初三上学第一模块第一单元

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

美国科罗拉多大峡谷Colorado,theGrandCanyon

南非赞比西河，维多利亚瀑布Victoria

Falls,Zambezi

AlaskaGlacierGulfNationalPark

美国阿拉斯加冰河湾国家公园

Everest/QomolangmaMount中国珠穆朗玛峰MammothCaveNationalPark美国肯塔基州猛玛洞穴国家公园RussianBaikalLake

俄罗斯贝加尔湖美国黄石公园AmericanYellowstoneNationalPark

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

长江中国Itis4,280m

deep.Itis19,900kmswide.

ThePacificOceanItisanaturalwonder.太平洋EiffelTowerItis448mhigh.Itwasbuiltin1887,soitisamodernwonder.法国艾菲尔铁塔NiagaraFalls尼亚加拉瀑布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.我从车里出来,穿过一个门,沿着一条小路走过去。getoutof为动词短语,在这里意为“从……出来/离开”。如：Getoutofmyhousenow.马上从我的房子里滚出去.Theycouldn'tgetoutoftroublebythemselves.他们无法独立摆脱困难。getout/ridof(quit)还可意为“戒除(习惯)”。如：Hegotoutofthebadhabit.他改掉了这个坏习惯。Ican'tgetoutofthehabitofwakingatsixinthemorning.我早上一到六点就醒，这习惯改不掉了。[拓展]其他与get有关的短语有:getawayfrom离开getback返回gettogether聚会geton进展,相处getup起身,起床getin到达2.Intheeast,theskywasbecominglight,butbesidethepath,itwasstillverydark.light

adj.①明亮的

②轻的，不重的③浅色的；淡色的;少量的①

Theclassroomistoolight.Wouldyoupleasedrawthecurtain?教室太亮了，请拉一下窗帘好吗？②

Thebasketislightenoughformetopickitupeasily.篮子很轻，我可以很容易地拿起来。

③Myfavoritecolorislightpurple.我最喜欢的颜色是浅紫色。light

n.①光，光亮

②灯①

Thesungivesuslightduringtheday.白天太阳给我们光亮。②

Lightisveryimportanttoourlife.电灯对我们的生活很重要。补充：light

v.

点燃；照亮

light–lit/lighted–lit/lightedWelitthecandleandthecandlelitthewholeroom.我们点着了蜡烛，蜡烛照亮了整个房间。3.Afteraboutakilometer,astrangerappearedinfrontofme.appear

vi.出现Arainbowappearedaftertherain.雨后空中出现了一道彩虹。disappear

vi.消失Thesundisappearedbehindthecloud.太阳在云层后面消失了。4.“Yes,”hereplied,“you’llgettherein

fiveminutes.reply

v.回答★replytosb/sth

回答某人/某事

1)Whocanreplytomyquestion?谁能回答我的问题？2)Whydon’tyoureplytome?你为什么不回答我呀？★reply+that从句

回答到……1)IrepliedthatIwasunabletohelpthem.我回答说我帮不到他们的忙。2)He

repliedthathelefthishomeworkinthedorm.他回答说他把作业忘在宿舍了。★in+一段时间(用于一般将来时)★after+一段时间(用于一般过去时)一段时间后5.Ilookedcarefullyoverthem,butitwasstill

toodarktoseeanything.★lookover（prep）从……上面看过去Shelookedoverthetopofthemountain,andsawrocksindifferentshapes.从山顶上看过去，她看见了形状各异的岩石。补充：lookover

检查Canyoulookovermycompositionforme?你能帮我检查一下我的作文吗？★

too+adj./adv.+todosth

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

v.(云)散开;收拾,清理Theweatherdidn'tclearuntilnoonthatday.那天到了中午天气才放晴。Pleasehelpmeclearthetableafterdinner.

晚饭后请帮我清理一下桌子。常见搭配:clearsth.ofsth.清除某处的某物clearsth.from/offsth.将某物从某处清除clear

adj.清楚的;晴朗的I’vetoldyouhowtodo.Areyouclear?我已经告诉你怎么做了。你清楚了吗？

Whataclearday!多么晴朗的天啊！It’sbeenclearskiesandsunshineallthetime.这里一直都有晴朗的天空和阳光。7.Thesunrosebehindmeandbeyondtherocks.太阳从位于我身后的岩石远处升起。rise是不及物动词,既不能接宾语,也不能用于被动语态。rise可意为“升起;上升”,它的主语一般是日、月、云、烟、温度、物价、河水等。主语是人时,一般指人“站起;起床”。注意:rise的过去式和过去分词分别为rose和risen。Thesunhasnotyetrisen.太阳还没升起。Theriverroseaftertherain.雨后河水涨了起来。Thepopulationofthecityhasrisentofivemillion.该市人口已增加到五百万。[拓展]

raise和rise词形和意义都比较相近,两者都有"举起"的意思。但rise为不及物动词,不能用于被动语态,不能接宾语,一般指某物自然地上升。如:Thesunrisesintheeast.太阳从东方升起。

raise为及物动词,需接宾语,一般指人为的使某物上升,后面接名词,意为“举起、提高”，如抬头、举手(目、帽、石头、重物等)，还可用作比喻，如提高生活水平、地位、名誉、声音等。如:Heraisedtheglass.他举起了杯子。

8.Isawthatthegroundfellawayanddowntoariver,farbelowme.我看见地面沉降到下面深谷中的一条河里,离我特别遥远.

fallaway

下降，减少，消失;Ifyoutakethismedicine,allyourachesandpainswillfallaway.如果你服这种药，你的一切疼痛都会消失。Hissupportersbegantofallawayfromhim.他的支持者开始疏远他了。9.IwasontheedgeoftheGrandCanyon,oneofthewondersofthenaturalworld.我站在大峡谷边缘，它是自然界中的奇观之一。

ontheedgeof处于……的边缘Shecarefullyplacedthecupontheedgeoftheshelf.她把杯子小心地放在架子边。Thesoldierswereencampedontheedgeoftheforest.士兵们在森林边扎营。[拓展]

ontheedgeof,attheedgeof

都有“在边缘，濒临边缘”的意思。ontheedgeof已经在边缘上了；处于……的边缘attheedgeof濒临边缘，接近边缘；在……的边沿上10.IlookeddowntotheColoradoRiverabout2kilometersbelowme.我俯视着距我约两公里之遥的科罗拉多河。

lookdown

向下看Hedarenotlookdownontheedgeofthecanyon.他站在峡谷的边缘上不敢往下看。Shelookedupandsmiledatme.她抬起头来，冲我笑了笑。

lookacross向对面看looktoone’sleft

向某人左侧看Lookoverthere!

---there’sarainbow.看那边atthebottomofthe

在……的底部11.Ifyouputthethreetallestbuildingsintheworldatthebottomofthecanyon,theystillwon’treachthetop.即使你把世上最高的三座建筑物叠在一起放在谷底，仍旧到不了顶。Fillinyouraddress

atthebottomof

theapplicationform.把你的地址填写在申请表的下端。

There’sapub

atthebottom（end）of

theroad.

路的尽头有一家酒馆。12.Finally,Ilookedtomyleftandtomyright,andonbothsidesthecanyondisappearedintothedistance…over400kilometerslong.