版外研版九年级上英语课文Word文档格式.docx

1、 But in my opinion,man-made wonders are more exciting than natural at the Terracotta s more than 2,000 years old.Daming:I agree with you,Betty. And I think the Three Gorges Dam is fantastic too. Its about 2,300 metres long,185 metres high and 15 metres wide at the top. It lions of people in China.No

2、w,whod like to call first?】M1 U2A great wonder of the natural worldWhen I arrived,it was early morning and it was raining. I looked to the eastthe sky was becoming got out of the car,went through a gate and walked along a dark path. There was nothing to see,but I knew it was there.After about a mile

3、,a stranger appeared beside the path.“Am I going the right way?”I knew where I was going,“yes,”he replied,“youll get there in five minutes.”Finally,I came to some rocks and stopped. I looked over them,but it was silent and there was no sign of it.Suddenly,the rain stopped and the clouds sun rose beh

4、ind me and shone on he below me,the ground fell away and down to a was looking across one of the wonders of the natural worldthe Grand Canyon.I looked down to the Colorado River,a silver stream nearly one mile below you put the two tallest buildings in the world on top of each other at the bottom of

5、 the canyon,they still would not reach the I looked across to the other side of the canyon,It was about fifteen miles away,maybe ,I looked to my left and to my right,and on both sides the canyon went far away for more than 200 Grand Canyon was not just was huge!I remained by the canyon for about hal

6、f an hour,and I asked myself.“Is the Grand Canyon the greatest wonder of the natural world?”I certainly know the do you think?M2 U1$My family always go somewhere interesting as soon as the holiday begins.The First of October s Chinas National Day,isnt it,Lingling? Peoples Republic of China was found

7、ed on lst October have celebrated the National Day since are flowers and national flags everywhere,and we have a three-day holiday.Do you have any plans for the holiday this year? parents and I are going to visit some friends in Shandong province and will stay there until he end of the were staying

8、with our friends,were going to spend one day in is your national day,Betty?Our national day is called Independence s on 4th ve celebrated it since s a public holiday,but we only have one day that day,there are all kinds of holiday s the start of the vacation season and most people take a vacation so

9、metime in July or August.And is there anything special on that day?Well,you can see American flags usually have a picnic somewhere have great also watch bands play music in public parks.（Do you have a national day in the UK,Tony?No,we dontwe celebrate Christmas with a two-day my family always go som

10、ewhere interesting as soon as the holiday begins.M2 U2ThanksgivingThanksgiving is an American is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in is a time for a special dinner among family and make short speeches and give thanks for their food.We have celebrated the festival since the first pioneers from Engla

11、nd arrived in America by ship in the seventeenth hey were crossing the Atlantic,Many people died,and after they landed,their first winter was worse than any English winter. The local people,the Native Americans,taught the pioneers how to grow following year they celebrated together by eating a dinne

12、r of the new food.We still celebrate Thanksgiving today with a traditional kitchen is always the most crowded room in our house because we all help prepare the lay the table,and then before we begin dinner,my father gies thanks for the food,so we remember why we celebrate the usually eat too much,bu

13、t it is only one a year!We often talk a lot and tell stories after dinner as it is all over,everyone helps wash the dishes.The festival is a very busy time for travel when friends and families come together to the festival,there are plenty of other things to see and live in New York City,and we go t

14、o watch the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade goes along several streets and finishes at the famous Macys is the start of the Christmas season,and we start shopping for is also important at Thanksgiving,with many teams playing many Americans,we usually watch the games on television and enjoy ourselves v

15、ery much.|M3 U1She trained hard,so she became a great player later.Ms Li:Daming,who is your hero?Who have you chosen to tell us about?Deng Yaping!Shes my hero because shes one of the best table tennis players in the world and I love playing table tennis.Tell us about her.Well,she started playing tab

16、le tennis when she was trained hard,so she became a great player later.Ms li:And what competitions has she won?Shes won many world competitions including four gold medals in the stopped playing when she was twenty-four.What did she do after that?She began to study at Tsinghua University in Beijing a

17、nd then attended university abroad .Her English wasnt good enough when she again she worked hard,and seven years later,she completed her doctors degree at Cambridge she does,she never gives up!Thats amazing! says that she isnt cleverer than anyone else,but she has a very strong will.I see. Well,I th

18、ink shes a good student as well as a good player.Yes,and she helped make the Beijing Olympics a victory for world s simply the best!Shes a true hero.M3 U2#My heroDr Norman Bethune By Wang LinglingNorman Bethune is one of the most famous heroes in was a Canadian came to China to help the Chinese peop

19、le and died for them.Norman Bethune was born in became a doctor in 1916 and went to Spain in 1936 to treat the wounded soldiers during the war soon realised that many people were dying because they did not get to hospital quickly Bethune developed new ways of taking care of the invented special medi

20、cal tools to use outside hospitals and chose to the fighting areas so that doctors could treat the wounded more inventions saved many lives.In 1938,Dr Bethune came to China and helped treat the wounded during the Anti Japanese that time,there were few doctors,so he had to work very hard on his exper

21、ience of treating people in Spain was Useful in developed training courses for local doctors and nurses,and wrote books so that they could learn about how he treated the sick.Dr Bethune often worked very hard without resting or taking care of himself;Once,he even worked for sixty-nine hours without

22、stopping and managed to save over a hundred day in 1939,he cut his finger during an operation,but he continued his work without treating the end,he died of his wound.Dr Bethunes work for the Chinese people made him a hero in are many books and films about him,and he is still remembered in both China

23、 and Canada today. M3 U3）Read the passage and choose the best title.My favourite Greek hero is Odysseus.He is the main character in The Odyssey,a famous story by the Greek storyteller,Homer.Odysseus and his friends go from Greece to Troy to ten years,they win and are very proud of win and are very p

24、roud of they set off for home,but on their way,there is a great become lost,and that is the start of their great that time,they meet many strange of them want to hurt Ojdysseus and his friends,but a few help one island a very big man with only one eye tries to kill this fight,Odysseus loses many of

25、his friends,but he manages to get away.After ten years of fighting and ten more years on the way home,Odysseus completes his journey and manages to get back to his own country, wife and son are waiting for him to come ,he looks so different that they fail to recognise Odysseus saves his wife and son

26、from some bad men,they finally know who he is hapy o be back home again after so many adventures.I like this story because it is interesting and think Odysseus is a true is very clever and has a strong also learn from him that great men never give up,no matter what difficulties they face.M4 U1Mum:No

27、w,whats our train number?Dad:T27 to s leaving from Platform 2.The meeting in Lhasa is very important for us,but Im sorry you cant come with us,Betty. So am I,but I cant miss two weeks of school.Will you remember everything Ive told you?Be especially careful with the it when youre in and lock it when

28、 you gop out.Yes, can look after my self,although it wont be easy for me.Well,make sure you eat plenty of fresh fruit and Ive left lots of your favourite biscuits.Dont can cook simple meals.There wont be anybody to wake you up in the morning.Ill be clock rings so loudly that it will certainly wake m

29、e up.Im sure Ive forgotten something,but I dont know what it is!（Announcement:We advise all passengers for Train T27 to Lhasa to go immediately to Platform train is about to leave.）Thats your train!Goodbye Mum,goodbye Dad.I know!I havent given you our address in Lhasa!Send me a text a good trip!Bye,my dear!Bye!See you in a couple of weeks!M4 U2My “perfect holiday”As a boy,like all other boys,I wanted to be a my parents did everything for ,they managed ev