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1、unit 1anne s best frienddo you want a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your deepest feelings and thoughts? or are you afraid that your friend would laugh at you, or would not understand what you are going through? anne frank wanted the first kind, so she made her diary her best friend.
2、anne lived in amsterdam in the netherlands during world war ii. her family was jewish so theyhad to hide or they would be caught by the german nazis. she and her family hid away for nearly twenty-fivemonths before they were discovered. duringthat time the only true friend was her diary. she said, “i
3、 don t want to set down a series of facts in a diary as most people do, but i wantthis diary itself to be my friend, and i shall call my friend kitty. ”now read how she felt afterbeing in the hiding place since july 1942. thursday 15 th june, 1942dear kitty,i wondered if it is because i haven t been
4、 able to be outdoors for so long that ive grown so crazy about everything to do with nature. i can well remember that there was a time when a deep bluesky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound. that schanged since i came here. for example, one evening when
5、 it was so warm, i stayed awake on purpose untilhalf past eleven in order to have a good look at the moon by myself. but as the moon gave far too muchlight, i didn t dare to open a window. another time five months ago, i happened to be upstairs at dusk when the window was open. i didn t go downstair
6、s until the window had to be shut. the dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me entirely in their power; it was the first time in a year and a half that i d seen the night face to face sadly i am only able to look at nature through dirty curtains hanging before very dustywindows.
10、with each other. at first, the english spoken in england between about ad 450 and 1150 was very different from the english spoken today. it was based more on german than the english we speak at present. then gradually between about ad 800 and 1150, english became less like german because those who r
18、 mountains of the eastern usa speak with an older kind of english dialect. when americans moved from one place to another, they took their dialects with them. so people from the mountains in the southeastern usa speak with almost the same dialect aspeople in the northwestern usa. the usa is a large
20、ng a great bike trip. two years ago she bought an expensive mountain bike and then she persuaded me to buy one. last year, she visited our cousins, dao wei and yu hang at their college in kunming. they are dai and grew up in western yunnan province near the lancang river, the chinese part of the riv
21、er that is called the mekong river in other countries. wang wei soon got them interested in cycling too. after graduating from college, we finally gotthe chance to take a bike trip. i asked my sister,“where are we going? ”it was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the entire mekong river
22、 from where it begins to where it ends. now she is planning our schedule for the trip.i am fond of my sister but she has one serious shortcoming. she can be really stubborn. although she didnt know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that she organize the trip properly. now i know that t
23、he proper way is always her way. i kept asking her, “when are we leaving and when are we coming back?”i asked herwhether she had looked at a map yet. of course she hadn t; my sister doesn t care about details. so i told her thatthe source of the mekong is in qinghai province. she gave me a determine
25、l months before our trip, wang wei and i went to the library. we found a large atlas with good maps that showed details of world geography. from the atlas we could see that the mekong river begins in a glacier on a mountain in qinghai province. at first the river is small and the water is clear and
28、eady beginning to fall in tibet. our legs were so heavy and cold that they felt like blocks of ice. have you ever seen snowmen ride bicycles? that s what we looked like! along the way children dressed in long wool coats stopped to look at us. in the late afternoon we found it was so cold that our wa
29、ter bottles froze. however, the lakes shone like glass in the setting sun and looked wonderful. wang wei rode in front of me as usual. she is very reliable and i knew i didnt need to encourage her. to climb the mountains was hard work but as we looked around us, we were surprised by the view. we see
30、med to be able to see for miles. at one point we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through clouds. then we began going down the hills. it was great fun especially as it gradually became much warmer. in the valleys colourful butterflies flew aroundus and we saw many yaks and sheep eating g
33、. we can hardly wait to see them!unit 4 a night the earth didnt sleepstrange things were happening in the countryside of northeast hebei. for three days the water in the village wells rose and fell. farmers noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in them. a smelly gas came out of the fields look
34、ing for places to hide. fish jumped out of their bowls and ponds. at about 3:00 am on july 28, 1976, some people saw bright lights in the sky. the sound of planes could be heard outside the city of tangshan even when no planes were in the sky. in the city, the water pipes in some buildings cracked a
36、n. it was felt in beijing, which is more than two hundred kilometres away. one-third of the nation feltit. a huge crack that was eight kilometres long and thirty metres wide cut across houses, roads andcanals. steam burst from holes in the ground. hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. in fifteen
38、 looked nearly everythingwas destroyed. all of the city s hospital, 75 of its factories and buildings and 90 of its homes were gone. bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves. no wind, however, could blow them away. two dams fell and most of the bridges also fell or were not safe for travelli
39、ng. therailway tracks were now useless pieces of steel. tens of thousands of cows would never give milk again. half a million pigs and millions of chickens were dead. sand now filled the wells instead of water. people were shocked. then, later that afternoon, another big quake which was almost as st
41、d. the army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead. to the north of the city, most of the 10,000 miners were rescued from the coal mines there. workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. fresh water was taken to the city by train, truck and p
43、. he offered guidance to poor black people on their legal problems. he was generous with his time, for which i was grateful.i needed his help because i had very little education. i began school at six. the school where i studied for only two years was three kilometres away. i had to leave because my
44、 family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus fare. i could not read or write well. after trying hard, i got a job in a gold mine. however, this was atime when one had got to have a passbook to live in johannesburg. sadly i did not have one because i was not bornthere, and i worried
46、d it as soon as i could. he said:“the last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all.”it was the truth. black people could not vote or choose their leaders. they could not get the job
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