module-4--carnival(編輯修改稿)
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【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 n: 5. a power which doesn39。t seem to be natural: 6. special clothes: 7. lots of people in the same place: 8. a way of doing things passed on from generation to generation: 9. the air you breathe, but also the feeling a place gives you: Choose the correct meanings of the words and phrases.1. If you dress up, you put on ____.special clotheslots of clothes2. If you extend something, you make it ____.shorterlonger3. If you pretend to do something, you ____.behave as if you were doing ittry to do it4. When a crime is unpunished, the criminal ____.hasn39。t been caughthas been caught5. Firearms are ____.fireworksguns6. If something is banned, you are ____ to do it.not allowedallowed7. If you revive something, you ____.bring it back to lifekill it8. If you are wandering, you are ____ in a particular direction.not goinggoingCultural Corner The Meaning of CarnivalCarnival today is an international, multicultural experience. But how did it bee so? To understand what carnival is all about, we need to look at the history of America and the meeting of two cultures — European and African.The arrival of Europeans in America, and the opening of huge farms and plantations to grow cotton, fruit and vegetables, meant there was an immediate need for people to work on them. This marked the beginning of the slave trade. For more than two hundred years, until the beginning of the 19th century, when the trade was finally stopped, millions of people were taken by force from their homes in Africa and transported to the New World to work as slaves. Six million were taken to the Caribbean islands where there were British and French landowners.Naturally, the Europeans also imported their own festivals. So the slaves were forced to watch as their masters celebrated carnival with food, drink, and masked dances. In Trinidad, the slaves began to hold their own carnival celebrations: they painted their faces white, imitating their masters and making fun of them. But at the same time they were continuing their own African traditions — such as walking round a village wearing masks and singing — a custom which they thought would bring good luck.When the slave trade was abolished in 1838 the former slaves took over the carnival. It became more colou
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