Unit1CulturalHeritageReadingandThinkingTRanslationandlanguagepointsgivewayto讓步、屈服preserve\protect……from……保護(hù)……免受……傷害movetowardsthefuture邁向未來(lái)keepbalance保持平衡keepabalancebetweenAandB如果我們想要社會(huì)進(jìn)步，經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展是必要的。新舊更替的時(shí)代已經(jīng)到來(lái)，在走向未來(lái)的過(guò)程中，我們不可能將過(guò)去的一切都保存下來(lái)。在進(jìn)步與文化遺址保護(hù)之間尋找并保持適當(dāng)?shù)钠胶馐且粋€(gè)巨大的挑戰(zhàn)。Awayflewthebirds.Outrushedsomechildren.Bigchallenges,however,cansometimesleadtogreatsolutions.Inthe1950s,theEgyptiangovernmentwantedtobuildanewdamacrosstheNileinordertocontrolfloods,produceelectricity,andsupplywatertomorefarmersinthearea.Buttheproposalledtoprotests.Waterfromthedamwouldlikelydamageanumberoftemplesanddestroyculturalrelics

thatwereanimportantpartofEgypt'sculturalheritage.Afterlisteningtothescientistswhohadstudiedtheproblem,andcitizenswholivednearthedam,thegovernmentturnedtotheUnitedNationsforhelpin1959.inorderto=soasto以便、為了

controlfloods抗洪produceelectricity發(fā)電

supplywater供水supplysthtosb給……提供……supplysbwithsth

makeaproposal提出建議

proposethatsb\sth(should)dosth

turntosbforhelp向某人尋求幫助culturalrelic文物

然而，巨大的挑戰(zhàn)有時(shí)會(huì)帶來(lái)偉大的解決方案。20世紀(jì)50年代，埃及政府希望在尼羅河上修建一座新的水壩，可以控洪、發(fā)電并為該地區(qū)更多的農(nóng)民供水。但是，該提議引發(fā)了抗議。因?yàn)榇髩涡沽骺赡軙?huì)損壞許多寺廟，摧毀一批文物，而這些文物是埃及文化遺產(chǎn)的重要組成部分。在聽(tīng)取了研究該問(wèn)題的科學(xué)家以及大壩附近的居民的意見(jiàn)后，政府于1959年向聯(lián)合國(guó)求助。askforcontributions尋求捐款

raisefund籌集資金一個(gè)委員會(huì)得以成立，以限制對(duì)埃及建筑的破壞，防止文物的損失。該組織要求不同部門(mén)提供捐助，并在國(guó)際社會(huì)籌集資金。專家們調(diào)查了這個(gè)問(wèn)題，進(jìn)行了幾次測(cè)試，然后就如何拯救這些建筑提出了建議。最后，簽署了一份文件，這項(xiàng)工作于1960年開(kāi)始。Theprojectbroughttogethergovernmentsandenvironmentalistsfromaroundtheworld.Templesandotherculturalsites

weretakendownpiecebypiece,andthenmovedandputbacktogetheragaininaplacewheretheyweresafefromthewater.In1961,Germanengineersmovedthefirsttemple.Overthenext20years,thousandsofengineersandworkersrescued22templesandcountlessculturalrelics.Fiftycountriesdonatednearly$80millionto

theproject.bringtogether匯集、聚集takedown拆除piecebypiece一片一片地putback

把……放回原處、重裝weresafefrom免受……的危險(xiǎn)donate\contribute……to……向……捐贈(zèng)……該項(xiàng)目匯集了來(lái)自世界各地的政府和環(huán)保主義者。寺廟和其他文化遺址被逐一拆除，然后移至安全的地方重新放置，使其遠(yuǎn)離水源。1961年，德國(guó)工程師搬遷了第一座廟宇。在接下來(lái)的20年里，成千上萬(wàn)的工程師和工人拯救了22座寺廟和無(wú)數(shù)的文物。五十個(gè)國(guó)家為該項(xiàng)目捐款近8000萬(wàn)美元。

Whentheprojectendedin1980,itwasconsideredagreatsuccess.Notonlyhadthecountriesfoundapathtothefuturethatdidnotrunovertherelicsofthepast,buttheyhadalsolearntthatitwaspossibleforcountriestoworktogethertobuildabettertomorrow.endv.結(jié)束considerv.考慮，斟酌successn.成功notonly...but...also不僅...還...findapathto找到一條通往...的路runover輾過(guò)relicsofthepast古跡worktogether一起努力Notonly

hadthecountriesfoundapathtothefuturethatdidnotrunovertherelicsofthepast,buttheyhadalsolearntthatitwaspossibleforcountriestoworktogetherto

buildabettertomorrow.notonly……butalso……連接兩個(gè)分句，置于句首，句子要部分倒裝。部分倒裝：謂語(yǔ)的一部分（助動(dòng)詞、情態(tài)動(dòng)詞、be動(dòng)詞）置于主語(yǔ)之前。Notonly_______shesingbutalsoshecandance.Notonly_____shethoughtful,butalsosheisopen-minded.notonly……butalso……連接兩個(gè)以上的主語(yǔ)時(shí)，謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞的單復(fù)數(shù)與__________保持一致，即_________.最近的主語(yǔ)就近原則Notonlythestudentsbutalsotheteacher___________(wish)foraholiday.wishes遵循就近原則either……or……;neither……nor……;whether……or……;not……but……;therebe

fishnorapples______(be)onthedesk.2.NotTombuthisparents______(want)togofishing.

arewant

Whentheprojectendedin1980,itwasconsideredagreatsuccess.Notonlyhadthecountriesfoundapathtothefuturethatdidnotrunovertherelicsofthepast,buttheyhadalsolearntthatitwaspossibleforcountriestoworktogethertobuildabettertomorrow.當(dāng)該項(xiàng)目于1980年完工時(shí)，它被認(rèn)為是巨大的成功。這些國(guó)家不僅找到了一條不以犧牲古跡為代價(jià)的未來(lái)發(fā)展之路，而且明白了多個(gè)國(guó)家合作共創(chuàng)美好未來(lái)的可能性。thespiritof...的精神runvt.運(yùn)行一個(gè)項(xiàng)目aliveadj.活著的prevent...f