时间:2019-01-28 作者:英语课 分类:英语博客 A cup of English


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  Beginners.

We continue our study of different countries of the world with Spain. This fascinating country makes up most of the Iberian Peninsula that forms the southwestern tip of Europe. Portugal is on its west, and France is on its northeastern border. Though Spain is famous for its beaches along its three coasts, the rest of the land is very varied 1. More than half of the land is hot and dry, in the central region called the Meseta. It is surrounded by several mountain ranges, from which come three very important rivers: the Tagus, the Douro, and the Guadiana. This country has many mountainous areas, from the Pyrenees in the north, the Sierra Morena, and the Sierra Nevada with its highest mountain, Mulhacen, at about 3,500 meters. About one tenth of Spain is heavily forested. These areas are found in the north where it is wetter. Farming and crop growing are, therefore, mainly found in the north. Spain is one of Europe's biggest producers of wine. Other major industries are: car manufacturing, steelmaking, shipbuilding, chemical manufacturing, and fishing.

Advanced.

The history of Spain is no less varied than its geography. It's position on the map has made it vunerable over the centuries to invasion. The Romans first subdued 2 Spain in the third century BC. It remained a colony until, during the fifth century AD, the Visigoths (Germanic) from the north claimed Spain. During this time, Spain was Christianized. In 711 the Moors 3 invaded from Africa and established an Islamic civilization that lasted six centuries. In the ninth century, invaders 4 from the north started the process of expelling the Moors, which was completed in 1492 when the royals Ferdinand and Isabella from the north unified 5 Spain as a Catholic country. That same year, Columbus, under Spanish sponsorship,  reached the New World. Spain conquered much of Central and South America and other parts of the world, gained great wealth, and became a super power. This ended at the battle of the Armada against England.

For the past two hundred years, Spain has gone through tremendous changes: wars with France and the United States, loss of colonies, removal of the royal family, civil war, a fascist 6 dictatorship, and finally the reinstating of the royal family and the establishment of a parliamentary democracy in 1978. Phew! That is a lot of history in a couple of paragraphs. The spaniards are known for their friendship, warmth, great food, and love of life, art, and music. Their historical turmoils 7, and all the cultural influences they have had, have produced a rich and colorful national culture.

Grammar notes.

Vocabulary: varied, vunerable, to claim, to expel, sponsorship, dictatorship, to reinstate.

Exs:

The school's curriculum is so varied; they have art, science, dance, music, and sports.

The baby Kangaroo is completely vunerable; it is tiny and defenseless.

He claimed that the car crash was the other man's fault; it was a lie.

They expelled the boys from school for destroying property.

I need sponsorship from someone to get money for this sports group.

Is this family a dictatorship, or can we all have a say?

The policeman was reinstated after he was found to be innocent.



adj.多样的,多变化的
  • The forms of art are many and varied.艺术的形式是多种多样的。
  • The hotel has a varied programme of nightly entertainment.宾馆有各种晚间娱乐活动。
v.停泊,系泊(船只)( moor的第三人称单数 )
  • the North York moors 北约克郡的漠泽
  • They're shooting grouse up on the moors. 他们在荒野射猎松鸡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
入侵者,侵略者,侵入物( invader的名词复数 )
  • They prepared to repel the invaders. 他们准备赶走侵略军。
  • The family has traced its ancestry to the Norman invaders. 这个家族将自己的世系追溯到诺曼征服者。
(unify 的过去式和过去分词); 统一的; 统一标准的; 一元化的
  • The teacher unified the answer of her pupil with hers. 老师核对了学生的答案。
  • The First Emperor of Qin unified China in 221 B.C. 秦始皇于公元前221年统一中国。
adj.法西斯主义的;法西斯党的;n.法西斯主义者,法西斯分子
  • The strikers were roughed up by the fascist cops.罢工工人遭到法西斯警察的殴打。
  • They succeeded in overthrowing the fascist dictatorship.他们成功推翻了法西斯独裁统治。
n.混乱( turmoil的名词复数 );焦虑
  • The political turmoils of the 1930s were dark days for the Spanish people. 对西班牙人民来说,30年代的政治动乱是苦难的岁月。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • It foundered during the turmoils accompanying the Great Migrations. 它在随着民族大迁徙而出现的混乱中崩溃。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
11-oxy-steroid
aeroflot
Akashic Records
aleukemia hemorrhagica
anti-depression
anti-drip
apicoalveolar
barbula arcuata
Boulby
breuel
brier-wood
bring something to the touch
claim letter
clonalities
cock of the wood
congenial
cornua superius
customs authority
cyclic shear
cylinder bolck
deceivableness
deck plan
dietary defect
Dionda
document entry subsystem
drive sampling
elena
face painter
fielder
flag-feather
floppy base
flow field visualization test
gassest
gender reassignment
gonnies
halftone picture
hedger
high limit of tolerance
Illinois Waterway
integrated optics (io) strip guide
interactive software
JAL
k-r
kanji utility
Laurel Grove
laying battery
loss of import duty risk
low-affinity
lubricating oil system
lubrication gap
Lucea
make on stranger of
metaclassifier
meteorologic instrument
microwave zone position indicator
monopolar cautery
multivalent repression
Nihongo
nuclear resonance thermometer
number seventeen
nutrient cycling
nutting truck
observation range
open-coils
order cost
out-of-balance force
overuniform
Peranakan
perxenic
picture output signal
piston flow
pooin'
post mortem time
Praesepe
pulsator jig
punkas
radicalno
recreative
Red Army man
reeling drum
reference orbit
repeated puncture
Sedlec Prčice
seguramente
semibilinear functional
shorter
single plunger plastic injection moulding machine
skales
speak the worst something
stuporous depression
symbology
tacca integrifolia ker-gawl
the product of
tricholimnas sylvestris
tuning fork wristwatch
two doors down
universal control automation
universologists
unsubstantiated hypothesis
visceromegaly
wait_flags
zero phase sequence-relay