总第503期初三课件

Daughter’s final song for father after sad reunion P (3)

Pre-reading
1. What kind of book do you like?
2. Which book impressed you most? And why?

While reading
Choose the answer:  
1. Which of the following is NOT true about Ronnie’s story?
A. Ronnie’s parents divorced when she was 14.
B. Ronnie stayed with her mom after the divorce.
C. Ronnie’s dad used to teach her to play the piano.
D. Ronnie kept a good relationship with her dad even after the divorce.

2. How did Ronnie feel at first when she was sent to North Carolina?
A. Excited. 
B. Curious.
C. Upset. 
D. Happy.
 
3. What happened during Ronnie’s stay with her dad?
A. Ronnie and her dad’s relationship got worse.
B. Ronnie found that she got cancer.
C. Ronnie refused to play the piano again.
D. Ronnie wrote a song for her dad before he died.
 
4. Which of the following is the writer Xu Lingyi's opinion?
A. Xu doesn’t like Ronnie because she is rebellious.
B. Xu thinks it wrong that Ronnie slept outside the whole night.
C. Xu learns a lot about the relationship with parents from the book.
D. Xu doesn’t know how to express love to her parents.

Words in use
Fill in the blanks with the words from the text.
1.万一他有什么不测, 就请通知我。
If anything _________ him, let me know.
2. 如今在此地生活比起从前可舒服多了。
Life here is much easier than it ________.
3. 现在有很多人死于癌症。
Nowadays many people ____ cancer.
4. 外国游客无一不对该市留有深刻印象。
The sights of the city never fail to _____ foreign tourists.

Post-reading
1. More about The Last Song:
The Last Song is a 2010 American coming of age teen romantic drama film developed alongside Nicholas Sparks‘ 2009 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Julie Anne Robinson in her feature film directorial debut and co-written by Sparks and Jeff Van Wie. The Last Song stars Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, and Greg Kinnear and follows a troubled teenager as she reconnects with her estranged (疏远的) father and falls in love during a summer in a quiet Southern United States beach town.

2. Writing: write a book review. It should include the following points:
1. What does the book talk about?
2. Why did you like or dislike the book?
3. What did you learn from the book?

Thinking small pays off (P4-5)

Pre-reading
1. What do you know about Nobel Prize?
2. Which Nobel Prize winner do you know about?

While reading
Choose the answer:  
1. Which of the following is NOT true about “self-eating” cells?
A. A Japanese scientist found them.
B. They can break down old cells.
C. They use the old parts to make new cells.
D. They can be used to fight cancer.
 
2. Three scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on  _____.
A. hair   B. blood
C. big robots  D. small machines
 
3. What can the tiny robots do for patients?
a. Call a doctor for them.
b. Help people call the police quickly.
c. Look for the ill cells in their blood.
d. Send the medicine into ill cells.
A. ab     B. bc     C. cd     D. ad
 
4. What findings helped scientists win the Nobel Prize for Physics this year?
A. All the things in the world are in three states.
B. Things can turn into a strange state when the temperature is very high or low.
C. We can make paper by making atoms into the strange state.
D. Small things can add up to become a 3-D thing.

Words in use
Fill in the blanks with proper forms of the words.
1. That’s why one should keep ____ (health) in daily work.
2.The ____ (disease) attacked him suddenly.
3. Did your husband manage to _______ (fight off) his cold by taking aspirin?
4. I've _____ the children to bed.
5. The figures ________ 450.

Post-reading
Fun facts about Nobel Prize:
1. The Nobel Prize was set up in the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish entrepreneur (企业家) born in 1833. The first the Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901.
2. Who decides who makes the cut?
•The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences administers the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry. It was also given the responsibility for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969.
•The Karolinska Institutet, a medical university in Sweden, manages the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
•The Swedish Academy, founded in 1786 by King Gustaf III to promote the Swedish language and literature, awards the Nobel Prize in Literature.
•The Nobel Peace Prize is decided by a five-person committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament.
3. What do you get for winning a Nobel Prize?
•Prize winners are called laureates (桂冠诗人), after the Greek laurel wreath given to champions in ancient times. Nobel laureates receive gold medals as well as diplomas (证书) decorated with the work of renowned artists and calligraphers.
•The prize money comes out of income from investments made with the late Nobel's estate. The purse is currently 8 million kronor (S$1.3 million) for the full award.

Finding how long humans can live P (6)
Pre-reading
1. Who is the oldest person you know?
2. What living habits do you know about the person?

While reading
Choose the answer: 
1. What did researchers find?
A. People who were born 100 years ago usually live longer.
B. The oldest age is increasing year by year.
C. People now are not stronger than those born 100 years ago.
D. Human life expectancy will be unlikely to increase.
 
2. The oldest person to ever live _____.
A. came from the US
B. was a man
C. was 122 years old
D. died last year
 
3. According to the report, people may not live longer than _____ years old.
A. 115        B. 120        
C. 122        D. 125
 
4. Which of the following is NOT true about Jan Vijg’s research?
A. The research studied people in the US, the UK, France and Japan.
B. The oldest age went up from the 1960s to the 1990s.
C. The oldest age has been staying nearly the same since the 1990s.
D. The average age of people has been increasing since the 1990s.
 
5. Professor Dame Linda Partridge suggests all of the following ways to live a long life EXCEPT _____.
A. taking special medicine  
B. stopping smoking
C. exercising regularly
D. eating healthy food

Words in use
Fill in the blanks with proper forms of the given words.

expect increase remain beyond simple

1.The party won't go on ____ midnight.
2.Food prices _______ by 10 percent in less than a year.
3.The company _____ to complete work in April.
4.There is no _____ answer to this question.
5.The boy ______ silent.

Post-reading
Some facts about life expectancy:
1. US life expectancy greatly increased over the last 100 years.
2. The Japanese live the longest and healthiest lives, on average.
3. Those with the shortest life expectancies reside in Southern Africa.
4. Education and income play major roles in life expectancy.
5. Genes (基因) are a factor when it comes to reaching an advanced age.
6. Gender matters: Girls will generally live longer than boys.

参考答案及解析
P3:
Choose the answer:
1. 解析：D。根据第二段第2句She was so mad at her dad that she had not talked with him or played the piano ever since the divorce.可知，在Ronnie的父母离婚后，她很生爸爸的气，不跟他说话也不再弹他爸爸教的钢琴了，故选D。
2. 解析: C。根据第二段第四句At first, Ronnie was frustrated about it.可知，Ronnie不想去跟她爸爸待在一起，对要去爸爸那里感到有些失落，故选C。
3. 解析：D。根据第三段最后一句She started playing the piano again and wrote a song for him before he died.可知，Ronnie在爸爸去世前，为他写了一首歌，故选D。
4. 解析：C。根据最后一段It is a meaningful story. It teaches us about relationships with our parents and how to express love to our parents.可知，作者从这本书中学到了如何和父母相处，故选C。

Words in use:
1. happens to 2.used to be 3. die of 4. impress

P4-5:
Choose the answer: 
1. 解析：D。根据self-eating cells部分中第二句In other words, cells can break down old ones and use the useful parts to make new cells, or to fight off viruses.可知，A、B、C三个选项都正确，只有D选项错误，故选D。
2.解析：D。根据Small machines部分第一句Three scientists from France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on small machines.可知，答案选D。
3. 解析：C。根据第Small machines部分最后一句Like policemen, the robots look for the ill parts in our body, and send the medicine right there.可知，small robots可以找到人体中病了的部分，还可以把药直接放到病灶处，故选C。
4. 解析：B。分析Super-state部分，第一段是总述，中心句是But at very low or high temperatures, things can turn into a strange state. 第二段举例说明获奖科学家是如何运用这个结论的，故选B。

Words in use:
1. healthy 2. disease 3. fight off 4. add up to

P6:
Choose the answer:
1. 解析：D。根据第四段A report in the journal Nature says it is unlikely our life expectancy will increase again.可知，最近报告指出，人类的预期寿命达到极限，可能不会再增长，故选D。
2. 解析：C。根据文中The oldest person to ever live was French woman Jeanne Calment, who was 122 when she died 19 years ago.可知，答案C正确。
3. 解析：D。根据文中The “absolute maximum age (绝对最大年龄)” may be 125, according to the report, but it is not very possible that anyone could actually live that long.可知，报告中说人很少能活到超过125，故选D。
4. 解析：D。根据文中But beginning in the 1990s, “you no longer see that,” Vijg told NPR. “You see that it stays the same.”可知自20世纪90年代后，人的最老年龄基本保持不变，研究中没有提到人的平均年龄的情况，故选D。
5. 解析：A。根据文中倒数第二段 “Stop smoking, start exercising and eat a healthy diet,” Professor Dame Linda Partridge, director of the UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing, told CNN.可知，答案选A。

Words in use:
1. beyond 2. increased 3. expect 4. simple 5. remained