1、1 The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson 在所有对头脑的影响中，大自然的影响可谓在时间上最早，在作用上最为重 要。 拉尔夫沃尔多艾默生 We wont have a society if we destroy the environment. Maegaret Mead 如果我们毁坏了环境，社会将不复存在。 玛格丽特米德 Only to obey nature in order to overcome
2、 nature. Charles Darwin 要征服自然只能服从自然。 查尔斯达尔文 Nature is kind of a loving mother，but also a butcher in cold blood. Victor Hugo 自然不仅是慈爱的母亲，也是冷血的屠夫。 维克多雨果 Nature is the mother of mankind.We get almost everything from her.We live on natural food.We make clothes from natural materials.And we build our hous
3、es of stone and wood.However， with the development of human beings， man has destroyed the balance of nature.Water，air and soil have been badly polluted.Some kinds of animals and plants have died out completely.As a result，man is being punished by nature.Manypeoplesufferalotfromallkindsofdiseasescaus
4、edby 2 pollution.Therefore only when we treat nature well will shelook after us. The last hidden worldChina For centuries，travellers to China have told tales of magical landscapes and surprising creatures.Chinese civilization is the worlds oldest and today its largest with well over a billion people
5、.Its home to more than 50 distinct ethnic(种族的)groups and a wide range of traditional life styles often enclose partnership with nature.We know that China faces many social and environmental problems but there is great beauty here too.China is home to the worlds highest mountains，vast deserts，cold ar
6、ea，steaming forests harboring rare creatures，grassy plains beneath vast horizons and rich tropical seas. Late winter in southern Yunnan is a busy time for local farmers as they prepare the ageold rice field ready for the coming spring.These hill slopes of Yuanyang county plunge(斜插)nearly 2， 000m to
7、the floor of the Red River Valley.Each contains thousands of terraces carved out by hand using basic digging tools.Yunnans rice terraces are among the oldest human structures in China still ploughed as they always have been by cows whose ancestors originated in these very valleys.This manmade landsc
8、ape is one of the most amazing engineering achievements of preindustrial China.It seems as if every square inch of land has been pressed into cultivation. 探索发现 1What does this manmade landscape refer to in the last paragraph? It refers to Yunnans rice terraces. 2. What do you know other famous manmade landscape in China? 略
