上海牛津初中英语八年级上--CHAPTER 5 READING

CHAPTER FIVE READING

[00:04.70] Page 63  Look it up!

[00:10.06]May's father bought her an encyclopaedia 1.

[00:16.30]Here are three of the articles she found in it.

[00:22.96]DINOSAURS 2

[00:26.02]Dinosaurs lived on earth more than sixty million years ago.

[00:33.96]This was a long time before people existed.

[00:40.49]There were millions of dinosaurs.

[00:45.06]They lived everywhere. Some were as small as chickens.

[00:52.72]Others were as big as ten elephants.

[00:58.64]Some dinosaurs had wings and could fly.

[01:04.42]Many dinosaurs were harmless.

[01:08.96]They were as gentle as sheep and ate plants.

[01:14.84]Others were harmful.

[01:19.28]They were fiercer than tigers and ate meat,

[01:25.52]unlike most other dinosaurs.

[01:30.17]Dinosaurs all died suddenly. Nobody knows why.

[01:37.93]We know about the lives of dinosaurs from the skeletons 4,

[01:44.41]eggs and footprints they left behind.

[01:50.05](See Earth History)

[01:54.42]DIOGENES

[01:57.47]Diogenes was a famous thinker.

[02:02.44]He lived in Greece about two thousand years ago.

[02:08.97]He taught that the way to be happy was to own as few things as possible

[02:17.74]All he owned was a big jar that he lived in,a coat,a purse and a cup

[02:29.11]He was very happy.

[02:32.63]One day,he saw a small boy kneeling by a fountain.

[02:40.29]The boy was drinking water from his hands.

[02:45.75]So Diogenes threw away his cup and became even happier.

[02:54.00]DISNEY,WALT

[02:57.84]Disneyland is a famous amusement park in the United States of America.

[03:06.02]There are also Disneyland Parks in Japan and France.

[03:12.47]Disneyland was created by Walt Disney(1901-1966),

[03:23.65]who is famous for his cartoon characters:

[03:29.82]Mickey Mouse,Donald Duck,Goofy,Snow White and many others.

[03:42.07]Walt was born in the USA.

[03:48.55]After leaving school and studying art at night,

[03:55.02]he sold newspapers and delivered mail.

[04:00.77]Finally he got a job that he really liked--drawing cartoons for films.

[04:11.53]Walt's most famous cartoon character, Mickey Mouse,was a real mouse.

[04:21.09]It sometimes sat on Walt's desk while he was working.

[04:27.44]Walt drew the mouse and put it in a cartoon.

[04:32.90]Soon Mickey became a star and Walt became rich and famous.

[04:42.36](See Cartoons)

[04:46.33]LISTENING Page 66

[04:50.98]Completing notes about a famous place.

[04:56.25]May is thinking about visiting Nanjing.

[05:01.71]She is listening to a travel programme about Nanjing on the radio.

[05:09.86]Help her to complete these notes about this famous place.

[05:17.81]Listen to the recording 6 and write a figure or one word in each blank.

[05:27.05]The city of Nanjing was the capital of China for over a thousand years.

[05:38.10]One of the main attractions of Nanjing is the memorial to Dr Sun Yat-sen

[05:49.05]Dr Sun was one of the fathers of modern China.

[05:56.00]He helped to change China into a republic in 1911.

[06:05.56]Dr Sun died in 1925.He is buried in Nanjing.

[06:15.12]There is a special park where you can visit his memorial.

[06:21.57]The park is over 160 hectares in size.

[06:31.03]It consists of a forest of trees,and some beautiful buildings.

[06:39.78]The government of China looks after the memorial very well.

[06:47.51]In 1986,the government spent 1.2 million RMB.

[06:58.17]They repaired the roofs and walls of the buildings.

[07:05.25]About 8 million people come to visit the memorial every year.

[07:14.31]For many years,it was free.But since 1992,

[07:22.96]you must pay an entrance fee of 5 RMB.

[07:31.81]all the money is used to help with the repairs and cleaning work.

[07:40.07]Behind the Sun Yat-sen Memorial is the famous Purple Mountain.

[07:48.74]It is 449 metres high.

[07:55.27]You can get a cable car to go up the mountain.

[08:02.22]It is a beautiful place to go for a visit and to remember this famous man.

[08:11.68]SPEAKING Pages 71 & 72

[08:17.92]A Talk time Syllables 7 English words are made up of different parts.

[08:28.58]These parts are called syllables.

[08:34.14]Words have one or more syllables.

[08:39.60]Exercise A2

[08:44.04]1 one syllable:dog wing brain solve

[08:55.90]2 two syllables:harmful ancient famous chicken

[09:08.65]3 three syllables:finally character newspaper skeleton 3

[09:21.92]4 four syllables:education experiment responsible uncountable

[09:34.17]Exercise A3

[09:40.34]1 abacus  2 Greece

[09:48.38]3 gentle  4 amusement

[09:57.03]5 footprint

[10:01.60]6 apologize  7 kneel

[10:10.43]8 encyclopaedia

[10:15.47]9 calculator

[10:20.23]Exercise A4

[10:24.59]1  use -- uses

[10:31.35]2  mix -- mixes

[10:37.00]3 wash -- washes

[10:43.16]4   catch -- catches

[10:49.33]5   cross -- crosses

[10:55.07]6  change -- changes

[11:02.15]7 enclose -- encloses

[11:09.31]Exercise A5

[11:13.57]1 arrive -- arrives

[11:19.81]2 wish   -- wishes

[11:25.98]3 brush  -- brushes

[11:31.25]4 choose -- chooses

[11:37.10]5 watch  -- watches

[11:42.67]6  live  -- lives

[11:48.00]7    fix -- fixes

[11:53.25]8 practice -- practices

[12:00.01]9    teach -- teaches

[12:06.49]10    die  -- dies

[12:12.84]Page 76 MORE PRACTICE

[12:17.20]Panda is the name of an Asian animal.

[12:21.25]A panda is a large,black and white bear-like animal.

[12:26.71]It lives in bamboo forests on upper mountain slopes of south-western China

[12:34.36]The giant panda has a white chubby 8 body

[12:38.91]with black legs and a broad band across the shoulders.

[12:44.47]It has a large round head,small black ears

[12:50.22]and a white face with a black patch around each eye.

[12:55.68]The panda grows from 1 metre to 1,5 metres tall and has a short tail.

[13:03.93]Most weigh from 90 to 136 kilos.

[13:09.50]Giant pandas are like bears in shape and size

[13:14.25]and in the slow clumsy way they walk.

[13:18.62]Like bears they can stand up on their hind 5 legs.

[13:23.16]The female gives birth to one or two cubs 9 once a year.

[13:29.09]A giant panda eats mainly bamboo shoots,

[13:33.95]though it eats other plants as well.

[13:37.61]A giant panda may eat as much as 9 kilos of food a day.