2014届高考英语一轮复习多媒体语篇精读课件：阅读理解多功能精读方案-环保类（人教版）.pptVIP

功能四、说 (一)朗读原文中的第1、2、7段，体会其中精彩的语句。 (二)根据下列提示词语，复述文章内容。 for thousands of years: remote beautiful island 1798：John Fearn, the whaling ships, the social balance, civil war 1899：discovered, destroyed 1968：the richest countries 2000：financially ruined, repair (三)朗读并背诵短文写作范文，体会其中的精彩词汇和句式，并运用到以后的写作中。 * * * * 环保类 [精读语篇](2012·山东高考阅读理解A) The Pacific island nation of Nauru used to be a beautiful place. Now it is an ecological disaster area. Naurus heartbreaking story could have one good consequence — other countries might learn from its mistakes. 超链接 For thousands of years, Polynesian people lived on the remote island of Nauru, far from western civilization. The first European to arrive was John Fearn in 1798. He was the British captain of the Hunter, a whaling ship. He called the island Pleasant Island. However, because it was very remote, Nauru had little communication with Europeans at first. Then whaling ships and other traders began to visit, bringing guns and alcohol. These elements destroyed the social balance of the twelve family groups on the island. A ten-year civil war started, which reduced the population from 1,400 to 900. Naurus real troubles began in 1899 when a British mining company discovered phosphate (磷酸盐) on the island. In fact, it found that the island of Nauru was nearly all phosphate, which is a very important fertilizer for farming. The company began mining the phosphate. A phosphate mine is not a hole in the ground; it is a strip mine. When a company strip-mines, it removes the top layer of soil. Then it takes away the material it wants. Strip-mining totally destroys the land. Gradually, the lovely island of Nauru started to look like the moon. In 1968, Nauru became one of the richest countries in the world. Every year the government received millions and millions of dollars for its phosphate. Unfortunately, the lea