普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语选修9 Unit 3 Australia-Readin

GLIMPSES OF AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA Capital: Canberra Offcial name: Commonwealth of Australia Area: 7,686,850 km2 Population: 20 million Highest point: Mount Kosciuszko, 2,228 metres above sea level Lowest point: Lake Eyre, 15 metres below sea level Aus

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT2-1

Trade and curiosity have often formed the foundation for mankind's greatest endeavour. To people of early civilisations, the world map was a great puzzle. Marco Polo's stories inspired Christopher Columbus and other European explorers to search for s

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT1-3

Starting a stamp collection is easy and not very expensive. Before you start, you need to decide what kind of stamps you want to collect. Most people collect stamps that have something to do with what they are interested in: a certain country, a type

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT16-4

In my experience as a human resources manager, many job applicants are unsuccessful because they fail to prepare for interviews. If you want to get that job, you must do your homework! First of all, learn as much as you can about the employer. It is

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT1-1

THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS In 1951, the then director of the Guinness Brewery, Sir Hugh Beaver, wanted to settle an argument about the fastest bird in Europe. After talking to his friends, he concluded that a book which answered such questio

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT5-2

Talk is cheap, but in the world of advertising, the right word at the right time can make millions. The language used in ads differs from ordinary language. Ad-makers choose words and brand names very carefully in order to create a positive image of

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT4-1

Before the eighteenth century, botany was merely a branch of medicine. Until then, mostly doctors and surgeons studied herbs. Attempts had been made by others to classify plant species into groups, but the breakthrough came with the work of Carl Lin

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT5-1

Ads are tbund almost everywhere -- they are broadcast on TV and over the radio, posted on the Intemet and printed in newspapers and on posters in our cities. Advertising is a highly developed industry. The develooment of radio, television and other m

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT4-2

In his youth Charles Darwin enjoyed all the freedom to experiment and do whatever he liked. The study of physics, chemistry, and later botany, was his hobby. At the age of 22, Darwin was invited to join the scientific expedition on the Beagle. During

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT14-4

All animals are part of the food chain: they are listed on someone else's menu and always run the risk of ending up as someone else's lunch, dinner or snack. To protect themselves from being eaten and to survive in the wild, many animals have develop

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT15-3

Are you a gamer? If you enjoy playing computer games like many millions of other teenagers worldwide, then yes, you are. According to the China Internet Network Information Centre (CINIC), Internet users in China spend more than eleven hours gaming

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT16-1

Little David was football crazy. He spent all his spare time kicking a ball in the school playground or on the streets near his east London home. Like millions of boys and an increasing number of girls, he dreamt of being a professional football play

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT9-2

Modem hospitals are clean and safe and doctors can cure many diseases. But it was not always so. For a long time, health care was often dangerous and risky. Treatments were neither scientific nor effective, and many patients suffered deadly infection

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT9-1

A Wang Lin is a carpenter who lives in eastern China with his wife and son. Two years ago, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He was getting weaker and suffered from constant pain in his chest. The doctors told him that the treatment he needed would

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT8-1

Learning a language is obviously more than just memorising words, phrases and structures. When we learnt our mother tongue, we did not receive much formal instruction. Few parents give language lessons to their children! Instead we learnt or acquired

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT6-2

R: Our program today is about the eightieth, anniversary of the Anchorage-to-Nome dog sled race. Mr Parks, can you tell us something about the history of the race? P: The first race wasn't a competition, but it was a race against time. Eighty years a

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT6-1

In the spring of 1845, my father read a book about California. This account of the wonderful land beyond the Rocky Mountains gave him the idea to move there. Less than half a year later we packed all our things onto a wagon and left our farm. It was

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT13-2

The case of the Moonstone was most unusual. I knew that the answer was in the smear of paint on Rachel Verinder's sitting room door, but I couldn't find the garment which made the mark. At the time Rachel was behaving very strangely, especially when

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT13-1

The novel The Moonstone is set in England in 1848, but the story really began 50 years earlier. The Moonstone is a huge yellow diamond that was once part of a statue of the moon god in India. An Englishman murdered three holy men, stole the diamond f

人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高三UNIT11-1

We are often asked to work in small groups, but why? Is it necessary to work with others? What if you feel comfortable doing a task by yourself? Especially at school, it sometimes feels as if we are being asked to work in teams for the sake of just t