初三521期课件
Surprise city tops list (P2)
Pre-reading

While reading
Choose the answer:
1. _____ tops CCTV’s list of China’s happiest cities in 2016.
A. Lhasa
B. Chengdu
C. Hangzhou
D. Yinchuan

2. Which of the following is NOT true about Lhasa?
A. Many cultural facilities are open to people for free.
B. It has paid much attention to traditional festivals.
C. It has a system to provide 15 years of free education.
D. Its air quality is the best among cities in China.

3. According to the city government’s official website, Lhasa will make an effort to improve _____ this year.
a. people’s income
b. road traffic problems
c. housing conditions
d. culture and entertainment
e. the natural environment
A. abc    B. bcd       C. cde    D. abd
 
Words in use
用恰当的单词、短语或句型完成下列句子：
1. 谈到跳舞,我真是一窍不通。
_________________, I'm all thumbs.
2.根据报道，他们将有一个三天的假期。
  ________________, they will have a three-day holiday.
3. 三年后，这个城市呈现出了新面貌。
The city ____________three years later.
4. 至于性格方面，我变得更外向了。
 ____________, I become more outgoing.
5.你需要金钱和时间,此外你还需要努力。
You need money and time, ________ , you need diligence.

Post-reading
More to know about Lhasa:
Big data analysis shows that 70 percent of Lhasa citizens felt “extremely happy” in the past year, who pay more attention to the family (62.12%), marriage or emotional life (52.31%), and health conditions (46.92%). Income factor (因素) was given by only 36.15% of the respondents (被调查者), while professional achievement is reportedly of small influence.  

Questions：
     Nationally, the top three happiness indexes (幸福指数) are health conditions (54.19%), family (47.79%), and income (43.81%), the survey says.
     1. Do you think the happiness indexes are reasonable or not? Why?
     2. What do you think are the most important in your life?

Gender issues take center stage (P4)
Pre-reading
1. Do you think Garfield is a boy cat, a girl cat or neither?
2. Why do you think that?

Choose the answer: 
1. What put Garfield the cat back in the news recently?
A. The cat’s lazy character.
B. Being included in Wikipedia.
C. The cat’s gender being changed on Wikipedia.
D. The cat’s image being changed on Wikipedia.

2. According to Jim Davis, _____.
A. Wikipedia should lock the page about Garfield
B. Garfield can be a boy or a girl, and young or old
C. artists don’t care about animals’ age or gender
D. it’s unnecessary to take Garfield’s gender seriously

3. What did Melbourne mayor Robert Doyle think of the traffic light idea?
A. It would give women more confidence in public.
B. It would help women be treated fairly in Australia.
C. It would bring respect to women.
D. It was not a good idea for gender equity.

Words in use
根据中文提示完成下列句子：
1. They ________(争论) whether they need to start a drama club.
2. The school is  _______(闻名) improving students all-round abilities.
3. _________ (信心) is very important to success.
4. The new image, a dog ________ (穿着) a skirt became popular soon. 
5. It is impolite to______ (嘲笑) people in trouble.

Post-reading
1. More about Garfield:
Garfield os a lazy, fat, and cynical (爱冷嘲热讽的) orange cat. He is known for his love of human food and sleeping. He hates Mondays, fellow cat Nermal (sometimes) and exercise.
In 2013, Garfield the comic strip (连环画) was syndicated (联合) in nearly 2,580 newspapers and journals, and held the Guinness World Record for being the world‘s most widely syndicated comic strip.
2. What can we do to keep man and women equally treated ?

How to train your memory (P6)
Pre-reading
1. Do you people are born with good memories?
2. What do you do when you try to memorize words or poems?

While reading
Choose the answer:
1. According to the study, _____.
a. memory athletes have special brains
b. ordinary people and memory athletes have similar brain structures
c. hard training can make a person a super memorizer
d. the ancient Greeks had the most powerful memory at that time
A. ab   B. bc        C. cd    D. ac

2. When using loci to remember something, you link the thing with a _____.
A. place
B. number
C. name
D. painting

3. Which of the following about the study is NOT true?
A. People were given 20 minutes to remember the 72 words.
B. They could remember 26 words in their own way.
C. They could remember all the words by using loci.
D. Loci helped them remember 36 more words.

Words in use
用下列单词或短语的适当形式完成句子：
brains, difference,  train, imagination,  research
1. A novelist need to have a vivid_________ .  
2. It is quite hard to _____all the information they collected last term.
3. We should always use our _____ to solve problems.
4. Your help has made a big  ______ to my life.
5. He needs to _____his mind to make it active and strong.

Post-reading
1. Share your experience of improving your memory.
2. What will you do to improve your memory after reading this passage?

参考答案与解析
P2:
Choose the answer:
1. 解析：A。根据第1段第2句But a happiest cities list of 2016 from CCTV provides us with another answer: Lhasa,…可知最幸福城市为拉萨，故选A。
2. 解析：D。第3段提到拉萨有很多文化设施对人们免费开放；注意弘扬传统节日。第4段提到了拉萨致力于15年的义务教育体系。故A、B、C表述正确。第5段提到Air quality in the city was in the top ten cities of the country. 空气质量并非最好的的，故选D。
3.解析：A。根据最后一段，the city plans to continue its efforts in improving people’s lives by increasing their incomes and focus on road traffic and housing conditions…，故选A。

Words in use:
1. When it comes to dancing 2. According to the report 3. took on a new look 4.  As for personality 5. In addition

P4:
1. 解析：C。根据第2段可知A man in the United States changed the gender of Garfield to “none” on the cat’s Wikipedia page.引发了大家的关注和讨论 ，故选C。
2. 解析：D。根据第4段，The 71-year-old artist said he liked working with animals because they didn’t have to be old, young, boys or girls. 可知：这些连环画中的动物不必强调年龄和性别，他对别人过于关注Garfield的性别感到气愤，答案选D。
3. 解析：D。根据最后一段可知，市长拥护男女平等，但交通灯的想法并不是个好主意，答案选D。

Words in use:
1. argued about 2. known for 3. Confidence 4. dressed in 5. laugh at

P6:
1. 解析：B。根据第1段、第2段可知人们的大脑结构并无差异；训练可以加强记忆，答案选B。
2. 解析：A。根据第5段…You can link something you need to remember with a place that you know very well.可知，答案选A。
3.解析：C。根据倒数第2段： But when they were taught loci, they could remember 62 words.他们并未记住所有的72个单词，可知选项C描述不准确。

Words in use
1.imagination 2. research 3.brains 4. difference 5. train