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Unit 1 Cultural relics What is an amber? 琥珀是史前松树脂的化石。琥珀是由千万年前植物所分泌出来的树脂，经过地壳变动而深埋地下，逐渐演化而成的一种天然化石。形成于4000万年至6000万年前，琥珀的主要成分是碳、氢、氧以及少量的硫，硬度2-3，比重1.05-1.10，熔点150C-180C，燃点250C-375C。琥珀是很“涩”的物质，没有两块琥珀是完全相同的。品种有金珀、虫珀、香珀、灵珀、石珀、花珀、水珀、明珀、蜡珀等，尤以含有完整昆虫或植物的琥珀为珍贵 。 Fast-reading Read this pasage, finish the Ex on P 7 1.Frederick Ⅰ 2.Frederick William Ⅰ 3.Peter the Great 4.Catherine Ⅱ 5.The Nazi army 6.The Russian and Germans A stole the Amber Room. B sent a troop of his best soldiers to the King of Prussia. C had the Amber Room made. D had it moved outside St Petersburg. E gave it to the Czar as a gift. F built a new Amber Room after studying pictures of the old one. Read the passage quickly and find out characters , years ,and places in the passage. ( clues 线索） Prussia 1.Why it is called the Amber room and how many tons of amber were used to make the Amber Room? 2.What did Catherine the Great do with the Amber Room? 3.What happened to the Amber Room? 1. Finish the Ex on p7 2. Prepare for the next class. 2.What did Catherine the Great do with the Amber Room? She had the Amber Room moved to the palace outside St Petersburg and transformed it. 3.What happened to the Amber Room? It was taken apart and missing in the second world war, and the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber room at the summer palace. Do true or false exercises according to the text. 1.Frederick William I was the King of Russia. 2.The Amber Room has a strange history and it remains a mystery. 3.The Amber Room was made up of seven hundred tons of amber. 4.The amber is as hard as stone and hard to be made into shapes. F T F F Prussia thousand easy 5. Peter the Great made Amber Room his Summer Palace. 6.Catherine II added more details to the Amber Room and made it her Summer Palace. F T winter Is it worth rebuilding lost cultural relics such as the Amber Room or Yuan Ming Yuan in Beijing? Give your reasons. I am for …because … I am against…because … I agree