上海牛津初中英语八年级下--CHAPTER 6 READING Wa

CHAPTER SIX  READING   Water talk
[00:06.58]Daisy was in the bathroom of her flat.
[00:11.44]She was brushing her teeth and the tap was on.
[00:17.32]Water was pouring into the sink and vanishing¹ down the drain².
[00:24.69]"Turn that tap off,'a voice said loudly. Daisy froze.
[00:33.04]She looked round,but saw no one.'Turn that tap off.You're wasting water,'
[00:43.70]the voice sounded impatient³.
[00:47.83]This time Daisy obeyed.'Who ... who are you?'
[00:55.56]Daisy's voice was faint.'I'm water.
[01:02.33]It's not easy for me to get here.Do you know where I'm from?'
[01:10.37]'From the tap,I suppose,'said Daisy.
[01:16.23]'Yes,yes,but before that?'the voice said.'
[01:23.17]24 days ago,I was floating comfortably in a cloud in Jiangxi,enjoying the view.
[01:33.34]Then the cloud dropped me into a stream
[01:40.18]and I sped down the mountain into the Yangtze River
[01:47.62]You know where that is I hope.'Daisy nodded.
[01:54.26]'Well,the Yangtze River carried me to a reservoir⁵.
[02:01.50]I relaxed there for a few days,
[02:07.24]and then I travelled a long way and ran into the Huangpu River.
[02:16.20]Then it was time to get cleaned up.''Cleaned up?'Daisy sounded puzzled.'Yes.
[02:29.16]I was dirty after my journey so they took me to a water treatment works⁶.
[02:39.01]They gave me a thorough⁷ cleaning and added a few chemicals to me.
[02:46.16]Then I travelled in the pipes under the streets.
[02:52.62]I waited there until you called me,and here I am.'Daisy said,
[03:01.58]'So this is the end of your journey.'
[03:05.34]'No.When you've finished with me,I'll go to a sewage plant.
[03:13.59]Then they'll pump me into the riverand I'll be back in the sea again.'
[03:21.14]'Again?'Yes.That's where I came from in the first place.
[03:29.19]Remember not to waste me or pollute me.
[03:35.54]I'm precious,like liquid gold.See you.'
[03:43.71]'Wait a minute.What do you mean by liquid gold?'But there was no reply.
[03:51.86]The water had gone. Daisy came out of the bathroom.
[03:59.44]Her brother said,'I thought I heard voices in there.
[04:06.00]Who were you talking to?' 'To the water,'Daisy said.
[04:13.44]'I was talking to the water' Benny shook his head.'
[04:20.21]Sometimes you're weird⁸, Daisy,'he said, 'really weird.'
[04:27.68]Listening Picture sequencing⁹ Listen to the coin's story.
[04:38.83]The pictures below are not in the right order.
[04:44.60]Write the numbers 1-8 to show the right order.
[07:03.26]SPEAKING             A Talk time          [][e]
[07:17.03]A1 a pan             a pat⁴                a tan                a man
[07:34.87]2 a pen              a pet                a ten                men
[07:49.63]3 pan                pen                  pat                  pet
[08:05.20]tan                  ten                  man                  men
[08:16.95]A2 Ten men with tans,Ben with a fan,A man with a pet,Jack with a net
[08:35.32]A3 C:Do you sell pens?
[08:42.97]A:We sell pens,pans,nets, caps, pets, bags, ...
[08:55.54]C:Give me ten pens,please.How much is that?
[09:01.00]A:Seventy-three dollars.  C:Here's a hundred.
[09:07.37]A:And here's twentyseven dollars change.
[09:12.72]A4 'No eggs again!'said Ben. 'Some eggs,please, my pet hen!'
[09:27.17]The hen,whose name was Pat,Replied,'I want a hat.
[09:36.42]'Ben found a hat inside his flat.He said,'Pat, here's a hat.'
[09:45.87]'Get me a nest,Ben,'said the hen.'I need a nest to do my best.'
[09:55.12]Then in a chest,Ben found a nest,And Pat sat on it,for a test.
[10:04.87]'You have a hat and a nest for your legs,But where,'said Ben,'are all my eggs!'
[10:15.21]'Ben,you are kind,'said Pat,and then She laid the eggs,from one to ten!
[10:26.99]MORE PRACTICE
[10:32.24]B The oceans cover 2/3 of the Earth,but ocean water is salty.
[10:43.29]That is to say,most of the water in the world is not drinkable!
[10:50.84]90% of all the water on Earth
[10:56.01]that human beings can drink right now is underground.
[11:02.07]It is very easy to pollute groundwater
[11:07.64]For example,4.5 litres of paint
[11:14.12]or about 1 litre of motor oil can seep¹⁰ into the earth
[11:22.06]and pollute 1,125,000 litres of drinking water!
[11:31.72]A leak that fills up a coffee cup in 10 minutes
[11:38.49]will waste over 13,500 litres of water in a year.
[11:47.13]How much water is that?
[11:50.97]You would have to drink 65 glasses of water every day
[11:58.34]for a year to get that much water! If you leave the water running
[12:07.20]while you brush your teeth,you can waste 22.5 litres of water.
[12:15.24]That is enough to fill 65 cans of soft drink!
[12:22.19]If you leave the water running while you wash the dishes,
[12:28.12]you can waste 135 litres of water—enough to wash a whole car!
[12:37.26]Believe it or not,the water we flush¹¹ down our toilets starts as fresh water!
[12:46.41]Each time you flush,your toilet uses about 22.5 to 31.5 litres of water.
[12:58.06]But it does not have to!A shower usually takes at least 5 minutes.
[13:07.51]So every day,you could use 112.5 litres of water taking one shower.
[13:18.85]In a year,that is almost 45,000 litres for your showers!
[13:27.18]Taking a bath uses even more water than showers — about twice as much.
[13:36.46]A bath can easily use 225 litres of water.
 

1 vanishing   

消失，消没，等于零

参考例句：

• Many of the ranchers themselves see all this tourism as a cheeky attempt to commercialise a real and vanishing culture. 在很多农场主看来，这种旅游完全是一种厚颜无耻的行径，它试图让一个行将消失的、真正意义上的文化成为商品。
• His vanishing sum suggested that he would need sustenance. 他那逐渐消失的钱提醒他，需要找点生计了。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

2 drain   

n.排水沟，阴沟；消耗，负担；v.排去，放干

参考例句：

• Drain off the rest of the wine from this barrel.把桶里剩余的酒排出去。
• First,you have to drain the container of all the old oil.首先，你得从油箱中把所有的陈油都抽去。

3 impatient   

adj.不耐烦的，急躁的；热切的，急切的

参考例句：

• He was so impatient that I could hardly hold him back.他是那样急躁，我简直拉不住他。
• With an impatient gesture he thrust the food away from him.他不耐烦地把吃的东西猛地推开。

4 pat   

n.轻拍，拍打声；vt.轻拍，拍打；vi.轻跑，轻击；adv.适时，彻底；adj.油腔滑调的，恰好的，合适的

参考例句：

• Could you hear the pat?你能听到轻轻的拍击声吗？
• He gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder. 他轻拍了一下她的肩膀让她放心。

5 reservoir   

n.水库，蓄水池；(人才等的)储藏，汇集

参考例句：

• The town is supplied with water from a reservoir.该城镇由小山中的一座水库供水。
• A large quantity of water is stored in the reservoir.水库存了大量的水。

6 works   

n.作品，著作；工厂，活动部件，机件

参考例句：

• We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
• The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。

7 thorough   

adj. 彻底的，完全的，精心的

参考例句：

• He made a very thorough analysis on the situation.他对形势的分析很透彻。
• The committee reported its findings after a thorough investigation.委员会在彻底调查以后报告了调查结果。

8 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

9 sequencing   

n.先后顺序；定序

参考例句：

• Both groups had announced last June that they completed human genome sequencing. 这两个研究小组去年6月共同宣布了他们完成人类基因组测序工作。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 生物技术的世纪
• And climbing it requires the development of a lot more technological hicks than did sequencing DNA. 爬这座山需要发展出比测序DNA多得多的技术手段。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 回顾与展望

10 seep   

v.渗出，渗漏；n.渗漏，小泉，水（油）坑

参考例句：

• My anger began to seep away.我的怒火开始消下去了。
• If meteoric water does not evaporate or run overland,it may seep directly into the ground.如果雨水不从陆地蒸发和流走的话，就可能直接渗入地下。

11 flush   

vi.奔流；vt.冲洗；adj.齐平的；n.脸色，脸红

参考例句：

• Father asked me to flush off the garage floor.父亲叫我冲洗车库的地板。
• There was a flush in her cheeks.她满脸通红。