Reading practice

Guessing at new wordsI.definition 定义法

is known as refer to is is called is named

Example 1.Influenza is sometimes called flu or a bad cold.Example 2.A calendar is a list of the days,weeks,months of a particular year.Example 3.A magnet is a piece of iron or steel which can pull other pieces of iron to itself.

II.Retelling 重述

that is in other words orExample1.it is a fiddle,or a violinExample2.I want to buy a bottle of soy sauce,that is jiang_you

III.synonymy 同义

Example1.Doctors believe that smoking cigarettes is detrimental to your health.They also regard drinking as harmful.

Example 2.Mother was tall and fat.Miss Black was almost as plump as mother,but much shorter.Example 3.Frank was surprised to see me sitting behind his desk.He gave me a startled look,then smiled and said “I didn't know you were in town”

IV.Antonym 反义

But while however although instead unlike rather than on the other hand even though

Example1. The main point of the plan is clear to me , but the details are still hazy.

Example 2. If you agree,write “yes”; if you dissent,write “no”.

Example 3.Unlike his brother,who is truly a handsome man ,John is quite homely.Example 4.Although he is used to living in the noisy street,Mr. Smith usually looks forward to returning to his house in the tranquil village.

V.Attributive clause 定语从句Example 1.The theme of the story ,which is its central meaning,express the writer’s opinion about life.

Example 2.His uncle is a tramp,who goes from place to place and does no regular work.

He was a highly conscientious teacher who took his duties seriously.

VI. Context 语境

Example1.Tom’s Parents both died,so Tom and her little sister were sent to an orphanage.

Example2.When metal becomes hot ,it expands.Example3.The noise was so faint that it was impossible to know what it was or even where it came from.

Exercises1.The young man was so

bashful that he didn't speak to the pretty girl.2.Although the early morning had been very cool,the noonday sun was tropical.

3.The man manifested his pleasure with a hearty laugh.

4.She begged the robber not to kill her poor farther,and the robber finally listened to her pleas.

5.Her son’s foolish behavior (manners) at the party is such an embarrassing subject that she refuses to talk about it.

6.These eerie events made him afraid to go out at night.

7.In the past,changes in our world took place slowly;however,since the industrial revolution ,the rate(speed) of change has been steadily accelerating.

8.After a day of hunting, David is ravenous yesterday ,for example he ate two bowls of soup salad, a large chicken and a piece of chocolate cake before he was finally satisfied.

9.When the elephant is finally put to work, the mahout, or driver,rides on its neck.

10.She wanted the hair dresser to trim her hair because it was too long.

11.Meteorologists are scientists who study the weather .They want to predict the weather.That is,they need to know what the weather will be like tomorrow ,next week ,maybe next month.

Passage 1Tomas Edison was born in 1847 Ohio, America, As a little boy he was very inquisitive. He always wanted to know how things were done. Very early in life he showed that he was full of curiosity,a quality( 素质 ) which is so important to inventors.

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Alaska’s ice water teem with fish. Fishing industry is the leading industry.The value of products every year for market is about ＄1,000,000,000. This forms the important part of Alaska’s wealth.

Smoking cigarettes is harmful to your health.Experiments show that cigarette smoking can cause cancer( 癌 ) Cigarette smoking also can cause other health problems . For example ,it can give one “smoker’s cough”Finally studies have shown it is easy for cigarette

smokers to catch colds.Whether you get an unimportant cold or terrible killer,cancer ,smoking is harmful .Is it worth it?

One of the most important uses of gold is for money.Gold can be used to make rings ,earrings and other things.Gold is also used to make gold leaf, a very flat ribbon of gold that is often used on picture frames. Cups and dishes can also be made from fold.Gold has many uses.

An ant can pick up an object more than fifty times its own weight. A bee can pull load more than one hundred fifty times its weight. If we were as strong in proportion to our size, we could pull a five-ten truck.

A very snobbish woman met George Bernard Shaw, the famous English play writer, at a garden party one after noon.

She was the sort woman who was only interested in people who were rich or famous,and she was very eager to have Shaw as a guest in her own home so she could show him off to her friends.

One day she sent her driver in a black Rolls Royce to Shaw’s home with the following invitation:

Lady Whitley-Fallwell will be at home on Thursday, the 14th of December, from 4 to 6.

The following reply came back immediately:

So will Mr.G.B.Shaw

Anatomy is the study of how living things-plants, animals, and people are built. The word comes from the Greek meaning “to cut up”.Cutting apart or dissecting dead human bodies was a crime( 犯罪 ) in ancient times. In the 1st century A.D. , Galen, a Greek doctor, dissected animals to study their parts.His writings on anatomy remained important until the 1400’s.

Andreas Vesalius, a Belgian doctor, wrote a famous book on anatomy in 1543. It was based on his dissections of dead human bodies.There are several branches of anatomy. Gross anatomy is the study of large parts of the body. Histology is the study of tissue( 组织 ), and cytology is the study of cells( 细胞 ). Comparative anatomy deals with differences is structure.