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Module 1 Module 2

When I arrived, it was early morning and it was My favourite great book is the adventures of tom

raining. I got out of the car, went through a gate and walked sawyer by mark twain. Tom lives with his aunt Polly in the

along a path. In the east, the sky was becoming light, but

quiet streets of St Petersburg, Missouri. He’s a lively and

beside the path, it was still very dark. I knew it was there, clever young boy, and he finds himself in many exciting

but there was nothing to see. adventures. He runs away with his two friends, Huck Finn

After about a kilometer, a stranger appeared in front of and Joe, to an island in the middle of the Mississippi River

me. “Am I going the right way?” I asked. He knew where I

for days. With Huck he goes looking for treasure, with

was going. “yes,” he replied, “you’ll get there in five

Becky he gets lost in a cave, and finally, they find a box of

minutes.” Finally, I came to some rock, and stopped. I

gold.

looked carefully over them, but it was still too dark to see My favourite scene in the book is when everyone

anything. thinks Tom is dead. He decides to go to his own funeral. He

Suddenly, the clouds cleared and the rain stopped. hides and watches for a time, and then suddenly he appears.

The sun rose behind me and beyond the rocks. I saw that the

Everyone is surprised to see him but they’re also pleased to

ground fell away and down to a river, far below me. I was see him alive.

on the edge of the Grand Canyon, one of the wonders of the Tom is the hero of the story, but there are other

natural world. important characters. Huck is an outsider and everyone is

I looked down to the Colorado River about 2,000

afraid of him. Becky is pretty with fair hair, Joe is Tom’s

metres below me. If you put the three tallest buildings in the best friend, and Injun Joe is the bad man of the story.

world at the bottom of the canyon, they still won’t reach the

The themes of the story are to do with children

top. Then I looked across to the other side of the canyon. growing up and becoming more serious. It describes how

How far is it? It’s 20 kilometres, maybe more. Finally, I

strangers are seen in small towns of America. Finally, it talks

looked to my left and to my right, and on both sides the about freedom, social rules and how people are punished for

canyon disappeared into ver 400 kilometres bad behaviour.

long. The Grand Canyon is not just big. It’s huge!

Why do I think Tom Sawyer is a great book? Mark

That morning on the edge of the canyon, I asked

Twain wrote the story in 1876, but it’s still read and loved by

myself a question. It’s not “how deep is it? ” or “how wide is

people all over the world today. And although it’s only a

it? ”or “how long is it? ” but “Is the Grand Canyon the

story, Twain wrote it in the everyday English of the southern

greatest wonder anywhere in the natural world? ” I know the

states of America in the 19th century, so it sounds very real.

answer. But what do you think?

Today it’s thought to be one of the greatest books in

American literature. Go on---read it! I know you’ll enjoy it,

自然界最伟大的奇观

我到达的时候是一大早，天正在下雨。我走出汽车，

too.

名著：《汤姆·索亚历险记》

穿过一个门口，沿着一条小路前行。在东方，天空正在

我们每月关于最喜欢的名著的文章。这个月，我们

变亮，但路边仍然很黑。我知道，它就在那里，但什么

邀请的作家是杰克逊先生。

也看不见。

我最喜欢的名著是马克·吐温写的《汤姆·索亚历险

大约过了1000米，一个陌生人出现在我面前。我问：

。汤姆和他的波莉阿姨住在密苏里州圣彼得斯堡的僻

“我走的路对吗？他知道我要去哪里。他回答：“对，5分

记》

钟后你就会到那里。”最后，我来到一些岩石旁边停下。

静的街上。他是一个活泼聪明的小男孩，他发现自己陷

我仔细地从这些岩石上面看，但是天仍然太黑，我看不

入了许多令人兴奋的冒险之中。他和他的两个朋友哈

克·费恩和乔逃跑到密西西比河中部的一个岛上呆发许多

见任何东西。

突然，云散了，雨停了。太阳从我身后升起，它离

天。他和哈克去寻宝，和贝基在山洞之中迷路，最后，

那些岩石很远。我看见地面沉降到下面深谷中的一条河

他们找到了个盒金子。

书中我最喜欢的情景是当每个人都认为汤姆死了，

里，离我特别遥远。我站在自然界的奇观之一 ——大峡

他决定去参加他自己的葬礼。他藏起来看了一会儿，然

谷的边缘。

我俯视着距我大约2000米之遥的科罗拉多河。如果

后突然出现，每个人看到他都很惊讶，但是他们看到他

你把世界上最高的三座建筑物放在峡谷的底部，它们也

还活着也很高兴。

汤姆是故事里的主人，但是也有其他重要的角色，

不能达到顶部。然后，我眺望峡谷的另一边，它多远？

20000米或许更远。最后，我向左右遥望，在两边，大峡

哈克是一个局外人，但是每个人都怕他。贝基长着金发，

乔是故事里的

谷消失在远方……400多千米长。大峡谷不仅是大。它是

非常可爱。乔是汤姆最好的朋友，印第安·

坏人。

巨大！

故事的主题和孩子们的成长以及变得更加成熟稳重

那天早上在大峡谷的边缘，我问了自己一个问题。

它不是“它多深？”或者“它多宽？”或者“它多长？”而是

有关。它描述了在美国的小城镇陌生人是怎样被看见。

“大峡谷是自然界最伟大的奇观吗？”我知道答案。但是你

最后，它谈论自由，社会规章制度和人们是怎样因为做

坏事而被惩罚。

怎样认为？

为什么我认为《汤姆·索亚历险记》是名著？马克·吐

温是在1876年写的这个故事，但它今天仍被全世界的人

们阅读和喜爱。虽然它仅仅是个故事，但是马克·吐温用

19世纪美国南部各州的日常英语写成，所以它听起来非

常真实。今天它被认为是美国文学中最伟大的著作之一。

去读它吧，我知道你会喜欢它的。

Module 3

For liu Xiang, life as a sporting hero has just begun.

First of all, he’ll be invited to competitions around the world.

He’ll be chosen to represent China at the Olympic Games.

He’s a symbol of China’s international sporting success.

And now that he’s well known all over the world, liu

Xiang will also be asked to appear in advertisements and

films, and even to record music. But his coach Sun Haiping

is making sure that he trains regularly. Liu Xiang will be

advised by his coach how to be a great sportsman, and by his

manager how to be a star.

Liu Xiang is not an overnight success. He was born

in Shanghai on July 13, 1983 and like many Olympic sports

stars, he stared training when he was very young. In Grade

Four, he went to the Junior Sports School of Putuo District

of Shanghai. Liu was encouraged at first to train as a high

jumper. Then, in 1998,his skill at hurdling was noticed by

his coach Sun Haiping.

Liu Xiang was helped by a special programme. It

was set up in 2001 to help young sportsmen and

sportswomen. Liu’s races were recorded, and his

performance was compared with the world’s best sports stars.

Sun Haiping used the information to change Liu’s training

programme. In 2002 he won his first international 110m

hurdles event in Switzerland, and in the same year, a gold

medal at the Asia Games in Korea. In 2004, Liu won the

first Olympic gold medal in the same event for China in

Athens, Greece.

So what’s next for Liu Xiang? Has he found out that

there’s more to life than training? Will he be encouraged to

spend more time away form sport?

No, Liu Xiang will go for more medals for China

because he was trained for gold!

刘翔——训练夺金 2004年体育年鉴

对刘翔来说，作为体育英雄的生活刚刚开始。首先，

他将被邀请去世界各地参加比赛。他将被推选代表中国

参加奥运会。他是中国国际体育成功的象征。

现在，由于刘翔已经世界闻名了，他还会被邀请做

广告、拍电影、甚至录唱片。但是，她的教练孙海平正

确保他又规律地训练。刘翔被教练建议如何成为一名优

秀运动员，被经纪人建议如何成为明星。

刘翔并不是一夜成名。他于1983年7月13日出生

于上海，想许多奥林匹克体育明星一样，当他很小时就

开始训练了。在四年级的时候，他去了上海普陀区初级

体校。起初，教练支持刘翔练跳高。后来在1998年，他

在跨栏方面的技能引起了教练孙海平的注意。

刘翔被一个特别的项目所帮助。这个项目建于2001

年，用来帮助年轻运动员。刘翔的比赛被记录下来，把

他的成绩与世界最好的体育明星作比较。孙海平用这些

信息来改变刘翔的训练计划。在2000年，他们在瑞士赢

得了他的第一次国际110米栏的比赛。同年，他在韩国

亚运会上获得金牌。在2004，在希腊雅典他为中国赢得

了这个项目的第一块奥运金牌。

那么，对刘翔来说，下一步会是什么？他发现对生

活而言，有比训练更多的东西吗？他会被鼓励在体育之

外花费更多的时间吗？

不，刘翔会为中国争取更多的奖牌，因为，他为夺

金而训练。

Module 4

Every morning my father buys a newspaper on his way

to work. Every day I open my books in class and start my

lessons. Every evening my mother looks through magazines

at home. And every night, I look at the posters with photos

of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall

before I go to sleep. Can we imagine life without paper or

print?

Paper was first created about 2,000 years ago, and

has been made of silk, cotton, bamboo, and, since the 19th

century, of wood. People learned to write words on paper to

make a book. But in those days, books could only be

produced one at a time by hand. As a result, they were

expensive and rare. And because there weren’t many books,

few people learned to read.

Then printing was invented in China. The first

printed books were made by putting ink against a wooden

block and holding the paper against it. When printing was

developed greatly at the beginning of the 11th century,

books could be produced more quickly and cheaply. As a

result, more people learned to read. After that, knowledge

and ideas spread quickly, in a way that can be compared

with the introduction of the Internet in the 20th century.

But will books be needed in the future? Today

information can be received online, downloaded from the

Internet rather than found in books, and information can be

kept on CD-ROMs or machines such as MP3 players. These

machines are smaller and lighter than books so that they can

be carried very easily.

Computers are already used in classrooms, and

newspapers and magazines can already be read online. So

will books be replaced by computers one day? No, I don’t

think the Yao Ming poster on my bedroom wall will ever be

replaced by a computer two metres high!

书会被电脑代替吗？

每天早上我爸爸在去上班的路上买一份报纸。每天

我在课堂上打开书，开始学习我的功课。每天傍晚，我

妈妈在家翻阅杂志。每天晚上在入睡之前，我看卧室墙

上有大卫.贝克汉姆和姚明照片的海报。我们能想像汲有

纸或者印刷品的生活吗？

纸最早约2000年前被制造。它由丝、棉、竹子制造，

自从19世纪开始，用木头制造。人们学着在纸上写字，

做成书。但在那个年代，依靠手工，一次只能制作一本

将。所以，他们非常昂贵，非常稀少。因为没有很多书，

很少有人学着读书。

印刷术是中国发明的。最初印刷的书是把墨水涂在

木块的反殖面，把纸反扣在木块上。在11世纪初，印刷

术有大的发展时，书能够更快、更便宜地被制作出来。

结果是，更多的人学着读书。在那之后，知识和思想迅

速传播开来，其速度之快，可与20世纪因特网的引入相

媲美。

但是，将来还需要书吗？如今，信息可以从网上接

收、从因特网下载，而不必到书中去寻找，信息可以被

保存在光盘或音像MP3播放器里那样的机器中。这些机

器比书更小、耿轻，为的是携带方便。

电脑已经在教室中使用，报纸和杂志已经能够在网

上阅读。所以，有一天，书会被电脑取代？不，我认为

墙上姚明的海报决不会被一台两米高的电脑取代！