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Book Ⅲ Module 3 The Violence of Nature
PeriodⅠ Mar.
Ⅰ. Introduction
1. Do exercise 1 on page21
2. Translate the words and phrases into Chinese.
（1）一道闪电 （2）经历一场洪灾
（3）指的是，查阅 （4）灾难 （5）飓风 Ⅱ. Reading and vocabulary 1. Do exercise 2 on page 22 2. Answer the following questions.
（1）Which of the following descriptions about tornado is not correct?
A. It is a kind of rotating column of air. caused by a thunderstorm.
C. It can reach a speed up to more than 400 kilometres per hour.
D. It can cause much damage to people, including deaths and injuries.
（2）How much damage did the worst tornado cause to the U. S.?
A. It picked up cars, trains and even houses and put them down in the next street.
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（6）龙卷风
B. It is usually
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B. The fur of the back of many cats and the feathers of many chickens had been taken off.
C. It caused about 80 deaths and 1,500 injuries.
D. More than 700 people lost their lives and 2,700 had been injuried.
（3）What are the similarities between the tornado and hurricane?
A. They both occur together with strong wind.
B. America is the country affected often by both of them. C. They both can cause a lot of damage to people and the buildings.
D. All above.
（4）Where was Charles Coghlan born indeed? A. In Ireland.
B. In Canada.
C. In New York.
D. In Galveston.
（5）What are the causes of these natural violences? A. The different atmospheric pressure between two areas. B. The changeable weather in these areas. C. The destroy of the nature by human beings. D. Not mentioned in the passage.
3. Try to translate the following expressions into English according to the text.
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（1）每小时400多千米 （2）捡起；拾起
（3）放下 （4）平均 （5）造成约80人死亡 （6）热带风暴
（7）墨西哥湾 （8）有史以来
（9）以?结束 （10）回到某处
（11）有史以来最糟糕的龙卷风发生在1925年，影响了美国的三个州。 The
worst
tornado
of
all
time
occurred
in
1925, .
（12）暴风达到每小时120公里或更多，这造成了巨浪、暴雨和洪水。
There are violent winds of 120 kilometres per hour or more, which cause huge waves, . 反思： Book Ⅲ Module 3 The Violence of Nature
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PeriodⅡ Language Points
Mar.
1. flood: n. v. The river flooded. The meadows . A. flood was flooded
2. experience. [C] [U] be experienced in / at … .
这工作需要丰富的经验。 3. occur vi. 发生，出现，想起
◆(sth.) occur to (sb. ) (某事)被某人想起
It occurs to sb. + that 从句 ?的念头浮现于某人脑海里
to do sth.
B. were flood
C. were flooded
D.
①我突然想到要去欧洲旅游。 ②他突然想到他没有锁门。 ③Just as I was leaving the house it to me that I had forgotten my keys. A. take place occurred
4. pick up: guess its meaning in these phrases.
（1）pick up the programs （2）pick up
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B. happened C. occur D.
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the pen. （3）pick up some used stamps （4）pick up the passengers （5）pick up a foreign language
●Kathy a lot of Spanish by playing with the native boys and girls. A. pick up turned up
5. take off: 起飞、动身，休假，取下、脱掉
（1）尽管雾大，飞机照常起飞。 （2）他决定休一天假。 （3）They in the early morning and arrived in the afternoon. A. put off kept off
6. furniture n. [总称]家具
（1）很多家具
（2）三件家具
B. turned off
C. took off
D.
B. took up
C. made up
D.
（3）Before we moved into the new house, we bought many . A. furnitures
B. furniture
C. pieces of furniture
D. pieces of furnitures
7. leave +宾语+n. /adj. /介词短语/v-ing /v-ed/ as –clause
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