21世纪英文报小学版391期 Magic world
We love mothers!
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妈妈，我爱你！
May 12 is Mother’s Day this year. It’s a great day to show how much you love her.
Making a Mother’s Day breakfast
做一顿美味早餐
Every day, mother cooks tasty1 food for us. But do you know what your mother’s favorite breakfast is? Today, let’s surprise2 her with a delicious Mother’s Day breakfast.
Here is an easy menu (菜单) for you. You can cook with the help of your father:
A glass of milk, a fried (油炸的) egg, a piece of bread and some fresh fruit.
Spending the day with mother
陪伴妈妈一整天
The best Mother’s Day gift is to spend3 time with her. What does your mom usually like to do? Go shopping, watch movies or do other things? Accompany (陪伴) her to do whatever (无论什么) she likes.
When you and Mom stay together, you can also talk about your school life and share4 your little secrets with her. Most importantly, tell her “Mom, I love you!”
Making a special gift
亲手制作小礼物
If you are creative (有创意的), you can make special5 things for her. Here are some ideas for you.
A Mother’s Day card: draw beautiful pictures and write some words to thank your mother.
Mother’s Day collage (剪贴画): use your family photos to make a storybook for your mother.
Being a helper
做个勤劳的小帮手
TEXT BY 21ST PHOTOS FROM
AP AND XINHUA
Do you usually help your mom do chores (家务)? On Mother’s Day, you should take up more jobs: helping mom in the kitchen, washing the dishes, sweeping the floor and doing the laundry (洗衣服) for a day. It will be a perfect Mother's Day gift idea for your mom.
Have a go
动动脑筋，回答问题。
1.When is Mother’s Day this year?
_______________________________
2.What do you want to do for your mom on Mother’s Day?
_______________________________
3.What do you want to say to your mom?
_______________________________
Delicious sandwiches in England
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简单又美味的三明治
Sandwiches were created (发明) by an English man, John Montagu. He gambled (赌博) all day, so he didn’t have ti me for a meal. He just put some food between two pieces of bread and ate it.
Now, there are many different kinds of sandwiches. People all over the world eat them. In England, many children at school and adults (成年人) at work have sandwiches as “packed lunch” (盒装午餐).
By Thomas Hale
21st Century Teens staff
Weird but true
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Some wildflowers smell like chocolate.
Baby kangaroos (袋鼠) are really small. When they are born, they are a bit (一点儿) longer than a paper clip (回形针).
Guinness world records
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The largest collection of shoes for recycling
最大的旧鞋回收活动
Look, here are so many shoes! National Geographic Kids (《国家地理杂志儿童版》) has collected(收集) the largest number of shoes. They
recycled (回收) the shoes to make rubber (橡胶) playgroundsfor schools. They collected 16,407 pairs of shoes from all over the world.
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21世纪英语报双语新闻
女性读者向我问得最多的问题是──如何 能既拥有成功的事业又拥有幸福的家庭？她们中的很多人已经在事业上获得成功了，她们实际上要问的是如何同时获得一个幸福的家庭。 Here's the #1 question I get from women readers: How can I have a successful career and a happy family? Many of these readers already are successful in their careers. What they're really asking is how to also have a happy family. 对我们女性而言，这是一个非常新的问 题。许多世纪以来，女人的职业就是“照顾家人”。我们活着是为了取悦父亲、丈夫以及儿子。我们为他人服务，获得的回报是一生安稳的保障。 This is a very new question for us. For centuries, women's careers were our family. Our career was 'caregiver.' We lived to please our fathers, our husbands, our sons. In return for our service, we received a lifetime guarantee of stability and security. 然而，这种“交易”如今已经消失。虽然我 们依然在履行照顾家人的职责，但对许多人来说（如果不是大多数人的话），婚姻正成为巨大的不安全感的来源。 But today that bargain has vanished. We're still doing our part by serving our families. But for many if not most, marriage now is a source of deep insecurity. 大多数年轻人的婚姻如今以离婚告终 Most young marriages now end in divorce 在步入婚姻殿堂时，没有人会抱着这种 想法──“有一天我们会厌恶对方”，但这正是中国大多数80后一代的经历。根据民政部的统计，2005年时，80后的离婚率就已经达到了57%。 No one enters a marriage thinking, 'Someday we'll hate each other,' but that's been precisely the experience of most of China's born-post-1980 generation. The Ministry of Civil Affairs reports that by 2005, the divorce rate for this generation already had reached 57 percent. 中国历史上首次出现了在破碎家庭中长大的一代儿童。女性在离婚期间常常遭 受巨大的痛苦，但至少我们可以掌控自己的生活然后继续向前。然而，我们的孩子却不能。在离婚事件中，他们才是真正意义上的受害者。 For the first time in Chinese history, a generation of children now is growing up in broken households. Women often suffer greatly during divorce, but at least we can take charge of our lives and move on. Our children, on the other hand, cannot. When divorce occurs, they're victims in the truest sense. 离婚对孩子的影响可能会持续一生，我恰好对此有直接的了解。我1969年在美国出生，正如中国现在的情况一样，上世纪70年代正是离婚潮首次在美国爆发之时。我们那一代人是第一代成长在离异家庭的孩子。虽然我的父母一直都在 一起生活，但那些年我还是目睹了父母The impacts on children of divorce can last a lifetime. I happen to know this first-hand, since I was born in America in 1969, and it was in the 1970s that divorce first exploded in America as is happening now in China. My generation was the first to grow up as the children of divorce.
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What’s the main idea of the passage? ________ A.John Snow was a well-known doctor in London. B.The cause of Cholera was polluted water. C.The source of all drinking water should be examined. D.How did John Snow collect, analyze data and find the cause of the disease and solved it . II.根据课文内容总结出各段段落大意并在空格处填上适当的单词，每空一词。
III.仔细阅读课文，找出下列句子并分析。 1. John Snow was a famous doctor in London— so expert, indeed, that he attended Queen Victoria as her personal physician. ①划分句子成分：____________________；attend, join, join in和take part in 的区别： ____________________________________________________________ ___________________ ②此句中so…that 引导_______ 从句，仿写句子：她对这篇文章太熟
了，以至于能全文背诵。 ____________________________________________________________ ___________________ 2. But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people exposed to cholera. ①划分句子成分：______________________________________ ②此句中inspired 和exposed各在句中作_____ 和______(成分); expose to意思是__________, 其后常接________ 形式。翻译：我不想向任何人揭露他的恐惧。___________________________________________________________ __________________ 3. The second suggested that people absorbed this disease into their bodies with their meals. ①划分句子成分：______________________________________ ②句中absorb…into意思是__________, be absorbed in/ into本意是_________，还有使全神贯注的意思;例如：He was so absorbed into the novel that he couldn’t hear the door bell 。翻译：____________________________________________________________ ___________________ ③比较：Para7中suggest的用法与此句中的一样吗？ ____________________________________________________________ ___________________
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10-11学年度第426期7版Quiz time答案： 高二版 Reading D1 1-4 CDCB D2 1. The mobile phone/The cell phone/The mobile. 2. Russia and Singapore. 3. 1) One gives its user safety, security and instant access to information. 2) One changes the nature of a relationship. 3) One can be used as an alarm clock and a camera and to play games. 4. 很多人从未不带手机出门，而且如果让他们选择的话，他们宁愿丢掉钱包也不愿丢掉手机。 D3 1-5 DDCBA D4 1-4 CDBA D5 1-5 DCADA 6-10 ABABC 11-15 DAABA 16-20 BACDD 答案解析 D1 1. C. 根据文章最后一句If you push a kid to do well, and they’re good at it, they benefit. It’s good to have high expectations.”可知，Amy Chua 的支持者们认为父母对于孩子的期望高是又好处的。 2. D. sympathize是“表示同情”的意思。 3. C. 文中提到Children need parents who can guide them, not force them to do things they’re probably not interested in. 所以Jeffrey Seinfeld 认为父母在教育孩子的时候要认真考虑孩子的需求。 4. B. 纵观全文，主要讲述了Amy Chua的书所引发的关于严厉管教孩子的教育方式的激烈辩论。 D3 1. D. 文章开头列举了母女的事例，之后开始介绍深度阅读的内容，可见事例的使用是为了引出话题。 2. D. 文章提到Instant messages and 140-character tweets appear to be reducing our ability to concentrate on a single idea or theme in a book, 只供学习与交流
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二十一世纪学生英文报高中版展开英语阅读教学潘臻
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如何利用《二十一世纪学生英文报·高中版》展开英语阅读教学 摘要：在日常英语教学中要培养高中生的英语阅读能力，英语教师应以《英语新课程标准》为依据，在新课程标准理念的指导下，充分利用各种英语阅读资源培养学生阅读兴趣；提高学生的综合阅读能力。为达到此目的，我在高中英语教学中选用了《二十一世纪学生英文报·高中版》作为提高学生英语阅读能力的辅助材料。以下，我将从使用英文报刊作为辅助英语阅读教学的原因以及在课堂上如何使用报刊辅助教学两个方面来阐述自己是如何利用《二十一世纪学生英文报·高中版》来展开英语阅读教学的。 关键字：英文报刊辅助阅读教学阅读准则（速度题材参与感受） 高中新课程标准要求“侧重培养学生的阅读理解能力。”阅读能力是最为重要的学习能力，培养和提高学生的阅读能力已成为英语教学要完成的重要目标之一。阅读理解不仅是一种能很好地考查学生英语能力的检测手段，而且还是学生学好英语、获得交际能力的重要环节。由于阅读理解在高考英语中的重要地位越来越突出，就迫使教师必须找到一种行之有效地提高学生英语阅读能力的方法，尤其是在提高英语泛读能力方面。英语泛读的教学目的在于通过不断地快速浏览文章、概括大意等练习来确保学生对于长篇幅英语文章的正确理解。因此，教师和学生都面对着一个共同的问题，即需要找到更多地道的英语阅读材料来满足练习要求。然而这些材料往往不是很难获得就是过于昂贵，学生难于承受。另一方面，学生们仅仅习惯于阅读课本内的文章以及应对选择题型，对课外阅读也没有太多兴趣。种种这些问题导致了在英语阅读教学当中的
21世纪英文报小学版391期 Magic world
We love mothers! 本文作者： 21st 期号：391 阅读数：404 评论(1) 打印 收藏 妈妈，我爱你！ May 12 is Mother’s Day this year. It’s a great day to show how much you love her. Making a Mother’s Day breakfast 做一顿美味早餐 Every day, mother cooks tasty1 food for us. But do you know what your mother’s favorite breakfast is? Today, let’s surprise2 her with a delicious Mother’s Day breakfast. Here is an easy menu (菜单) for you. You can cook with the help of your father: A glass of milk, a fried (油炸的) egg, a piece of bread and some fresh fruit. Spending the day with mother 陪伴妈妈一整天 The best Mother’s Day gift is to spend3 time with her. What does your mom usually like to do? Go shopping, watch movies or do other things? Accompany (陪伴) her to do whatever (无论什么) she likes. When you and Mom stay together, you can also talk about your school life and share4 your little secrets with her. Most importantly, tell her “Mom, I love you!” Making a special gift 亲手制作小礼物 If you are creative (有创意的), you can make special5 things for her. Here are some ideas for you. A Mother’s Day card: draw beautiful pictures and write some words to thank your mother. Mother’s Day collage (剪贴画): use your family photos to make a storybook for your mother. Being a helper 做个勤劳的小帮手 TEXT BY 21ST PHOTOS FROM AP AND XINHUA
21世纪英语报
Brothers on the court 本文作者：21ST 期号：354 阅读数：205评论(0) 打印收藏 加索尔兄弟欧锦赛所向披靡！词数244 建议阅读时间7分钟About Marc Birthday: January 29, 1985 Height: 2.16m Weight: 120kg About Pau Birthday: July 6, 1980
Height: 2.13m Weight: 113kg SPANISH basketball fans should buy Mr and Mrs Gasol dinner. Their sons – Pau and Marc Gasol – led Spain to become the champion of European basketball. Spain beat France 98-85 in the final of the 2011 EuroBasket on September 18. “The Gasol brothers rule the court (球场),”Slovenia guard Saso Ozbolt said. “You have to pay attention to them, then the other players move in. That’s why it’s so tough to play against Spain.” The Gasol brothers both play in the NBA. Pau is the forward (前锋) of the Los Angeles Lakers and Marc plays for the Memphis Grizzles (孟菲斯灰熊队) as a center. But, besides their height, the brothers do not have much in common. On the court, Pau moves gracefully around opponents (对手) and Marc charges through them. In their spare time, Pau goes to art house theaters while Marc goes fishing. Yet Marc talks to Pau at least every other day and lives in Pau’s old apartment. “Little brothers have to go their own way sometimes,” Marc says. “But Pau has always been the best example for me to follow.” As a big NBA star, Pau has won two NBA championships with the Lakers and four All-stars. But Marc is catching up with his brother. During the last NBA season, Marc had an average of 15 points and 12 rebounds (篮板球) a game in the playoffs (季后赛), compared wit h Pau’s 13 and eight. Marc did better than his famous brother. 【中考词汇】 height n. 高度 用法：at the height of 在某个高度上； high adj. 高的。 She is at the height of her career. catch up with 赶上 用法：一般指在某领域赶上或追上。 As a new student, he quickly caught up with his classmates.
如何合理运用二十一世纪学生英语报
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报刊阅读训练的具体实施及方法 一份报纸内容多、容量大，仅仅靠课内的分钟是远远不够的。所以，要上好报刊阅读课，老师既要布置学生在课下根据自己的兴趣选择不同的阅读材料，又要在课内充分利用上课时间指导学生，对学生在课上学习的内容进行讨论归纳和总结，并给予适当的评价。 1.老师阅读材料的选择： 以教学内容为中心，密切联系时事热点 由于报纸内容多、容量大，不是每一篇都适合学生们阅读，而且学生们不懂得选择性地对阅读材料进行分类，所以老师的帮助是必要的。老师对学生们的自行选择进行辅导，并不是完全按照教学内容来选择，而是以学生的接受能力为根据、教学内容为主导、时事热点为补充、老师意见为辅助。例如：《二十一世纪学生英语报》高一版第期“”和第期“”是高科技发展的现状，与高一必修教学内容相关；第期“”和第期“”是关于年轻人所喜欢的流行音乐人，与必修教学内容相关；第期“”是年热点时事；第期“”和第期“, ”是关于四川大地震的后续报道，与必修教学内容相关。 这些阅读材料紧扣时事，与学生日常生活息息相关，便于学生自主理解，而且与课文有较强关联性，能让学生更好地理解课文内容，举一反三，温故而知新。 ．学生课前准备：
21世纪英文报初三28至30期答案
初三28期 Day 1 【P3】 1. Because there was heavy snow and they had to stay inside. 2. On the third day. 3. She felt happy / excited / like a happy bird. Or He/She felt happy/excited. 4. It looked even more beautiful in the snow. 5. She will explore the USA as much as she can. Day 2 【P4】1. 他们也有自己专门的歌曲，常围着篝火歌唱。 2. peaceful 3. In 1920. 4. Baden-Powell’s experiences in the Boer War in South Africa led him to begin the movement. 5. Tying knots in ropes, making a fire and finding food outdoors. Day 3 【P4-5】CBDD Day 4 【P6】BDAC Day 5 完成句子: 1. be designed 2. success 3. solving 4. dangerous 5. friendly 6. loud 7. flew 8. mind 9. received 10. annoyed/angry Cloze: 1-5 CACDB 6-10 CADBC 6版佳句仿写
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