Unit8 The new caves.ppt

1、,Question 1,If the earth is unsuitable for living, would you like to live somewhere else?,The moon?,The Space?,The underground?,The deep sea?,The Mars?,Imagination: Please look at the following pictures and image that if you were living on one of the places, what it must be like?,The moon,The deep s

2、ea,The underground,The text,The topic of this text is about an imaginative underground life for human beings. There are many advantages. Now please listen to the tape and take notes of the advantages.,The underground life,A. Weather would be no longer be important,B. Local time would be no longer be

3、 important,C. the ecological structure could be stablized,D.Nature would be closer,First, weather would no longer be important, since it is primarily a phenomenon of the atmosphere. Rain, snow, sleet, fog would not trouble the underground world. Even temperature variations are limited to the open su

4、rface and would not exist underground. Whether day or night, summer or winter, temperatures in the underground world would remain equable and nearly constant. The vast amounts of energy now expended in warming our surface surroundings when they are too cold, and cooling them when they are too warm,

5、could be saved. The damage done to manmade structures and to human beings by weather would be gone. Transportation over local distances would be simplified. (Earthquakes would remain a danger, of course.),First, weather would no longer be important, since it is primarily a phenomenon of the atmosphe

6、re. Rain, snow, sleet, fog would not trouble the underground world. Even temperature variations are limited to the open surface and would not exist underground. Whether day or night, summer or winter, temperatures in the underground world would remain equable and nearly constant. The vast amounts of

7、 energy now expended in warming our surface surroundings when they are too cold, and cooling them when they are too warm, could be saved. The damage done to manmade structures and to human beings by weather would be gone. Transportation over local distances would be simplified. (Earthquakes would re

8、main a danger, of course.),1. since it is primarily a phenomenon of the atmosphere,Paraphrase: Because weather is a natural phenomenon that occurs mainly in the atmosphere, the air which covers the earths surface.,Translation: 因为它主要是大气层的一种现象,First, weather would no longer be important, since it is p

9、rimarily a phenomenon of the atmosphere. Rain, snow, sleet, fog would not trouble the underground world. Even temperature variations are limited to the open surface and would not exist underground. Whether day or night, summer or winter, temperatures in the underground world would remain equable and

10、 nearly constant. The vast amounts of energy now expended in warming our surface surroundings when they are too cold, and cooling them when they are too warm, could be saved. The damage done to manmade structures and to human beings by weather would be gone. Transportation over local distances would

11、 be simplified. (Earthquakes would remain a danger, of course.),2. Even temperature variations are limited to the open surface and would not exist underground,Paraphrase: even temperature changes occur only on the earth only on the earths open surface and would not exist underground.,Translation: 甚至

12、气温的变化也局限于露天地表，而在地下则不存在这种变化。,CF: amount &number,Amount and number are both used to talk about quantity,but different in use.,Amount is usually used with uncountable nouns while number with countable nouns.,E.g. There was a vast_ of rubble in the street. There were a great_ of bricks in the street.,CF

13、: amount &number,When you use amount in the plural, you use a plural verb with it.,e.g. Large amounts of money were wasted. Increasing amounts of force are necessary.,CF: amount &number,“A number of people or things” means “several people or things.” You use a plural verb after a number of.,An incre

14、asing number of students have made use of the Internet.,CF: amount &number,Amount is used when talking about goods which are handled in large quantities.,The shopkeeper has a large amount of oranges in stock.,We do not say “a big amount/number” or “a little amount/ number”, instead we say,“a large a

15、mount/number,or “a small amount/number”.,Now translate the Chinese in the following sentences into English.,Exercise,1._ (一些军官被逮捕） in the military coup and executed almost immediately. 2. _(大量的公款 被浪费）on image projects. 3. It has been proved that _ _(即使是少量的铅对孩子的健康 也有害）. 4. In the storeroom we found _ (大量的烂苹果）not sold in the previous season. 5. By the time they realized the danger, _ _(大量的污染物已经被排放）into the river.,A num