某处80年代初中英语课本第五册课文

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Why the bat comes out only at night
？

（
80
年代初中英语课本第五册第
1
课）

Long, long ago, there was a war between the birds and the beasts. No one
knows what they fought about.
The bat did not know whose side he
should take. He thought and thought, then decided he must try to be on
the side of the winners.
So he watched from far away. After a while,
it
seemed
that
the
birds
were
going
to
win.
He
flew
over
to
join
them.

“What
on
earth
are
you
doing
here?”
a
bird
shouted
at
him.

“Can’t you see I’m a bird?” the bat said with a smile. “Look, I
have
swings,
just
like
you.”

“Come
along,
then,”
said
the
bird.
“Don’t hide behind others.”
But things changed soon. Now it seemed
that the beasts were winning. So the bat left the birds in a hurry and went
over
to
the
beasts.

“What
are
you
doing
on
our
side?”
and
animal
called out to him. “Are you spying on us?”

“Don’t you know I’m one
of you?” asked the bat, showing his teeth. “Look. Can’t you see I’ve got
teeth, too?”

“Who are trying to fool?” said the animals. “We saw you
fighting on the side of the birds just now.”
So the beasts drove him
off.
Of
course
the
birds
refused
to
take
him
back.
When
the
beasts
and
the
birds
saw
neither
side
could
win,
they
decided
to
stop
fighting.
Neither beasts nor birds would have the bat as their friend,
so he was afraid to leave his home. Ever since then, he comes out only at
night.

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Lesson 2 Nathan Hale
（
80
年代初中英语课本第五册第
2
课）

The young American stood quietly while the British guards searched his
clothes. They found nothing.
“
If they don
’
t find the maps in my boot,
”

he thought,
“
maybe they will let me go. Then I
’
ll try to send the maps to
General
Washington.”

“Take
off
your
boots,”
one
of
the
guards
ordered.
The
American’s
heart
beat

faster.
He
took
off
his
boots
and
handed
them
to
the
guard.
The
guard
looked
inside
one
boot,
then
another.

“Use
your
knife,
man!”
ordered
the
British
officer
nearby.
The guard brought out his knife and cut one boot open. He
stopped suddenly and the American knew what it meant. The maps of the
British
army’s
defence
works!
The
guards
took
the
American
to
General Howe. The general looked at the maps. “I see you’ve made some
drawing
of
our
defence
works,”
he
said.
“This
can
only
mean
one
thing.”

“Yes,
sir.”

“Do
you
have
anything
to
say
for
yourself?”

“No,
nothing.”

“What’s
your
name?”

“Nathan
Hale.”

“
Rank?”

“Captain.”
The general studied the maps a
few more minutes. “Captain Hale,” he said finally. “I’ve never seen such
fine drawings. You know, we could use a man like you. Why not join us?
You
don’t
have
to
worry
about
rank
or
pay.”
Nathan
Hale
looked
straight
at
the
general.
“Nothing
could
make
me
turn
against
my
country!”

“Then
there’s
only
one
thing
I
can
do,
you
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understand?”

“Yes,
sir.”

“You
will
be
hanged
as
a
spy
early
tomorrow
morning.”
*
* *
Nathan
Hale
looked
around
as
a
British
soldier
put
the
rope
around
his
neck.

“N
ow,
Nathan Hale,” said the British officer. “Let’s hear what you have to say
before you die.”
Nathan Hale took a last look at his beautiful country
and said,
“
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
”


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Lesson 3 A question of pronunciation
（
80
年代初中英语课本第五册第
3
课）

This
happened
in London.
It
was
November
and
the
weather
was
very
wet and cold.
A Frenchman had caught a very bad cold. He coughed
day and night. So he decided to go and get some medicine for his cough.
As he did not know much English, he got out his dictionary and looked
up
the
word
“cough”.
But
the
dictionary
did
not
tell
him
how
to
pronounce
the
word.
He
thought
it
over
and
remembered
that
he
had
learned the word “plough”. He remembered that it was pronounced [plau].
So he thought that c-o-u-g-h must be pronounced [kau].
The he put
on his coat and hat and went to a chemist’s shop. When the man in the
shop
asked
him
what
he
wanted,
the
Frenchman
said:

“I
want
something for my cow, please.”
The man in the shop looked at him.
Had
he
heard
him
correctly?

“I
beg
your
pardon,
sir?”
he
asked.

The
Frenchman
repeated:
“I
want
some
medicine
for
my
cow.”

“For your cow?” asked the man. “Are you a farmer?”

“A
farmer?” said the Frenchman in surprise. “What makes you think I’m a
farmer?
I
come
from
Paris.
I’m
not
a
farmer.”

“Where’s
your
cow,
then?” asked the man in the shop.

“It’s here!” replied the Frenchman.
He put his hand on his chest and began to cough. “Here it is!” he said.
“I’ve
a
very

bad
cow
here.”
Then
the
man
in
the
shop
understood
what the Frenchman meant. He wanted some medicine for his cough.

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Lesson 4 The Arab in the desert
（
80
年代初中英语课本第五册第
4
课）

An
Arab
was
walking
alone
through
the
desert
when
he
met
two
men.
The
men
looked
worried.
It
seemed
that
they
had
lost
something.
The
Arab went over to them.

“
Have you lost one of your camels?
”

he
asked them.

“Yes,” they said.

“Was he blind in the right eye and
lame
in
the
left
foot?”
asked
the
Arab.

“Yes,
he
was?

“Had
he
lost a tooth and was he carrying corn?”

“Yes,” said the men. “Please
tell us where he is.”

“I don’t know where he is,” said the Arab. “I’ve
never
seen
such
an
animal.”

“Did
someone
tell
you
about
him?”

“No.”
The two men looked at each other in surprise. They
could not believe the Arab’s words. Finally, they came up close to him,
took hold of him, and shouted:

“Where’s the animal? And what have
you done with our goods?”
The Arab insisted that he had never seen
the camel.
At
last the
men
took
him
before
a
judge.
They
said that the
Arab had stolen their camel.

“I’ve never seen their camel,” insisted
the Arab. “But I’m a man of the desert, and I’ve learned to look carefully
at everything I see. This morning I saw the tracks of a lost camel. I knew
this
because
there
were no
man’s tracks near
those
of
the camel.
I
also
saw that the camel must be blind in the right eye, because he had only
eaten the grass on his left side and had not touched the grass on his right.
The animal was lame because with one foot he left a track much lighter
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that any of the others. He had lost a tooth, because wherever he ate grass,
there was always a small space left untouched. I also found groups of ants
near
the
tracks
of
the
camel.
They
were
pulling
pieces
of
corn.
From
these
facts
I
was
able
to
tell
what
goods
the
animal
was
carrying.”
The
judge
and the two
men
were
satisfied
with
what the
Arab had said. Together the four men set out to look for the lost animal.

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Lesson 5 The seagulls of Salt Lake City
（
80
年代初中英语课本第五册第
5
课）

Salt
Lake
City is
a
beautiful
city
in
the
west
of North
America. The
name comes from a great salt lake nearby. The city lies in a valley with
high mountains all around it. But long ago there was almost nothing in
this place and
there were
very
few
people
living here.
More than
a
hundred years ago, a group of men, women and children moved from the
east to the west. They had traveled a long way. At last these brave people
came to the great mountains by the salt lake. They crossed the mountains
and reached this quiet place. They decided to stay here, and so they built
their
homes
and
made
their
farms.
This
was
where Salt
Lake
City now
lies.
The people had to work hard on their farms, because their lives
depended
on
their
crops.
One
day
while
they
were
working
in
the
fields,
some
farmers
saw
something
strange
in
the
sky.

“What’s
that?” asked one of them.

“Where?” asked another, as he stopped to
look.

“Over
there,”
was
the
reply.
They
saw
something
like
a
cloud
coming,
but
it
was
too
low
in
the
sky.
As
they
watched,
it
came
nearer
and
nearer.
Suddenly
a
shout
went
up:
“Locusts!
Millions
of
them!”
The words put fear into the hearts of all, because they knew
what
locusts
could
do,
and
they
had
never
seen
so
many
of
them
before.
In
no
time
the
locusts
came
down
and
started
eating
everything
–

the
wheat,
the
corn,
the
grass
and
even
the
leaves
on
the
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trees.
The farmers brought out things to fight the locusts. They tried
everything. But while they were killing the locusts in one place, millions
more arrived in another. What could the farmers do?
Suddenly there
was
a
great
noise.
As
they
looked
up,
they
saw
another
cloud
coming
towards
them.
To
their
surprise,
they
saw
not
locusts
this
time,
but
seagulls.
The
farmers
cried
out,
“They’ve
come
to
eat
what
the
locusts
have left.”
But to their joy, they found that the seagulls had come to
eat not the crops, but the locusts. They had seen or smelled the locusts
and had come from the Great Salt Lake. Now they were eating the locusts!
In
a
short
while they
ate
up
millions
of
them.
The
farmers’
crops
were
saved!
The people were very thankful. They decided that from then
on no one should ever kill a seagull. And today, if
you go to Salt Lake
City, you can see a monument with seagulls on top of it.


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Lesson 7 The Pyramids

（
80
年代初中英语课本第五册第
7
课）

Thousand
of
years
ago,
the
kings
of Egypt built
strong
bombs
for
themselves.
Over
these
tombs
they
built
pyramids.
They
thought
their
bodies
would
be
well
kept
in
these
until
they
could
come
back
to
life.
They also hoped the world could look on the pyramids as monuments to
them
and
would
remember
them
for
ever.
There
are
around
80
pyramids in Egypt. But the Great Pyramid is the biggest of all. It is nearly
5,000 years old. It is about 137 metres high today, but it was once highter.
It is made of 2,300,000 huge stones. Most of them are higher than a man
and weigh about two and a half tons each. Some weigh as much as fifteen
tons.
It
took
more
than
100,000
men
twenty
years
to
build
the
Great
Pyramid.

When you look at the pyramids, you can’t help wondering
how the Egyptians were able to build them thousands of years ago. How
did they cut, carry and lift such huge stones? Each stone fits so well, yet
they
didn’t
have
our
modern
machines!
Scientists
have
studied
the
pyramids, but nobody can tell just how the Egyptians build them so long
ago.
Inside
the
pyramids
are
the
rooms
for
the
bodies
of
the
kings
and
queens.
There
are
lots
of
wonderful
treasures
in
the
pyramids,
too.
Thieves have broken into some of the pyramids and taken away many of
the treasures to foreign countries. They have even stolen the mummies.
Today some of the mummies and treasures are on show in museums in
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