初中英语河北加拿大版读物05

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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Unit 5
[00:03.21]Go with Transportation!
[00:07.16]Trains Go on Rails!
[00:11.00]Who invented the steam engine?
[00:15.05]In the 1700s,many inventors were working on the steam engine.
[00:22.31]In the 1760s,
[00:26.15]a scientist in England invented a way toput steam engines and wheels together.
[00:34.30]Soon,people had a new type of transportation:the steam locomotive.
[00:42.16]What happened to the first steam locomotive?
[00:47.02]An English engineer drove the first steam locomotive on a road,
[00:53.97]but it exploded!Who invented railways?
[01:00.81]In 1804,a locomotive carried about seventy passengersa short distance
[01:08.75]on some iron rails.
[01:12.31]It was the first railway!It was in England.
[01:17.87]When did the first passenger railway open?
[01:22.83]The first passenger railway opened in England in 1825.
[01:29.39]The first passenger train was called the Rocket.
[01:35.16]In the 1830s,countries all over the world started to build railways.
[01:43.03]After fifty years,railways covered most countries.
[01:48.67]Many train stations were builtto make
[01:53.21]it easier for passengers to get on and off the trains.
[01:58.78]How fast do trains go?Early trains,like the Rocket,
[02:05.31]had a top speed of 50 kilometres per hour.
[02:11.16]Even the best steam locomotives were slow.
[02:16.33]They could only go about 80 kilometres per hour.
[02:22.08]Today's trains are much faster.They travel at about 240 kilometres an hour.
[02:31.75]The fastest trains can go 380 kilometres an hour.
[02:39.01]FASCINATING FACTHigh-speed trains of the future will have no wheels.
[02:46.58]They will use magnetic forces or jet engines and they will ride on air.
[02:54.63]A Plane RideLooking out of the window So tiny!
[03:01.89]Always fogging upNothing in sight Only white and blue The colour of the sky
[03:11.63]The seats are small The seat belt keeps me In my chair
[03:18.19]Almost there The pilot says
[03:22.34]We are descendingGetting off the planeSo tired now,
[03:29.50]my body's sore But it's okayI have arrived
[03:35.75]In a whole new world.--adapted from a poem by Ryan Yu,
[03:43.79]Grade SevenDriving Cars What were the first cars like?
[03:53.82]The first cars were built in the early 1800s.
[03:59.10]They had wooden wheels,like wagons.They had steam engines,like trains.
[04:07.25]Who built the first motor car?During the 1880s,
[04:13.81]a German engineer invented engines that used gas,not steam.
[04:20.57]People called these engines "motors."Benz built the first "motor" car.
[04:27.94]It had three wheels.
[04:31.18]Another German engineer built motor cars with four wheels.
[04:36.82]Factories were built in Germany and France in the 1890s to make cars.
[04:43.79]How fast did the first cars go?
[04:48.24]At first,people thought cars were dangerous.
[04:53.28]In England,from 1865 to 1878,the speed limit was 6.5kilometres per hour.
[05:03.23]A man with a red flag had to walk in front of the car!
[05:09.11]Where were cars first mass-produced?
[05:13.84]At first, only rich people could buy cars.
[05:19.09]Then Henry Ford in the U.S. began building small cars in large numbers.
[05:26.35]He opened a car factory in 1908.
[05:31.31]Cars were mass-produced there for the first time.
[05:36.27]After that,most families in North America could buy a car.
[05:42.44]In 1927,the factory closed.It had built more than fifteen million cars.
[05:50.98]Henry Ford called his car the Model T Ford.
[05:56.44]All ModelTs were black.Henry Ford liked to say,
[06:02.32]"You can have it in any colour you want,
[06:07.18]as long as it's black.""Mass-produce" means to "make a lot.
[06:14.02]"Up and Up with RocketsWhen were rockets first used?
[06:21.10]The first rockets weren't for space travel.They were fireworks!
[06:27.94]People in China invented fireworks thousands of years ago.
[06:34.29]Fireworks used gunpowder.The first guns also used gunpowder.
[06:41.66]Who first thought of rockets for space?
[06:46.52]In the 1800s,many writers thought about using rockets to travel in space.
[06:53.88]In the early 1900s,