大学英语人文素质阅读教程(上)第六单元(第二部分).ppt

The Beauty of Britain,1. What is the possible nationality of the author? The author may be British.,Called by some “the last sage” of English literature, J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) had a career which spanned more than 60 years and included authoring novels, essays, plays, and screenplays.,Before reading the text closely, scan to find the answers to the following 5 questions.,2. In what tone does the author describe the sceneries of Britain? Approving. 3. What are the characteristics of the sceneries of Britain? Superb variety and exquisite moderation. 4. What kind of feelings does this variety produce to people? The variety is astonishing and full of happy surprise to people. 5. What does the author mean by “exquisite moderation”? A compromise between wildness and tameness, between Nature and Man.,Para. 1 The beauty of our country or at least all of its south of _ is as hard to define as it is easy to enjoy. North Scotland,The North of Scottland is the Highlands, a montainious region. The land is a succession of moutains, some higher than a thousand meters. The region has little population and the land is not fertile.,The Highlands of Scotland,The Highlands of Scotland are among the oldest mountains in the world,The North of Scottland,At 4406ft or 1344m, Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the country.,Para. 2 The author takes _ as an example to illustrate the astonishing variety. the Lake District,The Lake District, also commonly known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in Cambria, North West England. Its features are a result of periods of glaciations, the most recent of which ended some 1,5000 years ago. The central, and most visited, part of the area is called the Lake District National Park which was designated as a National Park in 1951. It is the second largest of the fourteen National Parks in Britain. The Lake District is intimately associated with English literature in the 18th and 19th centuries. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, known as Lake Poets ,lived and knew one another in the last few years of the 18th century in this district.,The Lake District,The Lake District,The Lake District,The Lake District,The Lake District,Para. 3 The first example to show happy surprises is _. the West Country,The part of the highland zone of Englands southwest peninsula is often referred to as the West Country. This peninsula, which sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean, contains the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Devon, Wiltshire, and Cornwall . It has hilly, rough areas, and many scenic valleys.,the West Country,Para. 4 _ has a kind of rough heath country of its own. East Anglia,East Anglia with the administrative counties of Norfolk to the north, Suffolk to the south, Cambridgeshire and Essex to the west.,East Anglia,Para. 4 _ is described as “easy rolling”. The Midlands,The Midlands is an area comprising central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia. It borders Southern England, Northern England, East Anglia and Wales. Its largest city is Birmingham, and it was an important location for the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. The greater part of the area is now administered as the Government Office Regions of the West Midlands and East Midlands, though parts of the traditional Midlands are also in surrounding regions, namely Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (East of England), Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire (South East), Gloucestershire (South West) and Northern Lincolnshire (Yorkshire and the Humber).,The Midlands.,Para. 4 _ is dramatic, with its genuine steep slopes. The Peak District,The Peak District is an upland area in central and northern England, lying mainly in northern Derbyshire, but also covering parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, and South and West Yorkshire. An area of great diversity, it is conventionally split into the northern Dark Peak, where most of the moorland is found and whose geology is gritstone, and the southern White Peak, where most of the population lives and where the geology is mainly limestone-based. Most of the area falls within the Peak District National Park, whose designation in 1951 made it the first national park in the United Kingdom. The Peak District is thought to be the second most-visited national park in the world (after the Mount Fuji National Park in Japan).,The Peak District,The Peak District,The Peak District,Para. 5 _ is another characteristic of our landscape. 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