八年级英语每周阅读

八年级英语阅读补充材料挑战原版：海滩度假

Seafood, surf and seals

On our last holiday, we drank cold beer and ate

fish outside a beach bar while watching surfers.

Where were we –France? Spain? Portugal? No, we

were in St Ives (圣艾夫斯), a small town in the south

of England.

①Visitors like St Ives more than famous places

like Brighton and Blackpool. They like its excellent

beaches and warm weather. Most people here make money from tourists now, but in the past, fishing was more important. Fishing boats still work here and sell fish to nearby restaurants and pubs.

The beaches are all different. Porthmeor is popular with surfers. Porthminster is warmer and good for families with young children. Porthgwidden is the smallest and quietest, great for people who don’t like crowds. The Harbour Beach is best for people who don’t want to walk too far from the shops, pubs and restaurants.

Most visitors just come here for the beaches, but there are lots of other things to do. ②You can have surfing lessons, see modern art, or go on a boat trip to Seal Island to see the seals swimming and lying in the sun.

Task 1：Match the word or phrase with a definition.

1. surfer a. take fish from water for sport or to eat them

2. a tourist b. a large sea animal with beautiful eyes

3. go fishing c. a person who practises surfing, a water sport

4. a crowd d. a person who visits a place for fun

5. a seal e. a lot of people together

Task 2：True or false?

1. St Ives is in France.

2. Visitors like St Ives more than Brighton and Blackpool.

3. Tourists are important for St Ives.

4. Boats don’t go fishing from St Ives any more.

5. The beaches are very similar to each other.

6. St Ives isn’t only for people who want a beach holiday.

Task 3：Fill in the correct verb forms.

Task 4：Ask and answer

1. Where can people have holidays or go on trips in your country or area?

__________________________________________________________________________

2. What can you do there?

__________________________________________________________________________

3. How many tourists go there?

__________________________________________________________________________ New words and explanation

surfer n.冲浪者Portugal n.葡萄牙tourist n.游客

crowd n.人群seal n.海豹

①释义：比起那些热门地点如布莱顿和黑池，游客们更喜欢圣伊夫斯。

用法：like… more than… 比起……更喜欢……

I like dogs more than cats.

②释义：你可以上冲浪课，观赏现代艺术，或者坐船去海豹岛看海豹游泳、晒太阳。

用法：see sb. / sth. doing sth. 看……正在做某事。

I saw him working in the garden yesterday.

They knew her very well. They had seen her grow up from childhood.

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冲浪(surf) 是澳洲和欧美地区海滩度假最常见的运动之一。surf 作动词可表示“冲浪”，也可以引申为“上网浏览”，如surf the Internet。