(完整版)人教版高中英语必修1各单元课文原文

2024年1月20日发(作者：戚庆才)

必修1 Unit 1

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.

Anne lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands during World War II. Her family was

Jewish so the had to hide or they would be caught by the German Nazis. She and her

family hide away for two years 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 15, June, 1944

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 example, when it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpo until half past

eleven one evening in order to have a good look at the moon for once by mylf. But

as the moon gave far too much light, I didn’t dare open a window. Another time some

months ago, I happened to be upstairs one evening when the window was open. I

didn’t go downstairs until the window had 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 thing that really must be experienced.

Yours,

Anne

Using Language 语言运用

Reading and listening 读与听

1 Read the letter that Lisa wrote to Miss Wang of Radio for Teenagers and predict

what Miss Wang will say. After listening, check and discuss her advice.

Dear Miss Wang,

I am having some trouble with my classmates at the moment. I’m getting along well

with a boy in my class. We often do homework together and we enjoy helping each

other. We have become really good friends. But other students have started gossiping.

They say that this boy and I have fallen in love. This has made me angry. I don’t want

to end the friendship, but I hate others gossiping. What should I do?

Yours,

Lisa

Reading and writing 读与写

Miss Wang has received a letter from Xiaodong. He is also asking for some advice.

Read the letter on the right carefully and help Miss Wang answer it.

Dear Miss Wang,

I’m a student from Huzhou Senior High School. I have a problem. I’m not very good

at communicating with people. Although I try to talk to my classmates, I still find it

hard to make good friends with them. So I feel quite lonely sometimes. I do want to

change this situation, but I don’t know how. I would be grateful if you could give me

some advice.

Yours,

Xiaodong

2 Decide which are the best ideas and put them into an order. Then write down your

advice and explain how it will help. Each idea can make one paragraph. The

following sample and the expressions may help you

Dear Xiaodong,

I’m sorry you are having trouble in making friends. However, the situation is easy to

change if you follow my advice. Here are some tips to help you.

First, why not…?

If you do this,…

Secondly, you could / can …

Then / That way, …

Thirdly, it would be a good idea if …

By doing this, …

I hope you will find the ideas uful.

Yours

Miss Wang

第二单元

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 next 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 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 example:

British Betty: Would you like to e my flat?

American Amy: Yes, I’d like to come up to your apartment.

So why has English changed over time? Actually all languages change and develop

when cultures meet and communicate with each other. At first the English spoken in

England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken

today. It was bad more on German than the English we speak at prent. Then

gradually between about AD 800 and 1150, English became less like German becau

tho who ruled England spoken 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 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 too. 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

Webster 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

example, 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 Malaysia and

countries in Africa such as South Africa. Today the number of people learning English

in China is increasing rapidly. In fact, China may have the largest number of English

learners. Will Chine English develop its own identity? Only time will tell.

STANDARD ENGLISH AND DIALECTS

What is standard English? Is it spoken in Britain, the US, Canada, Australia,

India and New Zealand? Believe it or not, there is no such thing as standard English.

Many people believe the English spoken on TV and the radio is standard English.

This is becau in the early days of radio, tho who reported the news were expected

to speak excellent English. However, on TV and the radio you will hear differences in

the way people speak.

When people u words and expressions different form “standard language”, it is

called a dialect. American English has many dialects, especially the midwestern,

southern, African American and Spanish dialects. Even in some parts of the USA, two

people from neighbouring towns speak a little differently. American English has so

many dialects becau people have come from all over the world.

Geography also plays a part in making dialects. Some people who live in the

mountains of the eastern USA speak with an older kind of English dialect. When

Americans moved form one place to another, they took their dialects with them. So

people from the mountains in the southeastern USA speak with almost the same

dialect as people in the northwestern USA. The USA is a large country in which many

different dialects are spoken. Although many Americans move a lot, they still

recognize and understand each other’s dialects.

第三单元Travel journal

JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG

PART 1 THE DREAM AND THE PLAN

My name is Wang Kun. Ever since middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I

have dreamed about taking a great bike trip. Two years ago she bought an expensive

mountain bike and then she persuaded me to buy one. Last year, she visited our

cousins, Dao Wei and Yu Hang at their college in Kunming. They are Dai and grew up

in western Yunnan Province near the Lancang River, the Chine part of the river that

is called the Mekong River in other countries. Wang Wei soon got them interested in

cycling too. After graduating from finally got the chance to take a bike trip.

I asked my sister, "Where are we going?" It was my sister who first had the idea to

cycle along the entire Mekong River from where it begins to where it ends. Now she

is planning our schedule for the trip.

I am fond of my sister but she has one rious shortcoming. She can be really

stubborn. Although she didn't know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that

she organize the trip properly. Now, I know that the proper way is always her way. I

kept asking her, "When are we leaving and when are we coming back?" I asked her

whether she had looked at a map yet. Of cour, she hadn't; my sister doesn't care

about details. So I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai Province. She

gave me a determined look—the kind that said she would not change her mind. When

I told her that our journey would begin at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres, she

emed to be excited about it. When I told her the air would be hard to breathe and it

would be very cold, she said it would be an interesting experience. I know my sister

well. Once she has made up her mind, nothing can change it. Finally, I had to give in.

Several months before our trip,Wang Wei and I went to the library. We found a

large atlas with good maps that showed details of world geography. From the atlas we

could e that the Mekong River begins in a glacier on a Tibetan mountain. At first the

river is small and the water is clear and cold. Then it begins to move quickly. It

becomes rapids as it pass through deep valleys, travelling across western Yunnan

Province. Sometimes the river becomes a waterfall and enters wide valleys. We were

both surprid to learn that half of the river is in China. After it leaves China and the

high altitude,the Mekong becomes wide，brown and warm. As it enters Southeast Asia,

its pace slows. It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains

where rice grows. At last, the river delta enters the South China Sea.

JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG

PART 2 A NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS

Although it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in legs

were so heavy and cold that they felt like blocks of ice. Have you ever en snowmen

ride bicycles? That's what we looked like! Along the way children dresd in long

wool coats stopped to look at us. In the late afternoon we found it was so cold that our

water bottles r,the lakes shone like glass in the tting sun and looked

Wei rode in front of me as is very reliable and I knew I

did't need to encourage climb the mountains was hard work but as we looked

around us,we were surprid by the emed to be able to e for one

point we were so high that we found ourlves cycling through we began

going down the was great fun especially as it gradually became much

the valleys colourful butterflies flew around us and we saw many yaks and

sheep eating green this point we had to change our caps,coats,gloves and

trours for T-shirts and shorts.

In the early evening we always stop to make put up our tent and then we

supper Wang Wei put her head down on her pillow and went to sleep but I

stayed midnight the sky became clearer and the stars grew brighter. It was

so was almost no wind-only the flames of our fire for I lay

beneath the stars I thought about how far we had already travelled.

We will reach Dali in Yunnan Province soon,where our cousins Dao Wei and Yu Hang

will join can hardly wait to e them!

Unit 4 Earthquakes

A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN'T SLEEP

Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast three

days the water in the village wells ro and fell,ro and s noticed that the

well walls had deep cracks in them.A smelly gas came out of the the

farmyards,the chickens and even the pigs were too nervois to ran out of the

fields looking for places to jumped out of their bowls and about

3:00 am on july 28,1976,some people saw bright lights in the sound of planes

could be heard outside the city of Tangshan even when no planes were in the

the city,the water pipes in some buildings cracked and the one million

people of the city,who thiught little of the events,were asleep as usual that night.

At 3:42 am everything began to emed as if the world was at an

end!Eleven kilometres directly below the city the greatest earthquake of the 20th

century had was felt in Beijing,which is more than two hundred kilometres

-third of the nation felt it.A huge crack that was eight kilometres long and

thirty metres wide cut across hous,roads and burst from holes in the

hills of rock became rivers of fifteen terrible conds a large city

lay in suffering of the people was -thirds of them died or were

left without number of people who were killed or injured reached more

than 400,000.

But how could the survivors believe it was natural?Everywhere they looked

nearly everything was of the city's hospitals,75%of its factories and

buildings and 90% of its homes were covered the ground like red autumn

wind,however,could blow them dams fell and most of the

bridges also fell or were not safe for railway tracks were now uless

pieces of of thousands of cows would never give milk a million

oigs and millions of chickens were now filled the wells instead of

were ,later that afternoon,another big quake which was

almost as strong as the first one shook of the rescue workers and

doctors were trapped under the buildings fell ,food,and

electricity were hard to begab to wonder how long the disaster would last.

All hope was not after the quakes,the army nt 150,000 soldiers to

Tangshan to help the rescue ds of thousands of people were

army organized teams to dig out tho who were trapped and to bury the

the north of the city,most of the 10,000 miners were rescued from the coal

mines s built shelters for survivors who homes had been

water was taken to the city bu train,truck and ,the city

began to breathe again.

Office of the City Government

Tangshan,Hebei

China

July5,2007

Dear____,

Congratulations!We are plead to tell you that you have won the high school

speaking competition about new Tangshan. Your speech was heard by a group of five

judges, all of whom agreed that it was the best one this year. Your parents and your

school should be very proud of you!

Next month the city will open a new park to honour tho who died in the terrible

disaster. The park will also honour tho who helped the survivors. Our office would

like to have you speak to the park vistors on July 28 at 11:00 am. As you know,this is

the day the quake happened thirty-____years ago.

We invite you to bring your family and friends on that special day.

Sincerely,

Zhang Sha

Unit 5

ELIAS’ STORY

My name is Elias. I am a poor black worker in South Africa. The time when I first met

Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life. I was twelve years old. It was

in 1952 and Mandela was the black lawyer to whom I went for advice. He offered

guidance to poor black people on their legal problems. He was generous with his time,

for which I was grateful.

I needed his help becau I had very little education. I began school at six. The school

where I studied for only two years was three kilometers away. I had to leave becau

my family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus fare. I could not read

or write well. After trying hard, I got a job in a gold mine. However, this was a time

when one had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg. Sadly I did not have it

becau I was not born there, and I worried about whether I would become out of

work.

The day when Nelson Mandela helped me was one of my happiest. He told my how to

get the correct papers so I could stay in Johannesburg. I became more hopeful about

my future. I never forgot how kind Mandela was. When he organized the ANC Youth

League, I joined it as soon as I could. He said:

“The last thirty years have en the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and

progress, until today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all.”

It was the truth. Black people could not vote or choo their leaders. They could not

get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town in which they had to live were decided by

white people. The places outside the towns where they were nt to live were the

poorest parts of South Africa. No one could grow food there. In fact as Nelson

Mandela said:

“…we were put into a position in which we had either to accept we were less

important or fight the government. We cho to attack the laws. We first broke the law

in a way which was peaceful; when this was not allowed…only then did we decide to

answer violence with violence.

As a matter of fact, I do not like violence…but in 1963 I helped him blow up some

government buildings. It was very dangerous becau if I was caught I could be put in

prison. But I was happy to help becau I knew it would help us achieve our dream of

making black and white people equal.

THE REST OF ELIAS' STORY

You cannot imagine how the name of Robben Island made us afraid. It was a prison

from which no one escaped. There I spent the hardest time of my life. But when I got

there Nelsom Mandela was also there and he helped me. Mr Mandela began a school

for tho of us who had little learning. He taught us during the lunch breaks and the

evenings when we should have been asleep. We read books under our blankets and

ud anything we could find to make candles to e the words. I became a good

student. I wanted to study for my degree but I was not allowed to do that. Later, Mr

Mandela allowed the prison guards to join us. He said they should not be stopped

from studying for their degrees. They were not cleverer than me , but they did pass

their exams. So I knwe I could get a degree too. That made me feel good about

mylf.

When I finished the four years in prison, I went to find a job. Since I was better

educated, I got a job working in an office. However, the police found out and told my

boss that I had been in prinson for blowing up government buildings. So I lost my job.

I did not work again for twenty years until M r Mandela and the ANC came to power

in 1994. All that time my wife and children had to beg for good and help from

relatives or friends. Luckily Mr Mandela remembered me and gave me a job taking

tourists around my old prison on Robben Islannd. I felt bad the first time I talked to a

group. All the terror and fear of that time came back to me. I remembered the beatings

and the cruelty of the guards and my friends who had died. I felt I would not be able

to do it, but my family encouraged me. They said that the job and the pay from the

new South African government were my reward after working all my life for equal

rights for the Blacks. So now at 51 I am proud to show visitors over the prison, for I

helped to make our people free in their own land.