第一课Anne’s best friendDo you want a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your deepest feeling and thoughts? Or are you afraid of your friend would laugh at you, or would not understand what you are going throught.Anne Frank want the first kind. She made her diary her best friend.Anne lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands during World War Ⅱ .Her family wad Jewish so they had to hide or they would be caught by German Nazis. They hid away for twenty-five months before they were discovered. During that time the only true friends was her diary. She said, “I don’t want to set down a series of facts as most people do. But I want this diary itself to be my best friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty. Now read how she felt after being in the hiding place since July 1942.你是不是想有一位无话不谈能推心置腹的朋友呢？或者你是不是担心你的朋友会嘲笑你，会不理解你目前的困境呢？安妮弗兰克想要的是第一种类型的朋友，于是她就把日记当成了她最好的朋友。

安妮在第二次世界大战期间住在荷兰的阿姆斯特丹。

她一家人都是犹太人，所以他们不得不躲藏起来，否则他们就会被德国纳粹抓去。

她和她的家人躲藏了二十五个月之后才被发现。

在这段时间里，她唯一的忠实朋友就是她的日记了。

她说，“我不愿像大多数人那样在日记中记流水账。

我要把这本日记当作我的朋友，我要把我这个朋友称作基蒂”。

安妮从1942年七月起就躲藏在那里了，现在来看看他当时的心情吧。

Thursday 15th June 1944Dear 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 songs of the bird, moonlight and flower could never have kept me spellbound. That’s changed since I came here.…for example, 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. But as the moon gave far too much light, I didn’t dare open the window. Another time five month ago, I happened to be upstairs when 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 I‘d seen the night face to face….…Sadly…I am only able to look at nature through dirty curtainshanging before very dusty window. It’s no pleasure looking through these any longer, because nature is one thing really must be experienced.Yours, nne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。

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。

自从我来到这里，这一切都变了。

…比方说，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。

但是因为月光太亮了，我不敢打开窗户。

还有一次，就在五个月以前的一个晚上，我碰巧在楼上，窗户是开着的。

我一直等到非关窗不可的时候才下楼去。

漆黑的夜晚，风吹雨打，雷电交加，我全然被这种力量镇住了。

这是我一年半以来第一次目睹夜晚…不幸的是……我只能透过那满是灰尘的窗帘下那脏兮兮的窗户看看大自然。

只能隔着窗户看那大自然实在没意思，因为大自然是需要真正体验的东西。

UNIT2The road to modern EnglishAt the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people spoken English. Nearly all of them lived in England. Later in the next century, people from England made voyagesto conquer other parts of the world and because of that, English began to be spoken in many other countries. Today, more people speak English as their first, second or a foreign language than ever before.Native English speaks can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English. Look at this example:British Betty: Would you like to see my flat?American Amy: yes. I like to come up to your apartment.So why has English changed over time？Actually all languages change and develop when cultures meet and communicate with each other. At first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English spoken today. It was based more on German than English we speak at present. Then gradually between about AD 800 and 1150, English became less like German because those who ruled England spoken first Danish and later French. These new settlers enriched the English language and especially its vocabulary. So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was able to make use of a wider vocabulary than ever before. In 1620 some British settlers moved to America. Later in the 18th century some British people were taken to Australia too. English began to be spoken in both countries.Finally by the 19th century the language was settled. At that time too big changes in English spelling happened: first Samuel Johnson wrote his dictionary and Noah Webster wrote The American Dictionary of the English Language. The latter gave a separate identity to American English spelling.English now is also a spoken as a foreign or second language in South Asia. For example,India has a very large number of fluent English speakers because Britain ruled India from 1765 to 1947. During that time English became language for government and education. English is also spoken in Singapore and Malaysia and countries in Africa such as South Africa. Today the number of people learning English in China is increasing rapidly. In fact, China may have the largest number of English learners. Will Chinese English develop its own identity? Only time will tell.在16世纪末，大约有500万至700万人讲英语。