冀教版（一起）四年级英语下册拓展资料 UNIT 3 My Country and English-speaking CountriesLesson 20 The U.S.About the Star Spangled BannerOn September 13, 1814, Francis Scott Key visited the British fleet in Chesapeake Bay to secure the release of Dr. William Beans, who had been captured after the burning of Washington, D.C. The release was secured, but Key was detained on ship overnight during the shelling of Fort McHenry, one of the forts defending Baltimore. In the morning he was so delighted to see the American flag still flying over the fort that he began a poem to commemorate the occasion. Entitled "The Star-Spangled Banner," the poem soon attained wide popularity as sung to the tune "Ancreon in Heaven." The origin of this tune is obscure ， but it may have been written by John Stafford Smith, a British composer born in 1750."The Star-Spangled Banner" was officially made the National Anthem by Congress in 1931, although already adopted as such by the Army and Navy. Its central theme, our country's survival through bitter strife, parallels the passing by West Point graduates of their first crucial test in battle."The Star-Spangled Banner" has attained a position of reverence, and each time the Corps stands retreat ceremony to its strands it serves as a reminder of our duty to country.美国自由女神像美国，自由女神像，文化遗产，1984 年列入世界遗产名录。自由女神像的钢铁骨架由设计巴黎铁塔的埃菲尔设计，雕像由法国雕刻家维雷勃杜克设计，并在巴黎完成。法国政府将这一标志自由的纪念像，作为庆祝美国独立 100 周年的礼物赠给美国。自从1886 年落成以来，它耸立在纽约港的入口。自由女神像，作为美国象征，位于美国纽约市曼哈顿以西的一个小岛--自由岛上，她手持火炬，矗立在纽约港入口处，日夜守望着这座大都会，迎来了自 19 世纪末以来到美国定居的千百万移民。1984 年，它被列入世界遗产...
