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Module 7 Great books
Unit 1 We’re still influenced by Confucius’s ideas
Mr Jackson: Hello, Betty. ? Betty: I want to an Internet group to discuss great books great writers. Mr Jackson: So, who are your great ? Betty: Well, m Confucius and Shakespeare.
Mr Jackson: Really? I a that they’re great because their works are s read by many
people today. But I think I’d describe Confucius m as a teacher and thinker t a writer. He was a very wise man. What do you have to do for the discussion? Betty: Well, each of us reads a f book and writes a r for the discussion. Mr Jackson: I see. We’re still I by Confucius’s ideas, and Shakespeare’s plays also make a
lot of s to us today. People have always read, and will always read great books. B , what do you think of Mark Twain, the great American writer in the nineteenth c ?
Betty: He was important, but I s he isn’t well-known Confucius or Shakespeare. Mr Jackson: No, but his books are still p , and one of his books is my favourite, The
A of Tom Sawyer.
Betty: Great! Why don’t you join in the d and tell us about it? Unit 2 It is still read and loved
A book review of The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
By Betty King
One of my favourite great books is The Adventure of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain. The story is in the town of St Petersburg, Missouri, the US, in the nineteenth century. It tells some e stories about a boy who has many a .
Tom, the hero of the book, lives with his aunt Polly. He is a l and clever boy. He does not like people telling him what to do, so he always . He and his best friend, Huck Finn, run to an island in the of the Mississippi River. Tom has more trouble because a bad man Injun Joe is looking him. Later, Tom e from a c with （另一个） friend, Becky. He also finds Injun Joe’s t box and takes it .
My favourite p of the book is when Tom and Huck s their adventures on the
I in the Mississippi River. At f , they are h . But when they hear that
everyone thinks they are dead, they feel very s , so they come back home. They h and watch when they see their family and n coming to their f in the c . Then, Tom and Huck suddenly a . Everyone is s to see them at first, but very pleased to find that they are .
The Adventure of Tom Sawyer is a great book. It is more than an adventure story. Mark Twain wrote it in 1876. It describes people’s lives in the s states of America at time. It tells how young people grow, how people love and how bad people for their actions. It is written in everyday English, and the dialogues sound especially real. Today, it is still read and loved by people , and it is thought to be one of the American stories.
Module 8 Sports life
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Unit 1 Daming wasn’t chosen for the team last year
Lingling: Hi, Tony, you look t . Tony: Yes, I’m t for the big match next week. Betty: Who are you playing ? Tony: HAS.
Lingling: What does HAS ? Tony: Haidian All Stars.
Betty: Oh, yes. It’ll be a d match. Didn’t they b you last time? Tony: Yes, they did. But… Lingling: What was the ?
Betty: If my memory is , HAS 98 points to BIG 52. Tony: But Daming wasn’t for the team last time. That was a bad d . We can’t
play well him.
Lingling: That’s no ! Tony: But Daming is back now. There’s no difference b the two teams this season. Betty: When is the match?
Tony: It’s next Saturday at noon, but if you want good seats, you should come 11:30. Are
you ? Betty: I’m not sure. Do you think they’ll win, Lingling?
Lingling: ! How many matches have you played a HAS this year? Tony: Well, about three.
Betty: And how many have HAS won? Tony: Er… of them.
Betty: Wrong! All of them! the truth, Tony. You’ve got chance! Tony: I don’t a . That’s not fair! (Tony leaves angrily.) Lingling: Remember to t the ball, not k it, Tony!
Betty: He’s so us that he’ll try h to win, just to show we’re w ! ingling: Nice , Betty! I hope they win this time. We’ll be there to them.
Unit 2 He was invited to competitions around the world.
Liu Xiang---trained to win!
For Liu Xiang, life as a sports hero began 2004. First, he was I to competitions around the world. Then, he was chosen the Chinese team at the Athens Olympic Games and won a gold m .
Liu Xiang was not a successful sportsman . He was born in Shanghai 13th July 1983, and started training when he was very young. In Grade 4, he went to the Sports School of Putuo District of Shanghai. Liu was encouraged at first to train for the . In 1998, Liu Xiang’s a in hurdling was noticed by Sun Haiping, who later became his . In 2001, a special programme was to help young sportsmen and . Liu Xiang was among them. His races were recorded, and he was the world’s best sports stars. Sun Haiping used the information to change his training methods for Liu Xiang.
In May 2001, Liu Xiang won his first international 110m hurdles race in Japan. In 2004, he won the first Olympic gold medal for China in the 110m hurdles race, and at the same time the Olympic Games . It was also the first time an Olympic gold medal for hurdling was round the of a sportsperson from an Asian country.
Liu Xiang trained very . In fact, he trained so hard that he his foot. From 2008 , he suffered a lot his foot problem, but he did not give . Though he missed some competitions, he still returned to first place in the world 110m hurdles race in 2012.
It is a that his foot problem stopped him completing the 2012 London Olympic Games. But he is still a of courage and success, and we continue to take great in him.
Module 9 Great inventions
Unit 1 Will computers be used more than books in the future?
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Tony: Dad, can I borrow your c ? Dad: Why?
Tony: I’d like to some on the school visit to the museum next week. They’ll be on the school . And they can be seen on the Internet by other classes, even people
living in countries.
Dad: Sounds great! When I was at school, we waited for weeks to hear from our pen friends a .
But today, we can and photos and mails the Internet, and it’s really fast.
Tony: Yes, the Internet and the computer have changed our lives. We even use textbooks
in our class. I wonder… Will computers be used more books in the future?
Dad: P . In the past, we mainly got information from paper books. Some are huge ones
with of pages. Today, with the invention of the computer and the technology, it’s easy to get information on the Internet. The Internet is more powerful than books. Tony: Anyway, about the camera…?
Dad: Oh, yes. Here . I haven’t used it since your mum’s birthday. And the memory may
be . Tony: OK. That can be fixed. I’ve got an memory . Where are the ? Dad: In the camera bag. It’s a gift from your mum for my birthday, so you must that
you’ll take care of it. if you have to lend it to anyone, tell them to use it .
Tony: Promise!
Unit 2 Will books be replaced by the Internet?
Every morning, my father buys a newspaper on way to work. Every day, I open my books in class and start my lessons. Every evening, my mother looks magazines at home. And every night, I look at the photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming my bedroom wall before I . Can we I life paper or printing?
Paper was first created about 2,000 years in China. After its , people started to write on paper to make a book. In those days, books were only produced one by hand. As a result, there were not many books, and they were e . So, few people had the chance to learn to read.
Printing was invented in China the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Later, developments in printing made it possible to produce books more q and c . A trade in books resulted, and more people learnt to read. Knowledge and ideas s faster than ever before. , we can the invention of paper and printing the introduction of the Internet in the twentieth century.
Although the Internet is still young, it is growing very fast, and may become more than printing. A much larger of information can be s on the Internet than in books. Someone with an Internet connection can find information much more easily than they can find in printed . And the machines we use to read it are now small and light, often smaller and lighter than a book.
Computers and the Internet are used in classrooms now, and newspapers and magazines are already read . So what will traditional printing take in the future? Will books be by the Internet? Let’s wait and see.
Module 10 Australia
Unit 1 I have some photos that I took in Australia last year
Tony: Dad, I need your help. My teacher asked us to c a country we want to visit, i we were there, and write a letter to our parents back home. I’ve chosen Australia. How can I do it? Dad: Don’t worry. I have some photos that I in Australia last year. They may help you. Here
we go. This is a called Ayers Rock, in Australia. the local people,
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