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Longji
Rice
Terrace
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How would you describe this place?
Imagine mountains wrapped in silver water, shining in the spring sun. Summer sees the mountains turn bright green with growing rice. During autumn, these same mountains are gold, and in winter they are covered in sheets of white frost. These are the colours of the Longji Rice Terraces.
Structure Analysis of Para 1
Imagine mountains wrapped in silver water, shining in the spring sun. Summer sees the mountains turn bright green with growing rice. During autumn, these same mountains are gold, and in winter they are covered in sheets of white frost. These are the colours of the Longji Rice Terraces.
What is the genre of the passage?
Exposition
Details
Significance
Topic
Who? Where? When?
Why did they build it?
How does it work?
Longji Rice Terraces
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mean a lot
great wonder
Who? Where? When?
These terraces were built by the local Zhuang and Yao people, to whom Guangxi is home. Starting in the Yuan Dynasty, work on the terraces took hundreds of years, until its completion in the early Qing Dynasty. Reaching as far as the eye can see, these terraces cover tall mountains, often from the bottom to the very top.
Why did they built it?
So why did these people go to so much trouble to turn the entire mountains into terraces? Firstly, there are few large, flat areas of land in the region. Building the terraces, therefore, meant that they could increase the areas which they could grow rice. Secondly, although the region has plenty of rain, the mountains are steep and the soil is shallow. The flat terraces catch the rainwater and prevent the soil from being washed away.
Topic sentence
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how terraces could help
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how terraces could help
How does it work?
But perhaps what is most significant is the way in which people have worked in harmony with nature to make these terraces and grow rice. The terraces are cleverly designed, with hundreds of waterways that connect with each other. During the rainy season, it is along these waterways that rainwater moves down the mountains and into the terraces. The sun heats the water and turns it into vapour. This forms clouds from which rain falls down onto the mountain terraces once again. These terraces also provide a perfect environment for birds and fish, some of which feed on insects that can harm the rice crops.
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How does it work?
Significance
Although modern technology could help produce more crops, these terraces still mean a lot to the local people for whom traditions hold much value. This Knowledge is passed down through families, which means that new generations continue to use ancient methods of agriculture to maintain the terraces. Today, the Longji Rice Terraces attract thousands of visitors who come to admire this great wonder created by people and nature working together.
Why do the local people still keep their traditional way of growing rice?
Because for them traditions are so valuable that the knowledge is passed down through generations of families. Besides, the traditional methods suits the natural environment and people can work in harmony with nature.
What are the similarities between 'the Floating City' and the Longji Rice Terraces?
Therefore, what should we do to live in harmony with nature?
We should adapt to local conditions(因地制宜) and make use of nature in an environmentally-friendly way.
Imagine mountains wrapped in silver water, shining in the spring sun.
Important sentences
本句中的wrapped in the silver water为过去分词作后置定语,修饰限定mountains;shining in the spring sun是现在分词短语作伴随状语,表示mountain的状态。
想象一下,群山被银色的水包裹着,在春日的阳光下闪闪发光。
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在本句话中, reaching as far as the eye can see为现在分词作状语,逻辑主语为句子主语 these terraces。
Reaching as far as the eye can see, these terraces cover tall mountains, often from the bottom to the top.
Important sentences
放眼望去,这些梯田覆盖着高山,通常从山底一直延伸到山顶。
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Language points: Exercise
1. If you hand in your homework late, attach a note
(explain) the reason for the delay.
2. Messi started playing soccer at the age of 5 for a small soccer team (own) by his father. Even as a young boy, he did very well.
3. The man did as told and slept really well, ___________
(wake) up before the alarm had even gone off.
用所给动词的适当形式填空。
explaining
owned
waking
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强调句型基本结构:It is / was + 强调部分 + that +其他成分,用来强调谓语动词外的其它句子成分,如主语、宾语、宾语补足语、状语等。It在句子里没有实际意义,只是引出被强调的部分。被强调的部分指的是人时,句型中的that可以用who替换。
During the rainy season, it is along these waterways that rainwater moves down the mountains and into the terraces.
Important sentences
在多雨季节,雨水正是沿着沟渠流下山,流到梯田中。
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用强调句式将下列句子翻译成英语。
1)不是你说了什么,而是你做了什么才重要。
2)正是因为下雨了,他才来晚了。
3)昨天究竟在哪儿发生了交通事故?
It was because of the rain that he was late.
Language points: Exercise
It is not what you say, but what you do that matters /
counts / is important.
Where was it that the traffic accident happened yesterday?
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