北师大初中英语七年级下--Expansion 12-1

[00:00.00]UNIT 12 Expansion¹ 12
[00:07.10]2 Hi,James,
[00:09.92]Thanks for you letter.
[00:11.35]You asked about my home.
[00:13.58]I live with my parents in an apartment
[00:14.97]in a district² in the east of Beijing.
[00:19.02]I live quite near Beijing Railway Station
[00:22.06]and also quite near the street
[00:24.25]called Silk Street,
[00:25.80]Where they have the market.
[00:27.85]Beijing has many old monuments,temples,
[00:30.96]and palaces,
[00:32.40]but it is also a very modern city.
[00:36.06]There are wide avenues³
[00:37.64]and mordern office buildings.
[00:40.03]I took this to give you an idea
[00:42.33]of how the area looks.
[00:44.72]As you can see,the streets are busy
[00:47.39]and there are bicycles everywhere!
[00:50.92]My mother was born in this part of the city,
[00:54.01]She says the city looks different now.
[00:57.43]When she was a girl,
[00:58.76]There were no fast food restaurants.
[01:00.40]

1 expansion   

n.扩张，扩充；扩大；扩充物；扩展部

参考例句：

• The company has promised wide consultation on its expansion plans.该公司允诺就其扩展计划广泛征求意见。
• The plan will give an impulse to industrial expansion.这个计划将促进工业的扩展。

2 district   

n.区，地区，行政区；v.区，区域，地区

参考例句：

• This district has three factories.这个地区有三个工厂。
• Take me to the shopping district.载我到购物区。

3 avenues   

n.林阴道( avenue的名词复数 )；大街；途径；手段

参考例句：

• The avenues of the city were crowded with people. 城里大街上挤满了人群。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Avenues radiate from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 在巴黎，街道以凯旋门为中心向四方伸展。 来自《简明英汉词典》