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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.
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 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 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 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
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,
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.
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
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
OWNER
HOSTESS
OWNER
CLEMENS
OWNER
CLEMENS
HOSTESS
CLEMENS
man.
OWNER
HOSTESS
him at once!
OWNER
HENRY
OWNER
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.
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 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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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