1 Old meets new 1
2 Emperors, samurai, and shoguns 4
3 Earthquakes and volcanoes 9
4 Life in Japan 12
5 Language and customs 15
6 Sport and culture 21
7 Tokyo 26
8 Other places to visit 30
9 Japanese food 34
10 Into the future 38
GLOSSARY 41
ACTIVITIES: Before Reading 43
ACTIVITIES: While Reading 44
ACTIVITIES: After Reading 48
TRANSLATION 参考译文 51
內容試閱:
Some things always stay the same in Japan. In the countryside, farmers grow rice, like the farmers of hundreds of years ago. Year after year, people stop to see the beautiful blossom on the cherry trees. In a small wooden house, tea is made, and visitors watch carefully.
But some things change very quickly. Better robots and newer phones! More exciting computer games! Taller buildings and faster trains! This is Japan the old and the new together, always changing, and always the same.
在日本,总有些地方是经久不变的。农民在乡间种水稻,和数百年前并无差别;樱花盛放于枝头,引人驻足,是年年可见的场景;茶道仪式在小小的木屋里举行,访客们仍屏息观看。
不过有些地方瞬息万变。那就是更出色的机器人,更新型的手机,更让人激动的电脑游戏!楼房越建越高,列车越来越快!这,就是日本 传统与现代的融合,日新月异而经典永恒。