1、Unit 5 The power of nature请根据下列任务预习课文，并在课堂上按照老师的引导检查各项任务的完成情况。Task I. Skimming Read the text (P34 - P35) quickly and fill in the blanks.The text is a first-person account of a volcanologists job. The author talks about the _ of his work, the damage of the volcanic eruption and his first experience o
2、f it.Task II. Careful readingI. Read the text (P34 - P35) carefully and fill in the blanks.The authors job Travel to 1. _ places and work with people from all over the world. Help protect ordinary people from the 2. _. Collect and 3. _ the information about Mount Kilauea. Help other scientists to 4.
3、 _ where lava from the volcano will 5. _ next and how fast.The damage of the volcanic eruption When boiling rock erupts from a volcano and crashes back to earth, it causes 6. _ damage than we might imagine, because no one lives near the top of Mount Kilauea. The lava that flows down the mountain cau
4、ses much more damage because it buries everything in its 7. _ under the molten rock.The authors first experience of the volcanic eruptionThe day of the eruption His bed began 8. _. He heard a strange sound. His bedroom became as bright as day. He saw red hot lava was 9. _ hundreds of metres into the
5、 air.The day after the eruption Two other scientists and the author slowly made their way to the edge of the 10. _ with special clothes. The other two climbed down into it to collect some 11. _ for later study.II. True (T) or False (F):1. The author sometimes feels bored because his job is tiring and dangerous.2. It was on the second day after the author arrived in Hawaii that he first witnessed a volcanic eruption.答案TaskI.importance Task II.I.1. unusual 2. volcano 3. evaluate 4. predict 5. flow 6. less7. path 8. shaking 9. fountaining 10. crater 11. lavaII.1-2 FF3
