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Book 3
Unit 1
Festivals around the world
B3U1P1-3
FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS
Ancient
Festivals
Festivals and celebrations of all
kinds are held everywhere. The most ancient
festivals would celebrate the end of the cold
weather, planting in spring and harvest
in
autumn. Other celebrations were held when hunters
could catch animals. They would
starve if food
was difficult to find, so they celebrated when
they had food. They
lit fires and made music
because they thought these festivals would bring a
year
of plenty.
Festivals of the Dead
Some festivals are held to honour the dead, or
satisfy and please the ancestors,
who could
return either to help or to do harm. In Japan the
festival is called Obon,
when people should go
to clean the graves and light incense in memory of
their
ancestors. They light lamps and play
music because they think that this will lead
the ancestors back to earth. In Mexico they
have the Day of the Dead in early November.
On
this important feast day, people might eat food in
shape of skulls, and cakes
with “bones” on
them. They offer food, flowers and gifts to the
dead. The festival
of Halloween had its origin
as an event in memory of the dead. It is now a
children’s
festival, when they can go to their
neighbours’ homes and ask for sweets. They dress
up and try to frighten people. If they are not
given anything, the children might
play a
trick.
Festivals to Honour People
Festivals can be held as an honour to famous
people or to the gods. One of these
is the
Dragon Boat Festival in China, which honours the
famous ancient poet, Qu Yuan.
Another is
Columbus Day in the USA, in memory of the arrival
of Christopher Columbus
in America. In India
there is a national festival on October 2 to
honour Mahatma
Gandhi, the leader who helped
gain India’s independence from Britain.
Harvest Festivals
Harvest and Thanksgiving
festivals can be very happy events. People are
grateful
because their food is gathered for
the winter ,and because a season of agricultural
work is over. In European countries it is the
custom to decorate churches and town
halls
with flowers and fruit, and people get together to
have meals. Some people
might win awards for
their animals, flowers, fruits and vegetables,
like the biggest
watermelon or the most
handsome rooster. In China and Japan there are
mid-autumn
festivals, when people admire the
moon and give gift of mooncakes.
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Spring
Festivals
The most energetic and important
festivals are the ones that look forward to the
end of winter and to the coming of spring. At
the Spring Festival in China, people
eat
dumplings, fish and meat, and may give children
lucky money in the red paper.
There are dragon
dances and carnivals, and families celebrate the
lunar New Year
together. In some Western
countries there are very exciting carnivals, which
take
place forty days before Easter, usually
in February. They might include parades,
dancing in the streets day and night, loud
music and colourful clothing of all kinds.
Easter is an important religious and social
festival in Christian countries. It
celebrates
the return of Jesus for Christians and it also
celebrates the coming of
spring. In Japan, the
Cherry Blossom Festival happens a little later.
The country
is covered with cherry tree
flowers so that it looks as though it might be
covered
with pink snow.
People love to get
together to eat, drink and have fun with each
others. Festivals
let us enjoy life, be proud
of our customs and forget our daily life for a
little
while.
B3U1P4
We think
it has always been the custom for people to have
festivals. They are a
time to enjoy each
other’s company and have fun with our friends. We
think that
long ago people looked forward to
the celebrations. Our ancestors would sit round
a fire and cook plenty of meat to eat. Then
they would be satisfied with their
festival.
B3U1P7
A SAD LOVE STORY
Li Fang
was heart-broken. It was Valentine’s Day and Hu
Jin had said she would meet
him at the coffee
shop after work. But she didn’t turn up. She could
be with her
friends right now laughing at him.
She said she would be there at seven o’clock,
and he thought she would keep her word. He had
looked forward to meeting her all
day, and now
he was alone with his roses and chocolates, like a
fool. Well, he was
not going to hold his
breath for her apologise. He would drown his
sadness in coffee.
It was obvious that the
manager of the coffee shop was waiting for Li Fang
to leave
－he wiped the tables, then sat down
and turned on the TV－just what Li Fang needed!
A sad Chinese story about lost love.
The
seventh daughter of the Goddess of Heaven visited
the earth. Her name was Zhinu,
the weaving
girl, and she was the most lovely of the
daughters. While she was on
earth she met the
herd boy Niulang and they fell in love. (“Just
like me and Hu
Jin, ”thought Li Fang.) They
got married secretly, and they were very happy.
(“We
could be like that, ” thought Li Fang.)
When the Goddess of Heaven knew that her
daughter was married to a human, she became
very angry and made the weaving girl
return to
Heaven. Niulang tried to follow her, but the river
of stars, the Milky
Way, stopped him. Finding
that Zhinu was heart-broken, her mother finally
decided
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to let the couple cross the Milky Way to meet
once a year. This happens when the
stars Vega
and Altair meet in the Heaven. Magpies make a
bridge of their wings so
the couple can cross
the river to meet on the seventh lunar month.
people in China
hope that the weather will be
fine on that day, because if it is raining, it
means
that Zhinu is weeping and the couple
won’t be able to meet.
The announcer said,
“this is the story of Qiqiaojie. When foreigners
hear about
the story, they call it a Chinese
Valentine’s story. It’s a fine day today, so
I
hope you can all meet the one you love.’’
As Li Fang set off for home, he thought, “I guess
Hu Jin doesn’t love me. I’ll
just throw these
flowers and chocolates away. I don’t want them to
remind me of
her.’’ So he did.
As he
sadly passed the tea shop on the corner on his way
home, he heard a voice
calling him. There was
Hu Jin waving at him and calling, “Why are you so
late? I’ve
been waiting for you for a long
time! And I have a gift for you!”
What
would he do? He had thrown away her Valentine
gifts! She would never forgive
him. This would
not be a happy Valentine’s Day!
B3U1P44&45
Winter carnival in Quebec
We are sitting in a café in old Quebec,
drinking hot coffee to try to warm up. The
temperature is 32 degrees below freezing. The
windows are covered with steam from
the heat
inside. Outside, the snow covers the streets and
is piled up along the
sidewalks and in parking
lots. The music and lights of the carnival
continue, but
we have been watching the
parades, riding in horse carriages and listening
to the
music all day. Our feet are freezing
and our noses are red.
Quebec carnival is the
biggest winter festival in the world – every year,
hundreds of thousands of people come to Quebec
to take part in a week of activities.
If you
come, you must be prepared to keep moving, as it
is too cold to stand and
watch for long.
Early in the morning, you can watch the
snowboarding competitions on the hill
overlooking the river. The competitions speed
down the track and through the air
though they
could fly.
If you are brave enough, you can
try the canoe race. Five or six men paddle in
each canoe across the great St Lawrence River,
which is partly frozen. Of course,
the river
is full of big pieces of ice, and if you were to
fall in, you would freeze
in less than two
minutes.
One of the favourite events is the
dog-sled race, in which teams of about 6 Husky
dogs pull long sleds at great speeds along a
snowy track. One person runs behind
the sled,
shouting to the dogs to encourage them. The sound
of the dogs barking,
the calls of the drivers
and the shouts of the crowd make an exciting
Northern
experience. The dogs are beautiful
strong animals, with long, thick fur. Many of
them have blue eyes.
After admiring the
ice sculptures everywhere in the city, much like
those in
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Harbin in China, you can have a cup of tae or
coffee in an igloo. It is amazing how
warm
these ice houses can be!
Late in the evening,
you can go to the snow palace, where Bonhomme the
snowman
is king, and join the crowd. You can
dance outside to the music of a band, who are
all dressed in heavy clothes – even some of
their instruments are dressed up for
winter.
Finally we sit down in our café to warm up and
to plan tomorrow – perhaps we’ll
join the
snowmobile races – or perhaps we’ll just sleep in.
Book 3 Unit 2 Healthy eating
B3U2P10
COME AND EAT HERE (1)
Wang Peiwei sat in
his empty restaurant feeling very frustrated. It
had been
a very strange morning. Usually he
got up early and prepared his menu of mutton
kebabs,
roast pork and fried rice. Then by
lunchtime they would all be sold. His restaurant
ought to be full of people. But not today! Why
was it so? What could have happened?
He
thought of his mutton kebabs and fatty pork cooked
in the hottest, finest oil.
His fried rice was
hot but did not taste of fat. His cola was sugary
and cold and
his ice cream was made of eggs,
milk, cream and fruit. “Nothing could have been
better,” he thought. Suddenly he saw his
friend Li Maochang hurrying by. “Hello,
Maochang,”he called, “Your usual?” But
Maochang seemed not to hear. What was the
matter? Something terrible must have happened
if Maochang was not coming to eat with
him as
he always did.
Pengwei followed Li Maochang
into a newly-opened small restaurant at the end
of the street. There was a sign in the window.
Tired of all that fat? Want to be thinner?
Come inside to Yong Hui’s slimming restaurant.
Only slimming foods served here.
Make
yourself thin again.
Curiosity drove Wang
Pengwei inside. It was full of people. A very thin
lady
came forward. “Welcome!” she said, “My
name is Yong Hui.I will take all that fat
off
you in two weeks if you eat here every day.” Then
she gave a menu to Wang Peiwei.
There were
only two kinds of food and one drink on it: raw
vegetables, fruit and
water. Wang Peiwei was
amazed at this and especially at the prices. It
cost more
than a good meal in his own
restaurant. He could not believe his eyes! He
threw away
the menu and hurried outside. On
his way home he thought about his own menu. Did
it make people fat? He wondered if he should
go to the library to find out. He
couldn’t
have Yong Hui getting away with telling people
lies! He had better do some
research!
After reading, he realised what was wrong with
Yong Hui’s restaurant. It was
not giving its
customers energy-giving food! After eating in her
restaurant people
would become tired very
quickly. Perhaps this was a way to win his
customers back!
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Peng Wei wrote
his own sign. It said:
Want to feel fit?
Come and eat here!
Our food gives you
energy all day!
The competition between the
two restaurants was on!
B3U2P12
Daisy wished to be ＿＿＿so that she could wear
all the latest, cool clothes designed
for the
young. She decided to do some ＿＿＿into what foods
should be eaten to become
thinner. She learned
that one of the ＿＿＿of not eating enough was to
become very
tired quickly. When she went to
the doctor, he told her she could be thinner as
well
as healthy if she ate more vegetables
like beans,＿＿＿ and ＿＿＿.So she did. She
felt
very fit when she started eating more ＿＿＿ foods as
well as her usual energy
–giving foods. She
even began to enjoy eating all the vegetables＿＿＿
rather than
cooked. She soon looked like a
model!
B3U2P14&P15
COME AND EAT HERE
(2)
The next day Wang Pengwei’s restaurant was
nearly full and he felt happier. Perhaps
he
would be able to earn his living after all and not
have to close his restaurant.
He did not look
forward to being in debt because his restaurant
was no longer popular.
He smiled .But the
smile left his face when he saw Yong Hui walking
in. She did not
look happy but glared at him
as she moved round the customers. “May I ask what
you
were doing in my restaurant yesterday? I
thought you were a new customer and now
I find
you came only to spy on me and my menu,” she
shouted. “Please excuse me,”
he calmly
explained,“I wanted to know where all my customers
had gone yesterday.
I followed one of them and
found them in your restaurant. I don’t want to
upset
you but I found your menu so limited
that I stopped worrying and started advertising
the benefits of my food. Why don’t you sit
down and try a meal?”
Yong Hui agreed to
stay and soon they were both enjoying the
dumplings, fatty
pork and cola.
When they
were served the ice cream Yong Hui began to look
ill. “I feel sick with
all this fat and heavy
food,”she said,“I miss my vegetables and
fruit.”Wang Pengwei
was just enjoying a second
plate of dumplings so he sighed.“yes,”he
added,“and
I would miss my dumplings and fatty
pork. But don’t you tired quickly?” “Well,
now
you mention it. I do have to rest a lot, ”
admitted Yong Hui. “But don’t you think it
would be better if you were a bit
thinner?”
she asked Wang Pengwei. “I’m sure you would feel
much healthier.”
They began chatting about
menus and balanced diets. “My research has shown
me
that neither your restaurant nor mine
offers a balanced diet,”explained Pengwei,
“I
don’t offer enough fibre and you don’t offer
enough body–building or energy
–giving foods.
Perhaps we ought to combine our menus and provide
a balanced menu
with foods full of energy and
fibre. ”So that is what they did ,They served raw
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vegetables with the hamburgers and boiled the
potatoes rather than fried them .Then
they
served fresh fruit with ice cream. In this way
they cut down the fat and increased
the fibre
in the meal. Their balanced menus became such a
success that before long
Wang Pengwei became
slimmer and Yong Hui heavier. After some time the
found that
their business cooperation had
turned into a personal one .Finally they got
married
and lived happily ever after!
B3U2P52-53
THE TOWN HAS TO DECIDE
(At the meeting that evening there are two
speakers: one for and one against building
a
McDonald’s restaurant.)
FOR BUILDING A
MCDONALD’S
I was excited when I heard that our
community(社区) was to have its own McDonald’s
restaurant. I thought about all those young
people who would not have to go to the
next
town to buy their favourite burgers and chips.
McDonald’s cares about healthy
eating too and
works with scientists to provide food that is of
high quality,safe
and healthy. It is also
cheap .They often provide salads as well as
burgers and chips.
You can also choose between
cola and milk shakes(奶昔). Of course it also means
more
work for our area that needs jobs badly.
McDonald’s say they are interested in doing
what is right for the community and being a
good neighbour. So I think they will
be
concerned about providing parking for the cars in
our main street. Many of our
young people will
be only too happy to work for it. They make a
promise to the people
that work for them. They
say,“We value you, your growing skills and your
help to
the company.”I can see nothing but
good if this company comes to build its restaurant
in our town.
AGAINST BUILDING A MCDONALD’S
I am very worried about McDonald’s building a
restaurant in our hometown. We are
a small
community and we enjoy our local dishes. I am not
sure if McDonald’s food
is as healthy as they
say in their advertisements. When scientists look
at it
carefully they find high levels of fat,
sugar and salt. This is very worrying. Too
many young people are getting fat through
eating too much fatty food. McDonald’s
is not
giving young people a good idea of what a healthy
diet should be. Local Chinese
food ,on the
other hand, is full of fresh vegetables and fresh
meat and fish. The
food at a McDonald’s
restaurant is always the same so I wonder if it is
made or
brought in from elsewhere. Although it
is freshly cooked ,it must be less healthy
than our own locally grown and cooked Chinese
food.
I also worry about all those cars
bringing people to buy food in McDonald’s.
First, there would be petrol fumes(气体),which
would make our clean air dirty. Second,
there’s the problem of all those cars that try
to park and prevent other cars from
moving
quickly through our town. Third, what will happen
to all the food containers
if people decide to
eat on the side of the road just out of town? Will
they just
throw them on the ground?
I’m
sure many young people would be happy to work for
McDonald’s but will they
be treated
fairly(公平地)？In American, McDonald’s does not allow
Unions to operate
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in its
restaurants and these are people who speak up for
the workers. If ,as they
say, the workers are
happy with them why should they fear some workers
joining a
Union?
So when I consider the
food, the cars and the jobs, I think we should not
allow
McDonald’s to build their restaurant in
our town.
Book 3 Unit 3 The Million Pound
Bank-note
B3U3P17-18
ACT ONE
Note: Scenes 1 and 2 are provided in the
Teacher’s Book.
Scene 3
NARRATOR Now
ladies and gentlemen , you’re about to hear the
most incredible tale.
It is the summer of
1903, and Henry Adams, an American business, has
had some very
bad luck. He is lost in London.
He has no money and does not know what he should
do. Walking down the street, he hears someone
calling him.
RODERICK Young man, would you
step inside a moment, please?
HENRY Who?
Me, sir?
RODERICK Yes, you.
OLIVER
Through the front door on your left.
HENRY
(a servant opens the door for him) Thanks.
SERVANT Good morning, sir, would you please
come in? Permit meto lead the
way ,sir.
OLIVER Thank you, James. That will be all.
RODERICK How do you do, Mister－er－?
HENRY
Adams, Henry Adams.
OLIVER Come and sit
down, Mr Adams.
HENRY Thank you.
RODERICK You’re an American?
HENRY
That’s right, from San Francisco.
RODERICK
How well do you know London
HENRY Not at
all. It’s my first trip here.
RODERICK I
wonder, Mr Adams, if you’d mind us asking a few
questions.
HENRY Go right ahead.
RODERICK May we ask what you’re doing in this
country and what your plans are?
HENRY
Well, I can’t say that I have any plans. I’m
hoping to find work. As
a matter of fact, I
landed in Britian by accident.
OLIVER How
is that possible?
HENRY Well, you see,
back home I had my own boat. About a month ago I
was sailing
out of the bay－(his eyes stare at
what is left of the brother’s dinner on the table)
RODERICK Well, go on.
HENRY Oh, yes.
Well, towards nightfall I found myself carried out
to sea by
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a strong wind. I did not know whether I could
survive until morning. The next morning
I’d
just about given myself up for lost when I was
spotted by a ship.
OLIVER And it was the
ship that bought you to England.
HENRY I
earned my passage by working as an unpaid hand,
which accounts for my
appearance. (the
brothers smile at each other)
RODERICK Well,
you mustn’t worry about that. It’s an advantage.
HENRY I’m afraid I don’t quite follow
you, sir.
RODERICK Tell us, Mr Adams, what
sort of work did you do in America?
HENRY
I worked for a mining company. Could you offer me
some kind of work here?
RODERICK Patience, Mr
Adams. If you don’t mind, may I ask you how much
money you
have?
HENRY Well, to be
honest, I have none.
OLIVER (happily) What
luck! Brother, what luck!(claps his hands
together)
HENRY Well, it may seem lucky
to you but not to me. If this is your idea of
some kind of joke, I don’t think it’s very
funny. (Henry stands up to leave)Now,
if
you’ll excuse me, I think I’ll be on my way.
RODERICK Please don’t go, Mr mustn’t think
we don’t care about you.
Oliver, give him the
letter.
OLIVER Yes, the letter.(gets it
from a desk and gives it to Henry like a gift)
The letter.
HENRY (taking it
carefully) For me?
RODERICK For you. (Henry
starts to open to it) Oh, no, you mustn’t open it.
Not
yet. You can’t open it until two two
o’clock.
HENRY Oh, this is silly.
RODERICK Not silly. There’s money in it.
(calls to the servant) James.
HENRY Oh,
no, I don’t want your charity. I just want an
honest job.
RODERICK We know you’re hard-
working. That’s why we’ve given you the letter.
James, show Mr Adams out.
OLIVER Good
luck, Mr Adams.
HENRY Well, why don’t you
explain what this is all about?
RODERICK
You’ll soon know. In exactly an hour and a half.
SERVANT This way, sir.
RODERICK Mr
Adams, not until 2 o’clock. Promise?
HENRY
Promise. Good-bye.
B3U3p20
One day
my uncle told me a about a man who made a
that he would be
able to walk to the foot of a
mountain by .The mountain was over 100
kilometres
away from his home so people were
happy to take the bet because they thought it was
that anybody could walk so far in one day. But
they did not realise that the man
had a plan
ready. He got his
to drive a large truck
which would meet him on the road as if . The
truck would
give the man a ride and he would
continue to pretend to walk as the truck moved
along.
In this way the man made his at
the foot of the mountain before nightfall and
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he won his
bet. He said he had walked all the way though not
always on the road!
B3U3P21&22
Reading and acting
Act one, Scene 4
(Outside a restaurant Henry looks at the
envelope with the letter and decides to
go in.
He sits down at a table next to the front
windows.)
OWNER (seeing Henry’s poor
appearance)
That’s one’s reserved.
This way, please.
(to the waiter)
take this gentleman’s order, Horace.
HENRY
(after sitting down and putting the letter on the
table) I’d like some
ham and eggs and a nice
big steak. And make it extra thick.
WAITER
it’ll cost a tiny bit.
HENRY I understand.
And I’ll have a nice glass of beer. (the waiter
leaves foe
the kitchen)
HOSTESS my
goodness! He eats like a wolf.
OWNER we’ll
see if he’s clever as a wolf, eh?
HENRY
(having just finished every bit of food) Ah,
waiter. (waiter returns)
same things again,
please. Oh, and another beer.
WAITER
Again, everything?
HENRY Yes, that’s right.
(sees the look on the waiter’s face) Anything
wrong?
WAITER (to the restaurant owner)
He’s asked for more of the same.
OWNER it is
well-known that many Americans like to eat a lot.
Well, we have
to take a chance. Go ahead and
let him have it.
WAITER (reading the bill
after the meal) all right. That’s two orders of
ham
and eggs, two extra thick steaks, two tall
glasses of beer, two cups
of coffee and two
desserts.
HENRY would you mind waiting just
a few minutes?
WAITER (in a rude manner)
what’s there to wait for?
OWNER all right,
Horace, I’ll take care of this.
HENRY (to
owner) That was a wonderful meal. It’s amazing how
much pleasure
you get out of the simple things
in life, especially if you can’t have
them for
a while.
OWNER Yes, very interesting. Now
perhaps if you pay the bill I can help the
other customers.
HENRY (looking at the
clock on the wall) Well, I see it’s two o’clock.
(he
opens the letter and holds a million pound
bank-note in his hands. Henry
is surprised but
the owner and the waiter are shocked, and nervous)
I’m very sorry. But … I ... I … I don’t have
anything smaller.
OWNER (still shocked and
nervous) Well, er- er-just one moment. Maggie,
look!
(the hostess screams, the other customs
look at her and she put a hand
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to her mouth).
HOSTESS oh, dear, I don’t know. I simply don’t
know. Ask Mr. Clemens. (the
owner goes to a
gentleman sitting near the window)
OWNER Mr.
Clemens, Mr. Clemens! Could you –er- look at this?
(hands him the
bank–note) do you think it’s
genuine?
CLEMENS (looking at it very
carefully) Two notes in this amount have been
issued
by the Bank of England this year. Any
way, it can’t be fake.
OWNER Why not?
CLEMENS People will give too much attention to
a bank-note of this amount. No
thief would
want that to happen.
HOSTESS (joining them)
But look at the owner, Mr. Clemens. He’s in rags.
CLEMENS Hmm, yes. I see. Well, I can only say
that he must be a very strange but
very rich
man.
OWNER (as if he has discovered
something for the first time) Why, yes! That
must be it!
HOSTESS (hit her husband’s
arm) And you put him in the back of the
restaurant! Go
and see him at once!
OWNER
I’m so sorry, sir, so sorry, but I cannot change
this bank-note.
HENRY But it’s all I have on
me.
OWNER Oh, please, don’t worry, sir.
Doesn’t matter at all. We are so very
glad
that you even entered our little eating place.
Indeed, sir, I trust
that you’ll come here
whenever you like.
HENRY Well, that’s very
kind of you.
OWNER Kind, sir? No, it’s kind
of you, sir. You must come whenever you want
and have whatever you like. Just having you
sit here is a great honour!
HENRY I may not
return for some time.
OWNER It would be wrong
of me not trust a gentleman such as yourself, sir,
(now the other customs are watching them) even
if you do dress in a rather
unusual way. As
for the bill, sir, please forget it.
HENRY
Forget it? Well … thank you very much. That’s very
nice of you.
OWNER Oh, it’s for us to thank
you, sir and I do, sir, from my heart. (the
owner, hostess and waiter all bow together as
Henry leaves)
B3U3P23
ABOUT MARK TWAIN
Mark Twain was born in Florida and spent his
boyhood in Hannibal,Missouri,along the
Mississippi River. Three of his most famous
books describe people on this great river.
They are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Life
on the
Mississippi. Indeed, this author loved the river
so much that even his pen
name is about the
river. “Twain” is an old word for “two.” So, to
“mark twain,”
is to say that the water is two
fathoms deep. A fathom is equal to six feet or
1.83
metres. Twain left school at school at
the age of twelve to look for work. Over the
next two decades he was a printer, a riverboat
pilot, a soldier, a good miner, a
businessman
and a newspaper reporter. His first successful
story was about a jumping
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frog contest.
His writing became famous for its description of
common people and
the way they talked, but
especially for his humour. He became rich from the
many
novels, short stories and travel journals
he wrote and was very popular at public
readings. Yale and Oxford Universities
honoured him for his writing. However, the
last years of his life were filled with sad
events, loneliness and the loss of much
money.
His writing lost most of its humour and became sad
like him. Yet he is still
one of the most
popular writers in the world today.
B3U3P59—60
ACT TWO
Scene 4
NARRATOR At the end of month, Henry was very
rich and didn’t fear jail. Dressed
in the
finest clothes, he drove by the brothers’ house in
Portland Place and, seeing
they were back,
went to get Portia at her friend’s home.
HENRY
My dear, the way you look today, it would be a
crime not to ask for a good
salary for the job
they’ll give to me.
PORTIA Oh , please
remember that if we ask for too much we may get no
salary
at all; and then what’ll happen to us,
with no way in the world to earn a living?
(at
the brothers’ home , the servant lets them in. The
two brother are
seated ,waiting )
HENRY
Good morning, gentlemen. (Roderick seems very
surprised to see Portia )
Portia ,these are
the men who helped me .
PORTIA So very
nice to meet you, kind sirs . ( she gives Oliver a
wink of the
eye )
RODERICK Er…Portia
,I---
OLIVER We’re both glad to hear it ,
for now we can decide the bet which Roderick
and I made .If you’ve won for me ,you shall
have any job as my gift . Have you got
the
million pound bank-note ?
HENRY I’ve won!
Now what do you say , Roderick ?
RODERICK I
say that I’ve lost twenty thousand pounds .I never
would have believed
it. Why, that is amazing,
man!
HENRY Come, let’s be going now,
Portia .
OLIVER But wait, wait! The job,
you know .I must give you a job, as I promised.
HENRY Well, thank you very much, but I
really don’t want one now.
PORTIA Henry,
I’m disappointed in you . You didn’t thank the
gentlemen
properly . May I do it for you ?
HENRY Let me see you try.
(Portia walks over to Roderick and gives him a
hug. Then she sits in Oliver’s lap,
puts her
arms around his neck and kisses him on the cheek .
Oliver begins laughing.)
PORTIA Papa, he
says he doesn’t want anything else from you .
HENRY (shocked)My dear ,is that your
papa?!
PORTIA He’s my stepfather ,and the
dearest one that ever was .
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HENRY Oh,
my dearest dear sir , I regret what I said . You
have got a job open
that I want .
OLIVER
Name it.
HENRY Son-in law.
OLIVER
Well , well, well! But you’ve never had such a job
before .How can I
be sure you can do it
successfully?
HENRY Try me—oh ,do . I
beg of you ! Give me 30or 40 years ,and—
OLIVER Oh ,well ,all right.
NARRATOR
Are Portia and Henry happy ? There are not enough
words in the biggest
dictionary to describe it
. Did the people of London have a good time with
this bit
of news ? Yes . Portia’s stepfather
took that friendly bank-note back to the Bank
of England and cashed . The bank-note was then
useless for money but was his wedding
gift to
the young couple .Yes , the bank-note was worth
millions of dollars , but
not worth one-tenth
as much as how Henry felt about Portia .
Book 3 Unit 4 Astronomy: the science of the
stars
B3U4P25-26
HOW LIFE BEGAN ON
THE EARTH
After the “Big Bang ”, the earth was
just a cloud of energetic dust. What
it was to
become was a mystery until the dust began to
slowly combine into a ball
moving around the
sun. The problem was that the earth became violent
because it was
not clear whether the solid
shape was to last or not. It exploded loudly with
fire
and rock, which in time to produce the
water vapour, carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen
and other gases, which were to make the
earth’s atmosphere. As the earth cooled
down,
water began to appear on its surface. Nobody knew
that it was going to be
different from other
planets going round the sun. water had already
disappeared from
planets like Mars or
satellites like the moon, but it stayed on the
earth. This is
how the earth began to show its
special qualities. Many people think this was
important for the beginning of life. It
allowed the earth to dissolve harmful gases,
which had become part of the earth’s
atmosphere, into oceans and seas. That made
it
possible for life to begin to develop.
What
scientists think is that the earth was different
because of the arrival
of small plants growing
in the water on its surface. Nobody understood
that these
plants were the start of many
changes. They multiplied and filled the first
oceans
and seas with oxygen. This encouraged
the development of early shellfish and all
sorts of fish.
Many millions of years
later the first green plants began to appear on
land.
Scientists believe that taking carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere and filling the
air with oxygen helped life to develop. Later
land animals appeared. Some were
insects.
Others, called amphibians, were able to live on
and as well as in the sea.
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When the
plants grew into forests, reptiles appeared for
the first time. They
produced young generally
by laying eggs. Later, some huge animals, called
dinosaurs,
developed. They laid eggs too. They
became the most important animals on the earth
for millions of years. But when they
disappeared, mammals became more important.
They were the last group of animals and they
were different because they produced
their
young from within their bodies.
Small clever
animals, now with hands and feet, appeared and
spread all over
the earth. They developed new
methods of growing food, hunting and moving
around.
As time went by they covered the earth
and have become the most important animals
on
the planet. But they are not taking care of the
earth very well. They are putting
too much
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which prevents
heat from escaping from
the earth into space.
The earth may become too hot for the lives on it.
Whether life
will continue on the earth for
millions of years to come will depend on whether
this
problem can be solved.
B3U4P28
My friend Li Yanping was really
very interested in__.
He liked to watch
changes in the moon, the only natural satellite of
the earth through
his telescope. One evening
he thought he saw a huge comet__ as it hit the
moon. The__
of the moon produced a lot of dust
that became__ like a large ball. It seemed as
if it would multiply and become a new__. Li
Yanping thought He was seeing the__ of
the
universe until he noticed some dirt on his
telescope! He was very disappointed.
B3U4P30-31
A VISIT TO THE MOON
Last
month I was lucky enough to have a chance to make
a trip into space with my
friend Li Yanping,
an astronomer. We visited the moon in our
spaceship!
Before we left ,Li Yanping
explained to me that the force of gravity would
change
three times on our journey and that the
first change would be the most powerful.
Then
we were off. As the rocket rose slowly into the
air we began to feel the pull
of the earth,
which is what we call gravity. At first it pushed
us so hard back into
our seats that we could
not say anything to each other. Gradually the
weight lessened
and I was able to talk to him.
not falling back to the earth?
On the earth if
I fall from a tree I will fall to the ground.
far
from the earth now to feel its
pull,
gravity at all. When we get closer to the
moon, we shall feel its gravity pulling
us but
it will not be as strong a pull as the earth's.
and floated weightlessly around in our
spaceship cabin watching the earth become
smaller and the moon larger.
When we
got there, I wanted to explore immediately.
are right, my mass will be less than on the
earth because the moon is smaller and
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I will be able
to move more freely. I might even grow taller if I
stay here long
enough. I shall certainly weigh
less!
the spaceship. But when I tried to step
forward I found I was carried twice as far
as
on the earth and fell over. dear,I cried, does
need a bit of practice
now that gravity has
changed.
enjoy ourselves.
Leaving the
moon's gravity was not as painful as leaving the
earth's. But
returning to the earth was very
frightening. We watched, amazed as fire broke out
on the outside of the spaceship as the earth's
gravity increased. Again we were pushed
hard
into our seats as we came back to
land.
exciting too,
could visit some stars
next time?
like to go to?
B3U4P64
Where do we come from
“Where do we come
from? How did the universe begin? Why is the
universe the way
is? How will it end? All my
life, I have been attracted by the big question
that
face us, and have tired to find
scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have
looked at the stars, and tired to make sense
of what you see, you will also have
started to
wonder why the universe exists. The questions are
clear and simple. But
the answers have always
seemed well beyond our reach, until now.
“The
idea which had grown over two thousand year of
observation have had to be
revised. In less
than a hundred years, we have found a new way
think of ourselves.
From sitting at the centre
of the universe, we now find ourselves moving
around an
average-sized sun, which is just one
of millions of the stars in our own Milky Way
galaxy. And our galaxy itself is just one of
billions of galaxies, in a universe
that is
infinite and expanding. But this is far from the
end of a long history of
inquiry. Huge
question remain to be answered, before we can hope
to have a complete
picture of the universe we
live in.
“I want you to share my excitement at
the discoveries, past and present, which
have
revolutionized the way we think. From the Big Bang
to black holes, from dark
matter to a possible
Big Crunch, our image of the universe today is
full of strange
sounding ideas, and remarkable
truths. The story of how we arrive at this picture
is the story of learning to understand what we
see.”
B3U4P66
Caught in a black hole
The spaceship warned Li Yanping and me to be
ready as we were approaching(靠近)the
“black
hole”. There seemed to be a large circle of lights
going round an empty
space. Li Yanping called
out, “That empty hole is like a mouth always
needing to
be fed. The lights are large stars
being slowly sucked(吸吮)into it.” We watched
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in shock and
amazement as a large sun suddenly disappeared into
the hole. Just then
the lights on our
spaceship went out and the computer stopped
working. What was
happening? I tried to turn
the spaceship away from the hole but it would not
move.
Would it eat us too?
Suddenly the
spaceship jumped and began to move round the edge
of the outside of
the hole. The gravity of the
“black hole” was pulling us slowly into its
“mouth”.
As the spaceship moved round the
hole, it began to go faster and faster. I felt
sick.
My watch moved slower and slower and
time seemed almost to stop. My mouth went dry
and I closed my eyes. All the stories about
what happened when you were caught by
the
gravity of a “black hole” seemed to be true.
But then the spaceship jumped again. This time it
moved sideways from the “black
hole. It began
to increase its speed until it seemed to be going
as fast as light.
I was bumped (撞开)and banged
(猛击)as the spaceship flew like a bird away from
the
“black hole”. What was happening? At last
we slowed almost to a stop and we were
able to
look around us. The sky certainly looked different
but this would not be
a problem as the
computer started working again. We realized that
we had discovered
something new about “black
holes”. They “eat” some objects but “spit” other
objects out. How exciting!
B3U4P66&68
Going into space
Scientist spends two
years training to mend the space telescope
Li
Yanping, the great astronomer, always wanted to
work in space. So he was trained
to be repairs
on spaceships and telescopes. He had to learn how
to use the tools
safely and how to walk in
space. He was lucky enough to be chosen to repair
the Hubble
space telescope. He learned how to
clean it on the earth and practised a lot. Then
he went up in a spaceship to the telescope. He
did a good job and the telescope works
fine.
He is very happy in his work!
Book 3 Unit 5
Canada—“The True North”
B3U5P34—35
A trip on “the true north”
Li Daiyu
and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada
to visit their cousins
on her Atlantic coast.
Rather than take the aeroplane all the way, they
decided to
fly from China to Vancouver and to
take the train from west to east across Canada
in September. The idea that they would cross
the whole continent was exciting.
Their
cousins’ friend, Danny Lin, was waiting for them
at the airport. He was
going to take them to
the train station to catch “The True North” the
cross-Canada
train. On the way to the station,
he told them, “You’re going to see great scenery
on your trip. Canada is bigger than the United
States. It is the second biggest
country in
the world and as you go eastward, you will see
mountains, and pass
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thousands of
lakes, forests and wide rivers as well as cities.
The idea that you
can cross Canada in less
than five days is just wrong. It is 5500
kilometres from
coast to coast. Here in
Vancouver, you are in the warmest part of Canada.
Many people
think it is the most beautiful
city in Canada, as it is surrounded by mountains
on
the north and east and the Pacific Ocean on
the west. Its population is increasing
very
rapidly, because people from the rest of Canada
and those from many Asian
countries want to
live here. They can ski in the Rocky Mountains and
sail in the
harbour. On the coast north of
Vancouver some of the oldest and most beautiful
forests
in the world still remain. It is so
wet there that the trees are extremely tall.”
That afternoon in the train the cousins settled
down in their seats. They crossed
the Rocky
Mountains earlier that day and looked out of the
windows at the wild scenery.
They saw mountain
goats and even a grizzly bear. Their next stop
would be Calgary.
The Calgary Stampede is a
famous Western festival. Cowboys come from all
over North
America to compete in riding wild
horses. Many of them have a gift for working with
animals and they can win thousands of dollars
in prizes.
Two days later they began to
realize that Canada is quite empty. Most Canadians
live within 320 kilometres of the USA border,
and in fact, the population of Canada
is only
slightly over thirty million. They went through a
wheat-growing province
and saw farms that were
thousands of square kilometres in size. After
dinner, the
cousins arrived in Thunder Bay.
This city is at the top and end of the Great
Lakes,
and it is a very busy port, although it
is close to the centre of the country. The
fact that ocean ships can go there surprises
many people. Canada has one-third of
the
world’s fresh water, and much of it is in the five
Great Lakes. There is more
fresh water in
Canada than in any other country in the world.
That night, they slept the train rushed
through the night across the top of Lake
Superior, through the great forests and
southward towards Toronto.
B3U5P38&39
“THE TRUE NORTH” FROM
TORONTO TO MONTREAL
The next morning the
maple trees outside their windows were red and
gold and orange,
and there was frost on the
ground----fall had arrived in Canada.
Around
noon they arrived in Toronto, the most wealthy and
biggest city in Canada.
They were not leaving
for Montreal until later, so they went on a tour
of the city.
They went up the tall CN Tower,
and looked across the lake. In the distance, they
could see the misty cloud that rose from the
great Niagara Falls, which is on the
south
side of the lake. The water flows into the Niagara
River and over the falls
on its way to the
sea.
They saw the covered stadium, home of
several famous basketball teams. As they walked
north from the harbour area, Li Daiyu said,
“One of my mother’s friends lives here.
I
should phone her from a telephone booth.”
The
cousins were invented to have dinner in downtown
Chinatown, one of the three
in Toronto. Lin
Tao, who had moved to Canada many years earlier,
met them at The
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Pink Pearl and
said, “We can get good Cantonese food here,
because most of the
Chinese people here come
from South China , especially Hong Kong .It’s too
bad you
can’t go as far as Ottawa, Canada’s
capital. It’s about four hundred kilometres
northeast of Toronto, so it would take too
long.”
The train left late that night and
arrived in Montreal at dawn the next morning.
At the train station, people everywhere were
speaking French. There were signs and
ads in
French, but some of them had English words in
smaller letters. “We don’t
leave until this
evening ,”said Liu Qian. “Let’s go downtown .Old
Montreal is
close to the water.” They spent
the afternoon in the lovely shops and visiting the
artists in their workplaces beside the water.
As they sat in a café looking over
the broad
St Lawrence River, a young man sat down with them.
“Hello, my name is
Henri, and I’m a student at
the university here,” he said, “and I was
wondering
where you are from.” The girl told
him they were on a train trip across Canada and
that they had only one day in Montreal.
“That’s too bad,” he said, “Montreal
is a city
with wonderful restaurants and clubs. Most of us
speak both English and
French ,but the city
has a French culture. We love good coffee, good
bread and good
music.”
That night as the
train was speeding along the St Lawrence River
toward the Gulf
of St Lawrence and down to the
East Coast ,the cousins dreamed of French
restaurants
and red maple leaves.
B3U5P73
IQALUIT –THE FROZEN TOWN
The
reporter, Beth Allen, arrived in a northern
community called Iqaluit in
Nunavut. Nunavut.
Nunavut was created in 1999 as a special area for
Inuit people.
Its name means “Our Land” in
their language. It is in the farthest northeastern
area of Canada, north of the Arctic Circle,
and is very cold--the average winter
temperature in Nunavut is –35 degrees.
Beth said, “I knew it would be cold in January,
but not this cold! Maybe there
is a dog sled
here that can take me into town.”
The quiet
men who had been on the plane with her said, “I
will take you into town,
but I do not have a
dog sled. Most people only use the dogs for
competitions. Why
are you visiting Iqaluit?”
Beth answered, “I’m writing a story for my
newspaper about Iqaluit—we’d like
to advertise
it as a holiday place, but I think it’s too cold.”
The man laughed. “My name is Simon and I am
Inuit,” he said. “I think it’s
too far north
here for holidays but more and more tourists are
coming. They like
ice fishing and
photographing polar bears. I stay as far away from
polar bears as
possible. I like my warm office
and my warm house.”
Beth asked, “What do you
do in an office? Don’t you hunt animals for a
living?
I thought you lived in ice houses.”
“I’m a business man. My grandfather would
live in ice houses when he hunted in
winter,
but not so many people do that now. The old men
used to make one in a few
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hours. They
used to live in skin tents in summer—the tents
were easy to move so
the people could follow
the animals.”
A few minutes later they
arrived in Iqaluid, a town with a population of
6000,on
Simon’s snowmobile. It was two o’clock
in the afternoon, but it was already dark,
and
all the houses shone with bright lights. Beth
said, “Why is it so dark? It’s
the middle of
the day!”
Simon replied, “It’s dark in the
day because we are so far north. You should
come in June. The sun shines all night in the
north then. That’s why it’s called
‘The Land
Of the Midnight Sun’.”
There were people on
the streets and snowmobiles everywhere. There were
even a
few dog teams.
B3learningtip
Book 3 Learning tip
B3Unit1
Collect
information about festivals and events around the
world from CCTV
International and newspapers.
In this way you can increase your vocabulary and
knowledge. To find out what festivals there
are in different countries, it is better
to
look in an encyclopedia and then search the
Internet for more information.
Remember that
the information on the Internet may not be correct
so always check
it
B3Unit2
When you
buy items in packets or tins, you need to look at
the side of the packet
or tin. It will tell
you how much energy-giving good, body-building
food and fibre
there is in your tin or packet.
You will also learn more words and expressions
connected with food. You can use this
information to help you have a healthier diet
as increase your vocabulary.
B3Unit3
Try writing a play so you can practise your oral
English. Get together with your
friends
classmates and write dialogues for a short play.
It can be about anything
of interest to all of
you. Everyone should have a part or role to speak.
You can use one of the reading passages from
your textbook to make a short play.
And acting
out the play will help improve your pronunciation.
B3Unit4
Use encyclopedias and the
Internet to find out more about space. Try to
discover
how many plants there are round our
sun and how many satellites they each have. Make
notes in journal or diary and watch the news
to add interesting new ideas on space.
Look
into the sky at night and try to find out the
names of some of the stars.
B3Unit5
Knowing some prefixes and suffixes can help guess
the meaning of words. Prefixes
are small
groups of words to give them different meanings.
Suffixes are groups of letters placed after a
word its modify meaning or change it
into a
different part of speech.
Examples:
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You can put
the prefix
multi—
in front of many words
to give them the meaning of
“many”.
multicultural multimedia
multichannel multinational
You can
change some adjectives into adverbs by adding the
suffix
--ly
slightly extremely
officially broadly