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普通高中课程标准实验教科书《英语》电子课本
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.
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
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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 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.
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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 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.
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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! 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
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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 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,
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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 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 a strong wind.
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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 he
won his bet. He said he
had walked all the way
though not always on the road!
B3U3P21&22
Reading and acting
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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
HENRY
WAITER
HENRY
HOSTESS
OWNER
HENRY
WAITER
HENRY
WAITER
OWNER
WAITER
HENRY
WAITER
OWNER
HENRY
OWNER
customers.
HENRY
OWNER
HOSTESS
OWNER
CLEMENS
OWNER
CLEMENS
HOSTESS
(seeing Henry’s poor appearance)
That’s one’s reserved. This way, please.
(to the waiter) take this gentleman’s order,
Horace.
(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.
it’ll cost a tiny bit.
I understand. And
I’ll have a nice glass of beer. (the waiter leaves
foe the kitchen)
my goodness! He eats like a
wolf.
we’ll see if he’s clever as a wolf, eh?
(having just finished every bit of food) Ah,
waiter. (waiter returns) same things
again,
please. Oh, and another beer.
Again,
everything?
Yes, that’s right. (sees the look
on the waiter’s face) Anything wrong?
(to the
restaurant owner) He’s asked for more of the same.
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.
(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.
would you mind waiting just a few
minutes?
(in a rude manner) what’s there to
wait for?
all right, Horace, I’ll take care
of this.
(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.
Yes, very
interesting. Now perhaps if you pay the bill I can
help the other
(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.
(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 to her mouth).
oh, dear, I
don’t know. I simply don’t know. Ask Mr. Clemens.
(the owner goes to a
gentleman sitting near
the window)
Mr. Clemens, Mr. Clemens! Could
you –er- look at this? (hands him the bank–note)
do you think it’s genuine?
(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.
Why not?
People
will give too much attention to a bank-note of
this amount. No thief would
want that to
happen.
(joining them) But look at the owner,
Mr. Clemens. He’s in rags.
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CLEMENS
man.
OWNER
HOSTESS
him at once!
OWNER
HENRY
OWNER
Hmm, yes. I see. Well, I
can only say that he must be a very strange but
very rich
(as if he has discovered something
for the first time) Why, yes! That must be it!
(hit her husband’s arm) And you put him in the
back of the restaurant! Go and see
I’m so
sorry, sir, so sorry, but I cannot change this
bank-note.
But it’s all I have on me.
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.
Well, that’s very kind of you.
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!
I may not return for some time.
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.
Forget it? Well … thank you very
much. That’s very nice of you.
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)
HENRY
OWNER
HENRY
OWNER
HENRY
OWNER
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 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.
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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 .
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
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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. 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
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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. is the spaceship 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,
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. cheered up
immediately 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.
mass
will be less than on the earth because the moon is
smaller and I will be able to move more
freely. I might even grow taller if I stay
here long enough. I shall certainly weigh
less!
and climbed down the steps from the
spaceship. But when I tried to step forward I
found I was
carried twice as far as on the
earth and fell over.
practice now that gravity
has changed.
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.
That was
very exhausting but very exciting too,I exclaimed.
I know much more about
gravity!
would you
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
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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 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
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.
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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 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
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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 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
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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:
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