their language. It is in the farthest northeastern area of Canada, north of the Arctic Circle, and is very cold--the average winter temperature in Nunavut is –35 degrees.
Beth said, “I knew it would be cold in January, but not this cold! Maybe there is a dog sled here that can take me into town.”
The quiet men who had been on the plane with her said, “I will take you into town, but I do not have a dog sled. Most people only use the dogs for competitions. Why are you visiting Iqaluit?” Beth answered, “I’m writing a story for my newspaper about Iqaluit—we’d like to advertise it as a holiday place, but I think it’s too cold.”
The man laughed. “My name is Simon and I am Inuit,” he said. “I think it’s too far north here for holidays but more and more tourists are coming. They like ice fishing and photographing polar bears. I stay as far away from polar bears as possible. I like my warm office and my warm house.” Beth asked, “What do you do in an office? Don’t you hunt animals for a living? I thought you lived in ice houses.”
“I’m a business man. My grandfather would live in ice houses when he hunted in winter, but not so many people do that now. The old men used to make one in a few hours. They used to live in skin tents in summer—the tents were easy to move so the people could follow the animals.”
A few minutes later they arrived in Iqaluid, a town with a population of 6000,on Simon’s snowmobile. It was two o’clock in the afternoon, but it was already dark, and all the houses shone with bright lights. Beth said, “Why is it so dark? It’s the middle of the day!”
Simon replied, “It’s dark in the day because we are so far north. You should come in June. The sun shines all night in the north then. That’s why it’s called ‘The Land Of the Midnight Sun’.” There were people on the streets and snowmobiles everywhere. There were even a few dog teams.
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Book 3 Learning tip
B3Unit1
Collect information about festivals and events around the world from CCTV International and newspapers. In this way you can increase your vocabulary and knowledge. To find out what festivals there are in different countries, it is better to look in an encyclopedia and then search the Internet for more information. Remember that the information on the Internet may not be correct so always check it B3Unit2
When you buy items in packets or tins, you need to look at the side of the packet or tin. It will tell you how much energy-giving good, body-building food and fibre there is in your tin or packet. You will also learn more words and expressions connected with food. You can use this information to help you have a healthier diet as increase your vocabulary. B3Unit3
Try writing a play so you can practise your oral English. Get together with your friends classmates and write dialogues for a short play. It can be about anything of interest to all of you. Everyone should have a part or role to speak.
You can use one of the reading passages from your textbook to make a short play. And acting out the play will help improve your pronunciation. B3Unit4
Use encyclopedias and the Internet to find out more about space. Try to discover how many plants there are round our sun and how many satellites they each have. Make notes in journal or diary and watch the news to add interesting new ideas on space. Look into the sky at night and try to find out the names of some of the stars. B3Unit5
Knowing some prefixes and suffixes can help guess the meaning of words. Prefixes are small groups of words to give them different meanings.
Suffixes are groups of letters placed after a word its modify meaning or change it into a different part of speech. Examples:
You can put the prefix multi— in front of many words to give them the meaning of “many”. multicultural multimedia multichannel multinational You can change some adjectives into adverbs by adding the suffix--ly slightly extremely officially broadly
高中英语：人教版必修电子课本 (1)
