英语人教版九年级全册Reading and Writing .doc

Reading Comprehension and WritingI. ReadingLet children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time; if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other peoples. In the same way, children learn to do all the other things. They learn to do without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle, compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them for himself. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.If it is a matter of right answer, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he cant find the way to get the right answer. Let the children learn what all educated persons must some day learn, how to measure their own understanding, and how to know what they know or do not know.Exercises:1. Guess the meanings of the new words or phrases:judge graduallybit by bit usual; done or happening as a normal partwhistle to form an opinion about sth./ sb. according to the information you have routine to make a high sound with your lips 2. Choose the best answer:1)Which of the following does the writer think teachers should NOT do? A. Give children correct answers.B. Allow children to make mistakes.C. Point out childrens mistakes to them.D. Let children mark their own work.2)The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are _. A. different from learning other skillsB. the same as learning skillsC. more important than other skillsD. not really important skills3) Thetitleofthispassagecouldprobablybe_. A. LetUsTeachersStopWorkB. LetUsMakeChildrenLearnC. LetChildrenCorrectTheirExercisesD. LetChildrenLearnbyThemselvesII. Writing Students mistakes should be corrected by their teachers.Do you agree with it? Write a passage about it and say your opinion. (80 words)Students mistakes should be corrected by their teachers. III. Practice Here is another piece, read it and do the following exercises.Trees are useful to man in three important ways: they give him wood and other useful things, they give him cool places, and they help to stop drought and flood. Unluckily, in many parts of the world, man has not found that the third of these points is the most important. Man wants to make money from trees, so he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had. And also, he is usually too careless to plant and look after new trees. So the forests slowly disappear. This does not only mean that man will have fewer trees. The results are even worse: for where there are trees, their roots break up soilmake the rain inand also bind the soil to stop it from being washed away easily; but where there are no trees, the rain falls on hard ground and flows away, causing floods and carrying away the rich top-soil. When all the top-soil is gone, nothing is left but useless desert.Exercises:1. Guess the meanings of the new words or phrases:drought:flood:break up:bind: 2. Choose the best answer:1) The most important point of trees to man is _.A. they help him to make moneyB. they give him cool C. they give him wood and other thingsD. they help him to stop drought and floods2).In many places forests slowly disappear because _.A. many trees have been cut down by manB. new trees are not well looked afterC. man has not paid enough attention to planting treesD. all the above3).Land becomes desert after all trees are cut down because _ .A. roots of trees break up the soil B. there are too many rainfallsC. strong winds bring a lot of sand D. there are no longer trees to keep the rain and protect the top-soil.4). Which title best fits the passage? A. Trees and ManB. The Function of Tree WoodC. How do