初中英语人教版九年级10

[04:11.17]Scientists think that the earth is covered by huge plates made of rock.
[04:14.80]科学家们认为地球由岩石组成的板块覆盖着.
[04:18.43]These plates are beneath the seas and continents of the world.
[04:21.25]这些板块在海洋之下是世界的陆地.
[04:24.07]There are about twenty plates.
[04:26.29]它大概有二十个板块.
[04:28.51]They keep moving like great ships,carrying the continents with them.
[04:31.90]它们不断的移动就像一艘船.载着陆地和我们.
[04:35.28]What is going to happen in 50 million years'time?
[04:37.80]在50百万年时会发生什么事?
[04:40.32]Scientists think that Australia will move north towards Asia.
[04:43.81]科学家们认为澳大利亚会朝北方的亚洲移动.
[04:47.29]North and South America will move apart.
[04:49.67]南北美洲会分开.
[04:52.05]Africa will move nearer to Europe.
[04:54.22]非洲会移向欧洲.
[04:56.39]Part of East Africa will break away from the rest of Africa.
[04:59.51]非洲东部会放弃非洲的其它部分.
[05:02.63]North America will move westwards,and Asia will move eastwards.
[05:07.11]北美洲向西方移动,亚洲会向东方移动.
[05:11.59]So China and North America may move closer.
[05:14.41]因此,中国和北美可能会靠近.
[05:17.23]Who knows what will happen?But one thing is certain:The world is changing!
[05:21.57]谁知道会发生什么事?但是有一件事是确定的:世界在改变.
[05:25.90]Lesson 44  3 Read and act
[05:31.73]第44课  3 阅读与表演
[05:37.55]A:Hi,Tom! What are you doing?
[05:39.83]A:你好,汤姆!你在干什么?
[05:42.10]B:I am reading a book about the West Indies.
[05:44.52]B:我在读一本有关于西印度群岛的书.
[05:46.93]A:The West Indies?Sounds a little bit strange.
[05:49.71]A:西印度群岛?听起来有点陌生.
[05:52.50]How did these islands get this name?
[05:54.63]这个名字是怎么来的?
[05:56.75]B:The name "Indies" was given to the islands by Christopher Columbus.
[05:59.72]为这些岛屿起"印度"这个名的人是克里斯托弗.
[06:02.68]Do you know who he was?
[06:04.66]哥伦布.你知道他是谁吗?
[06:06.63]A:Of course! Columbus believed the world is round,
[06:09.91]A:当然知道了!哥伦布相信世界是圆的,
[06:13.19]and he decided to sail west from Europe to reach Asia.
[06:16.16]因此,他决定从欧洲向西方的亚洲航行.
[06:19.14]B:That's right.He found America in 1492,
[06:22.42]B:是的.他在1492年发现了美国.
[06:25.70]but he thought he had reached India in Asia.
[06:28.43]但是他认为他已经到了亚洲的印度.
[06:31.16]That's why the islands were named "Indies".
[06:33.38]这就是为什么这些岛屿被命名为"印度"的原因.
[06:35.60]A:But why are the islands now called "the West Indies"?
[06:38.33]A:但是为什么现在叫"西印度群岛呢?
[06:41.06]B:Because his mistake was discovered.
[06:43.24]B:因为他的错误被发现了.
[06:45.42]There were already islands called "the East Indies" in the Pacific Ocean,
[06:48.40]在太平洋,那里已经有一个叫"东印度"的岛屿.
[06:51.38]so these islands were given the name "West Indies".
[06:54.20]所以这些岛屿就被命为"西印度群岛"
[06:57.02]4  Read and discuss Read the story about Captain Cook.
[07:01.85]4  阅读与讨论读一读有关库克船长的故事.
[07:06.68]Look up the new words in a dictionary.Captain James Cook was a great explorer.
[07:11.56]在词典里查找新单词.船长詹姆士.库克是一个伟大的探险家.
[07:16.43]He was born in England in 1728.
[07:19.39]1728年,他出生在英格兰.
[07:22.36]He travelled to many new places and made maps of them.
[07:25.39]他旅行进很多新地方,并把它们制成了地图.
[07:28.42]In 1755 he was in Canada and made maps of its eastern coast.
[07:32.60]在1755年,他到达加拿大,制作它的东部的地图.
[07:36.78]In 1768,
[07:38.70]在1768年,
[07:40.62]the King of England made him the captain of a ship and sent him to the Pacific.
[07:44.69]英格兰的国王封他为一艘船的船长,并派遣他去航行太平洋.
[07:48.77]In less than three years he had visited hundreds of islands
[07:52.10]在三年内,他到过很多岛屿
[07:55.43]and put them in the correct places on the map.
[07:58.16]并把它们准确地画在地图上.
[08:00.89]Before his travelling,maps of the Pacific Ocean showed almost nothing.
[08:04.61]在他的航持之前,太平洋的地图上同乎什么也没有.
[08:08.33]In 1778, Captain Cook visited the Hawaiian Islands.
[08:12.57]在1778年,詹姆士.库克到达夏威夷群岛.
[08:16.80]He was the first person from Europe to these islands,