1、成才之路 英语路漫漫其修远兮 吾将上下而求索人教版 必修2(十二省区)Cultural relicsUnit 1话 题 导 入被称为“世界第八大奇迹”的俄罗斯国宝琥珀屋，“二战”中被德国人占为己有，后来便下落不明。多少觅宝者踏破铁鞋却一无所获。如今，琥珀屋终于完全逼真地重新建成了，而且比原来的更美。Construction(建筑)of the Amber Room began in 1701 It was originally put at Charlottenburg Palace,home of Frederick，the first King of Prussia The room wa
2、s designed by German sculptor(雕刻家)Andreas Schlter Peter the Great loved the room on a visit,and in 1716 the King of Prussiathen Frederick William Isent it to Peter the Great as a giftThe Amber Room was shipped to Russia in 18 large boxes and put in the winter palace in St Petersburg as a part of a E
3、uropean art collection It was first open in 1746 in the winter palace,where it was housed till 1755 In 1755,Gzarina Elizabeth ordered the room be moved to the Catherine Palace in Pushkin Italian designer Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli redesigned the room to fit into its new,larger space using extra
4、amber shipped from BerlinIt seems hard to believe that boxes of several tons of amber could go missing,and many historians have tried to solve the mystery The most basic theory is that the boxes were destroyed by the bombings(轰炸)of 1944 Others believe the amber is still in Kaliningrad,while some say
5、 it was put onto a ship and can be found somewhere at the bottom of the Baltic Sea One of the more extreme theories is that Stalin actually had a second Amber Room and the Germans stole a fake(赝品)The history of the new Amber Room,at least,is known for sure The reconstruction began in 1979 at Tsarsko
6、ye Selo and was completed 25 yearsand$11 millionlater It is based largely on black and white photographs of the original Amber Room By 2003 the great work of the Russian craftsmen(工匠)has been mostly completed Artists used close to ten tons of amber of different colors and types to recreate the Amber
7、 Room The new room was dedicated(把献给)by Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder on the 300th birthday of the city of St PetersburgRead the passage and tell the following statements true(T)or false(F)1In 1716 Frederick William I sent the Amber Room to Peter the Great as a gift()2Historians believe the Amber Room was destroyed by the bombings of 1944()3As a matter of fact,there were two Amber Rooms One was at the bottom of the Baltic Sea;the other was stolen by the Germans()答案：1T2F3F
