高三英语培优外刊阅读 中央公园话题 学案.docxVIP

高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 外刊精选｜纽约中央公园：疫情下的心灵庇护所 今天，曾经生活在纽约的Q老师为我们带来了一期关于中央公园的特别加长版外刊： 对于城市居民来说，公园是他们远离喧嚣烦扰、和自然亲密接触的不二之选。作为满足人们休闲需要的重要场所，我们或多或少都在公园中感到快乐和满足。然而，公园的恒常不变让越来越多的人对公园感到习以为常。疫情期间，纽约人民在远离自然、远离亲密关系的过程中重新发现了中央公园对于他们的意义。公园究竟价值几何？我们在公园中到底能获得什么？ Finding Refuge, and a Snowy Owl, in Central Park By Michiko Kakutani Central Park has long provided a refuge from the anxieties and stresses of daily life, perhaps never more so than during the coronavirus siege. New Yorkers who visited the park every day, as well as those who had long taken it for granted, felt a renewed love for this amazing rectangle of green in the heart of the big city: its startlingly lush woodlands and rolling lawns, its meandering trails and wide-open meadows, and, of course, its astonishing wildlife including owls, hawks, herons and a dizzying array of other birds and waterfowl who for generations have used Central Park as a vital rest stop in their migratory travels, knowing what many humans only came to fully appreciate during the uncertainties of the pandemic — that the park is a beautiful and essential sanctuary. The park was planned and constructed at another difficult time — in the years before and during the Civil War, when both the nation and New York City were grappling with rising political and social tensions over slavery and class and immigration, and the fallout of rapid industrialization and technological change. Unlike many European parks that had originally been built for the rich or aristocratic, Central Park was designed as a democratic public space, where the poor and rich alike could “easily go after their day’s work is done” and “stroll for an hour, seeing, hearing, and feeling nothing of the bustle and jar of the streets”, according to Olmsted, chief architect of the park. Watching people in Central Park come together “in pure air and under the light of heaven,” Olmsted argued, it was impossible to ignore the “evident glee” many felt in the exp