Unit 1 Cultural Relics：Reading【【学习目标】：通过阅读和练习，提高英语的阅读能力，培养保护文化遗产的意识。【学习重点】：掌握重点的英语单词和短语，学习阅读技巧。Ⅰ. 根据课文内容选词填空 because， gift， palace，design，amber，secretly，history， on，time，remainsThe passage tells us the 1) _____ of the Amber Room in the order of 2) _____ so that we can clearly know what happened to it. It was given the name 3) ______ almost seven thousand tons of 4) _____ were used to make it. First it was built in Prussia, then Frederick William Ⅰ, the king of Prussia, sent it to Peter the Great as a 5) _____ of friendship from Prussian people .And the Amber Room soon became part of the Czar’s winter 6) ______ in St Petersburg. Later, CatherineⅡ had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers and she told her artists to add more details to its 7) _____. In September 1941, the Nazi German army 8)_____ stole the Amber Room and sent boxes of the Amber Room on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city 9)_____ the Baltic Sea. After that what really happened to the Amber Room 10) ______ a mystery.１． ２. ３. ４. ５. ６. ７. ８. ９. １０. Ⅱ. 阅读理解The Taj Mahal (泰姬陵) is considered to be one of the most beautiful buildings in the world and the finest example of the late style of Indian architecture (建筑). It is at Agra in northern India. It lies beside the River Jumna in the middle of gardens with quiet pools.The Taj Mahal was built by the Mogul emperor (皇帝) Shah Jehan, who ruled India in the seventeenth century. It is in memory of his favorite wife, Arjumand Banu Bagam, known as Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1631. The building, which was complet...
