2019高中英语unit8adventuresectionⅲlesson2

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1、SectionⅢLesson2&Lesson3—Pre-readingMarcoPoloandHisTravelsMarcoPolowasborninItalyin1254.Whenhewas17yearsold,hetravelledacrossEuropeandAsiawithhisfather,whowantedtodotrade①withtheChinese②.Eventually③，theyarrivedinBeijing.Atthattime,ChinawasruledbytheYuanDynastyEmperor④

2、，KublaiKhan.KublaiKhanwelcomedMarcoandhisfather.HewasveryhappytomeettwoforeignersandwantedtolearnallaboutEurope.MarcoandhisfatherwereguestsattheEmperor'sPalace.AlthoughMarcowasyoung,hewasverycleverandcouldalreadyspeakfourlanguages.TheEmperorwasimpressed⑤byhimandtheyb

3、ecamefriends.HeaskedMarcotoserve⑥inhiscourt⑦andsenthimtodomanyimportanttasksacrossthecountry.Marco,inturn⑧，wasamazed⑨byhowbeautifulandpowerfulChinawas.HewasveryimpressedbyBeijingandtheEmperor'sPalace,especially⑩theSummerPalace⑪whichhedescribedas⑫“Thegreatestpalacetha

4、teverwas...ThewallswerecoveredingoldandsilverandtheHallwassolargeitcouldeasilyseat⑬6,000peoplefordinner⑭.”TherewereinventionsanddevelopmentsinChinawhichwerenotavailable⑮inEuropeatthattime⑯.MarcowassurprisedtoseeChinesepeopleusingpapermoneyinthemarkets.InEurope,people

5、paidforgoods⑰withgoldorsilver.Hecouldnotunderstandhowpeoplecouldpayforfoodandvaluablethingswithpaper!Hewasalsoconfused⑱bytheblackstonespeopleusedtoburnforfuel⑲.Theblackstoneswerecoal,butMarcohadneverseencoalbefore！①tradev．做买卖n．买卖，交易tradewithsb.insth.同某人做某方面的生意②who引导非

6、限制性定语从句，修饰hisfather。③eventuallyadv.最终，终于④emperor/'emprə/n.皇帝⑤impressvt.给……以深刻印象beimpressedby...对……印象深刻⑥servevt.&vi.为……服务；任职⑦court/kɔːt/n．宫廷；法庭⑧inturn轮流；相应地byturns轮流taketurns依次，轮流inreturn作为回报⑨amaze/ə'meIz/vt.使惊愕(惊奇)amazedadj.吃惊的，惊异的amazingadj.令人惊异的，了不起的beamazedat/by.

7、..对……感到惊奇⑩especiallyadv.尤其，特别地speciallyadv.特别地，专门地⑪which引导定语从句，修饰theSummerPalace。⑫describe...as把……说成/描述成⑬seatvt.使某人就座，容纳⑭该句为“so...that”结构，句中省略了that，补充为solargethatitcould...⑮availableadj.可获得的；可找到的⑯which引导定语从句，修饰inventionsanddevelopments。⑰goods/ɡʊdz/n.商品，物品⑱confuse/kən

8、'fjuːz/vt.使困惑beconfusedby对……感到困惑confuseAwithB把A与B混淆⑲fuel/fjʊəl/n．燃料马可·波罗和他的旅行[第1～4段译文]马可·波罗1254年出生于意大利。他17岁时，由于父亲想和中国人做生意，他就和父亲一起游历