一.Read the text and answer the questions
1.What is the gift for the future?
2 What do you think of the development in the past?
3. Compared to the development in the past, what are the advantages of sustainable development?
4. Why should we put sustainable development into practice?
5. What do we depend on to provide energy in our modern lives?
6.Fill in the form
Forms of energy
What do we do with the energy Advantages
Solar energy
Wind energy
Hydro-electricity
二.重点讲解
1. The world’s population will increase to about nine billion people. (L2-3)增长到
They have increased the price by 50%.增长了
World energy demand is increasing at a rate of about 3% per year.以…速度增长
2. put into practice (L21)把…付诸实施
We tried hard to put the plan into practice.
3. push for (L53)努力争取
They are pushing for a quick solution to the problem.
4. be / become conscious of (L59) 对…有认识
5.take steps to do sth 采取措施做…
Tentative steps are being taken to introduce these forms of renewable energy.
三．重点词组
1. 在未来数十年中
2. 敲响警钟
3. 污染环境
4. 浪费自然资源
5.一个可能解决方案
6. 可持续发展
7. 关注
8. 生活水平
9. 把…付诸实施
10. 矿物燃料
11. 枯竭/耗尽
12. 在可预见未来 13. 促成/引发
14. 努力争取
15. 替代能源
16. 太阳能
17. 抽水
18. 风涡轮
19. 可再生能源
20. 水电站
21. 在水源之上
22. 初步措施
23. 蓄意破坏
四．重点句子。
1.In the next several decades, it is believed that the world’s population will increase to about nine billion people.
2.This should set alarm bells ringring.
3.Carbon dioxide contribures to air ,water and soil pollution and causes golbal warming and acid rain.
4.People are becoming conscious of protecting the evvironment.
5．Alternative energy sources are renewable, which means they can be used without running out
6.In many parts of the world, tentative steps are being taken to introduce these forms of renewable energy.
7.The introduction of programmes like these will hopefully help end the systematice destrucion
Of the environment and see renewable energy promoted around the world.
五．翻译下列句子：
1.有人相信世界人口将上升到大约50亿。
2.解决问题的途径是引进可持续发展。
3.我们的政府正在改善人们的生活水平。
4.一旦你制定了计划，你就必须把它付诸实施。
5.没有可持续发展，我们孩子的未来将会处于危险之中。
6.如果我们以高速使用矿石燃料的话，他们迟早会被用完的。
7.人们现在越来越意识保护环境了。
六．能力训练
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There are both state and private colleges and universities in the United
States. Most of these accept both men and women students. The students come from everywhere in the United States. Many students want to go to school near their parents' home, but others prefer to go farther away. Some students come to American college from other countries ;those from Asia come the farthest ;those from China arid Japan study the hardest.
College education is not free in the United States. Students have to pay for
tuition, board (膳食费), books, and supplies. Tuition at private can be especially high. There are some scholarships for excellent students, but many students have to work part-time, anywhere they can find a job, in order to pay their expenses.
It usually takes four years to do the work for a bachelor's degree (学士学位), but if you go to school in summer, you can finish your degree in three years. American colleges traditionally celebrate their students' graduation with a ceremony. Usually, the important person gives a speech at the graduation ceremony. He tells the parents that they can be proud, because they have excellent sons and daughters who have done their best. In less than an hour, the speech ends. Many parents feel proud of their sons and want to see them receive a diploma. They want to celebrate the event with an important ceremony.
1. In order to pay for the education, many students in colleges & universities
A. prefer to go farther away B. have to work part-time
C. have to pay their expenses D. can win scholarships
2. The excellent students can _______.
A. go to state colleges and universities B. enter private colleges and universities
C. go to study in other countries D. receive scholarships
3. If you study in summer you can finish your degree ____________ .
A. a year ahead of time B. in 2 years C. in 4 years D. 3 years ahead of time
4. Who will attend the graduation ceremony?
A. All the graduating students and all their parents.
B. Only those excellent students and the professors.
C. The graduating students, their parents and the important person.
D. The graduating students and their doctors.
B
Each nation has many good people who help to take care of others. For example, some high school and college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages or homes for the aged. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them or listen to their problems.
Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up, or repair houses, do their shopping and mow their lawns. For boys who no longer have fathers, there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to basket-ball games or on fishing trips and help them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers.
Such city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts. Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, the beaches, museums or other places. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to remember the problems of younger boys and girls.
Volunteers believe that some of the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.
5. Where can you find volunteers in US according to the passage?
A. At a bus stop. B. In a park. C. In a hospital. D. In a shop.
6. How do volunteers usually help those who are sick or old?
A. They mow their lawns, do their shopping and clean up their houses.
B. They cool, sew or wash their clothes.
C. They tell stories and sing and dance for them.
D. They clean, wash and repair their cars.
7. Why do most of the clubs use many high school or college students as volunteers?
A. Because they have a lot of free time.
B. Because they can remember the problems of young boys and girls.
C. Because they know how to work. D. Because they like the work.
Keys
一.Read the text and answer the questions
1.Renewable resources for sustainable development
2It polluted the environment and wasted natural resources.
3.Sustainable development is long-term planning which focuses on the environment and preserving natural resources. It is all about creating better health care, education, housing and improved standards of living for everyone.
4. Because without sustainable development, our future and the lives of our children and our grandchildren will be in danger.
5. We mostly depend on fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil to produce energy.
6.
Forms of energy
What do we do with the energy Advantages
Solar energy use the sun’s natural energy to provide heat ,light hot water and electricity. renewable;never run out;help the environment.
Wind energy use windmills to pump water and grind wheat;use wind turbines to generate electricity.
Hydro-electricity Use the force of the water stored in a reservoir to generate electricity.
三．重点词组
1.in the next several decades 2.set alarm bells ringing
3.pollute the environment 4.waste natural resources
5.one possible solution to 6.sustainable development
7.focus on 8.standards of living
9.put sth into practice 10.fossil fuels
11.run ot 12.in the foreseeable future
13.contribute to 14.push for
15.alternative energy sources 16.solar energy
17.pump water 18.wind turbines
19.renewable energy sorces 20.hydroelectric power plant
21.over a water source 22.tentative steps
23.systematic destruction
五．翻译下列句子：
1．It’s believed that the population of the world will increse to nine billion
2．The solution to the problem is to introduce the sustainable development.
3．Our government is improving the people’s living standard
4．Once you make a plan,you must put it into practice.
5．Without sustainable development,the future of our children will be in danger.
6．If we use the fossilfuels at a high rate,it will soon run out/be used up.
7．Now people are more and more aware of the protecting the environment.
六．能力训练
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