1、Unit 6 Nature in words 导读导读 话题妙切入话题妙切入 1 Accuse not nature, she has done her part. John Milton 别责怪自然,她已尽其职。 2What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered. Emerson 什么是杂草?杂草是一种利用价值尚未被发现的植物。 3 The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each o
2、ther; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. Emerson 热爱大自然的人内外感觉协调一致,即使进入成年后依然保持着 童心。 4Fish and visitors smell three days. Franklin Benjamin 鱼放三天发臭,客住三天讨嫌。 5Animals are such agreeable friendsthey ask no questions,they pass no criticisms. George Eliot 动物是非常怡人的朋友, 它们不问任何问
3、题, 也不提出任何批评。 Begin by opening your eyes and be surprised that you have eyes you can open, that incredible array of colors that is constantly offered to us for pure enjoyment. Look at the sky.We so rarely look at the sky.We so rarely note how different it is from moment to moment, with clouds coming
4、and going.We just think of the weather, and even with the weather, we dont think of all the many nuances of weather.We just think of good weather and bad weather.This day,right now,has unique weather,maybe a kind that will never exactly in that form come again.That formation of clouds in the sky wil
5、l never be the same that is right now.Open your eyes.Look at that. Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches (路沟)along the highway I travel daily to work.Ive noticed that they bloom only in the morning hours.Every day for approximately two weeks,I see those beautiful flowers. Th
6、is spring,I started a wildflower garden in our yard.Ive often thought that those lovely blue flowers from the ditches would look great in that bed alongside other wildflowers.Everyday I drove past the flowers thinking, “Ill stop on my way home and dig them.”But I never stop to dig them. One day on m
7、y way home from work,I was saddened to see that the highway department had mowed the ditches and the pretty blue flowers were gone.I thought to myself, “Way to go,you waited too long.You should have done it when you first saw them blooming this spring.” And yes,if I see the blue flowers again,you can bet Ill stop and transplant them to my wildflower garden. 探索发现 1Whats the best title of the passage? _ 2What do you learn from the passage? _ _ Lost chance never returns. We should grasp every chance to do what we want to do instead of hesitation.