Unit 1 Friendship
Warming up: add to, score, upset, ignore, calm down, be concerned about, loose, vet, the end-of-term exam, cheat in,
Reading: go through, diary, Jewish, hide, German, discover, set down, a series of, outdoors, spellbind, stay awake, on purpose, at dusk, thundering entirely, power, face to face, curtain, dusty, experience
经典名句
1 While walking the dog, you were careless and it got loose and was hit by a car.
2 Your friend, who doesn’t work hard, asks you to help him/her cheat in the exam by looking at your paper.
3 Do you want a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your deepest feelings and thoughts?
4 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.
5 I can well remember that there was a tie when a deep blue sky, the sound of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound.
6 One evening when it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven in order to have a good look at the moon by myself.
7 The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me entirely in their power; it was the first time in a year I’d seen the night face to face.
8 Although I try to talk to my classmates, I still find it hard to make good friends with them. So I feel quite lonely sometimes. I do want to change this situation, but I don’t know how. I would be grateful if you could give me some advice.
9 It is believed that the islands can be a paradise when people live in peace. People are told that their actions should be as gentle as the wind that blows from the sea.
Workbook: culture, spirit, settle, special, community, sign, selfish, paradise, string, neck, cheek
Unit 2 English around the world
Reading: voyage, conquer, because of, native, flat, apartment, come up, actually, communicate, be based on, at present, gradually, Danish, French, rule, settler, enrich, especially, vocabulary, make use of, spelling, latter, separate, identity, fluent, government, Singapore, Malaysia, such as, rapidly
Using language: standard, dialect, expect, excellent, expression, midwestern, African, Spanish, neighbouring, geography, play a part in, eastern, southeastern, northwestern, recognize
经典名句：
1 Later in the next century, people from England made voyages to conquer other parts of the world and because of that, English began to e spoken in many other cuntries.
2 The USA is a large country in which many different dialects are spoken.
Unit 3 Travel journey
Warming up: transport, advantage, disadvantage,
Reading: daily, follow, route, flow, ever since, dream about, persuade, cousin, province, cycle, graduate, finally, entire, schedule, be fond of, shortcoming, stubborn, insist, organize, properly, care about, source, determine, change one’s mind, journey altitude, breathe, make up one’s mind, give in, atlas, detail, geography, glacier, Tibetan, rapids, valley, waterfall, pace, bend, meander, plain, delta
Reading and discussing: Tibet, block, wool, freeze, shine, as usual, reliable, encourage, view, yak, butterfly, gloves, camp, put up, pillow, put down, midnight, bright, flame, beneath
Workbook: Cambodia, be similar to, inn, afford to do, plain, temple, make a joke about sb, border, direction, feed,
经典名句
1 Ever since middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike trip.
2 Two years ago, she bought an expensive mountain bike and then she persuaded me to buy one.
3 After graduating from college we finally got the chance to take a bike trip.
4 It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the entire Mekong River from where it begins to where it ends.
5 Although she didn’t know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that she organize the trip properly.
6 She gave me a determined look---the kind that said she would not change her mind.
7 Once she has made up her mind, nothing can change it. Finally, I had to give in.
8 It becomes rapids as it passes through deep valleys, traveling across western Yunnan Province.
9 It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plain where rice grows.
10 In the late afternoon we found it was so cold that our water bottles froze.
11 However, the lakes shone like glass in the setting sun and looked wonderful.
12 To climb the mountains was hard work but as we looked around us, we were surprised by the view.
13 At one point we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through clouds.
14 It was great fun especially as it gradually became much warmer.
15 We will reach Dali in Yunnan Province soon, where our cousins Do Wei and Yu Hang will join us.
16 Cambodia was in many was similar to Laos, although it has twice the population.
17 When we said goodbye, we all felt very lucky to have studied in college.
18 We ate an early supper and went to see a great temple with floors made of silver.
19 I read in an atlas before our trip that Vietnam has almost seven times the population of Cambodia.
20 He also told us that the northern part of his country has many mountains and it is much cooler than here in the south, where it is flat.
21 Although the flat delta made it easier for us to cycle, we got warm quickly.
22 We were tired but also in high spirits: our dream to cycle along the Mekong River had finally come true.
Unit 4 Earthquake
Warming up：calm, imagine, describe, object, discussion
Reading: right away, well, notice, crack, smelly, mice, nervous, bowl, pond, pipe, bust, million, think little of, event, shake, as if, at an end, directly, nation, canal, steam, hole, dirt, in ruins, suffering, extreme, injure, survivor, natural, destroy, brick, dam, track, useless, steel, shock, quake, rescue, trap, electricity, disaster, organize, dig out, bury, miner, nine, shelter, breathe,
Workbook: (p64) furniture, brick, keep…from doing, pipe, fix, bolt, underneath, lamp, tie…to, cupboard, heater, (p65) eyewitness, organize, communicate, steel, track, useless, burst, calm, direction, undestroyed, amazing, blanket, wagon blanket
经典名句
1 Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide.
2 But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night.
3 It was felt in Beijing, which is more than two kilometers away.
4 The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.
5 Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.
6 Those in the living room, which are the most likely to hurt us, are computers, televisions and lamps.
7 The kitchen, which is also very dangerous, must have strong doors on all the cupboards.
8 This is the place where many small things are stored that might fall down.
9 Never before in the history has a city been so completely destroyed.
10 Amazing as it may seem, Wednesday night was a quiet night.
11 Never in all San Francisco’s history were her people so kind as on that terrible.
Unit 5 Nelson Mandela---a modern hero
Warming up: adjective, describe, quality, lazy, cruel, mean, determined, wise, active, generous, easy-going, reliable, brave, selfish, stubborn, selfless, devoted, honesty
Reading: devote oneself to doing, invader, found, republic, principle, nationalism, livelihood, give up, peaceful, giant, leap, mankind, period, lawyer, guidance, legal, fee, out of work, hopeful, league, stage, vote, attack, violence, as a matter of fact, blow up, achieve one’s dream, equal
Workbook: (p73) jealous, software, competitor
经典名句
1 The time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life.
2 I was twelve years old. It was in 1952 and Mandela was the black lawyer to whom I went for advice.
3 He was generous with his time, for which I was grateful.
4 The school where I studied for only two years was three kilomeres away.
5 However, this was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg.
6 The day when Nelson Mandela helped me was one of my happiest.
7 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.
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人教版必修二 经典名句
Unit I Cultural relics
Warming up: rare, valuable, survive, object, vase, ivory
Reading: predict, in search of, imagine, amaze, select, honey, design, fancy, style, treasure, decorate, jewel, artist, palace, belong to, in return, troop, serve as, reception, detail, candle, mirror, shine, remove, furniture, wooden, doubt, mystery, former
Reading and listening: prove, evidence, trial, judge, eyewitness, rather than, miner, republic, explode, by the light of, to one’s surprise, entrance
Workbook: fight, protect, novel, reply, project, government, rebuild, persuade, dynasty, sign
Reading IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM
1 The gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it.
2 It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country’s best artists about ten years to make.
3 However, the next King of Prussia, Frederick William I , to whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it.
4 Later, Catherine ii had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers.
5 In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted.
6 In September 1941, the Nazi army was near St Petersburg. This was a time when the two countries were at war.
7 There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea. After that, what happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.
8 By studying old photos of the former Amber Room, they have made the new one look like the old one.
Using language(p5) A FACT AND AN OPINION?
1 An opinion is what someone believes is true but has not been proved.
2 In a trial, a judge must decide which eyewitnesses to believe and which not to believe. The judge does not consider what each eyewitness looks like or where that person lives or works. He/She only care about whether the eyewitness has given true information, which must be facts rather than opinions.
Unit 2 The Olympic Games
Warming up: ancient, compete, take part in, medal, stand for, official, mascot
Reading: Greek, magical, interview, volunteer homeland, Greece, regular, basis, athlete, standard, event, admit, honour, slave, nowadays, gymnastics, reception, stadium, gymnasium, as well, host, as a matter of fact, opportunity, responsibility, proud, design, olive wreath, replace, motto, swift
Reading and listening: princess, glory, bargain, hopeless, amaze, foolish
Reading AN INTERVIES
1 I lived in what you call “Ancient Greece” and I used to write about the Olympic Games a long time ago.
2 Both the winter and summer Olympics are held every four years on a regular basis. …Only athletes who have reached the agreed standard for their event will be admitted as competitors.
3 Instead there are competitions like skiing and ice skating which need snow and ice. That’s why they’re called the Winter Olympics.
4 It’s in the Summer Olympics that you have the running races, together with swimming, sailing and all the team sports.
5 Our Greek cities used to compete against each other just for the honor of wining. No other countries could join in, nor could slaves or women!
6 Women are not only allowed, but play a very important role in gymnastics, athletics, team sports and…v
7 For each Olympics, a special village is built for them to live in, a main reception building, several stadiums for competitions, and a gymnasium as well.
Workbook The stubborn African
Surprisingly, he won the race, finishing well ahead of everyone else and showing what true courage and perseverance can achieve. It was no wonder that Kip Keino became the only Kenyan sportsman ever to appear on the cover of the world famous sports magazine Sports Illustrated.
Unit 3 Computers
Reading WHO AM I
1 Although I was young I could simplify difficult sums. I developed very slowly and it took nearly tow hundred years before I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage.
2 As time went by, I was made smaller.
3 Over time my memory has developed so much that, like an elephant, I never forget anything I have been told!
4 But I was always so lonely standing there by myself, until in early 1960s they gave me a family connected by a network.
5 Since the 1970s…I have been put into robots and send to make mobile phones as well as help with medical operations. I have even been put into space rockets and sent to explore the Moon and Mars. Anyhow, my goal is to provide humans with a life of high quality.
Using language Andy---THE ANDROID
1 In a way our programmer is like our coach. She programs us with all the possible moves she has seen while watching human games.
2 Then she prepares reliable moves to use if a new situation arises. In this way I can make up new moves using my “artificial intelligence”.
3 After all, with the help of my electronic brain which never forgets anything, using my intelligence is what I’m about!
Unit 4 Wildlife protection
Reading HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WILDLIFE
1 Please take me to a distant land where I can find the animal that gave fur to make this sweater.
2 I’m protecting myself from mosquitoes.
Using language ANIMAL EXTINCTION
1 They lived on the earth tens of millions of years ago, long before humans came into being and their future seemed secure at that time.
Unit 5 Music
Reading THE BAND THAT WASN’T
1 Have you ever dreamed of playing in front of thousands of people at a concert, at which everyone is clapping an appreciating your music?
2 To be honest, a lot of people attach great importance to becoming rich and famous.
3 They may start as a group of high-school students, for whom practsing their music in someone’s house is the first step to fame.
4 Later they may give performances in pubs or clubs, for which they are paid in cash.
5 The musicians were to play jokes on each other as well as play music, most of which was based loosely on the Beatles.
5 Anyhow their performances were humorous enough to be copied by other groups. They were so popular that their fans formed clubs in order to get more familiar with them.
6 Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs written by other musicians. However, after a year or so in which they became more serious abut their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band.
7 The band broke up about 1970, but happily they reunited in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, with which they celebrated their former as a real band.
Using language FREDDY THE FROG
1 Fans showed their devotion by waiting fro hours to get tickets for their concerts.
2 Then things went wrong. Freddy and his band could not go out anywhere without being followed. Even when they wore sunglasses or beards people recognized them.
3 At last feeling very upset and sensitive, Freddy and his band realized that they must leave the country before it became too painful for them. So they left Britain, to which they were never to return, and went to the lake.
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