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本书精选了12个话题,36篇文章,囊括文化、时政、经济、艺术、科技、自然等各类主题与日记、新闻、传记、书信、图表等体裁,并依文章内容精选出关键词汇和词组,完整提供字汇与阅读演练。每个话题后都有两套多元活用阅读练习,涵盖阅读技巧练习、词汇与词类变化规则、全面增进阅读技巧,提升词汇能力。本书配图精美,题型设计巧妙,选材与时俱进,综合提高听、读、写能力,是一本难得的实用性很强的英语学习材料。如果你想知道古希腊悲剧的起源、了解极客文化和互联网安全、开启背包客的伦敦之旅等等五花八门的内容,就快快翻开本书吧!
作者简介
[美]阿曼达·詹妮尔·弗雷尔克森,毕业于美国纽约大学,专长为双语及跨文化教育。基于对英语的热情,致力于推动英语教学发展,并以从事教授外国人英文为主。曾在瑞士一语言学习营任教。写作与教学之余,喜爱和丈夫一同享受旅游之乐。目前在美国加州圣地亚哥一所小学内担任教职。
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目录
Unit 1 TRAVEL
Lesson 01 The Backpackers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Lesson 02 The Big Apple: New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Unit 2 ANIMALS
Lesson 03 Christian the Lion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Lesson 04 The Crocodile Hunter: Steve Irwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Review 1
Lesson 05 World's Most Expensive Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Lesson 06 World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Unit 3 PEOPLE
Lesson 07 Behind Hollywood Blockbusters: Steven Spielberg . . 36
Lesson 08 A Serious Look at Margaret Sanger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Unit 4 ARTS & LITERATURE
Lesson 09 The Greek Tragedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Lesson 10 Mosaic Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Review 2
Lesson 11 Anne Frank: A History for Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Lesson 12 The Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Unit 5 SPORTS
Lesson 13 Red Sox Curse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Lesson 14 Diego Maradona—the Hand of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Unit 6 BUSINESS
Lesson 15 Future Technology for Credit Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Lesson 16 The Fair Trade Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Review 3
Lesson 17 The Championships at Wimbledon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Lesson 18 How to Avoid Impulse Shopping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Unit 7 ENTERTAINMENT
Lesson 19 3-D Movie Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Lesson 20 Woodstock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Unit 8 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Lesson 21 Black Holes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Lesson 22 Solar Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Review 4
Lesson 23 The Twilight Craze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Lesson 24 The Latest Cell Phone Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Unit 9 CULTURE
Lesson 25 Cosplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Lesson 26 Funerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Unit 10 HEALTH
Lesson 27 Hypnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Lesson 28 Phantom Limb Pain (PLP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Review 5
Lesson 29 Geekculture101.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Lesson 30 Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Unit 11 COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET
Lesson 31 Wireless Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Lesson 32 Microblogging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Unit 12 NATURE
Lesson 33 Weather Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Lesson 34 Ice Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Review 6
Lesson 35 Internet Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Lesson 36 Volcanoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
单词索引 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
翻译与答案 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
精彩书摘
Unit 1 TRAVEL
Lesson 01 The Backpackers
Target Vocabulary
1 abroad [??br?:d] adv. 到国外
2 scour [?ska??(r)] v. 搜索
3 bargain [?bɑ:g?n] n. 特价商品;便宜货
4 book [b?k] v. 预订
5 embark on [im?bɑ:k ?n] phr. 从事;着手
6 tuck [t?k] v. 塞进;折叠;收拢
7 emerge [??m?:d?] v. 出现;浮现
8 hosteller [h?stl:?] n. 投宿者(尤指住在青年旅舍的人)
The Backpacking Trip in London
Eurail pass1? Check. Travel partner and best friend? Check. Enough clothes andsupplies to last two months abroad1? I sure hope so.
After scouring2 the Web for bargains3, we book4 our flight to London. We've been studying maps, youth hostel websites, and train routes since January. Now with our last semester of high school behind us, we embark5 a new adventure: the classicsummer backpacking trip.
Upon arriving at the airport, we take the Tube and head toward our youth hostel in the city center. With our money belts tucked6 inside our jeans, we emerge7 from the Underground 2, and I begin to study the map I printed from the Internet. Within a few minutes, my face wrinkles into a look of confusion. Luckily, a friendly Londoner notices we need help and points us in the right direction. The receptionist at the hostel's front desk tells us where to leave our things, so we lock up our backpacks and set out. Following a proper meal of fish and chips, we spend the afternoon photographing Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and Piccadilly Circus.
Back at the youth hostel that evening, we chat with our roommates. They are from California, and London is their last stop before heading back
home. Later, we join some Canadian backpackers in the lobby, and we all go out to a pub for dinner. So far, all the hostellers8 we've met have been friendly and full of travel tips and suggestions. If this is a taste of what the next two months will be like, I could really get used to the life of a backpacker!
1
Eurail pass(欧洲铁路通票)是一种供非欧洲籍旅客使用的火车票,旅客可在特定的期限内,持票于欧洲各国自由旅游。
2 伦敦市区的地下交通系统,称为the Tube或the Underground。
After You Read
A. Reading Skill: 推论
通常作者会在文中省略一些信息,除了认为没有必要描述所有细节外,也相信读者会利用故事里的线索和自身的经验找到那些“遗漏”的内容。当你想到那些省略的信息时,你便完成了一次“推论”(Making Inference)。“推论”代表依照自身的经验、专业知识等,做出有一定依据的猜测。虽然你不能保证完全准确,但至少可以根据故事情节做出合理的推测。
1. Use the chart to help you think about how to make an inference.
2. Why do you suppose the backpackers scour the Internet for bargains before
booking their flight to London?
3. Why do the backpackers tuck their money belts into their jeans?
4. When the narrator writes, "I could really get used to the life of a backpacker,"what can you infer she means by this exclamation?
B. Word Study: 指“人”的词尾
指“人”的词尾:-er, -ist, -ian, -tor, -ive, -ee
在本篇文章中,我们看到“backpacker”这个词,“-er”这类词尾多具有“人”或“物”的含意,进而形成另一个意义不同的名词。了解这些词尾的变化,对于词汇量的扩充有很大的帮助。
要注意的是,并非以“-er”结尾的单词都是用来形容人的,它也能用来表示形容词。
在本篇文章里,以“-er”作词尾的单词皆不指“人”,如: proper, semester, summer,center和dinner。
C. Exercise
1 Reading Comprehension
1. Based on the story, we can assume that backpackers prefer to stay at hostels rather than hotels because .
a. hostels offer more activities
b. hostels make it easier to meet people
c. hotels are too formal
d. hotels are too expensive
2. The main purpose of the story is to .
a. suggest that readers should travel with a partner
b. encourage readers to try backpacking
c. present an introduction to the backpacking experience
d. present a backpacking example to follow
3. Which of the following statements about the backpackers is true?
a. They book their flights through a travel agent.
b. They take care to keep their money safe.
c. Their fellow backpackers are rude and unhelpful.
d. They take a group tour around the city.
4. Upon exiting the Tube, the backpackers encounter a problem. Which of the following details best supports this statement?
a. The narrator is looking at a map.
b. The backpackers are wearing their large backpacks.
c. The narrator looks confused.
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