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1、Module 1 My First Day at Senior High My name is Li live in Shijiazhuang,a city not far from Beijing.Itis thecapitalcityof Hebei Province.Today ismyfirstdayatSeniorHighschoolandIm writingdownmythoughts about it.My new school is very good and I can see why.The teachers are very enthusiastic and friend
2、ly and the classroomsare amazing.Every room has a computerwith a specialscreen,almost as big as a cinema screen.The teachers write on the computer,and their words appear on the screen behind them.The screens also show photographs,text and information from websites.They re brilliant!The Englishclassi
3、s reallyinteresting.The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman called Ms Shen.We re using a new textbook and Ms Shens method of teachingis nothinglikethe teachersat myJuniorHigh school.She thinks that reading comprehension is important,but we speak a lot in class,too.And we have fun.I don t think I wi
4、llbe bored in MsShen s class!Today weintroducedourselvestoeachother.We didthisingroups.Some studentswereembarrassedat firstbut everyonewas very friendlyand itwasreally nice.Ms Shen gave us instructions and then we worked by ourselves.MsShen wants to help us improveour spellingandhandwriting.We do th
5、is in a fun way,with spelling games and otheractivities.Ilikeherattitudeverymuch,andthebehaviourof the otherstudentsshows thattheylikeher,too.There are sixty-five students in my class more than my previous class in Junior High.Forty-nine of them are girls.In other words,there are three times as many
6、 girls as boys.They say that girls are usually more hard-working than boys,but in this class,everyone is hard-working.For our homework tonight,we have to write a description of the street where welive.Im looking forward to doing it!My After-school Activities.As the students of modern times,we have c
7、olorful school life.Everyday,we learn plenty of knowledgeondifferentsubjectsinclass.And ourschoolorganizes many extracurricular activities in order to help us put what we have learned into practice.After class,we take part in variousactivities,likeplaying football,basketball,badminton,etc.They are g
8、ood for our health.Besides,we are abletojoininthelecturesorganizedbyliteratureassociation,music group,art group,where you can enjoy famousworks,learnto play instrumentsor draw pictures.Also,thereare chances forus to use computers in the laboratoryand talk with someforeignteachersaboutanythingwe are
9、interestedinat the English corner.Now,most of us may operate computers freely and have a good command of spoken English.In addition to the after-class activities mentioned here,there are still manyotherssuchassportsmeeting,debate,socialinvestigation,etc.All those activities make our school life attr
10、active and interesting.We will take advantages of the experience in the future.Moudle 2 My New Teachers They say thatfirstimpressionsare veryimportant.Myfirstimpressionof Mrs.Li was thatshe was nervousand shy.I thinkperhaps she was,as it was her first lesson with us.But now,aftertwo weeks,the classr
11、eallylikesworkingwith her.Sheskind and patient,and she explains English grammar so clearly that even I can understand it!She avoids making you feel stupid!Ivealwayshatedmakingmistakesorpronouncingawordincorrectly when I speak English,but Mrs.Li just smiles,so that you dont feel completely stupid!I t
12、hink maybe she goes a bit too slowly for the faster students,but for me its wonderful!I feel Im going to make progress with her.IdguessthatMrs.Chenisalmostsixty.Shesverystrictwedontdare to say a word unlessshe asks us to.Shesalso very seriousand doesntsmilemuch.When she asks you todo something,you d
13、o it immediately!There are a few students in our class who keep coming to class late but theyre always on time for Mrs.Chens lessons!Some of our class dont ike her,but most of us reallyappreciateher becauseher teachingis so well organised and clear.And a few students even admit likingher!Duringscien
14、tificexperiments,sheexplainsexactlywhat is happeningand as a resultmyworkis improving.Physics will never be my favourite lesson,but I think that Ill do well in the exam with Mrs Chen teaching me.Mr.Wu s only been teaching us for two weeks and hesalreadyverypopular.I thinkthisisbecausehe reallyenjoys
15、teachingChineseliterature-he lovesit,in fact!Hes gotso much energy,this is one class you do not fall asleep in!Hes about 28,I think,and is rather good-looking.He talks loudly and fast,and waves his hands about a lot when he gets excited.Hes really amusing and tells jokes when he thinks weregettingbo
16、red.Eventhingslikecompositionsandsummaries are fun with Mr.Wu.I respect him a lot.Module 3 My First Ride on a Train My nameisAliceThompson.I comefromSydney,AustraliaandIm 18 years old.Recently I had my first ride on a long-distance train.And what a ride!A friend and I traveled on the famous Ghan tra
17、in.We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs,right in the middle of Australia,more than fourthousandkilometersaway.Wespenttwo days and nightsonthe train.The train was wonderful and the food was great.We ate great meals cooked by experts!For the first few hundred kilometres of the journey,t
18、he scenery was very colourful.There were fieldsand the soilwas darkred.Afterthat,itwasdesert.The sun shone,therewasno wind and therewere no cloudsin the sky.Suddenly,itlookedlikea placefrom anothertime.We saw abandoned farms which were built more than a hundred yearsago.The trainwas comfortableand t
19、hepeoplewerenice.Duringthe day,I satand lookedout of the window,and sometimestalked to other passengers.I read books and listened to my Chinese cassettes(Im studying Chinese at school).One night,at about midnight,I watched the night sky for about an hour.The stars shone like diamonds.Why is the trai
20、n called the Ghan A long time ago,Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of the country.They triedridinghorses,but thehorsesdidntlikethe hot weatherand sand.Ahundredand fiftyyears ago,they brought some camels from Afghanistan.Ghan is shortforAfghanistan.Camels were much betterthanhorsesfor
21、travelling a long distance.For many years,trained camels carried food and other supplies,and returned with wool and otherproducts.The Afghansand theircamelsdid thisuntilthe1920s.Then the government built a new railway line,so they didntneed the camelsany more.In 1925,theypasseda law whichallowed peo
22、ple toshoottheanimalsifthey were a problem.In 1935,the police in a town shot 153 camels in one day.Moudle 4 A Social Survey My Neighbourhood XL:A lively city Its great to see you again,John.JM:Itsgreatto see you!Itsbeen sixyearssincewe lastsaweachother,youknow.AndthisisthefirsttimeIvevisitedyour hom
23、etown.XL:Yes,Im so glad you could come.JM:You know,Ive seen quite a lot of China and Ive visited some beautiful cities,but this is one of the most attractive places Ive been to.Its so lively,and everyone seems so friendly.XL:Yes,itsoneofthemostinterestingcitiesonthecoast,everyonesaysso.I feelvery fo
24、rtunatelivinghere.AndI love living by the seaside.JM:You live in the northwest of Xiamen,is that rightXL:Yes,thats right.JM:Whats the climate likeXL:Pretty hot and wet in the summer,but it can be quite cold in the winter.JM:Sounds OK to me.There are a lot of tourists around.Dont they bother you、XL:Y
25、es,theycan be a nuisancein the summerbecause there areso many of them.JM:Oh,look at that huge apartment block!XL:Yes,theyve just completed it.The rent for an apartment there is very high.JM:I believe you!This areas so modern!XL:Yes,this isthe business district.Theyve put up a lot ofhigh-risebuilding
26、srecently.And thereare somegreatshoppingmalls.See,were just passing one now.My wifes just bought a beautiful dress from one of the shops there.JM:Maybe I could buy a few presents there.XL:Illtakeyou theretomorrow.Nowwereleavingthe businessdistrictandapproachingtheharbour.Wereenteringthewestern distr
27、ict,the most interesting part of the city.Its got some really pretty parks.JM:It seems lovely.Is that Gulangyu Island,just across the waterXL:Yes,itis.Itsagorgeousislandwithsomereallyinteresting architecture.JM:So they tell me.Do you think we could stop and walk around for a while XL:Yes,I was just
28、going to do that.We can park over there.Afriendstoldmeabouta nice littlefishrestaurantnear here.Shall we go there for lunchJM:That sounds great.Im starving!Moudle 5 A lesson in a LabIt is hard to think of a world withoutmetals.Differentmetalshave different uses,for example,steel is used in cars,and
29、iron is used in electrical equipment.When we use metals,it is importantto know how they react with different substances,for example,water and oxygen.Moudle 6 The Internet and TelecommunicationsThe Internetis the biggestsource of informationin the world,and itsaccessiblethrough a computer.It consists
30、of millionsof pages of data.In 1969,DARPA,a.defence organisation,developeda way foralltheircomputersto talkto each otherthrough the telephone.They created a network of computers called DARPANET.For fifteen years,only the.army could use this system of communication.Then in 1984,the.National Science F
31、oundation(NSF)started the NSFNET network.It then became possible for universities to use the system as well.NSFNETNSFNETbecameknownas the Inter-Network,or Internet.The World Wide Web(the web)is a computer network thatallowscomputerusersto accessinformationfrom millionsof websitesvia the Internet.At
32、the moment,about80 percentof webtrafficis in English,but thispercentageis goingdown.By 2020,muchwebtrafficcould be in Chinese.The World Wide Webwas inventedin 1991 by an English scientist,Tim Berners-Lee.Berners-Leebuilt his first computer while he was at university using an old television!He came u
33、p with the idea of the World Wide Web in 1989 while he was working in Switzerland.Berners-Lee made itpossibleforeveryonetousetheInternet,notjustuniversitiesand the army.Hedesignedthe firstweb browser,which allowed computer users to access documents from other computers.From thatmomenton,the web and
34、the Internetgrew.Within five years,the number of Internet users rose from 600 000to40million.TheInternethascreatedthousandsofmillionaires,but Berners-Lee is not one of them.Everyone in the world can access the Internet using his World Wide Web system.He now works as a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.