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六.【家庭作業(yè)】 1. 熟讀課文并劃出重難點; 2. 完成語言點導學案。 【提升與拓展】 閱讀理解 Paynes Prairie Have you ever heard of Paynes Prairie? It is one of the most important natural and historical areas in Florida. Paynes Prairie is located near Gainesville. It is large, 21 000 acres. This protected land is called a preserve. The Florida Park Service manage the preserve. The Paynes Prairie basin(盆地 ) was formed when limestone(石灰石 ) dissolved and the ground settled. It is covered by marsh(沼澤 ) and wet prairie(大草原 ) vegetation(植被 ). There are areas of open water. During brief periods it has flooded enough to be considered a lake. Except for that, the basin has changed little through time. Man has lived on Paynes Prairie a very long time. He lived there as far back as 10000 B. C. At one time, the Seminoles lived there. The prairie is thought to have been named after King Payne, a Seminole chief. During the late 1600s, the largest cattle(家養(yǎng)牲畜 ) ranch(大農(nóng)場 ) in Florida was on Paynes Prairie. Today, Paynes Prairie is preserved land. It is occupied by visitors and Florida Park Service employees. Willam Bartram visited Paynes Praire. Bartram was the first person who portrayed( 描繪 ) nature through personal experience as well as scientific observation. He lived 200 years ago. He visited Paynes Prairie in 1774. At that time he described it. He called Paynes Prairie the great Alachua Savannah. Most of the animal life, which Bartram described, is still here. A large number of sandhill(沙丘鶴 ) crane