The Water of Wanting
John Pascal put a small drop of clear liquid into the drinking water for his mice. Normally, the mice drank only when
they were thirsty. But John soon noticed that when there was liquid in the water, they came back to drink it more than
usual. They couldn’t have been thirsty anymore, but they drank. He needed to check this carefully.
John was a very careful man. When he was ten years old, he had tried to relight a firework. He thought the firework
was finished, but it wasn’t. It was big and expensive and it exploded in his face. Twenty years later he still had the scar
on his left cheek where he had been burned by the firework. He was always careful after that.
John was now a successful chemist. He worked in Montreal, Canada, for a large chemical company. His company
made a lot of different chemicals – including chemicals for food, which are often called additives. Additives give food a
Unit 1 Cultural relics
The Third Period Reading
I. Teaching aims
1. Ability aims
1) Get the students to comprehend the text, the Amber Room.
2) Get the students to be able to talk about or retell the Amber Room with their own words.
3) Get the students to be able to search for more information, either past or today, of the Amber
Room through their own possible ways.
2. Language aims
1). Enable the students to understand key sentences in this passage.
2). Enable the students to use key sentence structures in key sentences.
II. Teaching important points
1. Get the students to understand the history of the Amber Room, the world cultural relics and
strengthen their realization of the cultural relics’ protection.
2. Get the students to learn to tell the facts and views, toughen their ability of thinking analysis.
牛津高一上学期
Contents
Module Unit Reading Grammar Listening Speaking Writing More reading
1 The human
body I Body language (p.
2) Body language (p. 3) Review of tenses (I) (p. 5)
Review of tenses (2) (p. 6) Identifying
descriptive
words (p. 8) Describing people
(p. 9) Short messages (p.
I0) Eye contact (p. 13)
2 Care for hair (p.
16) Care for your hair (p.
17) Sentence elements:
Subjects, verbs and objects
(p. 19)
Sentence elements:
Complements and
adverbials (p. 21) Appointment
details (p. 22) Showing interest
and changing the
subject (p. 23) Missed
appointments (p. 25) Being happy with
your hair (p. 27)
Using English: Using your dictionary (p. 30)
2 Colourful life 3 A taste of travel (p.
32)
Places of interest
(p. 33) The passive voice (p. 36) Listening for
important words
(p. 38) Making polite
suggestions (p. 39) A request for help
1 山东省淄博市2023-2024学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题
姓名：__________ 班级：__________考号：__________
题号 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 总分
评分
一、听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）。
1．Where does the man plan to go this year?
A．Europe. B．Asia. C．South America.
2．What does the woman ask the man to do?
A．Clean the floor. B．Sit in Row 5. C．Drop glass bottles.
3．What does the woman mean?
A．She wants to go swimming.
B．She is busy with her project.
C．She will have a test tomorrow.
4．What will the man probably do next?
A．Get a spare key. B．Borrow some books. C．Help his neighbor.
5．How many people will visit London for free?
A．2. B．3. C．4.
二、听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）。
听录音，回答问题。
6．Where are the speakers?
A．At the man's house. B．In a shop. C．At an exhibition.
7．Which picture was painted by George Anderson?
