教學內容：Fact and fantasy

4. how fast does a balloon travel? how about an airplane? how about a space shuttle?
一只氣球能走多快？一架飛機呢？還有一架航天飛機呢？
(1)ballon [b ′lu n] ①n. brightly-coloured rubber bag that is filled with air, used as a child’s toy or a decoration（用作玩具或裝飾品的）氣球 eg:
they bought their son a lot of balloons yesterday.
昨天他們給他們的兒子買了很多氣球。
②v. swell out like a balloon 如氣球一般膨脹 eg:
her skirt ballooned in the wind. 她的裙子讓風吹得鼓起來了。
③go ballooning 乘氣球 eg:
they like to go ballooning at weekends. 他們周末喜歡乘氣球玩。
(2)how/what about …？……怎么樣？常常用來打聽消息或提出建議，征求對方意見，后接名詞，代詞或動名詞。 eg:
how about your mother? does she feel better today?
你媽媽怎么樣聽？她今天覺得好點兒了嗎？
(3)space shuttle—spacecraft designed for repeated use, eg between earth and a space station or the moon 航天飛機；太空穿梭機 eg:
i have never seen a space shuttle. 我從未看見過航天飛機。

三、課前準備針對性練習（18分，15分鐘）
（一）漢譯英（每小題2分，共10分）
1.她能講很多種語言，例如英語，法語，漢語和日語。
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2.他比你跑得還慢嗎？（any）
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3.我們看到了遠處的燈光。
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4.咱們到法國去度假好嗎？
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5.我喜歡乘氣球勝過做其他的事。
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（二）閱讀理解（每小題2分，共8分）
in 1901, h.g. wells, an english writer, wrote a book describing a trip to the moon. when the explorers (探險者) landed on the moon, they discovered that the moon was full of underground cities. they expressed their surprise to the “moon people”they met. in turn, the “moon people”expressed their surprise. “why,”they asked, “are you traveling to outer space when you don’t even use your inner space?”
h.g. wells could only imagine traveling to the moon. in 1969, human beings really did land on the moon. people today know that there are no underground cities on the moon. however, the question that the“moon people” asked is still an interesting one. a growing number of scientists are seriously thinking about it.
underground systems are already in place. many cities have underground car parks. in some cities, such as tokyo, seoul and montreal, there are large underground shopping areas. the “chunnel”, a tunnel（隧道） connecting england and france, is now completed.
but what about underground cities? japan’s taisei corporation is designing a network of underground systems, called “alice cities”. the designers imagine using surface space for public parks and using underground space for flats, offices, shopping and so on. a solar dome（太陽能穹頂） would cover the whole city.