奇特的海底生物
Strange Undersea Creatures
本篇適合:閱讀、挑戰(zhàn)
又到快樂的暑假啦!大家可以到海邊去盡情玩耍,甚至還可以試試潛水,去看看奇妙的海底世界哦!以下這些生物(creature),它們長得很奇特,該算是植物(plant),還是動物(animal)呢?大家知道嗎?
by Jenny
Some animals that live in the ocean look very strange. It’s hard to tell if they’re a plant, an animal or something else.
ocean [?????n] n. 海洋
strange [stre?nd?] adj. 奇怪的
include [?n?klu?d] v. 包含,包括
sponge [sp?nd?] n. 海綿動物(復(fù)數(shù):sponges)
urchin [?з?t??n] n. 海膽(復(fù)數(shù):urchins)
coral [?k?r?l] n. 珊瑚
starfish [?stɑ?f??] n. 海星(復(fù)數(shù):starfish或starfishes)
jellyfish [?d?el?f??] n. 水母(復(fù)數(shù):jellyfish)
anemone [??nem?n?] n. 海葵(復(fù)數(shù):anemones)
exactly [?g?z?ktl?] adv. 正確地,精確地
either [???e?] adv. 也,而且(用于否定句)
for example [f?? ?g?zɑ?mpl] 例如
blob [bl?b] n. 一團
jelly [?d?el?] n. 果凍
trailing [?tre?l??] adj. 拖尾的
tentacle [?tent?kl] n. 觸手,觸須(復(fù)數(shù):tentacles)
rock [r?k] n. 巖石(復(fù)數(shù):rocks)
These animals include sponges, sea urchins, coral, starfish, jellyfish and sea anemones. They don’t look like most animals, but they don’t look exactly like plants either.
The jellyfish, for example, looks like a blob of jelly with long trailing tentacles. Coral stays on the ocean floor. They’re hard. They almost look like rocks, but they’re not.
Look這個單詞,相信大家很早就認識了。它是個用法很多的常用單詞,今天就給大家介紹以下幾種簡單的用法。
1. 提醒別人“看”:Look, there’s a kitty in the bushes. 看吶,樹叢里有只小貓。
2. 表示“尋找”:Where have you been? I’ve looked everywhere. 你上哪兒去了?我到處都找遍了。
3. 表示“朝向”:There’s a window in my bedroom. It looks to the south. 我的臥室有一扇窗。它朝向南面。
4. 表示“看上去”:These apples look ripe. 這些蘋果看來熟了。
5. 構(gòu)成詞組look like,表示“看起來像”: That cloud looks like a rabbit. 那朵云看起來像一只兔子。
前面的文章里出現(xiàn)了好幾個look,大家能把它們找出來嗎?想想它們用的是look的哪種用法呢?
連一連:請你將以下海底生物的英文名字與相應(yīng)的圖片連起來。
sponges
sea urchins
coral
starfish
jellyfish
sea anemones
Reading Challenge
海綿是最原始的多細胞動物,六億年前就已經(jīng)生活在海洋里,至今已發(fā)展到一萬多種,占海洋動物種類的1/15,是一個龐大的“家族”。想了解更多嗎?那么就來挑戰(zhàn)一下吧!_____________
Sponge
The sponge is a simple(簡單的)animal with many cells(細胞), but no mouth, muscles(肌肉), heart or brain(大腦). It cannot move from place to place like most other animals. It grows in one place like most plants do.
Their bodies are full of pores(小孔)and channels(通道), so that water can circulate(流通)through them. Most of them eat bacteria(細菌)and other microorganisms(微生物). A few of them eat tiny(微小的)crustaceans(甲殼類動物).
There are more than 10,000 species(種類)of sponge. Most sponges live in the ocean(海洋). A few live in fresh water(淡水).
中文大意及答案請見第47頁。