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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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.)
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OWNER
HENRY
(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.
WAITER
HENRY
the kitchen)
HOSTESS
OWNER
HENRY
it’ll cost a tiny bit.
I
understand. And I’ll have a nice glass of beer.
(the waiter leaves foe
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.
WAITER
HENRY
WAITER
OWNER
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.
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
WAITER
would you mind waiting just a few
minutes?
(in a rude manner) what’s there to
wait for?
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OWNER
HENRY
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.
OWNER Yes,
very interesting. Now perhaps if you pay the bill
I can help the
other customers.
HENRY
(looking at the clock on the wall) Well, I see
it’s two o’clock. (he opens
the letter and
holds a million pound bank-note in his hands.
Henry is
surprised but the owner and the
waiter are shocked, and nervous) I’
m very
sorry. But … I ... I … I don’t have anything
smaller.
OWNER (still shocked and nervous)
Well, er- er-just one moment. Maggie, look!
(the hostess screams, the other customs look
at her and she put a hand
to her mouth).
HOSTESS oh, dear, I don’t know. I simply don’t
know. Ask Mr. Clemens. (the
owner goes to a
gentleman sitting near the window)
OWNER Mr.
Clemens, Mr. Clemens! Could you –er- look at this?
(hands him the
bank–note) do you think it’s
genuine?
CLEMENS (looking at it very
carefully) Two notes in this amount have been
issued
by the Bank of England this year. Any
way, it can’t be fake.
OWNER
CLEMENS
Why not?
People will give too much
attention to a bank-note of this amount. No
thief would want that to happen.
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HOSTESS
CLEMENS
(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 man.
OWNER
must be it!
HOSTESS (hit her husband’s arm) And you put
him in the back of the restaurant!
(as if he
has discovered something for the first time) Why,
yes! That
Go and see him at once!
OWNER
HENRY
OWNER
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.
HENRY
OWNER
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!
HENRY
OWNER
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.
HENRY
OWNER
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)
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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
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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 .
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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.
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happy ? There are not enough words in the
biggest dictionary to describe it . Did the
people of London have a good time with
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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
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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
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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
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lessened and I was able to
talk to him.
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,
at
all. When we get closer to the moon, we shall feel
its gravity pulling us but it will
not be as
strong a pull as the earth's. 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.
are right, my 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!I laughed 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.
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.
very exciting too,
think we could
visit some stars next time?course,he smiled, star
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.”
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“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
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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.
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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
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