中财网合伙人退出机制:初中英语阅读300篇基础卷p98-p127
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P98 (1)
Life on the earth depends on the sun. Day after day, we see its light and feel its warmth. The sun is far away from the earth. It is ninety-three million miles away from the earth.
The sun is a large star. The earth is very small among its planets. Every day the sun sends out a great deal of heat and makes us feel hot. But we receive only a small part of the heat, because the sun is so far away from us and its heat loses more of its energy when it reaches the earth. We also receive a very small part of its light. This is enough for the growth of trees, plants, and humans. On the other hand, much heat and light would be harmful to them. The heat and light from the sun come in just the right quantities for life on the earth.
地球上的生命依赖于太阳。日复一日，我们看到太阳的光芒，感受它的温暖。太阳距离地球很遥远。太阳相距地球九千三百万英里。
太阳是一个大星球。地球在行星中是非常小的。每天太阳散发出巨大的热能，使我们感受了热量。但我们只得到了一小部分的热能，因为太阳离我们太遥远，当它的能量到达地球时已失去了大部分。我们也获得了它的一小部分光亮。这对树木生长，植物生长和人类生长已经足够。从另一方面说，过分的光和热将是对他们有害的。发自太阳的光和热满足了地球上的生命所需。
P99 (2)
The people on earth belong to many different counties. We speak many different languages and have different ideas. But we are all people born on the earth. All of us live and die on this planet. We have never known any other home.
Men believed for thousands of years that the earth was the center of everything. They believed the sun and stars moved around us.
The old ideas of men should not surprise us. Most of us only believe what we see. Many years passed, and then people knew that ours is only a very small part of a great universe (巨大的宇宙), and the earth is moving around the sun.
What do we know about the place of our earth in space? We know that the earth is one of nine planets moving around the sun. We call the family of the sun and its planets the solar system (太阳系).
地球上的人们属于不同的国家。我们说多种不同的语言，有着不同的想法。不过，我们都是在地球上出生的人。我们大家都在这个星球上生活和死亡。我们从来不知道任何其他的发源地。
几千年来，先人们只相信地球是一切事物的中心。他们认为，太阳和星星围绕着我们转动。
先人们的旧思想不应使我们感到惊讶。我们大多数人只相信我们所看到的。许多年过去了，人们逐渐知道了，我们的星球是巨大的宇宙中的非常小的一部分，地球正在围绕太阳转动。
我们了解了我们的地球在太空中的位置是什么情况呢？ 我们知道，地球是围绕太阳运动的九大行星之一。我们称作太阳家族和太阳系行星。
P99 (3)
You speak, write a letter, make a telephone. You words carry a message. People communicate (交流、交际) with words.
Do you think you can communicate without words? A smile on your face shows you are happy or friendly. Tears in your eyes tell others that you are sad. When you raise your hand in class, the teacher knows you want to say something or ask a question. You shake you head, and people know you are saying ”No”. You nod and people know you are saying “Yes”.
Other things can also carry messages. For example, a sign at the bus stop helps you to know which bus to take. A sign on the wall of your school helps you to find the lab. Sign on doors tell you where to go in or out. Have you ever noticed that there are a lot of signs around you and that you get messages from them all the time?
People can communicate in many other ways. An artist can use his drawings to tell about beautiful mountains, about the blue sea and many other things. Books are written to tell you about all the wonderful things in the world and also about people and their ideas.
Books, magazines, TV and radio and films all help us to communicate with others. They all help us to know what is going on in the world and what other people are thinking about.
你说话，写信，打电话。你的言语传递着信息。人们使用言语交流。
你认为没有言语可以交流吗？在你脸上的笑容表示你是友好的幸福的。在你眼里的泪水告诉别人你是悲伤的。当你在课堂上举起手，老师知道你想说什么或提问题。你摇头，人们知道你是说“不”。你点头，人们知道你是说“是”。
其他事物也可以传递信息。例如，一块公共汽车站牌帮助你了解乘坐哪路车。 一块学校墙壁上指示牌帮助你找到实验室。门上牌子告诉你哪里是入口和出口。你有没有注意到，在你周围有很多示意牌，并且你一直从那里获得信息？
人们可以用许多其他方式沟通。一个艺术家可以用他的画表现秀美的山川，蓝色的大海和其他许多东西。书籍是写出来告诉你，有关世界上所有美好的事物，也有关人和他们的想法。
书籍，杂志，电视，广播和电影都有助于我们与他人沟通。这些都有助于我们了解世界上正在发生什么事情，了解其他人都在思考什么。
P100 (4)
The computer is fast, and never makes a mistake, while people are too slow and full of mistakes sometimes. That is what people often say when they talk about computers.
For over a quarter of a century, engineers have been making better computers. Now a computer can do a lot of everyday jobs wonderfully. It is widely used in factories, hospitals and banks. A computer can report, decide and control (控制) in almost every field. Many computer scientists are now thinking of making the computer “think” like a man. With the help of a person, a computer can draw pictures, write music, talk with people, play chess, recognize (辨认) voices, translate (翻译) languages and so on (等等). Perhaps computers will one day really think and feel. Do you think that people will be afraid when they find that the computer is too clever to listen to and serve the people?
计算机速度快，从不犯错，而人工很慢，有时错误百出。这也就是人们谈论计算机时通常所说的。
在过去的四分之一个世纪，工程师们一直在做出更好的计算机。现在，计算机能够出色地完成大量的日常工作。它广泛应用于工厂，医院和银行。一台计算机可以报告，决定和控制几乎所有领域。许多计算机科学家正在研制电脑像人一样“思考”。 在人的操控下，计算机可以画画，写音乐，与人交谈，玩象棋，辨认声音，翻译语言等等。也许有一天计算机真的会思考，真的有感觉。当人们发现电脑非常聪明地听取和服务于人的时候，你认为人们会害怕吗？
P101 (5)
What time is it? There are many ways you can find out the time. You may have a watch. You can look at a clock on the wall. You can listen to the radio or call a number on telephone to get the time.
It has not always been easy to know the time. A long time ago people looked at the sun to tell the time. They could tell the time of day by looking at the sun in the sky: morning, noon or afternoon.
Around the year1.400, people began to use the hourglass. It was made of glass with some sand in it. It was wide at both ends, but narrow in the middle. The sand ran from one end to the other in one hour. At the end of every day hour people turned the glass over and began again.
Hundreds of years later a machine called clock was invented. After that, people made small clocks so that they could carry them in their pockets. Very small clocks were called watches. Then, during Would War I men started wearing their watches. It was easier and faster to tell the time. Now almost everyone wears a watch.
现在是什么时间？有很多方法可以得知时间。你可能有一个手表。你可以看看墙上的时钟。你可以收听电台或拨打电话号码，以获取想要知道的时间。
它并不总是容易的知道时间。很久以前人们观察太阳以确定时间。他们通过观察太阳在天空中位置来确定一天的时间：早晨，中午或下午。
大约在公元1400年，人们开始使用沙漏。沙漏是由装有一些沙子的玻璃容器组成。容器两端宽大，而中间狭窄。沙子从一端移动到另一端需1个小时。在每个小时结束时人们把玻璃容器翻过来，又重新开始了。
几百年后被称为时钟的机器发明了。在此之后，人们使用小小的时钟，放在口袋里以便携带。非常小的时钟被称为手表。然后，在第一次世界大战期间男子开始戴手表。这样更简便，更快速地得知时间。现在，几乎每个人都戴着手表。
P102 (6)
Some people have very good memories, and can easily learn quite long poems by hearts. There are other people who can only remember things when they have said them over and over.
Charles Dickens, the famous English writer, said that he could walk down any long street in
A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his own language by remembering what he hears when he is a small child. Some children-like boys and girls who live in foreign countries with their parents-seem to learn two languages almost as easily as one. In schools it is not easy to learn a second language because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects as well.
The human mind is rather like a camera, but it takes photographs not only of what we see but of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photograph with a camera, there is much to do before the photograph is finished and ready to show to our friends. In the some way there is much work to be done before we can make a picture remain forever in the mind.
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
有些人有非常好的记忆力，能轻松地记住相当长的诗歌。还有些人，只能记住那些他们说了一遍又一遍的东西。
查尔斯狄更斯，英国著名作家，据说他走过任何一条伦敦大街后就能告诉你他所经过的每一个商店的名字。许多伟人都具有极好的记忆力。
良好的记忆力在学习语言中是有很大帮助的。每个人从小通过记住所听到的学习母语。有些孩子---比如与父母一起在国外生活的男孩和女孩们---似乎学习两种语言几乎与学习一种语言一样轻松。 在学校里学习第二语言是不容易的，因为学生们只有很少的时间用于学习，并且他们也同时忙于其他学科。
人类的心灵很像是一个相机，但是它'拍摄照片’不仅有我们所看到的东西，还有我们的感觉，听觉，嗅觉和味觉。
记忆是伴随着我们一生的日记。
P103 (7)
There is nothing more important to life than the sun. Without the sun all living things on the earth would die.
The sun is a star. In the sky, there are thousands of stars like the sun. They are as large as the sun and as hot as the sun. At night, you can see many stars, but in the daytime, you can only see star-the sun.
The sun is much nearer to us than any other star. That is why it looks the biggest and brightest of all the stars. The distance of the sun from the earth is as much as 150 million kilometers. Most of the stars are thousands of light years away from the earth.
Do you know the light year? Nothing in the world travels faster than light. It travels 300,000 kilometers a second. And one light year is the distance that light travels in one year.
对生命而言，没有什么比太阳更重要了。没有太阳，地球上所有的生命都将消失。
太阳是一颗恒星。在天空中，也有成千上万的像太阳的恒星。它们如同太阳一样巨大和灼热。晚上，你可以看到很多星星，但在白天，你只能看到恒星太阳。
太阳比任何其他恒星离我们近。这就是为什么太阳看起来是所有恒星中最大的，最明亮的。从地球到太阳的距离多达150万公里。绝大多数恒星距离地球数千光年。
你知道光年吗？ 世界上再也没有比光速传播得更快了。光每秒传播300，000公里。一光年是光一年时间传播的距离。
P104 (8)
While you are much safer inside than out, lightning can strike you even in the home. Here’s how to protect you indoors:
Stay away from windows. Get out of the shower or bath.
Don’t touch conductors such as fireplaces and metal pipes.
Cherry, was struck by lightning last year while washing her clothes. Lightning entered a window next to the washing machine, struck her right hand, traveled through her body and finally out of her left arm. “It was as though I was holding a bolt in my hands,” remembered Cherry, who was thrown across the room.
Stay off the telephone.
It isn’t an old wives’ story-many people have been hurt through the telephone lines. It was raining outside while Peter Anderson was on the phone at his house in
Unplug televisions, computer, etc.
Don’t just turn them off. It the house is struck, they could be damaged if you keep them plugged in.
Try lightning rods if your area is very often hit by lightning.
Properly fixed, lightning rods reduced chances of damage to a home and to the people inside it.
虽然你在内部远比外部安全，甚至在屋里雷电仍可以袭击你。以下是你在室内如何保护的方法：
远离窗户。离开浴缸或停止淋浴。
请勿触摸诸如壁炉和金属管子。
去年Cherry洗的衣服的时候，她被闪电击中。雷电闪击了窗口旁边的洗衣机，击到她的右手，穿过她的身体，最后从她的左臂出来。 “这就像我在手里握着一个螺栓，” Cherry记忆犹新 ，她在房间里被扔转过去。
不接电话。
这不是一个年老妻子的故事，许多人已被电话线伤害过。外面下着雨，这时彼得安德森正在位于佛罗里达州的房子打电话。 “班！一个螺栓击中建筑物，“他说。 “一个闪电击穿电话，这几乎是冲开我的手，我感觉手臂上的毛都站直了。 “
拔掉电视机，电脑等电源。
不要只是将其关闭。房子被雷电击中，如果你让它们插在电源上，它们可能会损坏。
调试避雷针覆盖区域往往会被闪电击中。
恰当固定避雷针，避雷针减少房子和房子里面的人的受损机会。
P106 (9)
Scientists are trying to make the deserts into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts, so people can live and grow food. They are learning a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is becoming deserts all the time. Scientists may not be able to changes the deserts in time.
Why is more and more land becoming deserts? Scientists think that people make deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.
Some places on the earth don’t get very much rain. But they still don’t become deserts. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places. Plants don’t let the wind blow the dirt away. When a little bit of rain falls, the plants hold the water. Without plants, the land can become a desert much more easily.
科学家们正试图治理沙漠恢复成良田。他们希望把水源引入沙漠，使人能够生活和种植粮食。他们正在研究很多有关沙漠的情况。但是一直以来，越来越多的地表正在成为沙漠。科学家们可能无法及时改变沙漠化。
为什么越来越多的土地变成沙漠？科学家们认为是人类导致了沙漠化。人类正在破坏地球。
地球上有些地方没有得到很多雨水。但是，那里却不会成为沙漠。这是因为有些绿色植物在那里生长。草和绿色小植物对于干旱地区是很重要的。 植物阻挡风吹走污物。当一点点的降雨来临，植物蓄住水分。没有植物，土地成为一片沙漠更加容易。
P107 (10)
Man has a big brain. He can think, learn and speak. Scientist once thought that men are different from animals because they could think and learn. Then they know that dogs, mice, birds can learn too. They are beginning to understand that men are different from animals because they can speak.
Animals cannot speak. They make noises when they are afraid, or angry or unhappy. Apes can understand some things more quickly than men can. One or two of them have learnt a few words. But they cannot put words together to make sentences. They cannot think as we do because they have no languages. The language is a wonderful thing. Man has been able to build a modern world because he has languages.
Each child can speak his own language very well when he is four or five, but no animal learns to speak. How do children learn it? Scientist don’t know. They only know that man can speak because he has the brain.
人类具有一个大容量的脑。人能思考，学习和说话。科学家曾认为，因为人能思考和学习而与动物不同。后来，他们得知狗，鼠，鸟也能够学习。他们开始明白，人是因为他们能够说话而与动物不同。
动物不会说话。当他们害怕，愤怒，或不满的时候会发出声音。猿猴可以比人更快理解一些事情。其中一个或两个都学会了一些词语。但是，他们不能把单词连在一起造句。因为他们没有语言，他们不能象人类一样思考。语言是伟大的。因为拥有语言，人类已能建立一个现代化的世界。
每个孩子在4或5岁时就能讲非常好的母语，但是没有动物学会说话。儿童如何学习的？科学家不知道。他们只知道，人因为具有大脑，所以能说话。
P108 (11)
Eating in space is different from eating on the earth. The food that astronauts carry with them does not look like the food you eat on the earth.
Some food is carried in closed bags. It is cooked and frozen before the astronauts get it. All the water is removed from the food. In the space capsule, the astronaut puts the water back. He “shoots” hot or cold water into the food bag with a special gun. He eats the food through a small hole in the bag.
Other foods come in bite sizes. The astronaut puts a whole piece in his mouth at a time. There can be no crumbs. Crumbs would float around the capsule and get in the way. Meat, cake and cereal often come in bite-sized pieces.
Astronauts cannot drink water from open cups. The water would float in drops in the air. The water is put in the special gun. The astronaut shoots the water into his mouth.
Eating in space is not easy. Astronauts must learn to eat this way.
在太空中吃的食品与在地球上吃的食品是不同的。宇航员携带的食品看起来并不像你在地球上吃的食品。
有些食品装入密封袋。宇航员得到它之前已经烹调和冷冻过。所有的水分已从食物中去除。在太空舱，航天员再把水加入。他使用特制的枪把热水或冷水“射”进食品袋中。他通过食品袋中的小孔吃东西。
其他食物放入一口装。宇航员一次一整块地放入嘴里。不能有面包屑。面包屑会漂浮在太空舱里并且挡道。 肉类，糕点，谷物通常用一口装。
宇航员不能从开口的杯中喝水。水会在空中漂浮。水是放在特制的枪里。宇航员把水射入他的嘴里。
在太空吃东西是不容易的。宇航员必须学会这种吃法。
P110 (12)
Fire can help people in many ways. But it can also be very harmful. Fire can heat water, warm your houses, give light, and cook food. But fire can burn things too. It can burn trees, houses, animals, or people. Sometimes big fires can burn forests.
Nobody knows for sure how people began to use fire. But there are many interesting, old stories about the first time a man or woman started a fire. One story from
Today people know to make a fire with matches. Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can by very dangerous. One match can become a big fire very fast.
Fire kills many people every year. So you must be careful with matches. You should also learn to put out fires. Fires need oxygen. Without oxygen they die. There is oxygen in the air. Cover a fire with water, sand, or in an emergency, with your coat or something else. This keeps the air away from a fire and kills it.
Be careful with fire, and it will help you. Be careless with fire, and it will burn you.
火以多种方式帮助人类。但它也是有危害的。火能加热水，温暖你的房子，带来光亮，煮熟食物。但火也能烧坏东西。它可以燃烧树木，房屋，动物或人。有时候大火可以烧毁森林。
没有人确切知道人类怎么开始使用火的。这里有许多关于男人或女人第一次引起的一场大火的古老而有趣的故事。一个源自澳大利亚的故事讲述很久很久以前一个男人，他携带着绳子走向太阳而后带回火种。
今天，人们知道借助火柴取火。小孩子有时喜欢玩火柴。但是火柴也会很危险。一根火柴能迅速引起一场大火。
火灾每年烧死很多人。所以，你必须小心火柴。你也应该学会扑灭火苗。火苗需要氧气。如果没有氧气，火就熄灭。空气中有氧气。用水，砂子浇盖火苗，在紧急情况下，使用你的外套或别的东西。这样可以使空气隔离火苗并扑灭它。
小心火种，它会帮助你。不小心火种，它会烧伤你。
P111 (13)
People use money to buy food, books, bicycles and hundreds of other things which they need. When they work, they usually get paid in money.
Most of the money used today is made of metal or paper. But in ancient times people used to use all kinds of things as money. One of the first kinds of money was shells.
In
The first copper coins were made in
But both gold and silver were heavy to carry when people needed a lot of coins to buy something expensive. The Chinese were the first to use paper money. The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than the paper money used today.
Money has had an interesting history from the days of shell money till today.
人们用货币来购买他们所需的食品，书籍，自行车和上百样其他东西。当他们工作，他们通常以货币取得报酬。
今天所用的货币，大部分是由金属或纸张制成。但在古代人们使用各种东西作为货币。最早货币种类之一是炮弹。
在中国，布，刀被用来作为货币。象牙，猴尾巴，盐被用于在非洲的一些地区。大米亦是在一些岛屿上的古代人的一种货币。牛和其他动物也被用作货币。
最早的铜硬币是在中国制造的。 它们呈圆形，中间有一个方孔。不同国家使用不同的金属造货币。后来，一些国家开始造金币和银币。
但是当人们需要大量硬币购买昂贵东西时，黄金和白银搬运起来都是很重的。中国是最早使用纸币的。最早的纸币比目前使用的纸币看上去更像从一个人给另一个人的一张便条。
从贝壳货币时代到今天，货币有着饶有趣味的发展历史。
P113 (14)
What a beautiful day!
The sun is shining and everything looks bright. Stand in the sun. Can you feel the heat of the sun? The sun that gives the heat is very fat away. It is hard to believe but the sun is about one hundred and fifty million kilometers away. If a plane flew day and night without stopping, it could take nearly 18 years to get to the sun.
The sun doesn’t seem very big to us, but it’s really very huge. One million balls as big as our earth could fit inside the sun. The sun looks small because it is so far away.
Our earth is cool enough to live on because the hot sun is so far away. If the sun were much nearer, our earth would be too hot to live on. If there were no sun, the earth would be so cold that nothing could live on it. Aren’t we lucky to be just about the right distance away from the sun?
The earth circles the sun. It takes one year for the earth to for completely around the sun. and at the same time it is going around the sun, the earth itself is spinning around. The earth spins around once every 24 hours. In the morning, the sun seems to rise in the east. As the say goes on, the sun seems to travel across the sky. In the evening, the sun seems to set in the west and then it is night. Almost every part of the earth turns from day to night during every 24 hours.
The sun gives us light. It keeps us warm. It makes things grow. Plants, animals and people need the sun. The sun makes our earth beautiful. We could not live without the sun.
多么美好的一天！
阳光照耀下，一片灿烂。站在阳光下。你能感觉到太阳的热量吗？提供热量的太阳在遥远地方。人们很难相信距离太阳约150000000公里。如果飞机日夜不停地飞，它可能需要近18年时间到达太阳。
我们望见的太阳似乎不怎么大，但它的确非常巨大。 100万个大如地球的球体可以装入太阳。太阳看起来很小，是因为它如此的遥远。
我们的地球冷到足以能生活是因为炎热的太阳是那么的远。假使太阳更近些，对生活而言，我们的地球将是过热了。如果没有太阳，地球将会极其寒冷，没有东西能够生存。难道我们与太阳保持恰当的距离不幸运吗？
地球围绕着太阳。地球围绕太阳转一圈需要一年，它绕着太阳转的同时，地球本身也在不停的旋转。每隔24小时地球自转一周。在早晨，太阳在东方升起。当太阳移动时，太阳似乎在空中旅行。到了晚上，太阳在西方落下，然后进入夜晚。 几乎地球上的每个地方都是24小时从白天到夜晚轮流过。
太阳给我们光明。它使我们温暖。它使万物生长。植物，动物和人需要阳光。太阳使我们的地球美丽。没有太阳我们不能生存。
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Here is a good idea for future cars. There will be electronic tracks everywhere in the streets. Electronic cats will run on these tracks. All the tracks and all the cars will be controlled by a great computer. For example, if you want to go from your school to a large factory, you just go out of the school and get into one of those cars outside. Then you press the button for the factory. A signal is sent from the route. The car takes you to the factory at high speed. Easy!
Don’t you think it is a good idea for the future? If we really want to realize it, we must do something; we do not want to live in noisy, dirty cities, do we?
这里有关于未来汽车的创意。电子轨道将在街上随处可见。电子猫将这些轨道上运行。所有的轨道和汽车将由一个巨型计算机控制。例如，如果你想从你的学校去一个大工厂，你只要走出学校，进入（停在）校外那些汽车中的一辆。然后按下开往工厂的按钮。从线路中发出了一个信号。这辆车将高速带你到工厂。很简单！
你不觉得这是一个关于未来的创意吗？如果我们真的要实现它，我们必须做一些事情，我们不希望生活在喧闹，肮脏的城市，是吗？
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One summer day a raindrop fell from a cloud. Many other raindrops fell at the same time, but our story is about just one raindrop.
The raindrop fell to the ground on the side of a hill. The water in the raindrop ran down the hill into a little river. The little river carried the raindrop to a big river. Then the raindrop traveled far to the east into the sea. There the water of the raindrop mixed itself with the salt water of the sea.
Now the water of the raindrop was on the surface of the sea. As the sun made it very warm, it changed into steam. The steam left the sea and went up into the air, and it did not carry any salt with it. It had left the salt in the sea.
The steam from the raindrop moved with the warm air towards the north. On the way the warm air met some cold. The cold air pushed the warm air high above the ground. The warm air became cool when it went up, and the steam in it changed into very small drops of water again. There were millions and millions of these small drops in the cloud. The small drops came together into bigger and bigger drops. Ours raindrop was one of them. Now the drop became so big that it was too heavy to stay in the cloud, and it fell to the ground. In this way the water of our raindrop, started traveling to the sea again.
夏日某一天，从云中落下一点雨滴。在这同时许多其他雨滴降落，而我们的故事仅是关于一点雨滴的。
雨滴下降到了山一侧的地上。雨滴里的水从山上流入小溪流。小溪流携带着小雨滴汇入大河。然后雨滴前往远方，向东入海。在那里，雨水与咸咸的海水相混和。
现在雨水处在大海表面。当阳光照射下使海面升至高温，水变成蒸汽。蒸汽离开大海，进入空气中，没有携带任何盐份。水脱离了海里的盐。
来自雨滴的蒸汽与暖空气一起向北移动。在路上，暖空气遇到一些冷空气。冷空气推动暖空气到离地面的高处。暖空气上升时变冷，水蒸汽再次变成非常小的水滴。在云中有成百万的小水滴。小水滴聚集后变成越来越大的水滴。我们的雨滴也在其中。现在水滴变得太大，留在云中就太沉重了，它便降落到地上。就这样，我们的雨滴，开始再次前往大海。
P117 (17)
If you go into the forest with friends, stay with them always. If you don’t, you may get lost. If you really get lost, this is what you should do. Sit down and stay where you are. Don’t try to find your friends—let them find you by staying in one place.
There is another way to help your friends or other nearby people to find you. Give them a signal by shouting or whistling three times. Any signal given three times is a call for help.
Keep up the shouting or whistling always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making noise for fun. They will let you know that they have heard you signal. They will give two shouts, two whistles or two gun shots. When someone gives a signal, it is an answer to a call for help.
If you don’t, think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house—cover up the holes with branches with lots of leaves. Make yourself a soft bed with leaves and grass.
What should you do if you get hungry or need drinking water? You would have to leave you little branch house to look for a river. Don’t just walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk so that you can find your way back.
The most important thing to do when you are lost is—stay in one place.
如果你与朋友进入森林，要与他们在一起。如果不这样做，你可能会迷路。如果你真的迷路，你应该做的是，坐下来，等在原地。不要试图找到你的朋友，让他们发现你在一个地方等待。
还有另一种方法来帮助你的朋友或其他周围的人找到你。用三次呼喊或吹三次口哨给他们发信号。任何信号发出3次，是求援的信号。
一直保持一组三次喊叫或吹三次口哨。当人们听到你，他们会知道你不是只为了好玩而发出声响。他们将会让你知道他们已经听到你的信号。他们将回应两次叫声，两次哨声或两次枪声。当有人发出了一个信号，这就是对一个求援的回应。
相信你在夜幕降临之前将得到救援，如果不是这样，想办法盖起一间小屋---用长满树叶的树枝遮挡屋门。用草和树叶给自己做张松软的床。
如果你饿了或需要喝水，你应该怎么做？你将不得不离开小树枝屋去寻找溪流。不要一走了之。摘取小树枝，你边走边把它们放置，这样你可以找到回来的路。
当你迷路时最重要的事情是，等候在一个地方。
P119 (18)
Alice and her brother, Peter, saved money for many years. One day,
“But who will we help?”
Alice and Peter told their mother their plan. She was glad and took them to a store at once.
Billy and Rose came out. “Look! There are presents for us. Someone left them here,” Billy cried. They looked around, but he could not see anyone. They took the boxes inside happily.
The next morning, when Alice and Peter went out, they saw Billy and Rose playing outside. They were both wearing their new shoes. Alice and Peter were so happy because they could help others. Alice 和他的弟弟Peter，存了许多年的钱。一天，Alice清空她的储钱罐，“我想用这些钱去帮助别人，”她说。Peter也清空他的储钱罐。“我们能用所有的钱来做许多事，”Peter微笑着说。 “但谁需要我们的帮助呢？”Alice问“让我们帮助我们的邻居吧，Billy 和他的姐姐，Rose。我发现他们的鞋子上有一些洞，”Peter说。“我们能为他们买一些新鞋。”Alice说。 Alice和Peter告诉他们的母亲他们的计划。她很高兴并把他们在第一时间送入了鞋店。Alice为Rose挑了一双鞋。Peter为Billy挑了一双鞋。他们把两双鞋放入了一个很漂亮的盒子里。当黄昏来临，Peter轻悄悄地走向Billy和Rose的家。他把盒子放在门的附近，并且敲了门，接着他很快的走了。 Billy和Rose出来了。“看！那儿有一份给我们的礼物。一些人离开了他们，”Billy喊起来。他们查看了四周，但没有看见任何东西。他们很高兴的带着盒子进了家。 接着第二天的早上，当Alice和Peter出来时，他们看见Billy和Rose在外面玩。他们都穿着新鞋。Alice和Peter很开心因为他们帮助了别人。
P120 (19)
There have been many great inventions, things that changed the way we live. The first great invention was one that is still very important today-the wheel. This made it easier to carry heavy things and to travel long distances.
For hundreds of years after that there were few inventions that had as much effect as the wheel. Then in the early
In the second half of the 19th century many great inventions were made. Among them were the camera, the light and the radio. There all became a big part of our life today.
The first part of the 20th century saw more great inventions. The helicopter in 1909. Movies with sound in 1926. The computer in 1928. And jet planes in 1930. This was also a time when a new material was first made. Nylon came out in 1935. it changed the kind of clothes people wear.
The middle part of the 20th century brought new ways to help people get over disease. They worked very well. They made people healthier and let them live longer lives. By the
By this time most people had a very good life. Of course new invention continued to be made. But man now had a desire to explore again. The world was known to man but the stars were not. Man began looking for ways to go into space.
In 1969 man took his biggest step away from earth. Americans first walked on the moon. This is certainly just a beginning thought. New inventions will some day allow us to do things we have never yet dreamed of.
有许多伟大的发明改变了我们的生活方式。最早期的，在今天仍然是非常重要的伟大的发明是---车轮。这项发明使得车子更易于负载重物和长途跋涉。
数百年之后，出现了几项如同车轮一样有很大效果的发明。然后在1800年代初期的世界开始发生变化。世界上存在尚未发现的大陆。人类没有中断过探索。他们工作，是让生活更美好。
在19世纪下半叶许多伟大的发明出现了。其中有相机，电灯和收音机。所有这些成为今天我们生活中的很大一部分。
20世纪早期看到的更加伟大的发明。1909年的直升机。1926年的有声电影。1928年的计算机。1930年的喷气飞机。这也是一种新材料首次出现的时代。1935年尼龙发明了。它改变了人们穿着用的衣料。
20世纪中叶发明了新的方法来帮助人们治疗疾病。新发明的工作非常出色，它们使人们健康长寿。到了1960年代，大多数人都希望活到60岁以上。
到目前为止，大多数人有一个非常美好的生活。当然，新的发明继续出现。不过现在人类有继续探索的愿望。这将是人类未知的恒星。人类开始寻找进入太空的方法。俄罗斯跨出了第一步。然后，美国紧跟其后。从那时起，其他国家，包括中国和日本，已经加入进太空的步伐。
1969年人类带着他的最大一步远离地球。美国人第一次在月球上行走。这当然只是一个开始的构想。新发明将会有一天让我们做我们从未梦想过的事情。
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P122 (21)
How much paper do you use every year? Maybe you can’t answer this question quickly. In 1900 the world’s use of paper was about one kilogram for each person in a year. Now some countries use as 50 kilograms of paper for each person in a year. But countries like
Paper was first made in
When we think of paper, we think of newspapers, books and writing-paper. But there are many other uses. Only half of the paper is used for books and magazines. Paper is very good for keeping you warm. Houses are often insulated with paper. You may see some people asleep on a large number of newspapers. They’re insulating themselves from the cold. In
Each year more and more things are made of paper. We have had paper cups and plates for a long time. Now we hear that chairs, tables and even beds can be made of paper. With paper boots and shoes, you can wear paper hats, paper dresses and paper raincoats. When you have used them once, you throw them away and buy new ones.
每一年你用了多少纸张？也许你不能迅速回答这个问题。 在公元1900年的时候，全世界纸张的消耗量：每个人在一年内约为1公斤。现在有些国家中，每个人在一年里使用约50公斤的纸。但是，像美国，英国和瑞典，使用量肯定超过其他各国。
纸张最先制造出来是在大约两千年前的中国。它是用特定植物的毛状部分[纤维部分]制成。直到公元1100年左右，纸张才在欧洲南部造出来。在公元1500年，一个名叫谢弗的德国人，发现可用树木造出高品质的纸张。 此后，森林国家加拿大，瑞典，美国，芬兰，成为最重要的造纸产地。
当我们想到纸张，我们想到了报纸，书籍和书写纸。但是还有许多其他用途。仅有一半的纸张用于书籍和杂志。纸是非常好的保温材料。房子往往用纸质绝缘。你可能会看到有些人睡在了一大堆的报纸上。他们隔断了寒冷。芬兰的气温有时是零下40度。农民们在雪地里穿着纸靴子。没有什么比纸靴子更温暖了。
每年有越来越多的东西是纸做的。我们已有很长一段时间使用纸杯和板材了。 现在，我们听到椅子，桌子，甚至床都可以是纸做的。只要有纸靴子和纸鞋子，你可以戴纸帽子，纸衣服和纸雨衣。当你用了一次后，你扔掉再买新的
P125 (22)
“If you want to see a thing well, reach out and touch it!”
That may seem a strange thing to say. But touching things can help you to see them better.
Your eyes can tell you that a glass ball is round. But by holding it in your hands, you can feel how smooth and cool the ball is. You can feel how heavy the glass is.
When you feel all these about the ball, you really see it.
With your skin, you can feel better. For example, your fingers can tell the difference between two coins in your pocket. You can feel a little drop of water on the back of your hand, too.
You can even feel sounds against your skin. Have you ever wanted to know why some people like very loud music? They must like to feel the sounds of music.
All children soon learn what “Don’t touch” means. They hear it often. Yet most of us keep on touching things as we grow up. In shops, we touch things we might buy, such as food, clothes and so on. To see something well, we have to touch it.
The bottoms of our feet can feel things, too. You know this when on warm sand, cool grass or a hard floor. All feel different under your feet.
There are ways of learning to see well by feeling. One way is to close your eyes and try to feel everything that is touching your skin. At first, it is not easy to feel these things. You are too used to them!
Most museums are just for looking. But today some museums have some things to touch. Their signs say, “Do touch!” there you can feel everything on show.
If you want to see better, reach out and touch. Then you will really see!
“如果你想更全面地了解一样东西，伸出手去触摸它！”
这可能是一种奇怪的说法。但是感知事物可以帮助你更好地了解它们。
你的眼睛可以告诉你，一个玻璃球是圆的。但是，把它拿在手里，你可以感觉到球的光滑和冰冷。你可以感觉到玻璃的沉重。
当你感知到有关这只球的所有信息，你才真的了解它。
借助你的皮肤，你可以更好地感知。例如，你的手指可以告诉你在你口袋里两枚硬币的差异。你也能感觉到掉落在你手背上的小水滴。
你甚至可以通过你的皮肤反射的声音来感知。你曾经是否想知道为什么有些人喜欢很大声的音乐吗？他们必定喜欢感受音乐的声音。
所有的孩子很快就学会什么叫“请勿触摸”的意思。他们常常听到。当然，在我们成长过程里，我们中大多数人一直触摸感知事物的。在商店，我们触摸我们可能会购买的东西，如食品，衣服等。为了更好地了解一件事情，我们要触摸它。
我们的脚底也能感觉到东西的。当你站在温暖的沙子上你知道温暖，当你站在清凉的草地上你知道清凉，或当你站在硬地板上你知道硬实。你脚下的所有感觉都不同。
用感知来更好地了解事物是有学习方法的。一种方法是闭上眼睛，试着去感觉你的皮肤接触的一切。起初，是不容易感觉这些东西的。 你太习惯了！
大多数博物馆都只能观看。但是，当今有些博物馆有一些物品可供触摸。那里的标牌上说：“碰一下！”你可以感觉到显示出来每一样东西。
如果你想更全面地了解一样东西，伸出手去触摸它。然后，你会真正地了解！
Humans can keep healthy each year by going to the doctor for a flu shot. But birds aren’t so lucky. Since late last year, birds across
Chickens as well as ducks, pigeons and other poultry can all get bird flu, which is spread from farm to farm through the droppings of wild birds, according to Xinhua News Agency. But even worse, bird flu could also spread to humans. People who catch bird flu will have the usual flu symptoms like fever, cough and sore throat. If they don’t see a doctor in time, they could die. The bird fly troubling
So far, the virus had infected and killed millions of birds in Asian countries including
However, what scientists worry about most is that a person with human flu might catch bird flu, too. If that happens, experts say the two types of flu together could make an even more dangerous virus, a February 6 China Daily report said. In the same report( WHO世界卫生组织) scientist Bob Dietz said “ The more widespread it becomes, the greater the possibility population.” To prevent further spread of the disease, many countries are killing all the ill birds they find.
据新华社报道，鸡，鸭，鸽等家禽都可能感染禽流感，通过野生鸟类的粪便从农场到农场扩散开来。但更糟的是，禽流感也能传染给人类。患上禽流感的人将有类似流感的症状，通常出现发烧，咳嗽及喉咙痛。如果他们不及时就医，他们可能死去。'鸟儿飞’现在困扰着亚洲，是一个非常危险的，名为H5N1型的病毒引起的。 到目前为止，在亚洲包括泰国，越南和日本等国家，该病毒已经感染和致死了数百万只家禽，还有19人死于禽流感。在美国，家禽中被发现有两个禽流感病例。在中国一些地区报道了家禽中禽流感的案例。据新华社报道，到目前为止，在中国还没有人被感染。 然而，科学家最担心的是，患流感的人也可能患上禽流感。如果出现这种情况，专家说两种流感能够共同结合成更危险的病毒，
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