[新概念早读英语初中版]初中新概念早读英语（中英）第25-26期

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【篇一】第25期

The First Ball Games

The first interesting thing for sports use was the ball.

In ancient Egypt, as in everywhere,

throwing stones was a favorite children's game.

But a stone could hurt a child.

Looking for something less dangerous to throw,

the people in Egypt made,perhaps,the first balls.

At first,balls were made of grass or leaves held together

Later they made balls with animals' skin.

They put the pieces of animals' skin together with thread

and put in some birds' feathers or grass.

This kind of ball was soft and not heavy.Everyone liked to play with it.

Although the people in Egypt liked fighting and wars,

they tried to save time for sports games.

Before long they could play a lot of new ball games,each with its own rules.

Perhaps they thought

the games were useful to help the young men run faster in wars.

【篇二】最早的球类运动

球是最早的有意思的体育用具。

在古埃及，和其他地方一样，

丢石块是孩子们最喜欢的游戏。

但是石块会伤到孩子。

为了找到可以降低危险的玩具，

埃及人做出了第一个球

起初，人们把草或树叶塞紧做成了球。

后来,他们用动物皮做球，

他们用线把动物皮缝起来，

再把鸟的羽毛或草塞进去。

这种球又软又轻，人人都爱玩。

尽管埃及人喜欢打架，征战，

但还是找时间参与体育游戏。

不久他们能够玩很多新鲜的球类游戏，各个游戏有自己的规则。

或许他们认为

这些游戏能使他们在战场上跑得更快。

【篇三】第26期

Fires Long Ago

We don't know how the first fire was made.

Early fires on the earth were certainly caused by nature,not by man.

Some were caused by lightning in a storm,

others,perhaps by one hot material which came out of a volcano.

Quite possibly,at times,

the heat of the sun set light to some dry grass or leaves.

At first,man,like other animals,was probably afraid of fire.

He saw that fire could destroy a forest;

he knew that fire could hit his body.

So great was the power of fire that he feared it and worshipped it.

Gradually,however, with his better powers of thinking, he overcame his fear

Probably he overcame most of his fear

when he discovered how to make fire for himself,

but,undoubtedly,

he learned some of the uses of fire

before he could make one when and where he wished.

Throughout the ages he has learned more about fire,how to control it,

and how to use it in many ways.

Now fire is no longer a master or a god,it is a servant.

Again,at some early date,

Man found how fire could be used to make certain metals from rocks.

Some time later,he found out how to make the metal which we now call bronze.

This is a mixture of copper and tin. Bronze was a very useful metal.

It was hard and tough,

but he could shape it by hammering(probably with heavy stones).

It isn't so easy to get iron from its ore

and this metal was probably not discovered until very much later.

【篇四】很久以前的火

我们不知道第一束火是怎样来的。

但地球上早期的火是由大自然产生的，不是人发明的。

有些火是由雷电造成，

有的也许是由火山喷发出的热物质造成的。

也许更多的是

太阳的热量燃烧了干燥草和树叶。

起初，人像其他动物一样怕火。

他看到火烧毁整片森林

他知道火会烧伤他的身体。

火的力量如此强大，他惧怕它，崇拜它。

渐渐的，随着他思考的越多，他克服了这种恐惧。

或许他克服了大部分的恐惧，

在他发现怎样自己生火时，

但是，毋庸置疑，

他学会了一些火的用途

在他随时随地能够生火前。

随着岁月的推移，他对火了解得更多了，知道如何控制它，

如何用不同的方式用它

现在火不再是主人或上帝，而是人类的仆人。

又如，早期，

人发现了怎样用火把某些金属从岩石里弄出来

后来，他想出了如何生产我们称之为青铜的金属，

它是铜和锡的混合物，青铜的实用性强。

尽管它很坚硬，

但是人能够用锤子把它分开（也许是用很沉的石头）。

从矿石中提炼出铁不是件容易的事，

所以很多年之后，人们才发现这种金属。

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