2. (A) cellphone

3. Scanning （查读）：快速地浏览全 文，寻找某一特定信息。

4. 1. What are American parents’ opinions about cellphones? ① The cellphone is an ______________ tool. ② The cellphone is_______ in daily life. ③ The cellphone can __________________________ ④ No one is going to let the child _____________________________ necessay connect parents to their children. go to school without a cellphone. important Line 4 Line 7 Line 9 Line12-13

5. 2. The underlined word ‘essential’ in Line 15 means __ in Chinese. A. 时髦的 B. 必要的 C. 昂贵的 D. 流行的 B 3.Did May Chom agree with the idea that students can’t bring cellphones to school? No

6. ４.Do you think students can bring cellphones to school? Why or why not? Everything has good sides and bad sides.

7. cellphone n. 手机 disturbed adj. 受打扰的 essential adj. 必要的 extra adj. 额外的 carry out 实行，执行 connect… to… 把 …… 和 …… 联系起来 Useful words and phrases

9. Skimming （略读）： 快速阅读， 找文章的主要论点或文 章的大意。

10. 1. What is the writer’s opinion about short and tall people according to the passage? A. It’s better to be tall. B. It’s better to be short. C. It doesn’t matter whether a person is tall or short. D. We don’t know.

11. 2.Which statement( 陈述、表达） is true? A. French President Sarkozy is a tall man. B. Sarkozy made tall workers stand near him. C. Tom Cruise is taller than his wife. D. Tom Cruise looks as tall as his wife in the wedding photos.

12. Fill in the table with information from the story. Short peopleTall people Good sides 1._______________ 2._______________ 3._______________ 4. ________________ 1. make more ____ 2. get more ____ 3. have more __________ jobs Bad sides 1. less happy than tall people 2. don't get as much _______ as tall people 3. It's ______ being a short celebrity. 1.move more slowly 2.react more slowly 3.may live shorter Conclusion （结论） move more quickly react faster may live longer money respect important respect hard There are good and bad sides to each. less likely to get disease

13. Useful words, phrases and sentences It doesn't matter whether a person is tall or short. 一个人的高矮并不重要. 任何事物都是一分为二的. There are good and bad sides to each. respect v. 尊重 disease n. 疾病 react v. 反应 be likely to 可能的

15. How much do you know about Barack Obama?. The first black president in the USA.. One of the youngest presidents. Won the Nobel Peace Prize. He is famous for making a speech

16. Listening up to ObamaListening up to Obama

18. Why did Obama mention( 提到了） JK Rowling and Machel Jordan?

19. Useful words and phrases success n. 成功 successful adj. 成功的 succeed v. 成功 failure n. 失败 publish v. 出版 get in trouble =be in trouble

20. Can you give a title to the story ? (D)

21. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. called happily yourselfback However excitedyoung said piecemoney

22. Two ways of fast reading ScanningSkimming Sum up:

23. 方法： 2. 读第一段和最后一段。 3. 读每一段的首句。 4. 对记叙文来说，每段的中心句是比 较不好找的，那么在阅读的时候就应该注意故 事的起因、经过和结果。 Skimming （略读）： 快速阅读，找 一篇文章的主要论点或是 文章的大意。

24. Scanning （查读）：快速地浏览全 文，寻找某一特定信息。 方法： 1. 看文章后面的题目，找出定位词（关键 词），并用笔标出以加深印象。 2. 到文章里找相关信息，用笔标出。 3. 进行对比；

25. Homework: 1. Choose your favorite words, phrases and sentences from these passages and write them down in your notebook. 2. Student Times No.34 Page 3

26. Most of the students said cellphones were essential and the cellphone was like an extra （额外的） hand or foot for them. (Line 14-16)

27. 1. Being successful is hard. 2. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. 3. No one is born being good at things, you become good at things through hard work.