高中必修一英語課文

⑷ 高中英語必修一課文

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A Night the Earth didn』t Sleep Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei. For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. Farmers noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in them. A smelly gas came out of the cracks. In the farmyards, the chickens and even the pigs were too nervous to eat. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish jumped out of their bowls and ponds. At about 3:00 am on July 28, 1976, some people saw bright lights in the sky. The sound of planes could be heard outside the city of Tangshan even when no planes were in the sky. In the city, the water pipes in some buildings cracked and burst. But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual the night.
At 3:42 am everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world was at an end! Eleven kilometers directly below the city the greatest earthquake of the 20th century had begun. It was felt in Beijing, which is more than two hundred kilometers away. One-third of the nation felt it. A huge crack that was eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide cut across houses, roads and canals. Steam burst from holes in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins. The suffering of the people was extreme. Two-thirds of them died or were injured ring the earthquake. Thousands of families were killed of injured reached more than 400,000.
But how could the survivors believe it was natural? Everywhere they looked nearly every thing was destroyed. All of the city』s hospitals, 75% of its factories and buildings and 90% of its homes were gone. Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves. No wind, however, could blow them away. Two dams fell and most of the bridges also fell or were not safe for traveling. The railway tracks were now useless pieces of steel. Tens of thousands of cows would never give milk again. Half a million pigs and millions of chickens were dead. Sand now filled the wells instead of water. People were shocked. Then, later that afternoon, another big quake which was almost as strong as the first one shook Tangshan. Some of the rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins. More buildings fell down. Water, food, and electricity were hard to get. People began to wonder how long the disaster would last.
All hope was not lost. Soon after the quakes, the army sent 150,000 soldiers of thousands of people were helped. The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead. To the north of the city, most of the 10,000 miners were rescued from the coal mines there. Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. Fresh water was taken to the city by train, truck and plane. Slowly, the city began to breathe again.
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地球的一個不眠之夜
河北省東北部的農村不斷有些怪事發生：三天來，村子裡的井水升升降降，起起伏伏。農夫注意到，水井的井壁上有深深的裂縫，裂縫里冒出臭氣。農家大院里的雞,甚至豬都緊張得不想吃食。老鼠從田地里跑出來找地方藏身。魚缸和池塘里的魚會往外跳。在1976年7月28日凌晨3點左右，有些人看到天上一道道明亮的光。即使天空沒有飛機，在唐山城外也可以聽到飛機聲。在市內，有些建築物里的水管爆裂開來。但是，唐山市的一百萬居民幾乎都沒有把這些情況當一回事，當天晚上照常睡著了。
在凌晨3點42分，一切都開始搖晃起來。世界似乎到了末日！二十世紀最大的一次地震就在唐山市正下方11公里處發生了。100公里以外的北京市都感到了地震，全國1 / 3的地方都有震感。一條8公里長30米寬的巨大裂縫橫穿房舍、馬路和渠道。地上一些洞穴冒出了蒸氣。石頭山變成了泥沙河，在可怕的15秒鍾內，一座大城市就沉淪在一片廢墟之中。人們遭受的災難極為深重。2/3的人在地震中死去或受傷。成千上萬個家庭遇難，許多孩子變成了孤兒。死傷的人數達到40多萬。
倖存的人們又怎麼能相信這是自然現象呢？人們無論朝哪裡看，哪裡的一切都幾乎被毀了。所有的市內醫院、75%的工廠和建築物、90%的家園都消失了。殘磚就像秋天的紅葉覆蓋著大地，然而它們是不可能被風颳走的。兩座大壩垮了，多數橋梁不是塌了就是無法安全通行了。鐵軌如今成了一條條廢鋼。好幾萬頭牛再也擠不出奶來。50萬頭豬和幾百萬只雞全都死了。井裡滿是沙子，而不是水。人們驚呆了。接著，在下午晚些時候，又一次和第一次一樣的強烈的地震震撼著唐山。有些醫生和救援人員被困在廢墟下面。更多的房屋倒塌了。水、電和食物都很難弄到。人們開始納悶，這場災難還會持續多久。
不是所有的希望都破滅了。地震後不久，部隊派了15萬名戰士到唐山來協助救援人員，數十萬的人得到了救助。部隊人員組成小分隊，將受困的人們挖出來，將死者掩埋。在唐山市的北邊，有一個萬名礦工的煤礦，其中多數人得救了。援救人員為那些家園被毀的倖存者蓋起了避難所，用火車、卡車和飛機向市內運來了水。慢慢地、慢慢地，這座城市又開始出現了生機。

Elias』 Story My name is Elias. I am a poor black worker in South Africa. The time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life. I was twelve years old. It was in 1952 and Mandela was the black lawyer to whom I went for advice. He offered guidance to poor black people on their legal problems. He was generous with his time, for which I was grateful.
I needed his help because I had very little ecation. I began school at six. The school where I studied for only two years was three kilometers away. I had to leave because my family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus fare. I could not read or write well. After trying hard, I got a job in a gold mine. However, this was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg. Sadly I did not have it because I was not born there, and I worried about whether I would become out of work.
The day when Nelson Mandela helped me was one of my happiest. He told me how to get the correct papers so I could stay in Johannesburg. I became more hopeful about my future. I never forgot how kind Mandela was. When he organized the ANC Youth League, I joined it as soon as I could. He said:
「The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping out rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all.」
It was the truth. Black people could not vote or choose their leaders. They could not get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town in which they had to live were decided by white people. The places outside the towns where they were sent to live were the poorest parts of South Africa. No one could grow food there. In fact as Nelson Mandela said:
「…we were put into a position in which we had either to accept we were less important or fight the government. We chose to attack the laws. We first broke the law in a way which was peaceful; when this was not allowed…only then did we decide to answer violence with violence.」
As a matter of fact, I do not like violence… but in 1963 I helped him blow up some government buildings. It was very dangerous because if I was caught I could be put in prison. But I was happy to help because I knew it would help us achieve our dream of making black and white people equal.伊萊亞斯的故事
我的名字叫伊萊亞斯。我是南非的一個窮苦的黑人工人。第一次見到納爾遜·曼德拉的時候，是我一生中非常艱難的時期。（當時）我才12歲，那是在1952年，曼德拉是我尋求幫助的一位黑人律師。他為那些窮苦黑人提供法律指導。他十分慷慨地給予我時間，我為此非常感激。
由於我所受的教育很少，所以我需要他的幫助。我六歲開始上學，我僅僅在那裡讀了兩年的學校有三公里遠。我不得不輟學，因為我的家庭無法繼續支付學費和交通費。我既不太會讀，也不怎麼會寫。幾經周折，我才在一家金礦找到一份工作。然而在那個時候，你要想住在約翰內斯堡就非得要有身份證不可。糟糕的是我沒有這個證件，因為我不是在那裡出生的，我很擔心我是不是會失業。
納爾遜·曼德拉給予我幫助的那一天是我一生中最高興的日子。他告訴我要想在約翰內斯堡立住腳，應當如何獲取所需證件。我對自己的未來又充滿了希望。我永遠也忘記不了他對我的恩情，當他組織了非國大青年聯盟時，我馬上就參加了這個組織。他說：「過去30年來所出現的大量法律剝奪我們的權利，阻擋我們的進步，一直到今天，我們還處在幾乎什麼權利都沒有的階段。」
他說的是真話。當時黑人沒有選舉權，他們無權選擇他們的領導人。他們不能做自己想要做的工作。他們所能住的城區都是由白人決定的。他們被打發去住的城外地區是南非最貧窮的地區。在那兒，沒有人能夠種莊稼。事實上，就像拉爾遜·曼德拉所說的：
「……我們被置於這樣一個境地：要麼我們被迫接受低人一等的現實，要麼跟政府作斗爭。我們選擇向法律進攻。首先我們用和平的方式來破壞法律，而當這種方式也得不到允許時，……只有到這個時候，我們才決定用暴力反抗暴力。」
事實上，我並不喜歡暴力，……但是在1963年的時候，我幫助他炸毀了一些政府大樓。那是很危險的事情，因為如果我被抓住了，可能就會被關進監獄。但是，我樂於幫忙，因為我知道，這是為了實現我們的黑人和白人平等的夢想。