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Unit 5The band that wasn’t Have you ever wanted to be part of a band as a famous singer or musician? Have you ever dreamed of playing in front of thousands of people at a concert, at which everyone is clapping and appreciating your music? Do you sing karaoke and pretend you are a famous singer like Song Zuying or Liu Huan? To be honest, a lot of people attach great importance to becoming rich and famous. But just how do people form a band? Many musicians meet and form a band because they like to write and play their own music. They may start as a group of high-school students, for whom practising their music in someone’s house is the first step to fame. Sometimes they may play to passers-by in the street or subway so that they can earn some extra money for themselves or to pay for their instruments. Later they may give performances in pubs or clubs, for which they are paid in cash. Of course they hope to make records in a studio and sell millions of copies to become millionaires! However, there was one band that started in a different way. It was called the Monkees and began as a TV show. The musicians were to play jokes on each other as well as play music, most of which was based loosely on the Beatles. The TV organizers had planned to find four musicians who could act as well as sing. They put an advertisement in a newspaper looking for rock musicians, but they could only find one who was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three members of the band. As some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to rely on other musicians to help them. So during the broadcasts they just pretended to sing. Anyhow their performances were humourous enough to be copied by other groups. They were so popular that their fans formed clubs in order to get more familiar with them. Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs written by other musicians. However, after a year or so in which they became more serious about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they produced their own records and started touring and playing their own music. In the USA they became even more popular than the Beatles and sold even more records. The band broke up about 1970, but happily they reunited in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, with which they celebrated their former time as a real band.Freddy the frog Not long after Freddy and the band became famous, they visited Britain on a brief tour. Fans showed their devotion by waiting for hours to get tickets for their concerts. Freddy was now quite confident when he went into a concert hall. He enjoyed singing and all the congratulations afterwards! His most exciting invitation was to perform on a TV programme called “Top of the Pops”. He had to go to London, wear an expensive suit and give a performance to a TV camera. It felt very strange. But as soon as the programme was over, the telephones which were in the same room started singing. Everybody was asking when they could see Freddy and his band again. They were truly stars. Then things went wrong. Freddy and his band could not go out anywhere without being followed. Even when they wore sunglasses or beards people recognized them. Fans found them even when they went to the toilet. They tried to hid in the reading rooms of libraries, but it was useless. Someone was always there! Their personal life was regularly discussed by people who did not know them but talked as if they were close friends. At last feeling very upset and sensitive, Freddy and his band realized that they must leave the country before it became too painful for them. So they left Britain, to which they were never to return, and went back to the lake.

16世纪末,大约有5-7百万人说英语。几乎他们都住在英格兰。在下一个世纪,来自英格兰的人开始搬到世界的其它部分,所以英语开始在许多其它国家开始说了。 今天,更多的人比以往更多的把说英语作为他们的第一,第二或者是外语。中国也许有最大数量的说英语的人 英语的本地人可能会互相了解,即使他们不说同种英语。然而,他们可能不会明白每件事。 例如,一个英国人可能对她的朋友说:你能来我的公寓玩会吗?她其中的一个美国朋友可能会问她,去哪? 她的加拿大朋友可能会解释:她的意思是我们应该去她的公寓。 所以为什么英语会随着时间而改变呢?当文化互相交流时,所有的语言都会改变。大约ad450年说的英语和现在的英语就非常的不同。事实上,它更多的以德国以基础,而不是英语。从大约1150到1500,英语改变的更多。它变得更不像德语,更像法语。因为在那时统治英语的人说法语。它变的更接近于你们现在正在学的。在16世纪,莎士比亚比以前更广泛的使用词汇。当诺来写英语的美国字典时,英语使用发生了一个大的改变,给美式英语了它自己的身份。后来,当一些英国人去澳大利亚时,英语在那也开始说 了。现在澳大利亚英语有它自己的身份了。 在南亚,英语也作为外语或第二语言来说。印度有大量的说英语的人。这是因为英国从1765到1947年统治印度。在好段时间,英语成为了政府和教育的语言。英语也在非洲和亚洲的其它国家说,例如南非,新加坡和马来西亚。在中国,英语自从1842年开始在香港使用。今天中国学英语的人的数量正快速增长。中式英语会成为世界英语之一吗?只有时间能证明

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