湖北省武汉市高二英语新人教版选修6课件：Unit 5《The power of nature》Part 3 Warming up and Pre-reading.pptVIP

Why Earthquakes and Volcanoes Occur? The Earth is made up of several different layers. In the very centre is the inner core, 1 ______ is made up of solid metal. It has a temperature of around 5, 000 ℃. Around this is 2 ___ outer core made up of liquid metal. 1. 引导非限定性定语从句, 进一步解释说明inner core。 2. core是个可数名词, 在此具体指一个。 which an This is surrounded by the mantle which is made up of rock which is so hot 3 ____ it is melted. The outermost and 4 _____ (cool)layer of the earth is the crust. The earth’s crust is very thin. 3. so ...that结构, that引导结果状语从句。 4. 从outermost和and可知，此处用最高级。 that coolest 5 __is made up of about 20 pieces of rock, 6 _______(call)tectonic plates, that fit together like a ball-shaped jigsaw. These tectonic plates can contain 7 _____land and ocean. They float very 8______ (slow) about the earth, bumping into each other and overlapping or drifting apart. 5. it在此作人称代词，指代crust。 6. 过去分词短语作状语,表示“叫作……”常用called。 7. 不定代词，表示两个用both。 8. 修饰动词用副词。 called It both slowly At the places where plates meet there is a lot of geological activity and this is where most earthquakes and volcanoes occur. In places where the earth’s crust is cracked, melted rock (called magma) can leak into the earth’s crust. Magma mixed with hot gases builds up under the surface and 9 _____the pressure becomes very great, the magma forces a hole in the earth’s crust. 9. 引导时间状语从句。 when Then melted rockgas, dust and ash escape. Sometimes volcanoes erupt violently, 10 ______ (push)magma high into the air, but others are gentler, and magma leaks slowly onto the surface, gradually building up into mountains of volcanic rock. 10.表伴随动作。 pushing core n. 核心 mantle n. 地幔 outermost adj. 最外面的 crust n. 外壳 tectonic plate n. 地壳构造板块 jigsaw n. 拼图玩具 magma n. 岩浆 overlap vt. vi. 重叠 [助读词汇] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *