Unit 1 Land,People and History 3 the world where women could vote for a new goverment. Maori n.adj. Some people know about the Maori people and their central place 毛利人，毛利人的 landmass n. in the life,culture and politics of New Zealand. 地块，陆块 Some people know New Zealand produces a lot of meat and dairy Cook Strait products.Some people just know that a lot of tourists go to New Zealand 库克海峡 and enjoy their holidays there. Stewart Island 斯图尔特岛 Whatever you know about New Zealand you will learn more from uninhabited adj. these two units.If you meet someone from New Zealand or if you ever 无人居住的 have the chance to go to this country,perhaps you will remember some- offshore adj thing you learn here,and that will make you feel more at home. 离开海岸的 variation n. 变化 Geography,Land and Environment volcano n. Situated in the southwest Pacific Ocean,New Zealand is a large, 火山 Auckland long group of islands,600 kilometres from north to south.Ncw Zealand 臭克兰市 has another name,"Aotearoa,"meaning"a land of the long white cloud" cone n. in the native Maori language.This long group of islands is made up of 火山锥 two main landmasses,the North Island and the South Island,separated extinct adi. 熄火的，灭绝的 by Cook Strait.The third largest island,Stewart Island,is south of the cluster n. South Island,and there are many smaller islands,including uninhab- 群，组 ited isolated islands hundreds of kilometres offshore.Its nearest large ski field neighbour-Australia-is almost 2 000 km away. 滑雪场 yent n. With a land area of 270 500 square kilometres,New Zealand is 排放F口 similar in size to Japan or the British Isles.A huge diversity of physical bubble v. geography has produced a wide variatlon in landscape.1 The North Is- 置泡，沸烟 land has been formed mostly by volcanoes,some of which are still ac- geyser n. 间歇喷泉 tive,and the Auckland city skyline is dominated by the cones of ex- thermal region tinet volcanoes.2 In the central North Island,a spectacular cluster of 温泉区 four active volcanoes is crowned by 2 797m Ruapehu,home of the majestic adj. island's major ski fields.3 The steam vents,hot pools,bubbling mud 雄伟的 symmetrical adj. and geysers of the famous thermal region stretch northeast to the coast 对称的 and to White Island in the Bay of Plenty.The majestic symmetrical the Southern Alps cone of Mt Taranaki dominates the west coast.Chains of mountains run 南阿尔单斯山 northeast to southwest,parallel to the coast. iniet 水湾，小港 A massive mountain chain,the Southern Alps,runs almost the full length of the South Island.The highest mountain in the country, 3 754m Mt.Cook (called Aoraki by the Maori people),is in the south- ern part of the Alps.Tbis is an area of outstanding scenic beauty,with the Marlborough Sounds in the north,many beautiful lakes and rivers, and Fiordland with its remote,deeply-cut inlets in the southwest.s Although most of the land is 200 metres or more above sea level there are extensive fertile lowlands in both islands,and rolling plains in