Unit 1SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS
Section A Reading and Thinking
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Ⅰ.单词拼写
1.Although we are suffering such a (严重的) natural disaster,we will eventually overcome the temporary difficulty.
答案vere
2.The public are holding a number of apparently (矛盾的)attitudes towards the matter.
答案contradictory
3. (处理) the most important tasks first,and you’ll feel a real n of achievement.
答案Handle
4.The factory ud 65 percent of the (原始的) materials,the rest of which were saved for other purpos.
答案raw
5.Most tennis is played on hard courts,but a (大量的) amount is played on clay.
答案substantial
6.Experts (怀疑) it was evolution in other animals that caud the change.
答案suspect(ed)
7.If you have any of the symptoms,change your life goals and (减少;降低) your tolerance of stress.
答案decrea
8. (统计数字) suggested that a decreasing number of children showed interest in reading.
答案Statistics
Ⅱ.短语填空
thanks to,attend to,die from,once and for all,give birth,as a result of,subscribe to,in general
1.Bill and Tom asked the teacher to ttle the argument .
答案once and for all
2.I have never the view that schooldays are the happiest days of life.
答案subscribed to
3. his parents’ encouragement and support,he finally realized his dream.
答案Thanks to
4.I was told the plant the effects of over-exposure to the sun.
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答案died from
5.The Nile River to the immortal civilization of the Egyptians.
答案gave birth
6.I can’t go to your birthday party on Sunday becau I have something important to .
答案attend to
7. ,the two scientists’ methods have much in common,but the results are quite different.
小巴掌童话答案In general
8.Nearly all the people are believed to be staying at home 怀孕会头疼吗the disaster.
答案as a result of
Ⅲ.完成句子
1.好像问题在于没有人知道怎样操作这台机器。
What ems to be the trouble is that nobody knows this machine.
答案how to operate
2.老师好像很欣赏我为我的同学们做的一切。
西汉七国之乱 the teacher appreciated what I did for my classmates.
答案It emed that
3.如果人们总是长时间坐在电脑屏幕前,他们很可能会患上背部问题。
People from back problems if they always sit before computer screens for long hours七绝平仄.
答案are likely to suffer
4.机场附近的房屋经常被飞过头顶的喷气式飞机震破窗户。
Hous near airports often by the jet planes passing overhead.
答案have their windows broken
5.事实是,有好几年时间,我还以为他在电话公司上班呢。
for years I thought he worked for the phone company.
答案The truth was that
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Ⅳ.阅读理解
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主题语境:科学家 语篇类型:说明文 词数:279
难度:★★☆☆
There are many famous scientists in the world,some of whom are very young.Here are four hot young scientists working right now to change the world.
Rizia Bardhan
Rizia Bardhan is 29 and a post doctor at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.Her rearch mainly deals with amazing possibilities of micro robots that can be ud to cure dias which are now untreatable.In an interview,she said that when she thought of science,she would think of major problems that she could help to solve.
Heather Knight
Heather Knight,the 28-year-old Chief Executive of the Marilyn Monrobot company,is perfo
rming new applications for robotics by casting her shows with robots.She considers humor to be one of the most important human features.Therefore,if she can teach humor to robots,they will be able to better connect with humans.
Imre Bartos
Imre Bartos is a 29-year-old Columbia University graduate student.As one of the young minds,he is remarkable enough to drive others crazy with envy.He studies everything from the formation of black holes to the physics of how mosquito eyes e the world.In the paper Hunting Black Holes with a Gas Cloud,he explains that a gas cloud meeting a black hole in its path will be partially eaten by the black hole.His task is to check the X-rays that are given off during the process.
广告分类Jeremy England
Jeremy England is a 36-year-old professor at MIT,a school that is known for its young genius.He is working right now on new ideas about the physics behind basic biology.He says that he wants to make n of life at the molecular(分子) level.
【语篇解读】文章主要介绍了四位不同领域的当代年轻科学家。
1.What might be ud to cure the untreatable dia?
A.Basic biology. B.Micro robots.
C.Atoms. D.X-rays.
答案B
解析细节理解题。由第二段中的“Her rearch mainly deals with amazing possibilities of micro robots that can be ud to cure dias which are now untreatable.”可知,微型机器人有可能用来治疗目前无法医治的疾病。
2.What’s Heather Knight’s aim?
A.To make new inventions.
B.To teach humor to robots.
C.食物英语To make it easier to communicate.
D.To make robots learn to show.
答案B
解析推理判断题。由第三段中的“She considers humor to be one of the most important human features.Therefore,if she can teach humor to robots,they will be able to better connect with humans.”可知,Heather Knight认为幽默是人类重要的特征之一。如果她能教给机器人幽默的话,他们将能够和人类更好地交流。由此可推知,Heather Knight的目标就是教给机器人幽默。
