必修一 Unit one
Anne’s Best Friend
Do you want a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your deepest feelings and thoughts" Or are you afraid that your friend would laugh at you, or would not understand what you are going through" Anne Frank wanted the first kind, so she made her diary her best friend.
有关母爱的词语 Anne lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands during World War Ⅱ. Her family was Jewish so they had to hide oe they would be caught by the German广场平面图Nazis.S he and her family hid away for nearly twenty-five months before they were discovered. During that time the only true friend was her diary. She said, ”I don’t want to t down a ries of facts in a diary as most people do, but I want this diary itlf to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty.” Now read how she felt after being in the hiding place since July 1942.
Thursday 15th June, 1944
表格怎么缩小Dear Kitty,
I wonder if it’s becau I haven’t been able to be outdoors for so long that I’ve grown so crazy about everything to do with nature. I can well remember that there was a time when a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound. That’s changed since I was here.
…For e*ample, one evening when it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpo until half past eleven in order to have a good look at the moon by my lf. But as the moon gave far too much light, I didn’t dare open a window.Another time five months ago, I happened to be upstairs at dusk when the window was open. I didn’t go downstairs until the window bad to be shut. The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me entirely in their power; it was the first time in a year and a half that I’d en the night face to face…
…Sadly …I am only able to look at nature through dirty curtains hanging before very dusty windows. It’s no pleasure looking through the any longer becau nature is one t
hing that really must be e*perienced.
Yours,惨是什么意思
Anne
Unit two
The Road to Modern English
At the end of the 16th century, about five to ven million people spoke English. Nearly all of them lived in England. Later in the ne*t century, people from England made voyages to conquer other parts of the world, and becau of that, English began to be spoken in many other countries. Today, more people speak English as their first, cond or a foreign language than ever before.
Native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English. Look at this e*ample:
British Betty: Would you like to e my flat"
American Amy: Yes. I’d like to e up to yourapartment.
奇货可居是什么意思So why has English changed over time" Actually all languages change and develop when cultures meet and municate with each other. At fist the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken today. It was bad蚓激酶肠溶胶囊 more on German than the English we speak at prent. Then gradually between about AD 500 and 1150, English became less like German becau tho who ruled England spoke first Danish and later French. The new ttlers enriched the English language and especially its vocabulary. So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was able to选墓地 make u of a wider vocabulary than ever before. In 1620 some British ttlers moved to America. Later in the 18th century some British people were taken to Australia to. English began to be spoken in both countries.
Finally by the 19th century the language was ttled. At that time two big changes in English spelling happened: first Samuel Johnson wrote his dictionary and later Noah We
bster wrote The American Dictionary of the English language. The latter gave a parate identity to American English spelling.
English now is also spoken as a foreign or cond language in South Asia. For e*ample, India has a very large number of fluent English speakers becau Britain ruled India from 1765 to 1947. During that time English became the language for government and education. English is also spoken in Singapore and M水培文竹alaysia and countries in Africa such as South Africa. Today the number of people learning English in China is increasing rapidly. In fact, China mayhave the largest number of English learners. Will Chine English develop its own identity" Only time will tell.
