Unit 4 Period Ⅳ Listening and Talking & Reading for Writing（课件+练习）-新教材高中英语必修第三册【优化探究】（人教版）

Ⅰ.单词拼写 1．The hotel has special facilities (设备) for welcoming disabled people. 2．He was in an argument (争论) with his landlord downstairs. 3．Both the color and pattern(样式) of this silk are in good taste. 4．He regularly (有规律地) drove from his home to his place of employment. 5．He is a shallow (肤浅的) thinker whose opinions aren't worth much. Ⅱ.单句语法填空 1．He hesitates to get involved in this argument (argue)． 2．Without more training or advanced (advance) technical skills, they'll lose their jobs. 3．Many hair problems result from what you eat. 4．Her father always ensured she was well provided for. 5．We have a great many things to do at present. Ⅲ.阅读理解 The plan: turn Mars into a blue world with streams and green fields, and then fill it with creatures (生物) from the earth. This idea may sound like something from a science fiction (科幻小说)，but it is actually being taken seriously by many researchers. This suggests the future for the “red planet” will be the main topic for discussion at an international conference hosted by NASA (美国宇航局) this week. Leading researchers as well as science fiction writers will attend the event. “Turning Mars into a little earth has long been a topic in science fiction，” said Dr. Michael Meyer，NASA's senior scientist for astrobiology (太空生物学)．“Now，with scientists exploring the reality，we can ask what are the real possibilities of changing Mars.” Most scientists agree that Mars could be turned into a little earth，although much time and money would be needed to achieve this goal. But many experts are shocked by the idea.“We are destroying our own world at an unbelievable speed and now we are talking about ruining another planet，” said Paul Murdin from the Institute of Astronomy，Cambridge，UK. Over the past months，scientists have become increasingly confident.They will find Martian life forms.Europe and America's robot explorers have found proof that water，mixed with soil，exists in large amounts on the planet. 1．The passage is about ________. A．Mars suppo