初中英语人教版03九年级03

[00:08.59]Lesson 9  1.Read and act
[00:14.24]Hey Kevin,where did you say you were born?
[00:18.78]I was born in Michigan,USA.
[00:23.01]There are a lot of lakes up there,aren't there?
[00:27.56]Yeah,I lived on Lake Superior¹.
[00:31.40]Have you ever swum it?
[00:34.46]No.It's one of the great Lakes.
[00:38.43]It's so big that when you sail on it,you can't see the land.
[00:44.07]It's like being on an ocean.
[00:47.54]Well,do you swim?
[00:51.20]Yes,I like to swim.Why?
[00:55.64]We need another member for our swimming team.
[01:00.00]How well do you swim?
[01:03.27]I can swim far though I'm not very fast.
[01:08.31]When I lived in Michigan,I swam as far as 2 kilometres at one time.
[01:14.87]You can swim in the 800-metre race. Then you don't have to be so fast.
[01:21.92]Maybe I will come and swim on your team. When do you practise?
[01:27.77]We start tomorrow after school.I'll see you then,OK?  OK.
[01:37.52]Lesson 10  2.Read
[01:43.08]The Great Lakes
[01:46.42]The Great Lakes are the largest bodies of fresh water in the world.
[01:52.30]They are between the US and Canada.
[01:56.85]There are five lakes:Superior,Michigan,Huron,Erie and Ontario.
[02:05.31]When the earth was still in the Ice Age,
[02:09.57]there was a glacier² that covered the land in this area.
[02:14.92]then when the earth started to warm up,
[02:19.08]the glacier melted³ and formed the Great Lakes.
[02:24.04]Ever since then,people have lived beside the Lakes,hunting,fishing,
[02:31.20]washing clothes,ice-skating and doing many other things.
[02:37.86]When Canada and America started building factories along the shores to the Lakes,
[02:44.52]they became polluted⁴.
[02:47.76]The factories would put their waste into the Lakes.
[02:52.62]pretty soon the Lakes'ecosystem⁵ was not right any more.
[02:58.08]When fish and plants began to die,
[03:02.23]a group of people and scientists knew something had to be done.
[03:08.40]They asked the government for a special program
[03:13.07]to help them clean up the Lakes and make them healthy again.
[03:18.53]These people set up a lab
[03:22.19]called the Great Lakes Environmental⁶ Research Laboratory⁷.
[03:27.46]After they had studied the Lakes' ecosystem,
[03:31.91]they found that the pollution was killing⁸ the Lakes.
[03:36.66]They still study the ecosystem of the Great Lakes today.
[03:42.01]They have found out how the Lakes influence the weather in the world
[03:47.58]and how different ecological⁹ events,like warm waters in the seas,
[03:53.74]influence the Great Lakes.
[03:57.58]If the Great Lakes dried up,the whole world would feel it.
[04:03.25]Many areas would become deserts and many animals would lose their homes and maybe die out.
[04:10.80]People who live around the Great Lakes have learnt
[04:15.24]that it is very important to keep the ecosystem of the Great Lakes healthy and strong.
[04:25.20]Lesson 12  3. Read and write
[04:32.14]Give the passage a title and write an ending to it.
[04:37.89]  Phillip,Cecily and I ere going to the cinema.
[04:43.25]We wanted to watch a scary¹⁰ film.
[04:47.61]I told them that I would meet them at the cinema at 7:30.
[04:53.17]I arrived late,so they had already gone in and found their seats.
[04:59.94]The film had started when I walked in.
[05:04.61]I couldn't find them right away.
[05:08.38]The picture had many dark parts.
[05:12.74]I waited and waited until finally a bright scene came on.
[05:19.50]Then I thought I saw my friends sitting in the front.
[05:25.15]I walked carefully down to the front and sat beside them.
[05:30.79]I hadn't had dinner because I was already late.
[05:35.75]My friends had bought a large bag of popcorn¹¹.
[05:40.72]I reached over and grabbed¹² some.
[05:44.56]Cecily said,"Hey,what are you doing?"
[05:49.41]It didn't exactly sound like her,but then she was eating some popcorn.
[05:55.37]I said,"I'm hungry.I didn't have any dinner."
[06:00.62]Then I grabbed some more.
[06:04.09]Cecily then gave the popcorn to Phillip.
[06:08.64] Just then a terrible scene appeared in the film and we all screamed

[06:15.41]I grabbed Cecily and she grabbed Phillip.
[06:20.06]The popcorn spilled all over us.
[06:24.21]They both turned to me and said angrily,"What are you doing?"
[06:30.37]I couldn't understand why my friends were so angry.
[06:35.55]I turned to them and looked at both of them closely¹³.I suddenly found....

1 superior   

n.上级，高手，上标；adj.上层的，上好的，出众的，高傲的

参考例句：

• This machine is superior in many respects to that.这台机器在很多方面比那台好。
• He acted in obedience to the orders of his superior.他是遵照他的上级指示行动的。

2 glacier   

n.冰川，冰河

参考例句：

• The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。
• The upper surface of glacier is riven by crevasses.冰川的上表面已裂成冰隙。

3 melted   

v.（使）融[溶，熔]化( melt的过去式和过去分词 )；溶解；（使）消散，消失；（使）软化，变得温柔

参考例句：

• Melted wax dribbled down the side of the candle. 熔化了的蜡一滴滴从蜡烛边上流下。
• The crowd quickly melted away when the storm broke. 暴风雨袭来时人群很快地四散了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 polluted   

adj.被污染的

参考例句：

• Polluted air hangs over the city.城市上空被污染的空气所笼罩。
• The air was polluted by factory smoke.空气被工厂冒的烟污染了。

5 ecosystem   

n.生态系统

参考例句：

• This destroyed the ecosystem of the island.这样破坏了岛上的生态系统。
• We all have an interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem.维持生态系统的完整是我们共同的利益。

6 environmental   

adj.环境的

参考例句：

• A global environmental meeting is going to be held here.一个全球环境会议将在这里举行。
• We need to cure our environmental problems.我们需要解决环境问题。

7 laboratory   

n.实验室，化验室

参考例句：

• She has donated money to establish a laboratory.她捐款成立了一个实验室。
• Our laboratory equipment isn't perfect,but we must make do.实验室设备是不够理想，但我们只好因陋就简。

8 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

9 ecological   

adj.生态的，生态学的

参考例句：

• The region has been declared an ecological disaster zone.这个地区已经宣布为生态灾难区。
• Each animal has its ecological niche.每种动物都有自己的生态位.

10 scary   

a.引起惊慌的；害怕的

参考例句：

• What animal do you think is the most scary?你认为什么动物最可怕？
• Are you afraid of scary movies?你害怕恐怖电影吗？

11 popcorn   

n.爆米花

参考例句：

• I like to eat popcorn when I am watching TV play at home.当我在家观看电视剧时，喜欢吃爆米花。
• He still stood behind his cash register stuffing his mouth with popcorn.他仍站在收银机后，嘴里塞满了爆米花。

12 grabbed   

v.抢先，抢占( grab的过去式和过去分词 )；（尤指匆忙地）取；攫取；（尤指自私、贪婪地）捞取

参考例句：

• He was grabbed by two men and frogmarched out of the hall. 他被两个男人紧抓双臂押出大厅。
• She grabbed the child's hand and ran. 她抓住孩子的手就跑。

13 closely   

adv.紧密地；严密地，密切地

参考例句：

• We shall follow closely the development of the situation.我们将密切注意形势的发展。
• The two companies are closely tied up with each other.这两家公司之间有密切联系。