80年代初中英语课本第五册课文-(3300)

MOULE 5 Western musicUnit 1 You like western classical music, don’t you?3 listen and read.Tony: I like this music! Who's it by?Lingling: Well, I'm not sure, but Sally's school orchestra is playing it.Betty: It's by Strauss. You've heard of him, haven't you?Lingling: Yes, I have. He was German, wasn't he?Betty: No, he wasn't. He was Austrian. He was born in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Daming: What's it called?Betty: The Blue Danube. The Danube is the river in Vienna.Lingling: You like western classical music, don't you?Betty: Yes, I do.Lingling: Who's your favourite classical composer?Betty: Beethoven. But I also like pop music. You listen to pop music, don't you?Lingling: Yes, I love it!Betty: But Sally is a classical musician, so she doesn't like pop music, does she?Lingling: No, she doesn't. I think she'll like traditional Beijing Opera.Tony: Hmm, it's certainly very ... traditional, isn't it?Daming: I'm a fan of rap.Tony: Hey! Give us a break!Lingling: What on earth is that?Daming: Rap music.Tony: I don't believe it!Who'e it by? I'm not sure. I'm a fan of ... Give ue a break! What: on earth is that? I don't believe it!2Check (√) the true sentences.1 They're listening to western classical music. □2 Lingling has heard of Strauss. □3 Strauss was born in the capital of Australia. □4 The Blue Danube is pop music. □5 Beijing Opera is traditional music. □6 Answer the questions about the words in the box.capital composer fan musician river1 What's the capital of Shandong province? 4 How many fans of western classical2 Who's your favourite composer? music are there in your class?3 Which musicians do you like best? 5 Which river goes through Shanghai?Unit 2 Vienna is the centre of European classical music.2 Read the passage and check (√) the true sentences.Vienna is a beautiful old city on the river Danube. It's the capital city of Austria and the centre'of European classical music. From 1750 a lot of composers and musicians came to study and work in Vienna. The most famous family of musicians was the Strauss family.There were two composers called Johann Strauss: a father and a son. The father, Johann Strauss the elder, wrote and played music for a classical dance—a waltz. His waltzes made him famous all over Europe.The son, Johann Strauss the younger, was even more successful and popular than his father. He wrote more than 400 waltzes and his most famous one was The Blue Danube. He wrote it in 1867. Strauss and Mozart were two of the most important composers.Mozart was born in Austria in 1756. Before he was six he played not only the piano, but also the violin and the organ. His family took him around Europe and he gave concerts in many cities. He wrote his first opera at the age of 12 and hundreds of beautiful pieces of music for the classical orchestra. But he died in 1791 when he was only 35. Some people say he was the greatest European composer.1 Many composers and musicians came to study and work in Vienna.2 Strauss the younger played the piano, the violin and the organ at the age of six.3 Mozart wrote his first opera at the age of 14.4 The family took Mozart around Europe.5 The father Johann Strauss died in 1791.6 Mozart wrote The Blue Danube.3 Answer the questions.I Where is Vienna?2 Which family was the most famous family of musicians in Vienna?3 What sort of music did Johann Strauss the elder write?4 What was Johann Strauss the younger's most famous piece of music?5 When was Mozart born?6 What did Mozart write in addition to operas?7 How old was Mozart when he died?8 Who do some people say was the greatest European composer?Writing4 Use the notes to write a passage about the composer Xian Xinghai.·Xian Xinghai·famous for the song The Yellow River·wrote it in 1939 in only six days·music describes China to the rest of the world·used traditional Chinese music·studied in Paris·one of the great composers of classical and traditional music·brought western and Chinese music together·born in Macao, China, 1905·songs have been popular for more than 60 years·called the People's Musician·died young, 1945Xian Xinghai is one of the great composers of classical and traditional music.He was born in ...Unit 3 Language in useShe doesn't like pop music, does she? You've heard of him, haven't you?He was German, wasn't he? You listen to pop music, don't you?It's certainly very traditional, isn't it?.1 Match the sentences in Box A with the question tags in Box B.A 1 You like rock music,B a have they?2 They sing well, b can't we?3 He has written ten new songs this year, c didn't he?4 He wrote traditional music, d do you?5 She was a musician, e don't they?6 We can practise after school, f don't you?7 You don't like this song much, g is it?8 They have never been to any concert, h hasn't he?9 This music isn't very popular, i doesn't he?10 He has a lot of CDs, j wasn't she?2 Write the missing question tags.A Sally: Hi, John! It's a lovely day, (1) ?John: Yes, it is. You're going on holiday today, (2) ?Sally: That's right. I told you last week, (3) ?John: Yes, you did. You didn't get my message last night, (4) ?Sally: No, I didn't. You didn't call me, (5) ?John: Yes, I called about eight. Maybe you didn't hear the phone.BKaty: You like blues music, (1) ?Jenny: Yes, I do. I play the guitar, so I play a lot of blues music. You can play the guitar, (2) ?Katy: No, I can't. Actually, I'm a singer. I don't play any instruments. You didn't come to my last concert, (3) ?Jenny: No. I was busy that day. Your next concert is on Saturday, (4) ?Katy: Yes, that's right. You are coming, (5) ?Jenny: Yes, of course!Now work in pairs and say whether the speaker in each case is asking a real question, or just checking information.6 Complete the passage with the words from Activities 4 and 5.Mozart was a composer . He wrote (1) music and (2) His music is difficult to play and sing. Musicians and (3) train for a long time before they can play and sing Mozart's music, but (4) and rock musicians don't train much. Their most popular instrument is the (5) . In America, black musicians often sing sad songs. They call this music the (6) Another type ofmodern music from America is (7) . This music often uses (8) and other loud instruments. We use (9) and violin to play all types of music.7 Read the passage and answer the questions.Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, the USA on January 8, 1935. In 1948 the family moved to Memphis, Tennessee.At the age of five he loved to listen to radio music. He also liked to go to his neighbourhood church and listen to the music by the black singers and musicians, called gospel. When Elvis was 16 his father bought him a guitar for his birthday. Because his father had very little money, the guitar had no strings. Elvis got a part-time job as a milkman and bought one string a month. Soin six months he could play his guitar. Lucky for him a guitar has only six strings!One day he went to a recording studio and made a song for his mother on her birthday. The manager of the studio thought Elvis was a great singer and decided to make records for him.Next Elvis Presley went on the Ed Sullivan programme and everyone loved him. Elvis had lots of hit records and became the biggest rock singer in the world.He also made lots of films. In 1968 Elvis got his own TV show and it was very popular. He went to Las Vegas and gave a very successful concert there.Around the world he has sold over one billion records, more than any other artist. People think he is one of the most important figures of the 20th century popular culture.Elvis died at his Memphis home, Graceland, on August 16, 1977.1 How long did Elvis live in Memphis?2 What kind of music did Elvis like when he was a young child?3 Where did he get his guitar?4 Why does the writer say Elvis was lucky because a guitar has only six strings?5 Do you think Elvis was an artist? Why?Around the worldThe orchestraAn orchestra is a large group of musicians who play classical music. The main instruments of the orchestra belong to four main categories: strings, (e.g. violins, violas, cellos), woodwind (e.g. oboes, clarinets), brass (e.g. trumpets, trombones), percussion (e.g. drums). The orchestra is led by a conductor. The conductor makes sure that everybody plays together, and shows the orchestra when to play quietly or loudly and when the musicians should stop and start playing.。

Module 1 Learning MethodsUnit 1 I listen to English programmes on the radio1、你怎样提高你的英语水平？2、我们可以观看CCTV9的电视节目3、那是提高你们英语的好方法，还有其他的吗？4、你们还可以做什么？5、和外国人交谈是不错6、我们也可以用英语互相交谈，是不是？7、我在收音机上听英语节目8、我用在我起居室的电脑做这些9、电脑很贵，很多人负担不起10、我正在攒钱买电脑11、在图书馆12、在周末13、在网上14、极好的主意15、读杂志16、看英语录像17、写英语故事Unit 2 You have to study hard to get good results 1、如果你想要取得好的成绩，你必须懂得正确学习的方法2、你必须知道记住东西的最好的方法3、在我们的大脑中有几种记忆类型4、他或她把信息重复了几次5、这是第二种记忆类型6、第三种记忆类型叫做长期记忆8、这将会帮助你记住信息很长一段时间7、它是取得好成绩的最有效的方法8、在考试前一直学到早上三点9、写笔记10、语法练习11、短期记忆12、写下来13、在这种情况下14、对做某事有用15、几周之后16、确保，确信Unit 3 Some of the exams were very difficult1、我认为我将会在英语考试中取得好成绩2、考试包括四个部分；听、说、读、写3、我擅长读并且我很喜欢写4、她说我必须和同学说英语5、你想见来自其他国家的朋友吗？6、它是最新并且最好的学一种语言的方法7、你可以通过网络把作业发给我们8、取笑某人9、去游泳10、害怕做某事11、为···付钱12、开始做某事13、至少14、足够好Module 2 Everyday EnglishUnit 1 Give me five1、什么事？2、你好吗？3、“cool”是什么意思？4、让我们现在去公园踢足球吧5、你以前玩过足球吗？6、你进球了7、击掌8、我想我们应该去吃点东西了9、那听起来很有趣10、笔友11、同意某人12、捡起，搭车Unit 2 Have a nice day 1. 做得非常好2. 作者们怎么决定将哪个单词归入字典中？3. 这不是一个容易回答的问题4. 字典需要跟随语言的改变而改变5. 人们使用一个单词的次数帮助作者或编辑去决定是否那个单词归入字典中6. 他们也在因特网上查询信息7. 我们在我家玩电脑游戏怎么样？8. 把··加到···9. 依赖，依靠10. 删除11. 特殊日常用语12. 例如13. 查询（字典）14. ··的含义15. 去沙滩Unit 3 What’s up , Andy ?1. 在中国过得愉快吗？2. 你学中文了吗？3. 对张海来说讲英语也很困难4. 为什么中文中很多单词听起来都是一样的5. 那是因为词语的含义可以根据你的发音的改变而改变6. 你什么意思？？7. 每一个词都是‘ma’但词却都没有相同的含义8. 跟···生气Unit 4 That’s cool1. 你乘飞机回家一路可好？2. 我希望你没有花费太长时间就返回纽约3. 我和我的家人真的很高兴见到你，并很乐意你待在我们家4. 今天下午在公共汽车上，一个澳大利亚人当时正站在我的旁边5. 我的包掉在了他的脚上6. 那是什么意思？7. 你知道那是什么意思吗？8．我今天上午买了一盒叫《美国日常英语》的磁带9．我也很想去美国拜访你10. 你能给我寄一些你的狗的照片吗？11．世界各地的人们通过看电视和电影学习美式单词和短语12. （代某人）向某人说··13. 向某人学··14. 一直15. 日常英语16. 通过收音机17. 回到中国18. 给某人发电子邮件19. 在伦敦的一个地区20. 在南非21. 本地非洲语22. 起源于··Module 3 A Thousand and One NightsUnit 1 This book is interesting1. 我从未听说过它。

Why the bat comes out only at night（80年代初中英语课本第五册第1课）Long, long ago, there was a war between the birds and the beasts. No one knows what they fought about. The bat did not know whose side he should take. He thought and thought, then decided he must try to be on the side of the winners. So he watched from far away. After a while, it seemed that the birds were going to win. He flew over to join them. “What on earth are you doing here” a bird shouted at him. “Can’t you see I’m a bird”the bat said with a smile. “Look, I have swings, just like you.” “Come along, then,” said the bird. “Don’t hide behind others.” But things changed soon. Now it seemed that the beasts were winning. So the bat left the birds in a hurry and went over to the beasts. “What are you doing on our side” and animal called out to him. “Are you spying on us” “Don’t you know I’m one of you” asked the bat, showing his teeth. “Look. Can’t you see I’ve got teeth, too” “Who are trying to fool”said the animals. “We saw you fighting on the side of the birds just now.” So the beasts drove him off. Of course thebirds refused to take him back. When the beasts and the birds saw neither side could win, they decided to stop fighting. Neither beasts nor birds would have the bat as their friend, so he was afraid to leave his home. Ever since then, he comes out only at night.Lesson 2 Nathan Hale（80年代初中英语课本第五册第2课）The young American stood quietly while the British guards searched his clothes. They found nothing. “If they don’t find the maps in my boot,” he thought, “maybe they will let me go. Then I’ll try to send the maps to General Washington.” “Take off your boots,” one of the guards ordered. The American’s heart beat faster.He took off his boots and handed them to the guard. The guard looked inside one boot, then another. “Use your knife, man!” ordered the British officer nearby. The guard brought out his knife and cut one boot open. He stopped suddenly and the American knew what it meant. The maps of the British army’s defence works! The guards took the American to General Howe. The general looked at the maps. “I see you’ve made some drawing of our defence works,” he said. “This can only mean one thin g.” “Yes, sir.” “Do you have anything to say for yourself” “No, nothing.” “What’s your name” “Nathan Hale.” “Rank” “Captain.”The general studied the maps a few more minutes. “Captain Hale,” he said finally. “I’ve never seen such fine drawings. You know, we could use a man like you. Why not join us You don’t have to worry about rank or pay.” Nathan Hale looked straight at the general. “Nothing could make me turn against my country!” “Then there’s o nly one thing I can do, you understand” “Yes, sir.” “You will be hanged as a spy early tomorrow morning.” * ** Nathan Hale looked around as a British soldier put the rope around his neck. “Now, Nathan Ha le,” said the British officer. “Let’s hear what you have to say before you die.” Nathan Hale took a last look at his beautiful country and said, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”Lesson 3 A question of pronunciation（80年代初中英语课本第五册第3课）This happened in London. It was November and the weather was very wet and cold. A Frenchman had caught a very bad cold. He coughed day and night. So he decided to go and get some medicine for his cough. As he did not know much English, he got out his dictionary and looked up the word “cough”. But the dictionary did not tell him how to pronounce the word. He thought it over and remembered that he had learned the word “plough”. He remembered that it was pronounced [plau]. So he thought that c-o-u-g-h must be pronounced [kau]. The he put on his coat and hat and went to a chemist’s shop. When the man in the shop asked him what he wanted, the Frenchman said: “I want something for my cow, please.” The man in the shop looked at him. Had he heard him correctly “I beg your pardon, sir” he asked. The Frenchman repeated: “I want some medicine for my cow.” “For your cow” asked the man. “Are you a farmer” “A farmer” said the Frenchman in surprise. “What makes you think I’m a farmer I come from Paris. I’m not a farmer.” “Where’s your cow, then” asked the man in the shop. “It’shere!” replied the Frenchman. He put his hand on his chest and began to cough. “Here it is!” he said. “I’ve a very bad co w here.” Then the man in the shop understood what the Frenchman meant. He wanted some medicine for his cough.Lesson 4 The Arab in the desert（80年代初中英语课本第五册第4课）An Arab was walking alone through the desert when he met two men. The men looked worried. It seemed that they had lost something. The Arab went over to them. “Have you lost one of your camels” he asked them. “Yes,” they said. “Was he blind in the right eye and lame in the left foot” asked the Arab. “Yes, he was “Had he lost a tooth and was he carrying corn” “Yes,” said the men. “Please tell us where he is.” “I don’t know where he is,” said the Arab. “I’ve never seen such an animal.” “Did someone tell you about him” “No.” The two men looked at each other in surprise. They could not believe the Arab’s words. Finally, they came up close to him, took hold of him, and shouted: “Where’s the animal And what have you done with our goods” The Arab insisted that he had never seen the camel. At last the men took him before a judge. They said that the Arab had stolen their camel. “I’ve never seen their camel,” insisted the Arab. “But I’m a man of the desert, and I’ve learned tolook carefully at everything I see. This morning I saw the tracks of a lost camel. I knew this because there were no man’s tracks near those of the camel. I also saw that the camel must be blind in the right eye, because he had only eaten the grass on his left side and had not touched the grass on his right. The animal was lame because with one foot he left a track much lighter that any of the others. He had lost a tooth, because wherever he ate grass, there was always a small space left untouched. I also found groups of ants near the tracks of the camel. They were pulling pieces of corn. From these facts I was able to tell what goods the animal was carrying.” The judge and the two men were satisfied with what the Arab had said. Together the four men set out to look for the lost animal.Lesson 5 The seagulls of Salt Lake City（80年代初中英语课本第五册第5课）Salt Lake City is a beautiful city in the west of North America. The name comes from a great salt lake nearby. The city lies in a valley with high mountains all around it. But long ago there was almost nothing in this place and there were very few people living here. More than a hundred years ago, a group of men, women and children moved from the east to the west. They had traveled a long way. At last these brave people came to the great mountains by the salt lake. They crossed the mountains and reached this quiet place. They decided to stay here, and so they built their homes and made their farms. This was where Salt Lake City now lies. The people had to work hard on their farms, because their lives depended on their crops. One day while they were working in the fields, some farmers saw something strange in the sky. “What’s that” asked one of them. “Where” asked another, as he stopped to look. “Over there,” was the reply. They saw something like a cloud coming, but it was too low in the sky. As they watched, it came nearer and nearer. Suddenly a shout went up: “Locusts! Millions ofthem!” The words put fear into the hearts of all, because they knew what locusts could do, and they had never seen so many of them before. In no time the locusts came down and started eating everything –the wheat, the corn, the grass and even the leaves on the trees. The farmers brought out things to fight the locusts. They tried everything. But while they were killing the locusts in one place, millions more arrived in another. What could the farmers do Suddenly there was a great noise. As they looked up, they saw another cloud coming towards them. To their surprise, they saw not locusts this time, but seagulls. The farmers cried out, “They’ve come to eat what the locusts have left.” But to their joy, they found that the seagulls had come to eat not the crops, but the locusts. They had seen or smelled the locusts and had come from the Great Salt Lake. Now they were eating the locusts! In a short while they ate up millions of them. The farmers’ crops were saved! The people were very thankful. They decided that from then on no one should ever kill a seagull. And today, if you go to Salt Lake City, you can see a monument with seagulls on top of it.Lesson 7 The Pyramids（80年代初中英语课本第五册第7课）Thousand of years ago, the kings of Egypt built strong bombs for themselves. Over these tombs they built pyramids. They thought their bodies would be well kept in these until they could come back to life. They also hoped the world could look on the pyramids as monuments to them and would remember them for ever. There are around 80 pyramids in Egypt. But the Great Pyramid is the biggest of all. It is nearly 5,000 years old. It is about 137 metres high today, but it was once highter. It is made of 2,300,000 huge stones. Most of them are higher than a man and weigh about two and a half tons each. Some weigh as much as fifteen tons. It took more than 100,000 men twenty years to build the Great Pyramid. When you look at the pyramids, you can’t help wondering how the Egyptians were able to build them thousands of years ago. How did they cut, carry and lift such huge stones Each stone fits so well, yet they didn’t have our modern machines! Scientists have studied the pyramids, but nobody can tell just how the Egyptians build them so long ago. Inside the pyramids are the rooms for the bodies of the kings and queens. There are lots of wonderful treasures in the pyramids, too.Thieves have broken into some of the pyramids and taken away many of the treasures to foreign countries. They have even stolen the mummies. Today some of the mummies and treasures are on show in museums in different countries. When the kings had the pyramids built for them, they perhaps never thought this would happen.Lesson 8 Once a thief, always a thief（80年代初中英语课本第五册第8课）Mr Smith, the boss of a small factory, once hired a young worker called John Hill. On the first day, Mr Smith took John to one of his workshops and introduced him to the other workers. The men introduced themselves to John and showed him around the factory. Then John started to work. John was good at his job. Soon he got a rise. And he got on well with his workmates. He hoped they could like him. But one morning John noticed that his workmates were looking at him and talking in low voices. Then Bob, one of his workmates, came up to him and asked whether it was true that he had been a thief and had just come out of prison. John’s heart sank. He had been afraid of this all along. He told them that he had been in prison, but he was no longer a thief and wanted to forget the past. The workers went to Mr Smith and asked him to fire John. Mr Smith explained to them that John had told him all about his past when he asked for a job in his factory. That showed John was honest. Since a lot of people make mistakes in life, Mr Smith wanted to give John a chance. The workers went back and John stayed. But after that they were not as friendly to him as before. One afternoon about a week later,Bob could not find his wallet. He went to John and asked whether he had seen his wallet. But John said he knew nothing about it. When Bob tried to catch hold of his arm, John hit him in the face. Bob fell to the ground and blood ran down his nose. Mr Smith came out to see what was happening. The workers again asked him to let John go. They said they would all leave if John stayed. Mr Smith knew what that would mean. So he had to give in and say sorry to John. Just at that moment, in came a woman. It was Bob’s wife. She called out, “Bob, you forgot your wallet when you left home this morning. I thought you would need it, so I brought it over to you.” Everyone looked at Bob. “Jo hn, I…I’m sorry,” said Bob with a red face. “John, I want to apologize-for us all,” said Mr Smith. “Please stay with us. This is a lesson for Bob, for me, and for all of us.”Lesson 9 Edison’s boyhood（80年代初中英语课本第五册第9课）Thomas Edison was born in 1847. When he was a child, he liked to find out how things worked. One day when he was five, his father saw him sitting on some eggs, and asked what he was doing that for. Tom did not reply. Instead, he asked his father why he was not able to hatch chickens while hens could. Young Tom was in school for only three months. During those three months, he asked a lot of questions. Most of them had nothing to do with his lessons. His teacher did not understand why the boy had so many strange questions. He told Tom’s mother that Tom was not bright and was not worth teaching. His mother took him out of school and taught him herself. The boy read a lot. He became very interested in science. By the time he was ten, he had already built a chemistry lab for himself. He planted vegetables in his garden and sold them to buy what he needed for his lab. Once his mother was ill and she sent for a doctor. The doctor said she needed an operation at once. But it was night and the lamp in the room gave poor light. Edison thought hard. Finally he had an idea. He collected all the lamps in the house and put them on a long table. Then he placed a big mirror behindthem. Now there was enough light, so the doctor could operate. Edison’s mother was saved. At the age of twelve, Edison began selling newspapers on a train. When he was free, he printed a newspaper and sold copies to the railway workers. One day in August, 1862, Edison saw a little boy playing on the tracks at a station. A train was coming near quickly, and the boy was too frightened to move. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to safety. The boy’s father was so thankful that he taught Edison how to send messages by railway telegraph. Edison soon became very good at it and later he left home to work in different cities. This gave him a start in life. At that time he was just a boy of sixteen.Lesson 10 Dr. Bethune（80年代初中英语课本第五册第10课）It was late on the night of October 20, 1939, when Dr. Bethune was busy working in a field hospital. An Eighth Route Army man riding a horse came from the front. He told Dr. Bethune that the front was in great need of medical workers. Immediately, Dr. Bethune set off with a medical team. On their way, they met a group of wounded Eighth Route Army men. They took the wounded soldiers into a small temple at once and Bethune began to operate on them. Dr. Bethune went on working throughout the night. When someone asked him to have a rest, he just went on workings. To him, the most important thing was to save lives. He had no time to think about rest. The next day while an operation was going on, a yong man ran in and said to the doctors, “Several hundred enemy soldiers are coming.” Soo n they heard the sound of guns. But Dr. Bethune still went on with his work. Twenty minutes later, when Bethune was operating on the leg of the last wounded soldier, the guns sounded much closer. Again the young man rushed in and told Dr. Bethune not to go on operating any more. “Comrade Bethune, you must leave now!” he said. “Let me go on with the operation,” said oneof the doctors. “You must leave rught now, Dr. Bethune. Hurry!” “Please go, doctor,” begged the wounded soldier himself. “It’s not a bad wound. Take me with you, or leave me here, but please go before the enemy comes.” “Never mind, my boy, it won’t take long,” said Dr. Bethune. “If I spend a few more minutes on it now, I can save your leg. But if I don’t, you’ll lose it.” The guns sounded still closer now, but Dr. Bethune worked on. He and the other doctors did not leave until the operation was over. By that time the Japanese were already very near. As Bethune and the other doctors were climbing the hills, they could see the enemy entering the village in the valley below.Lesson 11 The fisherman and the genie（80年代初中英语课本第五册第11课）Once upon a time there was an old fisherman. He went fishing very early every morning, but he never cast his net more than four times a day. One morning, he went out early to the sea. He cast his net for the first time, and drew in the body of an animal. He cast it a second time, and drew in an old basket full of sand. He cast it a third time, and drew in a lot of stones. It seemed he would have nothing to take home that morning. Day had now broken, and he cast his net for the last time. After some time, he began do draw the net in. He found it was very heavy. But there were not any fish in it. Instead he found a jar with a lid. He shook the jar, but could hear nothing. So he took off the lid and looked inside. He could see nothing. After a while a light smoke came slowly out of the jar. Then little by little, the smoke grew hearvier and thicker until finally it turned into a terrible Genie! “Get down on your knees,” said the Genie, “for I’m going to kill you.” “Why Didn’t I set you free from the jar” “That’s why I’m going to kill you, but I’ll let you choose how you’re going to die.” “But why” “Listen, and Iwill tell you my story.” “I was one of the spirits in heaven. But I did not want to obey Solomon’s orders. So one day, he put me in this jar and threw it into the sea. “During the first hundred years of my stay in the sea, I made a promise that if anyone set me free I would make him very rich. But no one came. During the second hundred years, I promised that if anyone set me free I would show him all the treasures in the earth. But still no one came. During the third hundred years, I promised that if anyone came to set me free, I would make him king over the earth. “Still no one came. Then I became very angry, and decided that if anyone should set me free I would kill him at once. Now you have come and set me free. So you must die, but I will let you say how you want to die.” The fisherman was not frightened. He said: “Since I must die, I must. But before I die, answer me one question.” “All right, but be quick.” “Were you really in the jar You are so big and the jar is so small that it could hardly hold one of your feet.” “Of course I was in the jar. Don’t you believe me” “No, and I won’t until I’ve seen you in the jar with my own eyes.” When heheard this, the Genie changed again into smoke. Slowly the smoke went back into the jar. When all of it was in the jar, the fisherman quickly put the lid on and threw it back into the sea.21第21 页共21 页。

Why the bat comes out only at night？（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第 1 课）Long, long ago, there was a war between the birds and the beasts. No oneknows what they fought about.The bat did not know whose side heshould take. He thought and thought, then decided he must try to be onthe side of the winners.So he watched from far away. After a while,it seemed that the birds were going to win. He flew over to jointhem.“What on earth are you doing here? ”a bird shouted athim.“Can’t you see I ’m a bird?” the bat said with a smile.“L have swings, just like you. ”“ Comealong,then, ”said the bird.“ Don’ t hide behind others. But things” changed soon. Now it seemedthat the beasts were winning. So the bat left the birds in a hurry and wentover to the beasts. “Whatare you doing on our side? ”and animalcalled out to him.“ Are you spying on us?“Don’”tyou know I’ m oneof you? ” asked the bat, showing his teeth.“ Look. Can’ t you see I teeth, too?”“ Who are trying to fool?” said the animals.“ We saw fighting on the side of the birds just now.So the beasts” drove himoff. Of course the birds refused to take him back.When the beastsand the birds saw neither side could win,they decided to stopfighting.Neither beasts nor birds would have the bat as their friend,so he was afraid to leave his home. Ever since then, he comes out onlyat night.Lesson 2 Nathan Hale（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第 2 课）The young American stood quietly while the British guards searched hisclothes. They found nothing. “If they don’t find the maps in my boot,”he thought,“maybe they will let me go. Then I’ll try to send the maps toGeneral Washington.” “ Takeoff your boots,”one of the guardsordered. The American ’hearts beat faster. He took off his boots andhanded them to the guard.The guard looked inside one boot, thenanother.“Use your knife,man!” ordered the British officernearby.The guard brought out his knife and cut one boot open. Hestopped suddenly and the American knew what it meant. The maps of theBritish army ’ sdefence works!The guards took the American toGeneral Howe. The general looked at the maps.“ I see you ’ ve made drawing of our defence works,”he said. “ Thiscan only mean onething.” “ Yes, sir.” “ Do you have anything to say for yourself?” “ No, nothing.” “ What’yours name?”“ NathanHale. ” “Rank?”“ Captain. ”The general studied the maps afew more minutes.“ Captain Hale,” he said finally.“ I ’ ve never s fine drawings. You know, we could use a man like you. Why not join us?You don’havet to worry about rank or pay. ”Nathan Hale lookedstraight at the general. “ Nothing could make me turn against mycountry!”“ Then there ’onlys one thing I can do,youunderstand?” “ Yes,sir.” “ Youwill be hanged as a spy earlytomorrow morning.”***Nathan Hale lookedaround as a British soldier put the rope around his neck.“N ow,Nathan Hale,” said the British officer.“ Let’ s hear what you have to before you die.”Nathan Hale took a last look at his beautiful countryand said,“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”.Lesson 3 A question of pronunciation（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第 3 课）This happened in London. It was November and the weather was verywet and cold. A Frenchman had caught a very bad cold. He coughed dayand night. So he decided to go and get some medicine for his cough. Ashe did not know much English, he got out his dictionary and lookedup the word “ cough ”But. the dictionary did not tell him how topronounce the word. He thought it over and remembered that he hadlearned the word“ plough ” . He remembered that it was pronounced [plau].So he thought that c-o-u-g-h must be pronounced [kau].The he puton his coat and hat and went to a chemist’ s shop. When the man in the shop asked him what he wanted, the Frenchman said:“I wantsomething for my cow, please.The” man in the shop looked at him.Had he heard him correctly?“I beg your pardon, sir?”heasked.The Frenchman repeated: “I want some medicine for mycow. ”“ For your cow? ” asked the man.“ Are you a farmer?“A”farmer?” said the Frenchman in surprise.“ What makes you think I farmer? I come from Paris. I ’mnot a farmer.” “Where’yours cow,then? ” asked the man in the shop. “ It ’ s here!” replied the Frenchman.He put his hand on his chest and began to cough.“ Here it is!” he “ I ’avevery bad cow here. ” Then the man in the shop understoodwhat the Frenchman meant. He wanted some medicine for his cough.Lesson 4 The Arab in the desert（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第 4 课）An Arab was walking alone through the desert when he met two men.The men looked worried. It seemed that they had lost something. TheArab went over to them.“Have you lost one of your camels?” heasked them.“Yes,” they said.“Was he blind in the right eye andlame in the left foot? ”asked the Arab.“ Yes,he was?“ Hadhelost a tooth and was he carrying corn?“ Yes,”” said the men.“ Pleasetell us where he is.“”Idon’ t know where he is,” said the Arab.“never seen such an animal.”“ Did someone tell you abouthim? ”“ No.”The two men looked at each other in surprise. Theycould not believe the Arab’ s words. Finally, they came up close to him,took hold of him, and shouted:“Where’s the animal? And what haveyou done with our goods?The” Arab insisted that he had never seenthe camel. At last the men took him before a judge. They said that theArab had stolen their camel.“I’ve never seen their camel,” insistedthe Arab.“ But I’ m a man of the desert, and I’ ve learned to look care at everything I see. This morning I saw the tracks of a lost camel. I knewthis becausethere were no man’ s tracks nearthose of the camel. I alsosaw that the camel must be blind in the right eye, because he had onlyeaten the grass on his left side and had not touched the grass on his right.The animal was lame because with one foot he left a track much lighterthat any of the others. He had lost a tooth, because wherever he ate grass, there was always a small space left untouched. I also found groups of ants near the tracks of the camel. They were pulling pieces of corn. From these facts I was able to tell what goods the animal wascarrying. ” The judge and the two men were satisfied with what the Arab had said. Together the four men set out to look for the lost animal.Lesson 5The seagulls of Salt Lake City（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第 5 课）Salt Lake City is a beautiful city in the west of North America. Thename comes from a great salt lake nearby. The city lies in a valley withhigh mountains all around it. But long ago there was almost nothing inthis place and there were very few people living here.More than a hundred years ago, a group of men, women and children moved from the east to the west. They had traveled a long way. At last these brave people came to the great mountains by the salt lake. They crossed the mountains and reached this quiet place. They decided to stay here, and so they built their homes and made their farms. This was where Salt Lake City now lies.The people had to work hard on their farms, because their lives depended on their crops.One day while they were working in the fields, some farmers saw something strange in the sky.“What’s that? ” asked one of them. “ Where?” asked another, as he stopped to look.“Overthere,”was the reply.They saw something like a cloud coming, but it was too low in the sky. As they watched, it came nearer and nearer. Suddenly a shout went up: “ Locusts!Millions ofthem! ” The words put fear into the hearts of all, because they knew what locusts could do, and they had never seen so many of them before.In no time the locusts came down and started eating everything –the wheat, the corn, the grass and even the leaves on thetrees.The farmers brought out things to fight the locusts. They tried everything. But while they were killing the locusts in one place, millions more arrived in another. What could the farmers do?Suddenly there was a great noise. As they looked up, they saw another cloud coming towards them. To their surprise, they saw not locusts this time, but seagulls. The farmers cried out, “ They ’comeve to eat what the locusts have left. ”But to their joy, they found that the seagulls had come to eat not the crops, but the locusts. They had seen or smelled the locusts and had come from the Great Salt Lake. Now they were eating the locusts!In a short while they ate up millions of them. The farmers crops’ were saved!The people were very thankful. They decided that from thenon no one should ever kill a seagull. And today, if you go to Salt Lake City, you can see a monument with seagulls on top of it.Lesson 7 The Pyramids（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第7 课）Thousand of years ago, the kings of Egypt built strong bombs for themselves. Over these tombs they built pyramids. They thought their bodies would be well kept in these until they could come back to life.They also hoped the world could look on the pyramids as monuments tothem and would remember them for ever. There are around 80 pyramidsin Egypt. But the Great Pyramid is the biggest of all. It is nearly 5,000years old. It is about 137 metres high today, but it was once highter. It ismade of 2,300,000 huge stones. Most of them are higher than a man and weigh about two and a half tons each. Some weigh as much as fifteentons. It took more than 100,000 men twenty years to build the GreatPyramid.When you look at the pyramids, you can’t help wondering how the Egyptians were able to build them thousands of years ago. Howdid they cut, carry and lift such huge stones? Each stone fits so well, yetthey didn ’havet our modern machines! Scientists have studied the pyramids, but nobody can tell just how the Egyptians build them so longago. Inside the pyramids are the rooms for the bodies of the kings and queens. There are lots of wonderful treasures in the pyramids, too. Thieves have broken into some of the pyramids and taken away many ofthe treasures to foreign countries. They have even stolen the mummies. Today some of the mummies and treasures are on show in museums indifferent countries. When the kings had the pyramids built for them, they perhaps never thought this would happen.Lesson 8 Once a thief, always a thief?（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第8 课）Mr Smith, the boss of a small factory, once hired a young worker called John Hill. On the first day, Mr Smith took John to one of his workshops and introduced him to the other workers. The men introduced themselves to John and showed him around the factory. Then John started towork.John was good at his job. Soon he got a rise. And he got on well with his workmates. He hoped they could like him.But one morning John noticed that his workmates were looking at him and talking in low voices. Then Bob, one of his workmates, came up to him and asked whether it was true that he had been a thief and had just come out of prison. John ’hearts sank. He had been afraid of this all along. He told them that he had been in prison, but he was no longer a thief and wanted to forget the past.The workers went to Mr Smith and asked him to fire John. Mr Smith explained to them that John had told him all about his past when he asked for a job in his factory. That showed John was honest. Since a lot of people make mistakes in life, Mr Smith wanted to give John a chance. The workers went back and John stayed. But after that theywere not as friendly to him as before.One afternoon about a week later, Bob could not find his wallet. He went to John and asked whether he had seen his wallet. But John said he knew nothing about it. When Bob tried to catch hold of his arm, John hit him in the face. Bob fell to theground and blood ran down his nose. Mr Smith came out to see what was happening. The workers again asked him to let John go. They said they would all leave if John stayed. Mr Smith knew what that would mean. So he had to give in and say sorry to John. Just at that moment,in came a woman. It was Bob’ wifes. She called out, “B ob, you forgot your wallet when you left home this morning. I thought you would need it,so I brought it over to you.Everyone” looked at Bob.“ John, I,I ’m sorry,” said Bob with a red face.“John, I want to apologize-forus all,” said Mr Smith. “Please stay with us. This is a lesson for Bob, for me, and for all of us.”Lesson 9 Edison’s boyhood（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第9 课）Thomas Edison was born in 1847. When he was a child, he liked to findout how things worked. One day when he was five, his father saw himsitting on some eggs, and asked what he was doing that for. Tom did notreply. Instead, he asked his father why he was not able to hatch chickenswhile hens could. Young Tom was in school for only three months.During those three months, he asked a lot of questions. Most of them hadnothing to do with his lessons. His teacher did not understand why theboy had so many strange questions. He told Tom’ s mother that Tom was not bright and was not worth teaching. His mother took him out of schooland taught him herself. The boy read a lot. He became very interested inscience.By the time he was ten, he had already built a chemistry labfor himself. He planted vegetables in his garden and sold them to buywhat he needed for his lab. Once his mother was ill and she sent for adoctor. The doctor said she needed an operation at once. But it was nightand the lamp in the room gave poor light. Edison thought hard. Finally hehad an idea. He collected all the lamps in the house and put them on along table. Then he placed a big mirror behind them. Now there wasenough light, so the doctor could operate. Edison ’smother was saved.At the age of twelve, Edison began selling newspapers on a train. Whenhe was free, he printed a newspaper and sold copies to therailway workers.One day in August, 1862, Edison saw a little boy playing on the tracks at a station. A train was coming near quickly, and the boy was too frightened to move. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to safety. The boy’ s father was so thankful that Edisonhetaug h owt to send messages by railway telegraph. Edison soon became very good at it and later he left home to work in different cities. This gave him a start in life. At that time he was just a boy of sixteen.Lesson 10 Dr. Bethune（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第10 课）It was late on the night of October 20, 1939, when Dr. Bethune was busyworking in a field hospital. An Eighth Route Army man riding a horsecame from the front. He told Dr. Bethune that the front was in great needof medical workers. Immediately, Dr. Bethune set off with a medicalteam.On their way, they met a group of wounded Eighth RouteArmy men. They took the wounded soldiers into a small temple at onceand Bethune began to operate on them. Dr. Bethune went on workingthroughout the night. When someone asked him to have a rest, he justwent on workings. To him, the most important thing was to save lives. Hehad no time to think about rest.The next day while an operation wasgoing on, a yong man ran in and said to the doctors, “ Severalhundredenemy soldiers are coming.” Soon they heard thef gunssound.Buto Dr.Bethune still went on with his work. Twenty minutes later, whenBethune was operating on the leg of the last wounded soldier, the gunssounded much closer. Again the young man rushed in and told Dr.Bethune not to go on operating any more.“Comrade Bethune, you mustleave now!” he said.“ Let me go on with the operation,” said one of the doctors.“ You must leave rught now, Dr.Bethune.Hurry!”“ Pleasego, doctor,begged” the wounded soldier himself.“ It ’ s not a bad woundke. Tame with you, or leave me here, but please gobefore the enemy comes.“”Never mind, my boy, it won’ t take long,”said Dr. Bethune.“ If I spend a few more minutes on it now, I can saveyour leg. But if I don’ t, you’ llThelosegunsit. sounded” still closernow, but Dr. Bethune worked on. He and the other doctors did not leaveuntil the operation was over.By that time the Japanese were alreadyvery near. As Bethune and the other doctors were climbing the hills, theycould see the enemy entering the village in the valley below.Lesson 11 The fisherman and the genie（ 80 年代初中英语课本第五册第11 课）Once upon a time there was an old fisherman. He went fishing very early every morning, but he never cast his net more than four times aday.One morning, he went out early to the sea. He cast his net for thefirst time, and drew in the body of an animal. He cast it a second time,and drew in an old basket full of sand. He cast it a third time, and drew ina lot of stones. It seemed he would have nothing to take home that morning.Day had now broken, and he cast his net for the last time.After some time, he began do draw the net in. He found it was very heavy.But there were not any fish in it. Instead he found a jar with a lid. Heshook the jar, but could hear nothing. So he took off the lid and looked inside. He could see nothing. After a while a light smoke came slowly outof the jar. Then little by little, the smoke grew hearvier and thicker untilfinally it turned into a terrible Genie!“Get down on your knees,” said the Genie,“for I’m going to kill you.“Why?” Didn’t I set you freefrom the jar? ”“ That’whys I’ mgoing to kill you, but I’ l let you choose how you’ re going to die.“ But”why?” “ Listen, and I willtell you my story.“”I was one fothe spirits in heaven. But I did notwant to obey Solomon ’orders. So one day, he put me in this jar andthrew it into the sea. “During the first hundred years of my stay in thesea, I made a promise that if anyone set me free I would make him veryrich. But no one came. During the second hundred years, I promisedthat if anyone set me free I would show him all the treasures in the earth. But still no one came. During the third hundred years, I promised that if anyone came to set me free, I would make him king over theearth. “Still no one came. Then I became very angry, and decided that if anyone should set me free I would kill him at once. Now you have come and set me free. So you must die, but I will let you say how you want to die. ” The fisherman was not frightened. He said: “ SinceImust die, I must. But before I die, answer me one question.” “ All right, but be quick.“”Were you really in the jar? You are so big andthe jar is so small that it could hardly hold one of your feet.” “Of course I was in the jar. Don’ t you believe“ me?No,and I”won’t until I ’ ve seen you in the jar with my own eyes.When he”heard this, the Genie changed again into smoke. Slowly the smoke went back into the jar. When all of it was in the jar, the fisherman quickly put the lid on and threwit back into the sea.。

Unit 5Section A 2dA: What were you doing last night, Linda? I called at seven and you didn't pick up.B: Oh, I was in the kitchen helping my mom.A: I see . I called again at eight and you didn't answer then either.B: What was I doing at eight? Oh I know. When you called, I was taking a shower.A: But then I called again at nine.B: Oh, I was sleeping at that time.A: So early? That's strange.B: Yeah, I was tired. Why did you call so many times?A: I needed help with my homework. So while you were sleeping, I called Jenny and she helped me.3aThe storm brought people closer togetherBen could hear strong winds outside his home in Alabama.Black clouds were making the sky very dark.With no light outside, it felt like midnight.The news on TV reported that a heavy rainstorm was in the area.Everyone in the neighborhood was busy.Ben's dad was puttingpieces of wood over the windows while his mom was making sure the flashlights and radio were working.She also put some candles and matches on the table.Ben was helping his mom make dinner when the rain began to beat heavily against the windows.After dinner , they tried to play a card game, but it was hard to have fun with a serious storm happening outside.Ben could not sleep at first.He finally fell asleep when the wind was dying down at around 3:00 a.m. When he woke up, the sun was rising.He went outside with his family and found the neighborhood in a mess.Fallen trees, broken windows and rubbish were everywhere.They joined the neighbors to help clean up the neighborhood together. Although the storm broke many things apart, it brought families and neighbors closer together.Section B 2bDo You Remember What Y ou Were Doing?People often remember what they were doing when they heard the news of important events in history.In America, for example, many people remember what they were doing on April 4,1968.This was an important event in the American history.On this day, Dr Martin LutherKing was killed.Although some people may not remember who killed him, they remember what they were doing when they heard the news.Robert Allen is now over 50, but he was a school pupil at that time."I was at home with my parents," Robert remembers."We were eating dinner in the kitchen when we heard the news on the radio.The news reporter said 'doctor king died just a few minutes ago.'My parents were completely shocked!My parents didn't talk after that, and we finished the rest of our dinner in,silence."More recently, most Americans remember what they were doing when the World Trade Center in New York was taken down by terrorists. The date ---September 11, 2001---has meaning to most Americans.This was a day, Kate Smith will never forget.She remembers working in her office near the two towers."My friend shouted that a plane just hit the world trade center!I didn't believe him at first,but then I looked out of the window and realized that it was true.I was so scared that I could hardly think clearly after that."。

Why the bat comes out only at night？（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第 1 课）Long, long ago, there was a war between the birds and the beasts. No oneknows what they fought about.The bat did not know whose side heshould take. He thought and thought, then decided he must try to be onthe side of the winners.So he watched from far away. After a while,it seemed that the birds were going to win. He flew over to jointhem.“What on earth are you doing here? ”a bird shouted athim.“Can’t you see I ’m a bird?” the bat said with a smile.“L have swings, just like you. ”“ Comealong,then, ”said the bird.“ Don’ t hide behind others. But things” changed soon. Now it seemedthat the beasts were winning. So the bat left the birds in a hurry and wentover to the beasts. “Whatare you doing on our side? ”and animalcalled out to him.“ Are you spying on us?“Don’”tyou know I’ m oneof you? ” asked the bat, showing his teeth.“ Look. Can’ t you see I teeth, too?”“ Who are trying to fool?” said the animals.“ We saw fighting on the side of the birds just now.So the beasts” drove himoff. Of course the birds refused to take him back.When the beastsand the birds saw neither side could win,they decided to stopfighting.Neither beasts nor birds would have the bat as their friend,so he was afraid to leave his home. Ever since then, he comes out onlyat night.Lesson 2 Nathan Hale（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第 2 课）The young American stood quietly while the British guards searched hisclothes. They found nothing. “If they don’t find the maps in my boot,”he thought,“maybe they will let me go. Then I’ll try to send the maps toGeneral Washington.” “ Takeoff your boots,”one of the guardsordered. The American ’hearts beat faster. He took off his boots andhanded them to the guard.The guard looked inside one boot, thenanother.“Use your knife,man!” ordered the British officernearby.The guard brought out his knife and cut one boot open. Hestopped suddenly and the American knew what it meant. The maps of theBritish army ’ sdefence works!The guards took the American toGeneral Howe. The general looked at the maps.“ I see you ’ ve made drawing of our defence works,”he said. “ Thiscan only mean onething.” “ Yes, sir.” “ Do you have anything to say for yourself?” “ No, nothing.” “ What’yours name?”“ NathanHale. ” “Rank?”“ Captain. ”The general studied the maps afew more minutes.“ Captain Hale,” he said finally.“ I ’ ve never s fine drawings. You know, we could use a man like you. Why not join us?You don’havet to worry about rank or pay. ”Nathan Hale lookedstraight at the general. “ Nothing could make me turn against mycountry!”“ Then there ’onlys one thing I can do,youunderstand?” “ Yes,sir.” “ Youwill be hanged as a spy earlytomorrow morning.”***Nathan Hale lookedaround as a British soldier put the rope around his neck.“N ow,Nathan Hale,” said the British officer.“ Let’ s hear what you have to before you die.”Nathan Hale took a last look at his beautiful countryand said,“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”.Lesson 3 A question of pronunciation（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第 3 课）This happened in London. It was November and the weather was verywet and cold. A Frenchman had caught a very bad cold. He coughed dayand night. So he decided to go and get some medicine for his cough. Ashe did not know much English, he got out his dictionary and lookedup the word “ cough ”But. the dictionary did not tell him how topronounce the word. He thought it over and remembered that he hadlearned the word“ plough ” . He remembered that it was pronounced [plau].So he thought that c-o-u-g-h must be pronounced [kau].The he puton his coat and hat and went to a chemist’ s shop. When the man in the shop asked him what he wanted, the Frenchman said:“I wantsomething for my cow, please.The” man in the shop looked at him.Had he heard him correctly?“I beg your pardon, sir?”heasked.The Frenchman repeated: “I want some medicine for mycow. ”“ For your cow? ” asked the man.“ Are you a farmer?“A”farmer?” said the Frenchman in surprise.“ What makes you think I farmer? I come from Paris. I ’mnot a farmer.” “Where’yours cow,then? ” asked the man in the shop. “ It ’ s here!” replied the Frenchman.He put his hand on his chest and began to cough.“ Here it is!” he “ I ’avevery bad cow here. ” Then the man in the shop understoodwhat the Frenchman meant. He wanted some medicine for his cough.Lesson 4 The Arab in the desert（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第 4 课）An Arab was walking alone through the desert when he met two men.The men looked worried. It seemed that they had lost something. TheArab went over to them.“Have you lost one of your camels?” heasked them.“Yes,” they said.“Was he blind in the right eye andlame in the left foot? ”asked the Arab.“ Yes,he was?“ Hadhelost a tooth and was he carrying corn?“ Yes,”” said the men.“ Pleasetell us where he is.“”Idon’ t know where he is,” said the Arab.“never seen such an animal.”“ Did someone tell you abouthim? ”“ No.”The two men looked at each other in surprise. Theycould not believe the Arab’ s words. Finally, they came up close to him,took hold of him, and shouted:“Where’s the animal? And what haveyou done with our goods?The” Arab insisted that he had never seenthe camel. At last the men took him before a judge. They said that theArab had stolen their camel.“I’ve never seen their camel,” insistedthe Arab.“ But I’ m a man of the desert, and I’ ve learned to look care at everything I see. This morning I saw the tracks of a lost camel. I knewthis becausethere were no man’ s tracks nearthose of the camel. I alsosaw that the camel must be blind in the right eye, because he had onlyeaten the grass on his left side and had not touched the grass on his right.The animal was lame because with one foot he left a track much lighterthat any of the others. He had lost a tooth, because wherever he ate grass, there was always a small space left untouched. I also found groups of ants near the tracks of the camel. They were pulling pieces of corn. From these facts I was able to tell what goods the animal wascarrying. ” The judge and the two men were satisfied with what the Arab had said. Together the four men set out to look for the lost animal.Lesson 5The seagulls of Salt Lake City（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第 5 课）Salt Lake City is a beautiful city in the west of North America. Thename comes from a great salt lake nearby. The city lies in a valley withhigh mountains all around it. But long ago there was almost nothing inthis place and there were very few people living here.More than a hundred years ago, a group of men, women and children moved from the east to the west. They had traveled a long way. At last these brave people came to the great mountains by the salt lake. They crossed the mountains and reached this quiet place. They decided to stay here, and so they built their homes and made their farms. This was where Salt Lake City now lies.The people had to work hard on their farms, because their lives depended on their crops.One day while they were working in the fields, some farmers saw something strange in the sky.“What’s that? ” asked one of them. “ Where?” asked another, as he stopped to look.“Overthere,”was the reply.They saw something like a cloud coming, but it was too low in the sky. As they watched, it came nearer and nearer. Suddenly a shout went up: “ Locusts!Millions ofthem! ” The words put fear into the hearts of all, because they knew what locusts could do, and they had never seen so many of them before.In no time the locusts came down and started eating everything –the wheat, the corn, the grass and even the leaves on thetrees.The farmers brought out things to fight the locusts. They tried everything. But while they were killing the locusts in one place, millions more arrived in another. What could the farmers do?Suddenly there was a great noise. As they looked up, they saw another cloud coming towards them. To their surprise, they saw not locusts this time, but seagulls. The farmers cried out, “ They ’comeve to eat what the locusts have left. ”But to their joy, they found that the seagulls had come to eat not the crops, but the locusts. They had seen or smelled the locusts and had come from the Great Salt Lake. Now they were eating the locusts!In a short while they ate up millions of them. The farmers crops’ were saved!The people were very thankful. They decided that from thenon no one should ever kill a seagull. And today, if you go to Salt Lake City, you can see a monument with seagulls on top of it.Lesson 7 The Pyramids（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第7 课）Thousand of years ago, the kings of Egypt built strong bombs for themselves. Over these tombs they built pyramids. They thought their bodies would be well kept in these until they could come back to life.They also hoped the world could look on the pyramids as monuments tothem and would remember them for ever. There are around 80 pyramidsin Egypt. But the Great Pyramid is the biggest of all. It is nearly 5,000years old. It is about 137 metres high today, but it was once highter. It ismade of 2,300,000 huge stones. Most of them are higher than a man and weigh about two and a half tons each. Some weigh as much as fifteentons. It took more than 100,000 men twenty years to build the GreatPyramid.When you look at the pyramids, you can’t help wondering how the Egyptians were able to build them thousands of years ago. Howdid they cut, carry and lift such huge stones? Each stone fits so well, yetthey didn ’havet our modern machines! Scientists have studied the pyramids, but nobody can tell just how the Egyptians build them so longago. Inside the pyramids are the rooms for the bodies of the kings and queens. There are lots of wonderful treasures in the pyramids, too. Thieves have broken into some of the pyramids and taken away many ofthe treasures to foreign countries. They have even stolen the mummies. Today some of the mummies and treasures are on show in museums indifferent countries. When the kings had the pyramids built for them, they perhaps never thought this would happen.Lesson 8 Once a thief, always a thief?（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第8 课）Mr Smith, the boss of a small factory, once hired a young worker called John Hill. On the first day, Mr Smith took John to one of his workshops and introduced him to the other workers. The men introduced themselves to John and showed him around the factory. Then John started towork.John was good at his job. Soon he got a rise. And he got on well with his workmates. He hoped they could like him.But one morning John noticed that his workmates were looking at him and talking in low voices. Then Bob, one of his workmates, came up to him and asked whether it was true that he had been a thief and had just come out of prison. John ’hearts sank. He had been afraid of this all along. He told them that he had been in prison, but he was no longer a thief and wanted to forget the past.The workers went to Mr Smith and asked him to fire John. Mr Smith explained to them that John had told him all about his past when he asked for a job in his factory. That showed John was honest. Since a lot of people make mistakes in life, Mr Smith wanted to give John a chance. The workers went back and John stayed. But after that theywere not as friendly to him as before.One afternoon about a week later, Bob could not find his wallet. He went to John and asked whether he had seen his wallet. But John said he knew nothing about it. When Bob tried to catch hold of his arm, John hit him in the face. Bob fell to theground and blood ran down his nose. Mr Smith came out to see what was happening. The workers again asked him to let John go. They said they would all leave if John stayed. Mr Smith knew what that would mean. So he had to give in and say sorry to John. Just at that moment,in came a woman. It was Bob’ wifes. She called out, “B ob, you forgot your wallet when you left home this morning. I thought you would need it,so I brought it over to you.Everyone” looked at Bob.“ John, I,I ’m sorry,” said Bob with a red face.“John, I want to apologize-forus all,” said Mr Smith. “Please stay with us. This is a lesson for Bob, for me, and for all of us.”Lesson 9 Edison’s boyhood（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第9 课）Thomas Edison was born in 1847. When he was a child, he liked to findout how things worked. One day when he was five, his father saw himsitting on some eggs, and asked what he was doing that for. Tom did notreply. Instead, he asked his father why he was not able to hatch chickenswhile hens could. Young Tom was in school for only three months.During those three months, he asked a lot of questions. Most of them hadnothing to do with his lessons. His teacher did not understand why theboy had so many strange questions. He told Tom’ s mother that Tom was not bright and was not worth teaching. His mother took him out of schooland taught him herself. The boy read a lot. He became very interested inscience.By the time he was ten, he had already built a chemistry labfor himself. He planted vegetables in his garden and sold them to buywhat he needed for his lab. Once his mother was ill and she sent for adoctor. The doctor said she needed an operation at once. But it was nightand the lamp in the room gave poor light. Edison thought hard. Finally hehad an idea. He collected all the lamps in the house and put them on along table. Then he placed a big mirror behind them. Now there wasenough light, so the doctor could operate. Edison ’smother was saved.At the age of twelve, Edison began selling newspapers on a train. Whenhe was free, he printed a newspaper and sold copies to therailway workers.One day in August, 1862, Edison saw a little boy playing on the tracks at a station. A train was coming near quickly, and the boy was too frightened to move. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to safety. The boy’ s father was so thankful that Edisonhetaug h owt to send messages by railway telegraph. Edison soon became very good at it and later he left home to work in different cities. This gave him a start in life. At that time he was just a boy of sixteen.Lesson 10 Dr. Bethune（80 年代初中英语课本第五册第10 课）It was late on the night of October 20, 1939, when Dr. Bethune was busyworking in a field hospital. An Eighth Route Army man riding a horsecame from the front. He told Dr. Bethune that the front was in great needof medical workers. Immediately, Dr. Bethune set off with a medicalteam.On their way, they met a group of wounded Eighth RouteArmy men. They took the wounded soldiers into a small temple at onceand Bethune began to operate on them. Dr. Bethune went on workingthroughout the night. When someone asked him to have a rest, he justwent on workings. To him, the most important thing was to save lives. Hehad no time to think about rest.The next day while an operation wasgoing on, a yong man ran in and said to the doctors, “ Severalhundredenemy soldiers are coming.” Soon they heard thef gunssound.Buto Dr.Bethune still went on with his work. Twenty minutes later, whenBethune was operating on the leg of the last wounded soldier, the gunssounded much closer. Again the young man rushed in and told Dr.Bethune not to go on operating any more.“Comrade Bethune, you mustleave now!” he said.“ Let me go on with the operation,” said one of the doctors.“ You must leave rught now, Dr.Bethune.Hurry!”“ Pleasego, doctor,begged” the wounded soldier himself.“ It ’ s not a bad woundke. Tame with you, or leave me here, but please gobefore the enemy comes.“”Never mind, my boy, it won’ t take long,”said Dr. Bethune.“ If I spend a few more minutes on it now, I can saveyour leg. But if I don’ t, you’ llThelosegunsit. sounded” still closernow, but Dr. Bethune worked on. He and the other doctors did not leaveuntil the operation was over.By that time the Japanese were alreadyvery near. As Bethune and the other doctors were climbing the hills, theycould see the enemy entering the village in the valley below.Lesson 11 The fisherman and the genie（ 80 年代初中英语课本第五册第11 课）Once upon a time there was an old fisherman. He went fishing very early every morning, but he never cast his net more than four times aday.One morning, he went out early to the sea. He cast his net for thefirst time, and drew in the body of an animal. He cast it a second time,and drew in an old basket full of sand. He cast it a third time, and drew ina lot of stones. It seemed he would have nothing to take home that morning.Day had now broken, and he cast his net for the last time.After some time, he began do draw the net in. He found it was very heavy.But there were not any fish in it. Instead he found a jar with a lid. Heshook the jar, but could hear nothing. So he took off the lid and looked inside. He could see nothing. After a while a light smoke came slowly outof the jar. Then little by little, the smoke grew hearvier and thicker untilfinally it turned into a terrible Genie!“Get down on your knees,” said the Genie,“for I’m going to kill you.“Why?” Didn’t I set you freefrom the jar? ”“ That’whys I’ mgoing to kill you, but I’ l let you choose how you’ re going to die.“ But”why?” “ Listen, and I willtell you my story.“”I was one fothe spirits in heaven. But I did notwant to obey Solomon ’orders. So one day, he put me in this jar andthrew it into the sea. “During the first hundred years of my stay in thesea, I made a promise that if anyone set me free I would make him veryrich. But no one came. During the second hundred years, I promisedthat if anyone set me free I would show him all the treasures in the earth. But still no one came. During the third hundred years, I promised that if anyone came to set me free, I would make him king over theearth. “Still no one came. Then I became very angry, and decided that if anyone should set me free I would kill him at once. Now you have come and set me free. So you must die, but I will let you say how you want to die. ” The fisherman was not frightened. He said: “ SinceImust die, I must. But before I die, answer me one question.” “ All right, but be quick.“”Were you really in the jar? You are so big andthe jar is so small that it could hardly hold one of your feet.” “Of course I was in the jar. Don’ t you believe“ me?No,and I”won’t until I ’ ve seen you in the jar with my own eyes.When he”heard this, the Genie changed again into smoke. Slowly the smoke went back into the jar. When all of it was in the jar, the fisherman quickly put the lid on and threwit back into the sea.。

TOPIC 1Section1----Hi, how are you doing?----Very well .thank you! You look excited. Why?----Guess what? My father and mother want to invite your parents to go to see the movies.----Really? What the movie are they going to see?----The sound of music.----Oh, it is my favorite movies. When are they going?----This Saturday. And we can spend the evening at my house, my mother prepare some delicious food for us.----WOw! That is great! I am so happy. Please say thanks to your mom. Section2----Good morning .Mr. lee----Good morning. You look very happy this morning. Why all the smiling faces?----Our parents are going to the movie theater. And we children are going to spend the evening at kang kang’s house.----That’s very exciting. What movie are they going to see?----They are going to see The Sound of Music----How nice, they are very luck. I want to buy a ticket, but there was none left .I feel disappointed----What a shame.Section 3----What’s the matter of Mr. Lee? He seems little unhappy----he feels disappointed, because he couldn’t get a ticket to the sound of music----I think he really want to watch it----I hope he can see movie next time, it’s also my favorite. I think it’s very interesting.----I love opera. My favorite is cats. It’s so fu nny and interesting. Do you likeopera?----No. I don’t like it at all. It‘s boring, but my parents like Beijing opera a lot.----So what do you like best?----The film, Love me once more mom. It’s movingSection4----kangkang are you setting the table for your friends?----Yes, mom----Just set three places, Michal isn’t able to come, He has a temperature. His mother calling just now----That’s too bad. I hope everything goes well. I’ll ring up Michael later.----You can also phone Mr. Lee and tell him he can go to see the movie with us ----Ok, I’m sure Mr.Lee will be so surprised.Section 5The sound of music is one of the most popular American movies it is a story about a young woman, living in Austria, Her name is Maria. She went to the VON trapp family to care for the children. Mrs. VON Trapp died and the family was very sad and tried. The children cried and shouted everyday. The father was lonely and often became angry of noisy children. Maria taught the children to sing the living songs, and perform short funny plays to cheer them up .The father was almost mad at first ,but the smiling faces of his children pleased him and made him happy again.Section 6Beijing opera is our national opera. It came into Beijing after 1790, and has 200 years of history. Its music and singing came from XiPi, and Erhuang in Anhui and Hubei. There are four roles in Beijing opera: sheng Dan jing and chou.Bejing opera is full of famous stories beautiful facial painting, wonderful gesture and fighting. It is an important part of Chinese culture. Beijing opera used to be popular with old people, while young people didn’t like it very much .However, more and more young people, and even foreigner are being interested in it nowadays.。

Why the bat comes out only at night？（80年代初中英语课本第五册第1课）Long, long ago, there was a war between the birds and the beasts. No one knows what they fought about. The bat did not know whose side he should take. He thought and thought, then decided he must try to be on the side of the winners. So he watched from far away. After a while, it seemed that the birds were going to win. He flew over to join them. “What on earth are you doing here?” a bird shouted at him. “Can’t you see I’m a bird?” the bat said with a smile. “Look, I have swings, just like you.”“Come along, then,” said the bird. “Don’t hide behind others.”But things changed soon. Now it seemed that the beasts were winning. So the bat left the birds in a hurry and went over to the beasts. “What are you doing on our side?” and animal called out to him. “Are you spying on us?”“Don’t you know I’m one of you?” asked the bat, showing his teeth. “Look. Can’t you see I’ve got teeth, too?”“Who are trying to fool?”said the animals. “We saw you fighting on the side of the birds just now.”So the beasts drove him off. Of course the birds refused to take him back. When the beastsand the birds saw neither side could win, they decided to stop fighting. Neither beasts nor birds would have the bat as their friend, so he was afraid to leave his home. Ever since then, he comes out only at night.Lesson 2 Nathan Hale（80年代初中英语课本第五册第2课）The young American stood quietly while the British guards searched his clothes. They found nothing. “If they don’t find the maps in my boot,” he thought, “maybe they will let me go. Then I’ll try to send the maps to General Washington.”“Take off your boots,” one of the guards ordered. The American’s heart beat faster. He took off his boots and handed them to the guard. The guard looked inside one boot, then another. “Use your knife, man!”ordered the British officer nearby. The guard brought out his knife and cut one boot open. He stopped suddenly and the American knew what it meant. The maps of the British army’s defence works! The guards took the American to General Howe. The general looked at the maps. “I see you’ve made some drawing of our defence works,” he said. “This can only mean one thing.”“Yes, sir.”“Do you have anything to say for yourself?”“No, nothing.”“What’s your name?”“Nathan Hale.”“Rank?”“Captain.”The general studied the maps a few more minutes. “Captain Hale,” he said finally. “I’ve never seen such fine drawings. You know, we could use a man like you. Why not join us? You don’t have to worry about rank or pay.”Nathan Hale looked straight at the general. “Nothing could make me turn against my country!”“Then there’s only one thing I can do, you understand?”“Yes, sir.”“You will be hanged as a spy early tomorrow morning.”* ** Nathan Hale looked around as a British soldier put the rope around his neck. “Now, Nathan Hale,” said the British officer. “Let’s hear what you have to say before you die.”Nathan Hale took a last look at his beautiful country and said, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”Lesson 3 A question of pronunciation（80年代初中英语课本第五册第3课）This happened in London. It was November and the weather was very wet and cold. A Frenchman had caught a very bad cold. He coughed day and night. So he decided to go and get some medicine for his cough. As he did not know much English, he got out his dictionary and looked up the word “cough”. But the dictionary did not tell him how to pronounce the word. He thought it over and remembered that he had learned the word “plough”. He remembered that it was pronounced [plau]. So he thought that c-o-u-g-h must be pronounced [kau]. The he put on his coat and hat and went to a chemist’s shop. When the man in the shop asked him what he wanted, the Frenchman said: “I want something for my cow, please.”The man in the shop looked at him. Had he heard him correctly? “I beg your pardon, sir?” he asked. The Frenchman repeated: “I want some medicine for my cow.”“For your cow?” asked the man. “Are you a farmer?”“A farmer?” said the Frenchman in surprise. “What makes you think I’m a farmer?I come from Paris. I’m not a farmer.”“Where’s your cow, then?” asked the man in the shop. “It’s here!” replied the Frenchman. He put his hand on his chest and began to cough. “Here it is!” he said. “I’ve a very bad cow here.”Then the man in the shop understood what the Frenchman meant. He wanted some medicine for his cough.Lesson 4 The Arab in the desert（80年代初中英语课本第五册第4课）An Arab was walking alone through the desert when he met two men. The men looked worried. It seemed that they had lost something. The Arab went over to them. “Have you lost one of your camels?” he asked them. “Yes,”they said. “Was he blind in the right eye and lame in the left foot?” asked the Arab. “Yes, he was? “Had he lost a tooth and was he carrying corn?”“Yes,” said the men. “Please tell us where he is.”“I don’t know where he is,” said the Arab. “I’ve never seen such an animal.”“Did someone tell you about him?”“No.”The two men looked at each other in surprise. They could not believe the Arab’s words. Finally, they came up close to him, took hold of him, and shouted: “Where’s the animal? And what have you done with our goods?”The Arab insisted that he had never seen the camel. At last the men took him before a judge. They said that the Arab had stolen their camel. “I’ve never seen their camel,” insisted the Arab. “But I’m a man of the desert, and I’ve learned to look carefully ateverything I see. This morning I saw the tracks of a lost camel.I knew this because there were no man’s tracks near those of the camel. I also saw that the camel must be blind in the right eye, because he had only eaten the grass on his left side and had not touched the grass on his right. The animal was lame because with one foot he left a track much lighter that any of the others. He had lost a tooth, because wherever he ate grass, there was always a small space left untouched. I also found groups of ants near the tracks of the camel. They were pulling pieces of corn. From these facts I was able to tell what goods the animal was carrying.”The judge and the two men were satisfied with what the Arab had said. Together the four men set out to look for the lost animal.Lesson 5 The seagulls of Salt Lake City（80年代初中英语课本第五册第5课）Salt Lake City is a beautiful city in the west of North America. The name comes from a great salt lake nearby. The city lies in a valley with high mountains all around it. But long ago there was almost nothing in this place and there were very few people living here. More than a hundred years ago, a group of men, women and children moved from the east to the west. They had traveled a long way. At last these brave people came to the great mountains by the salt lake. They crossed the mountains and reached this quiet place. They decided to stay here, and so they built their homes and made their farms. This was where Salt Lake City now lies. The people had to work hard on their farms, because their lives depended on their crops. One day while they were working in the fields, some farmers saw something strange in the sky. “What’s that?”asked one of them. “Where?” asked another, as he stopped to look. “Over there,”was the reply. They saw something like a cloud coming, but it was too low in the sky. As they watched, it came nearer and nearer. Suddenly a shout went up: “Locusts! Millions ofthem!”The words put fear into the hearts of all, because they knew what locusts could do, and they had never seen so many of them before. In no time the locusts came down and started eating everything – the wheat, the corn, the grass and even the leaves on the trees. The farmers brought out things to fight the locusts. They tried everything. But while they were killing the locusts in one place, millions more arrived in another. What could the farmers do? Suddenly there was a great noise. As they looked up, they saw another cloud coming towards them. To their surprise, they saw not locusts this time, but seagulls. The farmers cried out, “They’ve come to eat what the locusts have left.”But to their joy, they found that the seagulls had come to eat not the crops, but the locusts. They had seen or smelled the locusts and had come from the Great Salt Lake. Now they were eating the locusts! In a short while they ate up millions of them. The farmers’crops were saved! The people were very thankful. They decided that from then on no one should ever kill a seagull. And today, if you go to Salt Lake City, you can see a monument with seagulls on top of it.Lesson 7 The Pyramids（80年代初中英语课本第五册第7课）Thousand of years ago, the kings of Egypt built strong bombs for themselves. Over these tombs they built pyramids. They thought their bodies would be well kept in these until they could come back to life. They also hoped the world could look on the pyramids as monuments to them and would remember them for ever. There are around 80 pyramids in Egypt. But the Great Pyramid is the biggest of all. It is nearly 5,000 years old. It is about 137 metres high today, but it was once highter. It is made of 2,300,000 huge stones. Most of them are higher than a man and weigh about two and a half tons each. Some weigh as much as fifteen tons. It took more than 100,000 men twenty years to build the Great Pyramid. When you look at the pyramids, you can’t help wondering how the Egyptians were able to build them thousands of years ago. How did they cut, carry and lift such huge stones? Each stone fits so well, yet they didn’t have our modern machines! Scientists have studied the pyramids, but nobody can tell just how the Egyptians build them so long ago. Inside the pyramids are the rooms for the bodies of the kings and queens. There are lots of wonderful treasures in the pyramids, too. Thieves havebroken into some of the pyramids and taken away many of the treasures to foreign countries. They have even stolen the mummies. Today some of the mummies and treasures are on show in museums in different countries. When the kings had the pyramids built for them, they perhaps never thought this would happen.Lesson 8 Once a thief, always a thief?（80年代初中英语课本第五册第8课）Mr Smith, the boss of a small factory, once hired a young worker called John Hill. On the first day, Mr Smith took John to one of his workshops and introduced him to the other workers. The men introduced themselves to John and showed him around the factory. Then John started to work. John was good at his job. Soon he got a rise. And he got on well with his workmates. He hoped they could like him. But one morning John noticed that his workmates were looking at him and talking in low voices. Then Bob, one of his workmates, came up to him and asked whether it was true that he had been a thief and had just come out of prison. John’s heart sank. He had been afraid of this all along. He told them that he had been in prison, but he was no longer a thief and wanted to forget the past. The workers went to Mr Smith and asked him to fire John. Mr Smith explained to them that John had told him all about his past when he asked for a job in his factory. That showed John was honest. Since a lot of people make mistakes in life, Mr Smith wanted to give John a chance. The workers went back and John stayed. But after that they were not as friendly to him as before. One afternoon about a week later,Bob could not find his wallet. He went to John and asked whether he had seen his wallet. But John said he knew nothing about it. When Bob tried to catch hold of his arm, John hit him in the face. Bob fell to the ground and blood ran down his nose. Mr Smith came out to see what was happening. The workers again asked him to let John go. They said they would all leave if John stayed. Mr Smith knew what that would mean. So he had to give in and say sorry to John. Just at that moment, in came a woman. It was Bob’s wife. She called out, “Bob, you forgot your wallet when you left home this morning. I thought you would need it, so I brought it over to you.”Everyone looked at Bob. “John, I…I’m sorry,” said Bob with a red face. “John, I want to apologize-for us all,” said Mr Smith. “Please stay with us. This is a lesson for Bob, for me, and for all of us.”Lesson 9 Edison’s boyhood（80年代初中英语课本第五册第9课）Thomas Edison was born in 1847. When he was a child, he liked to find out how things worked. One day when he was five, his father saw him sitting on some eggs, and asked what he was doing that for. Tom did not reply. Instead, he asked his father why he was not able to hatch chickens while hens could. Young Tom was in school for only three months. During those three months, he asked a lot of questions. Most of them had nothing to do with his lessons. His teacher did not understand why the boy had so many strange questions. He told Tom’s mother that Tom was not bright and was not worth teaching. His mother took him out of school and taught him herself. The boy read a lot. He became very interested in science. By the time he was ten, he had already built a chemistry lab for himself. He planted vegetables in his garden and sold them to buy what he needed for his lab. Once his mother was ill and she sent for a doctor. The doctor said she needed an operation at once. But it was night and the lamp in the room gave poor light. Edison thought hard. Finally he had an idea. He collected all the lamps in the house and put them on a long table. Then he placed a big mirror behindthem. Now there was enough light, so the doctor could operate. Edison’s mother was saved. At the age of twelve, Edison began selling newspapers on a train. When he was free, he printed a newspaper and sold copies to the railway workers. One day in August, 1862, Edison saw a little boy playing on the tracks at a station. A train was coming near quickly, and the boy was too frightened to move. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to safety. The boy’s father was so thankful that he taught Edison how to send messages by railway telegraph. Edison soon became very good at it and later he left home to work in different cities. This gave him a start in life. At that time he was just a boy of sixteen.Lesson 10 Dr. Bethune（80年代初中英语课本第五册第10课）It was late on the night of October 20, 1939, when Dr. Bethune was busy working in a field hospital. An Eighth Route Army man riding a horse came from the front. He told Dr. Bethune that the front was in great need of medical workers. Immediately, Dr. Bethune set off with a medical team. On their way, they met a group of wounded Eighth Route Army men. They took the wounded soldiers into a small temple at once and Bethune began to operate on them. Dr. Bethune went on working throughout the night. When someone asked him to have a rest, he just went on workings. To him, the most important thing was to save lives. He had no time to think about rest. The next day while an operation was going on, a yong man ran in and said to the doctors, “Several hundred enemy soldiers are coming.” Soon they heard the sound of guns. But Dr. Bethune still went on with his work. Twenty minutes later, when Bethune was operating on the leg of the last wounded soldier, the guns sounded much closer. Again the young man rushed in and told Dr. Bethune not to go on operating any more. “Comrade Bethune, you must leave now!”he said. “Let me go on with the operation,” said oneof the doctors. “You must leave rught now, Dr. Bethune. Hurry!”“Please go, doctor,” begged the wounded soldier himself. “It’s not a bad wound. Take me with you, or leave me here, but please go before the enemy comes.”“Never mind, my boy, it won’t take long,”said Dr. Bethune. “If I spend a few more minutes on it now, I can save your leg. But if I don’t, you’ll lose it.”The guns sounded still closer now, but Dr. Bethune worked on. He and the other doctors did not leave until the operation was over. By that time the Japanese were already very near. As Bethune and the other doctors were climbing the hills, they could see the enemy entering the village in the valley below.Lesson 11 The fisherman and the genie（80年代初中英语课本第五册第11课）Once upon a time there was an old fisherman. He went fishing very early every morning, but he never cast his net more than four times a day. One morning, he went out early to the sea. He cast his net for the first time, and drew in the body of an animal. He cast it a second time, and drew in an old basket full of sand. He cast it a third time, and drew in a lot of stones. It seemed he would have nothing to take home that morning. Day had now broken, and he cast his net for the last time. After some time, he began do draw the net in. He found it was very heavy. But there were not any fish in it. Instead he found a jar with a lid. He shook the jar, but could hear nothing. So he took off the lid and looked inside. He could see nothing. After a while a light smoke came slowly out of the jar. Then little by little, the smoke grew hearvier and thicker until finally it turned into a terrible Genie! “Get down on your knees,” said the Genie, “for I’m going to kill you.”“Why? Didn’t I set you free from the jar?”“That’s why I’m going to kill you, but I’ll let you choose how you’re going to die.”“But why?”“Listen, and I willtell you my story.”“I was one of the spirits in heaven. But I did not want to obey Solomon’s orders. So one day, he put me in this jar and threw it into the sea. “During the first hundred years of my stay in the sea, I made a promise that if anyone set me free I would make him very rich. But no one came. During the second hundred years, I promised that if anyone set me free I would show him all the treasures in the earth. But still no one came. During the third hundred years, I promised that if anyone came to set me free, I would make him king over the earth. “Still no one came. Then I became very angry, and decided that if anyone should set me free I would kill him at once. Now you have come and set me free. So you must die, but I will let you say how you want to die.”The fisherman was not frightened. He said: “Since I must die, I must. But before I die, answer me one question.”“All right, but be quick.”“Were you really in the jar? You are so big and the jar is so small that it could hardly hold one of your feet.”“Of course I was in the jar. Don’t you believe me?”“No, and I won’t until I’ve seen you in the jar with my own eyes.”When he实用文档heard this, the Genie changed again into smoke. Slowly the smoke went back into the jar. When all of it was in the jar, the fisherman quickly put the lid on and threw it back into the sea.文案大全。