高一英语课外阅读材料
高一英语课外阅读材料
Fulfilling the dream
陈柏霖：实现梦想需要时间和
耐心。
词数 389 建议阅读时间 5
分钟
HOW long will you
wait to succeed in your
dream career?
Ten years or longer,
Taiwan actor Bolin
Chen would say. The
29-year-old finally earned back all his
hard work when he won Best Leading Actor for his role in the popular TV series In Time With You (《我可能不会爱你》) at the 47th Golden Bell Awards, which was held in Taipei on Oct 26. From a very young age, we have a dream, whether it’s to be a painter, a scientist or a writer. But the desire (渴望) to paint, discover or tell stories fades (消褪) as we grow up, until that moment of finding our deep calling hits us.
For Chen, this came when he was discovered by director Yee Chih-Yen in front of an ice cream store at the age of 19. Chen had considered becoming an excellent dancer, a model and a singer before h e played the male lead in Yee’s movie Blue Gate Crossing (《蓝色大门》). His first taste of fame with the
well-received drama showed him what he really wanted to be. Bolin Chen, 29, won his first award after ten years of acting. XINHUA
However, show business didn’t favor him instantly (立刻). Fame was not of interest to him as his rule for picking roles was to try something new each time.
Over the next ten years he engaged (使……忙碌) himself in genres as different as fantasy (魔幻) action in The Twins Effect II (2004), horror (恐怖片) in The Eye 10 (2005) and
coming-of-age drama in Buddha Mountain (2010).
Nothing made much of an impact until he successfully played a thoughtful and dedicated (忠心的) partner in a relationship of undeclared love (暗恋) with his best friend (played by Best Actress winner Ariel Lin). The TV drama was the biggest winner at the awards ceremony (仪式), sweeping seven awards out of its eight nominations (提名).
Like his winning role, Li Daren, critics say Chen is just like a fine wine that will get better with age. There’s something about the way he carries himself – that sincere and
down-to-earth demeanor (气质) fans can’t help but fall for. Many believe the Golden Bell trophy (奖杯) will take Chen’s acting career to new heights. But Chen says that the greatest gains are actually personal lessons.
“You’ll succeed in time as long a s you love it with a passion (热情) because life will give back what you put into it,” he told Taiwan newspaper The China Times.
“If your dream requires time and patience, give it.”
高考词汇
succeed vi. 成功
If you try hard, you will succeed in the end.
impact n./vt. 影响
The computer has made a great impact on modern life.
Crossing the line
终结“中国式过马路”到底需要什
么？
词数 377 建议阅读时间 7分钟
THE traffic light turns red.
As a pedestrian (行人),
what do you do? The rule
says “stop and wait,” but
we often see groups of
people running red lights.
Internet users have
jokingly named this
phenomenon “the
Chinese-style street
crossing”. While many people criticize it as bad manners,
recent research reveals (揭示) another possible reason – the duration (持续时间) of red lights in China exceeds (超过) what people can mentally bear.
“Pedestrians have a maximum (最大) bearable (可忍受的)
waiting time in their mind,” Ni Ying, a member of a research team at Tongji University’s School of Transportation
Engineering, was quoted (引述) by Xinhua News Agency as
saying. “If they wait longer than that, they will be more likely to ignore the light.”
From 2008 to 2010, Ni’s team carried out research on
pedestrians’ waiting times at various road crossings. They A group of pedestrians jaywalk across a road in Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province. CHINA DAILY
found a correlation (相互关系) between running red lights and the length of time they had to wait before the light changed. They concluded that, on average, Chinese can wait for the traffic lights no longer than 70 seconds, and in downtown areas this number could extend (扩大) to 90 seconds.
Many countries work out pedestrians’ maximum bearable waiting time and use it to design traffic lights, according to Ni. For example, researchers found that it is 60 seconds for Germans and 45 seconds for Britons. Seldom does a red light in these countries exceed the limits.
But the duration of red lights in China often exceeds the 70 or 90 second limit. Take Beijing for example. At Zhongguancun Avenue a red light lasts longer than 2 minutes, during which you could finish reading a short story on Teens. Pedestrians are then given just 30 seconds to cross the street.
“I stop for red lights. But if I’m really in a hurry or the traffic interval (区间) is long enough for me to cross, I move slowly forward (向前) seconds before the light turns green,” said Qi Xin, 17, living in Fengtai district in Beijing.
However, the long waiting time cannot serve as an excuse for breaking the rules, commentator Li Zhiyong wrote on the People’s Daily.
“As long as the design of traffic lights remains the same, everyone should obey the rules, otherwise (否则) the country will be out of order and danger will be incurred for pedestrians,” wrote Li.
Roman Holiday without the snacks
IN the movie Roman
Holiday, Audrey Hepburn
shows the world what a
romantic (浪漫的) scene is
all about: wandering
around Rome with a lover
by your side and an ice
cream in hand. But those
who want to experience
this may now have to pay
a large price. Rome’s city council (议会)
passed a new law in October. It prohibits (禁止) tourists from eating pizza, sandwiches or any other snacks or fast food
around the historical sites in the city. Violators (违反者) will be fined (罚款) from 25 euros (202 yuan) up to 500 euros (4,044 yuan).
City authorities explained that the law aims to improve
people’s manners and protect sites that have a historic or architectural (建筑的) value.
Similar bans (禁令) have been applied in some other Italian cities. In Venice, for example, eating snacks in the street is prohibited in St Mark’s Square.
Critics say such bans reflect (反映) Italians’ attitudes toward public eating: they rarely eat or drink in the street.
Students try brand new eye exercises Tourists eat in front of the Pantheon in Rome.AP
DON’T be puzzled if a group of students sit nearby and start rolling their eyeballs at you. They may be doing their new eye exercises.
In a recent online video, a girl demonstrates (展示) a new eye exercise program. She keeps her eyes open and rolls her eyeballs around to the music, or closes her eyes first and then opens them and tries her best to look up.
The new program was designed by the Taizhou Office of the China School Health Action in Zhejiang Province and Bright Angel Eye-Protecting Center for Students. As a pilot scheme (计划), some schools in Shandong and Hubei have adopted (采用) the new program.
In a CCTV report, some students who tried the exercise said they felt dizzy (头晕的) and sleepy after doing it. Some were even worried about turning cross-eyed.
Doctors say that the program only exercises external muscles (外部肌肉) of the eyes. It cannot relieve eye fatigue (疲劳) and has little effect in preventing nearsightedness.
重点讲解
高考词汇
mentally adv. 心理上
We must equip the children mentally and physically to meet the trial they will face.
various adj. 各种各样的
There are various ways of getting to the station.
length n. 长度，时间的长短
The length of your talk must be at least 10 minutes.
obey vt. 遵守，服从
I always obey my father.
长难句分析
While many people..., recent research... – the duration of red lights in China exceeds what people can mentally bear.
本句中的while 表示“虽然，尽管”；破折号后的分句进一步说明人们闯红灯的另一个原因，该句的主干为the duration…exceeds what people can mentally bear ，what 引导宾语从句，意思是“人们心理能够承受的范围”。 考点看台
Seldom does a red light in these countries exceed the limits. 本句为部分倒装句。当句子以否定词，如seldom ，never ，hardly ，little, not only 等开头时，要用部分倒装，即把谓语动词的一部分（助动词或情态动词等）提前放到主语前面。
A new approach
美国课堂为吸引学生出奇招。
词数 367 建议阅读时间 7分钟
教案和课件见网站 测试见7版
LIKE so many teachers,
Cristi Derow and Jennifer
Bradley have spent most
of their careers giving
classroom lectures to
students who sat
passively (消极地) in their
seats. The Lewisville, Texas,
school teachers were aware (知晓) that the hours they spent A teenager from Forestwood is learning on a home computer.MCT
on preparing lessons were too often wasted on many students.
“We were losing half the class. They were looking at us, but they weren’t listening,” said Derow, who co-teaches history classes with Bradley.
So Forestwood High School, Texas, did something new by using the “flipped (翻转的) classroom” method of instruction.“We’ve completely done away with our lectures,” Derow said. And homework assignments (作业) “are all done in class,” Bradley said.
With the flipped concept (概念), a student’s usual homework assignment is to watch pre-recorded lectures on their computers or smart phones.
They walk into class ready to discuss the topic, collaborate (合作) with other students and work on assignments based on what they learned from the videos.
Free from lecturing, the teachers can use class time to look deeper into the subject and focus on difficult concepts. “Now students are actively engaged (投入的),” said the teachers, who have seen a 15-20 percent increase in test scores.
As students change from a passive to an active role, they learn critical (批判性的) thinking skills, learn to collaborate and become independent learners.
Instead of doing homework assignments alone at home, students are now “working together, talking about it,” Bradley said. “If they don’t agree on an answer, they debate it
and have to justify (为……辩护) their answers. It’s a higher level of learning.”
Her students give the flipped classroom high marks.
Sarah Lee, 14, watches the 30-minute videos on a home computer. She likes the ability to rewind (重播) the tapes if she doesn’t understand a concept.
She also likes being able to take breaks and watch the lessons on her own schedule. “I can watch the videos over two or three days,” she said.
Classmate Dawson Depperschmidt said she sometimes watches the video lectures on her iPhone at soccer games. She likes learning the lessons before she goes to school and thinks the time she spends in the classroom is more productive.
“It gives us more time to learn at school,” Dawson said. “You get more in-depth in class.”
School gets festival feeling
美国大兵、唐朝仕女、迈克尔·杰
克逊……我们的集市有你想看的
一切！
词数 290 建议阅读时间 6分钟 TRY to imagine this: American soldiers wandering around with black “guns” in their hands; beauties of the Tang Dynasty
sitting gracefully (优雅地) beside them; and a group of “Michael Jacksons ” singing and dancing at the same time. Sounds like a daydream, right? But it’s real! They were just some of the performances by students on our playground last week.
October is our school’s traditional “month of arts”. We hold various activities over the whole month, such as indoor
concerts and poetry (诗歌) reading competitions. What we like best is the students’ fair, during which we can sell and buy things all by ourselves on the playground.
This year, the activity was rather fascinating (有吸引力的).
Walking around the campus, you could hear lots of students shouting out to promote their products (产品). Some students even dressed in fancy costumes to attract customers’
attention. Now you can start to imagine what I described at the beginning of the article.
There were many kinds of things for sale at the fair. Clocks, glasses, funny costumes and books were all sold at low prices. Shoes and clothes, on which students can draw pictures, were especially popular. As well as items (物品) for sale, the fair
brings many activities for students to take part in. If you want to play a ball game, have a game of chess, or enjoy a violin performance, you need to pay first. Students dressed like ancient beauties. PHOTO COURTESY OF LI DONGDONG
Both the buyers and sellers enjoyed this year’s activities very much. One of my classmates told me with great joy that he sold his calligraphy (书法) work at a satisfying price. And my friends happily filled their bags with all kinds of things they bought at the fair.
We all loved the “month of arts”. It made our school life colorful and enjoyable!
Social parenting
如果父母要求加你为QQ好友，你愿意吗？
擂场：河北省保定一中450班
指导教师：李娜组织学生：李昂泽
YES. We can get on better with our parents on QQ.
Li Angze: Because of the generation gap (代沟), it is not always easy for children and parents to have face-to-face communication. But on the Internet, as they don’t see each other directly, they will feel less embarrassed and talk with mutual (相互的) trust. It’s good for their relationship.
Liu Xiaoyue: I’d like to add my parents on QQ because it means my parents will have a thorough (完全的) understanding of me. For example, if I write something sad on my QQ signature (签名), my parents will know I am feeling blue and cheer me up. If my parents go out of town, we can use QQ to see each other. Li Danrui: Parents always love us and they do everything good for us. Adding them to the list of our QQ friends is a way to show that we appreciate their love and we trust and love them too. There is a lot of inappropriate (不合适的) content (内容) on the Internet. Our parents can help us stay away from it.
NO. Adding our parents on QQ is not necessary and will only mean we lose some of our privacy (隐私).
Yan Feiyi: In my opinion, QQ is just like my diary. I can say everything in my QQ space and signature. I am old enough to have an independent space. I’m afraid that if I add my parents on QQ, I will not say the things I want to in case (以防) my parents see them. I don’t like that.
Wang Wanlin: My parents disagree with making friends online, and they don’t like me to do it either. If I add them on QQ, they may always worry about wh at I am doing when they see I’m online. But in fact, I don’t talk with strangers. To stop them worrying about me, I will not add them on QQ.
Wang Congyu: I don’t think it’s necessary to do so. We are family and we can and should talk face to face. We can see our parents’ love for us in their eyes or hugs, which we cannot get in QQ. Direct conversation is more efficient.
Cyber Fever
Yoga Lin favors the opinion of
YUANFANG is not only the
Yuanfang.REUTERS
right-hand man (得力助手)
of Di Renjie, a famous detective (侦探) from the Tang Dynasty, in the TV series Detective DiRenjie, he is also one of the busiest people in China’s cyberspace (网络).
Everyone seems to favor his opinion. Even Taiwanese singer Yoga Lin (林宥嘉), 25, has been caught by “Yuanfang” fever. During a press meeting (新闻发布会) in Shanghai last week, when the room was made brighter so people could take photographs, the 25-year-old jo ked: “The lights are on. Yuanfang, what’s your opinion?”
But Lin admitted that he didn’t even know who Li Yuanfang was until several days ago. “His name is all over micro blogs, so I did a little research and found that he was said to be a guard of Di Renj ie.”
Fever在这里不是“发烧”的意思，而是“一时的狂热，高度的兴奋”，即a situation in which many people feel very excited or strongly about something。例如：The whole country was caught up in “Justin Bieber” fever.
In a row
THEY shot to stardom
less than a year ago,
and now One Direction,
the UK’s favorite boy
band, have made it
onto the British
under-30s rich list.
As a group they have
reached No 5 on UK
magazine Heat’s chart
of rich, young celebrities, having
collected a fortune of ￡26.33 million (about 270 million yuan) between them.
The list has been topped by Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe for two years in a row. Radcliffe has a fortune of ￡53.33
million. Interestingly, his two fellow (伙伴) actors in the wizard (巫师) movie, Rupert Grint (who plays Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) are on the list too, ranking 7th and 4th.
In a row 意思是“连续地，一个接一个地”，即happening a number of times without a break, one after another 。例如：This is the third Sunday in a row that it’s rained.
Future couple One Direction ranks 5th on the British under-30s rich list.REUTERS
A COUPLE in the UK like to
do things differently –
they live in the future.
For the past six years
Janys and John Warren
have lived by British
Summertime throughout
the year. Instead of
putting the clocks back at
the start of winter they do
not change them. The couple said that living like
this has had a positive (积极的) effect on their lives.
The pair, who are both retired, began to experiment with time to see if it would help ease (减轻) Mr Warren’s cluster
headaches, a condition thought to be brought on by changing the clocks.
The couple said that they feel a lot healthier than they used to. Mrs Warren, 68, told The Telegraph: “We heard that someone who suffered from them [cluster headaches] went to Australia and did not change his clocks and did not have an episode (发作). It’s worked for us too.”
Children’s minds take flight
Mr Warren (L) and his wife live in the future. REUTERS
HOW do you get a child’s
early education off the
ground? A head teacher in
the Georgian city of
Rustavi has found a
unique way of creating an
exciting learning
environment. He has
transformed (改造) an
airplane into a
kindergarten. Gari Chapidze bought an
old Yakovlev Yak-42 from Georgian Airways and filled it with education equipment, games and toys but left the cockpit (座舱) intact (完好无损的) so it could be used as a play area.
“The idea was to create a ki ndergarten where children go with joy,” Chapidze, who runs the kindergarten, told AFP. “The children come in to the kindergarten with pleasure and cry
when they have to go home. They are happy here,” he added. How uplifting (振奋人心的)!
horoscope 趣味星座(Nov 5 – Nov 11)
本周最需要决断力的星座
Just for fun. Don’t take it seriously.
Libra 天秤座(Sept 23 – Oct 23)
Don’t leave anything unfinished this week but make sure you get all your work done. Hesitating for too long is a waste of your time and will get you nowhere. Do your homework and make decisions quickly. Sitting on the sidelines, waiting to see Children learning in the plane school. AFP
what everyone else does first, could mean you end up missing a good opportunity.
本周不要拖拖拉拉，所有事情最好及时解决。犹豫太久只会浪费时间，不会带来任何好处(get you nowhere)。不论是写作业还是做决定都不要拖沓。站在一旁观望别人的行动会让你错失良机。
Scorpio天蝎座(Oct 24 – Nov 22)
This week you might find that things are not going as well as you expected. Don’t hesitate to ask for help. It isn’t a sign of weakness. In fact, asking for help when you need it is a good thing. Talking to someone who is more knowledgeable than you will inspire you in many ways.
本周你可能常常会觉得事与愿违。需要向别人寻求帮助时不要犹豫不决。知道何时求助其实是一种能力，而不是软弱的表现。常与比你博学(knowledgeable)的人聊聊天，总会在各方面对你有所启发(inspire)。Sagittarius射手座(Nov 23 – Dec 21)
With a little extra effort you can get rid of a bad habit this week. Having battled with yourself for some time, this new change will brighten up your day and allow you to see things differently. You should know that by letting go of old habits you make room for new possibilities.
只要再做一点点的努力，本周你就能摆脱(get rid of)一个坏习惯。你已经和自己斗争了很久，一旦改变这个习惯，你会觉得世界都亮起来，并且会用一种不一样的眼光看待自己。毕竟，只有戒掉坏习惯，才能腾出空间(make room for)来迎接新的气象。
QUIZ TIME
Day 1
A new approach (P3)
Choose the best answer:
1. What can we conclude from the first three paragraphs?
A. Teachers in Lewisville enjoyed giving classroom lectures.
B. It takes time for students to concentrate and understand in class.
C. Many students took an inactive part in lecture-style classes.
D. Teachers in Lewisville found that there was no need to prepare lessons.
2. What difference does the “flipped classroom” method make to students?
A. They have to prepare lectures by themselves.
B. They need to do more homework at home.
C. They have to be independent and cooperative.
D. They have more arguments with classmates.
3. What does the underlined word “productive” mean?
A. achieving a lot
B. causing difficulties
C. trying new methods
D. reducing risks
4. What are the benefits of the “flipped classroom” method?
a. Teachers have time to solve deeper problems.
b. Teachers don’t have to design homework for students.
c. Students are engaged in a higher level of learning.
d. Students study according to their own schedul
e.
A. a, b, c
B. a, b, d
C. b, c, d
D. a, c, d
Day 2
Rules of the rail (P4)
阅读短文并根据文章内容回答问题，注意答案不要超过题目规定的字数。
1. What is the main point of the article? (No more than 8 words)
__________________________________________
2. What does the author think of the unwritten rules? (No more than 10 words)
__________________________________________
3. What do Londoners do to avoid being too crowded in the carriage? (No more than 15 words)
__________________________________________
4. What problems arise when it comes to getting a seat on the tube? (No more than 10 words)
__________________________________________
5. Translate the following sentence into Chinese.
A few people will smile and realize that the unfriendly underground environment is silly.
__________________________________________
Day 3
Can you catch a... (P5)
Choose the best answer:
1. What is the main point of the first three paragraphs?
A. To introduce the idea of contagious yawning.
B. To explain that yawning is not a unique phenomenon among humans.
C. To explain why some animals yawn and others do not.
D. To show how yawning spreads from one person to another.
2. Which of the following statements about the experiment is TRUE?
B. More students started to yawn as time went on.
A. Students were asked to complete a test in the waiting room.
C. The students who yawned more were found to be more empathetic.
D. Fewer students yawned than scientists had expected.
3. What problem might kids with autism have?
A. They might be unable to walk.
B. They might have problems with attention.