【正文】 will be recorded, it is necessary for them to support and help each other to finish the ：1：trailwalker 2：charity 3：participant Questions: (1) Where is Trailwalker held? (2) When hastrailwalker? (4) What39。trailwalker? (5) Is trailwalker a difficult walk? Why?8A smile is the universal facial expression—it is intended to put people at ease. It does not always mean that you are happy, however, A smile can hide other feelings, like anger, fear or worry In most countries, nodding the head up and down shows agreement, while shaking the head means that you do not agree, or that you refuse to do something. If you look away from a person or yawn, they may think you are not interested in them. If you stand holding your arms across your chest, you may be protecting yourselfjust from a conversation you do not want! If you sit looking at and turn toward, the person you are talking to, it shows that you are interested. If you roll your eyes and turn your head away, most likely you do not believe what you are hearing, or you do not like what you hear.t know what to do with their time. They may find that close friends grow distant, and that it’s difficult to make new ones .The new house in the new surroundings often only leads to more loneliness. What seemed to be wonderful luck turns out to be just the opposite.It seems that winning a fortune doesn’t guarantee happiness. Just ask Mary. She now has a new job and new friends but she would probably still say, “Money isn’t everything…”生詞：1. loter . makeover 3. guarantee 4. broke ；破產(chǎn)的Questions:1. How did Mary get one million dollars one day?2. What do you think Mary did with the money?3. What happened eight years later? 4. Why does what seemed to be wonderful luck turn out to be just the oppcsite?5. What does Mary think about money?11For hundreds of years, the people of a Scottish town believed that a dinosaurlike monster lived in a nearby lake called Loch Ness. Many said they saw the creature, but no one could prove it was real.In 1934,a London doctor, Robert Kenneth Wilson, gave a newspaper a photo of the monster. He took the picture, the news travelled around the world. People came from everywhere to see this creature now called the“ Loch Ness Monster”. Then in 1993,a man named Christian Spurling surprised everyone. He said the photo of the Loch Ness Monster was a fake .He and some friends had created the famous picture themselves, then Wilson had given it to the newspaper as a practical joke.Today tricks and jokes like this are mon, and many are spread using . Some can be funny, but others can cause trouble.生詞：1. monster 2. Loch Ness 尼斯湖 3. fake ；贗品Questions:1．What does the monster in Loch Ness look like?2．What did Robert Kenneth Wilson do in 1934?3．How did Christian Spurling surprise every one?4．How are many tricks and jokes spread today?5．What do you think of tricks and jokes like this?12Today about 15 percent of the population is lefthanded. But why are people lefthanded ? The answer is in the way the brain works.The brain has two halvesthe right half and the left half .The right half controls the left side of the body, and the left controls the right side the body. So righthanged people have a strong left brain, and lefthanded people have a strong right brain.The two halves of the brain are about the same size. But each side controls different things. The left side controls language, mathematics, and logic. When you memorize the spelling of words, or when you put things in order, you use your left side. The right side of the brain controls your love of art, colour, music. It is also good at recognizing fact.This does not mean that all artists are lefthanded and all accountants are righthanded. There are actually many exceptions. Some righthanders have a strong right brain, and some lefthanders have a strong left brain.生詞；1. logic 邏輯 2. accountant 會計(jì)，會計(jì)師Questions:(1) What percentage of the population is lefthanded today?(2) Why are people lefthanded?(3) What dose the left side of the brain control?(4) Which side of brain do you use when you recognize faces?(5) Do you think all artists are lefthanded and all accountants are righthanded?13Annette Kellerman was born in Australia in 1887. She had polio and could not walk easily. She had to wear metal supports on her legs to stand up on her own. To make her legs stronger, her mother took her for swimming lessons every week. Swimming made her legs so strong that when she was 15 she was able to throw away her supports. Her family was poor so she got work acting as a mermaid. She wore a long tail and fish swam around her. People paid to e and see her.In 1900Annette swam in Paris Olympics and won two gold medals. The next year she tried to swim across the Channel. She was the first woman to try to do it though she had to stop swimming for six hours.In1915, Annette went to Hollywood and was the star of two films.生詞； Kellerman (人名)安妮特凱勒曼 小兒麻痹癥 3. mermaid 美人魚Questions:(1) What did Annette suffer from when she was a child?(2)How did her legs bee stronger?(3)How did she help her family?(4)What did she do in the Paris Olympics?(5)What did she do in 1915?14Louis Braille was born near Paris, France. He was a very smart child. He liked to play with his father’s work tools. One day, when he was four, a sharp tool went into his left eye. An infection started and spread to the other. A few weeks later, he was blind.At age ten, Louis went to a school for blind children. One day a soldier, Charles Barbier, visited the school. Barbier had invented a system of nightreading. This system used dots of the letters. Soldiers used this system in times of war. Barbier thought this system could help blind people to read.Barbier’s system was difficult, but it gave Louis an idea. He made Barbier’s system easier. By age fifteen, his new s