高二英语背诵篇章

48 BacteriaBacteria are extremely small living things. While we measure our own sizes in inches or centimeters, bacterial size is measured in microns. One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter: a pinhead is about a millimeter across. Rod-shaped bacteria are usually from two to four microns long, while rounded ones are generally one micron in diameter. Thus if you enlarged a rounded bacterium a thousand times, it would be just about the size of a pinhead. An adult human magnified by the same amount would be over a mile (1.6 kilometer) tall.Even with an ordinary microscope, you must look closely to see bacteria. Using a magnification of 100 times, one finds that bacteria are barely visible as tiny rods or dots. One cannot make out anything of their structure. Using special stains, one can see that some bacteria have attached to them wavy-looking “hairs” called flagella. Others have only one flagellum. The flagella rotate, pushing the bacteria through the water. Many bacteria lack flagella and cannot move about by their own power, while others can glide along over surfaces by some little- understood mechanism.From the bacteria point of view, the world is a very different place from what it is to humans. To a bacterium water is as thick as molasses is to us. Bacteria are so small that they are influenced by the movements of the chemical molecules around them. Bacteria under the microscope, even those with no flagella, often bounce about in the water. This is because they collide with the watery molecules and are pushed this way and that. Molecules move so rapidly that within a tenth of a second the molecules round a bacteria have all been replaced by new ones; even bacteria without flagella are thus constantly exposed to a changing environment.。

建议高中英语课文背诵段落2010-2011年度宿迁市高中英语十篇必背文章1 We Have Only One WorldWhen industries grow, pollution also grows. Today the problem of environment has become more and more important. The world population is rising so quickly that the world has become too crowded. We are using up our natural resources too quickly and at the same time we are polluting our environment with dangerous chemicals. If we don’t take action immediately then we will destroy our only world.Man has made great progress in environment protection. Government of many countries has established laws to protect the forest and sea resource and to stop the environmental pollution. Still more measures should be taken to solve the problem. First we should start by educating the public about the hazards of pollution. The government on its part should also design stricter laws. This is not only for our own generation but also for the future generation to come. It is necessary to protect our nature environment. We must begin now to protect our only world.2 Make The Best Use of Our LandIt is the land that has been providing us with everything we need for centuries. In other words almost everything we use daily comes from the land directly or indirectly. The food ,,clothes, houses ,even the books and furniture are all supplied by the land. But the limited land is decreasing at a surprising speed. With the expanding of the cities, the development of the industry and over population ,lots of large pieces of good farmland are being turned into residential areas with many houses and apartment buildings or industrial areas or warehouses.Therefore some measures must be taken to stop the abusing of our farmland. On the other hand we should let everyone realize the danger of being short of land. And also we should educate them how to make better use of our land.3 HealthIt is said that we do not properly value a thing until we have lost it. It is only when a friend dies that we find out how much he was to us. So it is with health. When we are young and strong and have good health we think little about it. It seems natural to us to be always well and we cannot imagine what it is like to be ill. We are often careless about our health and without thinking we spoil our health by bad habits and doing silly things. It is only when we have our good health that we find that it was one of God’s best gifts to us.Health is our most important possession. We should do our best to maintain it. Good health is necessary to happiness and success. People who are in poor health are often pessimistic or depressed. As a rule bad health means misery and failure.How can we keep our health? Only by knowing and carefully obeying the laws of health. A happy man is a healthy man and only the healthy man can live a happy life.The desire for good health is universal. Everyone who loves life understands how important health is. First good health is the guarantee for enjoying life. The only desire of a patient is always to live an ordinary and healthy life. Second good health establishes a firm foundation for your ambition of the career. Without it any lofty （高傲的）aspiration turns to be a daydream.4 Sports and GamesSports and games do a lot of good to our health. They can make us strong prevent us from getting too fat and keep healthy and fit. Especially they can be of great value to people who work with their brains most of the day for sports and games give people valuable practice in exercising the body.What’s more, they make our life richer and more colourful. If we do not have a strong body we will find it hard to do whatever we want. So persons of all ages enjoy watching and taking part in various kinds of sports-track and fields swimming skating football volleyball and basketball etc.Sports and games are also very useful in character training. They demand not only physical skills and strength but also courage ,endurance, discipline and usually teamwork. For boys and girls what is learned in the playground often has a deep effect on their character. If each of them learns to work for his team and not for himself on the football field ，he will later find it natural to work for the good of his country instead of only for his own benefit.A healthy citizen makes a strong country. Let’s all take part in sports and games.5 SmokingIt is well known that smoking does harm to the health. Today so many people still keep smoking which has drawn wide attention of the society.Smoking has so many disadvantages but no advantages at all. First the cigarettes with nicotine in them do great harm to the health. Such diseases as pneumonia lung cancer may be caused or partly caused by them. Furthermore the bad effects of cigarettes cost the smokers lots of money which could be spent on other meaningful things. Thirdly the accidents of fire all over the world every year are mostly caused by the still-burning butts (end).The government has formulated the regulation of no smoking in public places. Yet its result is not so satisfactory. From my point of view it needs the common efforts of the society. Not only the nonsmokers but the smokers should cooperate on this matter.6 My Views on Large Modern CitiesSince every coin has two sides living in large modern cities offers us many advantages simultaneously causes many troubles. Better education and better jobs are easy to get and better medical care is convenient to receive in large modern cities.People are usually well informed due to the advanced media such as television newspaper and net PC. Large modern cities also provide varied entertainment for the city-dwellers. The public places like cinema bar disco-ball are everywhere.On the other hand large modern cities are too big to control so the traffic jams and traffic accidents often happen and the social security is a headache problem. And city-dwellers （居住者）have to face the housing problem. Usually a house is too expensive for the salary earning class to buy and the rent is also high. Moreover noise and pollution in large cities bring harm to people’s health.7 Where do you like to live in the city or in the country?Most cities are centers of economy trade transportation or culture. With the development of economy and society ,more and more people have flooded into the cities which makes the scale of the cities larger and larger. Surely it is very convenient for shopping, education ,business and so on. But it also has many disadvantages: the large population makes it crowded in each corner of the city; the big factories too many cars buses and trucks pollute the clean air; too much noise can make people mad. To live in the city one even can’t get enough room for living.To live in the country is another thing. You can breathe the fresh air cheerfully own a spacious house with a big backyard and relax yourself in quietness. But when you want to go shopping or take your child to school perhaps you will complain about its inconvenient transportation its remoteness…I am an ordinary person. I am always longing for the peaceful idyllic（田园诗般的）life of the countryside.8 Time Is Money“Time is money.” This saying means that time is very valuable.But time is more valuable than money. The money we have lost can be gained again but the time we have wasted cannot be regained. Moreover sometimes persons can exist without money but nothing can be done without time just as no one can live without air. Despite being so valuable, time is often neglected by men. Since time is an invisible thing men often waste their time unconsciously（无意地）. Without anything to do they may gossip from morning till night.Man can live only at most to about 100 years. It seems fairly long but in fact it is rather short. We often say “How quickly time flies!” How many things can a man accomplish in such a shortperiod? Hence we should use the valuable time properly to do our work. We will race with it. We will study and work hard. Never waste a little bit of it.9 Try to Be a Good StudentPerhaps it is the dream of everyone to be a good student at school but quite a few students feel at a loss on how to make it. In my opinion it is rather easy if you can act on the following points.First of all make full use of your time and work hard. Don’t put off till tomorrow what should be done today as time past will never come back. The fast developing society requires adequate knowledge which presses us to spare no efforts to study. Of course your hard work will be rewarded one day. Secondly use your own head and present your point of view. Credulous（轻信的）attitude will only make you take anything for granted. With your own judgment you will be able to tell right from wrong and set up your own theory.Thirdly set aside enough time for relaxation en tertainment etc. don’t ignore the harm of all work and no play. Proper sports will build up your body and improve the efficiency of your studying. To be a good student is easier said than done for it needs a student’s consistent efforts. But nothing is difficult to a man if he puts his heart into it.10 Natural ResourcesNature has provided us with many kinds of resources. Almost everything we use in our everyday life comes from Nature. The food we eat the water we drink the clothes we wear the concrete and bricks to build our houses the materials to make bikes we ride etc. all come originally from Nature.People have been making use of these natural supplies for thousands of years. With the development of technology and the increase of the population the amount and range of materials taken has increased. It is estimated that this tread will continue in the years to come.However natural resources are not in exhaustible. Some resources are already nearly used up. For example the end of the world’s fuel is al ready within sight. Such an essential daily item as water is in short supply in many parts of the world. We can no longer thoughtlessly use the many resources provided by Nature. We must learn to conserve what remains.。

Be A Critical News Reader!Firefighters put out tower block fireFirefighters quickly put out the Henderson Tower fire last night. The fire, which is thought to have started from the 8th floor, spread quickly through the tower block on Sunday night, leaving people on the upper floors trapped. Fears grew that the number of deaths could reach 5, according to figures released by emergency services. Fire engines and ambulances, called at 9:30 p.m., reached the scene within 15 minutes. By this time, the fire had extended to the 15th floor. Firefighters got the situation under control around 11 p.m. There is concern that the construction company that built the tower block had not followed fire safety rules.Deadly fire in tower block causes serious damageA terrible fire broke out on Sunday night, leaving the Henderson Tower seriously damaged. Emergency services estimate that the number of deaths could reach 9. By this morning, 4 people have been confirmed dead. The fire has also left dozens of people injured, 5 of whom are in a critical condition. Lisa Mayer, 29, is among the lucky ones who only suffered minor injuries. She recalled, I was about to have a bath when I heard people screaming and dogs barking. I looked outside and the smoke was choking me. It was like an awful dream."Mr Peterson, head of the fire service, confirms that a dropped cigarette end on a carpet of the 8th floor started the fire and that the automatic fire alarms did not go off quickly enough to prevent the disaster. A team is currently investigating the accident further.Reading news reports criticallyWe rely on news to learn about what is happening in the world around us. However, we usually find that reports on the same events contain different or even contradictory information. How do these differences come about?It is advisable to remember that journalists may have different priorities, which would influence how they report an event. Let's take the two news reports on the Henderson Tower fire as an example. We can see that the first news report pays more attention to the rescue efforts, while the second talks more about deaths and injuries. When we read more than one report, we come to understand an event in a more comprehensive way.Even if news reports are written from basically the same perspective, they may contradict each other in terms of factual details, as events in the real world are usually complicated and constantly changing. For instance, the numbers of deaths differ in the two news reports on the Henderson Tower fire. When we come across such factual differences, we should not rush to the conclusion that one of the news reports gives false information. Instead, check when the reports were written. News reports written at different stages of an event could contain different information as new facts are brought to light. Another aspect worthy of mention is that journalists may approach information they get from research or interviews differently. Suppose emergency services' estimates of the number of deaths vary between 5 and 9. Journalists may choose to present the minimum, the maximum or something in between in their news reports. Therefore, checking different sources enables us to draw a more informed conclusion.To sum up, it is wise to read news reports written from various perspectives and at different stages, which brings us a more accurate understanding of a situation. We also need to be critical about the information we receive and remember not to blindly trust what we have read. Though journalists are committed to presenting the truth, it is better to use our own judgement than rely entirely on news reports. With great discrimination, every one of us has the potential to be a critical news reader.。

The winter holiday is coming. Our class has a discussion about what to do during the holiday.s ome are in favor of staying at home. They think it’s both convenient and comfortable. What’s more, they can save money for other purposes. But they will lose the chance of getting to know the outside world.However, others prefer to go out for traveling since it can increase their knowledge and broaden their horizons. But they will spend more money and meet some difficulties while traveling.In my opinion, it would be much better to stay at home, for I can do what I like, such as reading books, watching TV, and helping my parents with the housework.高二英语早读背诵（二）Whether students should take physical exerciseDear Editor,I’m writing to tell you about the discussion we’ve had about whether students of Senior 3 should take physical exercise.On one hand, 55% of the students think they should take exercise every day, such as doing morning exercises, playing ping-pong and basketball, but it shouldn’t take up too much time. Proper exercise can build up one’s body and reduce diseases. What’s more, sports let students’ brains have a rest so that they can study effectively.On the other hand, 45% believe taking exercise is a waste of time and it is tiring. After having sports, they are much too excited for a long time to pay attention to their lessons. It’s al so possible to get hurt in sports.Yours sincerely,Li Hua高二英语早读背诵（三）American students’ visitBoys and girls，May I have your attention please? About fifty American students will come to visit our school on October the 22nd. We’ll meet them at the sc hool gate at 8:30 am. At 9:00, we’ll take them to the conference room, where a get-together will be held. After that, we’ll show them around our botanical garden and the school- run factory. At 11:00, there will be a basketball match on the playground. The y’ll leave our school at 12:00.We must talk with them in English. Please be friendly and polite to them. Remember, we not only stand for our school, but also stand for China.Thank you. Hope you have a good time.I like readingReading is my favorite. I can never stop the love for reading because books are like wise teachers as well as good friends in my life. As we know, books are the source of knowledge. I benefit a great deal from reading.There are a variety of books for us to choose from, like history books, science books, literary books and so on. But what interests me most is literary books, especially those by famous writers. For one thing, they help to improve my writing skills and broaden my horizons. For another, they can enrich my life and provide me with great fun. Isn’t it a pleasure to have great calm in mind while you are reading?高二英语早读背诵（五）Dear Tom,I’m very glad to hear from you. The summer vacation is approaching. I think it is really a great opportunity for me to improve myself. To make it meaningful and colorful, I have listed the following plans.First of all, a good rest is needed, so I will spare some time to relax myself by leisurely doing what I like. Second, I will read some books recommended by teachers to enlarge my knowledge. Third, helping parents with housework is a must. They’ve done so much for me. I plan to cook for them to express my love as a daughter. Fourth, if possible, I’ll take part in some social activities so that I can come closer to the society.As for your invitation, I will happily accept it. I have been dreaming of visiting America to experience your country’s great culture.高二英语早读背诵（六）Secrets to Writing a Beautiful ArticleDear Worried,I have received your letter and I’m glad to give you some suggestions. First of all, don’t be disappointed. Many students find it difficult to write well. In my opinion, if you want to improve your writing, you should do the following things. First, do some studying with the set phrases and sentence structures. Keep a list of them and then try to make some sentences with them. Second, read English as much as possible. There are many things that can’t be learnt imme diately. You must see them in books many times. Then you’ll be able to use them correctly yourself. So, in order to write well, you must learn to read a lot. Finally, you’d better recite some good passages. The more passages you read, the better you will write.I’m sure you can improve your written English as long as you study hard. Remember, practice makes perfect.Dear Jackson,It's nice to hear from you. I'm glad to hear that you'd like to be a volunteer of the 2016 Olympic Games. As a volunteer, you must be enthusiastic and devoted.First, you should act as a guide for the officials and athletes from all over the world. What's more, you should also provide information, translation, first aid and other services around the competition venues in the city. If necessary, you may help the athletes to carry luggage.The job is simple, but tiring. However, it is very important and meaningful.Best wishes.Yours,Li Hua高二英语早读背诵（八）Keep HealthyHealth is far more important than wealth. Good health enables us to enjoy our life and to achieve what we hope for in our career. On the contrary, poor health leads to nothing.How can we keep healthy? Here is some advice. Firstly, it is very important for us to take more fruits and vegetables because they provide vitamins, and we have to keep a balanced diet. So we should avoid food which is rich in sugar and fat. Secondly, we’d better exercise every day to make our bodies strong. Besides, we have to avoid too much work. Finally, we have to get rid of those bad habits that damage our health, such as drinking and smoking.In conclusion, if we stick to the advice given above, we will lead a healthy life.。

高中英语必修2（人教版）Unit1 Cultural relicsIN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOMFrederick William I, the King of Prussia, could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing history. This gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. The amber which was selected had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country's best artists about ten years to make.In fact, the room was not made to be a gift. It was designed for the palace of Frederick I. However, the next King of Prussia, Frederick William I, to whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it. In 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great. In return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room became part of the Czar's winter palace in St Petersburg. About four metres long, the room served as a small reception hall for important visitors.Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details to it. In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold. Sadly, although the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world, it is now missing.In September 1941, the Nazi army was near St Petersburg. This was a time when the two countries were at war. Before the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians were able to remove some furniture and small art objects from the Amber Room. However, some of the Nazis secretly stole the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven wooden boxes. There is no doubt that the boxes were then puton 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.Recently, the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room at the summer palace. By studying old photos of the former Amber Room, they have made the new one look like the old one. In 2003 it was ready for the people of St Petersburg when they celebrated the 300th birthday of their city.Unit 2 The Olympic GamesAN INTERVIEWPausanias, who was a Greek writer about 2,000 years ago, has come on a magical journey on March 18th 2007 to find out about the present-day Olympic Games. He is now interviewing Li Yan, a volunteer for the 2008 Olympic Games.P: My name is Pausanias. I lived in what you call “Ancient Greece” and I used to write about the Olympic Games a long time ago. I’ve come to your time to find out about the present-day Olympic Games because I know that in 2004 they were held in my homeland. May I ask you some questions about the modern Olympics?L: Good heavens! Have you really come from so long ago? But of course you can ask any questions you like. What would you like to know?P: How often do you hold your Games?L: Every four years. There are two main sets of Games-the Winter and Summer Olympics, and both are held every four years on a regular basis. The Winter Olympics are usually held two years before the Summer Games. Only athletes who have reached the agreed standard for their event will be admitted as competitors. They may come from anywhere in the world.P: Winter Games? How can the runners enjoy competing in winter? And what about the horses?L: Oh no! There are no running races or horse riding events. Instead there are competitions like skiing and ice skating which need snow and ice. That’s whythey’re called the Winter Olympics. It’s in the Summer Olympics that you have the running races, together with swimming, sailing and all the team sports. P: I see. Earlier you said that athletes are invited from all over the world. Do you mean the Greek world? Our Greek cities used to compete against each other just for the honour of winning. No other countries could join in, nor could slaves or women!L: Nowadays any country can take part if their athletes are good enough. There are over 250 sports and each on has its own standard. Women are not only allowed, but play a very important role in gymnastics, athletics, team sports and …P: Please wait a minute! All those events, all those countries and even women taking part! Where are all the athletes housed?L: 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.P: That sounds very expensive. Does anyone want to host the Olympic Games?L: As a matter of fact, every country wants the opportunity. It’s a great responsibility but also a great honour to be chosen. There’s as much competition among countries to host the Olympics as to win Olympic medals. The 2008 Olympics will be held in Beijing, China. Did you know that?P: Oh yes! You must be very proud.L: Certainly. And after that the 2012 Olympics will be held in London. They have already started planning for it. A new village for the athletes and all the stadiums will be built to the east of London. New medals will be designed of course and …P: Did you say medals? So even the olive wreath has been replaced! Oh dear! Do you compete for prize money too?L: No, we don’t. it’s still all about being able to run faster, jump higher and throw further. That’s the motto of the Olympics, you know-“Swifter, Higher and Stronger.”P: Well, that’s good news. How interesting! Thank you so much for your time.Unit 3 ComputersWHO AM I?Over time I have been changed quite a lot. I began as a calculating machine in France in 1642. Although I was young I could simplify difficult sums.I developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years before I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage. After I was programmed by an operator who used cards with holes, I could "think" logically and produce an answer quicker than any person. At that time it was considered a technological revolution and the start of my "artificial intelligence". In 1936 my real father, Alan Turing, wrote a book about how I could be made to work as a "universal machine" to solve any difficult mathematical problem. From then on, I grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower. By the 1940s I had grown as large as a room, and I wondered if I would grow any larger. However, this reality also worried my designers. As time went by, I was made smaller. First as a PC (personal computer) and then as a laptop, I have been used in offices and homes since the 1970s.These changes only became possible as my memory improved. First it was stored in tubes, then on transistors and later on very small chips. As a result I totally changed my shape. As I have grown older I have also grown smaller. Over time my memory has developed so much that, like an elephant, I never forget anything I have been told! And my memory became so large that even I couldn't believe it! But I was always so lonely standing there by myself, until in the early 1960s they gave me a family connected by a network. I was able to share my knowledge with others through the World Wide Web.Since the 1970s many new applications have been found for me. I have become very important in communication, finance and trade. I have also been put into robots and used 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 highquality. I am now truly filled with happiness that I am a devoted friend and helper of the human race!Unit 4 Wildlife protectionHOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WLDLIFE Daisy had always longed to help endangered species of wildlife. One day she woke up and found a flying carpet by her bed. "Where do you want to go?" it asked. Daisy responded immediately. "I'd like to see some endangered wildlife," she said. "Please take me to a distant land where I can find the animal that gave fur to make this sweater." At once the carpet flew away and took her to Tibet. There Daisy saw an antelope looking sad. It said, "We're being killed for the wool beneath our stomachs. Our fur is being used to make sweaters for people like you. As a result, we are now an endangered species." At that Daisy cried, "I'm sorry I didn't know that. I wonder what is being done to help you. Flying carpet, please show me a place where there's some wildlife protection."The flying carpet travelled so fast that next minute they were in Zimbabwe. Daisy turned around and found that she was being watched by an elephant. "Have you come to take my photo?" it asked. In relief Daisy burst into laughter. "Don't laugh,” said the elephant, "We used to be an endangered species. Farmers hunted us without mercy. They said we destroyed their farms, and money from tourists only went to the large tour companies. So the government decided to help. They allowed tourists to hunt only a certain number of animals if they paid the farmers. Now the farmers are happy and our numbers are increasing. So good things are being done here to save local wildlife."Daisy smiled. "That's good news. It shows the importance of wildlife protection, but I'd like to help as the WWF suggests." The carpet rose again and almost at once they were in a thick rainforest. A monkey watched them as it rubbed itself. "What are you doing?" asked Daisy. ” I’m protecting myself from mosquitoes," it replied. "When I find a millipede insect, I rub it over my body. It contains a powerful drug which affects mosquitoes. You should paymore attention to the rainforest where I live and appreciate how the animals live together. No rainforest, no animals, no drugs."Daisy was amazed. "Flying carpet, please take me home so I can tell WWF and we can begin producing this new drug. Monkey, please come and help." The monkey agreed. The carpet flew home. As they landed, things began to disappear. Two minutes later everything had gone - the monkey, too. So Daisy was not able to make her new drug. But what an experience! She had learned so much! And there was always WWF…Unit 5 MusicTHE BAND THAT WASN'THave you ever wanted to be part of a band as a famous singer or musician? Have you ever dreamed of playing in front of thousands of people at a concert, at which everyone is clapping and appreciating your music? Do you sing karaoke and pretend you are a famous singer like Song Zuying or Liu Huan? To be honest, a lot of people attach great importance to becoming rich and famous. But just how do people form a band?Many musicians meet and form a band because they like to write and play their own music. They may start as a group of high-school students, for whom practicing their music in someone's house is the first step to fame. Sometimes they may play to passers-by in the street or subway so that they can earn some extra money for themselves or to pay for their instruments. Later they may give performances in pubs or clubs, for which they are paid in cash. Of course they hope to make records in a studio and sell millions of copies to become millionaires!However, there was one band that started in a different way. It was called the Monkees and began as a TV show. The musicians were to play jokes on each other as well as play music, most of which was based loosely on the Beatles. The TV organizers had planned to find four musicians who could act as well as sing. They put an advertisement in a newspaper looking for rockmusicians, but they could only find one who was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three members of the band.As some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to rely on other musicians to help them. So during the broadcasts they just pretended to sing. 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. 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 about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they produced their own records and started touring and playing their own music. In the USA they became even more popular than the Beatles and sold even more records. 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 time as a real band.。

英语背诵名篇30篇+译文以下是30篇英语名篇及其译文，供您背诵研究：1. "To be, or not to be: that is the question." - Hamlet (by William Shakespeare)- “生存还是毁灭，这是一个问题。

” - 《哈姆雷特》（威廉·莎士比亚）2. "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed." - I Have a Dream Speech (by Martin Luther King Jr.)- “我梦想着有一天这个国家将站起来，实现其的真正含义。

” - 《我有一个梦想演讲》（马丁·路德·金）3. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - Pride and Prejudice (by Jane Austen)- “众所周知，凡是富有的单身男人必须找个妻子。

” - 《傲慢与偏见》（简·奥斯汀）4. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." - A Tale of Two Cities (by Charles Dickens)- “那是最好的时代，那是最坏的时代。

” - 《双城记》（查尔斯·狄更斯）5. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein- “在困难的中间蕴藏着机会。

13 Skyscrapers and EnvironmentIn the late 1960’s, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists pointed out that a cluster of tall buildings in a city often overburdens public transportation and parking lot capacities.Skyscrapers are also lavish consumers, and wasters, of electric power. In one recent year, the addition of 17 million square feet of skyscraper office space in New York City raised the peak daily demand for electricity by 120, 000 kilowatts-enough to supply the entire city of Albany, New York, for a day.Glass-walled skyscrapers can be especially wasteful. The heat loss (or gain)through a wall of half-inch plate glass is more than ten times that through a typical masonry wall filled with insulation board. To lessen the strain on heating andair-conditioning equipment, builders of skyscrapers have begun to use double-glazed panels of glass, and reflective glasses coated with silver or gold mirror films that reduce glare as well as heat gain. However, mirror-walled skyscrapers raise the temperature of the surrounding air and affect neighboring buildings. Skyscrapers put a severe strain on a city’s sanitation facilities, too. If fully occupied, the two World Trade Center towers in New York City would alone generate 2.25 million gallons of raw sewage each year-as much as a city the size of Stanford, Connecticut , which has a population of more than 109, 000.。

适合高二学生英语早读积累背诵的内容Title: Great Content for High School Sophomore Students to Memorize and Recite during Early Morning English ReadingIntroduction:Early morning English reading is a great way for high school sophomore students to enhance their language skills and expand their vocabulary. Memorizing and reciting content is a useful method to improve fluency and comprehension. In this article, we will provide a variety of materials that are suitable for high school sophomore students to memorize and recite during their morning English routine.I. Short Stories1. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry2. The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant3. The Lottery by Shirley JacksonII. Poems1. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost2. If by Rudyard Kipling3. Sonnet 18 by William ShakespeareIII. Famous Speeches1. "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr.2. Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy3. The Gettysburg Address by Abraham LincolnIV. Famous Quotations1. "To be, or not to be: that is the question." - William Shakespeare2. "I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes3. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. RooseveltV. Excerpts from Literature1. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee3. Great Expectations by Charles DickensVI. Inspirational Essays1. Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson2. Walden by Henry David Thoreau3. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David ThoreauConclusion:Memorizing and reciting these materials will not only improve the English language skills of high school sophomore students but also expose them to the richness of literature and the power of words. This early morning routine can be a fulfilling and enriching experience for students, helping them to develop a love for language and literature that will last a lifetime.。

高唐一中2018年高二英语课文背诵文本1.BOOK5 P3Some experts believe that the two varieties are moving closer together. For more than a century communications across the Atlantic have developed steadily . Since the 1980s, with satellite TV and the Internet, it has been possible to listen to British and American English at the flick of a switch. This non-stop communication, the experts think, has made it easier for British people and Americans to understand each other. But it has also led to lots of American words and structures passing into British English, so that some people now believe that British English will disappear. （95words）`2. BOOK5 P29Like Huck, Mark Twain led an adventurous life. He left school early, and as an adolescent，determined to make his fortune in South America, set off from his home in Hannibal, Missouri, for New Orleans. He wanted to take a boat to the Amazon, where he thought he could get rich quickly. He arrived in New Orleans without a penny in his pocket only to find that there were no boats for South America. Forced to change his plans, he worked for several years as a pilot on a steamboat, taking passengers up and down the Mississippi，the great river which flows from the north of the US near the Canadian border，down to the Gulf of Mexico. (118words)3.BOOK5 P33The government realised that wearing masks had become a problem. Their use was limited by laws, the first of which dates back to the fourteenth century. Men were not allowed to wear masks at night; and they were not allowed to dress up as women. In later times more laws were passed. People who wore maskscould not carry firearms；and no onecould enter a church wearing a mask. If they broke the laws, they were put into prison for up to two years. Finally, when Venice became part of the Austrian empire，at the end of the eighteenth century, masks were banned completely, and carnival became just a memory. (111words)4. BOOK5 P42They called him the prince of gymnasts. When he retired at the age of 26, he had won 106 gold medals in major competitions across the world. They included six out of seven gold medals at the 1982 World Championship, and three at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles (as well as two silver and a bronze). Li Ning was the best. When sports journalists met in 1999 to make a list of the greatest sportsmen and sportswomen of the twentieth century, Li Ning’s name was on it, together with footballer Pele and boxer Muhammad Ali. But even though he had won everything it was possible to win in his sport, Li Ning retired with the feeling that he had failed. He was disappointed because he had not performed well in the 1988 Seoul Olympics. (134words)5.BOOK P53Often working at night, the poachers shoot whole herds of antelopes at a time，leaving only the babies, whose wool is not worth so much. The animals are skinned on the spot and the wool taken to India, where it is made into the shawls. From there, it is exported to rich countries in North America and Europe. The business is completely illegal—there has been a ban on the trade since 1975. But in the 1990s the shawls came into fashion among rich people. A police raid on a shop in London found 138 shawls. About 1，000 antelopes—or 2 per cent of the world’s population —had been killed to make them. (113words)。

27. Scientific TheoriesIn science, a theory is a reasonable explanation of observed events that are related.A theory often involves an imaginary model that helps scientists picture the way an observed event could be produced. A good example of this is found in the kinetic molecular theory, in which gases are pictured as being made up of many small particles that are in constant motion.A useful theory, in addition to explaining past observations, helps to predict events that have not as yet been observed. After a theory has been publicized, scientists design experiments to test the theory. If observations confirm the scientist’s predictions, the theory is supported. If observations do not confirm the predictions, the scientists must search further. There may be a fault in the experiment, or the theory may have to be revised or rejected.Science involves imagination and creative thinking as well as collecting information and performing experiments. Facts by themselves are not science. As the mathematici an Jules Henri Poincare said, “Science is built with facts just as a house is built with bricks, but a collection of facts cannot be called science any more than a pile of bricks can be called a house.”Most scientists start an investigation by finding out what other scientists have learned about a particular problem. After known facts have been gathered, the scientist comes to the part of the investigation that requires considerable imagination. Possible solutions to the problem are formulated. These possible solutions are called hypotheses.In a way, any hypothesis is a leap into the unknown. It extends the scientist’s thinking beyond the known facts. The scientist plans experiments, performs calculations, and makes observations to test hypotheses. Without hypothesis, further investigation lacks purpose and direction. When hypotheses are confirmed, they are incorporated into theories.。