冀教版英語(yǔ)必修3 Unit6《Geography》課堂練習(xí)

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111 Unit6 Geography 課堂練習(xí) Read the following passage and then discuss why the temperature is so different in Sydney and in Europe and in USA. While European and North American trudge to work in the cold and dark,Sydney-siders are partying as the city celebrates its sub-tropical summer with a major festival. The long evenings,warm weather and a harbor-side backdrop,made a near perfect setting for the city’s out door events over January and February through the Sydney Festival. “It is kind of like a part from just before Christmas to the end of February,”said Leo Schofield,director of the Sydney Festival. “There is this feeling of ease about the city during the month of January,which I guess parallels August in France or Italy,”Schofield told reporters. Now let’s discuss the following questions: 1.Do you know how many billion people are living on earth now? 2.How do we protect our earth in order to live better? 3.Do you know why Sydney-siders are partying as the city celebrates its sub-tropical summer with a major festival while European and North American trudge to work in the cold and dark? (2) Two items of news from the modern world: Big garden built China will spend nearly RMB 1.4 billion yuan over 10 years to build the world’s largest Qinling Botanical Garden（秦嶺植物園）.The garden will cover an area of 458 square kilometers,four times larger than the present largest in Australia. The program started in Xi’an,Shannxi Province,one and a half years ago and the first part of the projects will be finished by 2005. Kids game? “Rock,Paper,Scissors” is usually a kids’ game,but some adults still take it seriously.Pete Lovering of the US won the World Rock Paper Scissors Society’s first open international championship last Monday in Toronto,Canada. He was one of the more than 250 grown-ups who took part in the competition over the weekend.Lovering,who works for a website,won US $1 200 in prize money,a video game system and a gold medal.The 36-year-old said the secret to winning was keeping a clear mind and judging each player separately. 111