Issue 449 For Junior 3

大连五十五中学  宋文静

 

Heroic Ebola workers P(2)

I. Pre-reading

1. Have you heard of Ebola?

2. What do you know about it?

 

II. While reading

Answer the following questions:

1. Where did the largest Ebola outbreak begin?

2. How does Time describe Ebola health-care workers?

3. How many Ebola health-care workers have died by the end of November?

 

Choose the answer:

1. Who is Time’s 2014 “Person of the Year”?

A. The Ebola patients.

B. The Ebola fighters.

C. The African governments.

D. The World Health Organization.

2. We can tell from the story that Ebola mainly broke out in _____.

A. Southeast Asia

B. the Middle East

C. west Africa

D. north Africa

3. How many health-care workers have been infected with Ebola by the end of November?

A. 6,000.

B. 17,000.

C. 622.

D. 346. 

4. What is the main purpose of the article?

A. The Ebola virus is very terrible.

B. Time selected their “Person of the Year”.

C. Every person infected with Ebola has died.

D. Many people are still fighting against Ebola. 

Key: BCCB

 

III. Post-reading 

1. What do you think of Ebola workers? 

2. If you could vote (投票) for “Person of the Year”, who would you vote for?

 

Why do the old forget things? P(5)

I. Pre-reading 

1. Who can remember things well, the old or the young?

2. Do you know why?

 

II. While reading

True or false:

1. The old are forgetful because their brains get weak.  

2. If a computer stores too much information, it becomes slower.  

Key: FT

 

II. While reading

1. According to the new research, old people easily forget people’s names because _____.

A. they have a poor memory

B. they are too old to remember things

C. their brains have become weak and work slower

D. they have stored too much information in their brains

2. What does the word “encounter” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A. Meet. 

B. Learn.

C. Pick.

D. Forget.

3. The scientists did an experiment with the computer to show that _____.

A. even a computer can get old 

B. the computer has more capacity than humans

C. the processing capacity of a computer can decline

D. the growth of the database makes the computer slow

4. The aim of the article is to _____.

A. tell the difference between a computer and human’s brain

B. show how a computer database works

C. explain why old people have a poor memory

D. encourage people to forget the unhappy things in their life

Key: DADC

 

III. Post-reading

1. Do you have any suggestions to improve older people’s memory?  

2. How many people’s birthdays or phone numbers do you remember?

 

 

Give happiness to feel it back P(6)

I. Pre-reading 

1. How do you understand the title of the story?

2. Did you give others happiness? How?

 

II. While reading 

1. What did the speaker ask the people to do first?

A. To write their names on their own balloon.

B. To find the balloon with their names on.

C. To collect as many balloons as they can.

D. To move all the balloons to another room.

While reading 

2. What happened the second time people were asked to find the correct balloon?

A. The room was completely chaotic.

B. No one could find their own balloon within five minutes.

C. People bumped into each other and got nothing.

D. Everybody got their own balloon within two minutes.

While reading 

3. What can we learn from the story?

A. Teamwork is the key to success.

B. Your happiness lies in other people’s hands.

C. Helping others brings you happiness.

D. The best way to make friends is to help them out.

Key: ADC

 

III. Post-reading

Do you know the Chinese proverb “赠人玫瑰，手有余香”? What does it mean?