SpectrumBook 3

Unit One

Lesson 1 Arctic Adventures

Key words:

Susan Butcher Iditarod Sled Dog Race sled dogs moose( 北美麋 ) 1.Read the text by yourselves and try to get the main idea of the passag

e.2.Listen to the tape carefully and try to find the answers to the followin

g questions. 1>Why did Butcher stop her sled team in one black night? 2>How long has Butcher been working with her sled dogs? 3>To Butcher, what may the moose have thought of the dog team? 4>How may of Butcher’s dogs were injured altogether? 5>How many times have Butcher won the Iditarod Sled Dog Race?

Lesson 1 Arctic Adventures Language points 1. Not only have Susan Butcher and her sled dogs won the Iditarod Sled

Dog Race on four occasions, but they’ve also beaten death.2. Susan Butcher called her sled team to a quick halt…3. Butcher called ‘Haw’ to her lead dog. 4. She was mushing /driving her best team in seven years.5. On another occasion, Butcher risked her life when she decided to mu

sh across 40 miles of sea ice.6. Butcher guided her team onto the beach.7. Butcher had already set a new time record for the first leg of the trip,

and her chances of winning had never been better.8. The other musher tied his team to a tree and ran up to shoot the mo

ose.

Lesson 1 Arctic Adventures Language points1. A cow moose stood blocking the trail ahead.2. And she did move! The moose turned and charged straight into

the dog team.3. Instead of leaving, however, the moose charged back into the

team.4. She is so skinny. She must be starving to death. 5. And it was starvation that made this moose behave as she did. 6. She may have perceived the dog team to be a pack of wolves.7. Her instincts may have told her that she was too weak to escape

by running.8. Her only chance to survive would be to drive off the “wolves”,

which, of course, were harnessed together and couldn’t run away.

Lesson 1 Arctic Adventures Language points1. ‘This has happened before,’ Butcher thought, optimistically, ‘we’ll deal with

it’.2. But she handled it with her typical optimistic attitude….3. Butcher reached for the 44 caliber handgun usually kept in the sled, then

remembered she hadn’t packed it.4. Without hesitation, she grabbed the ax, and in her words, ‘went after the

moose.’5. Incredibly, she succeeded in driving the animal out of her team, but not

before some of her dogs had been severely injured.6. Again Butcher approached the moose, swing her ax.7. Butcher swung with a fury.8. Her thoughts were also in sympathy with the moose.9.She yelled long before her fellow musher got close enough to be in danger.10. Butcher was, however, soaked to the skin.11. She thoroughly enjoys winning against incredible odds.

Lesson 1 Arctic Adventures Language pointsHe obediently turned left toward shore, but the ice billowed

upward, thenfell apart as it dropped back down---- dumping dogs, sled and

Butcher into30 feet of water so cold it can be survived for only minutes.

Summarize the passage in your own words.

Lesson Two You made it!

• Listen to the tape 1. Summarize it in your own words.2. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. a. Meg felt very sorry that she was the last to cross the finish

line. b. Meg has only been running for two weeks. c. Meg got her pain in her side at the very beginning of the

race. d. Meg entered the race because she wanted to know how

long it would take her to finish the journey.3. Answer to 2 F T F F

Lesson Two You made it! Language points 1. The 10-kilometer ‘Run for Your Life’ marathon, held every

four year to raise money for heart disease research, is about to begin.

2. You are a reporter covering the event.3. You made it!4. You look pretty tired.5. When I signed up, I’d only been running for two weeks.6. You certainly showed them.7. Was there ever a time when you thought you would drop

out?8. That was a killer.9. I guess I should say….10. Congratulations on hanging in there.

Lesson Two You made it! Finish exercises in lesson 2 in

exercises books.

Lesson Three I’d always wanted to be a doctor.

Talk about a decision----- what made you decide to go into medicine (profession)? ------ what made you decide to major in English (subject)?------ what made you decide to take up running (sport or leisure

or activity)?

Past perfect

1. I didn’t finish my work at 5 yesterday. (past tense)2. I have finished my work. (present perfect)3. I had finished my work before I went home. (past perfect)Formula for past perfect: had + done + reference time in the

past

Lesson Three I’d always wanted to be a doctor.

1. so…that VS. such… that1a> It was so hot that I couldn’t run.1b> It was a such hot day that I couldn’t run.2a> She was so clever that she worked out the problem quickly.2b> she was such a clever girl that she worked out the problem

quickly.

2. too… to VS. not… enough…. To1a> It is too hot to run 1b> It is not cool enough to run.2a> He is too young to go to school.2b> He is not old enough to go to school