【正文】 lay dying in 1543.Certainly he was right to be Christian Church rejected his theory,saying it was against God’s idea and people who supported if would be Copernicu’s theory is now the base on which all our ideas of the universe are theory replaced the Christian idea of gravity,which said things fell to earth because Good created the earth as the centre of the showed this was obviously people can see that there is a direct link between his theory and the work of Isaac Newton,Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.Unit 2 The United KingdomReadingPUZZLES IN GEOGRAPHYThere is no need to debate any more why different words are used to describe the four countries:England,Wales,Scotland and Northern can easily clarify and problems if you study British history.First there was was linked to England in the 13th century when people refer to England you find Wales included as well.Great Britain was the name given when England and Wales were joined to happened in 1603 when King James of Scotland became King of England and Wales as well,To their surprise,the three countries found themselves united peacefully instead of by ,just as they were going to get Ireland connected to form the United Kingdom,the southern part of that country broke away to form its own only Northern Ireland joined with England,Wales and Scotland to bee the United Kingdom and this was shown to the world in a new flag called the Union Jack.Although the four countries do work together in some areas (for example,in international relations)they are still very example,Northern Ireland,England and Scotland have developed different educational and legal systems as well as different football teams for petitions like the World Cup!England is the largest of the four countries and for convenience it is divided roughly into three zone nearest France is called the South of England,the middle zone is called the Midlands,and the one nearest to Scotland is known as the find most of the population settled in the South,but most of the large industrial cities in the Midlands and North of many of the cities are not as large as those in China,they have famous football teams and some even have ,these industrial cities built in the 19th century do not have the historical attractions of other those you have to go to older but smaller towns first built by the you will find out more about British history and culture.The greatest historical treasure of all is London with its museums,art collections,theatres,parks and has the oldest port built by the Romans in the lst century AD,the oldest building begun by the AngloSaxons in the 1060s and the oldest castle constructed by later Norman rulers in London has been influenced only by some invaders of first invaders,the Romans ,left their towns and second,the AngloSaxons,left their language and their thid,the Vikings,influenced the vocabulary and placenames of the North,and the fourh,the Normans,left castles and words for you look around the British countryside,you will find evidence of all these must keep your eyes open if you are going to make your trip to the United Kingdom worthwhile!Unit 2 The United KingdomReadingSIGHTSEEING IN LONDONWorried about the time available,Zhang Pingyu had made a list of the sites she wanted to see in first delight was going to the Tower,It was built long ago by the Norman invaders of AD1066 .Fancy!This solid stone,square tower had remained standing for one thousand the buildings had expanded around it,it remained part of a royal palace and prison her great Pingyu found the Queen’s jewels guarded rby special royal soldiers who,on special occasions,still wore the four hundredyearold uniform of the time of Queen Elizabeth I.There followed St Paul’s Cathedral built after the terrible fire of London in looked splendid when first built!Westminster Abbey,too,was very contained statues in memory of dead poets and writers,such as just as she came out of the abbey,Pingyu heard the famous sound of the clock,Big Ben, ringing out the finished the day by looking at the outside of Buckingham palace,the Queen’s house in ,she had so much to tell her friends!The second day the girl visited Greenwich and saw its old ships and famous clock that sets the world interested her most was the longitude is an imaginary line dividing the eastern and western havles of the world and is very useful for passes through Greenwich,so Pingyu had a photo taken standing on either side of the line.The last day she visited Karl Marx’s statue in Highgate seemed strange that the man who had developed munism should have lived and died in London Not only that,but he had worked in the famous reading room of the Library of the British the library had moved from