英语选修8人教版新课标Unit 5第6课时教案（文化背景知识）
文化背景知识
The Peking Man World Heritag e Site at Zhoukoudian
Zhoukoudian is a small village situated about 50 km southwest of Beijing. Embraced by a chain of mountains from the northwest and rolling hills from the northeast, the village opens to the vast Huabei plains. One half kilometre north, one finds a narrow pass leading to a basin. Baerhe stream wriggles out of the pass and flows down south. It passes then to the west of Zhoukoudian and finally drains into Liulihe about 10 km south of the village. The Peking Man Site is just on the west side of Zhoukoudian Village.
The exposure of sedimentary strata around Zhoukoudian is qu ite extraordi nary, especially those of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, and t herefore attract geologists to visit the area. On the other hand, the area also bears rich Ordovician limestone with which the local habitants make lime. It is by quarrying the limestone that local
