Unit4 Then and now课外阅读提优-2023-2024学年小学英语六年级上册（译林版三起）

Unit 4 Then and now 课外阅读提优 1、 阅读短文，判断句子正（T）误（F）。 （A） Do you know these people? They make our country change. Yuan Longping is “the Father of Hybrid Rice”. The output of his hybrid rice is much greater than common kinds of rice. His study helps Chinese people have enough food. Tu Youyou discovered the effectiveness of artemisinin in curing malaria and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015. Tu’s contributions save thousands of lives every year. Guo Lanying has a beautiful voice. You may know her famous song My Motherland. She is a great singer, an artist. Zhong Nanshan, more than eighty years old, is an outstanding respiratory scientist. His study about SARS saved many people in 2013. And at the beginning of 2020, he worked hard to help people fight the COVID-19 virus. ( )1.Yuan Longping helps Chinese people get more rice. ( )2.Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize in 2016. ( )3.Zhong Nanshan is not young, but he helps a lot of sick people. ( )4.Guo Lanying is an artist. Her picture of My Motherland is so beautiful. ( )5.The underlined word outstanding means “杰出的”in Chinese. （B） One morning, a fox saw a cock. He thought, “This is my breakfast.” He came up to the cock and said, “I know you can sing very well. Can you sing for me?” The cock was glad. He closed his eyes and started to sing. The fox saw that and caught him in his mouth and carried his away. The people in the fields saw the fox. He shouted, “Look! The fox is carrying the cock away.” The cock said to the fox, “Mr Fox, do you understand? The people saw you are carrying their cock away. Tell them it is yours, not theirs.” The fox opened his mouth and said, “The cock is mine, not yours.” Just them the cock ran away from the fox. ( )1.The fox wanted to eat the cock for his lunch. ( )2.The fox sang a song for the cock. ( )3.The fox wanted to catch the cock and carry him away. ( )4.The fox ate the cock at last. ( )5.The cock is clever. 2、 阅读短文，选择正确的答案。 Long long ago, if you wanted yo