Summary writing 摘要写作
In not more than 80 words describe how experts came to the conclusion that the animal seen by many people really was a puma. Do not include anything that is not in the passage.巴士英语www.xiao84.com
Answer these questions in note form to get your points:
1 What sort of reports were received by London Zoo?
2 Were the reports similar in nature or not?
3 Who saw it first?
4 Did it stay in one place,or did it move from place to place?
5 What did it leave behind it?
6 Were paw prints and puma fur found as well or not?
7 What was heard at night?
8 Was the animal seen up a tree or not?
9 Were experts now sure that the animal really was a puma or not?
Vocabulary词汇
Give another word or phrase to replace the following words as they are used in the passage:spotted(1. 2);accumulate(1. 4); obliged to(1. 5); claimed(1. 6); extraordinarily similar(1. 6); immediately(1. 8); convinced(1. 15).
Composition作文
Describe the occasion when the woman picking blackberries saw the puma. Expand the following into a paragraph of about 150 words.
Mrs. Stone had spent the whole morning…It was nearly lunch time, so she decided…She was just…when she heard a noise in…Then she saw an animal which…She knew it was not a cat because… The animal suddenly…and she thought it was going to…She dropped her basket and…Hearing the sound, the animal…after which, Mrs. Stone…and they…(86 words)
Letter writing书信写作
On a full page, show the exact position of each of the following:
The address and date;the beginning of the letter;the Introduction;the Purpose;the Conclusion;the letter-ending;the signature;the postscript. Supply all necessary full stops and commas.
Key structures关键句型
Simple, Compound and Complex Statements. 简单句、并列句和复合句（IKS 73）（参见第2册第73课关键句型）
Exercise练习
Underline all the joining words in the passage. Note carefully how simple statements have been joined to make compound or complex statements.
Special difficulties难点
过去曾有一种传统的规定，认为英文句子不允许以介词结尾。现在，这种所谓的禁忌早以破除。在现代英语中，除正体书面语体外，以介词结尾的句子很多，在口语中更为常见。
Where had it come from? (1. 14)
Instead of saying:
It is better to say:
About whom are you talking?
Who(m)are you talking about?
That is the film about which I told you.
That is the film I told you about.
(Compare ISD 28) （对比第2册第28课难点）
Exercises练习
A Complete these sentences by adding a suitable word to the end of each one:
1 What are you looking ______ ?
2 Where is your mother going ______ ?
3 Whom has the letter been sent ______ ?
4 This is the house I was born ______ .
5 What does your decision depend ______ ?
B Write these sentences again changing the position of the words in italics. Where possible, omit the words whom or which.
1 He is the man about whom we have heard so much.
2 The shelf on which you put those books has collapsed.
3 From whom did you receive a letter?
4 This is the road by which we came.
5 Where is the pencil with which you were playing?
Multiple choice questions 多项选择题
Choose the correct answers to the following questions.
Comprehension 理解
1 Experts eventually decided to investigate ______ .
a．because they did not believe that pumas existed in England
b．because they wanted a puma for the London Zoo
c．when a woman saw a puma in a small village
d．because people's descriptions of the puma had a lot in common
2 What particular piece of evidence persuaded the experts that a puma had been seen in the village?
a．The puma had not attacked the woman.
b．The woman had described the animal she had seen as‘a large cat’.
c．A puma had come very close to a human being.
d．The puma had behaved like a cat.
3 What was the problem the experts were unable to solve?
a．How the puma had managed to cover such great distances within a day.
b．How the puma had escaped from a zoo.
c．Whom the puma had belonged to.
d．How the numa had climbed a tree.
Structure结构
4 The accumulating evidence made the experts ______ the animal was a puma. (lines 4-6)
a．to think
b．thinking
c．think
d．thought
5 People said ______ the puma. (lines 5-6)
a．to have seen
b．to see
c．they saw
d．they had seen
6 ______ , it immediately ran away. (lines 8-9)
a．Observing her
b．On being observed
c．Having been observed
d．On her being observed
7 Pumas never attack a human being except ______ cornered. (line 9)
a．they are
b．being
c．that they are
d．when they are
8 The experts were now fully convinced that the animal ______ a puma. (lines 13-14)
a．must be
b．should have been
c．can only be
d．could only have beenVocabulary词汇
9 The woman saw‘a large cat’ ______ five yards away from her. (lines 7-8)
a．at least
b．four or
c．no more than
d．within
10 A puma will not attack a human being unless it feels itself to be ______ . (line 9)
a．in a corner
b．in a trap
c．at an angle
d．under cover
11 A business man on a fishing trip is probably someone who ______ . (line 13)
a．sells fish
b．fishes for pleasure
c．nets fish
d．earns his living as a fisherman
12 A private collector is a man who collects ______ . (lines 15-16)
a．for his own benefit
b．on his own
c．in private
d．unknown to the public
