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Unit 6 Survival Plan B:Life on Mars?
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Step1 Pre-reading How much do you know about MARS?
1. Mars is the ____ smallest planet in the solar system.
a. second b. third c. fourth
2. The surface of Mars is covered in ________.
a. rocks b. water c. grass
3. The average recorded temperature on Mars is ____.
a. 40o C b. 2o C c. -63o C
4. One day on Mars is about _________ long.
a. 18hours b. 24hours c. 37hours
Step2 Fast reading
1.Choose the magazine in which you would most likely find the passage?
A.The Traveller B.All About Space
C.Environmental Concerns D.Biology for Fun
2.What was the greatest fear in the 1960s and 1970s?
A. Nuclear missiles. B. Environmental problems. C. Exploring space.
3.What does Plan B mean in the passage?
A.Exploring other planets, such as Mars, to live on.
B.Educating the public to learn the knowledge of space.
C.Using robots to search for new resources.
4.Why Mars is the most likely choice to live on for humans?
A. Because there is no pollution.
B. Because there is much renewable energy.
C. Because it is relatively close to Earth.
5.What is the purpose of the last paragraph?
A. To tell us that it is still decades be fore we humans get to Mars.
B.To remind us that we should protect our earth.
C.To inform us that the earth is the only one that we can live on in the future.
Step3 Intensive reading
1.Read the passage carefully and finish the blanks.
2.Choose the statements that can be inferred from the passage.(多选)
(1)Humans have yet not visited Mars.
(2)People want to go to Mars on holiday.
(3)There are plants growing on Mars.
(4)The greatest to life on Earth used to be nuclear missiles.
(5)One day, humans will have to go and live on another planet.2
(6)Our Plan A includes developing renewable energy resources.
(7)The Biosphere 2 experiment ended in failure.
Step4 Post reading
How to protect the environmen