Texts from Oxford English Book 9
1．Protecting the .
...............................................................................22．An extract from Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Holmes’
’......................33．COMPUTERS COMPUTERS (4)
44．The History of the Internet Internet (5)菊一文字则宗
55．The night of the
.................................................................................66．Qian Xuen:Father of China's
...............................................77．FISHING WITH BIRDS BIRDS (8)
88．Some Facts About Tea Tea (9)
谁借东风巧用天时99．Memory Memory (10)
1010．How to Improve Your Memory Memory (11)
1111．Comic
............................................................................................1212．The Fox and the Crow Crow (13)
1313．THE GREEN
弟弟英文...................................................................1414．Pollution Pollution (15)
1515．Educational
....................................................................................1616．Education in Great
.....................................................................1717．A SUCCESS STORY STORY (18)
1818．Beniamin
..................................................................................1919．Tom Sawyer Paints The Fence Fence (20)
2020．An extract from The Adventures of Tom
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..................................2221．Family
............................................................................................2322．The importance of family family (24)
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Protecting the innocent
Pansy wanted to write an article on detectives for the school newspaper.To get information, she interviewed Detective Ken.This is part of the interview.
PANSY You say that you like working as a detective.Why?
KEN Let me tell you about a recent ca that I dealt with,Pansy.Mr Li is a very rich man who lives alone and enjoys collecting things.He purchad a va for two million yuan.He
showed it to only two people his friends Jill and Jenny.Then he locked it in the safe at his
hou.That night,someone stole it.Li reported the theft,and I went to his hou to look
for clues.
PANSY Did you find any?
KEN Yes,a black pearl earring near the open safe and,outside the open window of the room,I saw a lot of mud on the wet ground.Inside the room,the carpet was spotlessly clean. PANSY So what did you do next?
KEN I interviewed Jill and Jenny.They both denied stealing the va.But I noticed that Jill was wearing a black pearl necklace--but no earrings.
PANSY So Jill was the thief?.
KEN I didn't know.I needed proof.A good detective never jumps to conclusions.I showed Jill the earring,and she admitted it was hers.She said someone had stolen it from her hou a
month before.I checked her story.It was true.
PANSY So Jill was no longer a suspect.But what about your other clue--the mud outside and the spotless carpet inside?
KEN That told me that probably no thief broke into Li's hou.So I questioned Li and,in the end,he admitted stealing his own va.He had bought insurance for it.The insurancefridge是什么意思
company would pay him two million yuan if the va was stolen.登上
PANSY And who stole Jill's earring?
KEN Li did that as well.He tried to make sure that Jill would go to jail instead of him. PANSY So now Li is behind bars.
KEN Yes,and Jill is free.My job is to protect the innocent as well as find the guilty.That's why
I like working as a detective.
An extract from Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Holmes’’The death of Ronald Adair in the spring of1894was one of the most interesting cas l ever worked on.I thought about it quite a lot,but could find no possible explanation.
Adair was the son of a famous general who was abroad at the time.The young man's friends were from good families,and he emed to have no enemies.On the day of his death he had played a game of cards at the Bagatelle Club with some friends.
On the evening of30March,Adair returned from the Bagatelle at exactly ten o'clock.His mother was out,visiting relatives.The rvant said Adair went upstairs to his room,where she had lit a fire.She had opened the window becau some smoke from the fire had blown into the room.
Just before midnight,Adair's mother returned and went to say goodnight to her son.The door was locked and there was no answer,so it was forced open.Adair was found lying near the table.A bullet from a small gun had entered his head,but the police could find no weapon.
ppt合并形状Some coins were on the table,and a note with names of friends at the Bagatelle.This appeared to be a list of all the money he had lost and won playing cards.There were no marks on the outside wall.Since it was impossible to aim a small gun from a distance,the murderer must have been in the room.Nobody had heard any noi.In addition to all this,nothing had been stolen from the room.
COMPUTERS
Tony plans to write an article about computers.This is some of the information he has collected.
Hidden helpers
Not so many years ago,you hardly ever saw computers.Now they are everywhere.There may also be tiny,hidden computers in your home that you are unaware of.There may be one inside your TV
t,telephone or washing machine.So maybe you depend on computers more than you realize.
What kind of jobs can a computer do?
It is common knowledge that computers are super calculators.They can calculate very fast and rarely give wrong answers.They can also type,print and draw things like diagrams and graphs. They can teach you and play games with you.More importantly,they can operate railways(like the underground)and fly aeroplanes and spaceships.For the reasons,we often call them electronic brains.
Is a computer cleverer than I am?
The answer to this question is,for the time being,'No'.Your brain can understand the meaning of things better and create new ideas.However,one day computers may be able to do most things that a human brain can do and do them better.They may be better than doctors,judges and teachers at doing their jobs.
If this is true,it rais interesting questions.What will happen to us if computers can do our jobs?How will we spend our lives?Will we have nothing to do?Computers may change our lives. But will they make them better?
How do we give a computer instructions?
We give a computer instructions by putting a program into it.The program is written by a human being,and it is esntial that the human does not make a mistake.If we want a computer to do diCferent jobs,we have to give it different programs.
CD-ROMs
Many of today's computers have CD-ROM drives.A CD-ROM can hold over300,000pages of writing,and can also contain pictures and sound.Thus,for example,you can u your computer to read about a famous person in history such as John F Kennedy,and you can e a photograph or video of him,and even listen to him speaking.Some people think that CD-ROMs will soon be more popular than books.
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The History of the Internet
A rearch team at the United States Pentagon first developed the concept of linking computers together in the l960s.They wanted to have a system that would enable universities,rearch departments and the military to share resources with each other.Computers at this time were as large as refrigerators and could not be transported easily.
Another problem was that they were often complicated and not compatible with each other. The rearch team had to overcome the difficulties to create a network that could share computing power.Gradually,more and more scholars came online.Years later,businessmen began using the lntemet,too.The number of people using it is increasing all the time and it is becoming more widely available across the world.In fact,somewhere in every continent in the world,it is possible to u the lnternet.
There is a wide range of rvices available on the lnternet.This means that there are many different ways to communicate.The most popular way is undoubtedly electronic mail--more commonly called'e-mail'.The cond most popular is browsing on the World Wide Web(WWW). Briefly,the WWW is a very big ries of connected pages containing various forms of multimedia. The third most popular way is real time text bad communication between urs such as IRC--lnternet Relay Chat.
