高中英语课文？最后,到20世纪,英语才真正定形。那时,英语在拼写上发生了两大变化:首先,塞缪尔·约翰逊编写了词典,后来,诺厄·韦伯斯特编纂了《美国英语词典》,后者体现了美国英语拼写的不同特色。 现在,英语在南亚也被当作外语或第二语言来说。那么，高中英语课文？一起来了解一下吧。
THE ROAD TO MODERN ENGLISH
At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people spoke Englis h. Nearly all of them lived in England. Later in the next century, people from Engla nd made voyages to 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 foreign language than ever before. 通向现代英语之路 在 16 世纪末,大约有五至七百万人讲英语.几乎所有这些讲英语的人都住在英格兰. 在其后的一个世纪中, 英格兰人为征服世界航海到了世界其他一些地方, 结果世界的其他地 方的人们也开始说英语了.今天,把英语作为自己的第一语言、第二语言或外语来使用的人 比以往任何时候都多. Native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak th e same kind of English. Look at this example: British Betty: Would you like to see my flat? American Amy: Yes, I’d like to come up to your apartment. 以英语作为母语的人,即使他们所讲不是同一种英语,他们也能彼此听懂.请看看这个 例子： 英国人贝蒂：来看看我的公寓吗? 美国人艾米：好的,我来看看你的公寓吧. So why has English changed over time? Actually all languages change and de velop when cultures meet and communicate with each other. At first the English sp oken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the Engl ish spoken today. It was based more on German than the English we speak at pr esent. Then gradually between about AD 800 and 1150, English became less like German because those who ruled England spoken first Danish and later French. T hese 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 b oth countries. 那么, 随着时间的推移英语为什么发生了变化呢?实际上, 当不同文化相互交流渗透时, 所有的语言都会有所发展和变化.开始,英格兰人在大约公元 450 年到 1150 年之间所说的 英语与我们今天所说的英语很不一样. 当时的英语更多的是以德语为基础的, 不像我们现在 说的英语.后来,大约在公元 800 年至 1150 年之间,英语慢慢变得不那么像德语,因为统 治英格兰的那些人开始是说丹麦语,后来说法语.这些新来的定居者丰富了英语语言,尤其 是丰富了英语词汇.所以到 17 世纪初的时候,莎士比亚能够得以使用比以往任何时候都丰 富的词汇.1620 年一些英国定居者来到了美洲,后来到了 18 世纪的时候,一些英国人还 被带到了澳大利亚.英语也就开始在这两个国家使用. Finally by the 19th century the language was settled. At that time two big cha nges in English spelling happened: first Samuel Johnson wrote his dictionary and l ater Noah Webster wrote The American Dictionary of the English Language. The la tter gave a separate identity to American English spelling. 最后到 19 世纪的时候,英语这种语言就变得稳定了.当时,英语的拼写发生了两个很 大的变化：先是塞缪尔?约翰逊编写了他的英语词典,后是诺亚?韦伯斯特出版了《美国英 语词典》.后者使得美式英语的拼写有了其独特的个性. English now is also spoken as a foreign or second language in South Asia. F or example, India has a very large number of fluent English speakers because Brit ain ruled India from 1765 to 1947. During that time English became the language f or government and education. English is also spoken in Singapore and Malaysia a nd 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 tel l. 现在英语在南亚地区也被作为外语或第二语言使用. 比如, 印度就有很多人说英语说得 很流利,因为在 1765 年到 1947 年之间英国统治着印度.在此期间,英语成了印度政府和 教育所用的语言.在新加坡和马来西亚以及像非洲的南非,人们现在也说英语.当今,在中 国学英语的人数正在快速增加,事实上,中国可能是学英语人数最多的国家.中国式英语是 否也能发展成一种具有自己独特个性的语言?这还有待时间去证明.
常言说：万事开头难。还常说,能有一个好的开头,就是成功的一半;即使不能有一半的成功,也为今后打下好的基础。进入高一学好英语打好基础很重要，以下是我整理的必修一英语课文翻译 。
高中英语必修一课文翻译： 第一单元安妮最好的朋友
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，于是她就把日记档成了她最好的朋友。
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两年之后才被发现。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”。安妮自从1942年7月起就躲藏在那儿了，现在，来看看她的心情吧。
1944年6月15日星期四
亲爱的基蒂：
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。
课文标题是In search of the amber room 【原文】
Frederick William I, the King of Prussia, could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing history. This gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. The amber which was selected had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country' s best artists about ten years to make.
In fact, the room was not made to be a gift. It was designed for the palace of Frederick I. However, the next King of Prussia, Frederick William I, to whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it. In 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great. In return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room became part of the Czar' s winter palace in St Peter *** urg. About four metres long, the room served as a *** all reception hall for important visitors.
Later, Catherine Ⅱhad the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Peter *** urg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details to it. In 1770 the room was pleted the way she wanted. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold. Sadly, although the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world,it is now missing.
In September 1941 , the Nazi army was near St Peter *** urg. This was a time when the two countries were at war. Before the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians were able to remove some furniture and *** all art objects from the Amber Room. However, some of the Nazis secretly stole the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven wooden boxes. There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konig *** erg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea. After that,what happened to the Amber Room remain a mystery.
Recently, the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room at the summer palace. By studying old photos of the former Amber Room, they have made the new one look like the old one. In 2003 it was ready for the people of St Peter *** urg when they celebrated the 300th birthday of their city.
【翻译】
寻找琥珀屋
普鲁士国王威廉一世决不可能想到他送给俄罗斯人民的厚礼会有这样一段令人惊讶的历史。
外研版高中英语选修六Module 2 第25页上的课文有关于半人半羊人的描述。课文的题目是：Extract from The Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe (《狮子，女巫，魔衣橱》节选)
课文原文：
Extract from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
And then she saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few inches away where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off. Something cold and soft was falling on her. A moment later she found that she was standing in the middle of a wood at nighttime with snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air.
Lucy felt a little frightened, but she felt very inquisitive and excited as well. She looked back over her shoulder and there, between the dark tree trunks, she could still see the open doorway of the wardrobe and even catch a glimpse of the empty room from which she had set out. (She had, of course, left the door open, for she knew that it was a very silly thing to shut oneself into a wardrobe.) It seemed to be still daylight there. "I can always get back if anything goes wrong," thought Lucy. She began to walk forward, crunch-crunch over the snow and through the wood towards the other light. In about ten minutes she reached it and found it was a lamppost. As she stood looking at it, wondering why there was a lamppost in the middle of a wood, and wondering what to do next, she heard the pitter-patter of feet coming towards her. And soon after that a very strange person stepped out from among the trees into the light of the lamppost.
He was only a little taller than Lucy herself and carried over his head an umbrella, white with snow. From the waist upwards he was like a man, but his legs were shaped like a goat's (the hair on them was glossy black) and instead of feet he had goat's hoofs. He also had a tail, but Lucy did not notice this at first because it was so neatly caught up over the arm that held the umbrella so as to keep it from trailing in the snow. He had a red woollen muffler round his neck and his skin was rather reddish too. He had a strange, but pleasant little face, with a short pointed beard and curly hair, and out of the hair there stuck two horns, one on each side of his forehead. One of his hands, as I have said, held the umbrella; in the other arm he carried several brown-paper parcels. With the parcels and the snow it looked just as if he had been doing his Christmas shopping. He was a Faun. And when he saw Lucy he gave such a start of surprise that he dropped all his parcels.
"Goodness gracious me!" exclaimed the Faun.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis copyright © C. S. Lewis
Pte. Ltd 1950. Reprinted by permission.
译文：
那是她看到面前有一道光，离它不远处可以看到魔衣橱的后面，但走起来却很远。
The Art of Paper
Chen Zijiang is a paper-cutting expert whom I interviewed for my article on Chinese Art.
Paper-cutting is something that he learned to do from an early age.
"It is a Chinese folk art with a long history," Mr Chen told me,"Paper cuts of animals have been found in tombs which date back to the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasty!" He added that by the Southern Song Dynasty,paper-cutting had become an important part of everyday life."A young farmer who wanted a wife would look at a young woman's paper-cutting skills before marrying her!" explained Mr Chen,laughing at the look of surprise
on my face.
Mr Chen went on to explain that there are three types of paper cuts which people still make
today:paper cuts for decoration,for religious purposes and for design patterns.Paper cuts used for decoration are often seen on windows and gates.
They are usually put up during holidays to bring good luck.They are also used on presents.A present for parents whose child has recently been born might show a paper cut of children,for example.Paper cuts which show the Chinese character for double happiness are often used to celebrate weddings.
Paper cuts used for religious purposes are often found in temples.They are also used as
offerings to the dead.People to whom the dead person was related would make these offerings on special days and during festivals.
The third kind of paper cuts are those used to make patterns on clothing.They are also sometimes used to decorate jewellery boxes.Dragons are very popular patterns for these
designs.The interview was very useful as I got a lot of interesting information for my article.I was also ready to try out papercutting for myself."See you next week," I said as I waved goodbye to Mr Chen.I was going to meet him again so that he could help me make my first paper cut!
以上就是高中英语课文的全部内容，外研版高中英语选修六Module 2 第25页上的课文有关于半人半羊人的描述。课文的题目是：Extract from The Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe (《狮子，女巫。
