Night travel of Wuhan on the Yangtze River
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Wuhan.
My name is Zhangwei, and you can call me Vivien. I am from Wuhan travel service and I will be your local guide during your stay in Wuhan. This is our driver, Mr. Wang. His bus number is WH12345.On behalf of my travel agency; we hope you have a nice journey here. If you have any special interest, please tell your tour leader, and he will let us know. My job is to smooth your way, care for your welfare, try my best to answer your questions, and be your guide and interpreter. I will try to do my best to help you. We highly appreciate your understanding and cooperation.
Now we are on the cruise along the Yangtze River. At first, I would like to give you the itinerary route. Boarding the cruise ship at the quay of Wuhan harbor——going upstream——the temple of dragon king——Qing chuan bridge——the south bank peninsular——Qing chuan pavilion——the Wuhan Yangtze river bridge——the gate of Han yang——going downstream——the concessions and bund of Wuhan——debarking in the Wuhan harbor.
Now let me give you a description of the overview of Wuhan city. Wuhan is the provincial capital of Hubei province, its total area is 8467 square km and its population is 8.32 million. It is the largest city of central china and the sixth largest city all over the country too. It is located at the joint of Han River and the Yangtze River cross the city proper of Wuhan. Wuhan is a triple-city, on the north of the Yangtze River are Hankou and Hanyang, and on the south is Wuchang. Our Wuhan people were born and are living by the Yangtze River, relying on the golden waterway and convenient traffic formed by the Yangtze River and the Han River, out hard work and wisdom, we have built this beautiful city. If you have ever come to Wuhan before, I think tonight’s trip will make you and me remind of the past of Wuhan; if this is the first time for you to come to Wuhan, you will see the real presence and thriving future of Wuhan.
Now, ladies and gentlemen! This is the best position for us to enjoy the concessions and bund of Wuhan. The high towering building firstly coming into our eyes is the Jiali plaza, it was built by Wuhan and the Jiali group of Hong Kong jointly, and it’s 251 meters high and 61 stories with a construction area of 245,000 square meters, its gross investment is 1.75 billion RMB, it came into operation in 1997. From the first story to the eighth story are the Wangfujing department store and the Jiali department store; above the eighth floor are business offices.
Now please have a look at this old building with a great bell on its top, its original name is the Jianghanguan building which is located at the south end of the Yanjiang road of Hankou. This building belonged to Britain concession
in old times, it was designed by a famous British architect, began to be built in 1922 and completed in 1924. Originally it was under the jurisdiction of customs of the Britain’s general tax bureau, the building amounts to 8 stories; its total height is 46 meters. The main structure and the bell tower are both four stories respectively. The bell tower is equipped with a huge clock whose diameter is four meters with a hand of 1.5 meters, it plays music on time and its sound spreads the three towns of Wuhan. The whole European renaissance period, it was ever the landmark building of the present concessions area of Wuhan. Now it’s used the office building of the Wuhan customs.
Ladies and Gentlemen: as the ship keeps going downstream along the river, we can see over 100 western-style buildings on the north bank of the Yangtze river, they are the concessions ever occupied by some imperialist powers in 1861 after the second opium war. According to the unfair treaty, Hankou was opened up for foreign trading port. In the riverine area of 187 hectares are the concessions of five countries: Great Britain, Russia, France, Germany and Japan sequentially, the concessions had occupied 2/5 of the urban area in Hankou at that time. Until 1945 after anti-Japanese war, Wuhan people regained all concessions formally, and ended the disgraceful history of 85 years of imperialists’ setting up the concessions in Hankou. Nowadays, the remained ones are only the buildings of ancient Greece, baroque, Victoria and byzantine type of various countries; they have already become the cultural heritage of Wuhan in modern times. Wuhan bund has integrated with the riverine and historical landscape of Wuhan along the Yangtze River. It’s beautiful, flourishing and graceful.
Now, everyone look at your right side. This is Wuhan harbor. Its full name is the Passenger Station of Wuhan Harbor which was the key project of the Ministry of Communication and the 7th”Five-Year Plan” of Wuhan. It is the largest harbor of inland China and the biggest passenger station along the Yangtze River. Now Wuhan harbor has already become a new scenic spot of Wuhan city. Seen in distance, it’s just like a giant ship setting out to sail, and the five fully-covered passenger routes stretching into the river look like five huge dragons playing with water and crossing the river. This shows the unique and imposing manner of Wuhan standing proudly on the tide.
How time flies! Our night Yangtze River trip is over, after you disembark; please follow me to visit the Jianghan commercial walking street! Thank you very much!
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为自己而写 从孩提时代，我还住在贝尔维尔时，我的脑子里就断断续续地转着当作家的念头，但直等到我高中三年级，这—一想法才有了实现的可能。在这之前，我对所有跟英文课沾边的事都感到腻味。我觉得英文语法枯燥难懂。我痛恨那些长而乏味的段落写作，老师读着受累，我写着痛苦。 弗利格尔先生接我们的高三英文课时，我就准备着在这门最最单调乏味的课上再熬上沉闷的一年。弗利格尔先生在学生中以其说话干巴和激励学生无术而出名。据说他拘谨刻板，完全落后于时代。我看他有六七十岁了，古板之极。他戴着古板的毫无装饰的眼镜，微微卷曲的头发剪得笔齐，梳得纹丝不乱。他身穿古板的套装，白衬衣领扣外的领带打得——丝不苟。他救着古板的尖下巴，古板的直鼻梁，说起话来—·本正经，字斟句酌，彬彬有礼，活脱脱一个橱稽的老古董。 我作好准备，打算在弗利格尔先生的班上一无所获地混上—·年，不少日子过去了，还真率出所料。后半学期我们学写随笔小品文。弗利格尔先生发下一张家庭作业纸，出了不少题供我们选择。像“暑假二三事”那样傻乎乎的题目倒是一个也没有，但绝大多数—样乏味。我把作文题带回家，——直没写，直到要交作业的前一天晚上。我躺在沙发上，最终不得不面对这一讨厌的功课，便从笔记本里抽出作文题目单粗粗—看。我的目光落在“吃意大利细面条的艺术”这个题目上。… 这个题目在我脑海里唤起了一连串不同寻常的图像。贝尔维尔之夜的清晰的回忆如潮水一般涌来，当时，我们大家——起围坐在晚餐桌旁——艾伦舅舅、我母亲、查理舅舅、多丽丝、哈尔舅舅——帕特舅妈晚饭做的是意大利细面条。那时意大利细面条还是很少听说的异国食品。多丽丝和我都还从来没吃过，在座的大人也是经验不足，没有—个吃起来得心应手的。艾伦舅舅家诙谐有趣的场景全都重现在我的脑海中，我回想起来，当晚我们笑作—团，争论着该如何地把面条从盘子上送到嘴里才算合乎礼仪。 突然我就想描述那…切，描述当时那种温馨美好的气氛，但我把它写下来仅仅是想白得其乐，而不是为弗利格尔先生而写。那是我想重新捕捉并珍藏在心中的一个时刻。我想重温那个夜晚的愉快。然而，照我希望的那样去写，就会违反我在学校里学的正式作文的种种法则弗利格尔先生也肯定会打它—个不及格。没关系。等我为自己写好了之后，我可以再为弗利格尔先生写点什么别的东西。 等我写完时已是半夜时分，再没时间为弗利格尔先生写——篇循规蹈矩、像模像样的文章了。第二天上午，我别无选择，只好把我为自己而写的贝尔维尔晚餐的故事交了上去。两天后弗利格尔先生发还批改过的作文，他把别人的都发了，·就是没有我的。我正准备着遵命—放学就去弗利格尔先生那儿挨训，却看见他从桌上拿起我的作文，敲了敲桌子让大家注意听。 “好了，孩子们，”他说。“我要给你们念一篇小品文。文章的题目是：吃意大利细面条的艺术。” 于是他开始念了。是我写的!他给全班大声念我写的文章。更不可思议的是，全班同学都在听着他念，而且听得很专心。有人笑出声来，接着全班都笑了，不是轻蔑嘲弄，而是乐乎乎地开怀大笑。就连弗利格尔先生也停顿了两三次，好抑制他那丝拘谨的微笑。我尽力不流露出得意的心情，但是看到我写的文章竟然能使别人大笑，我真是心花怒放。就在十——年级，可谓是最后的时刻，我找到了一个今生想做的事。这是我整个求学生涯中最幸福的——刻。弗利格尔先生念完后说道：“瞧，孩子们，这就是小品文，懂了没有。这才是一知道吗——这才是小品文的精髓，知道了没有。祝贺你，贝克先生。”他这番话使我沉浸 在十全十美的幸福之中
Keys to Paper A (1---65 题每题一分，客观题共65分) 1-10 B D A C B C C D A B 11-20 A B D A C A D C B D 21-30 B D C A B D C A C B 31-45 D A D A B D C A C B C D C A B 46-55 A D C A B A C C D D 56-65 A C D B D A B C C D Part IV 汉译英（评分给正分，每小题都需打分，精确到0.5分） 1. China is a large country with four-fifths of the population engaged in agriculture, but only one tenth of the land is farmland, the rest being mountains, forests and places for urban and other uses. (2分) 2. An investigation indicates that non-smoking women living in a smoking family environment for 40 years or still longer will have double risk of developing lung cancer. （2分） 3. In our times, anyone who wants to play an important role in a society as he wishes must receive necessary education. With the development of science, more courses are offered in primary schools and middle schools. Compared with the education in the past, modern education places more stress on practicality. (3 分) 英译汉（评分给正分，每小题都需打分，精确到0.5分） 4. 程式化思维是人们交流的绊脚石，因为它有碍于人们对事物的客观观察。客观观察指人 们敏感地搜寻线索，引导自己的想象更接近他人的现实。（2分） 5. 当经济学家最初探讨经济发展的原因时，他们发现：人们一直认为无法解释的剩余因素是人力资本。人力资本，即人口的技能，是造成各国生产力差距以及地位不平等的一个重要因素。（3分） 6. 下文从解决妇女贫困问题的角度出发，探讨两性平等、减轻贫困和环境的可持续性诸目的之间的协同作用，涉及能源短缺、水资源缺乏、健康、气候变化、自然灾害，以及授予妇女在农业、林业、生态多元化管理领域中的权力使之创造可持续的生存方式等问题。（3分） Part V Summary （20分） 评分标准：主要看考生是否了解概要写作的方法以及能否用恰当的语言来表达。概要一定要客观简洁地表达原文的主要内容，不需要评论，不能照抄原文。具体给分标准为：（1）内容和形式都达标，仅有一二处小错：18-19分。（2）内容缺少一到三点，形式错误不过三处：16-17分。（3）内容欠缺较多，形式错误有五六处：14-15分。（4）内容欠缺较多，形式错误有十来处：12-13分。 Science and Humanity The twentieth century has made greater change to the world, which was brought by the progress in science, than any previous century. Unfortunately, not all these changes did good to the human society. Some of them have done serious damage to mankind and have been even predicted to destroy the whole world someday if out of control. In fact, mankind is not biologically programmed for violent behaviors like war. People are faced with a dilemma in which we would like to see science develop freely, but cannot afford the result of that. It is a
大学英语课程思政教学设计 大学英语课程作为高校一门公共课程，涉及的学生面广，应该坚持立德树人，将思政教育有机融入到大学英语教学中。作为大学英语教师，我们应该发掘大学英语课程中蕴含的思想政治教育价值和资源，坚持将思想政治教育贯穿到大学生英语知识的学习中，提升思政教育的亲和力和大学生英语课程的正确价值导向，培养学生的家国情怀，以及正确的人生观，世界观和价值观。在大学英语教学中，潜移默化地对学生进行思政教育，做到润物细无声。 首先，我们不可否认大学英语是一门语言基础课程。有教师认为既然是语言基础课就应该以语言教学为主，思想教育那是马哲、邓论、毛思等课程老师的任务，与我们无关。对这种看法，本人不敢苟同。我们经常说，做学问首先应该学会做人，做人有时比做学问更加重要。本人在平时的教学中就十分注重学生的思想教育，或许做了些辅导员该做的事。一日，我正为部分学生学习懒散而痛心疾首，一个成绩不错的学生对我说：“老师，你没必要跟他们生气，你把自己的课上好就行了，他们学不学是他们自己的事。做思想工作是辅导员的事，你没必要管那么多。”诚然，有很多老师都有如此想法。在《新视野大学英语（第二版）》的修订原则中有这么一点，“在语言技能、语言应用、语言文化等方面体现了语言基础课的要求，兼顾语言的工具性和人文性”。由此可见，连课本在编写时，都考虑兼顾工具性和人文性，我们在教学中为什么就不能兼顾呢？其实本人认为，大学英语作为一门语言课程，它也是一门很好的人文教育课程，因为语言本身就是文化的载体。在对学生进行语言知识传授的同时，可以很好地进行人文思想的教育。另外，一个语言教师比一个数学教师或是思想政治课的教师更能有效地传递人文信息，因为他能运用自身的语言优势，而且其教育是潜移默化的，更容易让学生接受。因此，一个语言教师对学生人格的塑造起着至关重要的作用。一个人学问再高，但若其素质低下，道德品质败坏，其终究是社会的败类，在一定程度上对社会造成的危害恐怕比那些没多少学问的人还要大。作为语言教学的教师，应该积极利用自身优势，将人文教育贯穿于语言知识教学中，有效地将二者统一起来。其中大学英语课程的人文性，实际上与我们提倡的思政教育是不谋而合的，二者是有机统一的。 在市场经济的时代，学生的思想也受到了巨大冲击，少了些理想主义，多了些实用主义和功利主义，大学英语教学的应试教育倾向明显，“重技能，轻人文”的现象相当普遍。老师的教学似乎就是为了让学生通过四、六级，在毕业时，找工作能有个敲门砖。而学生的学习似乎也很明确，就是通过四、六考试，那样就万事大吉了。这样人文教育或者说是思想政治教育在大学英语教学中就被有意无意地忽略了。而大学英语作为一门公共必修的语言课程，不仅要体现英语的工具性特征，更应发挥其特有的人文优势，使学生真正成长为高素质的人才。我们应该帮助学生扣好人生中的一粒扣子。所谓“守好一段渠，种好责任田”，作为大学英语教师，我们应该守好大学英语课程这段渠，种好大学英语这个责任田，培养有责任，有担当的一代新人。 现以《新视野大学英语》第3版第三册第1单元section A为例，来进行课程思政的教学设计。这篇课文的题目是Never, ever give up!教学步骤分为以下几步： 一、导入。 在这一部分，以提问的方式引导学生进入主题。 1.What's success？ 2.What do you think are the secrets of success？ 通过这两个问题引发学生对成功的探讨。 二、课前活动。 1.首先给学生播放一段有关如何使梦想成真的音频，就短文内容提出问题:What are the three steps mentioned in the talk to make one's dreams come true？
O v e r v i e w o f W H U Wuhan University (WHU) is a comprehensive and key national university directly under the administration of the Ministry of Education. It is also one of the "211 Project" and "985 Project"universities with full support in the construction and development from the central and local government of China. The history of Wuhan University can be traced back to Ziqiang Institute, which was founded in 1893 by Zhang Zhidong, the then governor of Hubei Province and Hunan Province in the late Qing Dynasty. In the process of development and evolution, the institute changed its name several times before it was finally named Wuhan National University in 1928. It is one of the earliest comprehensive national universities in modern China. By the end of 1946, the university had established 6 colleges, the colleges of liberal art, law, sciences, engineering, agriculture and medicine. In 2000, an amalgamation of the former Wuhan University, Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping, and Hubei Medical University was announced, which ushered in a new era in its 100-odd years of development. For the past century, Wuhan University has built an elegant palatial architectural complex of primitive simplicity which blends perfectly the eastern architectural style with that of the west. It is honored as the "Most Beautiful University in China." Furthermore, Wuhan University's centennial humanistic accumulation boils down to its succinct motto, that is, "Self-improvement, Perseverance, Truth-seeking & Innovation." Since its establishment, Wuhan University has cultivated more than 300 thousand professional talents in various occupations, among whom there are over 100 members of the Chinese Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. They have made great contribution to the national construction and social advancement. The remarkable achievements of Wuhan University have won itself an extensive international reputation. In 1999, the world renowned journalSciencelisted Wuhan University as one of the most prominent institutions of higher education in China.
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