Reciting Lesson 55 “not a gold mine” and answering the following questions:

 1 what did the team find?  Team这个单词老师提问时，我没能听出来，

  They found a small gold coin and an empty tin trunk..

 2 what’s the dream?

   Dreams of finding lost treasure.

  What did they use to find the lost treasure?

  They used a new machine called the revealer.

3 why did the team dig a hole two feet deep?

  Because the machine showed that there was gold under the ground.

  They are very excited, so the party dug a hole two feet deep.

4 why did the team search in that cave?

  Because it is said pirates used to hide gold in that cave and then they fail to collect it.

5 why did the writer say dreams of finding lost treasure almost come true recently?

 Because a new machine called the revealer has been invented.

It can detect gold which has been buried in the ground.

But the team did not find anything except a small coin which was almost worthless

and an empty tin trunk.

The dreams couldn’t come true, so the writer says the dreams almost come true.

6 How did the team find a small coin?

  When the team entered into the cave, the leader of the party found the machine showed  

that there was gold under the ground.

 So they dug a hole two feet deep and found a small coin which was almost worthless.

7 why are many people confident that the revealer can reveal something of value fairly soon?

Because they think the machine is very advanced.

Because they believe the machine.

8 why does the title say not a gold mine?

Because the search party wanted to find buried treasure in that cave where it is said the pirates used to hide gold and fail to collect it ,but finally they just found a small coin and an empty tin trunk, So it is not a gold mine.

9 why was the team excited?

Because the machine showed that there was gold under the ground.