Unit 1 Names Period One Getting Ready & Reading (Ⅰ) 基础落实 Ⅰ.课文理解 1．Which of the following things of a person doesn’t often change? A．Hair. B．Beard. C．Clothes. D．Name. 2．Tom may be a _____. A．last name B．first name C．family name D．surname 3．Girls’ names don’t mean _____. A．lucky B．pretty C．happy D．loving 4．It became harder and harder to tell people apart because _____. A．people had no first names B．people had last names C．there got to be more and more people in the world D．people were not clever enough 5．Which of the following statements is not correct? A．Tom Kingcook may be a cook for a king. B．Blacksmith may work with silver. C．Jackson may be the son of Jack. D．James Hill might live on a hill. Ⅱ.课文缩写 What’s in a Name? People are always changing，while people’s names 1._____ the same.A name sometimes says something 2._____ about the one whose name it is.Girls’ names often 3._____ words meaning “pretty”，“happy”，“loving”．Boys’ names are often borrowed from words meaning “strong”，“brave”，“lucky”．However，without a last name to 4._____ a first name，it’s difficult to tell who’s who.In the past people had only one name. 5._____ more and more people in the world，it became harder to tell them apart.So people began 6._____ last names for themselves.Sometimes a man would choose a last name 7._____ the kind of work he did.Sometimes a man 8._____ his last name from his father’s first name，and often a man got his last name from the place 9._____ he lived.Sometimes 10._____ become last names.For example，a man with red hair might be called Tom Red. 能力提升 阅读理解 A Dates and names are the sticks and stones over which the currents(水流) of history flow.But trying to remember all those important facts can be difficult and boring. Reading and memorizing facts might not be much fun.But if you knew that it could help you get a job as a tourist guide，you might think differently.Now students at a high school in Sidon，an ancient city in Lebanon(黎巴嫩) in the Middle East，are doing just that. The Sidon-based，Al-Iman high school has begun training students as tourist guides at the city’s historical and religious sites.As a part of the training，on December 26，a group of students were taken for a visit to the city’s Sea Castle.They listened to explanations about the fortress’(堡垒) history，including its origin，the way it was built and the wars it has seen. “It is good for me to learn about history on the spot.We have learnt much more than we could by just reading the history textbooks，” said one of the students，Hussam Rawas.“I am really proud of being able to explain things to foreign tourists.” Up to 250 students have been selected to take a year’s special training course by a professional teacher.After that，some of the students may have the chance to become professional tourist guides. The principal of the school，Kamel Kazbar，said he came up with the idea after he was surpri ... ...
