2024年 中考英语阅读写作素材 用英语讲好中国故事

2024年秋期新九英语阅读写作素材 用英语讲好中国故事 用英语讲好中国故事一——The Four Great Inventions of China 四大发明 Hello ,everyone! I'm Allen. 大家好！我叫Allen. Today I will talk about the four great inventions of China. 我今天将给大家介绍中国的四大发明。 Paper making ，gunpowder , printing and compass. 分别是造纸术、火药、印刷术和指南针。 These four inventions have been recognized as catalysts for great civilizations. 四大发明催生了伟大的文明。 And these four important discovers and invitations were from China. 这四大发明都来自于中国。 Paper造纸术 Before paper, Chinese characters were inscribed unto animal bones.  在纸出现以前，汉字都是刻在动物的骨头上。 The innovation of paper came during the Han Dynasty. 造纸术出现于汉代。 Cai Lun used bark,rags and fishnets that widely spread throughout china. 蔡伦用常见的树皮，破布，鱼网来造纸。 Paper enabled the creation of lightweight books. 人们用纸做成了很轻的书。 Printing印刷术 Printing techniques would come during the Song Dynasty and by Bi Sheng . 印刷术来自于宋代的毕昇。 Bi Sheng had invented the first movable type printing press. 毕昇发明了第一台活字印刷机。 Chinese characters will be put into clay types and assembled to print a page. 汉字被制成粘土字体并组合成一页。 Compass指南针 The first compass was invented during the Han Dynasty.  指南针源于汉朝。 There is a lodestone like a spoon shape, which always point to south. 里面有一个像勺子的磁石始终指向南方。 Gunpowder火药 It was composed of charcoal,saltpeter and sulfur. 火药是由木炭、硝石和硫磺组成。 The military used them to develop weapons,such as the fire arrow. 军人用火药制作武器，比如火箭头。 These four inventions in science and technology are the famous four . 这四项科技发明，就是著名的四大发明。 用英语讲好中国故事二——The Great Wall四大发明 The Great Wall, which is also called the Wanli Changcheng, is actually the longest wall in the world.长城，也称之为“万里长城”，是世界上最长的城墙。 It goes up and down from mountains to mountains like a huge dragon.它宛如一条巨龙般盘旋在崇山峻岭间。 It is often called one of the Eight Wonders of the World. And it can also be seen from the moon.它常被称为世界八大奇迹之一。从月球上也可以看到。 The Great Wall is the ancient Chinese massive military defense project.长城是中国古代大规模的军事防御工程。 It has a long history of over 2,000 years. The first part of it was built during the Spring and Autumn Period. 它有着两千多年的历史，最初建于春秋时期。 From then on, it has often been rebuilt and repaired in many dynasties.从那时起，历朝历代不断重建和修复长城。 But without any modern machines, all the work had to be done by hand in ancient times. 但是古代没有任何现代化机械，所有的工作都必须人工完成。 Many people were forced to work there. They lifted earth in baskets, passed bricks from hand to hand and dragged big heavy stones with ropes over their shoulders. 许多人被迫在那里工作。他们用篮子运土，手传墙砖，用肩绳拖拉沉重的石头。 And they also endured terrible weather and living conditions. Thousands of men died and were buried under the wall they built. 他们还得忍受恶劣的天气和艰苦的生活环境。成千上万的人死了，被埋在他们建造的城墙下。 The Great Wall was made not only of stone and earth, but of the flesh and blood of millions of men.长城不仅是用石头和泥土建造的，更是靠成千上万人的血肉建成的。 Today the Great Wall is the most popular not only to the Chinese people, but also to the people from all over the world.今天，长城不只是吸引中国人，也是吸引了全世界人们。 When people reach the top of the Great Wall, they will understand the famous Chinese saying," He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man."只有当人们登上长城的时候，才能真正懂得“不到长城非好汉”。 孟姜女哭长城 During the Qin Dynasty, there was a young lady named Meng Jiangnv. Her husband Fan Xiliang was arrested by government officials to build the Great Wall. 秦朝时期，有一位年轻的女子，名叫孟姜女。她的丈夫范喜良被官府抓了壮丁去修筑长城。 For a long time after her husband left, Meng Jiangnv had no news of him. She was worried about her husband, so she decided to visit him. 丈夫走了很长时间，孟姜女都没有他的任何消息。她很担心她的丈夫，所以她决定去看看他。She climbed over mountains and went through the rivers. Finally she reached the Great Wall, but only to find that her husband had already died.她跋山涉水，终于到了长城，却得知她的丈夫已经死了。 Hearing that, Meng Jiangnv was so heartbroken that she cried loudly for three days and nights, which made a part of the Great Wall collapse. She found her husband’s bones there. Then she wrapped them up and jumped into the sea.孟姜女听了，伤心欲绝，一连哭了三天三夜，直到她身边的一段城墙坍塌了。她在那里发现了丈夫的尸骨。她把丈夫的尸骨包起来，随后跳进了大海里。 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$