英语时文精读 蝗灾横扫非洲（课件PPT）-【快捷英语】人大附中名师精讲阅读理解七年级初一英语时文精读（第19期）

活页英语时文 阅读理解 七年级⑲ Week Fourteen Wednesday Wednesday/Week Fourteen Wednesday/Week Fourteen 蝗灾横扫非洲 Why are people at risk because of locusts? Read and think: Locusts are hungry insects! One locust A swarm of locusts can eat its body weight of food in 24 hours enough to feed 35,000 people for a day Locusts can eat a lot! Millions of farmers’ lives in Africa are at risk (危险) from locusts (蝗虫). Locusts are destroying (毁坏) a lot of farmland in Somalia, Kenya and Uganda. The locusts are becoming more and more, and start flying to other countries. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports locusts have been seen as far away as in Oman in southwest Asia. It is the worst locust invasion (侵袭) in 70 years. Disaster! Which words can tell us locusts caused a disaster? Danger! Difficult sentences: The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports locusts have been seen as far away as in Oman in southwest Asia. 句式结构：主语+谓语+宾语（从句） What is the result of the disaster? The invasion makes life harder for over 12 million people in Africa. Many of them had little food because of no rain. The locust invasion will make things worse. Locusts are very hungry insects. One locust can eat its body weight (重量) of food in 24 hours. A swarm (群) of locusts could eat enough to feed 35,000 people for a day. A worried farmer said, “We depend a lot on this season and we worry that the locusts will eat up our crops. We will be hungry all year round.” The invasion makes life harder for over 12 million people in Africa. Many of them had little food because of no rain. The locust invasion will make things worse. …A worried farmer said, “We depend a lot on this season and we worry that the locusts will eat up our crops. We will be hungry all year round.” Difficult sentences: A worried farmer said, “We depend a lot on this season and we worry that the locusts will eat up our crops. We will be hungry all year round.” 直接引语 we worry that the locusts wi