2015-2016学年高一英语讲练（人教版）：Book 2 Unit 1 Reading Tasks .docVIP

READING TASKS IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM Pre-reading activities Task I. List some names of jewels and share them with your partners. Task II. Why do you think people like to keep jewels? Task III. Choose a cultural relic that you know about and describe it to your partners. While-reading activities Task I. Read the text and fill in the blanks. Task II. Read the text and put the events in the correct order. A. Catherine II had the room decorated. B. Frederick William I had the Amber Room built. C. The Russians took away some objects from the room. D. The Amber Room was given to Peter the Great as a gift. E. A new Amber Room was built. F. The Nazi army stole the room. Task III. Choose the correct number and put them into the sentence below. 4, tons of, 27, 10, six hundred, 300th 1. In 2003, the people of St Petersburg celebrated the ________ birthday of their city. 2. The Amber Room got its name because several ________ amber were used to build it. 3. The Amber Room functioned as a small reception hall for VIPs because it was only about ________ metres long. 4. It took the country’s best artists about ________ years to decorate the Amber Room. 5. After the detailed decorations of Catherine II, there were almost ________ candles lighting the room. 6. The Nazis put 100,000 pieces of the Amber Room inside ________ wooden boxes and took them away. Task IV. Match the information with the year when the event happened. 1. In 1716 A. The Amber Room was newly decorated as Catherine II wished. 2. In 1770 B. A new Amber Room was built by the Russians and Germans. 3. In 1941 C. Frederick William I gave the Amber Room to the Czar as a gift. 4. In 2003 D. The Nazi army went into the summer palace to steal the Amber Room. Task V. Below is the summary of the text with some words missing. Choose the words from the box and make the summary complete. jewels, palace jewels, redecorated, gave, 300th, Germany, photos The room was called the Amber