高中英语人教版必修4 05

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[00:08.20]THEME PARKS--FUN AND MORE THAN FUN

[00:14.08]Parks provide people with a place to amuse themselves

[00:20.24]and to escape their busy lives for a while.

[00:24.79]Though parks share this basic purpose,

[00:29.36]they find various ways to meet this need.

[00:33.91]Soem parks are quiet places with trees and lakes.

[00:39.68]In these parks,people sit chatting,play games,

[00:46.03]listen to birds'singing,or just relax a bit.

[00:51.49]Families come too,to have picnices or have fun together in other ways.

[00:59.14]It costs little or no money to go to them.

[01:04.29]In recent dexades,however,

[01:08.41]many parks have been designed to provide entertainment.

[01:14.29]We call them theme parks.

[01:18.45]They are more than amusement parks with rides,such as a Ferris wheel,

[01:24.90]merry-go-round or a roller coaster.

[01:29.13]They are such huge places that visitors often use shuttles to get around.

[01:37.18]These new parks have a variety of things to see and do.

[01:43.63]They have restaurants and even hotels.

[01:48.88]They all charge money for admission 1,and for the rides and shows in the park.

[01:56.45]The big companies that own theme parks expect to make a profit

[02:03.51]not just by the charges for admission,

[02:07.74]but also by selling souvenirs in their shops and advertising 2 them on television.

[02:16.39]Theme parks have a certain idea--a certain theme--

[02:23.33]that the whole park is based on.

[02:27.41]For example,a sports theme park will offer visitors sports to play or watch.

[02:36.06]Its purpose is to involve visitors in physical exercise and athletic 3 competition.

[02:45.02]The challenge for the park is to encourage its visitors

[02:50.58]to buy a particular brand of sports equipment or clothing.

[02:56.46]So basketballs and footballs may be sold along with sneakers

[03:03.12]and special sports clothing.

[03:07.19]Some are history or culture theme parks.

[03:12.52]The past can come to life when we see how our ancestors dressed,worked and lived.

[03:21.56]Other show us how special groups of people dress today,

[03:27.12]what they eat and what their homes look like.

[03:31.77]We might go for rides on animals,

[03:36.24]help cook cultural foods

[03:40.29]or have our pictures taken in the clothing of emperors or of minority people.

[03:47.37]These theme parks also charge admission

[03:52.65]and sell food and other items in their souvenir shops.

[03:58.81]The oldest theme park in the world is Disneyland,

[04:04.38]built near Los Angeles,California in 1955.

[04:11.14]The park is named after Walt Disney,the famous film maker 4.

[04:18.01]Disneyland was so different from other parks

[04:23.26]that it seemed like a place of fantasy.

[04:27.73]Indeed,one place in the park is called Fantasyland.

[04:34.08]Both children and adults enjoyed seeing the characters from Disney films.

[04:41.52]Disneyland has exciting rides,

[04:46.48]visits to castles and chances to get close to life-size cartoon figures.

[04:54.43]Model villages of life in the past

[04:59.18]show visitors how the early settlers in America lived.

[05:05.63]Other theme parks include marine 5 or ocean parks,

[05:11.69]where visitors can see and swim with dolphins and learn about ocean life.

[05:19.35]There are also science theme parks

[05:24.99]where visitors can take an active part in experiments,

[05:30.87]and there are future parks,

[05:34.42]where people can go on imaginary 6 trips to space

[05:40.66]and use advanced computer techniques to experience life in the future.

[05:48.84]Listening

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[08:23.85]FUTUROSCOPE--EXCITEMENT AND LEARNING 7

[08:29.81]Would you like to take a journey deep into space,

[08:35.55]to the end of the solar system,and be pulled into a Black Hole?

[08:42.19]How about a trip to Brazil

[08:46.13]to experience surviving an airplane crash in the jungle?

[08:52.09]You could,if you like,

[08:55.75]go with famous divers 8 to the bottom of the ocean and see mysterious,

[09:02.90]blind creatures that have never seen the sunlight