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Unit8 Reading：ALIENS ARRIVE!（外星降临！）

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Tina ______ (wake) up at  ______ (午夜). She looked out of her window and saw a yellow light in the sky. It  ______ (sudden)________ ________ (向。。。俯冲)  the ground. She ______ (hear) a noise and saw a red light.

The next morning, Tina  ________ (提及) it to her brother Tom. “I’m sure something landed in the forest near the hills  ______ (当。。。) I heard a loud noise last night,” she said. “Let’s go and  ______ (探索) after school ______ (今晚).”

At 6:00 p.m., Tina and Tom reached the forest. They heard some voices  ______ (speak) a  ______ (奇怪的)  ______ (语言), so they__________ (hide) behind some bushes and kept quiet. Then they saw an __________ (外星人) ! It was tall, ___________ (介词)  a round head and a ___________ (银色的) body. It was standing next to a long spaceship. The spaceship ___________ (damage)  _____  _____ (因为)  a crash.

Suddenly, another alien  _________ (出现) from the bushes in front of them. The children were _________ (害怕的). But then Tom got a feeling at the back of his ________ (喉咙). He couldn’t stop himself and ___________ (咳嗽)  loudly. The aliens saw them both and made a__________ (可怕的 ，糟糕的) noise! The children ran away _____  ______ (恐慌地).

The next day, Tina and Tom told their parents about the strange __________ (生物) . “They were very __________ (丑陋的) . They had some hair, but they didn’t have any __________ (羽毛),” said Tina. “There was something__________ (write)  on the spaceship,” said Tom. “It looked like this. I wonder _______ it means.” He__________ (draw)  some lines on a piece of paper.

Dad looked at them  ___  ____ (仿佛，好像)  they were __________ (疯狂的). “ Since no one else saw these aliens, I refuse __________ (believe)  you. Now go to school!” The children __________ (张开)  their wings and__________ (fly)  to school together.

Dad looked at the piece of paper with the strange__________ (记号) on it. “It looks strange,” he said, as he looked at the word “EARTH”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unit8 Focusing on culture：An __________ (节选) from The Time Machine（《时间机器》节选）

 

The Time Machine is a __________ (小说) by H.G. Wells. It is about a man __________ (call) “The Time Traveller”. The __________ (follow)  excerpt __________ (介绍，使初次了解) us to five different __________ (人物角色). Here they are having a __________ (对话) after dinner about time travel.

“But,” said the Medical Man, “if Time is really only a __________ (four)  dimension of Space, why can’t we move in Time as we move about in the other__________ (空间维度) of Space?”

The Time Traveller smiled. “Are you so sure we can move __________ (free) in Space? We can go right and left, __________ (向后) and __________ (向前), but not up and down.”

“Not__________ (恰好，完全地，准确地),” said the Medical Man. “There are __________ (气球).”

“Yes, but not before the balloons.”

“Well, they could a bit,” said the Medical Man. “But you can’t move at all in Time. We can’t get away from the __________ (现在的) moment.”

“My dear sir, I’m sorry to __________ (令。。失望) you but you’re wrong about this. The __________ (整个的) world is wrong. We always get away from the present moment. Our thoughts pass along the Time-Dimension from the __________ (摇篮) to the __________ (坟墓).”         The__________ (心理学家)  nodded. He _____  _____ (同意) the Medical Man, “You can  move about _____ _____  _____(四面八方) of Space, but you can’t ______ ____ (四处走动)in Time.”

“You are wrong. For example, if I am remembering an __________ (事件)  very _______ (clear), I go back to the moment _________ （引导词） it happened. I jump back for a moment. Of course, I can’t stay back for long. But if a man can go up in a balloon, why shouldn’t he stop or ______ ____ (加速) along the Time-Dimension, or even travel the other way?”

“Oh, this,” began Filby, “is all __________ (无意义的，胡闹).” “Why not?” said the Time Traveller.

“It’s __________ (违背) reason,” said Filby.

“What reason?” said the  Time Traveller.

“You can __________ (争论) that black is white,” said Filby, “but you will never make me believe.”

“__________ (possible)  not,” said the Time Traveller.

“But now you begin to see my reason for studying the Four Dimensions. Long ago I had a __________ (模糊的)  idea of a machine—”

“To travel __________ (介词) Time!” said the Very Young Man.