. I’ve lost 7 kilograms in
the last two
months. However, sometimes I don’t feel so
energetic. My mother, who
you met last year,
keeps telling me not to take them because they are
dangerous. She
says health is the most
important thing, and I agree, but then I look so
slim at the
moment.
Write soon!
Love
Amy
Dear Zhou Ling
Things
change so quickly! I’m now in hospital recovering
from liver failure. I
regret taking those
weight-loss pills. They contain a harmful chemical
that cause my
liver to fail. The doctor told
me that I would die if I couldn’t get a new liver.
My
mother is a match, but she is too old for
such a long operation. I thought I was going
to die.
Then the doctor found that
someone in your country, whose name is Li Dong,
was
an exact match for me.. He donated more
than half of his liver to save my life. I was
very lucky, wasn’t I?
I’m feeling
better now. I follow my doctor’s advice and
exercise for at least half an
hour every day,
and eat lots of fruit and vegetables. People
should look after their
bodies. My mother is
right: don’t damage your health for a slim and
attractive figure.
It isn’t worth it. We
shouldn’t be ashamed of the way we look, should
we?
I hope to hear from you soon.
Love,
Amy
Dear Amy
My computer was broken so I couldn’t read your
two e-mails until today. I’m so
sorry to hear
about your problem, but I’m glad you’re feeling
better and are
recovering.
You’re
right. We shouldn’t be embarrassed about our
weight. I think you look great
as you are, and
you’re a wonderful person. I know that the
pressure to stay slim is a
problem, especially
for an actress. However, your mother knows best:
nothing is more
important than health.
It’s the same in China—many people, some of
whom are not overweight at all,
are always
going on a diet or taking weight-loss pills, which
are often dangerous. I
hope they can learn
from your story.
Love
Zhou Ling
M2U1 Boy missing,police
puzzled
Police in America have stepped up
their search for a fifteen-year-old-boy ,who
went missing two days ago in Dover,New have
shown great
interest in his disappearance due
to sightings of puzzling lights in the sky and
reports
of alien visit around the time of his
disappearance.
Justin Foster,a high school
student,went missing last Friday first,Justin's
mother,who went to sleep early that evening
because of a headache,thought that the
teenager was spending the night with a
Foster,who was working that
night,was
surprised that his son did not tell anyone that he
was staying out
Justin did not show up at the
family lunch the next day,Mrs Foster became
worried
and told her husband to call the
police.
However,police found that Justin did
in fact return home on Friday night at about
11 evening at 8 p.m. ,Justin left home to
play baseball with two friends,who
both say
Justin went home after the game. Witnesses also
say they saw Justin walking
towards his home
at 10.45 p.m.
Justin's sister,Kelly,says she
heard her brother return home at about 11 p.m. 'I
was getting ready for bed.'she said.'Justin
went straight to his room.I didn't see him
but
I heard him putting on his favourite 's when the
lights came.'
According to Kelly,a bright
light then appeared according to her window. At
first,the young girl thought it was the light
of the full moon, but then she realized it
was
moving and coming closer.'I pulled back the
curtains and saw a large spaceship
flying had
multi-coloured lights all around it and there were
many
ng inside were lots of white-
skinned,strange-looking creatures with
large
black eyes. I was frightened.'Kelly said that the
spaceship then moved around to
the side of the
house,towards her brother's bedroom. 'I heard
Justin shout,and then the
UFO just
disappeared. I haven't seen Justin since. I am
sure the aliens took him,but
my parents said I
was only dreaming.'
Some people in Dover also
say that they have seen aliens.'It happened to
me!'
said Mavis Wood.'The aliens took me away
so that they could do research on
y, they
returned me to my home. I think Justin was taken
away by them too.
They are interested in us. I
still have nightmares about them. I haven't been
sleeping
well since I returned home. The whole
experience was very frightening. I even get
frightened when I hear a plane fly over.'
Police have not ruled out the possibility that
Justin was taken by aliens, but are
also
looking into other possibilities.'Sometimes,
people make up such amazing
stories,'says
Detective Sam Peterson, who has taken charge of
the case.'So we've been
looking at other
possibilities too,such as murder. We will not give
up until we find
convincing evidence.
M2U2 An adventure in Africa
30 June
Dear Aihua
How are you? Sorry
I haven’t written for so long. I’ve been quite
busy arranging
my holiday with my older
brother, Colin. Colin and I plan to spend a few
weeks
travelling before he goes to university.
We’re going to visit so many exciting places
and do lots of extraordinary things. We will
go to Africa first. I can’t wait! Have you
ever been there?
We leave London on 15
July, and we’ll be taking a flight to Morocco, in
northern Africa. We’re going to ride camels
through the Sahara Desert. It’s the
biggest
desert in the world―about the size of the US! I
expect it will be very hot, dry
and dusty
there. We’ll be travelling by camel with local
guides, camping in tents and
sleeping on the
ground. I’ve heard that, in the Sahara, there is
no shade during the day,
and the stars seem
especially brilliant on clear nights. I’ll bring a
flashlight with me so
that I’ll be able to see
in the dark. Altogether, the trip will take six
days. That means
I’ll have to sit on a camel
for almost a week―how uncomfortable! I hope my
camel
likes me!
After the trip by camel,
we’re going to travel down the River Nile. We’ll
start at
Lake Victoria. A little way down the
river from Lake Victoria, the water gets quite
rough. So, we’ll go white―water rafting. It’s
quite dangerous, but very exciting! You
have
to wear a helmet and a life jacket for protection,
just in case you fall into the
water.
Then, we’re going on a trip to see wild
animals in Kenya. We’ll live with the
local
people in their villages, and drink whatever they
do, including cow’s blood! Do
you think I
should drink it?
Since we’ll be walking for
almost two weeks, I’ll need to buy a large
backpack
in advance to carry my supplies of
food and water. During the day, we’ll walk across
the land, following the tracks of wildlife
such as elephants, lions and giraffes. We’ll
try to get as close as possible to the
animals, even though they’re dangerous, so that
we can take some really good photographs. But
don’t worry about me. Our guides
will have
guns with them for defense―they can use the guns
to scare the animals
away if they come too
near. I really want to see an elephant up close,
and Colin wants
to see a giraffe.
After
that, we’ll be moving on to Tanzania, where we’re
going to climb Mount
Kilimanjaro. Mountain
climbing can be very tiring, and many people feel
sick as the
atmosphere gets thinner, so Colin
and I will make sure that we will get plenty of
rest.
The Africa part of our trip will take
about four weeks. Afterwards, we’re going to the
Himalayas.
I’ll send you postcards from
all the different places we visit!
Love
Toby
M2U3 The Curse of
the mummy
Howard Carter is one of the most
famous explorers the world has ever known.
He
was brave and adventurous. He loved to visit new
places. During his lifetime, he
discovered
many amazing things.
Howard Carter did not go
to school but was taught to draw by his father,
who
was an artist. He was bright and curious
about the world outside his hometown. In
1891,
at the age of 17, he set sail for Alexandria,
Egypt. By the 1920s he had become
an explorer
searching for the tombs of the Egyptian kings. He
found several important
ones. Inside the tombs
he found jewels, gold and the preserved bodies of
dead kings.
These preserved bodies are known
as mummies.
In 1922, Howard Carter made his
most amazing discovery of all, in the Valley of
the Kings in Egypt. He had received money from
Lord Carnarvon, a British man who
was very
interested in Egypt. Carter’s team was working at
a place near a city called
Luxor. There, they
found the tomb of King Tutankhamun. It was the
most important
tomb that had ever been found.
‘The tomb contained more riches, gold and jewels
than any of us had ever seen before, as well
as the mummy of the king,’ said Carter.
‘By
the time we left, it was empty. We emptied the
tomb of everything it contained━
we were rich
and famous right away.
However, not long after
the tomb had been opened, people in Carter’s team
began to fall ill and died strangely. Upon
entering the tomb, Carter’s lucky pet bird,
which had led him to the place, was eaten by a
snake. Then, a few months after Carter
had
opened the tomb, Lord Carnarvon, who was also
present when the tomb was
opened, fell ill
with a fever and died in Egypt. At the moment of
Carnarnon’s death,
the lights went out in
Cairo, the capital of Egypt. Back in England his
dog died at the
same time.
George Gould, a
friend of Carnarvon, went to Egypt after hearing
of his death.
He too visited the tomb, and had
a high fever the following day. Twelve hours
later,
he was dead. Carter’s secretary,
Richard Bethell, died of heart trouble four months
after the tomb was opened. Arthur Mace,
another member of the team, also died
shortly
after the discovery.
Within seven years, 21
people who had something to do with the opening of
the
tomb died. Howard Carter, however, lived
on and died at the age of 65. Some people
say
the deaths were just coincidence. Others believe
that they were the result of the
mummy’s
curse, which punishes those who enter the resting
place of the dead.
However, still others
believe that there is a scientific explanation.
Inside the
tombs, there are many viruses. When
a tomb is opened, fresh air disturbs the viruses.
If breathed in, they can result in illness or
even death. Today, when scientists examine
mummies, they wear special clothing to protect
themselves.
What is certain, though, is that
the mystery of Tutankhamun’s tomb has never
been fully explained .