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太原市实验中学高中英语思维导学案 课题: 文章与词汇 班级： 姓名： 学科：英语 课时： 1 编写人： 陈娜 审核人：崔涛 编号：G320150401 A Strange Disease 奇怪的疾病（21） When the construction of the firework factory came to the stage of painting, a pump(泵) was put in. Then, all the painters in the neighbourhood were defeated by a severe disease whose characteristic was alike to that of a bad burn. An expert physician(内科医师) was instructed to attend to the victims(受害者) and handle this case. He was enthusiastic, but he didn’t foresee that it was a hard challenge. After simple enquiry(=inquiry打听,询问), he announced that the polluted paint was to blame. But without positive evidence, people suspected and rejected his view, saying the theory he put forward made no sense. Being much more strict with himself, he contributed himself to the case. Apart from making enquiries, he made detailed charts(详细的图表) and analysed the data cautiously. Finally, he drew a scientific conclusion, linking the disease to the radium(镭) in the pump. Exposed to（暴露于...） radium, a kind of radioactive(放射性的) material in the universe, people absorbed radiation and got sick immediately. Spinning(旋转) the pump backward, he took away the radium. This simple movement cured all the victims. Sightseeing in the United Kingdom 观光联合王国（22） After the wedding, my cousin and his wife went to the United Kingdom for nationwide sightseeing. He faxed a letter to me in English yesterday. To my delight, he no longer made any tense error(时态错误). And his description roughly(概略地) clarified my questions about the UK---its currency(货币), its administration(管理部门；管理), the institution which divides it into four provinces, and the historical conflicts and quarrels when Southern Ireland broke away from the UK. Unwilling to leave out any attraction, my cousin arranged his enjoyable journey carefully. One attractive place he visited was a castle in the countryside of Scotland, which lies near a port(港口). It used to be the headqua