时间:2018-12-12 作者:英语课 分类:高二上听力与朗读


英语课

  Unit5 The British Isles 2

The idea that England stands for Fish & Chips.Speakers’ Corner, Big Ben and the Tower of London is past.Though many people around the world study its language,their view of British culture is sometimes narrow.The fact that Great Britain is made up of three countries is still unknown to many.Within Great Britain for many years now,there has been a growing movement to make the most of its cultural diversity — to see it as it really is:a nation of different countries held together by a common language and culture.

The British Isles ale a group of islands that lies off the west coast of Europe.The largest island is called Britain, which is separated from France by the English Channel,which at one point is only 20 miles wide.It forms the mainland 3 of Great Britain and consists of three countries:Scotland in the north.Wales in the

west and England in the south and east.The island just west of Britain is called Ireland.Between Britain and Ireland,in the Irish Sea, lies the small Isle 1 of Man.The British Isles are surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west,and the North Sea to the east.

The climate of the British Isles is mild with a lot of rain.In general,Scotland is colder throughout the year,and receives more rain.It rains a lot in England and Wales too,but the temperatures are more pleasant.In the summer months the difference in temperature between London and the north can be as much as nine degrees! The coldest months are January and February,while the warmest months are July and August.

The culture of the people of the British Isles was influenced by the culture of the people on the European mainland.In the fifth century, people from different parts of northern Europe settled in England,bringing their own culture and language with them.Their languages formed the basis for English.Some of the native population moved to the inland,mountainous parts of the islands,to Ireland,Scotland and Wales,where they continued speaking their own languages.



1 isle
n.小岛,岛
  • He is from the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.他来自爱尔兰海的马恩岛。
  • The boat left for the paradise isle of Bali.小船驶向天堂一般的巴厘岛。
2 isles
岛( isle的名词复数 )
  • the geology of the British Isles 不列颠群岛的地质
  • The boat left for the isles. 小船驶向那些小岛。
3 mainland
n.大陆,本土
  • The new bridge will link the island to the mainland.新的桥梁将把该岛与大陆连接在一起。
  • Hong Kong's prosperity relies heavily on mainland.香港的繁荣在很大程度上依赖于大陆。
学英语单词
abeigh
absolute heating effect
accumulator address
acoustoelectric
aircraft wireless control
APPMPE
articular surface
arylhydroxylamine
Aso-wan
baby vamp
backward magnetic tape
beadnell b.
beta-gamma survey meter
bowel disease
calculating the charge
caveperson
cistron (benzer 1957)
clearcreekite
confidentiality key management services
contract high
corrugated hose
creamed chicken and ham soup
cunnilinctuss
decomposition curve
dedicated data
derrick head fitting
digital-camera
dimensional equation
disgorgements
ed-mund
edge of coverage
engineering control of air pollution
extractive netallurgy
fire sb up
fractured hydrocarbon reservoir
Gelidocalamus solidus
general interconnecting network
green-room
had no conception of
harmful impurity
hayel
hentoffs
Heraclitan
horizontaldischarge tube
hydrometer degree
hylobates concolor
idropise
indicated specific heat consumption
inverse circulation
junction pole transposition
Kisubi
krakoff
lay a hand on
least-integral-square error
leonensis
liner rerms
methoxygossypol
mini-stages
motive picture
normalized device coordinates
ONE OUT OF
osteochondrous
Osvaldo
oven-dry weight
perceptio
petiolary
petroleum deposit
pipelined system
position-transducer
posse
practicing license
protein paint
punchless
queynt
reflection interferometer
reflexogenic
run-time binding
Sauveterre-la-Lémance
Scotry
signal mechanic
silicon micromachining
st. pierre
stainable
Stavka
strong component
stufffed animal
T-beam
Taewang-ri
telisa
temlisartan
theobromine
toora
Topografov, Pik
trawling gear
triuncina brunnea
turn ... upside down
unturbaned
video-conference
wear-and-tear
web application manager
xantholith (staurolite)
year planner