人教版高一英语下讲解12

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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Part 2
[00:03.21]study the following map carfully,
[00:11.55]name 10 cities and tell their positions in the country.
[01:09.49]Next ot Egmont,one of the inactive volcanoes in North Island,is Taranaki.
[01:36.44]As the capital of Hawke's Bay is a coastal town called Napier.
[01:55.62]In the southern tip of North Island is an inland town named Palmerston Noth,
[02:33.99]In the mountainous northwest in South Island is Nelson,
[02:58.42]Hokitika,facing the Tasman Sea,is a small port in the middle of South Island.
[03:14.59]Christchurch is the largest city of South Island while Lyttelton
[03:28.46]to the south nearby is one of the largest ports in New Zealand.
[03:51.31]Dunedin,an important port,and Invercargill,
[04:04.66]are both coastal towns in the south end of South Island.
[04:19.21]READING
[04:22.97]NEW ZEALAND
[04:29.14]New Zealand is an island that lies off the eastern coast of Australia.
[04:35.10]It is made up of two large islands:
[04:39.22]North Island and South Island.
[04:43.06]New Zealand is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean to the north and east,
[04:48.91]and the Tasman Sea to the south and west.
[04:53.96]It is about the same size as Japan.
[04:58.03]Wellington,the capital city,lies on the North Island.
[05:04.38]Other important cities are Auckland in the north,
[05:09.05]Christchurch on the South Island and Queenstown,further to the south.
[05:15.82]New Zealand has a mild sea climate,while the north is subtropical.
[05:22.17]It rains quite a lot.The warmest months are December to February.
[05:28.93]The coklest months are June to August.
[05:33.30]The ocean and seas surrounding the islands are deep blue
[05:39.04]and many of Now Zealand's cities lie on a bay and have a natural deep harbour.
[05:46.12]They brought dogs,rats and plants with them
[06:58.77]Around 1421,Chinese sailors discovered the islands
[07:05.43]on one of their voyages around the world.
[07:09.51]The Dutchman Abel Tasman named the islands New Zealand in 1642.
[07:16.64]More than 120 years later,
[07:20.76]Captain James Cook took possession of the islands in 1769
[07:27.32]and from that time British people started to settle in New Zealand.
[07:33.28]By 1840 abot 2,000 Europeans,mainly British,
[07:39.94]had come to settle in New Zealand
[07:43.78]and the Maori signed an agreement with these settlers.
[07:48.95]That day is still celebrated as a national holiday.
[07:54.31]It is every year on the sixth of February.
[07:59.27]Today there are still many people in New Zealand
[08:04.23]who call England"the home country",
[08:08.31]although it is a place where most of them have never been.
[14:59.37]The country consists of North Island ,South Island,South Island,Stewart,
[15:28.31]It also administers the Cook.
[20:39.28]LANGUAGE study
[20:42.51]Wordy study
[20:51.37]1 wooded jungles:
[20:59.83]Thickly wooded jungles can be seen in both Africa and South America,
[21:16.50]which makes a beautiful scene for tourists from all over the world.
[21:50.46]2 muntainous forests:
[21:59.60]Since too many trees have been felled down in the mountainous forestw,
[22:07.26]tigers are seldom seen in the Northeast of China.
[22:23.92]3 sandy deserts:
[22:29.07]In order to stop sandy deserts from moving on southwards,
[22:39.23]millions of trees are to be planted
[22:52.58]and hundreds of canals are to be dug all the way along the borders
[23:00.23]between the two countries.
[23:19.09]I always enjoy the drive out of the center of Yinchuan into Shahu.
[23:55.74]It is a good straight road,
[24:08.80]with some pleasant views of grassy hills and rocky mountains on either side.
[24:34.95]It's obviously much cheaper to fly than to go by train.
[25:20.80]You see,it takes you less than two hours to go back and forth to work by plane
[25:28.56]and it costs you far less to buy a plane ticket
[25:33.70]than to pay for a three-star hotel room.
[26:36.58]It's already midnight and be hasn't come yet.
[26:55.05]It's over 1,000 miles from his town to my birthplace.
[27:09.81]Can you believe he's forgotten it's my birthday today?
[27:50.27]--Hi,it's a pleasure to see you again.