新标准初中英语九年级(上):UNIT1 An interesting book
时间：2018-12-04 作者：英语课 分类：外研社新标准初中英语九年级
[00:00.00]Module 3 A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
[00:05.57]UNIT 1 This book is interesting.
[00:09.08]1 Listen and read.Then say.
[00:13.31]What are you doing,Zhang Hai?
[00:15.12]I'm reading.
[00:16.19]This book is interesting.
[00:18.00]What is it?
[00:18.94]It's called A Thousand and One Nights.
[00:22.78]I've never heard of it.
[00:24.58]Is it a Chinese story?
[00:27.18]No.Another name for the book is Arabian Nights
[00:32.91]Is it a new book?
[00:34.82]No.The book has many stories
[00:38.11]and the oldest one comes from the 9th century
[00:42.40]What are the stories about?
[00:44.59]Well,they're quite exciting.
[00:47.16]A queen tells all the stories.
[00:50.45]She was a very clever woman.
[00:52.85]Why was she clever?
[00:54.90]Well,the king of a country had a beautiful wife.
[00:59.89]He loved his wife very much.
[01:02.45]But,his wife loved someone else,
[01:05.42]so he cut off her head.
[01:08.07]After that,the king married a new queen every
[01:11.48]day and then cut off her head the next morning.
[01:15.79]That sounds horrible 1.
[01:18.09]One day,a clever woman decided 2 to marry the king
[01:22.84]She told him a story every night
[01:25.65]but at the end of the night,
[01:27.80]she told the king something about
[01:30.45]the next night's story.
[01:33.10]The king listened.He loved the stories.
[01:36.78]He wanted to hear more.
[01:38.97]So,the stories lasted for
[01:41.08]a thousand and one nights.
[01:44.15]Then what happened?
[01:45.56]The king decided he loved his wife
[01:48.24]and he didn't cut off her head.
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