外研版高中英語(yǔ)必修一課文

1、Module 1 My First Day at Senior High 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

2、very enthusiastic 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 website

3、s. Theyre brilliant! 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 the teachers at my Junior High school. She thinks that reading comprehension is important, but we speak a l

4、ot in 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 our

5、selves. 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 class more than my previ

6、ous class 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

7、we live. Im looking forward to doing it! My After-school Activities .As the students of modern times, we have colorful school life. Everyday, we learn plenty of knowledge on different subjects in class. And our school organizes many extracurricular activities in order to help us put what we have lea

8、rned into practice. After class, we take part in various activities, like playing football, basketball, badminton, etc. They are good for our health. Besides, we are able to join in the lectures organized by literature association, music group, art group, where you can enjoy famous works, learn to p

9、lay instruments or draw pictures. Also, there are chances for us to use computers in the laboratory and talk with some foreign teachers about anything we are interested in at the English corner. Now, most of us may operate computers freely and have a good command of spoken English. In addition to th

10、e after-class activities mentioned here, there are still many others such as sports meeting, debate, social investigation, etc. All those activities make our school life attractive and interesting. We will take advantages of the experience in the future. Moudle 2 My New Teachers They say that first

11、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. She's kind and patient, and she explains English grammar so clearly tha

12、t even I can understand it! She avoids making you feel stupid! I've always hated making mistakes or pronouncing a word incorrectly when I speak English, but Mrs. Li just smiles, so that you don't feel completely stupid! I think maybe she goes a bit too slowly for the faster students, but for

13、 me it's wonderful! I feel I'm going to make progress with her. I'd guess that Mrs. Chen is almost sixty. She's very strictwe don't dare to say a word unless she asks us to. She's also very serious and doesn't smile much. When she asks you to do something, you do it immed

14、iately! There are a few students in our class who keep coming to class late but they're always on time for Mrs. Chen's lessons! Some of our class don't ike her, but most of us really appreciate her because her teaching is so well organised and clear. And a few students even admit liking

15、her! 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

16、think this is because he really enjoys teaching Chinese literature - he 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 reall

17、y amusing 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 3 My First Ride on a Train My name is Alice Thompson. I come from Sydney, Australia and Im 18 years old. Recently I had my first ride on a long-di

18、stance train. And what a ride! A friend and I traveled 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 kilometers away. We spent two days and nights on the train. The train was wonderful and the food was great.

19、We ate great meals cooked by experts! 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 fr

20、om another time. We saw abandoned 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 (I'm studyin

21、g Chinese at school). One night,at 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 didn't like th

22、e hot weather and sand. A hundred and fifty 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 produc

23、ts. The Afghans and their camels did this until the 1920s. Then the government built a new railway line, so they didn't 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.

24、Moudle 4 A Social Survey My Neighbourhood XL:A lively city It's great to see you again, John. JM:It's great to see you! It's been six years since we last saw each other, you know. And this is the first time I've visitedyour hometown. XL:Yes, I'm so glad you could come. JM:You kno

25、w, I've seen quite a lot of China and I've visited some beautiful cities, but this is one of the most attractive places I've been to. It's so lively, and everyone seems so friendly.XL: Yes, it's one of the most interesting cities on the coast,everyone says so. I feel very fortuna

26、te living here. And I love living by the seaside. JM:You live in the northwest of Xiamen, is that right?XL:Yes, that's right. JM:What's the climate like?XL:Pretty hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in the winter. JM:Sounds OK to me. There are a lot of tourists around. Don

27、9;t they bother you? 、XL:Yes, they can be a nuisance in the summer because there are so many of them.JM:Oh, look at that huge apartment block!XL:Yes, they've just completed it. The rent for an apartment there is very high. JM:I believe you! This area's so modern!XL:Yes, this is the business

28、district. They've put up a lot of high-rise buildings recently. And there are some great shopping malls. See, we're just passing one now. My wife's just bought a beautiful dress from one of the shops there. JM:Maybe I could buy a few presents there. XL:I'll take you there tomorrow. N

29、ow we're leaving the business district and approaching the harbour. We're entering the western district, the most interesting part of the city. It's got some really pretty parks .JM:It seems lovely. Is that Gulangyu Island, just across the water? XL:Yes, it is. It's a gorgeous island

30、 with some really interesting architecture. JM:So they tell me. Do you think we could stop and walk around for a while? XL:Yes, I was just going to do that. We can park over there. A friend's told me about a nice little fish restaurant near here. Shall we go there for lunch?JM:That sounds great.

31、 I'm starving! Moudle 5 A lesson in a Lab It is hard to think of a world without metals. Different metals have different uses, for example, steel is used in cars, and iron is used in electrical equipment. When we use metals, it is importantto know how they react with different substances, for ex

32、ample, water and oxygen. Moudle 6 The Internet and TelecommunicationsThe Internet is the biggest source of information in the world, and it's 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 comput

33、ers to "talk" to each other through the telephone. They created a network of computers 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 NSFNET became known as the Inter-Network, or "Internet". The World Wide Web (the web) is a computer network t