人教修订版 高中一年级 ( 上 ) Unit 10

Extensive reading & writing(2)

Revision

Extensive Reading on P142 Malayan sun bear. It is black and lives mainly in forests. Some of the medicine made from the bears is worth more than gold!

Rhino. It is a strong one with horns on its head.

Discuss 1. Why are the Malayan sun bear and the black rhino endangered? The Malayan sun bear is endangered because people destroy its habitat and hunt the bear for food and medicine. Some people also keep

the bear as pets. The black rhino is endangered because hunters have killed so many of them. 2. Do you think that building zoos is a good way to protect animals? Why or why not? What are the advantages and disadvantages of zoos?

Animals in the zoo don’t need to worry about the food, and they will feel very safe. On the other hand, zoos are too small for animals to run freely. Similarly, animals may feel lonely without friends playing with them.

3. Can you think of any endangered animals in China? What should we do to protect them? Various answers are possible. For example, golden-haired monkey, red falcon, crocodiles and the Tibetan antelopes and so on. We should understand that the mankind is a

part of the nature, protecting the animals and plants, safeguarding the ecological balance is just protecting human himself. So we should influence the persons around with our own practical action, struggle with the behavior of hunting the animals.

Writing Suppose you are an endangered animal, and you want to ask help from humans, what do you want to say?

Suppose I am a northeastern tiger. Farmers have cut down so many trees, and I can no longer hide and hunt. People who want to sell our fur and use our bones for medicine kill many of my friends. What a miserable life we are living now! Help me, help my family, and help my friends! Sample writing 1

I am a giant panda, and I am a national treasure of China. Once people from all parts of the world cared me about. But along with the development of human civilization, my home has been destroyed, I have to seclusion in high Sample writing 2

mountain and deep valley. I often have disease now, and resist ability to drop day by day. The friend at my side reduces, and I am very lonely. I call upon the mankind: Return the living space to me! Return my home! Let’s live under the same sky!