Module 9 阅读材料 2023-2024学年外研版英语八年级下册

Reading Material for Module 9 Friendship Poem A When I’m sad and feeling low, And worries are all I know, Just hearing you say “Hello” Fills me with a cheerful glow. When I’m away in places new, With no familiar faces in view, It gives me pleasure to think of you And the adventures we’ve been through. When life seems like one long night, And nothing is ever going right, There’s just one sure delight: Friendship, like sunrise, warm and bright. Poem B Friendship soup Like any good soup, this won't fail to make you smile when you're feeling down. All you need to get started is a box of love. Pour it into a pot and mix it with five grams of smiles. Next, add: two cups of trust, one spoon of encouragement, three spoons of helpfulness, three cups of good conversation, one pack of similar interests, one glass of comfort, two drops of patience, one bag of passion, one piece of generosity. .. and a slice of humour! After Twenty Years The story “After Twenty Years” is set in New York on a cold, dark night. Most people have left work to go home, and this part of the city is now quiet. A policeman who is checking the area sees a man outside a shop. He goes up to the man and finds he has a scar on his face when he lightens up the cigar. They have a chat and the man starts to tell his story. “Twenty years ago tonight, said the man, 1 dined here at 'Big oe' Brady's with jimmy Wells, my best friend in the world. He and 1 were raised here in New York, just like two brothers, together. I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. The next morning, I was to start for the West to make my fortune. You couldn't have dragged Jimmy out of New York; he thought it was the only place on earth. Well, we agreed that night that we would meet here again exactly twenty years from that date and time, no matter what our conditions might be or from what distance we might gave to come. We figured that in twenty years each of us should have our own job and have made our fortune, whatever they wer