初中英语牛津九年级上册课本03

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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 CHAPTER THREE
[00:02.98]READING  Page 35
[00:07.73]The night of the horse
[00:11.49]A newspaper ran a short story competition on famous tales from history.
[00:20.04]This is a story one of the students sent in.
[00:25.60]The soldier came down the stairs--two at a time.
[00:32.65]'Captain,they've gone,
[00:38.01]'They've disappeared-all of them.The plain is...'
[00:45.77]But the captain of the guards was no longer listening.
[00:51.33]He was going up the stairs--three at a time.
[00:57.57]Seconds later,the captain stood on the high wall of the city of Troy.
[01:06.40]He looked down at the empty plain and,beyond it,at the empty sea.
[01:15.55]'They've gone and we've won,'he said.
[01:22.42]'The Greeks have tried for ten years to capture our city.
[01:29.36]Now they've sailed away.
[01:33.94]And they've taken everything with them.'
[01:38.98]'Not everything,sir,'the soldier said.
[01:44.12]'They've left their horse.'
[01:47.76]Outside the main gates of the city stood a huge horse made of wood.
[01:56.51]'Ah,yes,'the captain said,'that wooden horse.
[02:03.66]It's so big that they couldn't take it with them.
[02:09.83]Well,it's ours now.
[02:14.69]Get some help and pull it into the city.
[02:20.46]That won't be difficult.It's on wheels.'
[02:26.21]'But why is it on wheels?'the soldier asked.
[02:33.36]'I think that maybe the Greeks want us to...'
[02:40.91]The captain interrupted him.
[02:44.96]'You're a soldier,'he said.
[02:49.40]'You don't have to think.
[02:53.35]You have to obey orders,and I'm giving you one now.
[03:01.29]Move that horse.
[03:04.76]'And so the Trojans dragged it into the city with ropes.
[03:12.63]That night,in the main square of the city,
[03:18.58]all the citizens of Troy celebrated.
[03:24.04]They sang and danced around the horse,
[03:29.61]and made jokes about their enemies,the stupid Greeks.
[03:37.16]Then the Trojans made sure all the gates of the city were securely locked,
[03:46.72]and they all went to sleep,including the gate guards.
[03:54.37]By midnight,the square was empty,except for the giant horse.
[04:03.93]The six Greek soldiers waited for another hour,to be sure.
[04:12.89]Then,very quietly,
[04:17.15]they opened the secret door in the side of the horse and climbed out.
[04:26.58]No guards stopped them as they opened the main gates.
[04:33.84]Outside stood the Greek army.
[04:39.61]It had returned in the darkness when the citizens celebrated inside.
[04:48.26]Now the army enter the city.
[04:53.54]The Greeks seized the captain and dragged him away.
[04:59.89]For ten years,they could not capture the city by fighting.
[05:07.36]In one night,they succeeded in capturing it by a trick.
[05:15.22]LISTENING Page 38
[05:19.48]Picture sequencing
[05:23.13]How did the Trojan War start?
[05:28.10]To find out,we must go back more than two thousand years.
[05:35.15]Listen to the story on the recording,
[05:39.70]and put the pictures in the right order.
[05:44.66]Write the numbers 1-8 in the circles.
[05:51.14]Picture 1
[05:54.48]The King of Troy had a son called Paris.
[06:01.46]Paris was a handsome young man.
[06:06.42]One day Zuse the King of the gods told Paris that he had to be a judge in a competition
[06:18.49]Three of the goddesses all wanted to be the most beautiful goddess.
[06:27.13]Paris had to choose which goddess was the most beautiful one.
[06:34.89]In this pictures you can see Paris and the three goddesses.
[06:42.47]Picture 2
[06:46.13]Epherdety was one of the goddesses,
[06:51.09]she told Paris to choose her,'If you choose me' she said,
[06:59.45]'I will make the most beautiful woman in the world fall in love with you,
[07:05.90]And so Paris said that Epherdety was the most beautiful of the three goddesses.
[07:14.65]In the picture you can see Paris giving her the prise,a golden apple.
[07:22.41]Picture 3
[07:25.75]Epherdety
[07:28.91]told Paris that the most beautiful woman in the world was Queen Hellen of Sbuter.
[07:37.25]Hellen was married to King Manalayers.
[07:42.71]Soon Paris got a fast ship and sailed from Troy to Sbuter.
[07:50.36]In this picture you can see Paris's ship sailing away from Troy.