新教材高中英語UNIT4HISTRYANTRAITINS導讀話題妙切入案含解析新人教版必修第二冊

PAGE3-UNIT4HISTORYANDTRADITIONS1．Roadissteppedout，historyiswritten.Everystepofmaniswritinghisownhistory.路是腳踏出來的，歷史是人寫出來的。人類的每一步都在書寫自己的歷史。2．Fewwillhavethegreatnesstobendhistoryitself；buteachofuscanworktochangeasmallportionofevents，andinthetotal，ofallthoseactswillbewrittenthehistoryofthisgeneration.很少有人能夠改變歷史本身，但我們每個人都能努力改變一小部分事件，而且總的來說，所有這些行為都將被書寫成這一代人的歷史。3．History，showingusthelifeofnations，hasnothingtorecordsavewarsandrevolutions：thepeacefulyearsappearonlyasbriefpausesorinterludes，scatteredhereandthere.—Schopenhauer歷史告訴我們一些國家的生活，它除了記載戰(zhàn)爭和革命之外別無其他。和平年代僅是出現(xiàn)在各地的短暫間歇。 ——叔本華4．Thevalueofcultureisitseffectoncharacter.Itavailsnothingunlessitennoblesandstrengthensthat.Itsuseisforlife.Itsaimisnotbeautybutgoodness. —Maugham文化的價值在于它對人類品性的影響。它一無是處，除非文化能使品性變?yōu)楦呱小⒂辛?。文化的作用在于裨益人生，它的目標不是美，而是善?——毛姆5．Thetriumphofcultureistooverpowernationality. —Emerson文化的勝利在于它超越了國籍。 ——愛默生OnChanges—IreneDunlapChangeistheonlyabsoluteintheworld，theonlythingthatyoucandependon.Nothingstaysthesame.Tomorrowwillcome，bringingwithitnewbeginningsandsometimesunexpectedendings.Youcanholdontothepastandgetleftinthedust；or，youcanchoosetojumpontherideoflifeandliveanewadventurewithperseveranceandanopenmind.論變化——艾琳·鄧萊普變化是世界上唯一絕對的東西，是唯一你能相信的事情。沒有什么能一成不變。明天將來臨，它會帶來新的開始，并且有時還會帶來意想不到的結局。你可以抓住過去，蒙受遺棄；或者，你可以選擇躍上生命之車進行一次新的冒險，憑借堅持不懈和廣闊的胸懷。WhilemanypeopleusethetermsUnitedKingdom，GreatBritain，andEngland，thereisadifferencebetweenthem—oneisacountry，thesecondisanisland，andthethirdisapartofanisland.TheUnitedKingdomTheUnitedKingdomisanindependentcountryoffthenorthwesterncoastofEurope.ItconsistsoftheentireislandofGreatBritainandanorthernpartoftheislandofIreland.Infact，theofficialnameofthecountryis“theUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland”．ThecapitalcityoftheUnitedKingdomisLondon.GreatBritainGreatBritainisthenameoftheislandnorthwestofFranceandeastofIreland.MuchoftheUnitedKingdomconsistsoftheislandofGreatBritain.OnthelargeislandofGreatBritain，therearethreesomewhatautonomous(自治的)regions(地區(qū))：England，Wales，andScotland.EnglandEnglandislocatedinthesouthernpartoftheislandofGreatBritain，whichispartofthecountryoftheUnitedKingdom.TheUnitedKingdomincludestheadministrative(行政的)regionsofEngland，Wales，Scotland，andNorthernIreland.EachregionvariesinitslevelofautonomybutallpartoftheUnitedKingdom.WhileEnglandhastraditionallybeenthoughtofastheheartoftheUnitedKingdom，someusetheterm“England”torefertotheentirecountry，however，thisisnotcorrect.IrelandThenorthernonesixthoftheislandofIrelandistheadministrativeregionoftheUnitedKingdomknownasNorthernIreland.TheremainingsouthernfivesixthsoftheislandofIrlandistheindependentcountryknownastheRepublicofIreland.[探索發(fā)現(xiàn)]1．Findoutthemainideaofthepassage.ThedifferencebetweenUnitedKingdom，GreatBritainandEngland.2．Findoutthecapitalcityoft