外研社新课标必修二课文
Module 1 Zhou Kai
When Zhou Kai’s mother saw him heading towards the front door without a jacket on, she eyed him anxiously.
“Zhou Kai, where are you going?” she asked.
“To the park. I’m gong to play football,” said Zhou Kai.
“But it’s raining! Y ou’ll catch a bad cold,” said his mother.
“No, I won’t. I’ll be fine,” said Zhou Kai, as he opened the door.
“Zhou Kai, you’ll get ill. Y ou know you will. Y ou can at least go and get your jacket.”
“OK, OK” Zhou Kai went and did as he was told.
Zhou Kai (2)
My mother has always made sure we eat very healthily, and fresh fruit and vegetables are a very important part of our diet. We live near the a and we have fish about four times a week. We don’t eat much fat or sugar. A lot of my school f riends eat sweets every day but I’m lucky becau I don’t have a sweet tooth ----I’d rather eat a nice piece of fruit. And I’m not too heavy, so I never have to diet, or anything like that.
I’m quite healthy. I very rarely get colds, although, unusually for me, I had a bad cold and a bit of a fever last week. But that’s becau I was stupid enough to play football in the rain. I don’t often get things like flu either. Last winter almost all my class mates got flu ----but I didn’t.I think I don’t get the things becau I take a lot of exerci and am very fit. Two years ago I broke my arm playing football. The injury was quite painful and I couldn’t move my arm for month----I hated that.
So as you can e from what I’ve said, I’m a normal kind of perso n.But there’s one thing I really love ----I’m crazy about football.I’m captain of the class team at school and I’m also a member of the Senior High team.Becau of this, I make sure that I have a good diet, and as I’ve said, this isn’t a problem becaus e my mother feeds us so well.
CULTURAL CORNER
The health care system of a country is very important and different countries have different ways of paying for it. Britain was the first country in the world to have a free health care system paid for by the government. Health care is free for everyone living in Britain. Most doctors and nurs work for the government and most hospitals are owned by the government. Until recently this system was very successful but recently there have been problems. This is becau the government
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has not put enough money into the health rvice. As a result, more people are using private health insurance. They e doctors who work for themlves and pay the doctors through the health insurance company.
In America the system is very different. Most people have private health insurance. Doctors work for themlves and hospitals are privately owned. The health insurance company pays the doctors and the hospitals. The problem with this system is that poorer people don’t have to pay for private health insurance. As a result, they often have both health and money problems.
Canada has a different system again. Health care is free. Doctors work privately and hospitals are privately owned. When you become ill, medical fees are paid for by the government.
Module 2
Article 1 No Drugs
My name is Adam Rou. I'm 19 years old and I ud to be a drug addict. I first started using drugs when I was 15. I bought cannabis from a man in the street. I continued to buy cannabis from the same man for about six months. One day, he offered me some crack cocaine.
Article 2
Cocaine is a powerfully addictive drug. Some drug urs inject cocaine, others smoke it. Both ways are dangerous. Urs who inject the drug are also in more danger if they share needles with other urs.
Crack cocaine is the most addictive form of cocaine. Urs become addicted to crack cocaine much more easily if they smoke it. Smoking allows cocaine to reach the brain very quickly.细雨朦胧
When I went back to the man again, I wanted more crack cocaine. But he asked me for a lot of money. I didn't have enough money so he didn't give me any drugs. I was in terrible pain.
The next day, I broke into a hou and stole a television and a video recorder. I took them to the drug dealer. He told me to take them to a shop in a nearby street. The man in the shop gave me some money. I took the money to the drug dealer and he gave me some more crack cocaine.
Using cocaine increas the ur's heart rate and blood pressure.As a result, cocaine urs sometimes have heart attacks. Smoking crack cocaine also caus anti-social behaviour.
By this time, I was addicted to crack cocaine. If I didn't have any drugs, I was in terrible pain. And I had to steal something every day to pay for the drugs.One day, the police took me to the police station.
The next day, a doctor came to e me. He told me that I could die if I didn't stop taking crack cocaine, so I took his advice and stopped immediately.Now I work in a centre for drug addicts, helping others to stop taking drugs.
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CULTURAL CORNER
Stop Smoking Now—W e Can Help!
In almost every US city and town, there are local organisations to help people stop smoking. Participants learn to recognize smoking triggers (things that start them smoking) and they try to t a date in the future when they will stop smoking.
One of the most popular and successful is the California Smokers' Helpline. Here is an extract from one of their leaflets.
人才回流
When you really want a cigarette—try the four Ds:
1Delay: Look at your watch and wait for a couple of minutes. If you can wait two minutes, you won't want to smoke.
2Distraction: Whatever you're doing when you want to smoke—do something el! For example, if you're alone, find someone to talk to. If you're sitting down, take a short walk.
3 Drink water: If you drink water, you reduce the need to have something in your mouth.
4Deep breathing: Breathe in slowly and deeply. Count to five when your lungs are full. Then breathe out slowly. Repeat veral times.
And here are some ideas to help people to give up smoking:
1Make a plan: Make a list of friends who smoke and places where you smoke. Don't e tho people and don't go to tho places!
2Set a date when you're going to stop: Choo a time when you will be relaxed but also too busy to think about smoking.
3Keep busy: Instead of smoking, make a phone call, take a short walk, talk with a friend.
4Develop new interests: Exerci—walking, hiking, jogging, swimming, or taking a gymnastic class—helps you to forget about cigarettes.
Module 3 Music
Joph Haydn (1732--1809) was an Austrian compor and is known as "the father of the symphony". Other compors had written symphonies before Haydn, but he changed the symphony into a long piece for a large orchestra.
桔梗的作用与功效He was born in a village in Austria, the son of a peasant. He had a beautiful singing voice. After studying music in V ienna, Haydn went to work at the court of a prince in eastern Austria, where he became director of music.Having worked there for 30 years, Haydn moved to London, where he was
very successful.
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Mozart (1756--1791) was a compor, possibly the greatest musical genius of all time. He only lived 35 years and he compod more than 600 pieces of music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria. His father Leopold was a musician and orchestra conductor. Wolfgang had musical talent from a very early age. He learned to play the harpsichord when he was four, he started composing music when he was five, and when he was six, he played the harpsichord in a concert for the Empress of Austria.
By the time he was 14, Mozart had compod many pieces for the harpsichord, piano and violin, as well as for orchestras.While he was still a teenager, Mozart was already a big star and toured Europe giving concerts.Haydn met Mozart in 1781 and was very impresd with him."He is the greatest compor the world has known," he said. The two were friends until Mozart's death in 1791.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) was born in Bonn, Germany. He showed musical talent when he was very young, and learned to play the violin and piano from his father, who was a singer. Mozar诗篇第一篇讲章
t met Beethoven and was impresd by him. "He will give something wonderful to the world," he said.
Beethoven met Haydn in 1791, but was not impresd by the older man. After they had known each other for many years, Beethoven said, "He is a good compor, but he has taught me nothing." However, it was Haydn who encouraged Beethoven to move to Vienna.
Beethoven became very popular in the Austrian capital and stayed there for the rest of his life. As he grew older, he began to go deaf. He became completely deaf during the last years of his life, but he continued composing.
CULTURAL CORNER
积木小屋Y e Xiaogang
Y e Xiaogang, who was born in 1955,is one of a group of Chine compors known as the New Tide. He writes symphonies and pieces for smaller groups of musicians. He also writes film music. He showed musical ability at an early age and began studying piano when he was four years old.银杏树的作用
鼓励员工
From 1978 till 1983, he studied at the Central Conrvatory of Music of China. After graduation, he w
orked there as a lecturer.
In 1985, there was a concert of Y e Xiaogang's symphonies in Beijing. From that time, he has been one of the leading modern compors of Chine classical music. In 1986, his album Horizon appeared and his music was played at the First Contemporary Chine Compors' Festival in Hong Kong. He is famous for mixing Chine musical traditions with western forms and instrumentation.
Y e is a member of the Beijing music group Eclip. Eclip is perhaps the first independent
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music group in China which plays works by modern Chine compors. In November 1996, the group played with Italian musician Enrico Rava at the Beijing International Jazz Festival.
Y e Xiaogang has received many prizes, in China and in other countries. Since 1993, he has worked part of the time in Beijing and part of the time in the US. He's a professor of music at the Central Conrvatory of Music of China, and compos pieces for the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.
MODULE 4 Fine Arts-W estern Chine and Pop Arts A．
This is a painting by the Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso, considered to be the greatest western artist of the twentieth century. Picasso and another painter, George Braque, started Cubism, one of the most important of all modern art movements.Cubist artists painted objects and people, with different aspects of the object or person showing at the same time.
This painting by contemporary American artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923 -1997) is a world famous example of pop art.Pop art (from the word "popular") was an important modern art movement that aimed to show ordinary twentieth-century city life. For example, it shows things such as soup cans and advertiments.
Qi Baishi (1863-1957), one of the China's greatest painters, followed the traditional Chine style of painting. Chine painting is known for its brush drawings in black inks and natural colours. Qi Baishi obrved the world of nature very carefully, and his paintings are special becau of this.
Xu Beihong (1895-1953) was one of China's best-known twentieth-century artists.Like Qi Baishi, Xu painted in the traditional Chine style.Both painters have a beautiful brush line.Xu Beihong believed that artists should show reality, but not just imitate it. Instead, a picture should try to show the "life" of its subject. He is most famous for his lively paintings of hors..
心字的笔顺
I'm studying art at school, and I enjoy it a lot, although I can get tired of looking at pictures all the time. I'm crazy about the paintings of Qi Baishi, and this delightful picture of the little shrimps is such a lovely example of his work. But I can't stand that picture of a golden-haired girl. I think it's stupid.
My parents are fond of going to art galleries and often take me with them, so I've developed an interest in art. I must say, I love that picture of the six hors. They look so alive. It's by a Chine artist, isn't it? I can tell by the style. I think the painting of the young girl is probably by Picasso. I really like him. I think he's an extraordinary artist.
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