初三上學(xué)第一模塊第一單元

Module1WondersoftheworldUnit2IwasontheedgeoftheGrandCanyon.Thepupilswillhavea_______inthehalltomorrow.Mr.Wangwillgivethematalk.2.Bettywantstowriteadiaryofschool______forthemagazine.meetingeventsRevision3.Therewasan________withJetLionTVerview4.Tonywilldosome_______aboutourEnglishCorner.reviews5.Thebookisaboutthe_______pyramidsinEgypt.Ithinkitissointeresting.ancientTheSevenWondersofTheNaturalWorldLet’slearn！

美國科羅拉多大峽谷Colorado,theGrandCanyon

南非贊比西河，維多利亞瀑布Victoria

Falls,Zambezi

AlaskaGlacierGulfNationalPark

美國阿拉斯加冰河灣國家公園

Everest/QomolangmaMount中國珠穆朗瑪峰MammothCaveNationalPark美國肯塔基州猛瑪洞穴國家公園RussianBaikalLake

俄羅斯貝加爾湖美國黃石公園AmericanYellowstoneNationalPark

TheGrandCanyonislocatedinthenorthwestcorneroftheAmericanstateofArizona,closetothebordersofUtahandNevada.ItislocatedintheCrandCanyonNationalPark,whichcoversanareaof493,077hectares,andcontains446kmoftheColoradoRiver(totallength2,333km).theGrandCanyonActivity1.Thinkofsomewondersoftheworldaboutthefollowingsights.Thendescribethemusingtheseadjectives.buildingsmountainsriversseastowerswaterfallsancientdeephighlongmodernnaturaltallwideEmpireStateBuilding102floors/443ms(askandanswer),soitishigh/tall.It__________in1931,soitisa_______wonder.America帝國大廈wasbuiltmodernzebraItis8,844m,soitisveryhigh.Mt.QomolangmabetweenNepalandChina,ontheborderItisa_______wonder.珠穆朗瑪峰naturalItisanaturalwonder.6,397kms,2kms,150ms(guess)ChinatheChangjiangRiver

長江中國Itis4,280m

deep.Itis19,900kmswide.

ThePacificOceanItisanaturalwonder.太平洋EiffelTowerItis448mhigh.Itwasbuiltin1887,soitisamodernwonder.法國艾菲爾鐵塔NiagaraFalls尼亞加拉瀑布Itis51mhigh.Itisanatural

wonder.betweenCanadaandAmerica(3)(5)(1)(4)(2)Thewriter’sfirstimpressionoftheGrandCanyon.Inthewriter’sopinion,theGrandCanyonisthegreatestwonderinthenaturalworld.Thewriterarrivedthereontherainingmorning.ThewritergavesomedetaileddescriptionoftheGrandCanyon.Aftersomeminutes’walk,hecametotheCanyon.Readthearticleandorderthesentences.

Read

Paragraph1,2

andanswerthequestions.1.Whatdidthewriterdoafterhearrived?Hegotoutof

thecar,went

through

agate,

walked

alongapathandwatched.2.Whywastherenothingtosee?Becauseitwastoodark.3.Guesswhythestrangerknewwheretheauthorwasgoing?BecausemaybeheisalocalpersonandheseestoomanyvisitorswhotraveltotheGC.WhenI_______,itwasearlymorninganditwasraining.I___________thecar,went_______agateandwalked______apath.____________,theskywasbecominglight,but_______thepath,itwasstillverydark.Iknewitwasthere,buttherewas_____________.

arrivedgotoutofthroughalongIntheeastbesidenothingtoseeReadagainandfillintheblanks.Read

Paragraph3againandchoosethebestanswer.WherewasthewriterfacingontheedgeoftheGrandCanyon?A.TothesouthB.TothenorthC.TotheeastD.TothewestDtheGrandCanyonHowdeep/highisit?Howwideisit?Howlongisit?About2kilometersdeep/high.(morethan)20kilometerswideMorethan/Over400kilometerslongListentoParagraph4

andfillinthetable.ReadParagraph5loudlyandanswerWhatisthewriter’spurposeinwritingthispassage?A.TogivefactsabouttheGreatCanyon.B.TotellhowhefeelsabouttheGreatCanyon.C.TodescribetheGreatCanyon.D.TotellpeopletovisittheGreatCanyon.BLanguagepoints1.Igotoutofthecar,wentthroughagateandwalkedalongapath.我從車?yán)锍鰜?穿過一個門,沿著一條小路走過去。getoutof為動詞短語,在這里意為“從……出來/離開”。如：Getoutofmyhousenow.馬上從我的房子里滾出去.Theycouldn'tgetoutoftroublebythemselves.他們無法獨(dú)立擺脫困難。getout/ridof(quit)還可意為“戒除(習(xí)慣)”。如：Hegotoutofthebadhabit.他改掉了這個壞習(xí)慣。Ican'tgetoutofthehabitofwakingatsixinthemorning.我早上一到六點(diǎn)就醒，這習(xí)慣改不掉了。[拓展]其他與get有關(guān)的短語有:getawayfrom離開getback返回gettogether聚會geton進(jìn)展,相處getup起身,起床getin到達(dá)2.Intheeast,theskywasbecominglight,butbesidethepath,itwasstillverydark.light

adj.①明亮的

②輕的，不重的③淺色的；淡色的;少量的①

Theclassroomistoolight.Wouldyoupleasedrawthecurtain?教室太亮了，請拉一下窗簾好嗎？②

Thebasketislightenoughformetopickitupeasily.籃子很輕，我可以很容易地拿起來。

③Myfavoritecolorislightpurple.我最喜歡的顏色是淺紫色。light

n.①光，光亮

②燈①

Thesungivesuslightduringtheday.白天太陽給我們光亮。②

Lightisveryimportanttoourlife.電燈對我們的生活很重要。補(bǔ)充：light

v.

點(diǎn)燃；照亮

light–lit/lighted–lit/lightedWelitthecandleandthecandlelitthewholeroom.我們點(diǎn)著了蠟燭，蠟燭照亮了整個房間。3.Afteraboutakilometer,astrangerappearedinfrontofme.appear

vi.出現(xiàn)Arainbowappearedaftertherain.雨后空中出現(xiàn)了一道彩虹。disappear

vi.消失Thesundisappearedbehindthecloud.太陽在云層后面消失了。4.“Yes,”hereplied,“you’llgettherein

fiveminutes.reply

v.回答★replytosb/sth

回答某人/某事

1)Whocanreplytomyquestion?誰能回答我的問題？2)Whydon’tyoureplytome?你為什么不回答我呀？★reply+that從句

回答到……1)IrepliedthatIwasunabletohelpthem.我回答說我?guī)筒坏剿麄兊拿Α?)He

repliedthathelefthishomeworkinthedorm.他回答說他把作業(yè)忘在宿舍了?！飅n+一段時間(用于一般將來時)★after+一段時間(用于一般過去時)一段時間后5.Ilookedcarefullyoverthem,butitwasstill

toodarktoseeanything.★lookover（prep）從……上面看過去Shelookedoverthetopofthemountain,andsawrocksindifferentshapes.從山頂上看過去，她看見了形狀各異的巖石。補(bǔ)充：lookover

檢查Canyoulookovermycompositionforme?你能幫我檢查一下我的作文嗎？★

too+adj./adv.+todosth

太……以致于不能……6.Suddenly,thecloudsclearedandtherainstopped.突然,云散開了,雨也停了。clear

v.(云)散開;收拾,清理Theweatherdidn'tclearuntilnoonthatday.那天到了中午天氣才放晴。Pleasehelpmeclearthetableafterdinner.

晚飯后請幫我清理一下桌子。常見搭配:clearsth.ofsth.清除某處的某物clearsth.from/offsth.將某物從某處清除clear

adj.清楚的;晴朗的I’vetoldyouhowtodo.Areyouclear?我已經(jīng)告訴你怎么做了。你清楚了嗎？

Whataclearday!多么晴朗的天?。t’sbeenclearskiesandsunshineallthetime.這里一直都有晴朗的天空和陽光。7.Thesunrosebehindmeandbeyondtherocks.太陽從位于我身后的巖石遠(yuǎn)處升起。rise是不及物動詞,既不能接賓語,也不能用于被動語態(tài)。rise可意為“升起;上升”,它的主語一般是日、月、云、煙、溫度、物價、河水等。主語是人時,一般指人“站起;起床”。注意:rise的過去式和過去分詞分別為rose和risen。Thesunhasnotyetrisen.太陽還沒升起。Theriverroseaftertherain.雨后河水漲了起來。Thepopulationofthecityhasrisentofivemillion.該市人口已增加到五百萬。[拓展]

raise和rise詞形和意義都比較相近,兩者都有"舉起"的意思。但rise為不及物動詞,不能用于被動語態(tài),不能接賓語,一般指某物自然地上升。如:Thesunrisesintheeast.太陽從東方升起。

raise為及物動詞,需接賓語,一般指人為的使某物上升,后面接名詞,意為“舉起、提高”，如抬頭、舉手(目、帽、石頭、重物等)，還可用作比喻，如提高生活水平、地位、名譽(yù)、聲音等。如:Heraisedtheglass.他舉起了杯子。

8.Isawthatthegroundfellawayanddowntoariver,farbelowme.我看見地面沉降到下面深谷中的一條河里,離我特別遙遠(yuǎn).

fallaway

下降，減少，消失;Ifyoutakethismedicine,allyourachesandpainswillfallaway.如果你服這種藥，你的一切疼痛都會消失。Hissupportersbegantofallawayfromhim.他的支持者開始疏遠(yuǎn)他了。9.IwasontheedgeoftheGrandCanyon,oneofthewondersofthenaturalworld.我站在大峽谷邊緣，它是自然界中的奇觀之一。

ontheedgeof處于……的邊緣Shecarefullyplacedthecupontheedgeoftheshelf.她把杯子小心地放在架子邊。Thesoldierswereencampedontheedgeoftheforest.士兵們在森林邊扎營。[拓展]

ontheedgeof,attheedgeof

都有“在邊緣，瀕臨邊緣”的意思。ontheedgeof已經(jīng)在邊緣上了；處于……的邊緣attheedgeof瀕臨邊緣，接近邊緣；在……的邊沿上10.IlookeddowntotheColoradoRiverabout2kilometersbelowme.我俯視著距我約兩公里之遙的科羅拉多河。

lookdown

向下看Hedarenotlookdownontheedgeofthecanyon.他站在峽谷的邊緣上不敢往下看。Shelookedupandsmiledatme.她抬起頭來，沖我笑了笑。

lookacross向?qū)γ婵磍ooktoone’sleft

向某人左側(cè)看Lookoverthere!

---there’sarainbow.看那邊atthebottomofthe

在……的底部11.Ifyouputthethreetallestbuildingsintheworldatthebottomofthecanyon,theystillwon’treachthetop.即使你把世上最高的三座建筑物疊在一起放在谷底，仍舊到不了頂。Fillinyouraddress

atthebottomof

theapplicationform.把你的地址填寫在申請表的下端。

There’sapub

atthebottom（end）of

theroad.

路的盡頭有一家酒館。12.Finally,Ilookedtomyleftandtomyright,andonbothsidesthecanyondisappearedintothedistance…over400kilometerslong.