高中英语北师大版版必修3教学案Unit 8 Section 3 Word版含答案

高中英语专题

Section_ⅢLesson_2_&_Lesson_3_—_Pre-reading_

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Marco Polo and His Travels

Marco Polo was born in Italy in 1254. When he was 17 years old, he travelled across Europe and

Asia with his father, who wanted to do trade① with the Chinese②. Eventually③， they arrived in Beijing.

At that time, China was ruled by the Yuan Dynasty Emperor④， Kublai Khan.

Kublai Khan welcomed Marco and his father. He was very happy to meet two foreigners and wanted

to learn all about Europe. Marco and his father were guests at the Emperor's Palace. Although Marco was

young, he was very clever and could already speak four languages. The Emperor was impressed⑤ by him

and they became friends. He asked Marco to serve⑥ in his court⑦ and sent him to do many important

tasks across the country.

Marco, in turn⑧， was amazed⑨ by how beautiful and powerful China was. He was very

impressed by Beijing and the Emperor's Palace, especially⑩ the Summer Palace ⑪which he described as⑫“The greatest palace that ever was ... The walls were covered in gold and silver and the Hall was so

large it could easily seat⑬ 6,000 people for dinner⑭.”

There were inventions and developments in China which were not available⑮ in Europe at that time⑯. Marco was surprised to see Chinese people using paper money in the markets. In Europe, people paid

forgoods⑰ with gold or silver. He could not understand how people could pay for food and valuable

things with paper! He was also confused⑱by the black stones people used to burn for fuel⑲. The black

stones were coal, but Marco had never seen coal before！

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①trade v．做买卖n．买卖，交易

trade with sb. in sth.同某人做某方面的生意

②who引导非限制性定语从句，修饰his father。

③eventually adv. 最终，终于

④emperor/'emprə/n. 皇帝

⑤impress vt. 给……以深刻印象

be impressed by ... 对……印象深刻

⑥serve vt.&vi.为……服务；任职

⑦court/kɔːt/n．宫廷；法庭 高中英语专题

⑧in turn轮流；相应地

by turns 轮流

take turns 依次，轮流

in return 作为回报

⑨amaze/ə'meIz/vt.使惊愕(惊奇)

amazed adj.吃惊的，惊异的

amazing adj.令人惊异的，了不起的

be amazed at/by ... 对……感到惊奇

⑩especially adv.尤其，特别地

specially adv.特别地，专门地

⑪which引导定语从句，修饰the Summer Palace。

⑫describe ... as 把……说成/描述成

⑬seat vt.使某人就座，容纳

⑭该句为“so ...that”结构，句中省略了that，补充为so large that it could ...

⑮available adj. 可获得的；可找到的

⑯which引导定语从句，修饰inventions and developments。

⑰goods/ɡʊdz/n. 商品，物品

⑱confuse/kən'fjuːz/vt. 使困惑

be confused by 对……感到困惑

confuse A with B把A与B混淆

⑲fuel/fjʊəl/n．燃料

马可·波罗和他的旅行

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马可·波罗1254年出生于意大利。他17岁时，由于父亲想和中国人做生意，他就和父亲一起游历欧洲和亚洲。最后，他们到达北京。当时元世祖忽必烈正统治着中国。

元世祖忽必烈欢迎马可和他的父亲。他很高兴见到两位外国人，想向他们了解欧洲的全部情况。马可和他的父亲成了皇宫里的贵客。尽管马可很年轻，但他聪明伶俐，并且会讲四种语言。他给皇帝留下了深刻的印象，两个人成了朋友。皇帝让马可留在朝廷服务，派他到全国各地完成了多项重要使命。

马可也相应地被中国的美丽和强大所震撼。北京和皇宫给他留下了深刻的印象，尤其是夏宫，他称它为“迄今最伟大的宫殿……它的墙用黄金和白银装饰，大厅大到可以轻易地容纳6 000人同时进餐。”

那时，中国的许多发明和发展水平是在欧洲见不到的。马可惊奇地发现中国市场上流通的是高中英语专题

纸币。而在欧洲，那时人们还是用金、银买货物。他不理解人们怎么可以用纸来买食物和值钱的物品！他也不明白为什么人们用黑色的石头作燃料。这种黑色的石头就是煤，但是马可以前从没有见过煤！

In 1291, after 17 years of service to the Emperor, Marco returned to Italy. He was now a very

wealthy⑳ man. Not long after his return, a local warbroke out○21 near his town. During the war, Marco

was the captain of a warship but was caught by the enemy and put into prison○22. However, Marco was

lucky enough to meet another prisoner who enjoyed listening to his stories about China. The prisoner was

an author○23 and he took dictation○24 while Marco told all his stories to him. The prisoner then wrote the

stories in a book called TheDescriptionoftheWorld○25，which became one of the best-selling○26 books in

Europe○27.

Although people enjoyed reading his book, many of them thought that Marco's stories about China

were too fantastic○28 to be true. But Marco always stood by○29 his tales. Just before he died, aged○30 70,

Marco was asked the question，“Was it all true？”，to which he replied○31，“I have only told a half

of what I saw！”,⑳wealthy/'welθi/adj. 富有的，富裕的

wealth n．财富；大量；丰富

○21break out (坏事)突然发生，爆发

happen vi. 发生

○22put ... into prison把……关进监狱

be in prison 被监禁

○23author/'ɔːθə/n. 作者

○24dictation/dIk'teIʃn/n. 口述，听写

○25过去分词短语called ... 作定语，修饰 a book。

○26best-selling adj. 最畅销的

best-seller n. 畅销书或唱片

○27which引导非限制性定语从句，修饰TheDescriptionoftheWorld。

○28fantastic adj.富于想象的；无法实现的

○29stand by坚持(某种说法) 高中英语专题

stand out 显眼，引人注意

○30aged adj. ……岁的

○31to which引导定语从句，修饰the question；reply to回答。

[第5～6段译文]1291年，在中国为皇帝效力17年后，马可回到意大利。那时，他已经很富有了。他返回之后不久，一场区域性的战争在他家乡附近爆发了。在战争中，马可成为一艘战舰的舰长，但不幸被俘入狱。然而在狱中，马可幸运地遇到了一个喜欢听他讲关于中国的故事的囚犯。那个囚犯是一位作家，马可把自己所有的故事讲给他听，他做笔录。然后那个囚犯把故事写成一本书，名为《马可·波罗游记》，这本书成为当时欧洲最畅销的书之一。

虽然人们爱读他的书，但许多人认为马可关于中国的故事太离奇而不可信。但马可总是坚持他所讲的故事是真的。马可70岁去世，临终前，有人问他：“你讲的故事都是真的吗？”马可回答道：“我讲的只是我所看到的一半！”

Pre-reading

Please match the words with their proper meanings.

1．extreme A．冒……的危险

2．similarity B．兴奋，激动

3．risk C．相似性，类似性