英语阅读技巧与实践2：1-2.ppt

English Reading (2) passage 1 2 Step I. Requirements for the Students 1. Don’t be late and don’t be absent in class. Call the roll(点名) on irregular. If the times of your absence in my class reach 3, your usual performance mark will be 0. 2. Unnecessary to preview the lesson. Just do the exercises in class. 3. Please insist on extended reading so that you can improve your reading skill and speed. (the reading speed should reach to 120 words per minute in TEM 4 ). And you’re supposed to write reading reports: 2 pieces one month and turn in at the end of every month. This term, don’t copy and don’t write comment on movie, just write comment on novel, fiction, not short story. THE AMAZON RIVER Passage I: Hunting for Viruses on the Amazon Lead-in Do you know something about Amazon? It is a river in South America ,the largest river in the world in terms of volume of water carried. It is one of the longest rivers in the world, approximately 6,276 km (3,900 miles) long ,which only shorter than the Nile River (approximately 6,671 km long), And the width is 190 km. Origin: Nevado Mismi in the Peruvian Andes （起源:安第斯山脉奈瓦多·米斯米峰 ） surface of volume:6,915,000 square kilometers ,about 40 percent of South America(流域面积) total volume:219000 square kilometres per second(流量) Tributary :over 15000 （支流） Countries：Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Guyana（途径国家:秘鲁，哥伦比亚，巴西，玻利维亚，瑞内瑞拉，厄瓜多尔，圭亚那） Rain forest Amazon?River?moistening?the?vast?lands?of?South?America,?has?bred?the?worlds?largest?tropical?rainforest,?making?it?a?region?which?is?acknowledged?as?the?worlds?most?mysterious?kingdoms?of?life.?Also?known?as?King?of?the?river. And the Amazon basin tropical rain forest is located Brazil most probably . Amazon species introduction Amazon rainforests has 2,500,000 kinds of insects, tens of thousands of plant varieties, and about 2, 000 species of birds and mammals. At present, has at least 40, 000 species of plants, 3, 000 species of fish, 1, 294 species of bird