北师大版高中英语课文Unit-16-Stories

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Unit 16 Stories



Warm-up

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1 It was a dark and foggy night. We drove and drove. At
midnight,
just
as
we
thought
we
were
lost,
we
saw
a
light
behind
some trees. As we got nearer, we could see a house. It looked
abandoned. We knocked on the heavy door. It opened slowly. A
tall man dressed entirely in black stood there. “Good
evening,”
he
said
in
a
slow,
deep
voice.
“I've
been
expecting
you.”

2
We
were
travelling
through
deep
space
at
the
speed
of
light.
Suddenly,
the
spaceship
slowed
down
and
immediately
the
system
came into view
–
a bright star with twenty or more planets.
One of these would be our new home, five light years from our
own planet.

3
One
of
my
earliest
memories
is
of
my
father
running
along
the
beach
with
our
dog,
Tess.
I
must
have
been
about
three
years
old. I remember the dog jumping up on me and knocking me over
into the water.

4 The man lay on the ground next to a white truck. There
was no doubt. He was dead. I quickly looked in the pockets of
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his jacket
–
some money, a handkerchief and a theatre ticket
with a Chicago phone number written on it. Three murders in
three weeks and the victims all killed in the same way.

5 Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful princess. She
was
an
only
child
and
her
father
and
mother,
the
king
and
queen,
loved her very much. One day, an old woman came to the castle.
When
she
saw
the
princess,
she
smiled
and
laughed in
a strange
and horrible way.



Lesson 1 Stories from History

Pompeii: The city that became a time capsule

Around
the
end
of
the
first
century
AD,
a
Roman
writer
called
Pliny wrote about a terrible volcanic eruption that he had
witnessed as a young man. The eruption had occurred on August
24th, 79 AD. The earth began to tremble and a volcano named
Vesuvius,
near
Pompeii,
Italy,
erupted.
Pliny
described
a
cloud
coming down the mountain, blocking out the sun and burying
everything in its path, including whole villages and towns.

This
particularly
sad
event
left
a
deep
impression
on
Pliny
who
had
lost
an
uncle
in
the
eruption.
Yet,
over
the
centuries,
there was a greater loss. The people, towns and villages that
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had
disappeared
under
the
ashes
were
entirely
forgotten
by
the
world.

However,
more
than
1,600
years
later,
some
scientists
found
the lost towns that had been buried under the ashes. By 1748,
they
had
found
an
awesome
historical
site.
They
had
started
to
dig out the ancient city of Pompeii.

In a way, Pompeii is like a “time capsule” preserving a
frozen
moment
in
history.
Before
the
eruption
occurred,
it
had
been a booming Roman city with temples, markets, restaurants
and theatres. Now as you walk along the streets of the city,
time
rewinds.
You
can
admire
the
ancient
architecture,
statues,
decorated walls and authentic objects characteristic of the
time.

However, much more than buildings and objects, it is the
forms of the people who were caught in the disaster that have
made the city a monument to human history.

The bodies of people who had died in Pompeii left
impressions in the ash that showed their exact shapes. As you
walk,
you
will
pass
people
gathered
together
for
protection
in
their
last
hours
of
life.
One
person,
sitting
alone,
looks
like
he is praying. Another man, lying on his side, looks as if he
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is
trying
to
get
up.
One
can
only
feel
sorrow
and
deep
sympathy
for these once-living statues.

Today,
more
than
250
years
after
scientists
found
the
city,
thousands
of
tourists
and
hundreds
of
scientists
visit
Pompeii
every
year to learn
more
about
the
ancient world. In this way,
the city, which the world had once forgotten, lives on nearly
2,000 years after its loss.


Lesson 2 Name Stories



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Wang
Jiannan:
My
name
is
Wang
Jiannan
and
like
many
Chinese
names,
Jiannan
doesn't
have
just
one
specific
meaning.
When
my
parents were looking for a name for me, they came across the
char
acter “Nan”. “Nan” is a type of wood that is used to
hold up the roof in the construction of traditional Chinese
houses.

Therefore my parents chose this character for me because
they wanted me to grow up to be a “pillar of society” –

someone who helps to build a better future. But, as well as
having meaning from the characters that are used for writing,
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Chinese names can also have significance according to their
sounds. In my case, Jiannan sounds like “healthy boy”.

Some people think it's abnormal to name a
girl “healthy
boy”, but I don't. My parents gave me this name because they
wanted
me
to
be
as
strong
as
any
boys.
I
guess
you
think
that's
enough
significance
for
one
name
but
there's
more.
“Jiannan”
sounds like another set of characters that stand for “b
uilt
in
the
south”
and
we
come
from
the
southern
part
of
our
province.
So
my name
tells
me where
I
am from
and
it
tells
me what
to aim
for!

Heather Smith: My name is Heather Smith. “Smith” is one
of the most common names in Britain. A smith is somebody who
works with metal. Other family names with the same origin
include
Smithers
and
Smythe.
I
guess
there
were
lots
of
smiths
in
Europe
in
the
days
when
horses
were
the
fastest
form
of
land
transport
and
riders
counted
on
the
services
of
smiths
for
metal
horse shoes. Well there are very few of them these days and no
one in my family can figure out which ancestor was a smith but
I suppose we must have had one sometime in the past. My first
name
is
easier
to
explain.
“Heather”
is
a
purple
flower
that
grows a lot in certain parts of the country. My mother comes
from
a
place
in
northern
England
where
heather
turns
whole
hills
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a vivid purple every July. But when she had me, she was living
in
London
and
although
she
was
delighted
to
have
a
new
baby
girl,
she
was
also
discouraged
because
she
missed
her
home
in
northern
England,
and
because
her
mother,
my
grandmother,
was
ill
at
that
time and couldn't come to London to see us. So my mother named
me Heather to remind her of home and so my grandmother would
think of me every time she saw the beautiful heather covering
all the hills surrounding her home. Now my mother says I look
like my grandma.

Isaac Evans: My name is Isaac Evans. It's a very
conventional name that doesn't stand out anywhere and you
wouldn't think it had a story to it, but I believe that when
you dig deep enough, every name has a story to it. “Evans”
is a very common Welsh name and I'm not sure exactly what it
means, only that there are many “Evans” in Wales and all
around
Britain.
My
grandfather
left
his
farm
in
northern
Wales
to look for work when he was seventeen and he ended up in
Manchester. There's a lot of industry there. He put up with a
lot of hardship and suffering all his life to provide a good
future for his family and I'm grateful for that.

“Isaac” is a fairly common boy's name. You might think
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I
got
called
“Isaac”
because
my
parents
couldn't
think
of
anything else to call me! But you'd be wrong. My parents are
classical
musicians
and
they
named
me
after
a
famous
violinist
called
Itzhak
Perlman.
They
admired
him
because
he
was
a
great
musician
and
he
wasn't
afraid
to
try
out
new
ideas
in
his
music.
I
don't
play
a
musical
instrument,
but
I
am
a
painter
and
I
often
listen
to
classical
music
when
I
paint.
When
I
listen
to
Itzhak
Perlman's music, it inspires me.



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Guo
Jiangsheng:
My
name
is
Guo
Jiangsheng.
Jiangsheng
means
“born on the river”, and guess what? I was born on a boat!
My
family
lives
in
a
small
mountain
village.
My
parents
needed
to
travel
by
boat
to
Chongqing
where
my
mother
was
going
to
stay
in
a
hospital
for
my
birth.
They
were
still
on
the
boat
outside
Chongqing when suddenly my mother started to feel some pain.
Then
I
was
born.
My
parents
got
off
the
boat
with
their
new
baby
and then went to the hospital to see if everything was OK. The
doctors and nurses were very surprised and said my mother and
I
were
both
very
healthy.
After
that
my
parents
decided
I
should
be called Jiangsheng!

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