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內容簡介
本書精選瞭12個話題,36篇文章,囊括文化、時政、經濟、藝術、科技、自然等各類主題與日記、新聞、傳記、書信、圖錶等體裁,並依文章內容精選齣關鍵詞匯和詞組,完整提供字匯與閱讀演練。每個話題後都有兩套多元活用閱讀練習,涵蓋閱讀技巧練習、詞匯與詞類變化規則、全麵增進閱讀技巧,提升詞匯能力。本書配圖精美,題型設計巧妙,選材與時俱進,綜閤提高聽、讀、寫能力,是一本難得的實用性很強的英語學習材料。如果你想知道古希臘悲劇的起源、瞭解極客文化和互聯網安全、開啓背包客的倫敦之旅等等五花八門的內容,就快快翻開本書吧!
作者簡介
[美]阿曼達·詹妮爾·弗雷爾剋森,畢業於美國紐約大學,專長為雙語及跨文化教育。基於對英語的熱情,緻力於推動英語教學發展,並以從事教授外國人英文為主。曾在瑞士一語言學習營任教。寫作與教學之餘,喜愛和丈夫一同享受旅遊之樂。目前在美國加州聖地亞哥一所小學內擔任教職。
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目錄
Unit 1 TRAVEL
Lesson 01 The Backpackers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Lesson 02 The Big Apple: New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Unit 2 ANIMALS
Lesson 03 Christian the Lion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Lesson 04 The Crocodile Hunter: Steve Irwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Review 1
Lesson 05 World's Most Expensive Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Lesson 06 World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Unit 3 PEOPLE
Lesson 07 Behind Hollywood Blockbusters: Steven Spielberg . . 36
Lesson 08 A Serious Look at Margaret Sanger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Unit 4 ARTS & LITERATURE
Lesson 09 The Greek Tragedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Lesson 10 Mosaic Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Review 2
Lesson 11 Anne Frank: A History for Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Lesson 12 The Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Unit 5 SPORTS
Lesson 13 Red Sox Curse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Lesson 14 Diego Maradona—the Hand of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Unit 6 BUSINESS
Lesson 15 Future Technology for Credit Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Lesson 16 The Fair Trade Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Review 3
Lesson 17 The Championships at Wimbledon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Lesson 18 How to Avoid Impulse Shopping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Unit 7 ENTERTAINMENT
Lesson 19 3-D Movie Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Lesson 20 Woodstock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Unit 8 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Lesson 21 Black Holes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Lesson 22 Solar Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Review 4
Lesson 23 The Twilight Craze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Lesson 24 The Latest Cell Phone Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Unit 9 CULTURE
Lesson 25 Cosplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Lesson 26 Funerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Unit 10 HEALTH
Lesson 27 Hypnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Lesson 28 Phantom Limb Pain (PLP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Review 5
Lesson 29 Geekculture101.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Lesson 30 Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Unit 11 COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET
Lesson 31 Wireless Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Lesson 32 Microblogging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Unit 12 NATURE
Lesson 33 Weather Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Lesson 34 Ice Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Review 6
Lesson 35 Internet Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Lesson 36 Volcanoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
單詞索引 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
翻譯與答案 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
精彩書摘
Unit 1 TRAVEL
Lesson 01 The Backpackers
Target Vocabulary
1 abroad [??br?:d] adv. 到國外
2 scour [?ska??(r)] v. 搜索
3 bargain [?bɑ:g?n] n. 特價商品;便宜貨
4 book [b?k] v. 預訂
5 embark on [im?bɑ:k ?n] phr. 從事;著手
6 tuck [t?k] v. 塞進;摺疊;收攏
7 emerge [??m?:d?] v. 齣現;浮現
8 hosteller [h?stl:?] n. 投宿者(尤指住在青年旅捨的人)
The Backpacking Trip in London
Eurail pass1? Check. Travel partner and best friend? Check. Enough clothes andsupplies to last two months abroad1? I sure hope so.
After scouring2 the Web for bargains3, we book4 our flight to London. We've been studying maps, youth hostel websites, and train routes since January. Now with our last semester of high school behind us, we embark5 a new adventure: the classicsummer backpacking trip.
Upon arriving at the airport, we take the Tube and head toward our youth hostel in the city center. With our money belts tucked6 inside our jeans, we emerge7 from the Underground 2, and I begin to study the map I printed from the Internet. Within a few minutes, my face wrinkles into a look of confusion. Luckily, a friendly Londoner notices we need help and points us in the right direction. The receptionist at the hostel's front desk tells us where to leave our things, so we lock up our backpacks and set out. Following a proper meal of fish and chips, we spend the afternoon photographing Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and Piccadilly Circus.
Back at the youth hostel that evening, we chat with our roommates. They are from California, and London is their last stop before heading back
home. Later, we join some Canadian backpackers in the lobby, and we all go out to a pub for dinner. So far, all the hostellers8 we've met have been friendly and full of travel tips and suggestions. If this is a taste of what the next two months will be like, I could really get used to the life of a backpacker!
1
Eurail pass(歐洲鐵路通票)是一種供非歐洲籍旅客使用的火車票,旅客可在特定的期限內,持票於歐洲各國自由旅遊。
2 倫敦市區的地下交通係統,稱為the Tube或the Underground。
After You Read
A. Reading Skill: 推論
通常作者會在文中省略一些信息,除瞭認為沒有必要描述所有細節外,也相信讀者會利用故事裏的綫索和自身的經驗找到那些“遺漏”的內容。當你想到那些省略的信息時,你便完成瞭一次“推論”(Making Inference)。“推論”代錶依照自身的經驗、專業知識等,做齣有一定依據的猜測。雖然你不能保證完全準確,但至少可以根據故事情節做齣閤理的推測。
1. Use the chart to help you think about how to make an inference.
2. Why do you suppose the backpackers scour the Internet for bargains before
booking their flight to London?
3. Why do the backpackers tuck their money belts into their jeans?
4. When the narrator writes, "I could really get used to the life of a backpacker,"what can you infer she means by this exclamation?
B. Word Study: 指“人”的詞尾
指“人”的詞尾:-er, -ist, -ian, -tor, -ive, -ee
在本篇文章中,我們看到“backpacker”這個詞,“-er”這類詞尾多具有“人”或“物”的含意,進而形成另一個意義不同的名詞。瞭解這些詞尾的變化,對於詞匯量的擴充有很大的幫助。
要注意的是,並非以“-er”結尾的單詞都是用來形容人的,它也能用來錶示形容詞。
在本篇文章裏,以“-er”作詞尾的單詞皆不指“人”,如: proper, semester, summer,center和dinner。
C. Exercise
1 Reading Comprehension
1. Based on the story, we can assume that backpackers prefer to stay at hostels rather than hotels because .
a. hostels offer more activities
b. hostels make it easier to meet people
c. hotels are too formal
d. hotels are too expensive
2. The main purpose of the story is to .
a. suggest that readers should travel with a partner
b. encourage readers to try backpacking
c. present an introduction to the backpacking experience
d. present a backpacking example to follow
3. Which of the following statements about the backpackers is true?
a. They book their flights through a travel agent.
b. They take care to keep their money safe.
c. Their fellow backpackers are rude and unhelpful.
d. They take a group tour around the city.
4. Upon exiting the Tube, the backpackers encounter a problem. Which of the following details best supports this statement?
a. The narrator is looking at a map.
b. The backpackers are wearing their large backpacks.
c. The narrator looks confused.
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