时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:高中英语牛津版高一


英语课
[00:05.49]Friend or Enemy?'Kill it!' cried Debbie. 'Certainly not,' said Simon.
[00:13.74]'Why? You're not frightened of it, are you?It's only an insect.'
[00:19.62]'It isn't an insect,Debbie,though it might look like one.
[00:24.87]Actually, it's a very useful creature.
[00:28.81]The programme I watched last night has completely changed my views on spiders.
[00:34.98]Do you want to hear about it?'
[00:38.24]'Not really,' sighed Debbie'but I suppose you're going to tell me anyway.'
[00:43.89]'Spiders,' said Simon,ignoring her remarks,
[00:48.93]'are the enemies of insects and the friends of humans.
[00:53.89]That's something that Chinese farmers realized years ago
[00:58.93]and scientists are only beginning to understand today.
[01:04.08]'Do you know that in parts of China,in the autumn,
[01:09.25]farmers build shelters for spiders and put them all over their fields?
[01:15.31]They're like little cone-shaped tents made of straw
[01:20.35]and the spiders can survive the winter in them.
[01:24.92]When spring comes, the spiders emerge 1 healthy and hungry,
[01:30.88]at the same time as millions of insects arrive to attack the farmers' crops.'
[01:38.04]So the spiders fill their empty stomachs,
[01:43.37]and the fanners whose fields are protected are happy.
[01:47.81]They've saved their crops and their money.
[01:51.65]Because of the spiders their expenditure 2 on insecticides is nil 3.'
[01:58.20]'So everyone's happy except the insects,' said Debbie.
[02:03.17]'Right,and now this natural method of pest control
[02:08.44]is being copied all over the world.'
[02:12.21]'Interesting,'said Debbie.'But now I really must go and...' 'Wait,'cried Simon.
[02:20.15]'There's more.Do you know what is stronger than steel,
[02:25.71]lighter than a feather and as elastic 4 as a rubber band?'
[02:30.86]'No. What is it?'
[02:33.91]'It's the silk that spiders make their webs with.
[02:38.28]And scientists are trying to develop a material with similar properties.
[02:43.63]They plan to use it in spacecraft,artificial organs like hearts,
[02:49.80]and to make really bullet-proof vests.'
[02:54.05]'I still think spiders are nasty,' said Debbie.
[02:58.63]'Their bites are poisonous, aren't they? They're dangerous.'
[03:03.59]'To insects, yes, but to people, rarely.
[03:08.03]But even their poison is useful.
[03:11.69]Doctors think it might be used to treat brain disorders 5 in humans.'
[03:16.94]'That's good news for you, then,'laughed Debbie.
[03:21.01]'But seriously,I get your point, Simon.
[03:24.85]We should try to understand things in nature and not destroy them.'
[03:29.71]LISTENING
[03:34.39]Understanding descriptions and identifying pictures
[07:36.07]MORE LANGUAGE INPUT(Ⅵ)
[07:40.02]Reading
[07:44.69]Small creatures?
[07:47.57]People often think that insects are small delicate creatures.
[07:52.61]But in reality, they are tough animals.
[07:56.87]As a group,they are much tougher than many bigger animals that we know well
[08:02.74]such as birds and fish, cats and dogs.
[08:07.39]Insects have six legs and three body parts.
[08:12.96]Their antennae 6 and shells help them to detect and protect.
[08:18.10]Can you imagine that insects,
[08:21.76]with their special body structure and power of senses,
[08:26.23]destroy about 10% of the world's food supplies every year?
[08:31.87]Insects have an ability to breed rapidly.
[08:36.62]This enables them to develop large populations.
[08:41.38]If you put all the insects in the world together,
[08:45.82]they would weigh more than all the people
[08:49.79]and the rest of the animals on the earth!
[08:53.63]Small creatures?
[08:56.37]Yes,but with enormous strength.
[08:59.90]Listening
[09:04.47]Food Web
[09:07.11]All living things,except plants, depend on other living things.
[09:13.27]They eat other species 7 but are also eaten by still others.
[09:18.73]They are part of a food chain or a food web inthe world of nature.
[09:25.50]In this listening exercise,you will be asked to draw a food web.
[09:30.83]Listen to the statements carefully. [09:34.28]Fill the missing names of the living things in the boxes.
[09:38.95]Then draw arrows to show what eats what.
[09:43.92]Remember the arrows in a food web always point from food to feeder.


1 emerge
vi.(从水中等)出来,出现,浮现,形成
  • The baby's head was starting to emerge from the womb.婴儿的头开始从母亲的子宮中露出来。
  • It's still hard to tell who will emerge victorious.鹿死谁手尚难逆料。
2 expenditure
n.(时间、劳力、金钱等)支出;使用,消耗
  • The entry of all expenditure is necessary.有必要把一切开支入账。
  • The monthly expenditure of our family is four hundred dollars altogether.我们一家的开销每月共计四百元。
3 nil
n.无,全无,零
  • My knowledge of the subject is practically nil.我在这方面的知识几乎等于零。
  • Their legal rights are virtually nil.他们实际上毫无法律权利。
4 elastic
n.橡皮圈,松紧带;adj.有弹性的;灵活的
  • Rubber is an elastic material.橡胶是一种弹性材料。
  • These regulations are elastic.这些规定是有弹性的。
5 disorders
n.混乱( disorder的名词复数 );凌乱;骚乱;(身心、机能)失调
  • Reports of anorexia and other eating disorders are on the increase. 据报告,厌食症和其他饮食方面的功能紊乱发生率正在不断增长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The announcement led to violent civil disorders. 这项宣布引起剧烈的骚乱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 antennae
n.天线;触角
  • Sometimes a creature uses a pair of antennae to swim.有时某些动物使用其一对触须来游泳。
  • Cuba's government said that Cubans found watching American television on clandestine antennae would face three years in jail.古巴政府说那些用秘密天线收看美国电视的古巴人将面临三年监禁。
7 species
n.物种,种群
  • Are we the only thinking species in the whole of creation?我们是万物中惟一有思想的物种吗?
  • This species of bird now exists only in Africa.这种鸟现在只存在于非洲。
学英语单词
.fj
agaynest
aircraft dispatcher
all wheel drive
Arsiero
artweek
Babil, Liwā' al
ballotins
beddoe
bicarbonate (salt)
Big Lake
black vacuum
Book of Susanna
boundary spring
bums in seats
Canzar
chalybdite (chalybite)
chirikov
Citibank,N.A.
clue-line
coil-type pan
contrabassoon
critical stability
cut a feather
Deinocheilos jiangxiense
dieron
direito
dual semi-group
end point detector
finishing tap
forced-fed duck
freedom of entry
full-recovery
fusilli
Gartner's cyst
generator matrix
Gentiana cephalantha
gladful
Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscle
guide curve
gustatio colorata
half-whispered
helicine arterys of penis
hitch one's wagon to a star
idempotent property
ignimbrite
incremental length diffaction coefficients (ildc)
inference programming
inside-out filter
Jacobite
key-word method
Kristensen, Mount
lambkills
link data unit
magnetic confinement
magnificient
malcolm stocks
mutagenic hazard
Non impact printer
non-foaming test
oscillating crystal ethods
paddywhack
palladium sesquioxide
percussing device
pitch apex to crown
pole winding
polydispersity index
pompon rose
poor-law
portable drilling and tapping machine
positive deviation
postscript point
potential channel
prepd.
rain proof
ramdrive
reference winding
rememorant
Ruppertsweiler
Saussurea apus
scalice
SHBG-BC
shock-absorbent
skimminaine
slab culvert
slag pan
slalomist
stemmed from
subchieftains
superbradyonic
superconducting device measurement
superfamous
symplastic
till all nights
too-broad
tree planting
trim paint
Tsiroanomandidy
two plate press
under advice
valleculae unguis
vanadic hydroxide