高中英语人教版高二下03

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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Unit 3  Art and Architecture   Speaking
[00:07.60]Example
[00:10.34]Would you like to live in a modern flator do you prefer a traditional house?
[00:16.38]Well,I'd prefer living in a modern flat.
[00:21.42]Modern houses are large and comfortable.
[00:26.17]It is also convenient to live close to your work.
[00:30.62]Well,I must say I'd rather live in a traditional siheyuan
[00:36.68]I wouldn't feel happy living in a block of apartments.
[00:41.43]I would miss the garden,and I think an old house is more beautiful.
[00:47.07]I don't get very excited about old-style houses.
[00:52.35]Well,modern flats are all the same.
[00:56.79]I really think a traditional house has more personal style.
[01:01.86]Reading  MODERN ARCHITECTURE
[01:10.11]Architecture looks at the man-made living environment.
[01:15.18]Every great culture in the pasthad its own ideas of beauty
[01:20.93]expressed in art and architecture.
[01:24.77]When you look around at buildings,streets,squares and parks,
[01:30.70]you will find them designed,planned and built in different styles.
[01:36.16]Modernism was invented in the 1920s by a group of architects
[01:42.64]who wanted to change society with
[01:46.61]buildings that went against people's feeling of beauty.
[01:51.93]They wanted their buildings constructed in a way to look unnatural.
[01:57.71]While in traditional architecture materials such as earth,
[02:03.27]stone,brick and wood are used,
[02:07.71]the materials of modem architecture are steel,glass and concrete.
[02:14.16]To many people modern architecture equals progress.
[02:19.34]Developing countries want to build the most modern-looking buildings
[02:24.98]as the first step towards becoming a modem country.
[02:29.94]Modem buildings impress us because they are huge,
[02:34.91]but many people do not find them beautiful.
[02:39.06]The buildings look like boxes with flat roofs,
[02:43.63]sharp comers and glass walls that act as mirrors.
[02:48.99]You do not feel invited to enter them.
[02:53.24]Everything about these buildings seems hard and unfriendly.
[02:58.21]Ancient architecture shows us many beautiful buildings.
[03:03.35]These include great examples such as Taihe Dian,
[03:08.42]the Temple of Heaven or the great European cathedrals.
[03:13.57]Both in the choice of materials and shape of buildings,
[03:18.53]ancient architecture stands much closer to nature.
[03:23.81]Nature does not have any straight lines.
[03:28.17]Antonio Gaudi,a Spanish architect,was the first to understand that.
[03:35.25]There are not any sharp comers or straight lines in any of his designs.
[03:41.91]He only wanted natural materials,such as stone,brick and wood to be used
[03:49.56]and many parts of his buildings look like things we find in nature.
[03:54.89]In some of his architecture,balconies look like eyes,
[04:00.46]other parts look like bones,the walls seem to be covered with the skin of a fish,
[04:07.59]while the roof looks like the back of a dragon.
[04:12.03]Most of Gaudi's works were constructed in and around Barcelona.
[04:17.78]Looking at the architecture by Gaudi is like a dream,
[04:22.74]full of fantastic colours and shapes.
[04:26.97]Despite the fact that he used traditional materials,
[04:31.83]Gaudi was a modem architect.
[04:35.59]In fact,there are other modem architects who use designs from nature
[04:41.76]when they create their buildings.
[04:45.41]Frank Lloyd Wright,who built an art museum in New York,
[04:51.16]found himself inspired by Japanese seashells.
[04:55.99]Another famous building that makes people think of seashells
[05:01.14]is the Opera House in Sydney,
[05:04.69]though it makes other people think of ship sails.
[05:09.24]The 2008 Olympic Stadium in Beijing
[05:13.99]is another design that makes us think about nature.
[05:18.96]Seen from the top,
[05:21.91]it looks as if the stadium is covered by a gray net of steel,
[05:27.18]and it looks just like a bird's nest made of tree branches.
[05:32.54]Birds fill up the spaces between the branches of their nests with soft materials.