高中必修一 · 第 10 课
路上的明信片 Postcards from the Road
Lily 把暑假旅行的照片做成一册剪贴簿。每一页都是一段记忆，每一段记忆都用过去时讲一个故事。
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2课文精读：路上的明信片 (Postcards from the Road · 约441词)
Lily 把暑假旅行的照片做成一册剪贴簿。每一页都是一段记忆，每一段记忆都用过去时讲一个故事。 读课文，先自己理解，再点 🔊 听朗读。
Postcards from the Road
Autumn had arrived, and Lily sat at her desk surrounded by photographs, train tickets, and pressed flowers. Her summer project — a scrapbook of the great journey she had taken with her friends — lay open on the table. 'The past is a country,' she wrote on the first page. 'And these are my postcards from it.' The scrapbook had taken her the whole summer to finish, page by careful page.
秋天到了，Lily 坐在书桌前，周围摆满照片、火车票和压好的花朵。她的暑期项目——和朋友们一起旅行制作的剪贴簿——摊开在桌上。“过去是一个国度，”她在第一页写道，“这些是我从那里寄回的明信片。”这本剪贴簿花了她整个夏天，一页一页精心完成。
The first page was dedicated to the train journey across the country. She had glued in a ticket stub, a menu from the dining car, and a photograph of Jack asleep with his mouth open. 'We departed at dawn,' she wrote, 'and I watched the sun rise over mountains I had only ever seen in books. I had never felt so small and so free at the same time.'
第一页献给横穿全国的火车之旅。她贴上车票存根、餐车菜单，还有一张 Jack 张着嘴睡觉的照片。“我们黎明出发，”她写道，“我看着太阳从只在书里见过的群山上升起。我从未同时感到如此渺小又如此自由。”
The middle pages held the small moments: a café where they had tasted the strangest soup, a museum where Han Mei had spent two hours in front of a single painting, a street musician who had played them a song about a lost dog. 'The famous sights were wonderful,' Lily wrote, 'but it is the ordinary moments I remember best. That is what I have learned about travel.' She had even kept a napkin from that café, stained with tomato soup and memory.
中间几页承载着那些微小瞬间：一家让他们尝到最奇怪汤的咖啡馆、Han Mei 在一幅画前站了两小时的博物馆、一位为他们演奏关于走失小狗歌曲的街头艺人。“著名景点很美，”Lily 写道，“但我记得最清楚的却是那些平凡的瞬间。这就是我对旅行的理解。”她甚至保留了一张那家咖啡馆的餐巾，上面沾着番茄汤和回忆。
The last page was the hardest to make. It held a photo of the four friends standing on a beach at sunset, arms around one another's shoulders. 'We have been friends since junior high,' Lily wrote. 'But this summer, I saw us grow up. We carried our own bags, made our own plans, and solved our own problems. Our parents were not there. And we were fine. More than fine.'
最后一页最难做。上面是一张四个朋友在日落时分的海滩上搂着肩膀的照片。“我们从初中就是朋友，”Lily 写道，“但这个夏天，我看见我们长大了。自己拎行李、自己做计划、自己解决问题。父母不在身边，我们也没问题。不只是没问题。”
Cozy teacher asked the class to share their projects, and Lily brought her scrapbook to school. When she reached the last page, her voice caught. 'The past perfect is for things that happened before other things,' she said, holding up the photo. 'And looking at this picture, I realised: we had already become the people we are now, long before we knew it.' The class listened without interrupting, and the afternoon felt like a quiet river.
Cozy 老师让全班分享项目，Lily 把剪贴簿带到了学校。讲到最后一页时，她的声音哽住了。“过去完成时用来表示发生在其他事情之前的事，”她举起照片说，“看着这张照片，我意识到：我们早在不知不觉中，就已经成为了现在的自己。”全班没有打断地听着，这个下午像一条安静的河流。
When she finished, the class was quiet. Then Cozy teacher spoke softly: 'That is the best grammar lesson I have ever heard — because it came from a real heart, telling a real story in the right tense.' Lily closed her scrapbook and smiled. Somewhere in her bag, a pressed flower from the prairie remembered the wind that had carried it. Somewhere in the school, the scrapbook waited for its next reader.
她讲完时，教室里很安静。然后 Cozy 老师轻声说：“这是我听过最好的语法课——因为它来自一颗真实的心，用正确的时态讲述真实的故事。”Lily 合上剪贴簿，笑了。在她包里，一朵来自大草原的压花还记得曾经吹过它的风。在学校某个角落，剪贴簿等待着下一位读者。
📖 读后理解（0/6）
1. What was Lily's summer project?
2. What did the first page of the scrapbook show?
3. What did Lily remember best about the trip?
4. What did the last page's photo show?
5. What did Lily realise when looking at the photo?
6. What did Cozy teacher call Lily's presentation?
3语法小课堂：时态综合（过去/完成/进行）
过去时态三兄弟
一般过去 did / 过去完成 had done / 过去进行 was doing
一般过去叙述主线：We travelled across the country. （我们横穿了全国。）
过去完成表“过去的过去”：We had booked the tickets before we left. （出发前我们已订好票。）
过去进行表背景动作：While I was sleeping, Jack took photos. （我睡觉时，Jack 在拍照。）
⚠️ 讲故事：主线用一般过去时，背景用过去进行时，更早的事用过去完成时。
现在完成时与一般过去时
have done（影响现在） vs did（过去完成，与现在无关）
I have visited Toronto twice. （我去过多伦多两次，至今累计。）
I visited Toronto last summer. （我去年夏天去的，纯过去。）
标志词：already/yet/ever/never → 现在完成；last year/yesterday/ago → 一般过去。
⚠️ 有明确的过去时间就用一般过去时，没有或强调影响用现在完成时。
👨🏫Cozy 老师说：高中语法重在「在语境中理解」——多读课文里的例句，语法自然就活了。
4课后练习（0/13）
1. While I ___ , Jack took photos.
2. We ___ the tickets before we left.
3. I ___ Toronto twice so far.
4. I ___ Toronto last summer.
5. The past is a country, and these are my ___ from it.
6. We ___ at dawn and watched the sun rise.
7. It is the ___ moments I remember best.
8. We had already become the people we are now, long before we ___ it.
9. witness 的意思是：
10. The famous ___ were wonderful, but the small moments were the best.
11. They carried their own bags, made their own plans, and solved their own ___ .
12. She glued in a ticket ___ and a menu from the dining car.
13. A pressed flower from the prairie remembered the ___ that carried it.