新起点修订版Book1 Unit8.ppt

Unit Eight Text A Icehotel Attracts Tourists Main Ideas Fill in the blanks with appropriate words according to the passage. Each year tourists throughout the world travel to Sweden’s ________ which is ______ in a small town 200 kilometers north of the Arctic ______. They sleep on beds _______ of ice, have drinks ______ in glasses made of ice in the bar and eat dinner on ______ of ice in the hotel built _______ of ice. Visitors can take part in such _______ activities as skiing or riding on sleds _____ by dogs. Detailed understanding 1. Why do people from all over the world go to Sweden’s far north? They go there because Icehotel is _____________________. 2. What is special about the bar in icehotel? Things such as ______________________________. 3. In what way does Icehotel help local people? ___________________ jobs. 4. How do we know that is very cold in the rooms? Because ________________________________ ___________________________. 5. How did most people in the town make a living 11 years ago? By __________________________ . Unit Eight Text B Antarctic Ice Gets thicker Main Ideas Fill in the blanks with appropriate words or expressions according to the above reading passage. Fearing global warming, scientists around the world worry that higher ____________ could turn the large ice sheet in Antarctica ____ water, causing a rise in sea _____ worldwide. ________, the America magazine Science _________ a surprising _______ that challenged the theory. _________ to the magazine, the ice sheets in west Antarctica are in ____ becoming thicker. This is because the ______ temperature bring more water into the __________ and this will result in more snowfalls over the polar ice caps. Detailed Understanding Global warming and Its Consequences Global warming results from: ___________ gases or __________ gases, especially ______________. According to popu