VOA慢速英语文本：《今日美国》第7课.doc

1、英语翻议讲解：1.sandstone n.沙岩2.rebel vi.造反, 反抗, 抵抗, 反感例句：How can you rebel against your seniors? 你们这些晚辈，怎么能忤逆长者？ 3.heal v.使复原, 使和解, 治愈例句：The doctor said he must avoid excitement in order for the disease to heal. 医生嘱咐他一定要静心安养。 4.underground a.地下的, 秘密的例句：When we were doing underground work, he was my only c

2、ontact. 做地下工作时，他和我单线联系。 1.It still is popular with people who live in West Virginia and visitors who have fallen in love with what is known as the Mountain State.fall in love with爱上例句：He that falls in love with himself will have on rival. 凡是爱上自己的人，都不会有情敌。2.The rocks are very difficult to climb. 形容词+

3、不定式inessential（非必要的）和unimportant（不重要的）通常不这么用，但可以说not essential。itbe+形容词（for+宾语）+动词不定式结构中可以用下列形容词：convenient（便利的），dangerous（危险的），difficult（困难的），easy（容易的），hard*（艰难的），possible*（可能的），impossible（做不到的），safe（安全的），unsafe（不安全的）。Would it be convenient（for you） to see Mr X now？（您）现在见X先生方便吗？It was dangerous（for

4、 women） to go out alone after dark（妇女们）天黑以后单独出门是危险的。We found it almost impossible to buy petrol我们发现几乎买不到汽油。上述形容词除possible之外，均可用于名词+be+形容词+动词不定式结构中：This cake is easy to make这蛋糕很容易做。The instructions were hard to follow这指示很难遵从。This car isnt safe to drive这辆车开起来不安全。 3. The Forest Service is protecting th

5、e area from too much human activity so it will return to its natural wild condition. so引导的从句在这里表是目的，相当于 so that.英语听力原文：VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And Im Faith Lapidus. This week on our program, we tell you about a popular area for outdoor ac

6、tivities in the state of West Virginia.(MUSIC: Country Roads)The song Country Roads was very popular when John Denver first recorded it in nineteen seventy-one. It still is popular with people who live in West Virginia and visitors who have fallen in love with what is known as the Mountain State.Wes

7、t Virginia is a small state. But it has many different areas of interest to visitors who like to hike, camp, climb rocks, raft in rivers, fish and hunt. One area that offers many kinds of outdoor activities is called the Potomac Highlands. It is in the eastern part of the state, not far from the bor

8、der with the state of Virginia.The Allegheny Mountains divide the area from north to south. Rivers on the east side of the Potomac Highlands flow into the Potomac River and continue on toward the Atlantic Ocean.Monongahela National Forest is in this area. It covers more than three hundred fifty thou

9、sand hectares of West Virginia, mostly in the Potomac Highlands.View from Spruce KnobA good place to begin a visit to West Virginia is at Spruce Knob. It is about one thousand five hundred meters high, the highest mountain in the state. You can drive your car slowly up a rough road to the top.There

10、are places to stop along the road to look at the fields and forests down below and far in the distance. At the top, you follow a short path to a stone-and-steel observation tower. On either side of the path are what look like river beds of big rocks. Wildflowers of different colors brighten the rock

11、y land. From the tower, you see wilderness in all directions.Along a trail on Spruce KnobWhispering Spruce Trail follows a circular path around the observation tower. The path leads past an open field covered with huge rocks, through a group of tall spruce trees, and past a field of blueberry bushes

12、. Off in the distance you see a valley way below and lines of bluish gray mountains that seem to reach forever.Spruce Knob has more than one hundred kilometers of hiking trails. Some of them are paths made in the early nineteen hundreds by men who climbed the mountain to cut trees. It also has a lak

13、e for fishing and a campground where people can stay.(MUSIC)Seneca Rocks in distanceNear Spruce Knob is one of the best-known places in West Virginia - Seneca Rocks. This rock formation is made of white-gray quartzite, a kind of sandstone. It is about three hundred meters above the river that flows

14、below. When the sun shines on the almost straight-sided rocks, they look like bright shining wings rising out of a mountain of green trees.Experienced rock climbers love Seneca Rocks. The rocks are very difficult to climb. Not many people were known to have climbed them until the Second World War be

15、gan. Then the Army used the rocks to train troops for action in the mountains of Europe. Now there are almost four hundred mapped ways to climb Seneca Rocks.Visitors who are not experienced rock climbers can follow a steep man-made path that takes them to the top. The path begins at Seneca Rocks Dis

16、covery Center at the base of the rocks. The Discovery Center has exhibits about the earliest American Indians who lived in the area. The center also has information about the wildlife and plants of the area.West Virginia is a state divided by mountains. But the area has also been divided in other wa

17、ys during its history.In the early years of the United States, it was the western part of the state of Virginia. It was part of Virginia until eighteen sixty-one. Then, as the American Civil War began, the Virginia state government voted to rebel against the United States. Virginia joined other sout

18、hern states in forming the Confederate States of America.But representatives from the western counties opposed the decision to leave the Union. So the area separated from Virginia. In June of eighteen sixty-three, West Virginia became the thirty-fifth state.Many Civil War battles were fought in West

19、 Virginia. Even though West Virginia had remained in the Union, about half of the people in the state supported the South. Many families were divided. Sometimes brothers fought on opposite sides. After the North won the war, divisions in the state slowly healed.Most of the people in the state were f

20、armers in the eighteen hundreds. Then two natural resources - coal and trees - became important. Mining of coal and logging of the forests became major industries as transportation improved on the rivers and railroads were built. Coal and wood continue to be important to the states economy.Toward th

21、e end of the twentieth century, tourism became an important industry. The number of visitors to West Virginia continues to increase every year.The Potomac Highlands area of West Virginia has a lot of sandstone. Sandstone is a soft rock. The action of wind and water can form cave openings like natura

22、l rooms within the rock.Two major caves are open to the public near Smoke Hole and Seneca Rocks. Seneca Caverns and Smoke Hole Caverns have been used through the ages. Native Americans used them to build fires to dry their food. During the Civil War, soldiers from both sides used them at different t

23、imes to store weapons. Now these caves provide underground experiences for visitors.Guides lead groups on lighted paths down into the ground and through the caves. Visitors see wonderful formations hanging from the ceiling and growing up from the floor. It takes centuries for water dripping through

24、the rock to make these beautiful formations.A farm near Dolly Sods in the Potomac Highlands of West VirginiaBreathtaking. Wonderful. A treasure. These are words that visitors use to describe Dolly Sods, a large wild area in the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia. About one hundred fifty years ago, a

25、 magazine described this same area as very dangerous. It said the forests and undergrowth were so dense, no one could get through them. Bears and panthers lived there but no people.In the eighteen hundreds, a German family named Dahle raised sheep on wet, grassy open places called sods. Local people

26、 changed the spelling of the name and the area became known as Dolly Sods.Dolly Sods once was covered with a dense ancient forest of red spruce and hemlock trees. By the late eighteen hundreds, railroads reached the area. Loggers cut down the huge trees and trains carried the wood to fast-growing ci

27、ties in nearby states.For years, fires from lightening and loggers campfires burned through the areas where the forest had been cut down. The constant fires burned everything down to the bare rock base.In nineteen twenty, Congress created the Monongahela National Forest. The United States Forest Ser

28、vice soon had trees planted in some areas and a rough road system built.In nineteen seventy-five, much of the Dolly Sods area became part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The Forest Service is protecting the area from too much human activity so it will return to its natural wild condi

29、tion. Native plants and animals are returning.Dolly Sods is up high, almost one thousand meters. So plants and animals there are more like those found in northern Canada than in the rest of West Virginia.The northern part of Dolly Sods is called the scenic area. You can walk among the large rocks kn

30、own as Bear Rocks and pick blueberries and huckleberries from low-growing bushes. You can spend quiet time looking at the mountains off to the east. You are up high, so even in the summer the air usually is cool.People come to Dolly Sods to get away from the noise and crowds of city life. They camp

31、in the wilderness far from other people. They pick wild blueberries growing on the rocky fields and red cranberries growing in wet bogs. They hunt deer, turkey and rabbits. They fish in rivers that flow through the area. And they walk on rough, rocky paths, many of which follow old railroad tracks a

32、nd roads used by loggers long ago.Signs along roads entering the state welcome you to wild, wonderful West Virginia. Visitors to the Potomac Highlands have a chance to experience some of those wild, wonderful places.(MUSIC: COUNTRY ROADS)Our program was written by Marilyn Christiano and directed by Caty Weaver. To see pictures of West Virginia, and to download transcripts and MP3 files of our shows, go to voaspecialenglish. Im Faith Lapidus.And Im Steve Ember. Listen again next week for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.版权所有：高考资源网()版权所有：高考资源网()