初中英语教材文章

答：Singapore may be small, but packs in quite a punch. Only about 655 square kilometers in area, it is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, with about 6430 people per square kilometer. Although it is one of the 20 smallest countries in the world, its economy is a world leader, and has the world's busiest port in terms of tonnage handled. Today the financial and technological hub of South East Asia, Singapore was once a sleepy Malay fishing village, which came into its own as a British trading colony in the 1800's. The population is a mix of Malays, Chinese and Indians with a smattering of other ethnic nationalities. There are four official languages in Singapore - Mandarin, Tamil, Malay and English. The Chinese ethnic population is originally from South-east China from the provinces of Fukian and Guangdong. Immigrants from the Malaysian peninsula, Sumatra, Java and other islands of the Malay Archipelago have thronged the state. About two-thirds of the Indians are Tamil, with a smattering of Malayalis, Punjabis and Gujratis. Singapore consists of one main island, and 58 smaller ones. The terrain is flat lowland, the highest point being Bukit Tima Hills, standing at 164 meters. Its climate is hot (ranging between 22 and 30 degrees centigrade) and muggy (humidity remains at 75%). The rainy season is from November to January, although being near the equator, intermittent rains occur throughout the year. Although about 50% of the land is occupied by vertical urban settlements in modern skyscrapers, Singapore has a thriving agricultural economy specializing in rubber, copra, fruit, orchids, vegetables, poultry, eggs and fish. It is the world's largest exporter of ornamental fish. It has thriving industries of electronics, chemicals, financial services, oil drilling equipment, rubber processing, food processing, ship repair and other industries, with the economy heavily dependant on its electronics and manufacturing exports. With typical Singapore control and determination, the government has made up for its lack of natural flora and fauna by building gardens and zoos, waterfalls and underwater parks. Singapore has one of the best zoos in the world, and has the world's highest man made waterfall in Jurong Park, standing at 30 meters. The Bird sanctuary in Jurong even has simulated tropical thunderstorms。 希望采纳！谢谢。。

我上初中的时候，学过那一套教材，很久以前的教材了。那篇文章是在当时的《初中英语第五册》。故事大意：一群农民在盐湖城安家，种植庄稼生活。有一天，天上突然飞来了一群蝗虫，开始吃农民的庄稼。正当农民们不知道怎么办的时候，突然天上飞来了一群海鸥，把蝗虫给吃掉了，拯救了农民。农民们给海鸥立了纪念碑，且决定从此以后不伤害海鸥。The seagulls of Salt Lake CitySalt Lake City is a beautiful city in the west of North America, which was founded over a hundred years ago. At that time, a group of men, women and children arrived at a valley with high mountains all around it. They had traveled a long way. They had begun their journey far away in the east. After they had crossed the mountains, they found the valley. In the middle of it there was a salt lake. This was where their city now lies. The land seemed good, and they decided to stay there. They built their homes, and made their farms, and planted their crops. The people had to work hard on their farms. If they did not grow enough food, they would have nothing to eat. One day while they were working in the fields, some farmers saw something strange in the sky. “what is that?” asked one of them . “Where?” asked another farmer, as he stopped to look. “Over there ,”he answered. They saw something coming towards them. It looked like a cloud, but it was too low in the sky. As they watched, it came nearer and nearer. Suddenly a shout went up: “Locusts! Millions of locusts!” Every one stopped working, and looked at the sky. They were all frightened, because they knew what locusts could do. They had never seen so many of them before. In no time the locusts came down and started eating their crops —the wheat, the vegetables, even the grass, and the leaves on the trees. Everyone—men, women and children—tried to fight against the locusts. They tried everything , but while they were killing locusts in one place, millions more arrived in another. What could they do? Suddenly they heard a great noise. They looked up into the sky and saw another great cloud coming towards them. To their surprise, they saw not locusts, but seagulls. The farmers cried out, “They have come to eat what the locusts have left!” But they found that the seagulls had come to eat, not their crops, but the locusts. Usually, the seagulls lived near the sea. But they had seen or smelt the locusts and had come to eat them. Now they were eating the locusts. In a short while they ate up millions of them. The farmers’ crops were saved! The people were very thankful. They decided that from then on no one should ever kill a seagull . And today, if you go to Salt Lake City, you can see a monument with seagulls on top of it. 对盐湖城海鸥这篇课文我印象深刻，我不记得有long long ago, 而且原文也放出来了，也没有long long ago. 在我没回答你的问题之前，你妈还记得故事大意吗？如果记不得了，那么这个long long ago也许是她记错了。要不然就是，她学的那篇文章是另外一篇不同的文章。如果那样，那么我就不知道了。我学的这篇文章，现在30多岁的人都学过，呵呵，那时全国统一教材

第一篇Minday,July 15thI arrived in Penang in Malaysia this morning with my was sunny and hot, so we decided to go to the beach near our hotel. My sister and I tried paragliding. I felt like I was a bird .It was so exciting! For lunch, we had something very special——Malaysian yellow were delicious! In Weld Quay, a really old place in Georgetown, we saw the houses of the Chinese traders from 100 years ago. I wonder what life was like here in the past. I really enjoyed walkin around the town.第二篇Tuesday,July 16thWhat a difference a day makes! My father and I decided to go to Penang Hill today. We wanted to walk up to the top, but then it started raining a little so we decided to take the train. We waited over an hour it was raining really hard . We didn't have an umbrella so we were wet and cold. It was terrible! And because of the bad weather, we coudn't see anything father didin't bring enough money, so we only had one bowl of rice and some fish. The food tasted great because I was so hungry!

你妈说的是初中英语的一片国王让画师画马的课文，以前是要背诵的，开篇就是long long agoLong, long ago there lived a king. He loved horses. One day he asked an artist to draw him a beautiful horse. The artist said, "All right, but you must wait." So the king waited. He waited and waited. At last, after a year he could not wait any longer. He went to see the artist himself. Quickly the artist brought out paper and a brush. In five minutes he finished drawing a very beautiful horse. The king was angry. "You can draw a good horse in five minutes, yet you kept me waiting for a year. Why?" "Come with me, please." said the artist. They went to the artist's workroom. There they saw piles and piles of paper. On every piece of paper was a picture of a horse. "It took me more than a year to learn to draw a beautiful horse in five minutes." the artist said.