Further Reading.ppt

Prediction Prediction 1. What do you think is the most powerful thing in the world? And why? Prediction 2. Read the following words to understand their meanings before you read the article. Reading Detailed reading 2) In what way does the author show the power of the little grass is matchless？__________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Explanation 1. There is a story goes like this: 4. The bones of a human skull are so tightly and firmly joined that no physiologist or anatomist has succeeded in taking them apart whatever means they try. 1) succeed 成功 ---success ---successful ---successfully 2) take … apart 拆卸, 拆开 The machine has already been taken apart. 机器已被拆开 。 fail to do sth. 未能做…… He never fails to phone his mother on her birthday. 每逢母亲过生日时，他都会打电话给她。 今天早晨他没能准时赶到学校。 他没能正确回答老师提出的问题。 生命开始的一瞬间就开始斗争的草，茁壮而坚韧。也只有这种草，才可以傲然地对那些玻璃棚中养育着的盆花微笑。 2) smile at 朝……微笑，对……冷笑 辨析：closely， close closely 亲密；仔细 close 接近，靠近 They sat close together. 他们紧挨着坐在一起。 We watched the short man closely. 我们密切观察那个矮个子男人。 Dr Kelly walked _____ to the window to watch _____ the short man shopping on the street. A. close; closely B. closely; close C. close; close D. closely; closely 注意这些词的意思： hard 努力地 hardly 几乎不 high 高 highly 高度的 deep 深 deeply 深深地 wide 宽 widely 广泛的 just 正好 justly 公平的 late 晚 lately 最近 6. Once the seeds started to grow, they showed a terrible force that succeeded in opening up the human skull that had failed to be opened even by mechanical force. 一发芽，这些种子便以可怕的力量，将一切机械力所不能分开的骨骼，完整地分开了。 He failed to come to school on time this morning. He failed to answer the teacher’s question correctly. 7. In order to get sunshine and grow, it will wind its way up, no matter how heavy the rocks above or how narrow the space between the rocks.