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选择必修Book 3 Unit 4 Protecting the heritage sites
B卷·综合能力提升练
(时间:90分钟 满分:120分)
第一部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分50分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题2.5分,满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
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(2023春·江苏盐城·高二统考阶段练习)Held every year on 21 May, the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development celebrates culture and highlights its diversity as a symbol of inclusion and positive change. Today, we invite Nita Llonçari and Baktygul Rakymbaeva to talk about their favourite cultural heritages.
Nita Llonçari, Kosovo
Cinema ‘Lumbardhi’ in Prizren is one of my favourite sites. It’s a great representation of national culture because it goes beyond the usual definition of material heritage. The Cinema has not become a monument due to its astonishing architecture or its very old age, but because of its genuine value to the people of Kosovo.
Cultural monuments in their most basic form can teach us about why we live the way we live. Every decision taken about a monument - how it was built, why it was built, how it is protected - has an idea behind it, whether it is their protection, destruction, restoration or reinterpretation. When we look at a monument, we learn about the power heritage has to alter societies. That’s the reason we should not allow our past to be erased. Otherwise, we risk history falling into oblivion.
Baktygul Rakymbaeva, Kyrgyzstan
‘Manas’ is one of the finest narratives and an encyclopaedia of the Kyrgyz people’s life and fight for independence, statehood, culture, life-style, education and all other aspects of their life. Counting up to 937,000 lines of sentences, the oral epic has been included in UNESCO’s list of masterpieces of cultural heritages of humanity. ‘Manas’ has also been considered for World Guinness Records as the World’s Biggest Epic.
The epic has travelled through more than 1,000 years by word of mouth depicting the Kyrgyz hero Manas, his wife Kanykei, their relatives, family and their efforts to build the strong and independent Kyrgyz state. Manaschy have ta