Reading and Vocabulary

Questions: 1,Which fantasy story writer did you know about yesterday? Philip Pullman.

2.Make a list of his masterpieces, please. His Dark Materials: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass

3.What topics are often mentioned in his fantasy stories?

Witches, talking bears, and other strange creatures.

The Cat That Vanished

The Cat That Vanished

The cat comes up to Will. The cat comes up to Will.

The cat behaves in a strange way .The cat behaves in a strange way .

Will climbs through the hole.Will climbs through the hole.

Will decides not to return to his world.Will decides not to return to his world.

The cat vanishes.The cat vanishes.

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Match the words from the passage with their meanings.

1.to do things in a particular way2. someone who shows you which direction to go in3. to jump high into the air or over something4.to wait before you do or say something because you are not sure5 a nice smell 6. without any doubt7. a small tree8.to suddenly disappear

behavebushdefinitelyguidehesitateleapscentvanish

1. The cat vanishes through___________. (a) something Will can’t se (b) an empty patch of glass (c) some bushes 2.Will blinks because __________. (a) he can’t see clearly (b) his eyes hurt (c) he can’t believe what he saw 3. It is____________. (a) easy to see the patch in the air from some positions (b) impossible to see the patch (c) difficult to see the patch 4. Will looks through the hole in the air________. (a) because he is frightened (b) because he knows there is a different world on the other side (c ) because it is alien 5.Will does not go back to his world because__________. (a) life is difficult in his world (b) he wants to learn about this new world (c) it is difficult to see the old world

Read the passage again and answer the questions :

Watch the pictures carefully . First ,try to describe them with the help of the book . Then, say some brief Sentences with the clues below the pictures ,with the books closed.

Stupefied with exhaustion

paddad out of a garden where…standing

Put down…hold out his hand

Rub her head against his Knuckles,

stood trying to clear his head…,he saw…

as every cat behaved

tears scalded his eyes

a longing to turn for home

reach out a paw to pat sth. in the air

leap backwards

back arched and fur on end, tail held out stiffly

vanished

Eventually, turn away patrol,padded across…curiously

Something quite invisible to Will

After a few seconds of…overcame wariness

Will blinked, and stood still.

close to…,as a truck came round swept its lights over..

keep an eye on the spot

a patch square in shape

something profoundly alien scramble through

himself

Where…investigating. Nothing to fix on…cast about to look closely

It looked as if..

entice him to stoop and look further, what…make one’s head swim, heart thump harder through a hole in the fabric of…

He found himself standing under a row of trees.

hornbeam trees ,tall palms

the center of a broad boulevard with a line of cafes and small shops

be laden with the scent of flowers

houses with gardens & a parkland

all lit, open, utterly silent, empty, beneath…,thick with…

The hot nightwith groves of treesand the white gleam of a classical temple

Whatever this new world was, it had to be better than what he had just left.

Behind him was…,bent to look through, saw the road…turned away with a shudder

dreaming but awake at the same time, look around for…

Summary of the Passage

The passage is about ____and ____. The cat acts

as __________ and goes to ____________ through ________ in the air. Will follows her and decides not to _____________

Will a cat

Will’s guide another world

the patch

return to his world

Translation practice:

1 ）因疲劳而昏昏沉沉

2 ）理清思路3 ）悄悄走出……4 ）放下5) 磨蹭……6) 渴望做某事7 ）他热泪盈眶8 ）转身离开9 ）灌木丛10 ）伸出11 ）对于某人来说是看不见的12 ）向后跳13 ）竖立，连续不断14 ）靠近15 ）注视17 ）横扫，扫过18 ）想办法做某事19 ）距离……的边20 ）从后边

21 ）没有丝毫的怀疑

22 ）使某人眩晕 23 ）诱使某人做……23 ）布满……24 ）充溢着……

24 ）空洞

25 ）颤抖地

be stupefied with exhaustionclear one’s head

pad out of

put downrub against…

feel a longing to do sth.Tears scalded his eyes.

turn awaythe bushes

hold out

(be) invisible to sb.leap back

on endclose to

keep an eye onSweep(…) over

cast about to do…from the edge of

from behind

without the slightest doubt (that…)

make one’s head. swim

entice sb. to do..

be thick with…be laden with…

the bare patch

With a shudder

Retell the story : Bill was stupefied with __________.He stood trying to ________________when suddenly he saw a cat. The cat __________out of a garden __________Will was standing. Will __________his shopping bag and ____________his head. The cat came up to ___________her head against his knuckles _________every cat behaved. But all the same, Will felt such _____________________to turn for his home that tears __________his eyes. Eventually this cat turned __________. This was night. Perhaps the cat would_________her territory. She _________across the road towards the bushes. She behaved__________. She ___________________ a paw to ________something in the air, something quite __________to Will. The cat __________ backwards, back_________, fur __________ and tail__________ stiffly. Again the cat leapt backwards. After a few seconds of sniffing, touching, whisker-twitching, curiosity finally overcame wariness. The cat stepped forward and __________ . Will __________and stood still, _______________the trunk s the nearest tree, Meanwhile, a truck came around and swept its lights _____him. He crossed the road and ___________________ on the spot __________the cat had been investigating. There was nothing to fix on. But he cast about to look ___. At last, he saw it. It looked ass if someone had cut a patch square_________. He felt he was looking at something ___________. I t enticed him to stoop look further. What he saw made his head ____ and his heart _______ harder. He ________ through himself, through a hole in the fabric of this real into another.

exhaustion clear his head

padded whereput down held out

rub as

a longingscalded

awaypatrol padded

curiously reached out patinvisible

leapt arched on end

held out

vanishedblinked close to

over

kept an eye whereclosely

in shapeprofoundly alien

swim thump scrambled

Quite amazed , he found himself standing under a row of trees, _____ were not hornbeam trees but tall palms. Looking carefully, he found this was the center of a broad ________ with a line of cafes and small shops ,all ____ lit, all ______silent and empty beneath a sky was which ________with stars. The hot night was _______with the scent of flowers. On the slopes at the foot of the hills were houses with gardens and a parkland with _______of trees and the white gleam of a classical temple. Behind him was _________________ in the air. He bent to look through and saw the road in Oxford in his real world. He turned away with a________. _________ this new world was ,it had to be better than what he had just left. He was dreaming but awake ,___________ the vanished cat.

which

boulevard brightly utterly

thickladen

grovesthe bare patch

shudderWhatever

looking around for