Lesson One The Last Dinosaur?
New Words
1 dinosaur 恐龙
2 island 岛
3 Indonesia 印度尼西亚
4 size 尺寸
5 metre/meter 米
6 weight 重量
7 kg=kilogram 千克
8 lizard 蜥蜴
9 monitor lizard巨蜥
10 dragon 龙
11 giant 巨大的
12 search搜寻，寻找
13 amazing 惊人的，非常棒的
14 adventure 冒险
15 several 几个
16 land on 登陆(月球、岛屿等)
17 palm 手掌 palm tree棕榈树
18 Jurassic Park 侏罗纪公园
19 anxiously 忧虑地，不安地
20 be in sight 能看得见，在视野内
21 shape 形状
22 stare at 盯着看
23 still 静止的
24 chase (after) 追赶
25 pick sth up 看到，听到，接收到
26 dry 干的 dried 被风干或晒干的
27 prey猎物
28 buffalo 水牛
29 wild boar野猪
30 biologist 生物学家
31 pygmy 侏儒型的（动物）
32 used to 曾经
33 disappear消失
34 million 百万
35 survive存活，生存
36 carrion 腐肉
37 eat the best bits 吃最好的部分
38 cannibal 吃同类的动物
39 dribble 流口水
40 neutralize 使失效
41 deadly 致命的
42 bacteria 细菌(复数) bacterium(单)
43 saliva 口水
44 bite 咬
45 companion伙伴，同伴
46 defend防御
47 hunt 打猎
48 species 物种
49 prowl 悄悄靠近
50 nest 窝，巢
51 escape 逃跑
52 ancestor 祖先
53 reptile 爬行动物
54 macaque 猕猴
Exercises
I. 首字母填空
1. Komodo dragon is g______ in size.
2. The earth is the home of all kinds of animals. There are m_________ of species.
3. We have to protect our planet so that animals will not d________ from the earth.
4. B_______ are very tiny cells. Some of them are harmful, while others can help us against diseases.
5. Monitor lizards use their s_______ to defend themselves from deadly bacteria.
II. 判断
1. Komodo dragons are not dangerous. ( )
2. Komodo dragons eat other Komodo dragons unless they are old. ( )
3. Komodo dragons are very patient. They wait for a long time to catch his prey. ( )
4. Biologists study both animals and plants. ( )
5. The islands of Indonesia are too dangerous for people to live. ( )
III. 阅读理解
1. Which of the choices below is NOT Komodo dragon’s prey?
A. horses B. palm trees C. young Komodo dragons
2. The word “amazing” means ______
A. very old B. very exciting C. very big
3 What does the word “carrion” mean?
A. the dead body of animal B. fresh meat C live animals
4. Komodo dragons will not die if they bite each other because _____
A. they have deadly bacteria
B. they are giant
C. their saliva neutralizes deadly bacteria
5. What is this passage about?
A. Komodo dragons are giant lizards.
B. Komodo dragons are dangerous.
C. It gives a brief introduction of the Komodo dragons
IV. 根据课文回答问题
1. How long is the Komodo dragon?
2. Why did Cyril and Emmanuelle go to the Sunda Islands?
3. What made the monitor lizard come chasing them?
4. How did they escape the attack of the monitor lizard?
5. What can we do to protect wild animals?
V. 完型填空
The Komodo dragon is a large ①___ of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, and Gili Motang. Their unusual ②___ has been known as the biggest of all living lizards. As a result, these lizards dominate the ecosystems in which they live. Although Komodo dragons eat mostly carrion, they will also ③___ prey, ④___ deers, birds, and mammals.Young Komodo dragons are vulnerable and therefore live ⑤___ trees, safe from predators and cannibalistic adults. In the wild, their range has contracted due to human activities.
① ( ) A. animal B. kinds C. species
② ( ) A. size B. weight C. length
③ ( ) A. hunting B. hunt C. to hunt
④ ( ) A. including B. includes C. included
⑤ ( ) A. on B. in C. above
Part II
Butterflies
A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts, egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. Butterflies comprise the true butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), the skippers (superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies (superfamily Hedyloidea). All the many other families within the Lepidoptera are referred to as moths. .
New Words
1 day-flying 白天飞行的
2 order 【生物学】划归(动植物)的目
3 Lepidoptera 鳞翅目;鳞翅类
4 moth 峨
5.holometabolous-- a term applied to insect groups to describe the specific kind of insect development which includes four life stages（embryo/egg----larva-----pupa-----imago/adult）
6. diurnal白天的
7. wing 翼/翅膀
8 conspicuous 显然的
9 Flutter 翩翩起舞
10. Papilionoidea凤蝶总科 VS Hesperioidea 弄蝶总科VS Hedyloidea丝角蝶总科
11. skipper 弄蝶
蝴蝶
蝴蝶是鳞翅目，蝴蝶和飞蛾主要天飞行的昆虫。像其他holometabolous昆虫，蝴蝶的生命周期由四个部分组成，卵，幼虫，蛹和成虫。大多数种是日间活动的。蝴蝶有大，往往色彩鲜艳的翅膀，和突出，飘飘飞行。包括真正的蝴蝶（家族Papilionoidea）时，弄蝶（家族Hesperioidea）和蛾蝴蝶（家族Hedyloidea）。所有许多其他家庭内鳞翅目被称为飞蛾。
Jumping Spider
The jumping spider family (Salticidae) contains more than 500 described genera and about 5,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species. Jumping spiders have good vision and use it for hunting and navigating. They are capable of jumping from place to place, secured by a silk tether. Both their book lungs and the tracheal system are well-developed, as they depend on both systems (bimodal breathing). .
跳蛛
跳跃的蜘蛛家族（跳蛛）载有超过500属，约5000描述描述的物种，其中约13所有物种。[3]跳蛛具有良好的视野，并使用它狩猎％[2]，成为最大的家族蜘蛛和导航。他们是从一个地方跳跃到另一个地方，由丝绸系绳担保能力。无论他们的书肺和气管系统的发达，因为他们在这两个系统（双峰式呼吸）而定。
New Words
1. genera 类
2. tether 系链，绳子
3. tracheal 气管的,导管的,呼吸管的
4. bimodal 双峰的
练习
Describe the life cycle of butterflies.
补充阅读
Spare that Spider 不要伤害蜘蛛
How much of each year do spiders spend killing insects? Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends? Because they destroy so many insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human race. Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour（吞吃） our crops and kill our flocks（牲畜）, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals. We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction （零头）of the number destroyed by spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never do the harm to us or our belongings.
Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them. One can tell the difference almost at a glance, for a spider always has eight legs and insect never more than six.
How many spiders are engaged in this work? One authority on spiders made a census (统计调查)
of the spiders in grass field in the south of England, and he estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre; that is something like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitch.（足球场）
Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects. It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not content with （不满足）
only three meals a day. It has been estimated（估计）that the weight of all the insects destroyed （摧毁）by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in the country.
Questions:
Do you think spiders should be a kind of insects? Why?
Are spiders friends or foes of human being? Why?
It is estimated that there are almost ____ spiders on a grass land as large as a football pitch in south England.
A. 2,250,000 B. 6,000,000 C. 8,250,000
Q1: Why are spiders not insects ?
Part III
I've got a butterfly in my stomach. / Ants in your pants
==I feel nervous
课后阅读&练习
Par 1 背诵上课的词汇，复习+背诵课文，下次上课会提问相关问题
Part 2
Please go and find more about butterflies at and spiders at
并且回答下列问题
Q1 How many broods do butterflies have per year?
Q2 Is it true that spiders have 10 legs ?
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