外研版高中英语课文文本（精编版）

1、外研版高中英语课文文本LT外研版高中英语课文文本必修一Module 1My 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 down my thoughts about it. My new school is very good and I can see why. The teachers

2、are very enthusiastic and friendly and the classrooms are amazing. Every room has a computer with aspecial screen, 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 webs

3、ites. They're brilliant! The English class is really 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 that of the teachers at my Junior High school. She thinks that reading comprehension is i

4、mportant, but we speak a lot in class, too. And we have fun. I don't think I willbe bored in Ms Shen's class! Today we introduced ourselves to each other. We did this in groups. Some students were embarrassed at first but everyone was very friendly and it was really nice. Ms Shen gave us ins

5、tructions 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 spelling 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 stud

6、ents in my classmore than my previous class in JuniorHigh. 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 tonight, we have to write a

7、 description of the street where we live. I'm looking forward to doing it!Module 2They say that first impressions are very important. My first impression of Mrs. Li was that she was nervous and shy. I think perhaps she was, as it was her first lesson with us. But now, after two weeks, the class

8、really likes working with her. She's kind and patient, and she explains English grammar so clearly that even I can understand it!She avoids making you feel stupid! I've always hated making mistakes or pronouncing a word incorrectly when I speak English, but Mrs. Li just smiles, so that you d

9、on't feel completely stupid! I think maybe she goes a bit too slowly for the faster students, but for me it's wonderful! I feel I'm going to make progress with her.I'd guess that Mrs. Chen is almost sixty. She's very strict we don't dare to say a word unless she asks us to. S

10、he's also very serious and doesn't smile much.When she asks you to do something, you do it immediately! There are a few students in our class who keep coming to class late but they're always on time for Mrs. Chen's lessons! Some of our class don't like her, but most of us really

11、appreciate her because her teaching is so well organised and clear. And a few students even admit liking her! During scientificJOHN MARTIN: It's great to see you! It's been six years since we last saw each other, you know. And this is the first time I've visited your hometown.XIAO LI: Ye

12、s, I'm so glad you could come.JOHN MARTIN: You know, I've seen quite a lot of China and I've visited some beautiful cities, but this is one of the most attractive places I've been to. It's so lively, and everyone seems so friendly.XIAO LI: Yes, it's one of the most interestin

13、g cities on the coast, everyone says so. I feel very fortunate living here. And I love living by the seaside.JOHN MARTIN: You live in the northwest of Xiamen, is that right?XIAO LI: Yes, that's right.JOHN MARTIN: What's the climate like?XIAO LI: Pretty hot and wet in the summer, but it can b

14、e quite cold in the winter.JOHN MARTIN: Sounds OK to me. There are a lot of tourists around. Don't they bother you?XIAO LI: Yes, they can be a nuisance in the summer because there are so many of them.JOHN MARTIN: Oh, look at that huge apartment block!XIAO LI: Yes, they've just completed it.

15、The rent for an apartment there is very high.JOHN MARTIN: I believe you! This area's so modern!XIAO LI: Yes, this is the business district. They've put up a lot of high-rise buildings recently. And thereare some great shopping malls. See, we're just passing one now. My wife's just bo

16、ught a beautiful dress from one of the shops there.JOHN MARTIN: Maybe I could buy a few presents there.XIAO LI: I'll take you there tomorrow. Now we're leaving the business district and approaching the harbour. We're entering the western district, the most interesting part of the city. I

17、t's got some really pretty parks .JOHN MARTIN: It seems lovely. Is that Gulangyu Island, just across the water?XIAO LI: Yes, it is. It's a gorgeous island with some really interesting architecture.JOHN MARTIN: So they tell me. Do you think we could stop and walk around for a while?XIAO LI: Y

18、es, I was just going to do that. We can park over there. A friend's told me about a nice littlefish restaurant near here. Shall we go there for lunch? JOHN MARTIN: That sounds great. I'm starving!Module 5The Internet is the biggest source of information in the world, and it's accessible

19、through a computer. It consists of millions of pages of data.In 1969, DARPA, a U.S. defence organisation, developed a way for all their computers to "talk" to each other through the telephone. They created a network of computers called DARPANET. For fifteen years, only the U.S. army could

20、use this system of communication. Then in 1984, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) started the NSFNET network. It then became possible for universities touse the system as well. NSFNET became known as the Inter-Network, or "Internet".The World Wide Web (the web) is a computer netwo

21、rk that allows computer users to access information from millions of websites via the Internet. At the moment, about 80 percent of web traffic is in English, but this percentage is going down. By 2020, much web traffic could be in Chinese.The World Wide Web was invented in 1991 by an English scienti

22、st, Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee built his first computer while he was at university using anold television! He came up with the idea of the World Wide Web in 1989 while he was working in Switzerland.Berners-Lee made it possible for everyone to use the Internet, not just universities and the army. H

23、e designed the first "web browser", which allowed computer users to access documents from other computers. From that moment on, the web and the Internet grew. Within five years, the number of Internet users rose from 600 000 to 40 million.The Internet has created thousands of millionaires,

24、 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.Passage A It is hard to think of a world without metals. Different metals have different uses, for example

25、, steel is used in cars, and iron is used in electrical equipment. When we use metals, it is important to know how they react with different substances, for example, water and oxygen. Thereaction of metals with these substances can be put in order. Here is a table with the metals that react most at

26、the top, and the metals that react least at the bottom.Passage BA Simple Scientific ExperimentBelow is a description of a simple scientificexperiment. It shows us how iron reacts with air and with water.Aim: To find out if iron rusts (a) in dry air; (b) in water that has no air in it (air-free water); (c) in ordinary water.Apparatus: 3 clean iron nails; test tubes; test tube holder; cotton