Transcript Pre-reading

高中基础 (2267期20150623) 4-5版
To Believe Or Not to Believe
Pre-reading
1.
Where do you usually get food advice?
Pre-reading
2.
Do you follow or ignore food advice from the
Internet? Why?
Pre-reading
Guess whether the following statements are
true or false.
3.
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Berry-flavored yogurts are colored with crushed
insects.
Fruit must be eaten on an empty stomach to
prevent fermentation (发酵) and rot in the gut (胃).
It’s fine to eat food dropped on the floor if you pick
it up within five seconds.
While reading
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Complete the chart with one word for each blank.
Rumor
Rumor 1
Fact
Rumor 2
Fiction
Rumor 3
Fiction
Explanation
crushed and its
Cochineal insects are _____1_____
processed into a dye to be
color is _____2_____
added
_____3_____
to berry-flavored yogurts.
The fact that bacteriahardly/seldom
_____4_____ exist in
the stomach makes fermentation and rot
impossible
almost _____5_____.
Thecontamination
_____6_____ could happen in less than
five seconds as long as bacteria come into
contact with the food.
_____7_____
While reading
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1.
True or false
It is safe to eat berry-flavored yogurts whose pink hue
T
3.
is from crushed insects.
If you have lunch at 11 a.m., your stomach gets
completely empty at 7 p.m.
Dining room floors can be free from various bacteria
4.
once they are washed thoroughly.
All the three rumors mentioned in the article are
2.
F
F
probably from different sources including health
magazines, TV programs and the Internet.
F
Language study
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Match the words with their correct meanings.
1.
extract
2.
rumor
3.
questionable
c. not completely accurate or correct because
presence
you have doubts about it
4.
a. the fact of being in a particular place or thing
b. to remove or obtain a substance from
something
d. the state of touching something
5.
contact
e. a piece of information, or a story, that people
talk about but may not be true
Sentence structure
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Gross as this may seem at first, the dye is safe to
eat.
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本句中as引导让步状语从句，表示“虽然，尽
管”，句子部分倒装。常见的结构为：形容词/名
词/副词/动词 + as + 主语 + 动词。注意：名词若
为可数名词单数，省略前面的冠词a或an。
Sentence structure
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Translate the following sentences.
1.
尽管这条项链很漂亮，最后我们还是决定不买。
Beautiful as the necklace was, we
eventually decided not to buy it.
2.
虽然她是个女孩子，但敢于做许多男生都不愿做
的事。
Girl as she is, she dares to do what many
boys are unwilling to do.
Sentence structure
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Translate the following sentences.
3.
尽管我们努力尝试，还是无法改变他的想法。
Hard as we had tried, we were unable to
make him change his mind.
4.
虽然员工们并不喜欢总经理，但他们不得不承认
他对公司作出了贡献。
Dislike the general manager as the
employees may, they have to admit that
he has made contributions to the company.
After reading
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Find out more food advice on the Internet.
Choose one that interests you most and
explain to your classmates whether the
advice is sensible or not.