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journey would begin at 5, 000多米的高地出发, an altitude of more than
5,000 meters, she
这时她似乎显得很兴奋。
seemed to be excited
about it.
When I told her the air 当我告诉她那里空气稀薄,
我非常了解我的姐姐,她 一旦下了决心,什么也不 能使她改变。最后,我只 好让步了。
Several 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.
would be hard to
呼吸困难,而且天气很冷
breathe and it would be
very cold, she said it 时,她却说这将是一次有
would be an interesting 趣的经历。
experience
I know my sister well. Once she has made up her mind, nothing can change it. Finally, I had to give in.
尽管她对去某些地方的最 佳路线并不清楚,她却坚 持要自己把这次旅游安排 得尽善尽美。
Now I know that the proper way is always
her 于是,我就知道这个尽善
way. I kept asking her, 尽美的方式总是她的方式。
“When are we leaving 我不停地问她,“我们什

高一英语必修一M1U3课文全解 图文

高一英语必修一M1U3课文全解 图文
1. The truth is, diet and way of life are often a problem for teenagers.
实际情况是,青少年的饮食习惯和 生活方式往往让成人感到头痛。
2. However, the good news is that you can feel better, look better and have more energy if you eat the right food and exercise regularly.
可是如果你摄入适量的食物,并且经常锻 炼,你就会减轻体重,保持健康状态, 感觉很棒。
6. As a teenager, it is important to give your body the energy it needs.
作为一个年轻人,给予你的身体所需要的 足够能量是很重要的。
7. If you skip meals, you don’t get enough energy, and then you feel tired.
你现在还是每天去健身房?我以前也常常去健身 房,一周三次,可我现在不锻炼了。我知道另外 一种保持苗条身材的方法。
3. Looking good is important to women, isn’t it? Most young women want a slim figure these days, especially here in Canada.
4. Diets are useless in the long term, yet approximately 20% of the teenagers say they have tired going on a diet and skipping meals to control their weight.

高中英语必修一moudule3课文及译文

高中英语必修一moudule3课文及译文

一、课文原文:My first ride on a trainMy name is Alice Thompson. I come from Sydney, Australia and I'm 18 years old. Recently I had my first ride on a long-distance train. And what a ride! A friend and I travelled on the famous Ghan train. We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs, right in the middle of Australia, more than four thousand kilometres away. We spent two days and nights on the train.The train was wonderful and the food was great. We ate great meals cooked by experts! For the first few hundred kilometres of the journey, the scenery was very colourful. There were fields and the soil was dark red. After that, it was desert. The sun shone, there was no wind and there were no clouds in the sky. Suddenly, it looked like a place from another time. We saw abandoned farms which were built more than a hundred years ago.The train was comfortable and the people were nice. During the day, I sat and looked out of the window, and sometimes talked to other passengers. I read books and listened to my Chinese cassettes (I'm studying Chinese at school). One night, at about midnight, I watched the night sky for about an hour. The stars shone like diamonds.Why is the train called the Ghan? A long time ago, Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of the country. They tried riding horses, but the horses didn't like the hot weather and sand. A hundred and fifty years ago, they brought some camels from Afghanistan. Ghan is short for Afghanistan.Camels were much better than horses for travelling a long distance. For many years, trained camels carried food and other supplies, and returned with wool and other products.The Afghans and their camels did this until the 1920s. Then the government built a new railway line, so they didn't need the camels any more. In 1925, they passed a law which allowed people to shoot the animals if they were a problem. In 1935, the police in a town shot 153 camels in one day.译文第一次乘火车我是艾丽斯。

最新北师大版高中英语必修一模块1 U1U2U3课文讲解

最新北师大版高中英语必修一模块1 U1U2U3课文讲解

课文原文M1 U1 L1 A Perfect DayPassage 1 A Couch PotatoForty-three-year-old Brian Blakey from Birmingham is sitting on his sofa and telling me about his perfect day.[When I wake up ]I don't get up immediately. I turn on the televisionand watch the children's programmes until about half past ten. Then I get up, go downstairs and switch on the TV in the living room. For lunch, I have biscuits and a glass of milk, and I watch the news. In the afternoon, I often watch – they're showing some good ones at the moment. In the evenings, I often watch TV series or sport and the news again I like the main news at six o'clock. At nine thirty,if there is a good play on BBC 2, I switch over and watch it. Then at night, I watch films and I usually switch off the TV at about two o'clock I never watch TV all night.I watch TV for sixteen or seventeen hours a day. I also do some exercise every day. I take Tina, [the dog], for a walk every afternoon. I don't go far, of course. I walk to the wall outside my house. I always take my portable TV and I sit on the stone wall [while the dog walks round in a circle].Of course, I couldn't live this lifestyle without a good wife. She's not here now (because she's working), but she always makes my meals. We haven't got much money, you know, but we're happy. Sit down and watchTV Here's the remote control. You've got the world at your feet. And in your hand.Passage 2 A WorkaholicThirty-six-year-old Bob Black is sitting at his desk and working his way through his paperwork.I normally wake up about five minutes [before my alarm clock goes off]. As soon as I hear my alarm clock, I jump out of my bed. It takes me less than fifteen minutes to wash, get changed, have breakfast, leave home and get on a bus.I am always the first person to get to the office. The mornings are always very busy and the afternoons are even busier! Meetings and phone calls take up a large part of the day. Every minute of the day is filled with urgent matters. By around eight o'clock, I usually find some time to do my own paperwork and answer some personal e-mails.[When I get home at about ten], I look at some documents (that I bring back from the office) [so that I can be ready for the next day's work].I get to bed around midnight [when my wife and children are already asleep].I seldom have time for fun and other activities with my family. My family complains about it.But I try to work hard [so that I can make more money for them]. Besides, I get bored [if there's nothing to do]. I like being busy.U1 L4 City and CountryDebbie is an accountant in a large company in the centre of London.I need to be in my office by nine o'clock [so I usually get up at seven o'clock]. I travel to work on “the tube”. That's what people call the underground in London. It takes about fifty minutes. Usually, it's so crowded that I can't find anywhere to sit. I just stand. I'm always tired before I arrive at work. I don't like the underground!get a sandwich in a nearby sandwich shop or I just have some biscuits and a cup of coffee. Then in the afternoon, I return to the paperwork in the office.On Monday nights, I have dance classes, and on Wednesday nights, I go to the gym. I need to do that [because I don't get enough exercise otherwise]. On Tuesday and Thursday nights, I have French classes. I work for a French company[ so I think study ing French will help me in my job].I go to the cinema almost every weekend. Sometimes, if the weather forecast is good, my friends and I drive to the countryside for a weekend break. We like to visit nice, quiet places [far away from the city] and go walking [where there are no shops, crowds or the tube]. That fresh air is so good for my lungs. I love it.Paul lives in a small village in the north of England.I usually get up at four o'clock every morning [when it's still dark].I live and work on the farm //so I don't need to travel. After a big breakfast in my house, I walk out of the front door and I'm already at work.There are many things to do on the farm all day. We don't have the same work hours [that office workers in the city have]. We do jobs [when they need to be done] //and that could be early in the morning or late at night.I have cows, sheep, pigs and chickens on my far m. I have to make sure (that) they are free of sickness. I also grow wheat and vegetables //so there are many things to look after.In the evening, I like to play with my children. I have two children, [a boy and a girl]. They are six and eight years old. I also like to study. Right now I am studying Chinese by distance learning. I am very interested in China and it's my dream to see the Great Wall one day.I love movies. My wife calls me a “movie fan”.in my village so I don't get the chance to go very often. I go about twice a year,[ usually when I go to London with my family]. We take a weekend break there [when I am not too busy on the farm]. My wife loves looking [in the clothes shops ]and I like all the crowds and the noise. I alsolike to buy a few cigars. Unfortunately, my wife isn'tMy son and daughter love to ride on London's red buses and they especially love to go on the tube!M1 U1 L1完美的一天Passage 1 终日懒散在家看电视的人-----沙发土豆(来自伯明翰的43岁的布莱恩*博莱克正坐在沙发上向我讲述他美妙的一天。

人教版高中英语必修一unit3课文精讲

人教版高中英语必修一unit3课文精讲

人教版高中英语必修一unit3课文精讲take a trip 旅行;去旅行adj.昂贵的;花钱的cheap: adj.便宜的;小气的;不值钱的adv.便宜地persuade sb. to do sth.说服、劝服某人做某事我的名字叫王坤。

从高中起,我姐姐王薇和我就一直梦想作一次伟大的自行车旅行。

两年前,她买了一辆昂贵的山地自行车,然后还说服我买了一辆山地车。

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 river that is called the Mekong River in other countries.grow up 成长;逐渐形成n.大学;学院;学会同位语从句:解释说明名词的内容that引导的定语从句,先行词是river。

that在句中做主语。

去年她去看望了我们的表兄弟――在昆明读大学的刀卫和宇航。

他们是傣族人,在云南省西部靠近澜沧江的地方长大,湄公河在中国境内的这一段叫澜沧江,在其他国家境内叫湄公河。

Wang Wei soon got them interested in cycling too. Aftergraduating from college, we finally got the 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 from where it begins to where it ends. Now she is cycle: v.骑自行车;planning our schedule for the trip. get sb. 循环;轮get the chance to do sth.得到做某事的机会graduate: v.毕业n. 大学毕业生v.为某事安排时间n.时间表;进度表It was … who /that… 强调句式interest ed in使某人对… 感兴趣转n.循环;周期;自行车;整套很快,王薇使表兄弟也对骑车旅游产生了兴趣。

最新必修一英语-unit3-课文翻译--Journey-Down-The-MekongPPT课件

最新必修一英语-unit3-课文翻译--Journey-Down-The-MekongPPT课件
Journey Down The Mekong 沿湄公河而下的旅程
My name is Wang Kun. Ever since middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike trip.
起初,江面很小,河水清澈而冷冽,接 着它开始快速流动。它穿过山谷时就变成 了急流,流经云南西部。
Sometimes the river becomes a waterfall and enters wide valleys. We were both surprised to learn that half of the river is in China.
Last year, she visited our cousins, Dao Wei
and Yu Hang at their college in Kunming.
去年,她去看望了我们的表兄弟——在昆 明读大学的刀卫和宇航 They are Dai and grew up in western Yunnan
有时,这条江变成了瀑布,进入宽阔的峡 谷。我俩惊奇地得知这条河有一半在中国 境内。
After it leaves China and high altitude, the Mekong becomes wide, brown and warm.
当流出中国,流出高地之后,湄公河就 变宽了,变暖了,河水也变成了黄褐色。
As it enters Southeast Asia, its pace slows. It makes wide bends or meanders(蜿蜒缓 定 慢流动) through low valleys to the plains 语 where rice grows. At last, the river delta 从 enters the South China Sea. 句 而当它进入东南亚以后,它的脚步变缓,

高中英语必修一Book-1-unit-1-3课文详解-杨磊

必修一 Unit 1 Friendship I.Vocabulary:add up 合计upset adj. 心烦意乱的;不安的;不适的; vt. 使不安;使心烦ignore vt. 不理睬;忽视calm vt. & vi. (使)静;(使)镇定adj. 平静的;镇静的;沉着的calm … down (使)平静下来;(使)镇定下来have got to 不得不;必须concern vt. 担忧;涉及;关系到 n. 担心;关注be concerned about 关心;挂念walk the dog 遛狗loose adj. 松的;松开的go through 经历;经受set down 记下;放下;登记series n. 连续;系列a series of一连串的;一系列;一套outdoors adv. 在户外;在野外in order to 为了……at dusk 在黄昏时刻thunder vi. 打雷;雷鸣n.雷;雷声entire adj. 整个的;完全的; entirely adv.swap vt. 交换item n. 项目;条款power n. 能力;力量;权力face to face 面对面地curtain n. 窗帘;门帘;幕布dusty adj. 积满灰尘的no longer / not …ang longer不再… (与延续性动词连用)partner n. 伙伴;合作者;合伙人settle vi. 安家;定居;停留vt. 使定居;安排;解决loneliness n. 孤单;寂寞highway n. 公路;大路pack vi. & vt. 捆扎;包装;打行李pack sth. up 将东西装箱打包suitcase n. 手提箱overcoat n. 大衣;外套teenager n. 十几岁的青少年get along with 与……相处;进展gossip vi. & n. 闲话;闲谈; 长舌妇fall in love (to sb.)相爱;爱上exactly adv. 确实如此;正是;确切地disagree vi. 不同意grateful adj.感激的;表示感谢的dislike vt. 不喜欢;厌恶join in 参加;加入spellbind vt. (spellbound,spellbound) 迷住;迷惑on purpose故意be/get rid of 对……厌烦recover vi. & vt.痊愈;恢复;重新获得II.Reading ANNE’S BEST FRIEND安妮最好的朋友Do you want a friend (whom/ who) you could tell everything to, like(= such as) your deepest feelings and thoughts? 译文:你需要一位可以倾诉衷肠的朋友吗?比如倾诉你的感情和思想。

高一人教新课标必修1unit 1和unit 3 课文及单词(文本)翻译


1944年6月15日星期四
亲爱的基蒂:
我不知道这是不是因为我长久无法出门的缘故,我变得对一切与大自然有关的事物都无比狂热。我记得非常清楚,以前,湛蓝的天空、鸟儿的歌唱、月光和鲜花,从未令我心迷神往过。自从我来到这里,这一切都变了。
……比方说,有天晚上天气很暖和,我熬到11点半故意不睡觉,为的是独自好好看看月亮。但是因为月光太亮了,我不敢打开窗户。还有一次,就在五个月以前的一个晚上,我碰巧在楼上,窗户是开着的。我一直等到非关窗不可的时候才下楼去。漆黑的夜晚,风吹雨打,雷电交加,我全然被这种力量镇住了。这是我一年半以来第一次目睹夜晚……
outdoors adv. 在户外;在野外
△ spellbind vt. (spellbound, spellbound) 迷住;迷惑
on purpose 故意
in order to 为了……
dusk n. 黄昏;傍晚
at dusk 在黄昏时刻
thunder vi. 打雷;雷鸣
n. 雷;雷声
……令人伤心的是……我只能透过脏兮兮的窗帘观看大自然,窗帘悬挂在沾满灰尘的窗前,但观看这些已经不再是乐趣,因为大自然是你必须亲身体验的。
你的安妮
Reading Task
FRIENDSHIP IN HAWAII
Every culture has its own ways to show friendship. On the islands of Hawaii, friendship is part of the "aloha spirit". In the language of the Hawaiians who first settled in the islands long ago,aloha had a very special meaning. That is "to be with happiness".

高级英语第一册Unit 3 文章结构+课文讲解+课文翻译+课后练习+答案

Unit 3 Ships in the DesertShips in the DesertShips in the DesertAL Gore--------------------------------------------------------------------------------I was standing in the sun on the hot steel deck of a fishing ship capable of processing a fifty-ton catch on a good day. But it wasn' t a good day. We were anchored in what used to be the most productive fishing site in all of central Asia, but as I looked out over the bow , the prospects of a good catch looked bleak. Where there should have been gentle blue-green waves lapping against the side of the ship, there was nothing but hot dry sand – as far as I could see in all directions. The other ships of the fleet were also at rest in the sand, scattered in the dunes that stretched all the way to the horizon . Ten year s ago the Aral was the fourth-largest inland sea in the world, comparable to the largest of North America's Great Lakes. Now it is disappearing because the water that used to feed it has been diverted in anill-considered irrigation scheme to grow cotton In the user t. The new shoreline was almost forty kilometers across the sand from where the fishing fleet was now permanently docked. Meanwhile, in the nearby town of Muynak the people were still canning fish – brought not from the Aral Sea but shipped by rail through Siberia from the Pacific Ocean, more than a thousand miles away.My search for the underlying causes of the environmental crisis has led me to travel around the world to examine and study many of these images of destruction. At the very bottom of the earth, high in the Trans-Antarctic Mountains, with the sun glaring at midnight through a hole in the sky, I stood in the unbelievable coldness and talked with a scientist in the late tall of 1988 about the tunnel he was digging through time. Slipping his parka back to reveal a badly burned face that was cracked and peeling, he pointed to the annual layers of ice in a core sample dug from the glacier on which we were standing. He moved his finger back in time to the ice of two decades ago. "Here's where the U. S Congress passed the Clean Air Act, ” he said. At the bottom of the world, two continents away from Washington, D. C., even a small reduction in one country's emissions had changed the amount of pollution found in the remotest end least accessible place on earth.But the most significant change thus far in the earth' s atmosphere is the one that began with the industrial r evolution early in the last century and has picked up speed ever since. Industry meant coal, and later oil, and we began to burn lots of it – bringing rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) , with its ability to trap more heat in the atmosphere and slowly warm the earth. Fewer than a hundred yards from the South Pole, upwind from the ice runway where the ski plane lands and keeps its engines running to prevent the metal parts from freeze-locking together, scientists monitor the air sever al times ever y day to chart the course of that inexorable change. During my visit, I watched one scientist draw the results of that day'smeasurements, pushing the end of a steep line still higher on the graph. He told me how easy it is – there at the end of the earth – to see that this enormous change in the global atmosphere is still picking up speed.Two and a half years later I slept under the midnight sun at the other end of our planet, in a small tent pitched on a twelve-toot-thick slab of ice floating in the frigid Arctic Ocean. After a hearty breakfast, my companions and I traveled by snowmobiles a few miles farther north to a rendezvous point where the ice was thinner – only three and a half feet thick – and a nuclear submarine hovered in the water below. After it crashed through the ice, took on its new passengers, and resubmerged, I talked with scientists who were trying to measure more accurately the thickness of the polar ice cap, which many believe is thinning as a re-suit of global warming. I had just negotiated an agreement between ice scientists and the U. S. Navy to secure the re-lease of previously top secret data from submarine sonar tracks, data that could help them learn what is happening to the north polar cap. Now, I wanted to see the pole it-self, and some eight hours after we met the submarine, we were crashing through that ice, surfacing, and then I was standing in an eerily beautiful snowcape, windswept and sparkling white, with the horizon defined by little hummocks, or "pressure ridges " of ice that are pushed up like tiny mountain ranges when separate sheets collide. But here too, CD, levels are rising just as rapidly, and ultimately temperature will rise with them – indeed, global warming is expected to push temperatures up much more rapidly in the polar regions than in the rest of the world. As the polar air warms, the ice her e will thin; and since the polar cap plays such a crucial role in the world's weather system, the consequences of a thinning cap could be disastrous.Considering such scenarios is not a purely speculative exercise. Six months after I returned from the North Pole, a team of scientists reported dramatic changes in the pattern of ice distribution in the Arctic, and a second team reported a still controversialclaim (which a variety of data now suggest) that, over all, the north polar cap has thinned by 2 per cent in just the last decade. Moreover, scientists established several years ago that in many land areas north of the Arctic Circle, the spring snowmelt now comes earlier every year, and deep in the tundra below, the temperature e of the earth is steadily rising.As it happens, some of the most disturbing images of environmental destruction can be found exactly halfway between the North and South poles – precisely at the equator in Brazil – where billowing clouds of smoke regularly black-en the sky above the immense but now threatened Amazon rain forest. Acre by acre, the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef; as I learned when I went there in early 1989, the fires are set earlier and earlier in the dry season now, with more than one Tennessee's worth of rain forest being slashed and burned each year. According to our guide, the biologist Tom Lovejoy, there are more different species of birds in each square mile of the Amazon than exist in all of North America – which means we are silencing thousands of songs we have never even heard.But one doesn't have to travel around the world to wit-ness humankind's assault on the earth. Images that signal the distress of our global environment arenow commonly seen almost anywhere. On some nights, in high northern latitudes, the sky itself offers another ghostly image that signals the loss of ecological balance now in progress. If the sky is clear after sunset -- and it you are watching from a place where pollution hasn't blotted out the night sky altogether -- you can sometimes see a strange kind of cloud high in the sky. This "noctilucent cloud" occasionally appears when the earth is first cloaked in the evening dark-ness; shimmering above us with a translucent whiteness, these clouds seem quite unnatural. And they should: noctilucent clouds have begun to appear more often because of a huge buildup of methane gas in the atmosphere. (Also called natural gas, methane is released from landfills , from coal mines and rice paddies, from billions of termites that swarm through the freshly cut forestland, from the burning of biomass and from a variety of other human activities. ) Even though noctilucent clouds were sometimes seen in the past., all this extra methane carries more water vapor into the upper atmosphere, where it condenses at much higher altitudes to form more clouds that the sun's rays still strike long after sunset has brought the beginning of night to the surface far beneath them.What should we feel toward these ghosts in the sky? Simple wonder or the mix of emotions we feel at the zoo? Perhaps we should feel awe for our own power: just as men "ear tusks from elephants’ heads in such quantity as to threaten the beast with extinction, we are ripping matter from its place in the earth in such volume as to upset the balance between daylight and darkness. In the process, we are once again adding to the threat of global warming, be-cause methane has been one of the fastest-growing green-house gases, and is third only to carbon dioxide and water vapor in total volume, changing the chemistry of the upper atmosphere. But, without even considering that threat, shouldn't it startle us that we have now put these clouds in the evening sky which glisten with a spectral light? Or have our eyes adjusted so completely to the bright lights of civilization that we can't see these clouds for what they are – a physical manifestation of the violent collision between human civilization and the earth?Even though it is sometimes hard to see their meaning, we have by now all witnessed surprising experiences that signal the damage from our assault on the environment --whether it's the new frequency of days when the temperature exceeds 100 degrees, the new speed with which the -un burns our skin, or the new constancy of public debate over what to do with growing mountains of waste. But our response to these signals is puzzling. Why haven't we launched a massive effort to save our environment? To come at the question another way' Why do some images startle us into immediate action and focus our attention or ways to respond effectively? And why do other images, though sometimes equally dramatic, produce instead a Kin. of paralysis, focusing our attention not on ways to respond but rather on some convenient, less painful distraction?Still, there are so many distressing images of environ-mental destruction that sometimes it seems impossible to know how to absorb or comprehend them. Before considering the threats themselves, it may be helpful to classify them and thus begin to organize our thoughts and feelings so that we may be able to respondappropriately.A useful system comes from the military, which frequently places a conflict in one of three different categories, according to the theater in which it takes place. There are "local" skirmishes, "regional" battles, and "strategic" conflicts. This third category is reserved for struggles that can threaten a nation's survival and must be under stood in a global context. Environmental threats can be considered in the same way. For example, most instances of water pollution, air pollution, and illegal waste dumping are essentially local in nature. Problems like acid rain, the contamination ofunder-ground aquifers, and large oil spills are fundamentally regional. In both of these categories, there may be so many similar instances of particular local and regional problems occurring simultaneously all over the world that the patter n appears to be global, but the problems themselves are still not truly strategic because the operation of- the global environment is not affected and the survival of civilization is not at stake.However, a new class of environmental problems does affect the global ecological system, and these threats are fundamentally strategic. The 600 percent increase in the amount of chlorine in the atmosphere during the last forty years has taken place not just in those countries producing the chlorofluorocarbons responsible but in the air above every country, above Antarctica, above the North Pole and the Pacific Ocean – all the way from the surface of the earth to the top of the sky. The increased levels of chlorine disrupt the global process by which the earth regulates the amount of ultraviolet radiation from the sun that is allowed through the atmosphere to the surface; and it we let chlorine levels continue to increase, the radiation levels will al-so increase – to the point that all animal and plant life will face a new threat to their survival.Global warming is also a strategic threat. The concentration of carbon dioxide and other heat-absorbing molecules has increased by almost 25 per cent since World War II, posing a worldwide threat to the earth's ability to regulate the amount of heat from the sun retained in the atmosphere. This increase in heat seriously threatens the global climate equilibrium that determines the pattern of winds, rainfall, surface temperatures, ocean currents, and sea level. These in turn determine the distribution of vegetative and animal life on land and sea and have a great effect on the location and pattern of human societies.In other words, the entire relationship between humankind and the earth has been transformed because our civilization is suddenly capable of affecting the entire global environment, not just a particular area. All of us know that human civilization has usually had a large impact on the environment; to mention just one example, there is evidence that even in prehistoric times, vast areas were sometimes intentionally burned by people in their search for food. And in our own time we have reshaped a large part of the earth's surface with concrete in our cities and carefully tended rice paddies, pastures, wheat fields, and other croplands in the countryside. But these changes, while sometimes appearing to be pervasive , have, until recently, been relatively trivial factors in the global ecological sys-tem. Indeed, until our lifetime, it was always safe to assume that nothing we did or could do would haveany lasting effect on the global environment. But it is precisely that assumption which must now be discarded so that we can think strategically about our new relationship to the environment.Human civilization is now the dominant cause of change in the global environment. Yet we resist this truth and find it hard to imagine that our effect on the earth must now be measured by the same yardstick used to calculate the strength of the moon's pull on the oceans or the force of the wind against the mountains. And it we are now capable of changing something so basic as the relationship between the earth and the sun, surely we must acknowledge a new responsibility to use that power wisely and with appropriate restraint. So far, however, We seem oblivious of the fragility of the earth's natural systems.This century has witnessed dramatic changes in two key factors that define the physical reality of our relation-ship to the earth: a sudden and startling surge in human population, with the addition of one China's worth of people every ten years, and a sudden acceleration of the scientific and technological revolution, which has allowed an almost unimaginable magnification of our power to affect the world around us by burning, cutting, digging, moving, and trans-forming the physical matter that makes up the earth. The surge in population is both a cause of the changed relationship and one of the clearest illustrations of how startling the change has been, especially when viewed in a historical context. From the emergence of modern humans 200 000 years ago until Julius Caesar's time, fewer than 250 million people walked on the face of the earth. When Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World 1500 years later, there were approximately 500 million people on earth. By the time Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the number had doubled again, to 1 billion. By midway through this century, at the end of World War II, the number had risen to just above 2 billion people. In other words, from the beginning of humanity's appearance on earth to 1945, it took more than ten thousand generations to reach a world population of 2 billion people. Now, in the course of one human lifetime -- mine -- the world population will increase from 2 to more than 9 million, and it is already more than halfway there.Like the population explosion, the scientific and technological revolution began to pick up speed slowly during the eighteenth century. And this ongoing revolution has also suddenly accelerated exponentially. For example, it is now an axiom in many fields of science that more new and important discoveries have taken place in the last ten years that. in the entire previous history of science. While no single discover y has had the kind of effect on our relationship to the earth that unclear weapons have had on our relationship to warfare, it is nevertheless true that taken together, they have completely transformed our cumulative ability to exploit the earth for sustenance -- making the consequences, of unrestrained exploitation every bit as unthinkable as the consequences of unrestrained nuclear war.Now that our relationship to the earth has changed so utterly, we have to see that change and understand its implications. Our challenge is to recognize that the startling images of environmental destruction now occurring all over the world have much more in common than their ability to shock and awaken us. They aresymptoms of an underlying problem broader in scope and more serious than any we have ever faced. Global warming, ozone depletion, the loss of living species, deforestation -- they all have a common cause: the new relationship between human civilization and the earth's natural balance. There are actually two aspects to this challenge. The first is to realize that our power to harm the earth can in-deed have global and even permanent effects. The second is to realize that the only way to understand our new role as a co-architect of nature is to see ourselves as part of a complex system that does not operate according to the same simple rules of cause and effect we are used to. The problem is not our effect on the environment so much as our relationship with the environment. As a result, any solution to the problem will require a careful assessment of that relationship as well as the complex interrelationship among factors within civilization and between them and the major natural components of the earth's ecological system.There is only one precedent for this kind of challenge to our thinking, and again it is military. The invention of nuclear weapons and the subsequent development by the Unit-ed States and the Soviet Union of many thousands of strategic nuclear weapons forced a slow and painful recognition that the new power thus acquired forever changed not only the relationship between the two superpowers but also the relationship of humankind to the institution at war-fare itself. The consequences of all-out war between nations armed with nuclear weapons suddenly included the possibility of the destruction of both nations – completely and simultaneously. That sobering realization led to a careful reassessment of every aspect of our mutual relationship to the prospect of such a war. As early as 1946 one strategist concluded that strategic bombing with missiles "may well tear away the veil of illusion that has so long obscured the reality of the change in warfare – from a fight to a process of destruction.”Nevertheless, during the earlier stages of the nuclear arms race, each of the superpower s assumed that its actions would have a simple and direct effect on the thinking of the other. For decades, each new advance in weaponry was deployed by one side for the purpose of inspiring fear in the other. But each such deployment led to an effort by the other to leapfrog the first one with a more advanced deployment of its own. Slowly, it has become apparent that the problem of the nuclear arms r ace is not primarily caused by technology. It is complicated by technology, true; but it arises out of the relationship between the superpowers and is based on an obsolete understanding of what war is all about.The eventual solution to the arms race will be found, not in a new deployment by one side or the other of some ultimate weapon or in a decision by either side to disarm unilaterally , but ratter in new understandings and in a mutual transformation of the relationship itself. This transformation will involve changes in the technology of weaponry and the denial of nuclear technology to rogue states. But the key changes will be in the way we think about the institution of war far e and about the relationship between states.The strategic nature of the threat now posed by human civilization to the global environment and the strategic nature of the threat to human civilization now posedby changes in the global environment present us with a similar set of challenges and false hopes. Some argue that a new ultimate technology, whether nuclear power or genetic engineering, will solve the problem. Others hold that only a drastic reduction of our reliance on technology can improve the conditions of life -- a simplistic notion at best. But the real solution will be found in reinventing and finally healing the relationship between civilization and the earth. This can only be accomplished by undertaking a careful reassessment of all the factors that led to the relatively recent dramatic change in the relationship. The transformation of the way we relate to the earth will of course involve new technologies, but the key changes will involve new ways of thinking about the relationship itself.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTESI) Al Gore: born in 1948 in Washington D. C., U. S. Senator (1984-1992) from the State of Tennessee,and U. S. Vice-President ( l 992-) under President Bill Clinton. He is the author of the book Earth in the Balance from which this piece is taken. 2) Aral Sea: inland sea and the world’s fourth largest lake, c. 26 000 sqmiles, SW Kazakhstan and NW Uzbekhstan, E of the Caspian Sea3) Great Lakes: group of five freshwater lakes, Central North America, between the United States and Canada, largest body of fresh water in the world. From west to east, they are Lake Superior,Lake Michigan,Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario.4) Trans-Antarctic Mountains: mountain chain stretching across Antarctica from Victoria I and to Coats I and; separating the E Antarctic and W Antarctic subcontinents5) Clean Air Act: one of the oldest environmental laws of the U. S., as well as the most far-reaching, the costliest, and the most controversial. It was passed in 1970.6) Washington D. C.: capital of the United States. D. C. (District of Columbia).is added to distinguish it from the State of Washington and 3 other cities in the U. S bearing the sonic name.7) freeze-locking: the metal parts are frozen solid and unable to move freely8)midnight sun: phenomenon in which the sun remains visible in the sky for 24 hours or longer, occurring only in the polar regions9)global warming; The earth is getting warmer. The temperature of the earth's atmosphere and its surface is steadily rising.10) Submarine sonar tracks: the term sonar is an acronym for sound navigation ranging. It is used for communication between submerged submarines or between a submarine and a surface vessel, for locating mines and underwater hazards to navigation, and also as a fathometer, or depth finder.11) greenhouse (effect): process whereby heat is trapped at the surface of the earth by the atmosphere. An increase of man-made pollutants in the atmosphere will lead to a long-term warming of the earth's climate.12) Julius Caesar: (102? B. C -- 44 B. C:. ), Roman statesman and general13) Christopher Columbus: ( 1451-1506), discoverer of America, born Genoa, Italy14) Thomas Jefferson: (17-13-1826 ), 3d President of the UnitedStates(1801-1809), author of the Declaration of Independence.15) Declaration of Independence: full and formal declaration adopted July 4,1776, by representatives of the thirteen colonies in North America announcing the separation of those colonies from Great Britain and making them into the United States16)Ozone depletion: A layer of ozone in the stratosphere prevents most ultraviolet and other high-energy radiation, which is harmful to life, from penetrating to the earth's surface.Some.environmental, scientists fear that certain man-made pollutants, e.g. nitric oxide, CFCs(Chlorofluorocarbons), etc., may interfere with the delicate balance of reactions that maintains the ozone’ s concentration, possibly leading to a drastic depletion of stratospheric ozone. This is now happening in the stratosphere above the polarShips in the Desert 课文讲解/Detailed StudyShips in the Desert--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Detailed Study1. Ships in the Desert [image-7]: Ships anchored in the desert. This is aneye-catching title and it gives an image that people hardly see. When readers read the title, they can’t help wondering why and how.Paragraph 1. typical example of environmental destruction[image-7]2. capable of processing a fifty-ton catch on a good day: having the ability of cleaning and preparing for marketing or canning fifty-tons of fish on a productive day.catch: the amount of something caught; in the sentence it refers to the amount of fish caught e.g. The boat brought back a big catch of fish.3. but as I looked out over the bow, the prospects of a good catch looked bleak:a good catch did not look promising / hopeful.This is obviously an understatement because with sand all around there was no chance of catching fish, to say nothing of catching a lot of fish.bow[audio-1] : the front part of a shipant. sterncompare: bow[audio-2]: v. & n. to bend the upper part of the body forward, as away of showing respect, admitting defeat, etc.bow [audio-3]: n. a weapon for shooting arrowa long thin piece of wood with a tight string fastened along it, used for playing musical instruments that have stringsa knot formed by doubling a string or cord into two curved pieces, and used for decoration in the hair, in tying shoes, etcbleak: a) If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.e.g. His future looked bleak.bleak prospect; the bleakness of the post war yearsb) If a place is bleak, it looks cold, bare, and unattractivee.g. the bleak coastlinec) When the weather is bleak, it is cold, dull, and unpleasante.g. the bleak wintersd) If someone looks or sounds bleak, they seem depressed, hopeless, or unfriendlye.g. his bleak featuresbleakly adv.e.g. He stared bleakly ahead.“What,” he asked bleakly, “are these?”4. waves lapping against the side of the ship: waves touching the side of the ship gently and makes a soft sound lap can also be used as a noun.e.g. Your lap is the flat area formed by your thighs when you are sitting down. Her youngest child was asleep in her lap.He placed the baby on the woman’s lap.In a race, when you say that a competitor has completed a lap when he or she has gone round the course race.5. as far as I could see in all direction: that extended as far as the eye could see;6. that stretched all the way to the horizon: that extended to the far off place where the sky meet the earth7. comparable: something that is comparable to something else is a) as good as/ as big as/ as important as the other thing; b) similar to the other thinge.g. This dinner is comparable to the best French cooking.Our house is not comparable with yours. Ours is just a small hut while yours is a palace.8. Now it is disappearing because the water that used to feed it has been diverted in an ill-considered irrigation scheme to grow cotton in the dessert: Now it is becoming smaller and smaller because the water that used to flow into the sea has been turned away to irrigate the land created in the desert to grow cotton. The。

高中英语必修一课文详解Book-1-unit-3

必修一Unit 3 Travel JournalII. Reading JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONGPART I THE DREAM AND THE PLAN梦想和计划My name is Wang Kun.译文:我叫王昆。

Ever sinc e middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike trip.译文:自从上中学后,我和姐姐王伟一直梦想进行一次长途自行车旅行。

【注释:①ever since“从那时起,自那以后”,往往与现在完成时连用。

②dream about梦见,梦到,梦想,向往。

如:1)She dreamed about a handsome young prince coming to rescue her from her misery.她梦见一个年轻英俊的王子走来把她从苦难中救出。

2)He got the first place this time, but he never dreamed about it.这回他得了第一名, 但他做梦也没想到。

3)Many people dream about living on an island in the South Seas.许多人向往在南海的一个岛上生活。

③dream of梦见;渴望,梦想。

如:1)I often dreamed of my younger brother soon after I left home.刚离开家时, 我常梦见弟弟。

2)He has dreamed of a trip to Beijing.他曾做梦到北京旅行。

3) I never dreamed of such a thing.我从没梦想过这样的事情。

4)I've long dreamed of paying a visit to the Great Wall.我一直渴望游览长城。

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15. It was a really painful experience, but I’m feeling better now.
这真是一次痛苦的经历,但现在我感觉好很 多了。
16. I follow my doctor’s advice and exercise for at least half an hour every day (but I seldom go to the gym!), and eat lots of fruit and vegetables.
因为我将出演一部新的电视剧,所以我在 服用一种名叫瘦身的减肥眼,这种药在加 拿大女性当中非常的流行。
6. I hope to lose at least 10 kg. I take two pills a day and don’t need to exercise.
我希望至少能够减去10公斤,我每天服用两 片,因此也不用锻炼了。
我听从医生的建议,每天锻炼至少半个小时 (但我很少去健身房!),吃很多的水果 和蔬菜。
• 17. People should look after their bodies. My mother is right: don’t damage your health for a slim and attractive figure. It isn’t worth. 人们都应该照顾好自己的身体。我妈妈是对 的,不要为了苗条、动人的身材毁了自己的 健康,那样是不值得的。
M1U3课文全解
Reading Dying to be thin…(渴望瘦身)
1.How are you? I haven’t heard from you for weeks. Is everything OK with you?
你好。 我好几个星期没有收到你的来信了。一切 顺利吗?
2. Do you still go to the gym every day? I used to go to the gym three times a week, but I don’t work out any more. I know another way to stay slim.
你现在还是每天去健身房?我以前也常常去健身 房,一周三次,可我现在不锻炼了。我知道另外 一种保持苗条身材的方法。
3. Looking good is important to women, isn’t it? Most young women want a slim figure these days, especially here in Canada.
情况变化实在是太快了!我现在住院了,患的是 肝衰竭,正在恢复中。
12. I regret taking those weight-loss pills. They contain a harmful chemical that caused my liver to fail.
我很后悔服用了那种减肥药。那些药里含有某种 有害的化学s were going to completely destroy my liver if I continue taking them. 如果我继续服用那些药丸,它们将会完全损 害我的肝脏。
14. My mother insisted on sending me to the hospital, where I received good medical treatment. 我妈妈坚持要送我去医院,在那儿我可以接 受好的医疗。
但是,有时我感到精力不充沛。
9. My mother, who you met last year,
keeps telling me not to take them
because they are dangerous.
我妈妈,你去年见过的,坚持不停地告诉我不 要服用这种减肥药,因为减肥药危机健康。
看起来好对女性来说很重要,难道不是吗? 如今,每个女性都想拥有苗条的身材,在 加拿大尤其这样。
4. I’m trying to lose weight because I’m so ashamed of my body.
我正在努力减肥,因为我的身体让我感到 羞愧。
5. Since I’m preparing to act in a new TV play, I’m taking weight-loss pills called Fat-Less, which are quite popular among young women here.
18. We shouldn’t be ashamed of the way we look, should we? 我们不应该为自己的外表感到羞愧,不是吗?
19. My computer was broken so I couldn’t read your two emails until today. 我的电脑出现了故障,所以直到今天才看到 你的两封电子邮件。
10. She says health is the most important thing, and I agree, but then I look so slim at the moment.
她(妈妈)说,健康是无价的,我同意这个观 点,可是当时我看上去是多么的苗条啊。
11. Things change so quickly. I’m now in hospital recovering from liver failure.
7. The pills really work! I’m becoming
slimmer and slimmer. I’ve lost 7 kg in the last two months. 减肥药片还真的管用呦!我现在越来越苗条了,
在过去的两个月里我就减了7公斤。
8. However, sometimes I don’t feel energetic.
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