2019外研版高一必修一unit2課文原文

1、 unit2Understanding ideas1. Have you ever asked yourself why people often have trouble learningEnglish? I hadn't, until one day my five -year -old son asked me whetherthere was ham in the hamburger. There isn't.

2、This made me realize thatthere's no egg in eggplant either. Neither is there pine nor apple inpineapple. This got me thinking how English can be a crazy language tolearn.2. For example, in our free time, we can sculp

3、t a sculpture and paint apainting, but we take a photo. And when we are traveling we say that weare in the car or the taxi but on the train or bus! While we are doing allthese traveling, we can get a seasick at sea, airs

4、ick in the air and carsickin the car, but we don't get homesick when we get back home. Andspeaking of home, why aren't homework and housework the same thing?3. If “hard“ is the opposite of “soft“, why are “hardly

5、“ and “softly“ not anopposing pair? If harmless actions are the opposite of harmful actions, weare shameless and shameful behaviors the same?4. When we look out of the window and see rain or snow, we can say “it'srai

6、ning“ or “it's snowing“. But when they see sunshine, we can't say “it'sthat Maggie couldn't teach that day COZ she had a frog in her throat.Poor Maggie, but why did she try to eat such a big frog?When I f

7、irst visited New York, I went to a downtown shopping centre tobuy some winter boots. At the information desk at the entrance, I asked alady where the shoe section was. She said that it was on the first floor. SoI went up

8、 to the first floor but couldn't find any shoes. I decided to leave.When I was looking for the exit, I saw that shoes were actually solddownstairs on the ground floor, not the first floor. Didn't she give me thew

9、rong Information?I've got an English pen friend who I finally got to meet in London thissummer. He had told me that his grandfather was “really wicked“. Butwhen I met his grandfather, I liked him a lot. I found it ve

10、ry odd. Why didmy friend use a negative word about such a nice man?The British must have really high standards. I was part of a studentexchange program between a university in England and my university inChina. I spent d

11、ays preparing and writing my first English paper. I knew Ihad done a good job and was looking forward to getting a positivecomment. When I got the paper back, I found my teacher had written thecomment “Not bad!“ Not bad?