课文阅读练习.doc

课文阅读练习：
一、 Pre---reading：（课前预习）
Theme
Xie Lei fits I well with her life and studies (1)_____________
(2)_______ to
Xie Lie
She, a 21-year-old girl, came to London with the (3)__________
to study for a business qualification and currently lives in a British family.
Difficulties with
Her life

l Everything there seems strange and new to her and she has
to learn them from the (4)_______________
l She has difficulty understanding the answer when asking
people for directions, because their pronunciations are
(5)_____________from those on the listening tapes.
(6)__________

* Boarding with an English family
* She can received lots of good (7)___________from the family
*She has more chances to learn about the new culture
*She can get a great comfort whenever she (8)_____________
her family
*(9)___________ a preparation course
XieLie’s current
situation
She has adapted herself to (10)____________ in London, and she
Plans to take part in more school activities.
二、 reading(课堂练习)
1）combine the following elements to get the main idea of the passage
who

when

where

what

how

Main idea:_______________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________.
2) match the main idea with the proper parageaph
P1 1. XieLei’s preparation year(一年预科)
P2 2. Benefits of her preparation course
P3 3. The author’s best wish for XieLei
P4 4. Benefits of living with a host family
P5 5. Xie Lei’s new plan
P6 6. Xie Lei, a Chinese girl, came to study in London
P7 7. Xie Lei’s difficulty getting used to a new way of life
3) go through the text to find details then answer these questions
1. Why is she doing a preparation course first?
2. Why did Xie Lei feel like a child when she first arrived in England?
3. Why does Xie Lei like to live with a host family?
4. Why did she get an “E”?
5. Why did she join the club?
4)Listen to the radio and complete the sentences below:
1)Xie Lei feels much more ___________ in England and what had seemed
very __________before now appears quite ________________.
2) We will follow Xie Lei’s __________ in later editions of this _________
But for now, we wish Xie Lei all the best in her new enerprise. She deserves
to ___________.
三、Post---reading(读后练习)
Filling the blanks to get a summary
Xie Lei ____________ a plane for London six months ago to complete a
business___________. She is now halfway through the ______________ year.
At the beginning, she had to learn almost everything again. She lives with a
________ family, which gives her the _________ to learn more about everyday
life and _________ in her new country.
She wrote her first ____________ to her__________, but she only got an E.
Now she has_________ the life and she feels much more ____________ and is
going to join a few university _________ in order to have a ________ between
study and a social life. We wish Xie lei all the best with her____________.
Keep it up ! Xie lei.
四、homework:
1）read the whole passage by yourself
2) recite useful words and expressions