上海新世紀英語高二全部課文及重點詞組

上海新世紀英語高二全部課文（包括additional reading）及重點詞組
高二第二學期
17. words and their stories
18. english proverbs
19. tips on making a public speech
20. keep it short for the audience’s sake
21. making friends
22. what does friendship mean to westerners?
23. adjo
24. ryan, his friends, and his incredible torch run
25. the father of modern physics
26. the survival of the fittest
27. miracle in the rice field
28. newton’s three important laws
29. oliver wants more (adapted from oliver twist charles dickens)
30. enjoy the classics
31. is she guilty? (adapted from the prince and the pauper mark twain)
32. mark twain
高二第二學期
17. words and their stories
eager beaver an eager beaver is a person who is always willing to do and is excited about doing what is expected of him.
suppose, for example, that a teacher tells his students they each must solve one hundred math problems before coming to school the next day. the children complain about so much homework. but one student does not protest at all. that student is an eager beaver. he loves to do math problems, and does not mind all the homework.
the expression is said to have come from the name of a hard-working animal---the beaver.
beavers are strange-looking creatures. they spend a lot of time in the water, building dams to create little lakes or ponds. they use their huge teeth and work hard to cut down trees, remove branches and put them across streams. they use their tails to pack mud on the branches to make the dams solid. few other animals work so hard.
historians say the beaver had an important part in the settlement of north america.
there were hundreds of millions of beavers when european settlers first arrived. the settlers put great value on the fur of beavers. in fact, for two hundred years or more, beavers provided the most valuable fur in north america. beaver skins often used as money.
young men looking for adventure headed west across the country to search for beavers. in their search, they explored much of the western territories. the trading posts, where they exchanged beaver skins for the goods they needed, became villages, and later towns and cities.
it’s in the bag the bag---one of the simplest and most useful things in every man or woman’s life---has given the world many strange expressions that are not very simple. a number of these expressions are widely used in the united states today. some were imported from england a long time ago.
when you are sure of something, you can say, “it’s in the bag.”