北师大初中英语八年级下册 Unit12 45-1（MP3+LRC）

[00:00.00]Unit 12 Western China

[00:08.11]Lesson 45

[00:10.06]1.2

[00:13.33]Western China

[00:16.77]Western China is a large and beautiful region.

[00:20.94]It includes one major city,Chongqing,

[00:24.97]six provinces,and five autonomous regions.

[00:29.74]The six provinces are Sichuan,Shanxi,Gansu,

[00:34.97]Yunnan,Qinghai and Guizhou.

[00:39.29]The five autonomous regions are Tibet,

[00:42.71]Ningxia Hui,Xinjiang Uygur,Guangxi Zhuang,

[00:47.76]and Inner Mongolia among all these provinces

[00:51.81]and autonomous regions,

[00:53.82]Xinjiang is the largest region

[00:56.41]and Ningxia is the smallest region.

[00:59.86]Western China has an area

[01:01.64]of 5,400,000 square kilometers.

[01:05.93]This is about 56 percent of the total area

[01:09.55]of the country.

[01:11.05]However,there are many mountains,highlands,

[01:14.66]and deserts,

[01:16.32]and there are fewer rivers and lakes

[01:18.37]than in the East.

[01:20.11]Only 22.8 percent of the population of China

[01:22.20]lives in the West,

[01:25.58]far fewer people than those living in the East.

[01:29.71]Western China has a lot of natural resources.

[01:34.02]It is rich in oil and gas

[01:37.15]and it has many different kinds of minerals.

[01:40.88]Tourists like to visit the area.

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