英语第一单元上册背诵（英语课文背诵第三篇）

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英语第一单元上册背诵

外研版新教材第二篇阅读一

Unit 2

UnderstAnding ideas

Neither Pine nor Apple

in Pineapple

1

Have you ever asked yourself why people often

have trouble learning English? I hadn’t, until one day my five-year-old son

asked me whether there was ham in a hamburger. There isn’t. This made me

realize that there’s no egg in eggplant either. Neither is there pine nor apple

in pineapple. This got me thinking how English can be a crazy language to

learn.

2

For example, in our free

time we can sculpt a sculpture and paint a painting, but we take a photo. And

when we are traveling we say that we are in the car or the taxi, but on the train

or bus! While we’re doing all this traveling, we can get seasick at sea,

airsick in the air and carsick in a car, but we don’t get homesick when we get

back home. And speaking of home, why aren’t homework and housework the same

thing?

3

If “hard” is the

opposite of “soft”, why are “hardly” and “softly” not an opposing pair? If

harmless actions are the opposite of harmful actions, why are shameless and

shameful behaviors the same?

4

When we look out of the window and see rain or snow, we can say “it’s raining”

or “it’s snowing”. But when we see sunshine, we can’t say“it’s sunshining”.

5

Even the smallest words

can be confusing. When you see the capitalized ”WHO” in a medical report, do

you read it as the “who” in “Who’s that? “ What about “IT” and “US”?

6

You also have to wonder

at the unique madness of a language in which a house can burn up as it burns

down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm is

only heard once it goes off!

7

English was invented by

people, not computers and it reflects the creativity of the human race. That is

why when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they

are invisible. And that is why when I wind up my watch, it starts, but when I

wind up this passage, it ends.

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