Unit 3 Wildlife protection

Reading and Comprehension

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1. What is wildlife protection all about according the section of warming up? A. looking after wild plants and animals. B. Providing food and a good zoo for endangered animals to live in. C. making sure the habitats of wild life is not threatened by human’s activities. D. Protecting all animals from being hunted.

2. What content can you predict that the passage will mainly talk about according to the title and the pictures on Page 26? A. Information about animals such as antelopes and elephants. B. Daisy helped an antelope and some elephants. C. Daisy learns that some animals are in danger and they need help. D. Daisy likes to live with antelopes and elephants.

3. What is the main idea of the first paragraph? A. Tibetan antelopes’ fur is used to make sweaters. B. Tibetan antelopes are being hunted for the fur under their stomach. C. The number of Tibetan antelopes are decreasing rapidly. D. The necessity of wildlife protection.

4. What does the writer want to tell us in the second paragraph? A. Elephants in Zimbabwe. B. The numbers elephants there were once decreasing rapidly. C. Protection by farmers there works out well. D. A good example of wildlife protection.

5. What is the main idea of the last two paragraphs? A. Millipedes and a monkey. B. Daisy finds that Wildlife produces valuable drugs naturally . C. Daisy plans to tell WWF about the drug. D. an example of the benefit from wildlife protection.

6. In what way does the writer present his idea to us? A. by using Daisy’s personal experience. B. by an imaginary girl with a story in her dream. C. by presenting the main ideas with arguments supporting them. D. By quoting numbers and facts from all kinds of science reports.

Analyze the sentence structures in the passage.

1. Wild plants and animals have to look after themselves.

2. If their habitat is threatened or they cannot find enough food, their numbers man decrease.

3. As a result these endangered animals may even die out.

4. This is what wildlife protection is all about

5. About 30 — 40 South China tigers remain after being left in peace with no huntingRead the passage and analyze some

sentence structures in it.

1. Daisy had already longed to help endangered species of wild life.

2. In relief Daisy burst into laughter.

3. Farmers hunted us without mercy.

4. They allowed tourists to hunt only a certain number of animals if they paid the farmers.

Useful structures to learn.

1. As a result these endangered animals may even die out.

(die away, die off, die down, die from, die of)

【助记】人总归得有一死，死的搭配要牢记，外因 from 内因 of, 消亡绝迹用 out ，相继死去为 off ，兴奋情绪 down 渐弱，声音风光消 away.

2. There Daisy saw an antelope looking sad.

see / hear / have…sb doing sth

3. In relief Daisy burst into laughter. to one’s relief, give sb. (some) relief (from) in use in public in order in detail in doubt in surprise in secret in horror in danger in trouble in ruins in silence in debt in peace in low spirit4. It contains a powerful drug which affects mosquitoes.

The container contains many kinds fruits, including apples.

5. You should pay more attention to the rainforest where I live and appreciate how the animals live together.. appreciate : (1) to recognize and enjoy the good qualities or worth of sth. (2) to understand fully. (3) to be thankful or grateful for sth. (4) to increase in value over time【比较】 appreciate & enjoy appreciate & thank【特殊用法 …】 appreciate it that / if …

6. I’d like to help as the WWF suggests.

1). When in Rome, do ______________. 入乡随俗。 2). State the fact _______________.   照实讲来。 3). Balloons float in the air ____________. 气球飘在空中如同船浮在水上一样。 4). Things were almost _______________. 事情还像以前一样。

【结构操练 (1) 】 see sb. doing sth

1. we, not, stand, see, wildlife, decrease, number, like this.

2. she, nothing, see, her family, die off.

3. relief, see, endangered, species, live, reserve, peace.

【结构操练 (2) 】 die

1. species, nearly, since, habitat, destroy.

2. many, old, customs, as, time, go by,

3. sound, car, in the distance.

4. she, grow, older, relative, all.

5. her excitement, with, time, go by.

【结构操练 (3) 】 relief

1. I, smile, hear, I, pass, examination.

2. see, patient, come back, life, Doctor Li, nod, head.

3. medicine, give, you, pain

4. it, talk about it, someone else

【结构操练 (4) 】 appreciate

1. Not until, his works, years, after, death

2. I, hear from, you, again.

3. I, your advice, how, deal with, problem

4. I, not, think, you, danger

5. Most people, can, importance, exercise, good, heath

6. I, if, you, show, way, downtown.

【巩固练习】1. Since last year the price of wheat

________________________. (decrease)

自从去年以来，小麦的价格下降了 15% 。 2. __________________, everything

returned to normal gradually. (die)

随着谣言 (rumors) 的消逝，一切又逐渐地恢复了正常。

3. No one can explain ________________ _________. (die)

没有人能说清楚这一物种是如何绝种的。

4. Ever since then I _________________ (long)

从那时起， 我就一直渴望与她面对面的会面。 5. It __________________ to find you

here.

(relief)

见到你在这儿我就放心了 。

6. Only when you wearing dark glasses _________________________. (protect)

只有带上墨镜，你才能保护你的眼睛不受阳光刺激。

7. Little Johnny felt the bag, curious to know _________________. (contain)

小约翰尼摸了摸口袋，想知道你面是什么 。

8. Not until then _______________ that he was seriously ill. （ appreciate ）

直到那时他才充分意识到了他的病情很严重 。

9. His works ______________________ before his death. (appreciate)

他的作品在他生前本就应该得到人们的重视。

10. I would _________________ you lent me a hand. (appreciate)

如果你帮我一下，我将不胜感激。