阅读与长句

Presentation-passage( First:glance through the questions ) An annoying problem for humans, who li

ke to boast ( 夸耀 ) about all the distant planets and moons we have explored, is that we've never taken a good look right under our noses. The inside of the earth is relatively close, but how can we get there?

The deepest oil well enters a mere six miles into the crust ( 地壳 ) (the center of the earth is about 4,000 miles deeper). Russian scientists dug the deepest hole in Siberia, but bottomed out at about 7.5 miles below the surface. The Mohole project, a U.S. plan in the 1950s, called for drilling a hole 25 miles down to the boundary between the hard rocks of the crust and the soft mantle ( 地幔 ). Sadly the project involved government supporting.

• It gets harder and harder to drill deep into the earth because rocks get softer and softer. Hard but easily broken at the surface, rocks become plastic at depth, and the pressure caused by the weight of the overlaying crust ---  about 52,800 pounds per square inch at a depth of ten miles, makes further drilling impossible.

• Scientist David Stevenson says we should forget about drilling holes. Instead, we should open a crack ( 裂缝 ).Stevenson suggests digging a crack about a half mile long, a yard wide, and a half mile deep (not with a shovel) but with an explosion on the scale of a nuclear bomb. Next, he'd pour a few hundred thousand tons of molten ( 熔化的 ) iron into the crack, along with a robot. The iron, thicker than the surrounding crust, would move downward at about 16 feet per second, carrying the robot with it and opening the crack deeper and deeper. The iron mass would drop for about a week and 2,000 miles to the outer edge of the earth core, the robot sending out data to the surface.

• Stevenson compares his idea to space exploration. "We're going somewhere we haven't been before,"he says. "In all possibility, there will be surprises.”This idea can probably be put in the drawer marked with Isn't Going To Happen. The robot would have to survive temperatures that would melt pretty much anything. But Stevenson's idea may inspire a new look at an old problem. Great things can come from what seems like impossible ideas.

1. Going inside the earth is _____ than going into space.

• A. more interesting• B. more possible• C. easier• D. more challenging

2.How deep have we gone into the earth until now?

• A. 6 miles.• B. 4,000 miles.• C. 7.5 miles.• D. 25 miles.

1. Which of the following is TRUE about David Stevenson's idea?

• A. It is an inspiring but not practical idea now.• B. It is a practical proposal that has come into

use now.• C. It is a good proposal that will soon be put

into practice.• D. It is a false theory that cannot be carried out

at all.2. What might be the most suitable title for the

text?• A. An Annoying Problem for Humans • B. To the Center of the Earth• C. The Mohole Project • D. David Stevenson's Proposal

Important Words

distant, explore, relatively, dig, surface, involve. depth, pressure, weight, evidence, analysis, thorough , method, crack, explosion, pour, robot, surrounding, core, compare, space exploration, drawer,survive, temperature, melt, inspire .

Important Phrases

oil well, call for,

on the scale of a nuclear bomb,

Long Sentences

•  An annoying problem for humans , who like to boast( 夸耀 ) about all the distant planets and moons we have explored, is that we’ve never taken a good look right under our noses.

• The Mohole project, a US plan in the 1950s, called for drilling a hole 25miles down to the boundary between the hard rocks of the crust and the soft mantle.

• Hard but easily broken at the surface, rocks become plastic at depth, and the pressure caused by the weight of the overlaying crust- about 52,800 pounds per square inch at a depth of ten miles, makes further drilling impossible.

Post-reading(1)Why is a sentence so long?• The long sentence contains ：1. 并列连词 and /but/or/so

2. 从句（定语从句，名词性从句，状语从句）

3. 非谓语4. 同位语或同位语从句 (2)Which part of the sentence is the most imp

ortant to analyse a long sentence?

The predicate verb ( 谓语动词 )

Competion

Now everybody, please form groups of four and let’s have a competition to see which group writes the longest sentence and appreciate these long sentences

Presentation and appreciation

罗丹 It’s reported that Sam, a ninety-year-old man as well as an educator of great achievements including making up a dictionary which is used for academic research by the people from all over the world, who has rich experience in education devoted himself to teaching ,leading a great many students to success, such as Tony who becomes a superb man with the help of his teacher ,and the reason why he has such a great honor is that there is a saying that a coward considers difficulties as a heavy burden on his back ,but a valiant fighter turns difficulties into a stepping stone for his advance inspires him to go on.

长句特点 :

( 同位语及同位语从句，定语从句， 并列连词，非谓语 )

任健 A girl who wants to make friends with the boy who doesn’t know the girl wants to make friends with him wanted to say Happy Birthday by herself to the boy several weeks ago, but something happened in the evening causing it to fail and making the girl sad.

( 长句特点：定语从句里套宾语从句， but, 非谓语 )

索玮 Our class which is called Class 15 organized a competition that compares the length of sentences written by students and the person who gets the first can obtain the secret of WIFI on the 3rd floor.

长句特点：定语从句， and

薛勇 I am a seventeen-year-old boy who is one of the students who want to do well in College Entrance Exams, and I hope to be admitted to a college which is good at economy because I am interested in a subject which can make people earn lots of money so as to give them happiness , though money isn’t everything for people who are in the world!

长句特点：状语从句

李薇 when I met her who is very beautiful with long hair in the garden which has many butterflies called BaiHuiYuan , I thought it was during childhood that we had ever played together and had made a promise that we would get married in a place that is filled with love .

长句特点：强调句型，同位语从句，状语从句

马卓杰 A happy family living in an amazing ,fantastic, big castle, which has a handsome, gentle man who is from beautiful, attractive Florida, a pretty ,soft woman who is from interesting, legendary Hollywood and a six-year-old son who is very lovely is going to an mystery, famous, distant island called Hawaii to visit their rich friend who is very charming and hospitable.

长句特点：并列形容词叠加前定，定语从句后定

Summary

Have you understood the following words and phrases?

distant, explore, relatively, dig, surface, involve. depth, pressure, weight, evidence, analysis, thorough , method, crack, explosion, pour, robot, surrounding, core, compare, space exploration, drawer, survive, temperature, melt, inspire .

oil well, call for, on the scale of a nuclear bomb,

Have you understood why a sentence is so long?

I really appreciate your potential and I’m proud of you. Thank you.