Passage 4 The first strawberry

Do you love strawberries? Try growing your own!

Pick a sunny spot for your strawberry patch in spring. Buy some plants for your strawberry patch. Plant the plants in your strawberry patch. Leave room for them to spread. Spread straw in your strawberry patch. Straw helps prevent weeds and pests.

Water your strawberry patch at least twice a week. The plants in your strawberry patch will bloom. Then, the plants will make small green fruits. Then green fruits in your strawberry patch will turn pale. Then they will turn red.

Pick those fruits in your strawberry patch. Wash and eat them. The first strawberry will taste the very best.

名在师线

Do you love strawberries?你喜欢草莓吗?

strawberry是可数名词,变复数时,要改“y”为“i”再加“es”,即strawberries。

词汇卡

spot/spɒt/n.地点

patch/pætʃ/n.小块

spread/spred/v.伸展,散布

straw/strɔː/n.稻草,麦秆

pest/pest/n.害虫

快乐练习

一、选择与下列图片相对应的句子。

( )1.Pick a sunny spot for your strawberry patch in spring.

( )2.Plant the plants in your strawberry patch.

( )3.Water your strawberry patch at least twice a week.

( )4.The fruits will turn red.

A.

B.

C.

D.

二、判断句子与短文内容是否一致。一致的在括号内写“T”,不一致的写“F”。

( )1.This story tells us how to eat strawberries.

( )2.Water the strawberries after the fruits turn red.

( )3.Water your strawberry patch at least once a week.

( )4.The first step to grow your strawberries is buying some plants.

( )5.The word“bloom”means to produce(生长,繁育)flowers.

趣味文化

草莓

草莓是多年生草本植物,高10~40厘米,主要分布于北半球和南美洲。草莓的果实外观呈心形,其颜色鲜红,果肉多汁、酸甜适口、芳香宜人、营养丰富,故有“水果皇后”的美誉。