英语必修二unit1 课文原文+单词+音标.docxVIP

Unit1?IN?SEARCH?OF?THE?AMBER?ROOMFrederick?William?,the?King?of?Prussia?,?could?never?have?imagined?that?his?greatest?gift?to?the?Russian?people?would?have?such?an?amazing?history?.? This?gift?was?the?Amber?Room?,?which?was?given?this?name?because?several?tons?of?amber?were?used?to?make?it?.?The?amber?which?was?selected?had?a?beautiful?yellow-brown?colour?like?honey?.The?design?of?the?room?was?in?the?fancy?style?popular?in?those?days.It?was?also?a?treasure?decorated?with?gold?and?jewels?,which?took?the?countrys?best?artists?about?ten?years?to?make?.??In?fact,?the?room?was?not?made?to?be?a?gift?.It?was?designed?for?the?palace?of?Frederick?.However,?the?next?King?of?Prussia?,?Frederick?William?Ⅰ,?to?whom?the?amber?room?belonged,?decided?not?to?keep?it.In?1716?he?gave?it?to?Peter?the?Great. In?return?,?the?Czar?sent?him?a?troop?of?his?best?soldiers.So?the?Amber?Room?became?part?of?the?Czars?winter?palace?in?St?Petersburg.?About?four?metres?long,?the?room?served?as?a?small?reception?hall?for?important?visitors?.??Later,?Catherine?Ⅱ?had?the?Amber?Room?moved?to?a?palace?outside?St?Petersburg?where?she?spent?her?summers.?She?told?her?artists?to?add?more?details?to?it?.In?1770?the?room?was?completed?the?way?she?wanted?.Almost?six?hundred?candles?lit?the?room?,and?its?mirrors?and?pictures?shone?like?gold.?Sadly?,?although?the?Amber?Room?was?considered?one?of?the?wonders?of?the?world?,?it?is?now?missing?.??In?September?1941,?the?Nazi?army?was?near?St?Petersburg?.?This?was?a?time?when?the?two?countries?were?at?war.Before?the?Nazis?could?get?to?the?summer?palace?,?the?Russians?were?able?to?remove?some?furniture?and?small?art?objects?from?the?Amber?Room?.?However?,?some?of?the?Nazis?secretly?stole?the?room?itself?.In?less?than?two?days?100,000?pieces?were?put?inside?twenty-seven?wooden?boxes?.There?is?no?doubt?that?the?boxes?were?then?put?on?a?train?for?Konigsberg,?which?was?at?that?time?a?German?city?on?the?Baltic?Sea?.?After?that,?what?happened?to?the?Amber?Room?remains?a?myst