广东省惠州市惠东县惠东荣超中学高中英语 Unit 1 第 5 课时 Extensive Reading 学案 新人教版必修 2 Step 1 Fill in the blanks according to the passage(语法填空)Last month in Paris, a French company auctioned(拍卖) two bronze sculptures ---- a rat’s head and a rabbits head captured from China, 1.___________ has aroused great public concern in China.The Qing Dynasty（1644—1911）relics, the heads of a bronze rabbit and a rat, were among an original set of 12 bronze animal heads that were once decorated at the imperial summer resort Yuanmingyuan. In 1860, the British and French troops broke 2.__________ Beijing and burned down 3.__________ royal garden, 4.___________(take) away millions of Chinese art works, 5._____________ the two head relics. The Chinese government is strongly against this auction and has 6.______________ (repeat) asked for the free return of them according to the international laws. Some Chinese people even flew to 7.____________, trying to stop the selling. 8._____________, the French company just wouldn’t listen.Chinese lawyers have asked the French court to stop auction house Christie’s 9.______________(put) two bronze relics（文物） looted from China under the hammer. A lawyer said, “We hope to arouse public attention in Europe on the fate of numerous Chinese works 10.______________(steal) in the past, to help keep those relics well protected and collected,” Step 2 Reading comprehensionThe Peales were a famous family of American artists. Charles Willson Peale is best remembered for his portraits(肖像) of leading figures of the American Revolution. He painted portraits of Franklin and Jefferson and over a dozen of George Washington. His life-size portrai t of his sons Raphaelle and Titian was...
