1、Watch the trailer and tell us the information you get from it1.How are the living dinosaurs created?2.Why can dinosaur DNA be found in the body of prehistoric mosquitoes?3.Does the writer think this method believable?What are the reasons for his argument?4.Do you think this method scientifically pra
2、ctical?Read the passage and answer the questions.1.How are the living dinosaurs created?2.Why can dinosaur DNA be found in the body of prehistoric mosquitoes?By cloing DNA taken from prehistoric mosquitoes.Because they have absorbed Dinosours DNA.3.Does the writer think this method believable?What a
3、re the reasons for his argument?4.Do you think this method scientifically practical?No.First,.;Second,.;Thirdly,.Many questions.NO.Part 1Part 2 Para 1 The _of the filmPara 2-5 _ the question,and _ _ reasons.introductionRaiselist four Topic sentence:So,since it is possible to clone sheep,is it possib
4、le to clone dinosaurs?Or is this just Hollywood?Reasons and arguments:1.The mosquitoes need to be much older to get the DNA of dinosaurs,but as far as we know,mosquitoes that old dont exist.(Para 2)2.Only female mosquitoes can absorb the DNA of another creature but the recovered one is male,and ther
5、e is no way of knowing if the DNA was from a dinosaur or not.(Para 3)take in recover:bring sth.back to its original state=so 如此的，那么的Part 3Para 6_ a conclusion that it seems_ _ to clone dinosaurs.Drawscientifically impossible 3.Choose the best main idea.The passage is about_.a.the story the film Jura
6、ssic Parkb.the scientific truth behind dinosaur cloning in Jurassic Parkc.the principles of DNA and cloningd.why dinosaurs died out 4.Decide who the writer is.The writer of the passage is probably_.(a)a film producer (b)a science teacher(c)a film critic (d)a doctor5.Choose the best answers.1.The sto
7、ry of Jurassic Park is based on the idea that mosquitoes preserved since prehistoric times _.(a)can be used to create living dinosaurs(b)can be found in Costa Rica(c)can be cloned(d)contain dinosaur blood which contains dinosaur DNA2.In fact,dinosaurs died out before mosquitoes existed,so_.(a)the ba
8、sic story of Jurassic Park is fiction(b)mosquitoes need to be older(c)dinosaurs are at least 60 million years old(d)its possible to clone dinosaurs3.Although preserved mosquitoes have been found,_.(a)female mosquitoes cannot absorb DNA(b)its not possible to confirm that the DNA it contains is from a
9、 dinosaur(c)no dinosaur DNA from an earlier period has been discovered(d)DNA breaks down after a long period of time4.The questions which arise from the cloning of dinosaurs_.(a)prove that Jurassic Park is fiction(b)do not prove that Jurassic Park is fiction(c)mean we can clone them successfully(d)a
10、re easy for scientists to answer5.A suitable environment where dinosaurs might survive_.(a)can be found in Hollywood,USA (b)is scientifically impossible (c)probably doesnt exist today (d)would be different from the environment dinosaurs are used toPost-readingThink critically!Do you agree with all t
11、he arguments the author lists in the article?Can you find any weak or unreasonalbe arguments and state your own idea?Argument 1 Dinosaurs are 60 million years old while mosquitoes are 40 million years old so dinosaur DNA cannot be found in mosquitoes.From the sentence we can only know when the dinos
12、aurs came into existence but we have no idea when they became extinct.What if they lived until mosquitoes came into being?Good readers should think critically and never believe anything blindly.Please keep in your mind that the right and the courage to question even well-established things are what
13、drives the human race to move forward!热带风暴摧毁摆脱控制分解；崩溃；出故障自行修复反之亦然tropical storm knock outget out of controlbreak downrepair itselfvice versa 伦理和人权问题在科学上是不可能的使复活在目前的环境下恐龙时代发现做.很困难ethical and human rights issuesscientifically impossiblebring.back to lifein the present day environmentin the era of dino
14、saursfind great difficulty doing sth1.但是一场热带风暴袭击了岛屿，摧毁了能源供应But a tropical storm hits the islands,knocking out the power supply.knock out 摧毁e.g.The bombers have knocked outthe city.其他固定短语：knock down 把撞倒knock at/on 敲knock into 撞到身上,把敲进去knock out of 把从中敲出来knock off 下班，降价knock around/about到处漫游2.In fact,
15、only females canabsorb the DNA of another creature.absorb vt.吸收；接受（看法、知识等）；吸引（注意力 精力等）be absorbed in 专注于 e.g.The students were completely absorbed in their reading.3.When life ends,DNA breaks down and does not repair itself.break down：(化学物)分解；(机器)出故障；(谈判)失败；(身体)垮掉”(情绪)崩溃。1.The telephone system has b
16、roken down.2.Our car broke down on the motorway.3.Negotiations between the two sides have broken down.4.Her health broke down under the pressure of work.5.He broke down and wept when he heard the news.出故障出故障(谈判等)失败；(身体)垮掉(情绪)崩溃4.该做些什么去保护人类免受恐龙的伤害或保护恐龙免受人类的伤害？What would be done to protect humans from dinosaurs and vice versa.Assignment1.Read the article aloud；2.Workbook Period 2 Module 5；
