新课标高中英语必修2

新课标高中英语必修2 电子教材

CONTENTS

Unit Topics

I Cultural Cultural relies protection

relics p1 Famous cultural relics in China and abroad

2 The Olympic

Games Ancient and modem Olympic Games

Olympic spirit

P9

3 Computers Information technology

History and basic knowledge of computers

P17 Robots

4 Wildlife

protection The importance of wildlife protection

P25

5 Music

Music

Different types of music

P33

Notes to the texts P76

Appendices Word$ and expressions in each unit

Vocabulary Functionalitems Asking for opinions Giving opinions Talking about interests and hobbies Making decisions Reasoning Intentions and purposes Making suggestions Talking about preference P94

新课标高中英语必修2 电子教材

Structures Reading Writing

The Restrictive and Non Restrictive In search of the Amber Room

Attributive Clause A fact or an opinion? Report writing:

Big Feng to tlie rescue class debate

An interview

The Future Passive Voice The story of Atlanta Descriptive writing:

Three inspiring stories about favourite sport

the Olympic Games

Who am I? Imaginative

The Present Perfect Passive Voice Andy - the android writing: describing

The sporting robot an android

How Daisy learned to help

The Present Progressive Passive wildlife Persuasive writing:

Voice Animal extinction letter of advice

The return of the Milu deer

The Attributive Clause (prep + which/ The band that wasn't

whom) Freddy the frog (II) Practical writing:

Cat's in the cradle asking for advice

Irregular verbs P100

Changes in international phonetic symbols for English P103 Workbook P4 1 P48 P55 P62 P69

新课标高中英语必修2 电子教材

1 Do you know what a cultural relic is?

2 Docs a cultural relic always have to be rare and valuable? Is it enough to have survived for

a long time?

3 Arc cultural relics only objects like vases or can they be buildings too? Look at the pictures

below and discuss what they are and whether they are cultural relics or not.

Ming Dynasty vase Taj Mahal ivory dragon boat Mogao Caves

1 Have you ever seen a piece of amber? What do you know

about it?

2 Look at the title and the picture of the reading passage

and predict what it is about. Then skim it quickly and see

if you were right.

SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM

Frederick William I, the King of Prussia, could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the

Russian people would have such an amazing history. This gift was the Amber Room, which was

given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. The amber which was selected

had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was in the fancy style

popular in those days It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jew els, which took the country's 5

best artists about ten years to make.

In fact, the room was not made to be a gift. It was designed for the palace of Frederick I. However.

1

新课标高中英语必修2 电子教材

I

the next King of Prussia, Frederick William I. to whom the amber

room belonged, decided not to keep it. In 1716 he gave it to Peter

the Great. In return, the Czar sent him a troop of Iiis best soldiers. 10

So the Amber Room became part of the Czar's winter palace in St

Petersburg. About four metres long, the room served as a small

reception hall for important visitors.

Later. Catherine II had die Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent

her summers. She told her artists to add more details to it. In 1770 the room was completed the way 15

she wanted. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold.

Sadly, although the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world, it is now missing

In September 1941. the Nazi army was near St Petersburg. This was a lime when the two countries

were at war. Before the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russdans were able to remove some

furniture and small art objects from the Amber Room However, some erf the Nazis secretly stole the 20

room itself. In less than two days 100.000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven wooden boxes There

is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train fix Königsberg, which was at that time a German

city on the Baltic Sea. After that, what happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.

Recently, the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room at the summer palace. By

studying old photos of the former Amber Room, they have made the new one look like the old one. In 25

2003 it was ready for the people of St Petersburg when they celebrated the 300th birthday of their city.

Comprehending

1 Join the correct parts of the sentences together.

1 Frederick I A stole the Amber Room.

B sent a troop of his best soldiers to the King of Prussia.

C had the Amber Room made.

D had it moved outside St Petersburg.

E gave it to the Czar as a gift.

F built a new Amber Room after studying pictures

of the old one.

2 The following five questions summarize the main idea of the five paragraphs in the

passage. Put the paragraph numbers in the boxes. Then answer the questions.

How did the Amber Room become one of the wonders of tlie world?

How was a new Amber Room built? How did the Amber Room get lost?

How was the Amber Room made?

Why did the King of Prussia give the Amber Room to the Czar of Russia as a gift?

3 n groups discuss: Is it worth rebuilding lost cultural relics such as the Amber

Room or Yuan Ming Yuan in Beijing? Give your re …… 此处隐藏：23963字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……