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1、1 Where did you go during your National Day Holiday? If possible, which country would you most like to travel to? Why? Do you know anything about the U.K.? What are they?The Beauty of BritainNamed “the most naturally beautiful woman of all time”, Audrey Hepburn once said, “Im leaving and relaxing my
2、 career for my beloved motherland, the UK, when it comes to my last few years of life.” Vivien Leigh, the heroine of the movie Gone With the Wind, also expressed publicly, “When referring to my home country Great Britain, therere only two words Id most like to describe: pretty and beautiful! Im star
3、ting to live there peacefully years later.”Its true that the beauty of Britain is as hard to say as it is easy to enjoy. We have here no vast mountains or plains, but we have excellent variety. A great deal of everything is packed into this little space. People always forget the fact that this is a
4、smallish island, with the sea always round the corner. Nature, we feel, has carefully adjusted things mountains, plains, rivers, lakes to the size of the island itself. A mountain 12,000 feet high would be a terrible monster here, as wrong as a plain 400 miles long, a river as broad as the Mississip
5、pi.Though the geographical features of this island are comparatively small, that does not mean that our mountains are not mountains, our plains not plains. As a report pointed out in The Thames recently, that some climbers invited a Swiss guide into the Lake District, and on the first morning, watch
6、ing the misty, rough peaks before him, the guide told the group that they were spending the night there. He did not know those peaks were only an hour or twos journey away and that before dusk they would probably have conquered two or three of them. He had not realized the scale of the country. What
7、 he did know was that he was certainly looking at mountains, and he was right. For these peaks, though not so high in altitude, they have all the air of great mountains as well.For variety of landscape, these sights on this island cannot be matched anywhere else. A days walk among them will give you
8、 almost everything fit to be seen on this earth. Within a few hours, you have enjoyed the green valleys, with their rivers, fine old bridges, pleasant villages, hanging woods, smooth fields; and then the moorland slopes, with their rushing streams, stone walls, salty winds, crying curlews and white
9、farmhouses. Yet less than an hour in a fast motor will bring you to the middle of some busy towns, and soon you are leaving and forgetting these towns just as easily as youre entering some other modern cities like London or Manchester next minute.Another characteristic of Britains landscape is its e
10、xcellent moderation. With us the 2cities pretend that they are not really there until we are well inside them. They almost hide themselves into the countryside. It has been born of a balance between nature and man. This harmony explains in part the charm of Britain, where towns fit closely into the
11、landscape, and roads go winding the easiest way as naturally as rivers; and it is impossible to say where cultivation ends and wild life begins. It is a country rich in trees, birds, and wild flowers, as we can see to this day. (538 words)Vocabulary:1. heroine 女主角 14. altitude 海拔，高度2. describe 描述，形容
12、 15. landscape 风景，地形3. variety 变化，多样性 16. moorland slopes 高沼地的斜坡4. adjust 调整，使适合 17. rushing streams 流淌的小溪5. monster 怪物 18. crying curlews 啼叫的杓鹬 (一种鸟)6. Mississippi 密西西比河 19. Manchester 曼彻斯特 (英国城市)7. geographical features 地理特征 20. characteristic 特性，特征8. comparatively 比较地，相当地 21. moderation 适度，适中9. T
13、he Thames 泰晤士河 22. pretend 假装10. a Swiss guide 一位瑞士导游 23. harmony 和谐，融洽11. Lake District (英国的) 湖泊地区 24. charm 魅力，吸引力12. misty, rough peaks 薄雾笼罩的突起山峰 25. wind 蜿蜒，缠绕13. scale 尺寸，大小 26. cultivation 耕作，栽培Comprehending:1. What is the text mainly about?2. What are the key sentences in each paragraph?3. Wh
14、at words can be used to describe the beauty of Britain?Grammatical structures:1. Read the following underlined sentences from the passage above. Try to find out the differences from what you have learnt before. Im leaving and relaxing my career for my beloved motherland, the UK Im starting to live t
15、here peacefully years later. The guide told the group that they were spending the night there. Soon you are leaving and forgetting these towns Youre entering some other modern cities like London or Manchester next minute.2. Complete each dialogue with the verbs given, using the present continuous te
16、nse and other tenses as 3necessary. Harry: _ Sarah _ (come) on the trip tomorrow?Cindy: Yes. She _ _ (leave) tomorrow morning.Harry: Do you know what time?Cindy: She _ _ (leave) the house at 7:00 and will catch the train at 8:00. Mathew: How _ you _ (get) to school?Joe: I _ _ (cycle) to school and leaving my clothes behind. My mum _ _ (bring) my
