1、外研版高中英語(yǔ)課文文本 必修一Module 1 My Name is Li Kang. I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not far from Beijing. It is the capital city of Hebei Province. Today is my first day at Senior High school and Im writing down my thoughts about it. My new school is very good and I can see why. The teachers are very enthusi

2、astic and friendly and the classrooms are amazing. Every room has a computer with a special screen, almost as big as a cinema screen. The teachers write on the computer, and their words appear on the screen behind them. The screens also show photographs, text and information from websites. Theyre br

3、illiant! The English class is really interesting. The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman called Ms Shen. Were using a new textbook and Ms Shens method of teaching is nothing like that of the teachers at my Junior High school. She thinks that reading comprehension is important, but we speak a lot i

4、n class, too. And we have fun. I dont think I will be bored in Ms Shens class! Today we introduced ourselves to each other. We did this in groups. Some students were embarrassed at first but everyone was very friendly and it was really nice. Ms Shen gave us instructions and then we worked by ourselv

5、es. Ms Shen wants to help us improve our spelling and handwriting. We do this in a fun way, with spelling games and other activities. I like her attitude very much, and the behaviour of the other students shows that they like her, too. There are sixty-five students in my classmore than my previous c

6、lass in Junior High. Forty-nine of them are girls. In other words, there are three times as many girls as boys. They say that girls are usually more hard-working than boys, but in this class, everyone is hard-working. For our homework tonight, we have to write a description of the street where we li

7、ve. Im looking forward to doing it!Module 2 They say that first impressions are very important. My first impression of Mrs. Li was that she was nervous and shy. I think perhaps she was, as it was her first lesson with us. But now, after two weeks, the class really likes working with her. Shes kind a

8、nd patient, and she explains English grammar so clearly that even I can understand it!She avoids making you feel stupid! Ive always hated making mistakes or pronouncing a word incorrectly when I speak English, but Mrs. Li just smiles, so that you dont feel completely stupid! I think maybe she goes a

9、 bit too slowly for the faster students, but for me its wonderful! I feel Im going to make progress with her.Id guess that Mrs. Chen is almost sixty. Shes very strictwe dont dare to say a word unless she asks us to. Shes also very serious and doesnt smile much. When she asks you to do something, you

10、 do it immediately! There are a few students in our class who keep coming to class late but theyre always on time for Mrs. Chens lessons! Some of our class dont like her, but most of us really appreciate her because her teaching is so well organised and clear. And a few students even admit liking he

11、r! During scientific experiments, she explains exactly what is happening and as a result my work is improving. Physics will never be my favourite lesson, but I think that Ill do well in the exam with Mrs. Chen teaching me.Mr. Wus only been teaching us for two weeks and hes already very popular. I th

12、ink this is because he really enjoys teaching Chinese literaturehe loves it, in fact! Hes got so much energy; this is one class you do not fall asleep in! Hes about 28, I think, and is rather good-looking. He talks loudly and fast, and waves his hands about a lot when he gets excited. Hes really amu

13、sing and tells jokes when he thinks were getting bored. Even things like compositions and summaries are fun with Mr. Wu. I respect him a lot.Module 3My name is Alice Thompson. I come from Sydney, Australia and Im 18 years old. Recently I had my first ride on a long-distance train. And what a ride! A

14、 friend and I travelled on the famous Ghan train. We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs, right in the middle of Australia, more than four thousand kilometres away. We spent two days and nights on the train. The train was wonderful and the food was great. We ate great meals cooked by ex

15、perts! For the first few hundred kilometres of the journey, the scenery was very colourful. There were fields and the soil was dark red. After that, it was desert. The sun shone, there was no wind and there were no clouds in the sky. Suddenly, it looked like a place from another time. We saw abandon

16、ed farms which were built more than a hundred years ago. The train was comfortable and the people were nice. During the day, I sat and looked out of the window, and sometimes talked to other passengers. I read books and listened to my Chinese cassettes (Im studying Chinese at school). One night, at

17、about midnight, I watched the night sky for about an hour. The stars shone like diamonds. Why is the train called the Ghan? A long time ago, Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of the country. They tried riding horses, but the horses didnt like the hot weather and sand. A hundred and fi

18、fty years ago, they brought some camels from Afghanistan. Ghan is short for Afghanistan. Camels were much better than horses for travelling a long distance. For many years, trained camels carried food and other supplies, and returned with wool and other products. The Afghans and their camels did thi

19、s until the 1920s. Then the government built a new railway line, so they didnt need the camels any more. In 1925, they passed a law which allowed people to shoot the animals if they were a problem. In 1935, the police in a town shot 153 camels in one day.Module 4 XIAO LI: Its great to see you again,

20、 John.JOHN MARTIN: Its great to see you! Its been six years since we last saw each other, you know. And this is the first time Ive visited your hometown. XIAO LI: Yes, Im so glad you could come. JOHN MARTIN: You know, Ive seen quite a lot of China and Ive visited some beautiful cities, but this is o

21、ne of the most attractive places Ive been to. Its so lively, and everyone seems so friendly. XIAO LI: Yes, its one of the most interesting cities on the coast, everyone says so. I feel very fortunate living here. And I love living by the seaside. JOHN MARTIN: You live in the northwest of Xiamen, is

22、that right? XIAO LI: Yes, thats right.JOHN MARTIN: Whats the climate like? XIAO LI: Pretty hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in the winter. JOHN MARTIN: Sounds OK to me. There are a lot of tourists around. Dont they bother you? XIAO LI: Yes, they can be a nuisance in the summer bec

23、ause there are so many of them. JOHN MARTIN: Oh, look at that huge apartment block! XIAO LI: Yes, theyve just completed it. The rent for an apartment there is very high. JOHN MARTIN: I believe you! This areas so modern! XIAO LI: Yes, this is the business district. Theyve put up a lot of high-rise bu

24、ildings recently. And there are some great shopping malls. See, were just passing one now. My wifes just bought a beautiful dress from one of the shops there. JOHN MARTIN: Maybe I could buy a few presents there. XIAO LI: Ill take you there tomorrow. Now were leaving the business district and approac

25、hing the harbour. Were entering the western district, the most interesting part of the city. Its got some really pretty parks . JOHN MARTIN: It seems lovely. Is that Gulangyu Island, just across the water? XIAO LI: Yes, it is. Its a gorgeous island with some really interesting architecture. JOHN MAR

26、TIN: So they tell me. Do you think we could stop and walk around for a while? XIAO LI: Yes, I was just going to do that. We can park over there. A friends told me about a nice little fish restaurant near here. Shall we go there for lunch? JOHN MARTIN: That sounds great. Im starving!Module 5The Inter

27、net is the biggest source of information in the world, and its accessible through a computer. It consists of millions of pages of data. In 1969, DARPA, a U.S. defence organisation, developed a way for all their computers to talk to each other through the telephone. They created a network of computer

28、s called DARPANET. For fifteen years, only the U.S. army could use this system of communication. Then in 1984, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) started the NSFNET network. It then became possible for universities to use the system as well. NSFNET became known as the Inter-Network, or Inter

29、net.The World Wide Web (the web) is a computer network that allows computer users to access information from millions of websites via the Internet. At the moment, about 80 percent of web traffic is in English, but this percentage is going down. By 2020, much web traffic could be in Chinese. The Worl

30、d Wide Web was invented in 1991 by an English scientist, Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee built his first computer while he was at university using an old television! He came up with the idea of the World Wide Web in 1989 while he was working in Switzerland. Berners-Lee made it possible for everyone to

31、use the Internet, not just universities and the army. He designed the first web browser, which allowed computer users to access documents from other computers. From that moment on, the web and the Internet grew. Within five years, the number of Internet users rose from 600 000 to 40 million. The Int

32、ernet has created thousands of millionaires, but Berners-Lee is not one of them. Everyone in the world can access the Internet using his World Wide Web system. He now works as a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.Passage A It is hard to think of a world without metals. Diffe

33、rent metals have different uses, for example, steel is used in cars, and iron is used in electrical equipment. When we use metals, it is important to know how they react with different substances, for example, water and oxygen. The reaction of metals with these substances can be put in order. Here is a table with the metals that react most at the top, and the metals that react least at the bottom.Passage B A Simple Scientific Experiment Below is a description of a simple scientific experiment. It shows us how i