高中英语人教版2003年高一上07

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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Unit 7  Cultural relics
[00:04.88]LISTENING
[00:07.63]Listen to the description of the three culture sites.
[00:12.67]Complete the map of each site based on what you hear on the  tape.
[00:18.55]List the names and the importance of the sites,and what is being done to protect them.
[00:25.21]1 We are standing in front of the main building of this old palace.
[00:32.47]The palace is called the Winter Palace.
[00:37.22]On the left,there is a statue of a horse.
[00:42.58]On the right,there is a large stone elephant.
[00:46.34]The main building is in the centre.
[00:50.42]Why is the site so important?
[00:53.58]This site is important because it tells us about how people lived in the past.
[01:00.53]What steps have been taken to protect the site?
[01:04.18]Visitors are not allowed to go inside the house.
[01:09.64]Insead they can walk around the house,and look at the park behind it.
[01:16.20]There is also a small museum where
[01:19.96]visitors can look at the pictures of the inside of the house.
[01:24.51]2 We are standing in front of the Sunshine temple.
[01:30.46]This beautiful temple stands between a lake and the mountain.
[01:35.71]The temple is an important part of history.
[01:40.26]Many important things happened here.And many poems had been written about a temple.
[01:47.52]Water from the lake had distoried the temple.
[01:51.88]We are trying to save the temple by building a wall between the lake and the temple.
[01:56.45]We've also moved some of things in the temple to the new museum
[02:02.31]that is being built between the mountain and the village.
[02:07.63]3 Mount Leshan is one of the most beautiful places in China.
[02:14.79]The mountain is an important part of Chinese history.
[02:19.76]People come here to look at the beautiful mountains and waterfalls.
[02:25.71]Over here between Redsun Mountain and the lake is the blue waterfall,
[02:33.18]one of the biggest in Leshan.
[02:37.02]Between the lake and village is the Moon Tower
[02:41.99]where people can go look at the moon and the stars at night.
[02:47.55]There are too many cars in Leshan and the air is becoming polluted.
[02:54.21]We're trying to limited the number of cars on the mountain and try to use more buses.
[03:01.37]READING
[03:06.93]A CITY OF HEROES
[03:10.48]Where there is a river,there is a city.
[03:15.16]Perhaps this is not always true,
[03:19.24]but it is true that many of the world's greatest cities
[03:24.49]have been built on the banks of a river.
[03:28.56]The Neva River flows through the centre of St Peterburg in Russia.
[03:34.91]Three hundred years ago,
[03:38.54]the Russian Czar Peter the Great came here and built a new capital
[03:44.71]St Petersburg Peter the Great,
[03:49.46]like his country,was strong and proud.
[03:54.00]Many great palaces were built during his lifetime.
[03:58.86]The palaces were large and beautiful,
[04:03.02]and they often looked like something out of a fairy tale.
[04:07.98]St Petersburg has also been the centre of many important events in history.
[04:14.35]In 1941,the Germans tried to destroy the city.
[04:20.21]It was under attack for 900 days,but the people of the city never gave in.
[04:27.57]The Germans burned many of the palaces as they left.
[04:32.61]St Petersburg was almost in ruins:fires burned everywhere.
[04:39.28]Buildings were destroyed,and paintings and statues lay in pieces on the ground.
[04:46.54]Restoring the city and its cultural relics seemed impossible,
[04:52.41]but the people of this great city would not give up,
[04:57.38]"We will not let our history and culture be destroyed,
[05:02.42]and we will do everything we can to save our city!"
[05:07.59]When the Nazis had gone,the people of St Petersburg began rebuilding the city.
[05:14.75]Pieces of the palaces that had been hidden before the Nazis came
[05:20.60]could now be used to rebuild the city and its culture.
[05:26.16]It was not easy.
[05:29.33]Painters and workers had to be very careful when they were trying to bring the  city back to life.
[05:36.69]It was difficult to save the palaces and buildings