4.1 Welcome to the unit &Reading -2021-2022学年高一英语课后培优练（译林2020必修三）

Unit 4 Scientists Who Changed the World 4.1 Welcome to the unit &Reading 一、根据汉语意思填写单词 1．_________(包围) by the sea, the island is isolated from the rest of the world. 2．________ (选举) as chairman of the committee, he was full of confidence and energy. 3．The exhibition hall ________ (装饰) with many traditional Chinese paintings has been open to public. 4．We should _________(应用) our knowledge to our life. 5．Each of us must take ________(责任，义务) for our own actions. 二、用单词的适当形式完成句子 6．Time ______ (permit), the students present can raise questions and communicate their views with the lecturer. 7．The students are also required to read the passage below and some ______(relate) stories. 8．There is a wall at the back of the meeting hall __________(decorate) with an amazing painting. 9．The new policy will be ________ (benefit) to us all. 10．Helen’s face gave no ________(indicate) of what she was thinking. 三、阅读理解 A ▪️ Johannes Gutenberg Johannes Gutenberg, who was born around the year 1400 in Germany, is widely regarded as the inventor of the modern printing press. Before about 1450, most books were written or copied by hand. This made them extremely time-consuming to produce and expensive to buy. But in 1455 Gutenberg developed a machine which could print multiple copies of the same book. These printed books were sold for 30 florins each, and although this represented three years’ wages for an average office worker at the time, it was still considerably cheaper than a handwritten book. Gutenberg did not achieve financial success as a result of his breakthrough — the rich at that time regarded printed books as inferior and preferred handwritten works — but his invention helped to spread knowledge across Europe and was a major factor in the Renaissance. ▪️ Louis Braille Born in France in 1809, Louis Braille became blind at the age of three after an accident in his father’s workshop. When he was ten, he earned a place at a special school for blind children in Paris one of the f