高中英语Unit4ReadingTasks讲练新人教版必修2

READING TASKS
HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WILDLIFE
Pre-reading activities
Task I. List some reasons which cause animals to become endangered.
Task II. What can you do to protect endangered animals? Make a list.
Task III. What do you know about WWF?
While-reading activities
Task I. Read the text and fill in the blanks in the chart below.
Task II. Read the text and try to find the reasons for the following results.
Results Reasons
1. Daisy came to Tibet by A. The government only allowed a given
number of
flying carpet. animals to be hunted.
2. The antelope became an endangered species. B. Daisy wanted to tell WWF to produce
the
new drug.
3. The flying carpet took Daisy to Zimbabwe. C. People killed the antelopes to use
their fur to make sweaters.
4. The numbers of elephants in Zimbabwe were D. Daisy wanted to see some endangered
animals.
increasing and the farmers there were living
a happy life.
5. The monkey could produce a powerful drug E. Daisy wanted to go to a place where
she
to protect himself. could see some wildlife
protection.
6. Daisy asked the carpet to take her home. F. In the rainforest, there are all
kinds of animals
living together.
Task III. Compare the different lives of the following three animals and try to
voice. Try to understand the function of the structures.
Task V. Below is the summary of the text with some words missing. Choose the words or phrases from the box and make the summary complete.
Waking up to find a(n) 1. ________ by her bed, Daisy asked it to find the animal that gave fur to make her sweater. It took her to see 2. ________ in Tibet, who said they were being 3. ________ to make sweaters. Daisy cried and asked the carpet to show her some 4. ________ animals instead. It took her to Zimbabwe, where a(n) 5. ________ told her that they used to be endangered because they were hunted by farmers. But the government helped them by paying the farmers and only allowing tourists to hunt a few of them. Happy about this news, Daisy said she wanted to help too, so the carpet took her to a(n) 6. ________ where a monkey was rubbing itself with a millipede containing a(n) 7. ________ that could protect the monkey from mosquitoes. “No rainforest, no animals, no drugs,” said the monkey. Daisy asked the carpet to take her and the monkey home so they could tell the 8. ________ about this new drug, but when they landed everything disappeared. Nevertheless, she had learned so much. (By Ray Cama)
Post-reading activities
Task I. Imagine you are a reporter and your partner is the antelope. Make an interview about his / her life in Tibet.
Task II. Role play. Imagine you are Daisy and your partner is the elephant. Act Paragraph 2 talking about the elephants’ life in Zimbabwe.
Task III. How can people live a harmonious life with wildlife animals?
参考答案
Pre-reading activities
Task I. 略
Task II．略
Task III．略
While-reading activities
Task I.1. Antelopes 2. endangered 3. mercy 4. increased 5. drug 6. animals
7. disappeared
Task II. 1-D 2-C 3-E 4-A 5-F 6-B
Task III．1. sad 2. endangered 3. increasing 4. other animals 5. drugs
Task IV．
1. We’re being killed for the wool beneath our stomachs.
2. Our fur is being used to make sweaters for people like you.
3. I wonder what is being done to help you.
4. Daisy turned around and found that she was being watched by an elephant.
5. So good things are being done here to save local wildlife.
Task V．1. magic carpet 2. antelope 3. killed 4. protected 5. elephant 6. forest
7. drug 8. WWW
Post-reading activities
Task I. 略
Task II．略
Task III．略。