外研社高中英語必修1-8課文原文(翻譯)

1、必修一 必修一Module 1 My First Day at Senior HighMy name is Li Kang. I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not far from Beijing. It is the capital city of Hebei Province. Today is my first day at Senior High school and I’m writing d

2、own my thoughts about it. My new school is very good and I can see why. The teachers are very enthusiastic and friendly and the classrooms are amazing. Every room has a computer with a special screen, almost as big as a

3、 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 English class is really

4、interesting. The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman called Ms Shen. We’re using a new textbook and Ms Shen’s method of teaching is nothing like the teachers at my Junior High school. She thinks that reading comprehensi

5、on is important, but we speak a lot in class, too. And we have fun. I don’t think I will be bored in Ms Shen’s class! Today we introduced ourselves to each other. We did this in groups. Some students were embarrassed at

6、first but everyone was very friendly and it was really nice. Ms Shen gave us instructions and then we worked by ourselves. Ms Shen wants to help us improve our spelling and handwriting. We do this in a fun way, with spel

7、ling games and other activities. I like her attitude very much, and the behaviour of the other students shows that they like her, too. There are sixty-five students in my class — more than my previous class in Junior Hig

8、h. Forty-nine of them are girls. In other words, there are three times as many 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 ton

9、ight, we have to write a description of the street where we live. I’m looking forward to doing it! My After-school Activities .As the students of modern times, we have colorful school life. Everyday, we learn plenty of k

10、nowledge on different subjects in class. And our school organizes many extracurricular activities in order to help us put what we have learned into practice. After class, we take part in various activities, like playing

11、football, basketball, badminton, etc. They are good for our health. Besides, we are able to join in the lectures organized by literature association, music group, art group, where you can enjoy famous works, learn to pla

12、y instruments or draw pictures. Also, there are chances for us to use computers in the laboratory and talk with some foreign teachers about anything we are interested in at the English corner. Now, most of us may operate

13、 computers freely and have a good command of spoken English. In addition to the after-class activities mentioned here, there are still many others such as sports meeting, debate, social investigation, etc. All those acti

14、vities make our school life attractive and interesting. We will take advantages of the experience in the future. Module 3 My First Ride on a Train 我的首次火車之旅 My name is Alice Thompson. I come from Sydney, Australia and I’m

15、 18 years old. 我是愛麗絲·湯普森。我來自澳大利亞的悉尼,今年18歲。 Recently I had my first ride on a long-distance train. And what a ride! A friend and I traveled on the famous Ghan train. 近來我進行了首次遠程火車之旅。真是太棒了! 我和一位朋友乘坐的是有名的阿富汗火車。 We got o

16、n in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs, right in the middle of Australia, more than four thousand kilometers away. 我們在悉尼上車, 在澳大利亞中部的艾麗普林斯下車,行程四千多公里。 We spent two days and nights on the train. 整個旅程花費了我們兩天兩夜。 The trai

17、n was wonderful and the food was great. We ate great meals cooked by experts! 坐火車很舒服而且車上的食物也很可口。我們吃的美味飯菜是烹飪大師們做的。 For the first few hundred kilometres of the journey, the scenery was very colourful. 在旅程開始的幾百公里, 風景優(yōu)美。 Th

18、ere were fields and the soil was dark red. 有成片的田野,那里的土壤是深紅色。 After that, it was desert. The sun shone, there was no wind and there were no clouds in the sky. 接著是沙漠。艷陽高照,沒有風而且晴空萬里。 Suddenly, it looked like a place from an

19、other time. We saw abandoned farms which were built more than a hundred years ago. 可是接著,時空像是突然發(fā)生了轉變。映入眼簾的是建造于一百多年前一些廢棄的農莊。 The train was comfortable and the people were nice. 火車很舒服而且車上的人也都很友好。 During the day, I sat and l

20、ooked out of the window, and sometimes talked to other passengers. 白天,我坐著看窗外,有時和別的旅客說說話。 I read books and listened to my Chinese cassettes (I'm studying Chinese at school). 我看書, 聽著漢語錄音帶(我在學校學漢語)。 One night,at about m

21、idnight, I watched the night sky for about an hour. The stars shone like diamonds. 一天晚上, 大約是在半夜,差不多有整整一個小時我都在注視著夜晚的天空。星星像鉆石一樣眨著眼。 Why is the train called the Ghan? A long time ago, Australians needed a way to travel to t

22、he middle of the country. 為什么火車叫阿富汗號？很久以前,澳大利亞人到國家中部地區(qū)有很長一段路程。 They tried riding horses, but the horses didn't like the hot weather and sand. 他們試著騎馬,但那些馬不喜歡炎熱的天氣和沙漠。 A hundred and fifty years ago, they brought some

23、camels from Afghanistan. Ghan is short for Afghanistan. 一百五十年前, 他們從阿富汗帶入了一些駱駝。Ghan 是阿富汗的縮寫。 Camels were much better than horses for travelling a long distance. 作長途旅行,駱駝比馬匹強多了。 For many years, trained camels carried food

24、and other supplies, and returned with wool and other products. 多年來, 經(jīng)過訓練的駱駝馱運食物及其他用品, 返回時還帶著羊毛和其他產品。 The Afghans and their camels did this until the 1920s. 直到二十世紀二十年代,阿富汗人和他們的駱駝還在做著這樣的工作。 Then the government built a new

25、railway line, so they didn't need the camels any more. 那時政府建了一條新的鐵路線,所以阿富汗人不再需要駱駝了 In 1925,they passed a law which allowed people to shoot the animals if they were a problem. 在1925年, 他們通過了法律,如果它們引發(fā)問題，允許人們射殺駱駝。 In 193