英语四级晨读美文3篇

英语四级晨读美文3篇

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英语四级晨读美文篇一

Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle is an official residence of The Queen and the

largest occupied castle in the world. A royal palace and fortress

for over 900 years, the Castle remains a working palace today.

Visitors can walk around the State Apartments, extensive suites

of rooms at the heart of the working palace; for part of the year

visitors can also see the Semi State rooms, which are some of the

most splendid interiors in the castle. They are furnished with

treasures from the Royal Collection including paintings by

Holbein, Rubens, Van Dyck and Lawrence, fine tapestries and

porcelain, sculpture and armour.

Within the Castle complex there are many additional

attractions. In the Drawings Gallery regular exhibitions of

treasures from the Royal Library are mounted. Another popular

feature is the Queen Mary's Dolls' House, a miniature mansion

built to perfection. The fourteenth-century St. George's Chapel is

the burial place of ten sovereigns, home of the Order of the

Garter, and setting for many royal weddings. Nearby on the

Windsor Estate is Frogmore House, an attractive country

residence with strong associations to three queens - Queen

Charlotte, Queen Victoria and Queen Mary.

英语四级晨读美文篇二

Roman Colosseum

The Colosseum or Flavian Amphitheater was begun by Vespasian, inaugurated by Titus in 80 A.D. and completed by

Domitian. Located on marshy land between the Esquiline and

Caelian Hills, it was the first permanent amphitheater to be built

in Rome. Its monumental size and grandeur as well as its practical

and efficient organization for producing spectacles and

controlling the large crowds make it one of the great architectural

monuments achieved by the ancient Romans.

The amphitheater is a vast ellipse with tiers of seating for

50,000 spectators around a central elliptical arena. Below the

wooden arena floor, there was a complex set of rooms and

passageways for wild beasts and other provisions for staging the

spectacles. Eighty walls radiate from the arena and support vaults

for passageways, stairways and the tiers of seats. At the outer

edge circumferential arcades link each level and the stairways

between levels.

The three tiers of arcades are faced by three-quarter columns

and entablatures, Doric in the first story, Ionic in the second, and

Corinthian in the third. Above them is an attic story with

Corinthian pilasters and small square window openings in

alternate bays. At the top brackets and sockets carry the masts

from which the velarium, a canopy for shade, was suspended.

The construction utilized a careful combination of types:

concrete for the foundations, travertine for the piers and arcades,

tufa infill between piers for the walls of the lower two levels, and

brick-faced concrete used for the upper levels and for most of

the vaults.

Details

The Colosseum was designed to hold 50,000 spectators, and

it had approximately eighty entrances so crowds could arrive and

leave easily and quickly. The plan is a vast ellipse, measuring externally 188 m x 156

m (615 ft x 510 ft), with the base of the building covering about

6 acres. Vaults span between eighty radial walls to support tiers

of seating and for passageways and stairs.

The facade of three tiers of arches and an attic story is about

48.5 m (158 ft) tall — roughly equivalent to a 12-15 story building.

英语四级晨读美文篇三

民族特性

I find it easiest to look forwards by looking back, to the

"Great Labour Migration"1 of 1948-55, seenat the time as a

matter of2 black guests coming to a white host. It's a quasi-imperial3 perception that4 has shifted since the 1970s, but the

social problems and deficiencies it engendered dog5 us still.

It's highly questionable whether Britain is an open society

even now. Against6 the upward trend in the 1980s of ethnic

minorities breaking into the professions and the media must be

set objective evidence of a very racist society7. Since the Stephen

Lawrence affair8 the government has at least been talking about

the existence of racism, but it's always the case that racism

diminishes in times of prosperity. When the economic going gets

tough9, people want someone to take their feelings out on10.

The social landscape11 seems to me at a surreal crossroads.

Britain fosters images of itself as homogeneous12 ?to be white is

no longer the central defining feature?but there remain various

kinds of "Britishness". So I can envisage the future in two very

different ways.

The first is broadly the way Britain is at the moment: a mosaic

of communities13 ?Bangladeshi, Afro-Caribbean, Chinese or