高一英语必修四课文.doc

必修四Unit1 A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE It is 5:45 am and the sun is just _over Gombe National Park in East Africa. _- Janes way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest. Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they _- like humans. _- a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day. This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before. Everybody sits and waits in the _ of the trees _the family begins to wake up and_ _. Then we follow as they _ into the forest. Most of the time, chimps _ feed _- clean each other as a way of showing love in their family. Jane _ us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right. However, the evening makes it all _. We watch the mother chimp and her babies play in the tree. Then we see them go to sleep together in their _ for the night. We realize that the _ between members of a chimp family is _ strong _ in a human family. Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp _-. She spent years _and recording their daily activities. Since her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment. However, this was not easy. When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest. _ after her mother came to help her for the first few months _ she allowed to begin her project. Her work changed the way people think about chimps. For example, one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat. Until then everyone had thought chimps ate only fruit and nuts. She actually observed chimps as a group hunting a monkey and then eating it. She also discovered how chimps _ _ each other, and her study of their body language helped her _- _their social system. For forty years Jane Goodall has _ _ _ making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. She has argued that wild animals should be left in the wild and not used for entertainment or advertisements. She has helped to _ _special places where they can live safely. She is_ _ _ but she says:Once I stop, it all comes _ _ in and I remember the chimps in laboratories. Its terrible. It affects me when I watch the wild chimps. I say to myself, Arent they lucky? And then I think about small chimps in cages though they have done nothing wrong. Once you have seen that you can never forget . She has achieved everything she wanted to do: working with animals in their own environment, _ a doctors _ and showing that women can live in the forest as men can. She _ those who want to _- the achievements of women.Unit3A MASTER OF NONVERBAL HUMOUR As Victor Hugo once said, Laughter is the sun that_ winter from the human face, and _ _ _ nobody has been able to do this better than Charlie Chaplin. He_ the lives of Americans and British through two world wars and the hard years in between. He made people laugh _ _ _when they felt _, so they could_ more _ their lives._ _Charlies own life was easy! He was born in a poor family in 1889. His parents were both poor music hall _. You may _ _ _ that Charlie was taught to sing _ _ _ he could speak and dance as soon as he could walk. _ training was common in acting families at this time, _ when the family income was often _ . Unfortunately his father died, _ the family even_ _ so Charlie spent his childhood looking after his sick mother and his brother. By his teens, Charlie had, through his humour, become one of the most popular child actors in England. He could_and_the fool doing ordinary everyday_. No one was ever _ watching him -his _ acting made everything_ As time _ by, he began _ films. He grew more and more popular as his _ _, the little tramp, became known _the world. The tramp, a poor, homeless man _ a moustache, _ large trousers, _ shoes and a small round black hat. He walked around_ carrying a walking stick. This character was a social _but was loved for his _and _ to _all difficulties. He was the underdog who was kind even when others were unkind to him. How did the little tramp make a sad situation entertaining? Here is an example from one of his most famous films, The Gold Rush. It is the mid-nineteenth century and gold has just been discovered in California. Like so many others, the little tramp and his friend have rushed there _ _ _ g old, but without success. Instead they are hiding in a small hut _ _ _ _ a mountain during a snowstorm with nothing to eat. They are so hungry that they try _ a pair of leather shoes for their dinner. Charlie first _ _ the laces and eats them_ _they _ spaghetti. Then he_ _ the leather top of the shoe as if it were the finest steak. Finally he tries cutting and _ the bottom of the shoe. He eats each _ with great enjoyment. The acting is so _ that it makes you believe that it is one of the best meals he has ever tasted! Charlie Chaplin wrote, _ and produced the films he_. In 1972 he was given a special Oscar for his _ work in films. He lived in England and the USA but spent his last years in Switzerland, where he was buried in 1977. He is loved and remembered _a great actor_could _ people with great confidence.Unit4 COMMUNICATION: NO PROBLEM? Yesterday, another student and I, _our universitys student _ went to the Capital International Airport to meet this years international students. They were coming to study at Beijing University. We would take them first to their dormitories and then to the student canteen. After half an hour of waiting for their flight to arrive, I saw several young people enter the waiting area looking around curiously. I stood for a minute _ them and then went to _ them. The first person to arrive was Tony Garcia from Colombia, closely_ by Julia Smith from Britain. After I met them and then introduced them to each other, I was very surprised. Tony _ Julia, touched her shoulder and kissed her on the cheek! She stepped back _ surprised and put up her hands, as if _ _. I guessed that there was probably a _misunderstanding. Then Akira Nagata from Japan came in smiling, together with George Cook from Canada. As they were introduced, George _ his hand out to the Japanese student. Just at that moment, however, Akira _ so his nose touched Georges moving hand. They both _- another cultural mistake! Ahmed Aziz, another international student, was from Jordan. When we met yesterday, he moved very close to me as I introduced myself. I moved back a bit, but he came closer to ask a question and then_ my hand. When Darlene Coulon from France came _ _the door, she _ Tony Garcias smiling face. They shook hands and then kissed each other twice _ each cheek, since that is the French custom when adults meet people they know. Ahmed Aziz., _ _ c_, simply _ _ the girls. Men from Middle Eastern and other Muslim countries will often stand quite close to other men to talk but will usually not touch women. As I get to know more international friends, I learn more about this cultural body language. Not all cultures greet each other the same way, _are they comfortable in the same way with touching or distance between people. In the same way that people communicate with _ language, they also express their feelings using unspoken language through physical distance, _ or _. English people, for example, do not usually stand very close to others or touch strangers as soon as they meet. However, people from places like Spain, Italy or South American countries approach others closely and _ more_ _touch them. Most people around the world now greet each other by shaking hands, but some cultures use other greetings as well, _ _ the Japanese, who prefer to bow. These actions are not good or bad, but are simply ways_ _ cultures have developed. I have seen, however, that cultural _ for body language are very general - not all members of a culture _ in the same way. _ _ , though, studying international customs can certainly help avoid difficulties in todays world of cultural _!Unit5THEME PARKS FUN AND MORE THAN FUN Which theme park would you like to visit? There are _ _ _theme parks, with a different park for almost everything: food, culture, science, cartoons, movies or history. Some parks _ _ _ having the biggest or longest roller coasters, others for showing the famous _and sounds of a culture. Whichever and _ you like, there is a theme park for you!The theme park you_probably most_ _is Disneyland. It can be found in several parts of the world. It will bring you into a_ world and make your dreams _ _ , whether traveling through space, visiting a pirate ship or meeting your favourite fairy tale or Disney cartoon _. As you _ _ the_amusement park, you may see Snow White or Mickey Mouse in a _ or on the street. Of course Disneyland also has many exciting rides, from _swinging ships to _ free-fall drops. With all these _,_ _ tourism is increasing _ there is a Disneyland. If you want to_ _ and more than fun, come to Disneyland! Dollywood, in the beautiful Smoky Mountains in the southeasternUSA, is one of the most _- theme parks in the world. Dollywood shows and celebrates Americas traditional southeastern culture. Although Dollywood has rides, the parks main attraction is its culture. Famous country music groups _ there all year in indoor and outdoor theatres. People come from all over America to see carpenters and other _ make wood, glass and iron _ in the old-fashioned way. Visit the candy shop to try the same kind of candy that American southerners made 150 years ago, or take a ride on the only steam- engine train still _ in the southeast USA. You can even see beautiful bald eagles in the worlds largest bald eagle _. And for those who like rides, Dollywood has one of the best old wooden roller coasters, Thunderhead. It is world-famous for having the most_- in the smallest space. Come to Dollywood to have fun learning all about Americas _southeastern culture! If you want to _-the ancient days and great deeds of English knights and ladies, princes and queens, then Englands Camelot Park is the place for you. Every area of the park _ _ _ life in the days of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. In one place, you can watch magic shows with Merlin the Wizard. If you want to see fighting with swords or on horseback, then the jousting area is a good place to visit. If you do well there, King Arthur may choose you to fight in the big jousting _. Do you like animals? Then visit the farm area, and learn how people in ancient England _their farms and took care of their animals. To enter a world of fantasy about ancient England, _ _ Camelot Park!Unit2A PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE Although he is one of Chinas most famous scientists, Yuan Longping considers himself a farmer, for he works the land to do his research. Indeed, his sunburnt face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like those of millions of Chinese farmers, for whom he has struggled for the past five decades. Dr Yuan Longping grows what is called super hybrid rice. In 1974, he became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high output. This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields. Now more than 60% of the rice produced in China each year is from this hybrid strain. Born into a poor farmers family in 1930, Dr Yuan graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then, finding ways to grow more rice has been his life goal. As a young man, he saw the great need for increasing the rice output. At that time, hunger was a disturbing problem in many parts of the countryside. Dr Yuan searched for a way to increase rice harvests without expanding the area of the fields. In 1950, Chinese farmers could produce only fifty million tons of rice. In a recent harvest, however, nearly two hundred million tons of rice was produced. These increased harvests mean that 22% of the worlds people are fed from just 7% of the farmland in China. Dr Yuan is now circulating his knowledge in India, Vietnam and many other less developed countries to increase their rice harvests. Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger. Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before. Dr Yuan is quite satisfied with his life. However, he doesnt care about being famous. He feels it gives him less freedom to do his research. He would much rather keep time for his hobbles. He enjoys listening to violin music, playing mah-jong, swimming and reading. Spending money on himself or leading a comfortable life also means very little to him. Indeed, he believes that a person with too much money has more rather than fewer troubles. He therefore gives millions of yuan to equip others for their research in agriculture. Just dreaming for things, however, costs nothing. Long ago Dr yuan had a dream about rice plants as tall as sorghum. Each ear of rice was as big as an ear of corn and each grain of rice was as huge as a peanut. Dr Yuan awoke from his dream with the hope of producing a kind of rice that could feed more people. Now, many years later, Dr Yuan has another dream: to export his rice so that it can be grown around the globe. One dream is not always enough, especially for a person who loves and cares for his people.