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高二英语课文16 高二课文：Unit 16 The Sea Bruce is spending Sunday with his friend Li Qun. 布鲁斯正和他的朋友李群一起过星期天。 LI QUN: Beautiful day, isnt it? 李 群:今天天气真好，是不是？ BRUCE: Yes. I wish we could go to the seaside today. Pity we live so far from the sea. 布鲁斯:是的。我们今天要是能去海滨就好了。真遗憾我们住得离海这么远。 LI QUN: When did you last go to the seaside? 李 群:你上一次是什么时候去海滨的？ BRUCE: Last August. We had a lovely holiday, one of the best ever. We spent all our days on the beach. We swam and dived off the rocks into the sea. We also played games on the sand. 布鲁斯:去年8月。我们度过了一个令人愉快的假日，也是有史以来最愉快的假日之一。我们有好几天都是在海滩上度过的。我们从岩石上跳进海里游泳。我们还在沙滩上做游戏呢。 LI QUN: My cousins a sailor. Hes doing very well in the navy. He sends me interesting postcards from the ports where the ship stops. 李 群:我的堂兄是个海员。他在海军里干得很出色。他还从船停泊的海港给我寄来了明信片。 BRUCE: Are you going to be a sailor when you leave school? 布鲁斯:你毕业后打算当海员吗？ LI QUN: I dont know. I havent made up my mind yet. 李 群:不知道。我还没下定决心呢。 BRUCE: Wed better not just talk; lets go to the river to bathe. 布鲁斯:我们最好别光顾说了；咱们去河里游泳吧。 LI QUN: Sounds like a good idea. Lets do that. 李 群:听起来是个好主意。咱们去游泳吧。 The two boys are in the river now. 两个男孩现在在河里。 BRUCE: How long can you hold your breath underwater? Take a deep breath and Ill time you. But dont drown! 布鲁斯:你在水里屏住气不呼吸能呆多久？深吸一口气，我来给你计时。但别淹着！ LI QUN: (Puts his head underwater, but soon comes up for breath): How long was that? 李 群:(把头浸在水里，但很快又抬起头来呼吸。）多长时间了？ BRUCE: One minute and twelve seconds. Will you time me? Im sure I can do better than that. 布鲁斯:1分12秒。你给我计时好吗？我肯定会超过1分12秒的。 Seen from space, the earth looks blue. This is because two thirds of the earths surface is made up of vast oceans. Little of the earths solid surface has been seen by humans, as much of it lies below the sea. 从太空望去，地球看上去是蓝色的。这是因为地球表面的三分之二是由广阔的海洋构成的。人们只看到地球固体表面的很少一部分，因为大部分的地球表面处于海下。 The oceans of the world are salty. Most of the oceans contain 35 parts of salt per thousand parts of water. That is 3.5% by weight. There are 11 other minerals that ma