UNIT 4 Section Ⅰ Reading and Thinking（Word教参）-【优化指导】2022-2023学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第二册（人教版2019）

单元素养目标 文化、思维、学习能力目标 理解和掌握语义连接手段和过渡衔接技巧，深入理解本国和他国文化，提高跨文化理解和沟通能力，学会分析和评判长途旅行中不同交通方式的特点与利弊 语言能力目标 核心单词 airline，bay，antique，pleasant，arise，massive，literally，breath，bound，awesome，peak，highlight，goat，drill，freeze，anticipate，bunch，thunder，frost，curtain，border，duration，idiom，contrary，anyhow，alongside，proceed，shore，astonish，mist，steel，advertisement，accent，photographer，owe，toast 重点词块 take sb.'s breath away，grizzly bear，freezing cold，a bunch of，contrary to，proceed to sth.，owe sth. to sb. 单元语法 过去分词与动词­ing形式的用法 写作能力 写一封关于旅行的电子邮件 单元话题导入 [品读话题短文] It takes visitors from Chengdu，capital of Sichuan Province，four hours by train or bus to reach Bazhong，if they want to view the famous display of autumn leaves① in this city in the easternmost part of the province. Many complain that to get there more quickly，they have to take a train bound for Hanzhong in neighboring Shaanxi Province.From there，they can take a taxi to Bazhong's Nanjiang County，part of a former revolutionary base② on the border between Sichuan and Shaanxi，which is best known for its autumn leaves. But visitors will now find that it's faster to reach those leaves thanks to the transportation boom kicked off③ by the development of the Chengdu­Chongqing Economic Circle，decision­makers in Bazhong said. Cashing in on④ the area's construction，Bazhong should be reachable from Chengdu and Chongqing within two hours by 2025，and within an hour and a half by 2035，according to He Ping，secretary of the Bazhong committee of the Communist Party of China. Located in⑤ a mountainous area，Bazhong was made famous by a poem written by Li Shangyin，the late Tang Dynasty (618­907) poet who composed To My Family in the North on a Rainy Night in Nanjiang while he was on his way home to Shaanxi. After overnight rain，the dirt roads through the mountains in Nanjiang had become inaccessible，leaving Li stranded for several days⑥. “You ask me when I will come back but I don't know.The pools in Nanjiang with autumn rain overflow，”