八年级上学期早读阅读理解练习 Living Moneyless 课件（共13张PPT)+课文原文

目 录 CONTENTS 01 02 03 Pre-reading While reading After reading Reading tasks Language points Practice Have you ever tried to live without buying anything? What would happen if you did it? Living Moneyless Can you imagine your life without any money? One Irishman decided to try it out. Mark Boyle was a successful manager of a food company in Bristol, England. He was living a comfortable life. But he worried about the damage humans were doing to the environment. He also believed people bought more things than they needed. Boyle thought if we grew our own food and made our own furniture, we wouldn’t waste as much as we do today. So one day, he left his job and started an experiment — could he live for a year without buying anything? Boyle sold his houseboat and moved into an old mobile home. He got it for free from a website where people give away things they don’t want. It wasn’t comfortable at first, but he soon made it feel like home. Boyle burned wood from the forest to heat his home. He didn’t go shopping. He grew his own fruit and vegetables and cooked on a wood stove. To wash his clothes, he used a special kind of nut to make soap. Boyle even built his own toilet and used old newspapers for toilet paper. He began using money again after more than a year. He says his life change made him feel healthier, happier, and closer to nature. He wrote two books about his experience and used the money to start “The Free House”, a farm in Ireland where people can live without money. While reading True(T) or False(F)？ ( )1. Boyle cared about the environment. ( )2. Boyle bought an old mobile home from a website. ( )3. Boyle made special soap to wash clothes. ( )4. Boyle enjoyed his life without money. Reading tasks T T T F Fill in the blanks. Boyle thought people needed _______________ than they bought in life. 2. Boyle felt _______________ when he began to live in the mobile home in the beginning.