新视野大学英语第4册 (9)

Extensions continue to be built, although budgetary constraints have slowed the momentum of the TGV expansion. Sleeping Beauty: a fairy-tale heroine who slept for 100 years until wakened by the kiss of a prince.
theme park: Also known as amusement park, it is an outdoor area containing amusements, such as games of skill and big machines to ride on, which are sometimes all based on a single subject, for example, space travel. The first theme park was Disneyland, at Anaheim, California, opened in 1955 and based on Walt Disney’s cartoon characters.
TGV: The name “Train à Grande Vitesse (TGV)” translated into English means high speed train. The TGV is a system which comprises train, track, and signalling technologies that when combined make high speeds (typically 300 km/h, or 186 mph) possible. The TGV system is owned and operated by SNCF, the French national railways, and is an integral part of French rail travel. The TGV program was launched in the late 1960s. In its early stages, the program was considered a technological dead end.
Questions for thought and discussion
Listen to a short passage carefully and then answer the following questions .
Background information
Euro Disneyland: an extremely large amusement park, run by the Walt Disney Company, just outside Paris in France. It is based on Disneyland and Disneyworld in the US.
Peter Pan: the main character in a story titled Peter and Wendy by James M. Barrie (Scottish playwright and novelist, 1860 — 1937), a young boy who never grows up but lives in a magic land called Never-never Land. In the story, three children, Michael, John, and Wendy, go with Peter Pan and Tinkerbell to stay in the Never-Never Land, where they have many adventures. Peter Pan’s enemy in the story is Captain Hook, an evil pirate who has a metal hook in the place of one of his hands. Captain Hook lost his hand in a fight with Peter Pan, and Peter Pan threw the hand into some water.
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Unit 9
Make Euro Disney More European
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It was eaten by a crocodile, who liked the taste so much that it then followed Captain Hook around trying to catch and eat the rest of him. Pinocchio: The international classic of childhood literature “Pinocchio” was written by Carlo Lorenzini (Italian journalist and writer, 1826 — 1890), under the pen name of C. Collodi, and first published in Rome in 1881. Its hero Pinocchio is the little wooden puppet who walks and talks, and whose nose grows every time he tells a lie.
Snow White: the main character in an old fairy tale. Snow white is a beautiful princess who has a jealous stepmother. The stepmother owns a magic mirror which when asked “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of us all?” always answers that she is the most beautiful, until one day it says “Snow White”. The stepmother is very angry and sends Snow White into the forest to be killed. Snow White does not die, but finds and lives with seven Dwarfs. Her stepmother tries to kill her with a poisoned apple, but instead of dying she goes to sleep until a prince kisses her and wakes her, and they live happily ever after.
Mickey Mouse: Mickey Mouse is probably the most famous of the Disney cartoon characters. Making his debut in “Steamboat Willie” at the Colony Theatre in New York City on November 18, 1928, Mickey went on to star in over 120 different cartoons. He also starred in “The Mickey Mouse Club” television show of the 1950s. Mickey Mouse’s original drawings used circles for his head, body and ears.
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Group work Questions for thought and discussion Background information Enriching your vocabulary Comparing theห้องสมุดไป่ตู้following words
Group work
Go over the preview, the prereading questions and the title of the text before listening to the summary of the story and anticipate what we are going to read.
Originally, Mickey was voiced by Walt Disney himself. Later, those duties were assumed by Jim Macdonald and today Wayne Allwine provides Mickey’s distinctive voice. Mickey Mouse has appeared on thousands of merchandise items, and currently holds the esteemed title of Chief Greeter at the Disney theme parks.
Conventional wisdom at the time held that steel wheel on steel rail technology had been explored and understood to its fullest, and it was time to move on to more innovative technologies like magnetic levitation and jet-powered hover trains. As a result, the project did not originally receive any government funding. Today, there are three major trunk lines radiating out of Paris, the most recent one being the NordEurope line, opened in 1993 and connects Paris to Lille, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Britain through the Channel tunnel.
1939's “The Pointer” saw a bold, new design for Mickey as his body became more pearshaped and pupils were added to his eyes to increase his range of expression. Later on, animators of the 1940s would add a perspective aspect to his ears, giving them a three-dimensional effect. This change, however, was short-lived. The Mickey Mouse of today appears much as he did in the early days with the exception of a costume change here and there.