英语周报高中阅读基础版第12期之配套【教案】

1、Looking Beautiful and Being BeautifulBeauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. In other words, beauty is subjective and youre only beautiful if others think you are beautiful. The Evil Queen in the “Snow White” fairy tale found that out when she asked the Magic Mirror, “Who is the fairest of

2、them all?” and was told, “It aint you, Queenie!”Mirrors, magic or not, are much too honest. A quick glance at your reflection can leave you in despair at a nose too wide, a chin (下巴) too small or ears that stick out like jug handles. Why, you may think, cant I be as beautiful as a movie star? Well,

3、the answer is you can and it doesnt require any expensive plastic surgery or a Meitu Xiuxiu app. All you need is to develop your “inner” beauty.Inner beauty is a quality thats hard to define but easy to recognize. A teacher colleague of mine (her English name is Penny) has such inner beauty. She has

4、 a nice but not beautiful face. Shes even a little heavy. But when people meet her, they are immediately drawn to her. She shines with so much inner goodness and love that even shy little children want to give her a hug. How did she get that way? In her case, I think it comes naturally, but she sets

5、 an example that I and her other colleagues try to follow.There is a beauty contest now underway in China to find students who have inner beauty similar to Pennys. Its called “The Most Beautiful High School Students / Vocational School Students.” These are students who love their country, study dili

6、gently, volunteer, help others, and have respect for their parents and the elderly. As far as I know, these students are not required to wear designer clothes or walk down catwalks and be judged by their appearances. The students will be judged by, as Martin Luther King said, the “quality of their c

7、haracters.” And it really is “character” that makes a person beautiful.Just after the National Day holiday, three young Chinese women were prevented by Customs officials from leaving South Korea. They had spent their vacation getting plastic surgery and their puffy (肿胀的) faces no longer matched thei

8、r passport photos. So embarrassing! If only they had known my friend Penny and learned the important lesson: You dont have to look beautiful to be beautiful.教案PRE-READING1. Are you satisfied with your physical appearance? Why or why not? What do you think defines beauty? Why?2. Have you ever heard a

9、bout the “The Most Beautiful High School Students / Vocational School Students” beauty contest? Has anyone in your school been given the honor? If so, why do you think he or she is “beautiful”?WHILE READINGSentences1. Why, you may think1, cant I be as beautiful as a movie star? Well, the answer is y

10、ou can and it doesnt require2 any expensive plastic surgery or a Meitu Xiuxiu app. All you need2 is to develop your “inner” beauty.1 恰当地使用插入语，有时可使行文显得更加老练、地道。2 require跟need这两个词在汉语中都可以翻译成“需要”，但两者在适用场合上有明显区别。need侧重指个人情感层面的需要。如果你“need”某物，则意味着你有必要得到它，它是生存或者达到某目的必备品。相较而言，require表示“需要”时更为正式，它通常表示“必须、具有强制性

11、”的需要。2. A teacher colleague of mine1 (her English name is Penny) has such2 inner beauty.1 a teacher colleague of mine相当于one of my teacher colleagues。注意不要受中文思维影响，这里应该用mine，而不用me。2 such和so都可以解释为“如此；这样”，但用法却不相同。such用来修饰名词，名词前有无形容词都可以；so用来修饰形容词或副词，形容词后可以省略名词。此外，so后即使有形容词，也不能修饰复数名词或不可数名词，而such则可以。3. They

12、 had spent their vacation getting plastic surgery and their puffy faces no longer matched1 their passport photos . If only2 they had known my friend Penny and .1 注意match的用法。match在此解释为“（与）相配，相称”。不可说one thing matches to或matches with another，而要说one thing matches another或two things match。2 有关If only .的用

13、法，详见本期报纸头版“Sentences”栏目。注意不要将if only和only if相混淆。后者并不是一个固定词组。VocabularyComplete the sentences with the proper words from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.subjective diligent embarrassing despair glance contest1. In spite of _ work as editor, hac

14、k writer and sea captain, he wound up poor.2. At first _, the hotel seems like it got stuck in a time machine an analog clock here, an Eames-style chair there.3. The people were driven to _ by the horrors of war.4. Art is never a commodity (商品). Commodities are identical units of sure value bushels

15、of wheat, say whose price changes from time to time and place to place. Artworks are one-of-a-kind items, materially worthless, which have in common that a price is asked for them. Their value is entirely _.5. Will you enter the _?Key:1. diligent2. glance3. despair4. subjective5. contestTranslationT

16、ranslate the following sentences into English.1. 这条项链是我的一个好朋友送的。(a)2. 作为夫妻，他们并不是很般配。 (match v.)3. 我要是当时听了父母的话就好了！ (if)4. 据我所知，当时他在银行工作。 (as)5. 仿效他的做法会是个错误。 (example)Possible answers:1. I was given this necklace by a good friend of mine.2. As a couple, they are not very well matched.3. If only I had

17、listened to my parents!4. He was working in a bank at the time, as far as I know.5. It would be a mistake to follow his example.ComprehensionChoose the best answer.1. By writing this article, the author mainly wants to _.A. share his understanding of inner beautyB. encourage people to develop their

18、inner beautyC. discourage people from getting plastic surgeryD. introduce his friend Penny to others2. According to the article, students taking part in “The Most Beautiful High School Students / Vocational School Students” contest will be judged by _. their physical appearance their academic performance the quality of their characters their relationships with their classmates A. B. C. D. 3. According to the article, why were the three Chinese women prevented from leaving South Korea?A. Because they had lost their passports.B. Because they