高中英语第一册-第五册课文缩略[精选].doc

B1 Unit 1 Friendship 编撰：王兴仁 A best friend is someone who you can tell everything to, even your deepest feelings and thoughts. Anne Frank treated her diary as her best friend. The German Nazis were in search of Anne and her family. The family had to hide away from the chase. They didn’t dare to go out even in the evenings. They had to stay indoors day and night. Not being able to go out for such a long time, Anne missed the beauty of nature so much that she grew crazy about everything to do with it. She stayed up until eleven thirty one evening on purpose just to see the moonlight. She said: “This is the first time I have seen the moonlight since I was here.” Unfortunately, the family were discovered at last and taken away from the hiding place. B1 Unit 2 English around the world 编撰：李庆云 At the end of the 16th century, English was only spoken by people from England. They were native speakers. Today, the largest number of people speaking English may be in China. A lot of Chinese people speak English as their foreign language. The English language has changed quite a lot over the last four centuries. Old English sounded more or less like German for it was based on German, but modern English sounds more like French than German because England was once ruled by the French. Two people had great effects on the English changes. One was Shakespeare, who enlarged the English vocabulary; the other was Noah Webster, who wrote a dictionary which gave American English its own identity. B1 Unit 3 Travel journal 编撰：依智 Wang Kun and Wang Wei are brothers and sisters. They have dreamed of taking a great bike trip. It was Wang Wei who first had the idea to cycle along the Mekong River. They rode bicycles to travel along the Mekong River, whose source is in Qinghai Province. When it enters Southeast Asia, it travels slowly through hills and low valleys and the plains where rice grows. Despite the difficulties, Wang Kun and Wang Wei were determined to begin their jou