新教材外研版高中英语必修3培优同步教程精品课件：Module 5 Section Ⅳ

Section IV Other Parts of the Module读懂——课文注译，扫除读文障碍［原文呈现］［读文清障］The Industrial RevolutionIIIIn Europe, in the second half of the iII 八d eighteenth century^ there was an important :①until then 直到那时change in society. This change was called iIthe ^Industrial Revolution". Until then ① iII IEurope had been a farming society.［原文呈现］TIII I With the Industrial Revolution,:factories appeared② and mass③:II production ④became possible \ I fojr th© first timcH The factories ：II I were built in towns and as a ! III result ⑥, the population of :II towns and cities greatly !III increased.! ［读文清障］②appear勿•出现，露面不用于被动语态。

③mass n・大量a mass of/masses of 很多，许多④production n.生产；产量(5)for the first time 为介词短语，意为“第一次”。

the first time是名词词组，可作连词用，引导时间状语从句。

@as a result 结果....... ［原文呈现］......... ;IThese changes became : possiblebecause of ⑦: inventions⑧ such as thesteam II engine.This was invented in : ! 1769 by James Watt and was ； themain ⑨ energy source : during theIndustrial :I Revolution. At first ⑩ the | steamengine was used in ； mines, but itwas soon used in | factories and on therailways. !......... ［读文清障］ ...........⑦because of由于，其后接名词、代词、动名词等。

Great People and Great Module 5Inventions of Ancient China 务读—阅读美文, 开启快乐学习之旅回顾历史，你一定能够想起一些伟大的历史人物与古代发明，它们在推动历史的发展进程中产生了及其深远的影响。

这些伟大入物在政治、经济等各方面都做出了不可磨灭的贡献，中国古代的四大发明更是人类文明进步的象征，在人类科学文化史上留下了灿烂的一页。

Along with silk and paper, gunpowder is another invention by Chinese and the Silk Road helped it spread to the West. The dating of gunpowder is as early as 850 AD. The Chinese used gunpowder to make fireworks and for signal flares®. Gunpowder was also thought to have been used in medicine and in alchem丫②.The gunpowder used for military® purpose was first recorded in 919 AD. By the 11th century^ explosive bombs filled with gunpowder were introduced and used in China. The words "fire cannon^ "rocket" and u firebalF5 appeared time and again in the official④ Song history as well as two other books written during the same period.The first detailed description of using the u fire cannon” in warfare was in connection with a battle fought in 1126 when the Song army usedit against the invading⑤ enemy. The so-called u fire cannon55 was a tube made of bamboo filled with gunpowder which, when fired5threw a flaming missile® towards the enemy. According to a description of a battle scene in 1132, it took two persons to carry a a fire cannon", and the cannons were fired from a moving platform. And this platform had to be moved close to the wall of the besieged⑦ city.The Chinese invention of gunpowder reached Japan, the Islamic countries and then Europe in the 13th century and the Arabs improved gunpowder for military use. The early account of gunpowder in Europe was recorded by English philosopher Roger Bacon in the 13th century. One century later the Arabs used it to attack the Spanish town Baza andthe next year in 1326 Florence ordered the manufacturing⑧ of cannon and cannon balls. From Italy the making of gunpowder soon spread to other European countries，and by the 1350s it had become an effective weapon on the battlefield.①flare pi. & n ・alchemy n.③military adj.④ofHcial n.©invade vt. & vi.©missile n.©besiege vt.manufacture vt.多积词汇］闪耀，闪光炼金术军事的；军用的公务员正式的；官方的侵入，侵略导弹加工；制造，生产t 舅懂'—课文注译，扫除读文障碍---------- ［读文清障］ ------------ ① be at war with "与 ...... 交战”， 表示处于战争的状态。