2023-2024学年人教版七年级英语上册 课外阅读2

Passage Two Danger goes into the sea Japan started sending nuclear-contaminated water (核污染水) into the ocean on Aug 24. The world is worried about it. What happened? In 2011, a tsunami (海啸) hit a nuclear power plant (核电站) in Japan. The nuclear reactors (核反应堆) were damaged. They were very hot. Workers used a lot of water to keep them cool. The water then became nuclear-contaminated water.  Two types of water Nuclear-contaminated water: The water has more than 60 kinds of radioactive materials (放射性物质). It’s bad for people’s health and the environment (环境). Nuclear wastewater (核废水): The water doesn’t have radioactive materials. It also cools down reactors, but it doesn’t touch them. Where will Japan’s nuclear-contaminated water go? It goes to the middle of the Pacific Ocean (太平洋) in 57 days; It gets to China in about 240 days; It gets to the US and Canada in 3 years; It reaches everywhere in the world in 10 years.  How does it hurt us? By food: Fish and other seafood in water may have radioactive materials. By air: The cloud near the sea may have these materials too.  · 重难点解析 1. Japan started sending nuclear-contaminated water (核污染水) into the ocean on Aug 24. _____________________________________________________________________________ 2. The world is worried about it. _______________________________________________________________________________ 3. It’s bad for people’s health and the environment (环境). _______________________________________________________________________________ 4. It gets to China in about 240 days;It reaches everywhere in the world in 10 years. _______________________________________________________________________________ 5. It also cools down reactors, but it doesn’t touch them. _______________________________________________________________________________ · Practices 1、 翻译句子和短语 1. What happened? _________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Japan started sending nuclear-contaminated water (核污染水) into t