求关于介绍英国大本钟、巨石阵、伦敦大桥的英语ppt演讲稿

求关于介绍英国大本钟、巨石阵、伦敦大桥的英语ppt演讲稿

神秘的古建筑群
——
巨石阵,究竟是如何建造而成的?
Rocking at Stonehenge
Stonehenge is an ancient circle of rocks in southern
England.You can see it from the road as you drive across
Salisbury Plain (
索尔兹伯里平原
).There are no big towns or
buildings close by,so it catches your eye immediately.The
rocks stand there big,rough,dark,silent and mysterious.
People have always wondered about Stonehenge:who built
it,when was it built,how was it built and,especially,why
was it built?Archaeologists (they study how people lived in
the past) have answers to most of the questions.Stonehenge
was built by ancient Britons 4,600 years ago,about the same
time as the pyramids in Egypt.The heavy stones were brought
from hundreds of miles away and it took many years to build
Stonehenge.So,why did the ancient Britons go to all this
trouble?The answer is,they wanted to get to the
“
afterlife.
”
The ancient Britons believed in a life after death and
that when people died they went to another place,a spirit
place,to live.Stonehenge was the gateway to that spirit
place.So,Stonehenge was about death but death,to the
ancient Britons,was not a sad thing.It was,apparently,an
opportunity to party!
Archaeologists have found a town close to Stonehenge.
They say people went to this town at special times of the
year,
“
to feast and party.
”
They came at the summer solstice
and the winter solstice:the longest and shortest days of the
year.At those times,people would come from all over
southern England and even Europe to bury the ashes and bones
of dead people near the ancient stones.Then they would go to
the nearby town and the party would begin.
Everyone would be
“
rocking
”
at Stonehenge.