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初二19-20学年第4/668期
Chinese grow taller (P2)
I. Pre-reading
1. Have you grown taller in the last 2 years?
2. How tall do you expect to be?

II. While reading
Choose the answer:
1. What do we know from Paragraph 1?
A. Chinese people are getting healthier.
B. China’s population is growing quickly.
C. Chinese people are getting taller.
D. Chinese people are the tallest in the world.

2. Chinese men’s average height rose by _____ from 1914 to 2014.
A. 10 cm
B. 11 cm
C. 12 cm
D. 13 cm

3. What do we know from CNN’s report?
A. Chinese people’s average height has changed a lot.
B. Chinese people’s average height is very high.
C. Chinese women’s average height is taller than men’s.
D. Chinese people will grow taller in the future.

4. What is the biggest cause of height differences?
A. Nutrition.
B. Exercise.
C. Environment.
D. Genetic factors.

III. Word in use
从文章中选择适当的词或短语填空。
1. 由于气候变暖，海平面升高了2米。
The sea level ____ ____2 meters because of climate warming.
2. 和我弟弟相比，我更高一点。
________ with my brother, I am a little taller.
3. 保护环境对我们很重要。
It’s important for us to protect the ________.

IV. Post-reading
How can you grow taller?
1. Drink more milk
2. Play more sports
3. Have a healthy diet
4. Get more sleep

Friends who last forever and ever (P4-5)
I. Pre-reading
1. Have you ever seen sitcoms?
2. What do you think of sitcoms?

II. While reading
Choose the answer:
1. Who are the people mentioned in Paragraph 1?
A. They are big fans of Friends.
B. They decided to remake Friends.
C. They are the characters on Friends.
D. They will join in a remake of Friends.

2. What did Willa Paskin say about Friends?
A. Friends is a funny and popular sitcom.
B. Friends is no longer popular in the US.
C. Friends shouldn’t be screened after 25 years.
D. Friends is the best sitcom ever.

3. Paragraph 3 is written to _____.
A. introduce the characters on Friends
B. introduce the sitcom Friends
C. explain why people like Friends
D. show how Friends will be remade

4. Brett Mills tells us that _____.
A. young people have problems in their 20s
B. Friends is more than just a funny sitcom
C. Friends teaches young people how to make friends
D. it’s hard for sitcoms to be meaningful and educational

III. Word in use
翻译句子。
1.我们必须学会解决生活中的困难。
____________________
2.我的老师很擅长编故事。
____________________
3.朋友们应该有紧密的关系。
____________________

IV. Post-reading
Let’s sing a song about friendship!
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne
For auld lang syne,my dear
For auld lang syne
We'll take a cup of kindness yet
For auld lang syne

Dogs learn from us (P6)
I. Pre-reading
1. Do you have a pet dog?
2. Have you ever trained your dog to do a trick?

II. While reading
Choose the answer:
1. Paragraph 1 tells us that dogs _____.
A. are getting smarter
B. are close to humans
C. affect human brains
D. cannot live without humans

2. The example in Paragraph 3 mainly tells us that _____.
A. dogs can do a lot of work for people
B. trained dogs have similar brain shapes
C. most dogs don’t have similar brain shapes
D. having similar brain shapes is not good for dogs

3. Erin Hecht explains _____.
A. how dogs understand humans
B. why dogs are easily trained
C. how humans train dogs to do difficult jobs
D. why some dogs have similar prefrontal cortexes

4. What can we learn from the story?
A. Pet dogs may have similarly-shaped brains.
B. Dogs are going to be trained to do many jobs.
C. All animals can be trained to help humans.
D. Dogs are not smart as we think.

III. Word in use
选择合适的词组补全句子。 
affect, similar, work on, work out
1. Other people’s opinions about me ________ me in some ways.
2. Yuan Longping ________ hybrid rice for his whole life.
3. My best friend and I have ________ hobbies.
4. I finally ________ how to finish my math homework. 

IV. Post-reading
Animals are our friends. What can we do to live with animals in harmony?

参考答案及解析
【P2】
II. 1. C。由第一段第二句A new study shows that Chinese people are getting taller. 可知答案选C。
2. B。第二段第三句说到 In 2014, Chinese men reached an average height of 172 cm, up from 161 cm in 1914. 经过简单的计算可知中国男性平均身高增加了11cm，所以答案选B。
3. A。CNN的报道出现在第三段，概括段落大意可知答案选A，或采用排除法，答案B、C、D都不正确。
4. D。最后一段第一句说道 About 60 to 80 percent of the difference in height between different people is because of genetic factors. 由此得知答案选D。
III. 1. rose by 2. Compared 3. environment

【P4-5】
II. 1. C。根据第一段第二句This year, the six friends from the TV show Friends will get together for their 25-year anniversary ... 可知答案选C。
2. A。根据题干将答案锁定至第二段，由 “Friends was nothing more than a very funny, anxiety-free sitcom” 可知答案选A。
3. B。第三段主要讲述了《老友记》的大致剧情，以及这部情景喜剧不仅幽默还能指导年轻人处理问题，可知答案选B。
4. B。由最后一段可知，《老友记》这个喜剧会引发人对于朋友关系、工作和生活中种种困难的思考，让人们思考想做什么样的人以及过什么样的生活。A、C太片面，D是错的，所以答案选B。
III. 1. We have to learn to deal with difficulties in life. 
2. My teacher is very good at making up stories. 
3. Friends should have close relationships. 

【P6】
II. 1. B。由第一段第一句You may have heard people say that dogs are “man’s best friend”.可知答案选B。
2. B。第二段最后一句是对第三段的总结。Dogs that had been trained by man over many centuries had similar brain shapes. 由此可知答案选B。
3. D。根据最后一段中Erin Hecht 所说的话，以及前一句These dogs are taught by people to do jobs that can be a bit difficult to understand. 可知Erin Hecht是在解释狗狗拥有相似前额皮质的原因，所以答案选D。
4. A。People have taught some dogs to do interactive jobs … These dogs all have similarities in their prefrontal cortexes. 说明为做类似工作而训练的狗狗拥有相似的脑结构，所以推测答案选A。
III. 1. affect 2. worked on 3. similar 4. worked out