《旅游英语教程》Unit 11课程作业

Unit 11：课程作业（此作业也包含在课程PPT之中）

Unit 11 A Tour of of Chinese Ancient Temples(1)

Exercises:

Part One: Listening Activities

Temple of Heaven(天坛)

Ⅰ. Listen to the passage, and fill in the missing information you have heard. (pages 155-156)

The Temple of Heaven was built in（1）________ during the reign of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty. Situated in the southern part of the city, this grand set of structures(2) ____________ an area of 273 hectares. To better symbolize heaven and earth, the (3) ____________ part of the temple is circular while the southern part is square. The whole compound is enclosed by two walls, a (4) ___________ wall outside a (5) __________ one. The outer area is characterized by suburban scenery, while the inner part is used for sacrifices. The inner (6) _______________ consists of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest and the Circular Mound Altar. The Circular Mound Altar is the largest group of architectures ever to be dedicated to Heaven, and the temple served as an exclusive altar for Chinese (7) ______________ during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was decreed that rulers of successive dynasties would place altars in their own capitals to (8) ____________ Heaven and pray for good

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harvest. The Temple of Heaven is one of the most strictly protected and (9) ___________ cultural heritages of China. There are (10) ____________ visitors every year.

Ⅲ. Answer the following questions according to what you have heard.(page 156)

1. Where is the Temple of Heaven located? When was it constructed?

2. What does the temple look like? Why did the emperor build such a temple?

3. What are the main buildings in the inner enclosure? What is the largest building complex?

4. What is the important cultural value of the temple?

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Part Two: Situational Dialogue

Pingwu Bao’en Temple(1)(平武报恩寺(1))

Ⅰ. Listen to the dialogue and decide whether the statements are true or false. If it is true, put “T” in the space provided and “F” if it is false.(page 157)

1. ______ Pingwu Bao’en Temple is featured by dragon figures of different sizes and shapes.

2. ______ Judy is scared by the dragons around the inscribed horizontal board of the entrance.

3. ______ Heng and Ha are evil creatures, but they eat ghosts and protect tourists.

4. ______ The guide mentioning the ferocious guardians to tease tourists.

5. ______ Judy died hard because of the ferocious guardians and dragons everywhere in the temple.

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Part Four: ABC about Tourism

Tour operator(旅游经营商)

Choose the best answer from the four choices given below.(pages 162-163)

（ ）1. Tourism product offered by tour operator is

A. the tangible merchandise

B. the intangible merchandise

C. the tangible service

D. the intangible service

（ ）2. More and more people begin to travel recently because of

A. reservation of the airplane seats and hotel rooms

B. the discount of price

C. more time

D. packaged tour

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（ ）3. The advantages offered by the tour operator exclude

A. making all the travel arrangements in one place at one time

B. offering the lower price so that people could travel

C. offering the packaged tour so that tourists could travel to many new places

D. offering the retail service so that customers could make reservations from him

（ ）4. The term accessibility implies

A. the path to the tourist resort

B. ability of entering the remote or rugged area

C. ability of entering the destination

D. probability of entering the tourist origin place

Part Five: Additional Know-how

II. Translation

Dacien Temple(大慈恩寺)

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Translate the following sentences into Chinese. (pages 164-165)

1. Dacien Temple(大慈恩寺) was built in 648 by the crown prince Li Zhi(李治太子) during Emperor Gaozhong’s reign in the Tang Dynasty(唐高宗) to honor her mother, the Empress Wende(文德皇后).

2. The Temple with 13 yards and 1897 rooms occupied an area of more than 360 mu. At that time, it was the biggest temple in Chang’an(长安), where more than 300 monks lived.

3. The original pagoda was constructed with five storeys in Indian style. It was rebuilt to seven storeys during the period of Empress Wu Zetian(武则天).

4. As the most famous temple in Chang’an, the venerated monk Xuan

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Zang(玄奘) who studied Buddhism in India was welcomed to preside over the temple affairs in 652.

5. Xuan Zang ordered that the Da Yan(Big Wild Goose) Pagoda(大雁塔) be built here in order to preserve the Buddhist scriptures(佛经) which he had brought back from India.The present Da Yan Pagoda is 64.5m high with seven storeys. The structure of the pagoda is built of the brick and wood in a typical Tang style.

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