2020年P(guān)ETS-3考試教材第十單元：名額

Unit 10 Places

Conversations

part 1

A is asking the way in New York.

A:Can you tell me where New York's Chinatown is?

B:Yes.It's downtown Manhattan between Mott Street and Canal Street.

A:How far is it from here?

B:Well,we are now in Times Square at 42nd Street.It is quite a long way from here.

A:How can I get there?

B:You can either take the subway or downtown bus.

A:Which is more convenient?

B:The best way to get there is by the BMT subway right here and get off at the Canal Street Station.

A:Where is the station here?

B:Look,just over there.

part 2

John is talking with Peter-a native person in Chicago.

John:Peter,do you like living in Chicago?

Peter:Yes,I'm proud of living here.

You know,we think it is even more important to the nation than New York.

John:Why?

Peter:Chicago is the center of American commerce and transportaion.

We have the busiest airport in the world.

John:Any other reason?

Peter:Yes.It is still the centre of the American railroad system.

John:And the port?

Peter:It is a great inland port,unique in the world.

It can send goods by ocean-going ships all the way to Europe.

It can send goods by barge,through waterways and canals,

to the Mississippi and down it to the Gulf of Mexico.

John:Oh,I see.

part 3

A wants to learn something about Denmark.

A:Julie,you are from Denmark,aren't you?

B:Yes.

A:Please tell me something about your country.

B:Fine.Denmark is a constitutional monarchy in Northwestern Europe.

A:How many people are there?

B:Not many.In 1996,it was estimated as a little over 5000 000.

A:What is the land like?

B:The surface of the Danish mainland is generally low;the average elevation is about 30 metres above sea level.

A:And the climate?

B:It has a temperate maritime climate.

The mean temperature in summer is about 16'C;and in winter,about 0'C.

A:Does it rain a lot there?

B:Yes.The average annual rainfall is about 610mm.

A:Do they speak fluently in English as you?

B:Not everyone.The official language is Danish,and many Danes also speak English as their second language.

A:Oh,English is really a popular language in te whole world.

part 4

A and B are talking about Sydney.

A:Hello,Bob.Where is your landlady from?

B:She is from Australia.

A:Is Australia big?

B:Yes.It's almost as big as the continental US.

A:Is she from Sydney?

B:Yes.

A:Have you heard anything about Sydney?

B:Yes.It's the water that defines Sydney.

It is a playground and a front yard.

A:What attracts people most in Sydney?

B:The Opera House,which was completed in 1963 and it looks like billowing sails to sun,though the architect had orange sections in mind.

A:I like the idea.How many people are there?

B:You mean population?About four million.

A:So,it's a big city.

B:Usually,capital cities are quite big worldwide.

Passage

The Beauty of Britain

The beauty fo our country is as hard to define as it is easy to enjoy.

Remembering other and larger countries,we see at once that one of its charms is that it varies immensely within a small compass.

We have here no vast mountain ranges,no illimitable plains but we have superb variety.

A great deal of everything is packed into little space.

Nature,we feel,has carefully adjusted things-mountains,plains,rivers,lakes-to the scale of the island itself.

For a variety of landscape,the Yorkshire Dales cannot be matched with this island or anywhere else.

A day's walk among them will give you almost everything fit to be seen on this earth.

You will enjoy the green valleys,with their rivers,and find old bridges,peasant villages and smooth fields.

And you will find yourself facing the moorland slopes,with their rushing streama,salty winds and white farmhiouses.

And then you will reach the onely heights,which seem to be miles above the ordinary word.

Yet less than an hour in a fast motor will bring you to the middle of some manufacturing towns,which can be left and forgotten just as easily as it can be reached from these heights.

With variety goes surprise.Ours is the country of happy surprises.

If you go down into the West Country,among rounded hills and soft pastures,you will suddenly arrive at the bleak tablelands.

But before you have reached them you have already been surpised by the queer bit of Fren country you have found in the neighborhood of Glastonbury.

After the easy rolling Midlands,the dramatic Peak District,with its genuine steep fells,never fails to astonish me.

A car will take you all round the Peak District in a morning.

It is nothing but a crumpled green handkerchief.Nevertheless,we hear of search parties going out there to find lost travelers.

I have never explored this region properly,and so it remains to me a country of mystery.

I could go on with this list of surprises,but perhaps you had better make your own.

Another characteristic of our landscape is its exquisite moderation.

It has been born of a compromise between wildness and tameness,between Nature and Man.

One reason for this is that it contains that exquistite balance between Nature and Man.

The fence and the gate are man-made,but are not severely reaular and trim as they would be in some other countrites.

The trees and hedges,the grass and wild flowers,all suggest that Nature has not been forced into obedience.

The irregularity and coloring of the cottage make it snugly into th elandscape,and you feel it might have grown there,because it looks nearly as much a piece of natural history as the trees.

In some countries,the cottage would have dclared,

"Man,the drainer,the tiller,the builder,has settled here."

In this English scene there is no such direct opposition.

Men and trees and flowers,we feel,have all settled down comfortably together.

The motto is,"Live and let live."

This exquisite harmony between Nature and Man explains in part the charm of the older Britain.

The whole town fitted snugly into the landscape,as if they were no more than bits of woodland;and roads went winding the easiest way as naturally as rivers.

It was impossible to say where cultivation ended and wild life began.

It was a country rich in trees,birds,and wild flowers,as we can see to this day.

Words and Expressions

define charm immensely vary

compass range illimitable plain

superb adjust scale moorland

slope rushing stream salty

farmhouse manufacturing easily rounded

pasture bleak tableland neighborhood

rolling dramatic genuine steep

crumpled explore region properly

mystery exquisite moderation compromise

wildness tameness balance severely