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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.
HENRY
WAITER
(to the waiter) take
this gentleman’s order, Horace.
(after
sitting down and putting the letter on the table)
I’d like some ham and eggs and a nice big
steak. And make it extra thick.
it’ll
cost a tiny bit.
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
HENRY
WAITER
HENRY
OWNER
WAITER
HENRY
WAITER
we’ll see if he’s clever as a
wolf, eh?
(having just finished every bit of
food) Ah, waiter. (waiter returns) same things
again, please.
Oh, and another beer.
Again, everything?
Yes, that’s right.
(sees the look on the waiter’s face) Anything
wrong?
(to the restaurant owner) He’s asked
for more of the same.
it is well-known that
many Americans like to eat a lot. Well, we have to
take a chance. Go
ahead and let him have it.
(reading the bill after the meal) all right.
That’s two orders of ham and eggs, two extra thick
steaks, two tall glasses of beer, two cups of
coffee and two desserts.
would you mind
waiting just a few minutes?
(in a rude manner)
what’s there to wait for?
all right, Horace,
I’ll take care of this.
(to owner) That was a
wonderful meal. It’s amazing how much pleasure you
get out of the
simple things in life,
especially if you can’t have them for a while.
OWNER
HENRY
Yes, very interesting.
Now perhaps if you pay the bill I can help the
other customers.
(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
HOSTESS
OWNER
CLEMENS
OWNER
CLEMENS
(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.
HOSTESS
(joining them) But look at the owner, Mr. Clemens.
He’s in rags.
CLEMENS Hmm, yes. I see. Well,
I can only say that he must be a very strange but
very rich man.
OWNER
OWNER
HENRY
OWNER
(as if he has discovered
something for the first time) Why, yes! That must
be it!
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.
HOSTESS (hit her husband’s
arm) And you put him in the back of the
restaurant! Go and see him at once!
WAITER
OWNER
HENRY
HENRY
OWNER
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!
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)
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.
the ground.
from the earth now to feel
its pull,
to the moon, we shall feel its
gravity pulling us but it will not be as strong a
pull as the earth's.
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.
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!
spaceship. But when I tried to step
forward I found I was carried twice as far as on
the earth and fell over.
dear,
of it and we
began to enjoy ourselves.
Leaving the
moon's gravity was not as painful as leaving the
earth's. But returning to the earth was very
frightening. We watched, amazed as fire broke
out on the outside of the spaceship as the earth's
gravity
increased. Again we were pushed hard
into our seats as we came back to
land.
very exciting too,
next
time?
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