Reading (II)

1. Reading (II)

2. Maple Country -- Canada

3. the largest country in the world the second largest country in the world 3rd 4th has an area of 9,984,670 square kilometers; the distance from east to west is5,500 kilometers. size

4. population a population of 29 million.

5. capital Ottawa

6. settlers England settlers from France France settlers from England The first settlers arrived from England in 1497. Settlers from France reached Canada in 1534.

7. Official languages: languages English and French the TV and radio; French restaurants; teaching in schools is done in French. the French-speaking province ----Quebec

8. weather in the north winters long； snow for six months January : 3℃ west coast warmest July : 18 ℃ winter --- -10℃ Ottawa: Summer --- 21 ℃ different from area to area (as in china )

9. Maple trees

10. Toronto maple trees

11. fresh water the five great lakes one third of the world’s fresh water

12. The Niagara fall most of the electricity is produced by water

13. resources of Canada fresh water coal oil natural gas forests fish

14. forests Much of the country is covered by forests;

15. “THE TRUE NORTH” from Toronto to Montreal

16. Fill in the blanks according to the orderthings happened. the next morning they saw beautiful maple trees and realized that fall had come. around noon they arrived in Toronto. late that night the train left. at dawn the next morning they arrived in Montreal. in the lovely shops and visiting the artists in their workplaces beside the water. they spend the afternoon the train was speeding down to the East Coast. the night

17. Answer the questions about the passage. 1. How many cities did they visit in the text? 2. In what direction did they take the train? 3. What tree did they see outside their windows? 4. What season was it? Two. Toronto, Montreal. They took the train to the northeast. Maple trees. It was fall / autumn.

18. 5. How do we know it is fall in Canada? 6. What can sometimes be seen from the CN Tower in Toronto? 7. Where does the water from the lake go? 8. Which direction is the train going from Toronto? We know it is fall in Canada because the maple trees are red and gold and orange, and there is frost on the ground. Sometimes the misty cloud that rises from Niagara Falls can be seen from the CN Tower. The water from the lake goes into the Niagara River and over the falls on its way to the sea. The train is going east (northeast) from Toronto.

19. Good coffee, good bread and good music show that Montreal is a French city. Also the signs and ads were in French. 9. What three things show us that Montreal is a French city?

20. 根据课文内容，在下面短文的空白处填入适当的单词或短语。根据课文内容，在下面短文的空白处填入适当的单词或短语。 The next morning the red, gold and orange _______ and maple trees outside their windows and the frost on the ground _______ that fall had arrived in Canada. After arriving in Toronto, the biggest and ____________ city in Canada, around noon, Li Daiyu and her cousins went on a tour of the city. Having climbed up the tall CN Tower, they looked across the lake. _____________, the _____ cloud rising from the great Niagara Falls, which is on the south side of the lake, could be seen. bushes confirmed most wealthy In the distance misty

21. As they walked north from the harbour area, Li Daiyu phoned Lin Fei, one of her mother’s old ___________ from a telephone _____ They met Lin Fei around dusk in downtown Chinatown, one of the three in Toronto and they chatted with each other at a restaurant. The train left late that night and arrived in Montreal at dawn the next morning. At a _____ restaurant, they were looking over the _____ St Lawrence River when they met a young man called Henri, who told them that most people in the city spoke both English and French, but the city had French culture and _________. schoolmates booth buffet broad traditions

22. That night as the train was speeding along the St Lawrence River toward the Gulf of St Lawrence and down to the distant east coast, the cousins dreamed of French restaurants and red maple leaves.

23. Language points 1. confirm 阅读下列句子，注意confirm的意思。 1) Has everyone confirmed (that) they’re coming? 2) The walk in the mountains confirmed his fear of heights. 3) He was confirmed as captain for the rest of the season. [自我归纳] confirm意为__________ (句1、句2)，后可接that从句；也可意为________________________ (句3)。 [拓展] confirmation n. 证实、确认书、证明书 confirmed adj.确定的、已被证实的 证实、确定 批准(职位、协议等)、确认

24. [即学即练] 从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 • 1). —You look as if you are in high spirits, John. • —You are right. What Professor Zhang spoke at the meeting ____ my belief in my job. • refused B. mistakened C. made D. confirmed • 2). The new evidence has ______ the first witness’s story. • A. changed B. considered • C. confirmed D. informed D C

25. 2. They were not leaving for Montreal until later, so they went on a tour of the city. 她们要晚些时候才动身去蒙特利尔,因此就在多伦多市内游览了一番。 1) They were not leaving for...属于过去进行时表示将来的动作。 表示位置转移的瞬间动词。如: come, go, arrive, leave, start, return, stay, meet, get等可用进行时表示将来的动作; 用现在进行时表示一般将来时; 用过去进行时表示过去将来时。 The train is arriving soon. 火车就要进站了。

26. 2) until/till 直到……为止 until常与否定句连用, not…until “直到……才” He didn’t finish the work until yesterday. 肯定句：“做某事直至某时”, 动词必须是延续性的。 I slept until midnight. 我一直睡到半夜时醒了。 Wait till I call you. 等着我叫你。 否定句： “直至某时才做某事”。动词为延续性或非延续性都可以。 She didn’t arrive until 6 o’clock.她直到6点才到。 Don’t get off the bus until it has stopped. 公共汽车停稳后再下车。

27. 否定句可用另外两种句式表示。 a. not until …在句首, 主句用倒装。 Not until the early years of the 19th century did man know what heat is. 直到19 世纪初, 人类才知道热能是什么。 b. 用于强调句It is not until… that… It was not until I told him that he knew about it. 直至我告诉他, 他才知道这件事。

28. 3. In the distance, they could see the misty cloud that rose from the great Niagara Falls, which is on the south side of the lake. [考点] distance n. 距离、远方, in the distance 在远方、在远处 [考例] The faces of four famous American presidents on Mount Rushmore can be seen from a ___ of 60 miles. (2004全国卷 IV) A. length B. distance C. way D. space [点拨] 选B。题意: Rushmore山上四位美国著名总统的头像从相距60英里的地方就能看到。“a distance of + 数字”表示“……的距离”。

29. 4. … because most of the Chinese people here come from South China, especially Hong Kong. especially表示“尤其, 格外,特别”, 意思相当于“in particular ”或“particularly”。多用在介词短语或连词前面。 specially表示“为了一个特别的目的,专门地, 特别地”, 意思相当于“for a special reason or purpose”。 我特地来看你。 I came specially to see you. 最近天气特别冷。 The weather has been especially cold.

30. It’s always difficult being in a foreign country, _____ if you don’t speak the language. A. extremelyB. especially C. speciallyD. naturally  B extremely表示程度“极其、非常”, specially表示“特地、专门”, 而naturally表示“自然地”, 均与句意不符。especially表示“尤其、特别、格外”, 强调突出性, 用在此处, 句意通顺。

31. 5. It’s too bad you can’t go as far as Ottawa… as far as 有两种含义： 直到……远，远到……； 2) (表示程度，范围)就……；据……；至于……。as far as I know“据我所知”， as far as I am concerned “就我而言” [考例1] _____ I can see, there is only one possible way to keep away from the danger. (北京2004春) A. As long as B. As far as C. Just as D. Even if [点拨] as far as I can see, 据我所知。 as long as 只要，表示条件； just as就像……，表示方式； even if 即使，表示让步；皆不符合语境。 B

32. 一些带有as...as 结构的常见短语： as busy as a bee 像蜜蜂一样忙碌 as easy as ABC 像ABC一样容易 as deep as a well 像井一样深 as light as a feather 像羽毛一样轻 as soft as butter 像黄油一样软 as rich as a Jew 像犹太人一样富裕

33. 6. The train left late that night and arrived in Montreal at dawn the next morning. 。 at, on, in表示时间的用法区别: at表示时间点, 常用来表示时刻, 如果一段时间按时间点对待也用at。 at 2:30, at dawn /noon /night /dusk /sunrise /sunset /breakfast /lunch dinner /supper, at this /that time, at the beginning of this century at也可以表示节假日, 例如: at Easter, at Christmas on表示一天或某一天的一部分。 例如: on Monday, on September 26, on Monday morning, on Friday evening

34. 如: in the morning /afternoon/evening, in a week, in three days, in May, in spring, in 2002, in my childhood in表示少于一天或多于一天的时间段。 注: morning, afternoon, evening, night这些名词如果有一个表示具体某一天的名词作定语时, 介词不用in 或at, 而应该用on。 如: on Thursday evening, on a cold winter morning, on the afternoon of April 8, on the night of his return

35. 7. As they sat in a buffet restaurant looking over the broad St. Lawrence River, a young man sat down with them. wide和broad 都是“广阔”的意思, 常可换用, 但 wide:着重于一边到另一边的距离, broad:着重于幅面的宽广, 可修饰背、肩、胸, 心胸等的宽阔, 还有“开朗”之意。 The river is 300 feet broad (wide). 这条河有三百多尺宽。 The door is wide open. 门大开。 We saw the broad ocean. 我们看到了广阔的海洋。 His back (shoulder, chest) is broad. 他的背部(肩膀、胸部)很宽阔。

36. 这两个词的常用搭配如下： wide eyes 睁大的眼睛 a wide mouth 一张大嘴 the wide world 广阔的世界 wide interests 广泛的兴趣 a man with broad bosom 胸围很阔的人 the broad ocean 无际的海洋 broad shoulders 宽宽的肩膀 the broad masses 广大群众 broad chest (back) 宽宽的胸膛(背) broad in size 身材宽大,体积宽大

37. 8. The girls told him they were on a train trip across Canada and that they had only one day in Montreal. 女孩子们告诉他，她们是在乘火车穿越加拿大的旅行中，在蒙特利尔只呆一天。 [分析] ①本句结构是: 主语(The girls) + 谓语(told) + 宾语(him) + 第一个宾语从句(they were on a train trip across Canada) + 第二个宾语从句(they had only one day in Montreal)。 ②如果在一个复合句中有两个或两个以上并列的宾语从句, 第一个that可以省略, 第二个及以后的that不可以省略。

38. Reading Task on page 73

40. fishing

42. dog sled

43. Morning snowstorm, about 8:00 am

44. Nunavut Snow Challenge in Iqaluit

45. Iqaluit is the capital city of the new Canadian territory of Nunavut, on Baffin Island. Nunavut has a population of about 30,000, spread out over almost 2 million square kilometres. The area has a population density of one person per 100 sq kms.

46. Iqaluit has a population of 6,200, yet is the only city for thousands of miles in any direction. There are no roads in or out of Iqaluit. It is about 3.5 flying hours north of Ottawa, the capital of Canada.

47. Inuit, meaning “the people”, are the inhabitants north and west of the Hudson Bay that in times past lived in skin tents in the summer, and, uniquely, snow houses in the winter. Here traditional Inuit life from the past is depicted in its various forms:

48. from fishing techniques to interior dwellings to the fundamental bond between Inuit and sled dog.

49. 1. Why did the reporter arrive there? He was writing a story for his newspaper about Iqaluit. They wanted to advertise it as a holiday place. Read the passage and answer the questions.

50. 2. What did the people use for transportation? Most people used snowmobiles, but dog sleds were also used. 3. Why did it become dark early? It became dark early because it was far north of the earth.