上海牛津初中英语八年级上--Chapter 7 READING Page

Chapter 7  READING Page 93

[00:06.19]Nobody wins

[00:09.43](Part 2)

[00:12.17]After his supper of kangaroo soup,

[00:17.01]Gork lay down on his bed and almost immediately fell asleep.

[00:24.74]He was snoring.

[00:32.91]The noise shook the cave.

[00:40.36]'Listen,everyone,'I said.'Here's my plan.'

[00:50.02]From my pocket, I took my small, powerful laser torch.

[00:57.78]Because it was in a plastic case,the magnet could not attract it.

[01:05.23]'We'll use this to escape from the cage,' I said.

[01:10.79]'First,I'll melt the bars and then...' Peters interrupted me.

[01:19.05]'I know,Captain.

[01:22.10]Then you'll use the torch to kill Gork.'

[01:27.09]'Use your brains,' I said.'If we kill Gork,how will we escape?

[01:33.34]We're too weak to open the door.Here's what we'll do!We'll...'

[01:41.80]Moments later,we were all out of the cage.

[01:48.04]The crew was hiding among the kangaroos,

[01:53.11]and I was standing 1 on the bed,beside Gork's head.

[01:59.77]I said loudly, 'Gork,this is Nobody.' Gork woke up.

[02:08.13]I aimed the torch at his eye and pressed the button

[02:14.37]The laser beam hit the eye.The eye went out.

[02:22.42]Gork roared,'I can't see!My eye!'

[02:30.28]The noise brought his neighbours running to his door.

[02:36.16]'What's wrong,Gork?' they shouted from outside.

[02:42.04]Gork shouted back,'It's Nobody.Nobody attacked me.Nobody damaged my eye.'

[02:52.49]The neighbours laughed and said,'Nobody attacked him.

[02:58.44]Gork's having a bad dream.

[03:02.88]Let's go back to bed.Good night, Gork.

[03:08.06]By this time,I had joined my crew among the kangaroos.

[03:14.72]Gork said,'Nobody,I know you're hiding among my kangaroos.

[03:23.47]I'll get you.You're finished,all of you.'

[03:29.84]He opened the cave door a little and called his kangaroos to come out.

[03:38.20]As they hopped 2 through the narrow opening,one at a time,

[03:44.76]he felt their backs with his hands to make sure we were not on them.

[03:52.80]'What do we do now?' Peters whispered.

[03:57.84]'We can't get out on the kangarros.We're done for.'

[04:04.32]'Don't panic,Peters,'I said.

[04:08.40]'We can't get out on the kangaroos but we can get out in them.

[04:16.05]Here,get inside this one.'Peters climbed into the giant kangaroo's pocket.

[04:25.01]A few moments later,he hopped through the door to freedom.

[04:31.57]'That's how we all got free,'said Captain King,

[04:38.23]'and back to our ship and,eventually,back to the safety of the earth.'

[04:45.81]'What happened to Gork?'asked someone.

[04:50.66]'Gork? I don't know.

[04:54.50]Maybe he's still in his cave-looking for Nobody.'

[05:01.27]Everyone laughed except a figure in the captain's garden.

[05:08.14]It was moving silently towards the house.

[05:13.70]It was a huge figure, and in its face was a single,red,glowing eye.

[05:23.87]LISTENING Page 96

[05:28.52]Understanding time references 3

[05:33.69]Captain King is talking about his life and work.

[05:40.53]Listen to each item

[05:44.29]and decide whether he is talking about something he did in the past,

[05:51.76]something he often does,or something he is going to do in the future.

[06:00.59]Put a tick in the right column.

[06:05.24]1 When I was a young man I visited Venus,you know.

[06:13.50]2 We often have some green cheese from the moon after dinner.

[06:21.65] It's very tasty.

[06:25.02]3 I use a telescope everyday.It's very important to watch the stars.

[06:34.76]4 I had a difficult time with Gork.He's a terrible monster.

[06:42.42]I escaped from him about two years ago.

[06:48.27]5 Next year I'm going to take a lot of rubber plants to Mars 4.

[06:56.81]I think they will grow well on Mars.

[07:01.67]6 You like computer games,do you?

[07:07.42]Yes,I played computer games many years ago,

[07:14.29]but I don't play them now.

[07:18.05]7 It's my holiday next week,I'm going to planet Z.

[07:25.70]There're real dinosaurs 5 on planet Z.

[07:31.13]I'm going to take some photos of them.

[07:35.78]8 I lived on a comet 6 years ago,you know. Yes,I did.

[07:43.36]I had a small house on a comet

[07:48.09]and a nice garden out in front of it.

[07:52.22]That was about 25 years ago.

[07:57.20]SPEAKING Page 100

[08:02.17]A Talk time

[08:05.93]The sounds [s],[z] and [iz].

[08:13.01]Exercise A1

[08:16.95][s]an ant   - ants

[08:22.60]a magnet - magnets

[08:26.54]a park   - parks

[08:30.69]a pilot  - pilots

[08:34.85]a plant  - plants

[08:39.00]a ship   - ships

[08:43.13][z] a dog   - dogs

[08:48.30]a dream - dreams

[08:52.45]an egg  - eggs

[08:56.40]a head  - heads

[09:00.26]a kangaroo - kangaroos

[09:04.91]a star  - stars

[09:09.07][iz] a box - boxes

[09:14.63]a cage - cages

[09:18.99]a case  - cases

[09:23.25]a face  - faces

[09:27.51]a house  -houses

[09:31.77]a torch  - torches

[09:36.31]Exercise A2

[09:40.28]1 Ants on plants,Flies on dogs,Matches in boxes,Eggs from frogs.

[09:54.83]2 Stars in the sky,Roses on the floor,Walks in the park,Knocks on the door.