Reading skills --- Students’ worksheets学案

Reading skills --- Students’ worksheets
Tip 1: 利用_____作为辅助，缩小选项范围。

例如_____________________等。

下列哪个（些）词能帮你缩小选项范围？请用方框“□”框出。

Example:
______ They say it's boring to hear the same songs all the time. But other people enjoy hearing Muzak in public places. They say it helps them relax and feel calm. One way or another, Muzak affects everyone…
A. Some people don't like Muzak.
B. The music gives them extra energy.
C. Music is playing in the background.
D. Factory workers produce 13 percent more.
E. Muzak tends to help people understand music better.
F. They get as much as $4 million a year if their songs are used.
G. Muzak is played in most of the big supermarkets in the world.
Exercise:
Over the last 25 years, British society has changed a great deal…
___1___ They generally tend to share very similar tastes in music and clothes, they spend their money in having a good time, and save for holidays or longer-term plans when necessary. There seems to be much less difference than in previous generations. ___2___ As long as this gap exists, there will always be a possibility that new conflicts will appear, or rather that the old conflicts will reappear, but between different groups.
A．Nowadays, a great deal has changed.
B．Both of these provided him and his family with security.
C．As a result, differences in life styles and attitudes came into existence. D．However, we still have a wide gap between the well-paid and the low-paid.
E．In recent years, the working-class people have begun to design long-term plans. F．In some ways, however, very little has changed, particularly where attitudes are concerned.
G．The changes in both life-styles and attitudes are probably most easily seen amongst
younger people.
Tip 2: 观察前后句中的_____________，理解句子之间的_____________，从而确定正确选项。

例如______________________________________等。

请用方框“□”框出相关代词及其指代的名词，用下划线“___”标出正确选项与前（后）句的关联词汇，并写出句子之间的逻辑关系。

Exercise 1 逻辑关系__________
Fraser Island lies just off the east coast of Australia. ______ It is the largest sand island in the world. It is a place of exceptional beauty, with long white beaches, strikingly colored sand cliffs, tall rainforests and numerous freshwater lakes.
A. The highest dunes on the island reach up to 260m above sea level.
B. You can find a lot of endangered animals and plants on Fraser Island.
C. It stretches over 120 km along the southern coast of Queensland.
D. A surprising variety of plants grow on the island, ranging from coastal heath to
subtropical rainforests.
Exercise 2 逻辑关系__________
People have known since ancient times that aspirin lessens pain and lowers high body temperature. ______ It has gained important new uses in recent years…
A. But that is not all the drug can do.
B. It was years before large studies took place.
C. A California doctor named Lawrence Craven first noted this effect sixty years ago.
D. Aspirin competes with many other medicines for reducing pain and high body
temperature.
Exercise 3 逻辑关系__________
______ It’s what gets you out of bed in the mor ning and gives you the motivation to do all sorts of things, such as sport and presentations.
A. Everyone needs a certain amount of stress to live well.
B. People differ greatly in their ways of dealing with stress.
C. These in turn can destroy relationships at home and at work.
D. Whether stress will be bad or good to you depends on how you manage it.
E. In order to cope with their stress, many people turn to things that are not only ineffective but also unhealthy.
Exercise 4 逻辑关系__________
It’s always a painful process for college students to find jobs. _______ However, job positions are quite limited. In order to get a job, the candidates should be more competitive than ever before.
A. “Survival of the fittest.” Darwin's evolution theory appears in the personnel market.
B. With many colleges enlarged in recent years, large numbers of graduates need to hunt
jobs.
C. To go on with further education or to find a job is one of the hardest decisions for the
graduate students to make now.
Exercise 5 逻辑关系__________
Though the Beatles experienced success in England, they did not make it big in the USA until their 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. After that appearance, a phenomenon known as “Beatlemania”occurred. ______ Many teenage boys imitated their distinctive pageboy haircuts.
A. Girls began to collect their albums.
B. And they have sold more than a billion albums around the world.
C. The first few albums they released were full of catchy pop tunes.
D. The Beatles are widely acknowledged as one of the world’s most influential bands.
Consolidation:
The Making of “Tipping Point”
Many of the most expensive commercials ever made are those in which a film star flashes a beautiful smile at the camera. ___1___ Its recent television advertisement, the most expensive in British history, cost ten million pounds, and it features（突出）, not the rich and famous, but villagers from the mountains of Argentina.
The advertisement features a game of dominoes（多米诺）. It begins in a darkened room with several thousand dominoes set up on a specially-designed table. Then the falling dominoes head out of the room into the streets, causing progressively larger objects to fall. Dominoes knock over books, which in turn knock bigger objects such as suitcases, tyres, and even cars. The final piece in the chain reaction is a huge tower of books. ___2___
The place chosen for the commercial was Iruya, a village high up in the mountain in Argentina. ___3___ The journey could take up to ten hours. Asked why this remote destination for the shoot, the director said that even though it was the most difficult location they could have picked, it was perfect.
___4___ Twenty six truckloads of objects were brought in. They were all chosen to suit the town and fit in with the people’s way of life. They included 10,000 books, 400 tyres, 45 wardrobes and 6 cars. Setting the objects up took skill and patience. Some of the sequences（场景）had to be reshot 15 times, though the sequence in which six cars fell over was successfully shot in just one take.
Filming in this location was not without its difficulties. Firstly, being so remote, it was hard to obtain resources. The second problem was the high altitude. Iruya is situated 3000 metres above sea level and the film crew was not used to working in such conditions. ___5___
Director Nicolai Fuglsig said: “Despite all the challenges, the cast was fantastic and it was a really amazing experience.” Whether or not the effort pays off is another matter entirely.
A. Creating this film was no easy task.
B. They drop off to show a glass of Guinness.
C. Preparations for filming took well over a month.
D. Not so with the famous Irish drink company Guinness.
E. They needed to be arranged so they would fall over easily.
F. It was also hard working with the villagers who had no experience of film-making.
G. The film crew had to drive along 48 kilometres of dirt roads and cross twelve rivers. Reflection
I know just how you feel
Do you feel sad? Happy? Angry? You may think that the way you show these emotions is unique. Well, think again. Even the expression of the most personal feelings can be classified, according to Mind Reading, a DVD exhibiting every possible human emotion. ___1____
In the mid 1800s, Darwin divided the emotions into six types --- anger, fear, sadness, disgust, surprise and enjoyment. More complex expressions of emotion were probably learned and therefore more specific to each culture. But now it is believed that many more facial expressions are shared world wide. ____2___ The Mind Reading DVD is a systematic visual record of these expressions.
The project was designed by a Cambridge professor. His research team first had to define an “emotion”. ___3___ Using this definition, 412 emotion terms were identified and discussed, from “afraid” to “wanting”.
Then each expression is acted out by six different actors. “It was really clear when the actors had got it right,”says Cathy Collis, who directed the DVD. “Although they were given some direction, the actors were not told which facial muscles they should move. ___4___”
Someone who has tried to set such rules is the American, Professor Paul Ekman, who built database of how the face moves for every emotion. The face can make 43 distinct muscle movements. Ekman has also found that it may not be possible for people to reproduce them artificially. The most difficult expression to reproduce is the smile. It isnt’only about stretching the lips, but tightening the tiny muscles around the eyes. ___5___ If we learnt to recognize whether someone was using their eye muscle when they smiled, we would be able to distinguish true enjoyment from false.
A. It shows 412 distinct ways we feel.
B. These can be combined into more than 10,000 facial shapes.
C. These particular muscles are difficult to control, and few people can do it.
D. They decided that it was a mental state that could be introduced by “I feel” or “he
looks” or “she sounds”.
E. He said the expression of these feelings was universal and recognizable by anyone,
from any culture.
F. It is as if they are programmed into the brains of “normal humans” wherever they are
and whatever their races.
G. We thought of trying to describe each emotion, but it would have been almost
impossible to make clear rules for this.。