Unit 3 Under the sea language points课时作业

I. 阅读理解

　　Inspired by the USA's recent solar eclipse(日蚀)?These equally impressive events and activities will inspire your desire for a visit.

　　Witness a desert super bloom

　　Occasionally, the normally dry Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, and Chihuahuan Desert will burst into a carpet of yellow, purple, and pink flowers in spring. This is a super bloom, and it happens if there is significant rainfall between September and November. There's one wild flower bloom every 5.3 years on average, and a super bloom on average once every 11.2 years.

　　WHERE TO GO:Death Valley National Park, California, the USA

　　WHEN TO GO:February-March

　　Watching rockets launching

　　Every launch is very impressive and exciting because you don't know what will happen until the last moment. You hear the fire and fury for several minutes-seeing a launch in person is a billion times better than watching on TV. The current hot ticket, though, is going to watch a SpaceX reusable rocket launch, then land back at Cape Canaveral.

　　WHERE TO GO:Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia or Kennedy Space Center, Florida

　　BEST TIME TO GO:Check www.kennedyspacecenter. com or www.nasa.gov

　　Enjoy a never-ending lightning storm

　　Think lightning never strikes twice? The odds are more generous over the mouth of the Catatumbo River at Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, which hosts lightning storms for up to 297 nights a year, thanks to its unique geographical location. "Watching the Catatumbo lightning is an experience you will get nowhere else," says Jonas Piontek, a German photographer who has travelled there twice to capture the storms. "You are basically isolated from everyone, no network, no Internet,no real civilization around. It's just you and nature, and one of the best shows on Earth."

　　WHERE TO GO:Catatumbo Camp, Venezuela

WHEN TO GO:October-November