2021-2022学年度高一第41期总第871期 (6版)
Exploring our bodies (Page 6)
江苏省新沂市中学  张蕊

I. Lead-in: Think and talk.
How well do you know your hands?
How to say the following words in English?
手心    手背         手指
palm   back of hand   fingers

II. Prediction
Exploring our bodies
What part of the body was explored?
What experiment was made?
What did the experiment find?

III. Read for structure
Para 1: Introduction of the topic
Paras 2-3: An experiment about people’s hands and its result
Paras 4-5: Scientific explanation of the result
Para 6: Suggestion from the author

IV. Read for details
Part 1 (Para 1):
Q: Why did the author mention the common saying?
A: To indicate that the following study may show something different from what people think.

Q2: What’s the purpose of the first paragraph?
A. To tell readers a scientific theory.
B. To introduce the topic of the passage.
C. To show the importance of our common sense.
D. To compare our hands to our towns.
A2: B

Part 2 (Paras 2-3):
Q1: What did Longo and his team study?
A1: The left hands of 100 people.

Q2: What did Longo and his team find?
A2: ① People think their hand is wider than it actually is. ② They also seemed to think their fingers were shorter than their true lengths. ③ People were most accurate when finding their thumbs, but became less accurate with each finger, up to their pinkies.

Part 3 (Paras 4-5):
Q1: How do we know the positions, sizes and shapes of our body parts?
A1: ① Our sense of position. ② The maps our brains make for themselves.

Q2: Why do we tend to feel that our lips are bigger than our nose?
A2: Our brains “see” areas based on our sense of touch, with the stronger the sense of touch in a specific body part, the bigger that body part seems. As our lips have more nerves than our noses, our brain’s map shows our lips are bigger.

Part 4 (Para 6):
Q: What did the author encourage readers to do after reading the passage?
A: Try this test with their classmates.

V. Language study
A. Can you find these expressions in the text?
1. 直到……            up to
2. 与……相关联        be connected to
3. 位置感                sense of position
4. ……间的距离        distance between
5. 基于……            based on
6. 把A与B相比较        compare A to B

B.
With their hands placed palms down under a board, Longo’s team gave the instruction to point to their knuckles and fingertips with a marker.
他们的手掌心向下放在一块板下，隆戈的团队让他们用记号笔指出他们的指关节和指尖。

句子中用到with的复合结构（with+名词+过去分词）做状语。
这个结构形式包括：with+名词/代词+非谓语动词/形容词/介词短语/副词/名词。
1. All day he worked with the door   closed  (close).
2. With the kind girl   leading  (lead) us, we had no difficulty finding the library.
3. With so much homework   to do  (do) tonight, I can’t go out with you.
4. It’s not polite to speak with the mouth   full  (满的) .

VI. Discussion
Try to summarize the passage in about 60 words.
What can you learn from the passage?