Issue 400
首都师范大学附属育新学校 孙露娜
Girl ‘astronaut’ aims for Mars (P3)
Pre-reading questions:
   1. Do you have dreams to achieve?
   2. How many dreams are dead and how many have come true since you were a kid?
   3. What do you want to be when you grow up?
   4. Have you started doing something to make your dream come true?

While reading
1. Choose another title for the story:
     A. Astronaut Abby
     B. Abby’s Dream
     C. Your Friend ---Blog
     D. Dream and Confidence

2. Which of the following of Abby Harris is True?
A. She wants to be the first astronaut on the moon.
B. She has made plans to achieve her goal.
C. She is often laughed at for dreaming big.
D. She gave up her dream because it’s hard to achieve.

3. What does the story want to tell us?
A. Look before you leap.
B. Well begun in half done.
C. All roads lead to Rome.
D. Where there is a will there is a way.

Answer the questions
1. What helped Abby make her dream come true?
List the different stages

2. Try to retell the story according to the chart above.

Post-reading discussion:
1. What do you learn from Abby?
2. Make a dream now and do a plan for how to achieve your dream.

The human face of the future (P5)
Pre-reading questions:
1. Watch the clock, can you see the time change?
2. Look at yourself in the mirror, do you notice your face changing?
3. Draw three pictures of human faces, one from a hundred years ago; one from the present;    the third one in the future. Are they the same? What are the differences?

While reading
What’s the passage mainly about?
It is about how human faces changed and what they will look like.

Answer the following questions:
1. Are the changes in human faces difficult to predict?

2. What’s the meaning of the word “evolution”?
A. Faces which the human being will have in the future.
B. A process in which something passes by degrees to different stage.
C. A way in which we can control nature.
D. An idea which we use to create new things.

3. What’s Nickolay Lamm’s idea of what human  faces may look like in the future?

4. Who can tell us what human faces will be like?

5. What’s the writer’s opinion about what humans will look like?

Choose the best answer
1. The changes of human faces are hardly noticed because ______.
  A. we never think about the changes
  B. the changes take place too slowly
  C. the size of our brain becomes small
  D. we have no time to pay attention to it

2. From Paragraph 3, we learn that _____.
  A. our heads will become larger in the future
  B. it’s easy to predict the changes in human faces
  C. humans nowadays are powerful in many fields
  D. humans in the past didn’t have any changes

3. According to the last two paragraphs, which of the following is TRUE?
A. Nickolay Lamm knows what humans will look like.
B. Alan Kwan is sure that human foreheads will be larger.
C. Humans in the past were very smart. 
D. Human looks are likely to be different in the future

Post-reading
1. What’s your idea about the future human face?
2. Compare some figures of aliens in some films, and try to explain why they were       designed like that?

Spider’s last supper (P6)
   What is the style of the story?
   A. Narration
   B. Novel
   C. Fable
   D. Science report
Put the following sentences into correct order according to the passage.
① The spider was about to take a nap.
② The spider caught a little bug in her web.
③  The spider ate the little bug for lunch.
④  A great engine moved toward the spider.
⑤  The bug told the spider something important that could save the spider’s life.

While reading
Choose the best answer:
1. The spider didn’t believe the little bug because _____.
A. the little bug told a lie
B. nothing had happened before
C. she had got other news
D. she thought the little bug was her enemy

In the end, the spider might _____.
A. die in a storm
B. escape from the cornfield
C. be killed by the machine
D. be saved by another bug

Post-reading discussion:
1. Can you give the story another ending?
2. What do you learn from this passage?

Key: P3: BBD
P5: 2. B 1-3 BCD
P6: C  顺序：2-5-3-1-4  BC