Period5ReadingHeusedtocausealotoftroubledeathaffordcausehimselfpatientdecisionnecessaryexactlyattentionwasteintheendmakeadecisionheadteachertoone’ssurpriseeventhoughnolongertakeprideinpayattentiontogiveupnot…anymore死;死亡買得起造成他自己有耐心的決定必須的正;恰恰注意;專心浪費最后做決定班主任另人驚奇的即使不再對…自豪對…注意放棄不再

Alwaysusetheinformationaroundthewordorphraseyoudon’tunderstandtohelpyouguessthemeaning.Usingcontextcanhelpyoulearnnewwordsandphrases.LearningstrategyUsingcontextusedtonowworkalldayandallnightworksfor8hoursadayusedtonowbeaworkerisasingerusedtonowbecoolisstillcoolHeusedto________________________.Nowhe__________________________.Why?___________________________.

MartinMurraybeaproblemchildisoneofthebeststudentsinhisclassHismother’slovehelpedhimtofeelgoodabouthimself.

Missinglanguagea.Howwasheabletochange?b.anddidn’tgiveuptryingtohelphimc.That’swhenIdecidedtochanged.afterhisfather’sdeathafewyearsagoe.EventheteacheragreedthatMartinwaswastinghistimeplaceinreading425313bReadthestatementsbelow.Circle“TRUE”,“FALSE”,or“DON’TKNOW”accordingtothereading.1.Martinisstillabadboy.2.Therewasn’tenoughmoneyforthefamily.3.Martinfinallyunderstandwhathisproblemwas.4.Martin’sfatherdidn’tusetohelphim.5.Whathismothersaiddidn’tchangeMartin’smind.TRUEFALSEDON’TKNOWTRUEFALSEDON’TKNOWTRUEFALSEDON’TKNOWTRUEFALSEDON’TKNOWTRUEFALSEDON’TKNOWHowoldisMartinnow?Whatchangedhislife?Didheusetogivehismothermanyproblems?Whydidhismotherhavetowork?Intheend,whatdecisiondidthemothermake?Whatdidhismothertellhimonthephone?ReadandanswerTranslations.造成很多麻煩一個十五歲的男孩一個問題孩子和他媽媽最近的一次對話他爸爸去世后幾年前變得艱難得多他媽媽支付不了他孩子的學費。causealotoftroubleafifteen-year-oldboyaproblemchildarecentconversationwithhismotherafterhisfather’sdeathafewyearsagoHismothercouldn’taffordtopayforherchild’seducation.

MartinMurrayisafifteen-year-oldboy.Heusedtobea“problemchild”,butarecentconversationwithhismotherchangedhislife.

Hedidn’tusetogivehismothermanyproblems.However,(1)afterhisfather’sdeathafewyearsago,Martin’slifebecamemuchmoredifficult.Hismothercouldn’taffordtopayforherchild’seducation.Todothis,shehadtowork,andso(she)

wasnotoftenathome.deathn.

死;死亡diev.死dead死的affordv.買得起;負擔得起(常與can,could或beableto連用)Heusedtocausealotoftrouble用death的適當形式填空：1.Hisfather’s__________madehimverysad.2.Hehasbeen_______for2years.3.He_______2yearsago.4.Theoldmanis________.Hehassomethingtosaytohissons.5.他太窮了以至于他沒有能力買電腦。deathdeaddieddying

lookafterhimaswellasshecan/couldgetintotroublewiththepolicegiveupdoingintheend/atlast/finallymakeadifficultdecisionsendhimtoaboy’sboardingschool

Hismotherlookedafterhimaswellasshecould.Unfortunately,Martinstillcausedproblemsforhimselfandhisfamily.Hewasnotinterestedinstudying,andheoftengotintotroublewiththepolice.Luckily,hismotherwasverypatient,(2)anddidn’tgiveuptryingtohelphim

In

theend,shemadeadifficultdecision:tosendhimtoaboy’sboardingschool.Martinhateditandusedtocausealotoftrouble.Oneday,hetoldhisteacherhewantedtoleavetheschool.EventheteacheragreedthatMartinwaswastinghistime.cause

v.

造成；使發(fā)生himselfpron.(反身代詞)他自己；他本身patientadj.

有耐性的；忍耐的intheend

最后；終于decisionn.決定；決心

makea

decision

下決定；下決心1.JimsingsbetterthanSally.Sallydoesn’tsing_________________Jim.2.Unluckily,hegotlost.____________,hegotlost.3.Shedecidedtogotocollege.She________________togotocollege.4.Hisfatherhas________(放棄)______(smoke).5.Youhavew_______somuchtime.aswellasUnfortunatelymadeadecisiongivenupsmokingastedawasteoftime浪費時間17.幫我明白她給了我多少

helpmetounderstandhowmuchshehasgivenme15.令某人驚奇的是…16.這正是我所需要的。toone’ssurprise18.即使19、不再20、對……感到自豪21、我做的每一件好事22、使我媽媽更留心我，更注意我eventhoughnolongertakepridein…/beproudofeverythinggoodIdomakemymotherpaymoreattentiontomeItwasexactlywhatIneeded.

Theheadteachersaiditwasnecessarytotalkwithhismother.Martincalledhismother,butto

hissurprise,thisphonecallchangedhislife.“ItwasexactlywhatIneeded,”hesaid.“Mymotherhelpedmetounderstandhowmuchshehadgivenme.Shealsotoldmethateventhoughmyfatherwasnolongerwithus,hewaswatchingme,andwouldalwaystakeprideineverythinggoodIdo.(4)That’swhenIdecidedtochange.Irealizethatsincemyfatherdied,Ihavebeenafraidofbeingalone,andhavetriedtomakemymotherpaymoreattentiontome.”headteacher

班主任necessaryadj.

必須的；必需的toone’ssurprise

令某人驚奇的(是)…exactly

adv.

正；恰恰eventhough

即使；縱然；盡管nolonger

不再；已不takepridein

對…感到自豪attention

n.

注意；專心；留心payattentionto對…注意;留心It’sn___________forustolearnEnglish.Tomys_________,hehaschangedalot.Shedidn’tlivehereanylonger.She________livedhere.4.Hetookp_______inhisdaughter.5._____________(即使)it’sraininghard,we’llgototheparkasusual.ecessaryurprisenolongerrideEventhough/if23、最好的學生之一24、能