八年级英语下册Unit1文化拓展冀教版

About thefour seasons（轴）When yourtown haswinter,the earths axisis pointingaway from the sun.Yourtown doesn,t getas muchlight orheat from the sun.The daysare shorterand colder.（倾斜）Winter and summer happenbecause the earth istilted asit revolvesaround thesun.The northernend of the earths axis points towards the sun in summer.You havemorehours oflight insummer.Your part of the earth istowards the sun formore hourseachday.When thepart of theearthwhere youlive istowards the sun,you havehotter days.In winter,when yourpartoftheearthpoints away from thesun,you havecolder days.You havelearned aboutwinter andsummer.There aretwo moreseasons inthe year.Onees afterwinter and before summer.The otherseason es after summerandbeforewinter.Canyou namethem Thats right.Spring esbetween winterandsummerand autumnesaftersummerbut beforewinter.The four seasons arespring,summer,autumn andwinter.Spring andautumn areappositeseasons.Which seasondo youlike bestYouhave thoughtabout thefourseasonsoftheyear.Each seasonis different.Theseasons aremade bythe northernend ofthe axis pointing towardsor away fromthesun.Your partoftheworld getsmore heatfromthesun whenthe northernend ofthe axispointsto thesun.When theaxispointsawayfromthesun,you getless heat.Now youknowwhy winteris colderthan summer.The axisispointingawayfromthesunin winter.It ispointingtowardsthesuninsummer.。