单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,Unit 13 Famous cities and sightseeing,CONTENTS,Teaching Aims,Text A,Text B,Supplementing Reading,TEACHING AIMS,After studying this,unit,you are,required to,:,1.,H,ave a general idea of,Famous cities and sightseeing,.,2.,Understand,the history,of,Famous cities and sightseeing,.,3,.,M,aster the difficult words and expressions,.,Text A,Washington,D.C.,TEXT A Preview,为了纪念美国的第一位总统乔治华盛顿和1492年发现美洲新大陆的意大利航海家哥伦布，美国的首都被命名为华盛顿哥伦比亚特区Washington,D.C.formally the District of Columbia。它碧山黛河，风景秀丽，200年来一直是美国政治的晴雨表，美国行为的策源地，也是世界各地游客首选的美国旅游目的地。,TEXT A,Reading,C,omprehension,Read the following sentences and decide whether they are trueT)or falseF),1.On July 16,1790,the Residence Act provided for a new permanent capital to be located on the Potomac River,the exact area to be selected by President Washington D.C.,2.In 1815,the White House was not set ablaze by the British Army.,3.Located in Washington,D.C.,The United States Capitol sits atop Capitol Hill at the western end of the National Mall.,4.The Pentagon has five sides,five floors above ground(plus two basement levels),and five ring corridors per floor with a total of 17.5 miles(28.2 km)of corridors.,TEXT A,Reading,C,omprehension,5.On September 21,2001,exactly 60 years since the buildings groundbreaking,hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 was crashed into the western side of the Pentagon.,6.Washington monument is not the worlds tallest stone structure.There are taller monumental columns.,7.Thomas Jefferson,an American Founding Father and the fourth president of the United States.,8.The Library of Congress was established by Congress in 1700,and was housed in the United States Capitol for most of the 19th century.,9.The President and First Lady typically attend the Honors ceremony,as the President is the honorary chair of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees.,10.The Washington Post Company has a daily free commuter newspaper called the Express,which summarizes events,sports and entertainment,as well as the Spanish-language paper El Tiempo Latino.,TEXT A,Reading,C,omprehension,TEXT A Notes,1.James Madison(March 16,1751 June 28,1836):was an American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourth President of the United States(18091817)and is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States,the Father of the Constitution.He was the principal author of the document.In 1788,he wrote over a third of the Federalist Papers,still the most influential commentary on the Constitution.,TEXT A Notes,2.Philadelphia:This city has served as the meeting place for Congress and is therefore considered to have once been the capital of the United States.The state government left Philadelphia in 1799 and the federal government left soon after in 1800,As part of the legislation,Philadelphia was chosen as a temporary capital for ten years,until the nations capital in Washington,D.C.would be ready.,TEXT A Notes,3.Residence Act,：,The Residence Act of 1790,officially titled An Act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the Government of the United States,is the United States federal law that settled the question of locating the capital of the United States,selecting a site along the Potomac River.The federal government was located in New York City at the time the bill was passed and had previously been located in Philadelphia.The Residence Act allowed the President to select a location within Maryland as far east as the Anacostia River.However,Washington shifted the federal territorys borders to the southeast in order to include the city of Alexandria at the Districts southern tip.In 1791,Congress amended the Residence Act to approve the new site,including territory ceded by Virginia.,TEXT A New Words and Expressions:,federal fedrl adj.联邦的；同盟的,A federal judge says the courts should let the military process play out as Congress intended.,一个联邦审判员说，法庭应该让军事进程如同国会方案的那样开始。,2.distinct distikt adj.清楚的；明显的；独特的；有区别的,In the medium term,a sharp rise in inflation is a distinct possibility.,在中期，通货膨胀的急剧上升是一次明显的可能。,3.distinct from vt.与不同,The middle bourgeoisie constitutes the national bourgeoisie as distinct from the comprador class,i.e.from the big bourgeoisie.,中等资产阶级就是除了买办阶级即大资产阶级以外的民族资产阶级。,4.congress kgres,knres n.国会；会议；代表大会；社交,The aversion of Congress to hard decisions is no small obstacle for the president.,国会对难以决定的事项的厌恶对总统来说是一个不小的障碍。,TEXT A New Words and Expressions:,5.set ablaze烧起；使燃起,Forests are sometimes set ablaze by lightning.,森林有时因雷击而起火。,6.eventually iventuli adv.最后，终于,To lighten their reading material,people eventually began to write on silk.,为了减轻读本的重量，人们最终开始在丝绸上书写。,7.alteration,:ltrein n.变更；修改，改变,One obvious impact is the radical alteration of the land surface.,一种显而易见的影响是大地外表剧烈的改变。,8.legislature ledisleit n.立法机关；立法机构,Its legislature passed a resolution refusing to implement the Real ID Act with nearl