Task-basedReading课.ppt

1 Smoking cigarettes is harmful to your health. Experiments show that cigarette smoking can cause cancer. Besides the most serious and terrible disease(illness), cancer, cigarette smoking also can cause other health problems. For example, it can give one a “smoker’s cough”. Finally, studies have shown it is easy for cigarette smokers to catch colds. Whether you get an unimportant cold or terrible killer, cancer, smoking is harmful. Is it worth it? 2 Often no one looks more guilty than the innocent. On the other hand, nobody may look more innocent than a professional criminal. And the man who knows “everything” may really only be trying to hide his own weakness. So, it is foolish to try to judge a person only by his appearance. Title:Murray and Minor’s _________. Murray and Minor became friends, sharing their love of words. Minor continued contributing to the dictionary, sending in over 10,000 words in 20 years. Murray continued to visit Minor regularly, sometimes taking walks with him around the asylum grounds. In 1910, Minor left Broadmoor for an asylum in his native country. Murray was at the pier(码头）to wave goodbye to his remarkable friend. (A) Now let’s look at an interesting example with colors. (B) If you own a blue car, you know it is blue, even if it is in bright sunlight, in darkness or under a yellow street light. (C) Your eyes tell you that it changes color in these different situations, but your brain knows better. (D) You have learned that cars don’t change color all time, and so your brain interprets the information your eyes give you. (A) Magazines have flooded the market. (B) You find them everywhere---in the stationery, the drugstore, the beauty shop, the doctors or dentists office, the barbershop, railroad stations, bus terminals--wherever people seek a pleasant way to spend leisure time reading. (C) Perhaps the greatest reason for the magazines popularity in America is the demand for short, interesting