Lesson 8:The best and the worst Why is Joe’s garden the most beautiful one in the town Joe Sanders has the most beautiful garden in our town. Nearly everybody enters for 'The Nicest Garden Competition' each year, but Joe wins every time. Bill Frith's garden is larger than Joe's. Bill works harder than Joe and grows more flowers and vegetables, but Joe's garden is more interesting. He has made neat paths and has built a wooden bridge over a pool. I like gardens too, but I do not like hard work. Every year I enter for the garden competition too, and I always win a little prize for the worst garden in the town! New words: nearly adv. 几乎,差不多 enter v. 参加 competition n. 比赛 neat adj. 整齐的,整洁的 path n. 小路,路径 wooden adj. 木头的 bridge n. 桥 pool n. 水池 prize n. 奖品,奖金 vegetable n. 蔬菜 Notes: 最高级:Joe Sanders has the most beautiful garden in our town. 翻译:1) 英语是最有趣的一门学科。 _________________________________________________________________ e.g. He is taller than the other students in my class. 翻译: 2)他是我们班最胖的。 __________________________________________________________________ enter v. 参加, 报名参加 enter for 报名参加(各种竞赛,考试等活动) e.g. Everybody enters for the competition each year. enter sb. for a competition 使报名参加竞赛 翻译:她的英语老师叫她报名参加竞赛。 ___________________________________________________________________ competition n. 比赛,竞赛 所有比赛都可以通称competition. [注] 速度比赛用race e.g. car race 球赛用match e.g. football match contest 用得更多,除了以上的比赛,其他都可以用contest. 选美比赛:beauty contest neat adj. 整齐的,整洁的, 不等于clean, 等于tidy. e.g. 1) The room is small, but it’s kept quite neat/tidy. 2) Look at my clean floor. win (win-won-won, winning, wins) v. 赢得(比赛、战争或辩论等),赢 vi. I win. 我赢了。 I lose. 我输了。 vt. win sth.(通常是奖品) e.g. I won the notebook. win a prize 赢了一个奖 win a prize for… 因为……而获奖 翻译:她因为努力赢得了这个奖。 ___________________________________________________________________ [注] win 后面不能接人(对手),不能说 I win you. 如果要接对手的话要用defeat 或 beat, 两者defeat用得较多,因为beat还有打的意思。 翻译: 我赢了你。 我打败了你。______________________________________
Lesson 9: A cold welcome What does “ a cold welcome” refer to On Wednesday evening, we went to Town Hall. It was the last day of the year and a large crowd of people had gathered under the Town Hall clock. It would strike twelve in twenty minutes' time. Fifteen minutes passed and then, at five to twelve, the clock stopped. The big minute hand did not move. We waited and waited, but nothing happened. Suddenly someone shouted, "It's two minutes past twelve. The clock has stopped!" I looked at my watch. It was true. The big clock refused to welcome the New Year. At that moment, everybody began to laugh and sing. New words: welcome n.& v. 欢迎 crowd n. 人群 gather v. 聚集 strike v. (钟) 敲响 hand n. (表或机器的) 指针 suddenly adv. 突然 shout v. 喊叫 refuse v. 拒绝 Notes: welcome n.& v. 欢迎 n. e.g. a cold welcome 冷遇 v. welcome to +地点 e.g. Welcome to China. crowd n. 人群 in the crowd 在人群中 e.g. I find him in the crowd. a crowd of… 一群…… a crowd of people 拥挤的人群(没有秩序的) a group of people 一群人(有秩序的) a large crowd of people = large crowds of people 人山人海 gather v. 聚集 (尤指自发性的聚集) e.g. Students gather at the gate. 4. strike v. (钟) 敲响 (strike-struck-struck) e.g. The clock struck nine. 5. hand n. (表或机器的) 指针 minute/second/hour hand:分/秒/时针 6. refuse v. 拒绝 refuse to do sth. 拒绝做某事 e.g. I refuse to help him.
用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成下列句子(每空格限填一词)。 The girl felt ________ because she couldn’t go swimming with her friends. (boring) After six _________in prison, the famous music producer and director was set free. (month) There is something wrong with my bike, but I can repair it by ____________. (I) Be________ while getting off the train. The ground is wet. (carefully) My grandfather began to learn English in his __________(sixty) 完形填空: Dear grandma, How is it going I hope that grandpa is 1 now. I was sorry to hear that he had a 2 last week. I hope you are in good health. Things are fine now. I finished my end-of-year exams last week and got my 3 card today. I always get 4 when I see the envelope from school in the mail, but 5 I did OK this time. I had a really hard 6 with science this semester(学期), and I wasn't surprised to find that my worst report was from my science teacher. She said I was lazy, which isn't 7 . It's just that I find science really difficult. 8 disappointing result was in history. My history teacher said I could do better. The good 9 is that my math teacher said I was hard-working. And my Spanish teacher said my listening was good. Well, that's about all the news I have for now. Dad and Mom 10 their love. Love Alan ( )1. A. well B. rich C. busy D. kind ( )2. A. rest B. dream C. game D. cold ( )3. A. report B. ID C. phone D. library ( )4. A. excited B. sad C. nervous D. tired ( )5. A. carefully B. luckily C. suddenly D. quickly ( )6. A. business B. question C. problem D. time ( )7. A. important B. true C. boring D. enough ( )8. A. Each B. Some C. Another D. Other ( )9. A. meaning B. notice C. news D. letter ( )10. A. have B. send C. provide D. show 首字母填空: Some people say that the Internet or Net is bad for people. They t__1__ that “surfing the Net” makes people lazy. They always s 2 at home and don’t go out. Other people believe that the Internet is a g 3 thing, just like the telephone. They think it h 4 people to make more friends. So, is it good o 5 bad to surf the Net There is no right or w 6 answer. Experts say we should use the Internet to get to know people from other places and to m 7 friends. We shouldn’t s 8 too much time at our computers and we should spend time with our family and friends. 1.________ 2._______ 3.________ 4.________ 5.________ 6.________ 7.________ 8.________ 阅读理解: A When she was a child in England, Jane Goodall dreamed of working with wild animals. Jane travelled to Africa in 1957. She soon met the famous scientist Louis Leakey and began to work for him. He later asked her to study a group of chimpanzees (黑猩猩) living by a lake in Tanzania. It was not easy work to stay with chimpanzees. They were very shy and ran away when Jane came near. She learned to watch them from far away. Little by little, she made friends with chimpanzees. She gave her chimpanzees names like David Graybeard, Flo and Fifi. Chimpanzees love vegetables and fruits, but she found they also eat meat. A few weeks later, she even saw chimpanzees make and use hard tools to open the nuts (坚果). Jane Goodall, “the chimpanzee lady”, is famous for her 45-year study of chimpanzees in Tanzania. Jane has spent her life trying to protect chimpanzees. She wrote a book about animals. It tells people that we need to save the animals in danger. 根据短文内容,选择正确答案。 ( ) 36. What is Jane Goodall’s dream A. To become a famous scientist. C. To work with wild animals. B. To take a trip to Africa. D. To write a book about animals. ( ) 37. Which is NOT true according to the passage A. Some chimpanzees are living by a lake in Tanzania. B. Chimpanzees eat vegetables, fruits and meat. C. Louis Leakey watched chimpanzees for 45 years. D. David Graybeard is the name of a chimpanzee. ( ) 38. The underlined word “tools” in the passage most probably refers to “ ”. A. stones B. bowls C. toys D. phones ( ) 39. Jane Goodall wrote a book to . A. raise money for chimpanzees B. ask people to save the animals in danger C. work for Louis Leakey D. introduce her life in Africa ( ) 40. What’s the best title for the passage A. The chimpanzees in Tanzania C. A book about animals B. A trip to Africa D. The chimpanzee lady B King is tall and strong man. He teaches P.E. in a middle school. He has a long beard and takes good care of it. It’s Sunday today. There is the biggest football match of the year on the playground in the center( 中间)of the city. Mr King likes the game very much and of course he is going to watch it. With the help of his friends he gets a ticket. After breakfast he goes to the bus stop very early, but a lot of people are waiting there. A bus comes and he harely ( 差点儿没有) gets on. There are too many people on it and it is difficult for them to stand. He has to eatch the back of a chair. At the next stop a boy gets on the bus. He is short and can’t catch anything. Suddely the bus stops and the boy almost falls on the floor. He looks around and sees Mr King’s beard and catches it. The man calls out at once. “Let go of ( 松开 ) my beard, boy!” “Are you going to get off, sir ” asks the boy. ( ) 56. Mr King is a ______. A. player B. teacher C. student D. bus driver ( ) 57. Mr King is going to watch the match because______. one of his friends gives him a ticket. He likes football very much It is the biggest match of the year. The headmaster tells him to. ( ) 58. Mr King goes to watch the match _______. on foot B. by car C. with his friends D. by bus ( ) 59. The boy can’t catch anything because______. he is short B.there are too many people on the bus C.he can catch Mr King’s beard D.He can put his feet on the floor ( ) 60. The man tells the boy to let go of his beard because ______. A.he is going to get off B. he wants to find a seat for his beard C.he is afraid that the boy will hurt his beard. D.he is afraid that the boy may fall. 作文: 以“My Dream”为题,写一篇100词左右的作文。 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________