Lesson 46Would You Like to Be a Biologist?Fill in the blanks with proper prepositions or adverbs:1. _ the newspaper this morning, Danny read _ a Canadian astronaut named Jack Hall.2. Perhaps Jack Hall could give Danny some advice _ becoming an astronaut!3. Danny finds the number _ the telephone book.4. May I speak _ Mr. Jack Hall?5. Im _ Grade Nine and I want to be an astronaut when I grow _.6. I hope to have a meeting _ you, if youre not too busy.7. Ill be free then. Ill meet you _ your house _ 7:30.In aboutaboutintoin upwithat atFill in each blank with the proper word from the brackets: 1. I _(dial) the number on the piece of paper, but nobody replied. 2. Though we are in different _(city), we are good friends. 3. My friend was busy _(do) some cleaning when I called her just now. 4. Tom is a _(Canada) boy. His family moved to China when he was three. 5. Do you know the boy _(name) David? He is one of my best _(friend). 6. Its very kind of you. You often help my _(learn) English. 7. Our English gives us some _(advice) about English learning. 8. I hope you _ (fly) to the moon one day. 9. His family all _(like) playing basketballdialeddoingCanadiannamedfriendscities(to) learnadvicewill fly like汉译英： 1. 除了星期三我都有空。I _ _ except Wednesday. 2. 我的手表和Jim的一样。My watch is _ _ _ Jims. 1. 3. 他和我的朋友住在同一个城市。 2. He lives in _ _ city _ my friend. 3. 4. 也许你能给我一些当作家的建议。 4. _ you can _ me some _ about becoming a writer. 5. 5. 我们将今天晚上7点在你家会合。 6. Well _ you _ your house at 7:00. 7. 6. 她现在太忙了。但下周有空。She is too _ now. But she _ _ _ next week.am freethe same asthe same as Maybe/Perhapsgivemeetadviceatbusywill be freeA task: Danny is going to interview Jack Hall. What will he ask? What will Mr. Hall say? With a partner, act out the interview between Danny and Jack Hall.Think about it!1. Are you interested in nature? Why or why not? 2. What do you think is the most fascinating thing in nature?3. When you grow up, would you like to be a biologist?1. Why or why not?monarch butterflyTalk about the picture! 1. What can you see in the picture? 2. What do you think of them?Read carefully and answer the questions:1. Who is Dr. Chip Taylor? What do you know about him?2. What makes Dr. Taylors job important and interesting?3. What are the fascinating facts about the butterfly?4. What worries him a lot?5. How are things now?6. What is puzzling as well as interesting for many scientists?Language notes: 1. He is studying a kind of North American butterfly that travels south up to four thousand kilometers, just as many birds migrate in the fall.travel south “向南迁徙” south adv. “向南”= travel to the south south n. “南方”He came to China in 1949, up to that time he had lived in London.Can you count up to 1000?A tortoise can live up to 100 years old.up to + 表示时间或距离等名词 “达到”migrate v. immigrant n.in the fall = in the autumnLanguage notes: 2. Fascinating facts about the butterfly have been drawing Dr. Taylors attention.draw/call ones attention “引起某人的注意”pay attention to “注意,重视, 倾听”The fact draws everyones attention.What he did today drew my attention.You must pay attention to your lessons in class. 3. In Mexico, the butterflies always return to the same small piece of forest, only twenty kilometres wide. Here, as many as 230 million butterflies spend the winter.计量的表示方法:数词 + metres/kilometres + long/wide/deep/high/heavy Our classroom is about 6 metres wide.The bridge is about 500 metres long.The river is about 10 metres deep.Language notes:as many as “多达 ”There are as many as 7,000 students in our school. 4. They cover some trees almost completely.complete adj. completely adv.我们必须今天彻底完成这项工作。We must finish the work completely today.5. The butterflies that return south are the great-great grandchildren of the butterflies that left for the north.leave () for “离开（) 前往” They left for Shanghai yesterday.My father is leaving Beijing for Shanghai tomorrow.Language notes: 6. When they began to travel north in spring, the females lay eggs. They lay eggs on only one plants: milkweed.lie lay lain lying “躺,平躺; 位于”lay laid laid laying “产卵; 放置” lay eggslie lied lied lying “撒谎”7. But in Mexico, people cut down the trees because they need more land for farms.cut down “砍倒, 消减 ”这些树很好,请不要砍倒它们。The trees are very good. Please dont cut them down. 8. In the United States and Canada, farmers use chemicals that kill milkweed.female maleLanguage notes: 9. This worries Dr Taylor a lot.a lot 可以作名词用，在句中作宾语。作副词，单独使用(相当于very much)或修饰动词或比较级We have a lot to do.He likes apples