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Chapter 6 (P63-80)
Activity 1. Vocabulary Learning
Part 1. Locate the following words in the book and learn about their meanings in the corresponding contexts.
disorient v.迷失方向
converge v.会和
threshold n.门槛
wind up v.陷入
incubation n.孵化
encroach v.慢慢侵占
Part 2. Match the words and phrases in bold with their English definitions.
1) ‘Starving and completely disoriented,’ he told my mother. ‘Can you imagine someone abandoning their dog like that?’
2) He looked pretty good to my brothers, too, but from the way my mother’s face was pinched, I could tell she was thinking, Abandon this dog?
3) ‘It’s not a matter of ownership. It’s a matter of compassion.’
4) Then my mother started noticing an odour. A mysterious odour of indeterminate origin.
5) My personal suspicion was that Matt and Mike were the ones not bathing enough, but I didn’t want to get close enough to sniff them.
6) We did try to recruit my brothers, but they wound up getting into a spray-bottle fight, which got them locked in their room, which, of course, was fine with them.
7) She pulled The Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens from her bookshelf and said,“Read the section on artificial incubation and set yourself up tonight. I'll get you an egg tomorrow.”
8) For my project I drew diagrams of the various stages of an embryo's development, I made a giant chicken poster, I graphed the daily fluctuations in temperature and humidity, and I made a line chart documenting the weight loss of each egg.
9) So they scrambled out, and the three of us sat in the car with only the gentle peep-peeppeep from my little flock breaking the silence.
10) And earning money from my eggs gave me this secret happy feeling, which I was reluctant to have the kindness of my heart encroach upon.
11) I'm quite allergic to the feathers myself or I'd probably have a flock of my own, but never you mind. You just bring 'em over when you're up to it.
12) We stood there for a record-breaking amount of time saying nothing.
abandon pinch compassion indeterminate suspicion recruit
artificial fluctuation scramble reluctant allergic record-breaking
1) to leave a place, thing, or person, usually for ever
2) not measured, counted, or clearly known
3) a belief or idea that something may be true
4) made by people, often as a copy of something natural
5) to move or climb quickly but with difficulty, often using your hands to help you
6) not willing to do something and therefore slow to do it
7) having an allergy
8) better, bigger, longer, etc. than anything else before
9) to persuade someone to work for a company or become a new member of an organization, especially the army
10) a strong feeling of sympathy and sadness for the suffering or bad luck of others and a wish to help them
11) a change, or the process of changing, especially continuously between one level or thing and another
12) to press something, especially someone's skin, strongly between two hard things such as a finger and a thumb, usually causing pain
Activity 2. Read for Understanding
Activity3. Language Reinforcement
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