高中英语选修八第一单元课文翻译

1.选修九Unit1 Breaking records-Reading打破记录 \―路永在前方‖

Ashrita Furman is a sportsman who likes the challenge of breaking Guinness records. 阿什里塔·弗曼是一位热衷挑战并想争创吉尼斯世界纪录的运动员。Over the last 25 years, he has broken approximately 93 Guinness records. 在过去的25年中，他大约已经打破了93项吉尼斯世界纪录。 More than twenty of these he still holds, including the record for having the most records. 至今，他仍然是其中20多项纪录的保持者，还包括拥有最多的吉尼斯纪录这一项。But these records are not made in any conventional sport like swimming or soccer. Rather Ashrita attempts to break records in very imag

1.选修九Unit1 Breaking records-Reading打破记录 \―路永在前方‖

Ashrita Furman is a sportsman who likes the challenge of breaking Guinness records. 阿什里塔·弗曼是一位热衷挑战并想争创吉尼斯世界纪录的运动员。Over the last 25 years, he has broken approximately 93 Guinness records. 在过去的25年中，他大约已经打破了93项吉尼斯世界纪录。 More than twenty of these he still holds, including the record for having the most records. 至今，他仍然是其中20多项纪录的保持者，还包括拥有最多的吉尼斯纪录这一项。But these records are not made in any conventional sport like swimming or soccer. Rather Ashrita attempts to break records in very imag

1.选修七Unit1 MARTY’S STORY马蒂的故事

Hi, my name is Marty Fielding and I guess you could say that I am "one in a million".你好。我叫马蒂·菲尔丁。我想你可能会说我是―百万人中才有一个‖的那种人。In other words, there are not many people like me. 换句话说，世界上像我这样的人并不多见。 You see, I have a muscle disease which makes me very weak, so I can't run or climb stairs as quickly as other people. 你瞧，我的肌肉有毛病，使我的身体非常虚弱，所以我不能像别人那样快跑快步爬楼梯。 In addition, sometimes I am very clumsy and drop things or bump into furniture. 再说，有时候我还会笨手笨脚、不小心摔掉东西，或磕碰到家具上。Unfortunately, the doctors don't kn

1.选修七Unit1 MARTY’S STORY马蒂的故事

Hi, my name is Marty Fielding and I guess you could say that I am \你好。我叫马蒂·菲尔丁。我想你可能会说我是―百万人中才有一个‖的那种人。In other words, there are not many people like me. 换句话说，世界上像我这样的人并不多见。 You see, I have a muscle disease which makes me very weak, so I can't run or climb stairs as quickly as other people. 你瞧，我的肌肉有毛病，使我的身体非常虚弱，所以我不能像别人那样快跑快步爬楼梯。 In addition, sometimes I am very clumsy and drop things or bump into furniture. 再说，有时候我还会笨手笨脚、不小心摔掉东西，或磕碰到家具上。Unfortunately, the doctors don't know how to make me b

1.选修七Unit1 MARTY’S STORY马蒂的故事

Hi, my name is Marty Fielding and I guess you could say that I am \你好。我叫马蒂·菲尔丁。我想你可能会说我是―百万人中才有一个‖的那种人。In other words, there are not many people like me. 换句话说，世界上像我这样的人并不多见。 You see, I have a muscle disease which makes me very weak, so I can't run or climb stairs as quickly as other people. 你瞧，我的肌肉有毛病，使我的身体非常虚弱，所以我不能像别人那样快跑快步爬楼梯。 In addition, sometimes I am very clumsy and drop things or bump into furniture. 再说，有时候我还会笨手笨脚、不小心摔掉东西，或磕碰到家具上。Unfortunately, the doctors don't know how to make me b

1.选修七Unit1 MARTY’S STORY马蒂的故事

Hi, my name is Marty Fielding and I guess you could say that I am "one in a million".你好。我叫马蒂·菲尔丁。我想你可能会说我是―百万人中才有一个‖的那种人。In other words, there are not many people like me. 换句话说，世界上像我这样的人并不多见。 You see, I have a muscle disease which makes me very weak, so I can't run or climb stairs as quickly as other people. 你瞧，我的肌肉有毛病，使我的身体非常虚弱，所以我不能像别人那样快跑快步爬楼梯。 In addition, sometimes I am very clumsy and drop things or bump into furniture. 再说，有时候我还会笨手笨脚、不小心摔掉东西，或磕碰到家具上。Unfortunately, the doctors don't kn

编号：070101 Unit 1 Living well

知识初探：I.词义搭配：1.C 2.A 3.B 4.D 5.F 6.G 7.E 8.H

II.短语填空：1.adapted;to 2.sitting around 3.make fun of 4.In other words 5.All in all 6.as well as

III. Reading :Comprehension questions(Key: 1.D 2.D 3. A 4. A)

IV. Transferring information:

1.I have a muscle disease that sometimes makes me very weak and I can’t run or climb stairs as quickly as other people. I am clumsy and drop things or bump into furniture.

2.Live one day at a time.3.Up until I was about 10 years old, I was t

1.选修六Unit1 A SHORT HISTORY OF WESTERN PAINTING 西方绘画艺术简史

Art is influenced by the customs and faith of a people. 艺术是受着人民生活习俗和信仰的影响的。 Styles in Western art have changed many times. 西方的艺术风格经历了多次变革。 As there are so many different styles of Western art, it would be impossible to describe all of them in such a short text. 由于西方的艺术风格多种多样，在短短的一篇课文里不可能进行全面的描述。Consequently, this text will describe only the most important ones, starting from the sixth century AD.

因此,本文只谈及从公元6世纪以来最主要的几种艺术风格。

The Middle Ages (5th to the 15th century

高中英语模块五第一单元

丁明清

单元重点

I.重点单词

1. pretend v. 假装, 装作, 自以为

pretend that 从句或跟to do 引导的不定式。

She pretends that she likes them so that she can get their help.

她假装很喜欢他们，借以获得他们的帮助。

She closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.她闭上眼睛，装作睡着了。

Surely he doesn't pretend to any understanding of music!

谅他不会自以为懂得什么音乐吧！

2. puzzled adj. 迷糊的,困惑的觉得困惑的(about, as, to)

a puzzled expression

He was quite puzzled about what to do next.

他完全不知道接下去该怎么办.

I was puzzled to see her behaving like that.

看到她那样的举止使我感到困惑.

puzzle Vt. 困惑；苦思

This mystery puzzles me.

这件神秘事情使我百思不解.

I am

ReadingThe Road To Modern English

At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people spoke English. 在16世纪末，大约有五至七百万人讲英语。 Nearly all of them lived in England. Later in the next century, people from England made voyages to conquer other parts of the world and because of that, English began to be spoken in many other countries. 几乎所有这些讲英语的人都住在英格兰。在其后的一 个世纪中，英格兰人为征服世界航海到了世界其他 一些地方，结果世界的其他地方的人们也开始说英语了。 Today, more people speak English as their first, second or foreign language than ever before. 今天，把英语作为自己的第一语言、第二语言