牛津版（深圳·广州）英语八年级上册Module 3 Unit...

    "You'll think twice about plucking your eyebrows (拔眉毛) you find their important role," says Greg Foot. They are one of most expressive(有表现力的) parts of our bodies. your eyebrows, you can tell your feelings to other people. is that their only purpose (目的)?

    Over several thousand (year), we have lost lots of body hair, so it's strange that hair still (remain) on our brows. Some scientists say that eyebrows mainly work as special form of protection for the eyes. In fact, their job is so (importance) that some researchers are sure that if we didn't have (they), we'd have evolved (进化) some other facial features to (do) the same task.

    Light travels at a very fast speed. It is about a million times 1 than the speed of sound. You can get some idea of this 2 by watching the start of a race (赛跑). If you stand some distance away from the starter, you can see smoke from his gun before the sound gets to your 3

    This great speed of light4some strange facts. Sunlight 5about 8 minutes to get to us. If you look at the light of the moon tonight, 6 that the light rays (光线) left the moon 1.3 seconds before they got to you. The nearest star is so 7 away that the light which you can see from it tonight started to 8 towards you several years ago. In some cases, the light from one of tonight's stars had started on its journey to you before you were born.

    So, to be exact, we can't say, "The stars are shinning 9." We have to say instead, "The stars 10 pretty. They were shining several years ago, but their light has only just got to the Earth."

In ancient China, a woman told the best stories. She married to the emperor (皇帝). Sadly, one day, this woman became ill and died. Everyone thought the emperor would soon find another favorite among his wives, but the emperor was very sad. He spent more and more time in his garden, and less and less time caring for the needs of his people. Everyone in the kingdom was worried.

One day, a priest (牧师) passed when some children were playing with their dolls. The dolls made dancing shadows on the wall. This gave the priest an idea. He knew the stories the emperor's wife used to tell. What if he could bring those stories to life?

    The priest made a puppet (木偶) out of bits of clay (黏土). He painted the puppet to look somewhat like the emperor's wife. When the puppet was finished, the priest silently walked into the emperor's garden, carrying his puppet, a candle and a curtain. He placed the curtain near the emperor's chair. He placed his candle, his puppet and himself behind the curtain. He waited for the emperor to appear.

The emperor did not even notice the curtain at first. The dancing shadow drew his eyes. As the priest moved the puppet behind the curtain, he told wonderful stories as the emperor's wife. It seemed as if his wife was spending time with him. The emperor was no longer sad. At the end of each busy day, the emperor went into his garden to visit his shadow wife and hear her stories once again. That is how shadow puppets first began.

    Whenever the sun dropped and the blue sky came up, my father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations, and I learnt lessons from his experiences during our conversations. He always told me, "You should have goals (目标) like climbing the mountain. "Without the mountain-climbing, we couldn't have enough time to spend together, because my father was very busy. I really got a lot from the mountain-climbing. It gave me time to talk with my father and to be in deep thoughts as well as to develop my patience.

    Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing, I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds' singing. But as time passed, I got a pain in both of my legs. I didn't want to climb. In fact, I hated it at that moment, but my father said to me, "You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can't see it before you reach the top. Only there at the top can you see all the nice things, just like in life."

    At that time, I was too young to understand his words. But later, I got to know hope and confidence (信心). I found myself standing at the top of the mountain, and the sky was as clear as the crystal (水晶).

    Take a look at our library! Our library is open to everyone and the library card is free.

    Making friends is a skill. Like most skills, it improves with practice. If you want to meet people and make friends, you must take action. You must first go where there are people. You won't make friends staying home alone.

Many people are nervous when talking with others. After all, meeting strangers means facing the unknown. And it's human nature to feel a bit uncomfortable about the unknown. Most of our fears about dealing with new people come from doubts (怀疑) about ourselves. We consider that other people are judging (评判) us, finding us too small or too short, too this or too that. But don't forget that they must be feeling the same way. Try to accept yourself, and try to put the other person at ease. Then you'll feel more comfortable. "Try to act with self-confidence (自信) although you don't feel that way. Walk with your' back straight, look directly at other people and smile. If you see someone you'd like to speak to, tell something to him / her. Don't wait for others to start a conversation.

    Just meeting someone new doesn't mean that you will make friends with that person. Friendship is "give and take". It takes time and energy to develop. And there are things that keep a new friendship from growing.

1). 中国古代, 花木兰, 擅于射箭;

2). 北方发生战争, 父亲必须去参军打仗, 但父亲年老多病, 弟弟年幼, 木兰决定代替父亲去;

3). 十二年之后, 战争结束, 木兰成为一名著名的将军, 回到家换上女装, 战士们才知道木兰是位年轻的女孩。

要求: 1). 语言连贯通顺, 无语法错误;

2). 80词左右。

生词提示: Hua Mulan（花木兰）, shoot the arrow (射箭)