课文经典句背诵

高中英语课文经典背诵句

（背诵-默写-仿写）

Module one

Unit 1 Friendship

1.Do you want a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your

deepest feelings and thoughts?

2.I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been able to be outdoors for so long that

I’ve grown so crazy about everything to do with nature.

3.I can well remember that there was a time when a deep blue sky, the song

of the birds, moonlight and flowers could have kept me spellbound.

4.When it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven

one evening in order to have a good look at the moon for once by myself.

5.It was the first time in a year and a half that I’d seen the night face to face. Unit 2 English around the world

1.World Englishes come from those countries where English plays an

important role as a first or second language, either because of foreign rule or because of its special role as an international language.

2.All languages change when cultures communicate with one another.

3.Today the number of people learning English in China is increasing

rapidly.

4.Native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t

speak the same kind of English.

5.Believe it or not, there is no such thing as standard English.

Unit 3 Travel journal

1.When we graduated from college, we finally got the chance to take a

great bike trip.

2.It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the Mekong river

from where it begins to where it ends.

3.She gave me a determined look--- the kind that said she wouldn’t change

her mind.

4.Many people put their thoughts into a diary but others write about their

travels in what is called a travel journal.

5.The topics of a travel journal can be different from a diary, often including

people, things and events less familiar to the readers.

Unit 4 Earthquakes

1.Many people believe that “It is always calm before a storm.”

2.One-third of the nation felt it.

3.Thousands of families were killed and many children were left without

parents.

4.The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than

400,000.

5.The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury

the dead.

6.Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed;

slowly, the city began to breathe again.

Unit 5 Nelson Mandela- a modern hero

1.Sun Yat-sen founded the first Republic in China in 1911 after many years’

fighting.

2.It was in 1952 that he had opened a black law firm to advise poor black

people on their problems.

3.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.

4.We were put in a position in which(where )we had either to accept we

were less important, or fight the Government.

5.Only then did we decide to answer violence with violence.

6.Since I was better educated, I got a job working in an office.

Module two

Unit 1 Cultural relics

1.A cultural relic is something that has survived for a long time, often a part

of something old that has remained when the rest of it has been destroyed.

2.Everyone agreed that it was the best and biggest work of amber art ever

made.

3.Sadly, although the Amber Room was one of the great wonders of the

world, it is now missing.

4.This was a time when the two countries were at war.

5.I think highly of those who are searching for the Amber Room

Unit 2 The Olympic Games

1.Every four years athletes from all over the world are admitted as

competitors.

2.All countries can take part if their athletes reach the standard to be

admitted to the games.

3.A special village is built for the competitors to live in, a stadium for

competitors, a very large swimming pool, a gymnasium as well as seats for those that watch the games.

4.In this way, you will be more confident in speaking English.

5.Make sure that you all get equal turns in talking to the class.

Unit3 Computers

1.My real father was Alan Turing, who in 1936 wrote a book to describe

how computers can be made to work, and built a universal machine” to solve any mathematical problem.

2.However, people thought I was simple-minded until they discovered I had

“ artificial intelligence.”

3.Since then, my family and I have been used by billions of people to deal

with information and communicate with each other around the world by Internet.

4.I think we can work together to create an even better system.

5.After all, with the help of my computer brain which never forgets

anything, intelligence is what I’m all about.

Unit 4 Wildlife protection

1.The tour companies applied to be allowed to hunt some for a fee, which

made a lot of money for the farmers.

2.The information suggested that animals should be protected or they would

die out if people continue to hurt them.

3.A special butterfly became protected, so what Guoxia did affected the

wildlife in her area and helped save one species.

4.Dinosaurs lived on the earth tens of millions of years ago, long before

humans came into being.

5.Others think the earth got too hot for the dinosaurs to live on it any more,

but nobody knows for sure.

Unit 5 Music

1.Have you ever dreamed of being in front of thousands of people at a

concert, with everyone clapping and enjoying your singing?

2.Do you sing karaoke and close your eyes and pretend you are Coco Li or

Liu Huan?

3.They may play to the passers-by in the street or subway so that they can

earn extra money.

4.Their music and jokes were based loosely on the band called “The

Beatles”.

5.They put an advertisement in a newspaper looking for rock musicians,

but they could only find one that was good enough.

Module Three

Unit 1 Festivals around the world

1. Festivals are meant to celebrate important events.

2. Some festivals are held to honour the dead, or satisfy and please the ancestors, who could return either to help or to do harm.

3. In Japan the festival is called Oben, when people should go to clean the graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors.

4. One of these is the Dragon Boat Festival in China, which honours the famous ancient poet, Qu Yuan.

5.The country is covered with cherry tree flowers so that it looks as though it might be covered with pink snow.

6. He would drown his sadness in coffee.

Unit 2 Healthy eating

1.Do you know that the food you eat helps you grow in different ways?

2. Going on a balanced diet will help you stay healthy.

3.Wang Pengwei sat in his empty restaurant feeling very frustrated.

4.He did not look forward to being in debt because his restaurant was no longer popular.

5. In this way they cut down the fat and increased the fiber in the meal.

Unit3 The million pound bank-note

1.Have you ever made a bet with a friend? If so, what did you bet on?

2.I earned my passage by working as an unpaid hand, which accounts for my appearance

3. Henry was not confident about what would happen to him when he left the brothers.

4.His writing became famous for its description of common people and the way they talked, but especially for his humour.

5.However, the last years of his life were filled with sad events, loneliness and the loss of much money.

Unit 4 Astronomy: the science of the stars

1. After the “Big Bang” the earth was just a cloud of energetic dust.

2. It exploded loudly with fire and rock, which were in time to produce the water vapour, carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen and other gases, which were to make the earth’s atmosphere.

3. It allowed the earth to dissolve harmful gases, which had become part of the earth’s atmosphere, into the oceans and seas.

4.They are putting too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which prevents heat from escaping from the earth into space.

5. Whether life will continue on the earth for millions of years to come will depend on whether this problem can be solved.

Unit 5 Canada—the true north

1.It is the second biggest country in the world and as you go eastward, you

will see mountains, and pass by thousands of lakes, forests and wide rivers as well as cities.

2. This city is at the top end of the Great Lakes, and it is a very busy port, although it is close to the centre of the country.

3. Rather than take the plane all the way, they decided to fly from China to Vancouver and to take the train from west to east across Canada.

4.The next morning the maple trees outside their windows were red and gold and orange, and there was frost on the ground---fall had arrived in Canada.

5.There is more fresh water in Canada than in any other country in the world. Module Four

Unit 1 Women of achievement

1. This means going back to a place where we left the chimp family sleeping in a tree the night before.

2. Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she allowed to begin her project.

3. She has argued for them to be left in the wild and not used for entertainment or advertisements.

4. I looked carefully at the text and realized that it was intended for women who lived in the countryside.

5. It struck me like lightening how difficult it must have been for a woman to get a medical training so long ago when women’s education was always

placed second to men’s.

Unit 2 Working the land

1.This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.

2. Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvest twice as large as before.

https://www.360docs.net/doc/284896506.html,anic farming also refers to crops growing with natural rather chemical fertilizers.

4. Organic farmers insist on changing crops every two or three years, for example, corn or wheat followed by peas or soybeans.

5.But whatever they grow they make sure that what is left in the ground after harvesting becomes a natural fertilizer for the next year’s crop.

Unit 3. A taste of English humour

1. This character was a social failure, but he was loved by all who watched the films for his determination in overcoming difficulties and being kind even when people were unkind to him.

2.The film is set in California in the middle of the nineteenth century when gold was discovered and thousands of people rushed there in search of it.

3. Some actors can astonish us with the deep feelings they can inspire in us for a character they are playing.

4. Chaplin produced, directed, and wrote the movies he starred in.

5. In 1972 he was given a special Oscar for his lifetime outstanding work.

Unit 4 Body language

1. You do not want to disappoint your boss, and this is an exciting experience for you, so you stand watching and listening.

2. Not all cultures greet each other in the same way, nor are they comfortable touching strangers or being too close or too far away.

3. A smile is the universal facial expression—it is intended to put people at ease.

4.If you stand with your arms across your body, you are always protecting yourself from being physically attacked.

5. In general, it is better not to kiss somebody you don’t know as yo u may surprise them.

Unit 5 Theme parks

1. The big companies that own theme parks expect to make a profit not just by the charges for admission, but also by selling souvenirs in their shops and advertising them on television.

2.Theme parks have a certain idea--- a certain theme----that the whole park is based on.

3.Parks provide people with a place to amuse themselves and to escape their busy lives for a while.

4. Its purpose is to involve visitors in physical exercise and athletic competition.

5. Disneyland is named after Walt Disney, the famous film maker.

6 there are future parks, where people can go on imaginary trips to space and use advanced computer techniques to experience life in the future..

Module 5

Unit1

1.John Snow was a well-known doctor in London- so famous indeed that he

attended Queen Victoria to ease the birth of her babies.

2.He became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people

exposed to cholera.

3.It seemed that the water is to blame.

4.In addition, he found two other deaths in another part of London that were

linked to the Broad Street outbreak.

5.To prevent this from happening again, John Snow suggested that the

source of all water supplies be examined and new methods of dealing with polluted water be found.

6.Only if you put the sun there did the movements of other plants in the sky

make sense.

Unit 2

1.How many countries does the UK consist of?

2.There is no need to debate any more about why different words are used

to describe the four countries.

3.To their surprise, the three countries found themselves united peacefully

instead of by war.

4.England is the largest of the four countries and for convenience it is

divided roughly into three zones.

5.Worried about the time available, Zhang Pingyu had made a list of the

sites she wanted to see in London.

6.The second day the girl visited Greenwich and saw its old ships and

famous clock that sets the world time.

Unit 3

1.I still cannot believe that I am taking up my prize that was won last year.

2.Confused by the new surroundings, I was hit by the lack of fresh air.

3.Think about how many changes there have been in the last one thousand

years!

4.My first visit was to a space station considered the most modern in this

part of space.

5.He handed the mask to me and immediately hurried me through to a

small room nearby for me to rest.

Unit 4

1.Never will Zhang forget his first assignment at the office of China Daily.

2.Only when you have seen what he or she dose, can you cover a story by

yourself.

3.We say a good reporter must have a “nose” for a story. That means he or

she must be able to tell when people are not telling the whole truth and try

to discover it.

4.If the person being interviewed agrees, we sometimes use small recorders

to make sure that we get all our facts straight.

5.Have you ever had a case where somebody accused your reporters of

getting the wrong end of the stick.

Unit 5

1.First aid is the kind of help given to someone who suddenly falls ill or

gets injured before a doctor can be found.

2.First aid is a very important first step in the treatment of burns.

3.He was honored for carrying out lifesaving first aid on his neighbor after

a shocking knife attack.

4.It was John’s quick action and knowledge of first aid that saved her life.

5.It shows that a knowledge of first aid can make a real difference.

6.Do you think it is worthwhile to take a course in first aid?