初中生英语课外阅读Unit-2-Lesson-5-How-Do-Many-Hearing

ReadingandVocabularyDevelopmentUnit2Lesson5HowDoManyHearing-ImpairedPeopleTalk?Hearing-impairedpeoplecannothearsoundswell.Howdothey“hear”words?Manyhearing-impairedpeopleusesignlanguage.Theytalkwiththeirhands.Twohearing-impairedpeoplecantalktoeachother.Theybothusesignlanguage.Sometimesapersonwhocanhearinterpretsforhearing-impairedpeople.Thepersonlistenstosomeonetalking,andthenheorshemakeshandsigns.Therearetwokindsofhandsigns.Somehandsignsareforwholewords.Forexample,thereisonehandsignforthewordlove.Therearehandsignsfordifferentactions.things,andideas.Someofthesignsareveryeasy,forexample,thesignsforeat,milk,andhouse.Youcanseewhattheymean.Othersaremoredifficult,forexample,thesignsforstar,egg,andweek.Thesecondkindofhandsignisfingerspelling.Infingerspelling,thereisasignforeveryletterinthealphabet.Forexample,tofingerspellthewordlove,apersonmakesfourdifferentsigns.Itismuchslowertofingerspell,butitisusefulforsigningnamesandtechnicalwords.Peoplecanusebothkindsofhandsignstogether.Eachcountryhasitsownsignlanguage.Forexample,AmericanSignLanguage(ASL)isverydifferentfromBritishSignLanguage.Usingsignlanguageisalmostlikeadance.Thewholebodytalks.Signlanguagesarebeautiful.1.True,falseorNoInformation.1)Hearing-impairedpeoplecannothearsoundswell.()2)Apersonwhointerpretsforhearing–impairedpeoplecannothear.()3)Therearemoresignsforwholewordsthanforletters.()4)JapaneseSignLanguageisthesameasAmericanSignlanguage.()5)Fingerspellingisusefulfornamesandtechnicalwords.()6)Itisdifficultforchildrentoleansignlanguage.2.Circlethenumberofthemainideaofthetext.1)Signlanguagehelpshearing-impairedpeopletalk,butitisdifficulttolearn.2)Therearetwokindsofsignlanguage.3)Asignlanguageisabeautifullanguagethathelphearing-impairedpeopletalktoothers.3．Puttherightwordineachblank.ideaexampleinterpretsbotheachotherwholesigndancehearing-impaireddifficultstars1)Marycannothearverywell.Sheis__________.2)Aliworksforthegovernment.He__________ArabicandEnglish.3)Alarge_______________onthewallsays“Nosmoking”.4)MasakoandCarlosspeakEnglishto__________.5)NadiaandDavid__________studyengineering.6)Youcannotseethe___________intheskyduringthedaytime.7)Japaneseisa_______________language.It’snoteasy.8)The______________classisheretoday.Noonestayedathome.9)Thereisa______________forstudentsonSaturday.10)Theclasswantstohaveaparty.It’sagood___________.3.Writetheverbformofeachnounbelowrelaxation----description-------belief--------weight-----excitement-----evaporation-----interpretation------