人教版高一必修一Unit1 课文

人教版高一必修一Unit1 Friendship

Pre-reading

1. Why do you need friends? Make a list of reasons why friends are important to you.

2. Does a friend always have to be a person? What else can be your friend?

3.Skim the first paragraph of the reading passage below and find who was Annie's best friend.

Reading

Ann is best friend

Do you want a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your deepest feelings and thoughts? Or are you afraid that your friend would laugh at you, or would not understand what you are going through? Anne Frank wanted the first kind, so he made her diary her best friend.

Annie lived in Amsterdam in the Netherland during World War Ⅱ. Her family was Jewish so they had to hide or they would be caught by the German Nazis. She and her family hid away for nearly twenty-five months before they were discovered. During that time, the only true friend was her diary. She said, "I don't want to set down a series of facts in a diary as most people do, but I want this diary itself to be my friend and I shall call my friend kitty." Now read how she felt after being in the

hiding place since July 1942.

Thursday, 15th June, 1944

Dear Kitty,

I wonder if it's because I haven't been able to be outdoors for so long that I've grown so crazy about everything to do with nature. I can well remember that there was a time when a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound. That's change the same as I came here.

... For example, one evening when it was warm, I stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven in order to have a good look at the moon by myself. But as the moon gave for too much light, I didn't dare open a window. Another time five months ago, I happened to be upstairs at dusk when the window was open. I didn't go downstairs until the window had to be shut. The dark rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me entirely in their power; It was the first time in a year and a half that at the end of the night face to face...

... Sadly... I'm only able to look at nature through dirty curtains hanging before very dusty windows. It's no pleasure looking through this any longer because nature is one thing that really must be experienced.

Yours, Annie