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高三教案 第498期
发布时间:2013-10-08

 

First days at UK unis (P4)

I. Warming up

What was your first day at high school like?

 

 

II. Reading

Read the article and choose the best answer:

1. What is the author’s purpose in writing the article?

A. To introduce how UK students prepare for college.

B. To show different challenges that college freshmen face in the UK and China.

C. To describe how UK colleges welcome newcomers at the beginning of a new semester.

D. To inform us about what the first day of going to college is like in the UK.

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?

A. On the first day of college, most UK freshmen don’t know each other.

B. When the new semester begins, most UK freshmen drive to college by themselves.

C. Most British parents choose to stay around their children’s colleges for a few days at the beginning of the semester.

D. For many freshmen, when they say goodbye to their parents, they are also saying goodbye to their childhood.

3. A similarity between college freshmen in the UK and China is that ____.

A. the approach roads to their colleges are packed with cars filled with nervous families

B. they have contacted their future roommates through social networking sites

C. once they get to the campus, they want to make sure that they have access to the Internet

D. they spend their first week getting to know their roommates and partying

4. From the article, we can conclude that Sean Coughlan’s report is ____.

A. critical                     B. descriptive

C. sympathetic               D. bitter

 

Key:

1. D。第二段提到了Now, with more than 420,000 youngsters in the UK starting their new college school year, what is their very first day like?下文围绕这句话展开所以可知本文主要是介绍英国大学开学第一天是什么样的故选D

2. D。由第四段的“The door closes on a student’s room and parents and children go their separate ways. For many families, if childhood has a final moment, this is it.”可知D为正确答案,同时由此推出,多数家长送完孩子给孩子安顿好了就离开了,所以C不对。由倒数第三段的“Before they arrive they have been using social networking to get to know their future roommates”可知A不对;由第四段描述的家长送孩子上学的场面可知B不对。

3. C。由第五段的“In both cases, new arrivals most want to know about their Internet connections.”可知C为正确答案。而ABD项描述的都只是英国大学新生的情况。

4. B。纵观全文可知Sean Coughlan的报告描述了英国大学新生入学时的特点,所以答案为B

 

III. Post-reading

What do you imagine your first day at college will be like?

Will your experience be like that of UK freshmen? How so?

 

 

IV. Language study

1. According to Coughlan, at the very beginning it is not hard to spot something familiar to Chinese – a stream of parents arriving with their sons and daughters at the student village.

Ø  spot: 认出,发现(=recognize)

Can you spot the difference between the pictures?

Ø  a stream of: 一大批的,川流不息的,一大股的

A stream of cold air came in through the crack in the door.

 

2. “They’re not so much Generation Y as Generation Wi-fi”.

Ø  not so much … as … 与其说是……不如说是……

Sailing is not so much a science as it is an art. [=Sailing is more of an art than a science.]

Ø  Generation Y: Generation Y is also known as the Millennial (千禧年的) Generation. There are no precise dates for when Generation Y starts and ends. Commentators use beginning birth dates from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.

 

Mice lose fear of cats (P5)

I. Pre-reading

Discussion:

Why do you think mice are afraid of cats?

 

II. Reading

Read the article and choose the best answer:

1. What is the main purpose of the article?

A. To analyze why mice are afraid of cats.

B. To inform us of a harmful parasite called Toxoplasma gondii.

C. To introduce a new study on how a certain parasite affects mice.

D. To describe the evolution of Toxoplasma gondii.

2. The underlined word “hardwired” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to _____.

A. deeply rooted    

B. gradually changed   

C. quickly moved

D. closely linked

3. It was found from the experiment that mice infected with Toxoplasma gondii _____.

A. stayed far away from cats’ urine

B. moved around freely and didn’t react to cats’ urine

C. became more sensitive to cats’ smell than normal mice

D. became more afraid of cats after recovering from the infection

4. What can we conclude from the article? 

A. Harmful as it is to human beings, Toxoplasma gondii does no harm to mice or cats.

B. People who are infected by Toxoplasma gondii will have permanent brain damage.

C. Toxoplasma gondii causes people to develop strange and deadly diseases.

D. With certain infections, even after they have been cured by antibiotics, there may still be some effects from the bacteria that caused them.

 

 

Key:

1. C。本文主要介绍一项新研究,该研究是关于一种寄生虫对老鼠怕猫这一行为的影响,所以答案为C

2. A。根据上一句“Scientists have long known that even if a mouse has never seen a cat before, it is still able to detect (觉察) chemical signals released from it and run away in fear.”可知老鼠怕猫这一行为在老鼠的头脑里已经根深蒂固了,所以hard-wired在这里相当于deeply rooted,故选A

3. B。由第四段的“They noted that normal mice stayed far away from the urine while mice that were infected with the parasite walked freely around the test area.”可知B为正确答案,AC不对。由第五段的“even after researchers cured the mice of the infection, they no longer reacted with fear to a cat’s smell”可以推知D不对。

4. D。由最后一段可以推知D为正确答案。由该寄生虫对老鼠的影响可知A项的“does no harm to mice or cats”不对,文中只是谈到了该寄生虫对于老鼠大脑造成的永久伤害,而不是人的,所以B不对;由第三段可知该寄生虫可以导致人得不同的疾病,而C项里的strange文中并没有提到,所以C不对。

 

III. Language study

1. The parasite was found to be more powerful than originally thought – even after researchers cured the mice of the infection, they no longer reacted with fear to a cat’s smell, which could indicate that the infection has caused a permanent change in mice’s brains.

破折号后的句子进一步解释前面所述的该寄生虫比我们原来想象的还厉害的原因。which引导非限制性定语从句,指代前面的整句话,即感染了该寄生虫的老鼠,即使被治愈了之后,仍然不害怕猫的气味这一现象。

 

2. So the parasite had to develop a way of tricking the mice into getting eaten more easily – thus helping itself go inside a cat – by taking away mice’s sense of alarm.

Trick sb into doing sth:诱骗某人使之做某事。例如:

Be careful. They are trying to trick you into buying something you don't need.

 

Missed meeting (P6)

 

I. Fast reading

Read the article quickly and get the outline of the story.

Who:

Where:

What happened:

How did it happen:

How did it end:

 

Key:

Who: Harry and May

Where: The railroad station

What happened: Harry went to the railroad station to meet May and marry her, but he failed to find her. He looked for her for days, but in vain. Then he bought a newsstand at the station. Three years later, he met May there by accident. 

How did it happen: Harry failed to find May at the railroad station because May had meant the bus station rather than the railroad station in the telegram she sent him about their meeting. After she failed to meet Harry at the bus station, she tried to find him but couldnt, and eventually took a job typing in the office of the stationmaster. But she had never gone to the station before the day she ran into Harry.

How did it end: Harry and May eventually met after three years of waiting.

 

II. Reading

Read the article and choose the best answer:

1) On Harry’s way to the station to meet May, he probably felt ____.

A. peaceful            B. disappointed           C. excited              D. hungry  

2) When Harry failed to find May at the station, he ____.

A. phoned home to see if she had called

B. went to her workplace to find her

C. thought that he must have been cheated

D. decided to work inside the station 

3) When May failed to find Harry at the station, she ____.

A. turned to the police for help

B. went to the railroad station to find him several times

C. made every effort to find him before deciding to work as a typist

D. believed she might one day meet Harry at the railroad station

4) Harry met May at the station three years later _____.

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