新概念英语第二册第八课？第一课： 1 go to the theatre去看戏 2 get angry 生气 3.turn round转身 4. pay attention注意 5.In the end 最后 6.none of your business不关你的事 第二课： 1.get up 起床 2.look out of 朝外看 3.What a day！那么，新概念英语第二册第八课？一起来了解一下吧。
Last week I went to the theatre. I had a very good seat. The play was very interesting. I did not enjoy it. A young man and a young woman were sitting behind me. They were talking loudly. I got very angry. I could not hear the actors. I turned round. I looked at the man and the woman angrily. They did not pay any attention. In the end, I could not bear it.
I turned round again. 'I can't hear a word!' I said angrily.
'It's none of your business,' the young man said rudely. 'This is a private conversation!'. （第一课）
It was Sunday. I never get up early on
Sundays. I sometimes stay in bed until
lunch time. Last Sunday I got up very
late. I looked out of the window. It was
dark outside. 'What a day!' I thought.
'It's raining again.' Just then, the tele-
phone rang. It was my aunt Lucy.' I've
just arrived by train,' she said. 'I'm
coming to see you.'
'But I'm still having breakfast,' I said.
'What are you doing ?' she asked.
' I'm having breakfast,' I repeated.
'Dear me,' she said. 'Do you always
get up so late ? It's one o'clock!''（第二课）
Postcards always spoil my holidays. Last
summer, I went to Italy. I visited
museums and sat in public gardens. A
friendly waiter taught me a few words of
Italian. 'Then he lent me a book. I read
is few lines, but I did not understand a
word. Every day I thought about post-
cards. My holidays passed quickly, but I
did not send any cards to my friends. On
the last day I made a big decision. I got
up early and bought thirty-seven cards
I spent the whole day in my room, but I
did not write a single card !（第三课)
I have just received a letter from my
brother, Tim. He is in Australia.He has
been there for six months. Tim is an
engineer. He is working for a big firm
and he has already visited a great number
of different places in Australia. He has
just bought an Australian car and has
gone to Alice Springs, a small town in the
centre of Australia. He will soon visit
Darwin. From there, he will fly to Perth.
My brother has never been abroad be-
fore, so he is finding this trip very exciting（第四课）
Mr James Scott has a garage in Silbury
and now he has just bought another
garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurst is only five
miles from Silbury, but Mr Scott cannot
get a telephone for his new garage, so he
has just bought twelve pigeons. Yester-
day, a pigeon carried the first message
from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird
covered the distance in three minutes.
Up to now, Mr Scott has sent a great
many requests for spare parts and other
urgent messages from one garage to the
other. In this way, he has begun his own
private telephone service. （第五课）
I have just moved to a house in Bridge
Street. Yesterday a beggar knocked at my
door. He asked me for a meal and a glass
of beer. In return for this, the beggar
stood on his head and sang songs. I gave
him a meal. He ate the food and drank
the beer. Then he put a piece of cheese
in his pocket and went away. Later a
neighbour told me about him. Everybody
knows him. His name is Percy Buttons.
He calls at every house in the street once
a month and always asks for a meal and a
glass of beer.（第六课）
The plane was late and detectives were
waiting at the airport all morning. They
were expecting a valuable parcel of dia-
mond from South Africa. A few hours
earlier, someone had told the police that
thieves would try to steal the diamonds.
When the plane arrived,some of the de-
tectives were waiting inside the main
building while others were waiting on the
airfield. Two men took the parcel off
the plane and carried it into the Customs
House. While two detectives were keep-
ing guard at the door, two others opened
the parcel. To their surprise, the precious
parcel was full of stones and sand!（第七课）
Joe Sanders has the most beautiful garden
in our town. Nearly everybody enters for
'The Nicest Garden Competition' each
year, but Joe wins every time. Bill Frith's
garden is larger than Joe's. Bill works
harder than Joe and grows more flowers
and vegetables, but Joe's garden is more
interesting. He has made neat paths and
has built a wooden bridge over a pool. I
like gardens too, but I do not like hard
work. Every year I enter for the garden
competition too, and I always win a little
prize for the worst garden in the town!（第八课）
On Wednesday evening, we went to the
Town Hall. It was the last day of the year
and a large crowd of people had gathered
under the Town Hall clock.It would
strike twelve in twenty minutes' time.
Fifteen minutes passed and then, at five
to twelve, the clock stopped. The big
minute hand did not move. We waited
and waited, but nothing happened. Sud-
denly someone shouted, 'It's two minutes
past twelve! The clock has stopped!' I
looked at my watch. It was true. The big
clock refused to welcome the New Year.
At that moment everybody began to
laugh and sing.（第九课）
We have an old musical instrument. It is
called a clavichord. It was made in Ger-
many in 1681. Our clavichord is kept in
the living-room. It has belong to our
family for a long time. The instrument
was bought by my grandfather many
years ago. Recently it was damaged by a
visitor. She tried to play jazz on it! She
struck the keys too hard and two of the
strings were broken. My father was
shocked. Now we are not allowed to touch
it. It is being repaired by a friend of my
father's.（第十课）
有用
《新概念英语》1~4册是不错的教材，第1册144课，课文均以对话的形式出现，全书一共802个生词。这和我们小学一到六年级的英语教材的难度差不多。目前，小学一到六年级要求的单词量大概在1100个左右。
《新概念英语》第2册，全书96课，内容以120词左右的小短文为主，文章的难度相当于初中的难度，全书861个生词，和第1册的单词量加起来不到2000个，略低于目前我们初中教材的难度要求。大多数版本的初中教材，目前要求的单词量在2200个左右。
《新概念英语》第3册60篇课文，第4册48篇课文，课文的篇幅都差不多，大概240词左右，略低于高中高考英语阅读题的单词量。生词量和前面两册加起来一共3480个，高考要求的单词量是3500词，看起来总词汇量和高考的要求差不多。但是，新概念涉及到的单词范围，不包含一部分的高考词汇，其中的一部分词汇又是大学英语四六级中的词汇。因此，我们不能放弃教材，只学新概念英语。否则，高考的时候我们有可能会遇到生词。
根据上面的分析，大家可以明白，《新概念英语》可以作为高中英语学习的补充教材，但是这个教材毕竟是外国人编写的，最初的编写意图并不是为了中国的高考，也不是按照中国的考纲编写的。
Lesson 1 A private conversation
课文内容：
Last week I went to the theatre. I had a very good seat. The play was very interesting. I did not enjoy it. A young man and a young woman were sitting behind me. They were talking loudly. I got very angry. I could not hear the actors. I turned round. I looked at the man and the woman angrily. They did not pay any attention. In the end, I could not bear it. I turned round again. ‘I can't hear a word!’ I said angrily.
‘It's none of your business, ’ the young man said rudely. ‘This is a private conversation!’
Notes on the text 课文注释
1 go to the theatre，去看戏。
新概念英语第二册 课后答案 第七课Lesson 7
1. b
根据课文第3-4行someone had told the police that thieves would try to steal the diamond 和第8-9行While two detectives were keeping guard at the door…可以判断出b. to prevent a robbery 是正确答案，其他3个都不对。
2. c
根据课文最后一句话To their surprise, the precious parcel was full of stones and sand! 可以推测出c. didn’t prevent the robbery 是正确的答案。其他3个选择都不符合课文内容。
3. c
从回答中可以看出，此问句是对地点发问的， a. Why, b. When, d. What 都不能针对地点提问，只有c. Where 是问地点的，可以用At the airport 来回答，所以选c.
4. d
这一句是针对动词宾语提问的，回答是用名词短语A valuable parcel of diamonds . a. Why, b. When , C. where 这几个疑问词都不能针对动词宾语（名词）提问的，只有d. What 可以对名词提问。
新概念英语第一册最适合的小学阶段是高年级，因为低年级学生可能难以理解经典版教材的内容。如果等到六年级再开始学习，时间可能就已经晚了一点，因为完成第一册的学习通常需要一年时间，这对准备小升初的学生来说帮助不大。因此，在一些一线城市，新概念第一册的学习时间通常安排在四年级或五年级，这样可以在六年级有更多时间复习或学习第二册。
有了第一册的基础，学习第二册就不会那么困难。通过一些实际的学习观察，发现六年级时学习新概念第二册的一部分，然后在七、八年级完成剩余部分的学习，这种安排时间更合理，效果也更好。曾有一位重点中学的学生，在七年级就学完了新概念第二册的前四十五课，通过使用中考真题训练，最终达到接近满分的成绩。
这充分证明了新概念英语在英语学习中的重要作用。通过系统的课程学习，学生不仅能够提高英语水平，还能够培养良好的学习习惯和自主学习能力。因此，家长和教师可以根据孩子的实际情况，选择合适的学习阶段，以达到更好的学习效果。
此外，新概念英语的课程设计循序渐进，适合不同年龄段的学生。第一册侧重基础词汇和句型的掌握，而第二册则进一步提高语言应用能力，涉及更多语法和阅读理解的内容。这样的设计使得学生能够在不断进步的同时，保持学习的兴趣和动力。
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