广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册Unit6 More practice

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

英美著名作家及其代表作★ Daniel Defoe, British writer; his most famous work: Robinson Crusoe 丹尼尔· 笛福，英国作家；代表作：《鲁宾逊 漂流记》 ★ Jonathan Swift, British writer; his most famous work: Gulliver’s Travels 乔纳森· 斯威夫特，英国作家；代表作：《格 列佛游记》

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

★ Robert Louis Stevenson, British writer; his most famous work: Treasure Island

罗伯特· 路易斯· 斯蒂文森，英国作家；代表作： 《金银岛》 ★ Charles Dickens, British writer; his most famous work: Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities查尔斯· 狄更斯，英国作家； 代表作：《雾都孤儿》,《双城记》

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

★ Ernest Miller Hemingway, American writer; his most famous work: The Old Man and the Sea 欧内斯特· 米勒尔· 海明威，美国作家；代表作： 《老人与海》 ★ O· Henry (pen-name); William Sydney Porter(real name), American writer; his most famous work: The Last Leaf 欧· 亨利(笔名),威廉· 西德尼· 波特(真名),美 国作家；代表作：《最后的常春藤叶》

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

★ J. D. Salinger, American writer, his most famous work: The Catcher In The Rye 杰罗姆· 大卫· 塞林格，美国作家；代表作： 《麦田里的守望者》

★ Jack London, American writer, his most famous work: The Call of the Wild 杰克· 伦敦，美国作家；代表作：《野性的呼 唤》

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

Mark Twain你喜欢看《汤姆索亚历险记》吗？你知道他的作 者Mark Twain还有什么著名的作品吗？看看下面 的文章会让你更加了解他哦！ Samuel Clemens (November 30, 1835–April 21, 1910), better known by the pen–name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Twain was famous for his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (《哈克贝利· 费恩历险记》).

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

It has been called the Great American Novel. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is also very popular. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, businessmen and European royalty(王族). Twain was very humorous. Millions of people liked him and his works. American author William Faulkner called Twain “the father of American literature.”

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

True(T) or False(F).

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T ( F ) 2. Mark Twain was good at writingscience fiction stories.

) 1. Mark Twain wasn’t his real name.

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

1. have one’s own way有自己的一套；随心所欲 2. here and there 在各处，到处 3. hurry (sb) away 使(某人)迅速离开

4. shout out大声喊出

5. wake up醒来

6. find out查出，弄明白

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

根据上下文意思用以上短语完成下面小短文，注 意动词的适当形式。 Though Mr Wang is very young, he (1)_______________ of teaching. When his has his own way students have some problems in their studies, he often teaches them how to (2) find out _________ the answers themselves. Students like him very much.

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

Yesterday Mr Wang had a dream. He waswalking (3) _______________. He saw some here and there boys playing football

in the street. So he (4) _________ them (5) _________. But he didn’t hurried away notice a truck coming towards him and he was seriously hurt in the accident. He (6) shouted out woke up ____________ “Help” and (7) __________. He sat up and found it was only a dream.

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

A 1 What was Mark Twain’s family name? a. Clements. b. Twain. 2 What was Mark Twain’s childhood dream? a To become a writer. b To become a steamboat pilot.

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

3

Why did the old man throw a piece of rope into the river? a. Because it was too heavy. b. He used it to find out how deep the water was. 4 What did the old man mean by shouting out “Mark Twain”? a He meant the water was two marks, about four metres deep. b He was calling out the boy’s name.

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

5 Why did Samuel Clements pick Mark Twain as his pen-name? a. In memory of the old man and the steamboat traditions of the Mississippi River.

b. In memory of his father.

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

B11. How did earlier visitors to the cave write their names on the walls? They used torch smoke to write their names on the walls. 2. What did Tom and Becky do when they found a part of the cave with no writing on the wall? They used torch smoke to write their own names on the wall.

广州(上海)牛津英语八年级下册

B13. Why did the wall look like a frozen waterfall? It was shaped by the stream over the years.

4. Where did Tom find an opening in the rock?He found it behind the stone waterfall.