1、,英語(yǔ)教學(xué)課件,English,高中一年級(jí)下,Unit 8 Adventure,Culture Corner,The Silk Road,Part I,Back ground,The Silk Road was first conceived during the Zhou and Qin dynasties. From 138 -139B.C.,A 10,000-li silver ribbon, starting at Chang an (Xian today), the ancient capital of China, and ending at the eastern shore o

2、f the Mediterranean Sea, links up fields, deserts, grasslands, and mountains. This is the Silk Road famed in world history, the first thoroughfare that links up China with the West.,Zhang Qian, outstanding Western Han diplomat and traveler, first “blazed a trail” in the West, and the Silk Road was f

3、ormally inaugurated as Chinas “national road” linking up the east and west. Holding a tasseled staff and “driving enormous herds of sheep and cattle and bringing quantities of golden coins and rolls of silk,” Zhang Qian set out with a retune of 100 and 300,in two trips from Changan and reached Loula

4、n (around Roujiang today), Yuli, Quick (Kula today), Shula (Kashi today), Yutan (Hotan today) and Wunsun (the Ill River valley today), as well as Dayuan, Kanju, kand Dayuezhi, now in Xinjiang and the Amu-Darya River valley in Central Asia.,Choose the correct answers.,1. The passage mainly talks abou

5、t _. A. The name of the Silk Road B. The Silk Road today C. The importance of the Silk Road D. The history of the Silk Road,答案：D 主旨大意題。注意文章的小標(biāo)題與文章整體的關(guān)系。,D,2. All of the following statements are true EXCEPT _. the Silk Road covered a huge distance linking East and West B. Romans bought silk from Chin

6、a through the Silk Road Buddhist has a huge influence on Greek art culture the Silk Road remains an very important crossroad in the world today,C,答案：C。細(xì)節(jié)考查題。根據(jù)第三部分第三、四句得知：“Buddhist from India entered China along the Silk Road and had a huge influence on Chinese culture”, 是印,度（而不是希臘）藝術(shù)風(fēng)格給佛像帶來(lái)了巨大的影響。其

7、它選項(xiàng)都來(lái)自文章中提供的信息，句子雖有變化，但內(nèi)容都是正確的。,3. What can you infer from the passage? The Silk Road is not as important as before. Marco Polo was deeply impressed by the Silk Road. People no longer buy silk through the Silk Road nowadays. Xuan Zang might be the first monk who traveled through the Silk Road.,B,答案：

8、B。判斷推理題。根據(jù)文章最后一段推斷絲綢之路至今仍然是一條國(guó)際貿(mào)易要道，因此A和C是錯(cuò)誤的。從文章第三段“Marco Polo left detailed records of their journeys”推斷出馬可波羅對(duì)絲綢之路印象深刻；而玄奘是否是第一個(gè)踏上絲綢之路的僧侶文章中并未提及。,Read the text carefully and answer the following questions.,Is the Xinjiang region the Silk Road? When and how did the Silk Road get its name? Name one

9、way in which the Silk Road had a huge impact on Chinese culture? Does the Silk Road still exist today?,Is the Xinjiang region the Silk Road?,No, Xinjiang is the area associated most closely with the Silk Road but the Silk Road stretched from Xian to Europe.,2. When and how did the Silk Road get its

10、name?,The Silk Road got its name in the 19th century when a German geographer identified it as the route through which the Romans obtained their silk from China.,3. Name one way in which the Silk Road had a huge impact on Chinese culture?,Buddhism from India entered China along the Silk Road and mad

11、e a huge impact on Chinese culture.,4. Does the Silk Road still exist today?,Today, the Xinjiang Autonomous Region remains an international crossroad where traders from surrounding countries and tourists from all over the world regularly meet.,Find the words in the text and match them with their meanings.,scriptures, associate, identify, surrounding, regularly, precious.,scriptures 2. associate 3. identify 4. surrounding 5. regularly 6. precious,( Para.4 line3 ) books,( Para.1 lin