《新课标高中英语》紧扣高考，尤其紧扣近几年的高考命题趋势，全面系统地对高中阶段的英语知识进行了详尽的讲解，并使用了大量典型的例子以说明概念或规则；我们还尽量以一目了然的框架和简单明了的语言展现给读者清晰的语言结构；丛书各分册所选用试题典型、新颖，富有启发性。内容选择上既注意重点、难点、常考点，更注意英语知识的必要拓展、相互联系，密切关注新的命题特点，重视新的命题方向，充分体现高考英语学科能力测试与综合能力测试的要求。
In the spring of 1845, my father read a book about California. This account of the wonderful land beyond the Rocky Mountains gave him the idea to move there. Less than half a year later we packed all our things onto a wagon and left our farm. It was...
R: Our program today is about the eightieth, anniversary of the Anchorage-to-Nome dog sled race. Mr Parks, can you tell us something about the history of the race? P: The first race wasn't a competition, but it was a race against time. Eighty years a...
Once, in a dream, a boy called Chris Everyman took the advice of a wise man to go on a journey. The wise man pointed his finger across the land and told him to go through the gate at the end of the fields to enter the City of Happiness. Chris said he...
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1) E: Ebenezer Scrooge S: Santa Claus B: Bob Cratchit F: Fred, Scrooge's nephew Ca: A gentleman (In Scrooge's office. Bob tries to warm his hands over the candle.) E: What are you doing there, Bob? B: I'm warming my hands, Mr Scro...
E: Ebenezer Scrooge S: Santa Claus Ca: Girl Y: Young Scrooge A: All B: Bob Cratchit C: Mrs Cratchit L: Little girl M: A boy E: Where are we? S: Ho, ho, ho. Don't you recognise it, Scrooge? You grew up here. Have a look through this window. (They watc...
On a cold November night in 1775, Miss Lucie Manette, who had grown up in England, traveled to France to meet her father, whom she thought was dead. Eighteen years before, her father, Doctor Manette attended to a young peasant boy and girl, who had b...
Learning a language is obviously more than just memorising words, phrases and structures. When we learnt our mother tongue, we did not receive much formal instruction. Few parents give language lessons to their children! Instead we learnt or acquired...
Many language learners think that the best way to learn a language is to spend time in a country where the language is spoken. In the past, studying abroad was a distant dream for most people. Nowadays, however, it has become easier to find both oppo...
On the subject of reading, Francis Bacon, who lived at about the same time as Shakespeare, wrote these words: Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. This good advice shows how it is possible to re...
A Wang Lin is a carpenter who lives in eastern China with his wife and son. Two years ago, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He was getting weaker and suffered from constant pain in his chest. The doctors told him that the treatment he needed would...
Modem hospitals are clean and safe and doctors can cure many diseases. But it was not always so. For a long time, health care was often dangerous and risky. Treatments were neither scientific nor effective, and many patients suffered deadly infection...
Fear had gripped the nation, indeed the whole world. An unknown deadly virus had infected thousands of people and was spreading quickly. There was no cure and the number of cases was rising every day. In the media, SARS seemed to be the topic of ever...
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one or two at a time by bargaining at the grocery, at the bakery and the butcher's until one's cheeks burnt. Three times Della counted it. One dollar...
At seven o'clock the coffee was made and the pan was on the back of the stove, hot and ready to cook dinner. Jim was never late. Della doubled the watch chain in her hand and sat on the comer of the table near the door. When she heard his steps on th...
Miss Aur1ie lived alone on the farm all her life. She had never thought of marrying, and she had never been in love. At the age of twenty she was asked to marry somebody, but she did not accept, and at the age of fifty she had not yet lived to regret...
