牛津9A家庭作业第二周
【拓宽延伸】
一、 阅览了解
The size and shape of your ears show your character more than any other parts of the face. Other parts of the face change shape as we get older, but ears do not change their shape. They only change in size.
Reading people's character from their ears is an old science. In very old times people thought that a person with big ears had a good and generous character. They thought that a person with pale (nearly white), small ears was dangerous. They also thought that the shape of the ear showed whether a person was musical or not. Today, too, many people believe that the size and the shape of the ear help you know if a person is musical.
Ears are all different, and each characteristic has a meaning. Next time when you look at a person, see if his ears are large or small. Look at the lobes (the lowest part of the ear). Are they attached (连着) to the face? Ears that are always red mean a person may easily get angry, or he / she just has high blood pressure (高血压). Ears that are always cold and pale mean a person has a nervous character. And a big inside hole of the ear means a person is musical.
( )1.In the old times people might ask for help from a person with _____.
A. red ears B. big ears C. small ears D. pale ears
( )2. From the passage, we know _____ change shape as we get older.
A. ears B. hair C. eyes D. teeth
( )3. We can guess Beethoven may have _____.
A. pale ears B. white ears C. small ears D. ears with a big inside hole
二、使命型阅览
Alexandra Nechita was born on August 27, 1985. Her star sign is Virgo.
Alexandra Nechita was ten when her paintings became famous all over the world. She visited Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and her family’s native place (本籍) Romania where 5,000 fans came to see her at the airport.
Alexandra is practical and organized. She is a good student. Her studies always come first. She only starts painting after she’s done her homework. She works on two or three paintings at a time. The paintings sell for thousands and Alexandra’s parents have given up their jobs to work for their daughter. Life for the Nechita family is very different from what it was like a few years ago.
Alexandra’s father Nike left Romania for political (政治的) reasons in 1985. At first he tried his best to learn English and had different kinds of low-paid jobs. In 1987, he brought his wife and Alexandra, who was then 18 months old, to America. The family was very poor. Alexandra began to draw at the age of three.
She was drawing for four or five hours a day. Soon people liked to buy her paintings and she had her first art show at the age of eight. Stories about this child appeared in the newspapers and on television. The family now live in a large house with a swimming pool. And she spends lots of time on her hobbies — travelling and painting. Her mother said, “We started without anything, but thanks to Alexandra, we have everything we ever dreamed of.”
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August 27, 1985 |
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Star sign |
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Hobbies |
_____3________ and painting |
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Her life____6____ |
Her father_______5________ his hometown in 1985. She was brought to America by her father in 1987. They lived a_____7_____life then. She began drawing at the age of_______8_________. Her first art ______9______ was held in 1993 and soon she became famous. Their life has _____10____ greatly because of her paintings. |
