Unit 1 Friendship

1.        He works late into the night in order to catch up with the classmates. 为了赶上同学，他常学习到深夜。

2.       The two leaders at last talked about some international affairs face to face. 最后，两位领导人面对面地谈论了一些国际事务。

3.       It’s bad manners to laugh at a disabled person. 嘲笑残疾人是不礼貌的。

4.       So many young people were crazy about her songs that her new record was sold out in a short time. 许多年青人都热烈追捧她的歌曲，所以她的新唱片在短时间里就销售一空。

5.       I don’t think it happened by chance. Instead, someone did it on purpose to attract your attention. 我认为这不是巧合，相反是有人故意这样做来吸引你的注意。

6.       He spent several days in house hunting by reading a series of ads in the newspaper. 他化了几天时间在这家报纸一系列的广告上找房子。

7.       The thief has hidden away and no one knows where he is. 小偷躲藏起来了，谁也不知道他在哪里。

8.       Being Jewish, they were afraid of being caught by the German soldiers. 因为是犹太人，他们怕被德国士兵抓住。

9.       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. 我不知道这是不是因为我长久无法出门的缘故，我变得对一切与大自然有关的事物都无比狂热。

10.   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. 我记得非常清楚，以前，湛蓝的天空、鸟儿的歌唱、月光和鲜花，从未令我心迷神往过。

11.   One evening when it was so warm, I stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven in order to have a good look at the moon by myself. 有天晚上天气很暖和，我熬到11点半故意不睡觉，为的是独自好好看看月亮。

12.   It was the first time in a year and a half that I’d seen the night face to face. 这是我一年半来第一次亲眼目睹的夜晚。

13.   It’s no pleasure looking through these any longer because nature is one thing that really must be experienced. 观看这些已经不再是乐趣，因为大自然是你必须亲身体验的。

14.   It will be a long time before we meet again. 要过很长时间我们才能再见面。

15.   She felt very lonely for being left alone at home. 她因为被独自留在家中而感到孤独。

16.   Losing his bike make him upset. 丢了自行车令他很懊恼。

17.   It is because you speak ill of her behind her back that she hates you. 正是因为你在背后说她的坏话，她才恨你。

18.   Before being sent away to a boarding school, this boy was the brightest student in his class. He was at the top in every exam always with high marks. 被送到寄宿学校前，这孩子是他班上最优秀的。他每次考试都以高分名列前茅。

19.   These words caused the boy’s eyes to be filled with tears. 这些话让这孩子热泪盈眶。

20.   Never has he gone through such pains since his childhood. 他从小就没有经历过这些痛苦。

21.   Not until he took off his glasses did I know he was a famous actor. 直到他摘掉眼镜时，我才知道他是个名演员。

22.   She found it difficult to settle and calm down in the hiding place, because she was concerned about whether they would be discovered. 她发现很难在这个藏身处安顿并冷静下来，因为她对是否会被发现忧心忡忡。

23.   What she really missed was going outdoors and walking the dog for her neighbor. 她真正想念的是到外面去，帮邻居遛狗。

24.   Anne told her father that she had got tired of looking at nature through dirty curtains and dusty windows. 安妮跟她父亲说，她厌倦了透过脏兮兮窗帘，结满尘埃的窗户看大自然。

25.   “How can Linda recover from her illness in this room when it’s so dirty and dusty? It will only make her worse,” said the doctor. 医生说，“这个房间这么脏，灰尘这么多，琳达怎么能恢复健康？这只能加重她的病情。”

26.   There is nothing wrong with you and this boy being friends and standing together. 你和这孩子成朋友在一起没有什么错。

27.   It’s a good habit for you to keep a diary. 记日记（对你来说）是好习惯。

28.   What great trouble we had (in) finding where his house was! 找到他的住所可把我们苦死了！

29.   It was a pity that the great writer died with his works unfinished. 真遗憾，这位大作家他的著作没写完就辞世了。

30.   Whenever she met with any problems, she went to her father for help. 她有任何问题时，就求助于她父亲。

31.   Indeed the father’s help has much to do with her achievements. 的确，父亲的帮助跟她（取得）的成就有很大的关系。

32.   Although I try to talk to my classmates, I still find it hard to make good friends with them, for I am not very good at communicating with people. 尽管我尽力跟我的同学去聊，我还是感觉很难和他们成为好朋友，因为我不善于与人沟通。

33.   Dick got tired of his new toy after playing with it for a week and tried to swap it for another one.狄克玩了一星期新玩具，玩厌了想再换一个。

34.   背诵这段文章：

Last week I went to the theatre. I had a very good seat. The play was very interesting. I did not enjoy it. A young man and a young woman were sitting behind me. They were talking loudly. I got very angry. I could not hear the actors. I turned round. I looked at the man and the woman angrily. They did not pay any attention. In the end, I could not bear it. I turned round again. 'I can't hear a word!' I said angrily.

'It's none of your business,' the young man said rudely. 'This is a private conversation!'.

Unit 2 English around the world

1.       At first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken today. 首先，在公元450年到1150年间，人们说的英语跟今天所说的英语就很不一样。

2.       It was based more on German than the English we speak at present. 当时的英语更多地是以德语为基础的，而现代英语不是。

3.       So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was able to make use of a wider vocabulary than ever before. 所以到17世纪，莎士比亚所用的词汇量比以前任何时期都大。