为了让学生能巩固所学内容,每个故事后都编有大量练习,练习的内容和形式多种多样,包括词汇理解、内容理解、句子配对、正误判断、选择填空以及作文训练等等。
针对学生的学习需要,每课课文后都从课文中抽出一些重点词汀二、短语或语法句型作重点讲解,使学生在这些方面能有更深一层的认识和总结,并通过特别编写的练习加以巩固。
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Because of her sadness, the tear had magical qualities andsuddenly the ant could speak the language of human beings.
The ant looked up and saw the young girl sitting in front of ahuge pile of seed.
"Why are you sad?" asked the ant.
"I'm the prisoner of a giant," the girl told the ant. "He won't letme go until I've made three separate heaps of grain, barley andrye out of this huge pile of seed in which they are all mixedtogether."
"That will take you a month!" the ant said, looking at the hugepile of seed.
"I know," the girl cried, "and if I haven't finished by tomorrow, thegiant will eat me for his supper!"
"Don't cry," the ant said. "My friends and I will help you."
Soon thousands of ants were at work, separating the threekinds of seeds.
The next morning, when the giant saw that the work had beendone, he let the girl go.
And thus it was that one of her tears saved her life.