内容正文:
Meet Pesto
Post Reading
Complete the table.
Pesto’s Information Card
From
(1)________
Age
Nine months old
Weight (重量)
(2)________
Daily food
Over 30 fish a day
Looks
Fat and tall
Personality
(3)________
Growth
He grows very fast. He’s starting to lose some of his baby feathers, and he will soon learn how to (4)________.
Exercises
Ⅰ. Complete each sentence with one word in its proper form.
busy, visitor, space, learn
1. The park draws 2.5 million ___________ a year.
2. That desk takes up too much ___________.
3. I’m too ___________ to come to the meeting.
4. I ___________ a lot from my father at a young age.
Ⅱ. Translate the following sentences with the given phrases from the article.
1.在你实施计划之前,要确保它是可行的。(make sure)
2. 如今孩子们长得真快。(grow up)
Keys
Post Reading
Complete the table.
(1) Australia
(2) 22.5 kg
(3) Fun and cute
(4) swim
Exercises
Ⅰ.
1. visitors
2. space
3. busy
3. learned
Ⅱ.
1. Before you carry out the plan, make sure it is workable.
2. Children grow up so fast these days.
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Unit 6
补充阅读理解练习
What can you see in the picture?
________________________
________________________
A penguin.
Feathers.
Meet Pesto
From the title, we can know that the following is about ___________________________________.
a person or an animal called Pesto
Meet Pesto
Now, a baby penguin named Pesto at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia is a big hit online. At just nine months old and 22.5 kg, Pesto is already taller than his parents. As a famous star, Pesto draws many visitors to the aquarium every day.
Pesto eats about eight fish a meal, four meals a day — that’s more than 30 fish a day! And it’s twice as many as a penguin usually eats. He also gets some extra food from his parents. With all this food, Pesto produces a lot of waste. So the keepers are always busy making sure Pesto’s living space is clean when visitors come.
Pesto is fat and tall, like his father Blake, one of the largest penguins at the aquarium. But to help Tango and Hudson, a pair of younger penguins, learn how to be parents, the keepers let Pesto live with them.
Pesto grows up fast. He’s starting to lose his baby feathers and will soon begin learning how to swim from his dad. Michaela Smale, a penguin keeper, says, “We are wondering what he will look like when he grows up and we hope that he will still keep some of his fun and cute personality.”
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Now, a baby penguin named Pesto at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia is a big hit online. At just nine months old and 22.5 kg, Pesto is already taller than his parents. As a famous star, Pesto draws many visitors to the aquarium every day.
本句点明Pesto作为动物明星所带来的影响。
引出文章的主人公,照应题目
Pesto eats about eight fish a meal, four meals a day — that’s more than 30 fish a day! And it’s twice as many as a penguin usually eats. He also gets some extra food from his parents. With all this food, Pesto produces a lot of waste. So the keepers are always busy making sure Pesto’s living space is clean when visitors come.
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Q1: How much fish does Pesto eat in a day?
Q2: Why are the keepers always busy cleaning Pesto’s
living space?
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Pesto is fat and tall, like his father Blake, one of the largest penguins at the aquarium. But to help Tango and Hudson, a pair of younger penguins, learn how to be parents, the keepers let Pesto live with them.
本段描述了Pesto的体型特征、家庭背景以及饲养员为了帮助其他年轻企鹅学习如何当父母而采取的措施。
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Pesto grows up fast. He’s starting to lose his baby feathers and will soon begin learning how to swim from his dad. Michaela Smale, a penguin keeper, says, “We are wondering what he will look like when he grows up and we hope that he will still keep some of his fun and cute personality.”
本段先点出了段落的主题,即Pesto成长得很快。然后通过具体的细节进行了阐述,最后通过引用企鹅饲养员的话,表达了人们对Pesto未来成长的好奇和期望。
本段主题句
Complete the table.
Pesto’s Information Card
From (1)________
Age Nine months old
Weight (重量) (2)________
Daily food Over 30 fish a day
Looks Fat and tall
Personality (3)____________
Growth
He grows very fast. He’s starting to lose some of his baby feathers, and he will soon learn how to (4)________.
22.5 kg
Australia
Fun and cute
swim
Now, a baby penguin named Pesto at the Sea Life
Melbourne Aquarium in Australia is a big hit online.
a big hit意为“大受欢迎”。
e.g. 这是一部热门电影。 (翻译)
The movie was a big hit.
2. As a famous star, Pesto draws many visitors to the aquarium every day.
draw在句中意为“吸引;使感兴趣”。我们已学过的意思是“画画”,在这里属于熟词生义。
e.g. 这门课程吸引着来自全国各地的学生。 (翻译)
The course draws students from all over the country.
她刚才画了一栋房屋。(翻译)
She drew a house just now.
3. Pesto is fat and tall, like his father Blake, one of the
largest penguins at the aquarium.
one of +最高级+可数名词的复数形式,表示 “……
中最……” 。
e.g. 篮球在我们学校是最流行的运动之一。 (翻译)
Basketball is one of the most popular sports in our school.
1. The park draws 2.5 million ___________ a year.
2. That desk takes up too much ___________.
3. I’m too ___________ to come to the meeting.
4. I ___________ a lot from my father at a young age.
busy, visitor, space, learn
space
visitors
learned
busy
Ⅰ. Complete each sentence with one word in its proper form.
Ⅱ. Translate the following sentences with the given phrases
from the article.
Before you carry out the plan, make sure it is workable.
2. 如今孩子们长得真快。(grow up)
1.在你实施计划之前,要确保它是可行的。(make sure)
Children grow up so fast these days.
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Meet Pesto
Now, a baby penguin named Pesto at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia is a big hit online. At just nine months old and 22.5 kg, Pestois already taller than his parents. As a famous star, Pesto draws many visitors to the aquarium every day.
Pesto eats about eight fish a meal, four meals a day — that’s more than 30 fish a day! And it’s twice as many as a penguin usually eats. He also gets some extra food from his parents. With all this food, Pesto produces a lot of waste. So the keepers are always busy making sure Pesto’s living space is clean when visitors come.
Pesto is fat and tall, like his father Blake, one of the largest penguins at theaquarium. But to help Tango and Hudson, a pair of younger penguins, learn how to be parents,the keepers let Pesto live with them.
Pesto grows up fast. He’s starting to lose his baby feathers and will soon begin learning how to swim from his dad. Michaela Smale, a penguin keeper, says, “We are wondering what he will look like when he grows up and we hope that he will still keep some of his fun and cute personality.”
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