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City in the Clouds

In 1911, Hiram Bingham was exploring in the Andes Mountains in Peru. Bingham was an American professor from Yale University, who was looking for Inca ruins. One day, he asked a guide to take him to some ruins high in the mountains.

When they reached the ruins, the professor was amazed. “It seemed like an unbelievable dream,” he later wrote. “ What could this place be?” The place was forgotten city of Machu Picchu.

For almost 100 years, Machu Picchu was a busy, peaceful place. But in 1532, the Inca people left. Machu Picchu, once a great city, was empty and forgotten for many centuries. Then in 1911, Hiram Bingham introduced Machu Picchu to the world.

Bingham rediscovered a great treasure, but not everyone was happy about it. Some people complained that Bingham took important items from Machu Picchu to Yale University.

Today, Peru’s government is worried there is too much tourism. It wants people to visit Machu Picchu, because more tourism means more jobs and more money for local people. However, it also means more hotels, more cars and more buses and more environmental problems.

Machu Picchu is an important cultural and historic place. Peru wants to protect it for people to enjoy now and in the future.

Answer the questions about City in the Clouds.

1. What is the article mainly about?

a.   The history of Machu Piccu    b. The Inca Empire

c. The explorer Hiram Bingham   d. The history of Yale University

2.   What did Bingham mean when he wrote“It seemed like an unbelievable dream” (Line5-6)

a.   He was extremely tired.

b.   He was amazed

c.   He didn’t believe his guide.

d.   He was very surprised.

3.   Which statement about Machu Picchu is true?

a.   Machu Picchu took a century to build

b.   The city was lost and forgotten for a century.

c.   Machu Picchu was an important city for a century.

d.   The Inca people left in the seventeenth century and Machu Picchu was empty and forgotten.

4.   What can we infer in the fourth paragraph that Machu Picchu_____?

a.   was very unpopular

b.   had valuable treasures

c.   wasn’t an important discovery

d.   Machu Picchu had something to do with Yale University.

5.   How is tourism both good and bad for Machu Picchu?

a.   There is more money for local people, but there aren’t enough cars and buses.

b.   There is more money for local people, but there aren’t many hotels

c.   There are more jobs for local people, but there aren’t many cars for tourists.

d.   There are more jobs for local people, but there are environmental problems

Background information

Machu Picchu：馬丘比丘在克丘亞語 (Quechua) “古老的山”之義，也被稱作“失落的印加城市”，是保存完好的前哥倫布時期的印加遺跡。馬丘比丘是南美洲最重要的考古發掘中心，也因此是秘魯最受歡迎的旅游景點。由于獨特的位置、地理特點和發現時間較晚，馬丘比丘成了印加帝國最為人所熟悉的標志。在1983年，馬丘比丘被聯合國教科文組織定為世界遺產，是世界上為數不多的文化與自然雙重遺產之一。

Do you know any other ancient cities except Machu Picchu?1

1.        印度桑吉

2.     秘魯馬丘比丘

3.     英格蘭巨石陣

4.     非洲大津巴布韋

5.     敘利亞帕米拉

So on…

Vocabulary:

Inca ruins 印加遺跡

unbelievable 令人難以置信的

peaceful 和平的，平靜的，安寧的

treasure 珍寶，財寶

complain 抱怨，投訴

item 事件，東西

tourism 旅游

historic 歷史的

English Slang:

Every coin has two sides/A double-edged sword.

凡事都有兩面性/雙刃劍。

Comprehension key:

1 a 整篇文章介紹的是馬丘比丘的歷史。

2 b 此時他的心情應該是難以置信的，心情應該是amazed,比surprised程度更深，更有正面性。

3 c 從第三段第一句話可以看出，c選項是正確的。

4 b 從第四段可以看出，馬丘比丘本身是一個珍寶，當然它也擁有很多的重要的東西，即treasure。

5 d 從文章的第五段可以看出一個道理：凡事都有兩面性。秘魯征服希望發展旅游業，但是與此同時也會帶來很多的問題，尤其是環境問題。