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1、Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.-author-date最新版外研版九年级上英语课文0最新版外研版九年级上英语课文0M1 U1.Tony:Lets call Wonders of the World and join in the discussion. I think natural wonders are more interesting than man-made ones. And I think the Gian

2、ts Causeway is the most fantastic natural wonder.Lingling:Hm,Ive never seen it,so Im not sure I agree with do you like it,Tony?Tony:Well,I visited the Giants Causeway two years s huge. Therere about 40,000 rocks,most of them with six sides. It goes for several hundred metres on the eastem coast of N

3、orthem Ireland.Lingling:That sounds great,though I think Victoria Falls in Africa are even more fantastic. Theyre about 1,700 metres wide and 100 metres can hear the loud noise a few kilometres away.Betty:Wow,thas huge! But in my opinion,man-made wonders are more exciting than natural at the Terraco

4、tta s more than 2,000 years old.Daming:I agree with you,Betty. And I think the Three Gorges Dam is fantastic too. Its about 2,300 metres long,185 metres high and 15 metres wide at the top. It lions of people in China.Betty:Now,whod like to call first?M1 U2A great wonder of the natural worldWhen I ar

5、rived,it was early morning and it was raining. I looked to the eastthe sky was becoming got out of the car,went through a gate and walked along a dark path. There was nothing to see,but I knew it was there.After about a mile,a stranger appeared beside the path.“Am I going the right way?”I knew where

6、 I was going,“yes,”he replied,“youll get there in five minutes.”Finally,I came to some rocks and stopped. I looked over them,but it was silent and there was no sign of it.Suddenly,the rain stopped and the clouds sun rose behind me and shone on he below me,the ground fell away and down to a was looki

7、ng across one of the wonders of the natural worldthe Grand Canyon.I looked down to the Colorado River,a silver stream nearly one mile below you put the two tallest buildings in the world on top of each other at the bottom of the canyon,they still would not reach the I looked across to the other side

8、 of the canyon,It was about fifteen miles away,maybe ,I looked to my left and to my right,and on both sides the canyon went far away for more than 200 Grand Canyon was not just was huge!I remained by the canyon for about half an hour,and I asked myself.“Is the Grand Canyon the greatest wonder of the

9、 natural world?”I certainly know the do you think?M2 U1My family always go somewhere interesting as soon as the holiday begins.Tony:The First of October s Chinas National Day,isnt it,Lingling?Lingling: Peoples Republic of China was founded on lst October have celebrated the National Day since are fl

10、owers and national flags everywhere,and we have a three-day holiday.Tony:Do you have any plans for the holiday this year?Lingling: parents and I are going to visit some friends in Shandong province and will stay there until he end of the were staying with our friends,were going to spend one day in i

11、s your national day,Betty?Betty:Our national day is called Independence s on 4th ve celebrated it since s a public holiday,but we only have one day that day,there are all kinds of holiday s the start of the vacation season and most people take a vacation sometime in July or August.Lingling:And is th

12、ere anything special on that day?Betty:Well,you can see American flags usually have a picnic somewhere have great also watch bands play music in public parks.Daming:Do you have a national day in the UK,Tony?Tony:No,we dontwe celebrate Christmas with a two-day my family always go somewhere interestin

13、g as soon as the holiday begins.M2 U2ThanksgivingThanksgiving is an American is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in is a time for a special dinner among family and make short speeches and give thanks for their food.We have celebrated the festival since the first pioneers from England arrived in Ame

14、rica by ship in the seventeenth hey were crossing the Atlantic,Many people died,and after they landed,their first winter was worse than any English winter. The local people,the Native Americans,taught the pioneers how to grow following year they celebrated together by eating a dinner of the new food

15、.We still celebrate Thanksgiving today with a traditional kitchen is always the most crowded room in our house because we all help prepare the lay the table,and then before we begin dinner,my father gies thanks for the food,so we remember why we celebrate the usually eat too much,but it is only one

16、a year!We often talk a lot and tell stories after dinner as it is all over,everyone helps wash the dishes.The festival is a very busy time for travel when friends and families come together to the festival,there are plenty of other things to see and live in New York City,and we go to watch the Macys

17、 Thanksgiving Day parade goes along several streets and finishes at the famous Macys is the start of the Christmas season,and we start shopping for is also important at Thanksgiving,with many teams playing many Americans,we usually watch the games on television and enjoy ourselves very much.M3 U1She

18、 trained hard,so she became a great player later.Ms Li:Daming,who is your hero?Who have you chosen to tell us about?Daming:Deng Yaping!Shes my hero because shes one of the best table tennis players in the world and I love playing table tennis.Ms Li:Tell us about her.Daming:Well,she started playing t

19、able tennis when she was trained hard,so she became a great player later.Ms li:And what competitions has she won?Daming:Shes won many world competitions including four gold medals in the stopped playing when she was twenty-four.Ms Li:What did she do after that?Daming:She began to study at Tsinghua U

20、niversity in Beijing and then attended university abroad .Her English wasnt good enough when she again she worked hard,and seven years later,she completed her doctors degree at Cambridge she does,she never gives up!Ms Li:Thats amazing!Daming: says that she isnt cleverer than anyone else,but she has

21、a very strong will.Ms Li:I see. Well,I think shes a good student as well as a good player.Daming:Yes,and she helped make the Beijing Olympics a victory for world s simply the best!Ms Li:Shes a true hero.M3 U2My heroDr Norman Bethune By Wang LinglingNorman Bethune is one of the most famous heroes in

22、was a Canadian came to China to help the Chinese people and died for them.Norman Bethune was born in became a doctor in 1916 and went to Spain in 1936 to treat the wounded soldiers during the war soon realised that many people were dying because they did not get to hospital quickly Bethune developed

23、 new ways of taking care of the invented special medical tools to use outside hospitals and chose to the fighting areas so that doctors could treat the wounded more inventions saved many lives.In 1938,Dr Bethune came to China and helped treat the wounded during the Anti Japanese that time,there were

24、 few doctors,so he had to work very hard on his experience of treating people in Spain was Useful in developed training courses for local doctors and nurses,and wrote books so that they could learn about how he treated the sick.Dr Bethune often worked very hard without resting or taking care of hims

25、elf;Once,he even worked for sixty-nine hours without stopping and managed to save over a hundred day in 1939,he cut his finger during an operation,but he continued his work without treating the end,he died of his wound.Dr Bethunes work for the Chinese people made him a hero in are many books and fil

26、ms about him,and he is still remembered in both China and Canada today. M3 U3Read the passage and choose the best title.My favourite Greek hero is Odysseus.He is the main character in The Odyssey,a famous story by the Greek storyteller,Homer.Odysseus and his friends go from Greece to Troy to ten yea

27、rs,they win and are very proud of win and are very proud of they set off for home,but on their way,there is a great become lost,and that is the start of their great that time,they meet many strange of them want to hurt Ojdysseus and his friends,but a few help one island a very big man with only one

28、eye tries to kill this fight,Odysseus loses many of his friends,but he manages to get away.After ten years of fighting and ten more years on the way home,Odysseus completes his journey and manages to get back to his own country, wife and son are waiting for him to come ,he looks so different that th

29、ey fail to recognise Odysseus saves his wife and sonfrom some bad men,they finally know who he is hapy o be back home again after so many adventures.I like this story because it is interesting and think Odysseus is a true is very clever and has a strong also learn from him that great men never give

30、up,no matter what difficulties they face.M4 U1Mum:Now,whats our train number?Dad:T27 to s leaving from Platform 2.Mum:The meeting in Lhasa is very important for us,but Im sorry you cant come with us,Betty. Betty:So am I,but I cant miss two weeks of school.Mum:Will you remember everything Ive told yo

31、u?Be especially careful with the it when youre in and lock it when you gop out.Betty:Yes, can look after my self,although it wont be easy for me.Mum:Well,make sure you eat plenty of fresh fruit and Ive left lots of your favourite biscuits.Betty:Dont can cook simple meals.Dad:There wont be anybody to

32、 wake you up in the morning.Betty:Ill be clock rings so loudly that it will certainly wake me up.Mum:Im sure Ive forgotten something,but I dont know what it is!(Announcement:We advise all passengers for Train T27 to Lhasa to go immediately to Platform train is about to leave.)Betty:Thats your train!

33、Goodbye Mum,goodbye Dad.Mum:I know!I havent given you our address in Lhasa!Betty:Send me a text a good trip!Mum:Bye,my dear!Betty:Bye!See you in a couple of weeks!M4 U2My “perfect holiday”As a boy,like all other boys,I wanted to be a my parents did everything for ,they managed every minute of my the

34、y loved me,Ifelt a bit unhappy with them.“Zheng Chenyu,do your homework!”“Practise the piano!”“Turn off the TV!”I became so bored with their orders that I wished they would leave me alone.Well,my wish came true!Although my parents were very worried about leaving me,they had to go away on business fo

35、r a few was my chance!I could have some fun at last!As soon as I got home from school the first day,I happily threw my schoolbag on the sofa and ate lots of I enjoyed an exciting film on TV,and after that I played computer liked the games so much that I played until midnight.The next morning I woke

36、up had to hurry to school without breakfast,but I was still teacher asked me for my homework,but I could not hand it an empty stomach,I was unable to play basketball with my classmates!I felt tired and sleepy at school all day long.When I got home,I tried to cook some rice,but I burnt een dropped my

37、 fathers cup when I was cooking started to feel wanted Mum and Dad to come home cooked such delicious food,and made sure I never forgot my laways helped me with any difficult questions,and told funny jokes when I was I realised being home alone was not always perfect.When my parents came home,they w

38、ere happy to find that II could cook and tidy up now. I told them my home alone story,and we all laughed.M5 U1(Betty,Lingling and Daming are on the second floor of a museum.)Betty:What a wonderful museum!Lingling:Its great,isnt it?Lets go to the Animal Room need some information for my project.Betty

39、: Me,s ,wheres Daming?Lingling:There he s he doing over there?Daming:Hey,Betty!Lingling!Come and see the monkey exhibition!Guard:No shouting,please!Its against the rulrs.Betty:Oh,no!Daming is in trouble again.Daming:Look at the monkeys tail!Ive got to get in here.Guard:Stop!Dont cross that rope!Cant

40、 you see the sign,kids?”No entry”.Daming: not?Guard:Because its closed.Lingling:Yes, the sign!Daming:Oh,s no good!Well,Ill just take a photo.Guard: ?Daming:There certainly are a lot of rules in this wonder the place is empty!Betty:Daming!Dont be rude!Lingling:Oh,no!Betty:Whats the matter,Lingling?Li

41、ngling:My mobile phone !Its missing!Oh,no!What am I going to do?Guard:Dont worry, downstairs to the lost and found might have it.Lingling:That phone is new!I have to find it,or Mum will punish me!Betty:Iam sure it will be all right,s go and see.Daming:Yes,lets go downstairs.M5 U2The Science Museum i

42、n London.By Tony Smith.Welcome to the most friendly museum in most museums,there is no shouting and no running,and you must not touch the Science Museum is different.It is noisy!People talk about what they can see and do here,and there are some very noisy machines as you want answers to all your que

43、stions about science,this is the right place for you. I like to visit the rooms on the second and third can learn about communications and the environment as well as maths,physics and example,you can find out how dig coal from the ground and use it to create in one room they even explain how X-rays

44、let you see inside your body. The Launchpad on the third floor is the most popular room,and it is my favourite too because there are lots of physics example,if you want to fill a bag with sand,you have no control a kind of truck on wheels and move it into the correct can also find out how people tra

45、vel into space and back again. On the fourth and fifth floors,you can learn about what medicine was like in the you compare the medicine of the past with the medicine of today,you will feel very lucky next time you visit a doctor!The Science Museum is interesting for people of all can always find so

46、mething new and have a wonderful time museum is free to enter,so you can go in for a few minutes or stay all is open daily from 10 an to 6 if you ever go to London,make sure you visit the Science is my favourite museum in the whole world!M6 U1Dad:Tony,youre playing the guitar you done your homework?

47、Tony:No,not yet,but I havent got I start after dinner,Ill finish it before I go to ,you wanted me to learn an instrument.Dad:I want you to get a habit of doing your homework as soon as you come home from you start now,youll finish before dinner.Tony:Yes,but I need a restfrom also want to go to the library to do volunteer work.Dad:So youre not going to do your homework now? Tony:No,it isnt necessary to do it ll do it later.Dad:Thats a really dont think you should go to the library so much.Tony:Why not?I can work in the library and Im also able to read books there.Dad:No deal