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1、Lesson 14. The Ice and Snow Festival I. Script Across thecountry, in thefar northeast, peopleof Harbin aren t practicing inage-old tradition like the Kazaks. They arecreating their own history to passon.Renowned asthe icecity in Chinait can reach minus38 degreesFahrenheit in winter.Nearly 10,000 wor

2、kershavebeen dragging and cuttinggiant blocks of ice from thefrozen Songhuariver, 550-pound icecubes. This isa new festival but based on the17th century tradition, whenfishermen carved lanternsfrom ice.Over thenext week, artistswill raceto transform this plentiful local resourceintoagiant frozen won

3、derland-theHarbin iceand snow festival.“ Weshould embrace thisuniqueclimatethat God had blessed upon us. And openour heartsto theworld, despite thecold weather.”Thisevent has growninto the largest icefestive in theworld.“ The weather is our biggest challenge. We reon tight deadlines. All theice isso

4、urced from the SonghuaRiver. If theice isnot thick enough, wewill not beable toharvest it. And construction will bedelayed. Luckily the weather condition this year isgood. Every sculptureis just likemy own child. I watch them grow up every day. It snot just ajob, we are emotionally devoted to transf

5、orm thispark into a magnificentpiece of art and present this to visitors.”Opening day is here. A city of ice hasrisen. Covering an areathesizeof 150-football fields. But it sthenight which seestheIceCity in its full splendor.By standing on theshouldersof their ancestors, the Chinesehavethrough geniu

6、sagriculture andengineering traditionsbecome anation that s developed from apoorrural back water toone of thefastest developing countries in the history of mankind.But what does thefuture hold for Chinaon thethreshold the 21st century? How willChinatacklemodern issues asenergy pollution and overpopu

7、lation and how doesanation of nearly 1.4 billion peoplework and play?II.Translation横贯全国，在东北深处，哈尔滨人并不像哈萨克人一样秉承古老的传统，而是自己创造历史以传千秋。这座城以中国冰雪之都为名，最低温度可达零下 38华氏度（39 摄氏度）。大约一万名工人正在从冰冻的松花江中切割拖拽取出巨大的冰块，550 磅的冰块。这是一个基于十七世纪传统的崭新节日，那时渔民曾用冰块雕刻灯笼。整个下一周，艺术家将竞相把这丰富的本地资源转化为巨大无比的冰雪仙境哈尔滨冰雪节。“我们应该说享受这种，就是上帝赐予我们这种温度的优势，

8、再配上这种，打开自己的胸怀，就可以拥抱全世界。”这个节日已经发展成世界最大的冰雪节。“最大的挑战，第一就是我们的天气，因为我们现在工期非常紧。第二的话呢，所有的冰块全部取自松花江。这你要温度厚度达不到我们就没法建设，好在今年还好。这儿每个景观就是都是像我的孩子一样一点一点看着他们长大的。就是完全就是法子内心的，想把这个事情，不当成是一项工作，而是要把它建成是一个艺术的宫殿，展现给世界各地的游客。”今天盛世迎门，冰城拔地而起，面积之大，足足有一百五十个足球场。而仅当入夜，冰城的雍容华贵才会极尽闪耀。借先祖之智，中国以其天才般的农业和工业传统从极品羸弱的国家发展为人类史上发展最为迅猛的国家，但是中

9、国的未来又会如何呢？在二十一世纪的门口，中国将如何面对这些现代性问题诸如：能源、污染和人口过多？一个具有将近十四亿人口的国家是如何工作和娱乐的？III. New wordsand expressions1.renowned r? na?nd adj. 著名的；有声望的2.minus ma? n?s adj.（表示数目）在零度以下的；负数的3.Fahrenheit f?r?nha? t adj. 华氏的; 华氏温度计的4.cubekju:b n. 立方体; 小房间5.embrace?mbre? s vt. 拥抱；接受6.bless bles vt. 祝福；保佑7.sculpturesk?lpt?

10、(r) n.塑像; 雕刻品 vt.雕塑8.transform tr? nsf?:m vt. 变换；改观9.magnificent m?gn? f? snt adj. 壮丽的；伟大的10.splendor splend? n. 光辉；壮丽11.geniusd?i:ni?s n. 天才；天赋12.rural r?r?l adj. 乡下的；农村的13.threshold re?h?ld n. 门槛；入口14.overpopulation ? ?v? p?pj?le? ? n n. 人口过剩passon 传递berenowned as 著名的bebased on 以为依据bless upon赐予besourced from 来源于devoteto 忠于; 专心于