Part One

1. Warm-up Part One ENTER

2. Contents Warm-up • Warming-up Qs • Dictation • Poem Appreciation

3. Warming-up Qs • Are you afraid to go to the local park by yourself at night? What are you scared about? • Have you ever looked into the eyes of gentle • animals? What do you describe the look? • Would you have the impulse to talk to animals? • Tell a story of how you spent an unforgettable • night in the secluded place. To be continued on the next page.

4. Warming-up Qs If you should happen after dark To find yourself in Central Park, Ignore the paths that beckon you And hurry, hurry to the zoo, And creep into the tiger’s lair. Frankly, you’ll be safer there. Question: What does the poem try to tell us? The end of Warming-up Qs.

5. Success Can Be Reached in Different Ways by People in Different Careers. • Dictation Listen to the passage and fill the missing words. To be continued on the next page.

6. Different Media • Dictation • With the introduction of radio, newspaper publishers wondered how ___________would affect them. Many feared that ____ as a quick and easy means of keeping people ________ would displace the newspaper industry altogether. Others hoped that the belief newscast heard on the air would ________ listeners in the story so they’d buy the paper to get more information. broadcasting LISTEN radio informed stimulate To be continued on the next page.

7. Dictation • This second idea turned out to be _____ to the truth. Radio and print were not __________ for each other but actually supported each other. You see the relationship between different _____ is not always one of ___________ but can be one of _____________. closer substitutes media displacement reinforcement To be continued on the next page.

8. Dictation • However this is not always the____. Take television and motion pictures for example, with the _____________of TV, the motion picture industry suffered greatly. Movie _________ dropped when audience members chose to stay at home and be _________. Likewise, when a football game was shown on the air, the _______ were often empty because _____chose to watch the game at home. case popularization attendance entertained stands fans The end of Dictation.

9. Poem Appreciation • Sonnet XVIII William Shakespeare • Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? • Thou art more lovely and more temperate. • Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May • And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. To be continued on the next page.

10. Poem Appreciation • Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, • and often is his gold complexion dimmed; • And every fair from fair sometimes declines, • By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed. To be continued on the next page.

11. Poem Appreciation • But thy eternal summer shall not fade, • Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st. • Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade, • When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, Song long lives this, and this gives life to thee. To be continued on the next page.

12. Poem Appreciation • 十四行诗 • 我是否该将你比作夏天？ • 你比它可爱也比它温婉。 • 狂风把五月的嫩芽摧残， • 夏天的期限又未免太短。 • 天上那金眼有时太强烈， • 它的容颜又常常被遮掩； • 世上娇艳之物都会凋零， • 受机缘或大自然的局限。 To be continued on the next page.

13. Poem Appreciation • 你的长夏永远不会消逝， • 永不会失去迷人的光彩； • 不会在死神阴影中漂泊， • 这诗句将让你与时同在。 只要人活着，眼睛还能看。 这诗将永存，赋予你生命。 The end of Poem Appreciation.

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15. Part Two Background Information ENTER

16. Background Information Contents • Founding Commissioners of Central Park • Central ParkLocation onManhattan Map • Central Park History • Central Park

17. I. Founding Commissioners of Central Park Frederick Law Olmsted Calvert Vaux To be continued on the next page.

18. I. Founding Commissioners of Central Park • The founding commissioners: the city officials who were appointed to establish Central Park. Commissioners are officials in government, esp. those in charge of departments. The founding commissioners of Central Park were the landscape architects Frederick LawOlmsted and Calvert Vaux. The two designed and oversaw the first-phase construction of the Park which began in 1858 and ended in 1878. To be continued on the next page.

19. I. Founding Commissioners of Central Park Robert Moses (1888—1981) was a New York state and municipal official whose ambitious public works projects of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s transformed the urban landscape of New York City. He expanded the State’s park system and built numerous parkways and hundreds of new playgrounds and parks and important highways, bridges and tunnels linking the boroughs of New York City. To be continued on the next page.

20. I. Founding Commissioners of Central Park Moses preferred recreational facilities to the rural scenery stressed by the English Romanticists, and an ordered and symmetrical design in French Renaissance style, evident in the southern Central Park. Therefore, under Moses, Central Park gained 19 playgrounds, 12 ball-fields, handball courts, and the Woll-man Rink.

21. II. CentralPark Location onManhattan Map New York’s green rectangle Central Park

22. III. Central Park History There are three elements in the architecture of Central Park. • English Romanticism is characterized by the picturesque ideal to blend with the natural environment. Central Park’s founding commissioners Olmsted and Calvert Vaux were influenced by this tradition. Their ideal was to allow New Yorkers to experience a day in the pastoral country without leaving the island city. • Another style is Classicism characterized by formal symmetry and the use of straight lines, evident in the south end of the Park. To be continued on the next page.

23. III. Central Park History The Park was pressed for primarily by wealthy merchants and landowners. In the first decade after its completion, it was clearly the playground of the wealthy. It was located too far uptown to be within walking distance for the city’s working class population. To be continued on the next page.

24. III. Central Park History • Until the late 19th century, workers comprised but a fraction of the visitors to the Park when they launched a successful campaign to have concerts held on Sundays. • Saturday afternoon concerts were for middle-class audiences, for the six-day working week precluded attendance by the working class. To be continued on the next page.

25. III. Central Park History • Indeed the concept of creating the park was originally conceived by wealthy New Yorkers who admired the public grounds of London and Paris. However, with the maturing of the nation and the rise of its power, the pride of Americanism gradually took the upper hand. The author therefore describes the Park proudly as efficient, purposeful and distinctive—neither romantic nor classical, and neither English nor French, but distinctively American.

26. IV. Central Park the urban wonders of the world, a green oasis in the great concrete, high-rise landscape ofNew York City To be continued on the next page.

27. IV. Central Park For most New Yorkers, Central Park is our constant definition of open space, room to run and the romance of reading under a tree. Free and open to the public, Central Park is our citywide campus and our common backyard. “a garden for all as private Eden” To be continued on the next page.

28. IV. Central Park In Central ParkRoller skating has always been a popular recreationalpastime. To be continued on the next page.

29. IV. Central Park Tigress and Cubs Inside the Central Park Wildlife Conservation Center, 64th Street and Fifth Avenue To be continued on the next page.

30. IV. Central Park Groups of Bears: near Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street To be continued on the next page.

31. The Delacorte Theatre The Delacorte Theater is the summer home of the New York Shakespeare Festival. It’s a place to host classical plays and musicals. Para. 3 To be continued on the next page.

32. The Delacorte Theatre The open-air theater in Central Park that serves as home to free summertime performances which, during the months of June, July and August, include at least one Shakespeare production. The summertime performance are one of the New York City’s most beloved cultural events. Para. 3 To be continued on the next page.

33. Belvedere Castle To the south of Delacorte Theater perched on Visa Rock. As its name suggests, the castle offers visitors a wonderful panoramic viewpoint. Para.3 It is now home to the Henry Luce Nature Observatory, where simple displays show how naturalists observe the world. To be continued on the next page.

34. Belvedere Castle Belvedere is Italian for “beautiful view”. Para. 3 To be continued on the next page.

35. Shakespeare Garden Nestled between the Delacorte Theater, Belvedere Castle, and the Swedish Cottage, it is a garden dedicated to Shakespeare in 1916, the 300th anniversary of his death. Para. 3 To be continued on the next page.

36. Shakespeare Garden Following a Victorian tradition, only flowers mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays and poetry were planted in the garden. Scattered throughout the garden are bronze plaques with Shakespearean quotations that inspired the planting. Para. 3 To be continued on the next page.

37. The Ramble It is a 38-acre wild garden in Central Park with rocky outcrops, secluded glades and a tumbling stream, built for visitors to stroll in. With its intricate landscape Olmsted called his creation, ramble a "wild garden". Para. 5 To be continued on the next page.

38. The Ramble The Ramble is a sanctuary for as many as 250 species of birds, with the interlaced paths and hills, countless trees, shrubs, meadows, rocky cliffs and a winding stream. It takes people with adventurous spirit to hike in the Ramble. Para. 5 To be continued on the next page.

39. The Ramble Para. 5 Raccoon Raccoons can be seen scurrying in the underbrush. To be continued on the next page.

40. Lions The Ramble Overlooking the East Drive in Central Park, Still Hunt is a reminder of the smaller animals and birds that can be found in the Park. Para. 5 A bronze sculpture of panther crouched on a rock on the edge of Ramble. His name is Still Hunt. To be continued on the next page.

41. Background– New York Skyline New York City has the world's most recognized and inspiring skyline—an icon of New York. The best New York skyline vantage points are on top of the 102-story Empire State Building. Para. 5 To be continued on the next page.

42. New York Skyline at Night Buildings soar upward. Para. 5 To be continued on the next page.

43. The Lake Para. 6 The lake is the largest body of water (excluding the Reservoir) in Central Park. It was created out of a large swamp in the south of the Park and was intended for boating in the summer and ice-skating in the winter. Many visitors are content, however, to circle the lake on foot, following the pathways that wind along its shoreline, watching the Park’s tree-line shifting in its reflection. To be continued on the next page.

44. The Lake rowing boat on the lake in the Central Park To be continued on the next page.

45. The Strawberry Fields The tear-drop-shaped area of parcel of park landscape in the south of Central Park planted with 125,000 strawberry. It is named after the song Strawberry Fields Forever in honor of John Lennon (1940—1980), member of the Beatles. Para. 6 To be continued on the next page.

46. The Reservoir Para. 11 Note To be continued on the next page.

47. The Reservoir The Reservoir: Located in the north part of Central Park, the reservoir, with the 1.58 mile track round it, is a favorite place for joggers, birdwatchers, and tourists where they can enjoy some of the best views of the New York City skyline. To be continued on the next page.

48. Central Park West at Night Para. 12 To be continued on the next page.

49. Another Aesthetic Experience Para. 12 To be continued on the next page.

50. North Woods The North Woods are the dense woodlands covering the northwest Central Park from 101st to 110th Street. Para. 13 To be continued on the next page.