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
account valuation
addition(al) agent
adelson
aluminium copper
anglo-chinese
antilewisite
ardent spirits
astreopora moretonensis
ball check valve
barways
besqueeze
Bessarabian
bio-available
brown purple
carpet binding
carrier of disease
carry-knave
cerapioside
change of direction
Charrin
computer acceleration control
correlation parameter
cortical magnification factor
crude drug
Crypsinus
Curuaés, R.
cutis verticis gyrata
cystinurias
devival
digresseth
double plate holder
Douglas's graft
drawing scale
drop size meter
energy transformation
enlarged sample
epistomial ring
extinction angle
FGA
fibroxanthoma of bronchus
fly-bane
fu an ss? i chih wu
gas-engine-driven machine
genus belliss
gobet
heir conventional
hermetically sealed connector
high current hybrids
homogeneous population
immersed cylinder
initial magnetization characteristic
interference elimination measuring
kenyite
ketimipramine
line-plot survey
longaberger
loose ablative
lords temporal
Loves Park
mandibulate type
mid-cycle
muzzled sperm
non-minority
nuclear statistical equilibrium
on the chopping block
ophiomancy
orleanaiss
orthophenanthrolene
otosenine
parallel jaw
peregal
polar cod
polyfluoroethylene
preliminary pile assembly
pull a few strings
qtip
Ramus circumflexus
reopened
response analysis
saprotroph(s)
shuttle accessories
sight-sing
sigma delta converters and filters
sliding drill arm
spike rushes
standard variable costing
stockholders equity
strand
temperature classification
There is no help for it
thyrotoxic heart disease
Torichion
triple fourdrinier machine
Tsip'a
tubular chassis
tue
turkling
under bead crack
Vancian
Vena pulmonalis sinistra inferior
wheat stalk
white-elephant