新派英语第五册UNIT8（在线收听） |
| 00:00.00]Unit 8 A Small World [00:05.69]7.Listen.Fill the chart. [01:20.75]9.Listen and sing. [01:32.88]I Think I Might Travel [01:36.52]I think I might travel I think I might roam [01:53.76]Across the wide world Far away from my home. [02:01.21]A wonderful planet Outside of my door [02:08.45]With wondrous inventions That I can explore. [02:26.70]INVENTIONS MAKE OUR WORLD SMALLER by Judy Veramendi [02:39.55]1.Think about your favorite things. [02:45.92]Did you never wonder where they were discovered or invented? [02:51.58]This is the story of four important inventions. [02:57.80]Thanks to the Chinese,we can enjoy fireworks! [03:03.06]How they were invented is a mystery. [03:07.13]We think that the Chinese made fireworks [03:12.46]to protect themselves from enemies. [03:16.49]But,It all happened a long,long time ago. [03:21.85]Think of fireworks.Imagine a rainbow of colors dancing in the sky. [03:31.21]Imagine the huge BOOM! [03:35.75]Billions all over the world enjoy this wonderful Chinese invention. [03:44.10]2.A very important invention for all of us was the calendar. [03:52.06]Calendars were invented in a number of countries: [03:57.31]China,Mexico,France,and India. [04:03.14]But the first calendar wiht 365 days was invented in Egypt. [04:11.10]The Egyptian calendar had twelve months. [04:17.33]Every month had thirty days. [04:21.90]The five days lelf at the end of the year were used for celebrations. [04:28.85]Can you imagine where we might be without the calendar? [04:34.21]3.Chocolate!We know where it came from. [04:41.66]For years and years the Aztecs [04:46.92]used the beans of a tree to make chocolate [04:51.67]Then in the 1500s,the Aztecs Emperor Montezuma presented [04:58.62]presented a delicious chocolate drink to explorers [05:04.06]who had come Mexico from Spain.They tookit back to Spain. [05:10.72]It was one of the first exports from the New World to the Old World. [05:16.87]From that time on,chocolate was very popular in Spain. [05:23.03]Today the world loves chocolate milk,ice cream,and candy. [05:30.66]4.Did you ever fly in an airplane? [05:36.67]Did you wonder how it came to be? [05:40.70]For a long time,inventors [05:45.06]in a number of countries tried to solve the riddle of flight. [05:50.82]But the first inventors of a working airplane [05:55.57]were the Wright brothers of the United States. [06:00.22]They first experimented with kites.After that, [06:05.87]they tried different models of airplanes. [06:10.22]Then,on December 17,1903,they flew an airplane for twelve seconds! [06:19.08]The airplane is an invention that really made the world smaller. [06:25.52]And with future inventions, [06:29.16]it's true that the world will continue to get smaller and more exciting. |
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