高中英语人教版2000年高二上07

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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Unit 7 Canada        Lesson 25  1 Dialogue
[00:07.39]Fang Qun has just met Dean,who is Canadian.
[00:12.36]Where are you from?
[00:15.20]I'm from Canada.
[00:18.16]Really?I thought you were from the States.
[00:22.73]That's not surprising.
[00:26.07]A lot of people can't tell the difference between an American accent
[00:31.74]and a Canadian accent.
[00:34.98]Are there many differences?
[00:38.53]No,just a few.
[00:42.19]For example,most Canadians say "news",but Americans say "news".
[00:49.24]We mainly use American words,but we use quite a lot of British words too.
[00:55.77]We fill our cars with "gas",which is American,
[01:00.63]but we turn on the "tap" which is British English.
[01:06.09]Oh!And do you use American or British spelling?
[01:11.55]Both!American spellings are used more and more in Canada now.
[01:17.43]Generally speaking,newspapers follow the American way,
[01:22.78]but conference reports and school-books use British spelling.
[01:27.93]That sounds strange.
[01:32.19]You mean it looks strange!
[01:35.66]I'll tell you something that does sound strange.
[01:40.10]Many people think that Canadians all over the country speak the same way.
[01:46.48]But if you go to the eastern provinces,or go to some country areas,
[01:52.72]you'll notice that the people there speak quite differently from the rest of Canada.
[01:58.96]Unit 7 Lesson 26  2 Reading comprehension
[02:12.41]CANADA (1)
[02:16.96]Canada is the second largest country in the world.
[02:21.71]It is larger than the USA and reaches nearly a quarter of the way round the earth.
[02:29.29]The distance from east to west is over 5,500 kilometres
[02:35.04]and the country covers six of the world's 24 time areas.
[02:40.21]The population of Canada is about 29 million and the capital is Ottawa.
[02:47.05]There are two official languages,French and English.
[02:51.91]The first travellers arrived from England in 1497.
[02:57.06]Settlers from France reached Canada in 1534.
[03:02.10]For two centuries English and French settlers struggled against each other
[03:07.06]to control the country.
[03:10.22]Today,one province of Canada is French-speaking.
[03:14.90]The TV and radio programmes there are in French.
[03:20.54]There are French restaurants,and all the teaching in schools is done in French.
[03:26.60]As in China,the weather is different from area to area.
[03:31.77]In the north,the winters are long and hard,with snow for six months of the year.
[03:39.04]The temperatures can fall to - 60 DC that is 60 DC below freezing.
[03:47.58]In the capital,Ottawa,the average of winter temperature is -10 DC,and in summer 21 DC.The west coast of Canada is the warmest place in winter.
[03:54.95]and in summer 21 DC.
[03:59.20]The west coast of Canada is the warmest place in winter.
[04:04.24]The average January temperature is 3 DC,and in July it is 18 DC.
[04:12.50]Plants grow well all the year
[04:16.65]round and the parks and gardens are famous for their flowers.
[04:23.60]Canada has one third of the world's supply of fresh water.
[04:28.77]There are five great lakes in the south,
[04:32.43]and there are many others,especially in the north.
[04:37.58]Most of the electricity is produced by water.
[04:42.54]The country has a great deal of coal,oil and natural gas,
[04:48.39]and these are all exploited for energy.
[04:52.65]Much of the country is covered by forests,
[04:56.49]and wood is cut and sold all over the world.
[05:00.85]Canada is also the world's biggest producer
[05:05.40]of the kind of paper which is used for newspapers.
[05:10.26]Fishing is also very important for Canadians.
[05:14.62]Fish from the east and west coasts is sold to many other countries.
[05:20.68]Lesson 27  1 Reading comprehension
[05:31.76]CANADA (2)
[05:35.10]North American Indians have lived in southern Canada for over 20,000 years.
[05:41.94]In the early days,some lived in tents,
[05:46.67]moved from place to place and hunted wild animals.
[05:52.13]Others remained in one place and started farms of their own.