UNIT 5 Section Ⅰ TOPIC TALK & LESSON 1 A SEA STORY-【高考领航】2023-2024学年高中英语必修第二册同步核心辅导与测评（北师大版）

话题语境 核心素养 　　本单元的话题语境是“人与自然”。通过对本单元的学习，学生应该明白人类与自然的关系，了解大自然带给人类的福与祸，从而妥善处理人与自然的关系，激发和树立学生保护环境，爱护自然的意识。 思维品质：学生能够借助关键词，在理解文章大意的基础上，找出段落主题句；用所学的词汇和语言对课文进行复述；能够读懂细节信息并能理解阅读中生词含义。 学习能力：提炼文章主旨大意；运用关键词复述课文。 文化意识：自然是全人类赖以生存的环境，保护自然就是保护我们自己。 语言能力：掌握本单元词句和篇章；掌握关系副词引导的定语从句。 当地震、火灾、沙尘暴、龙卷风等自然灾害发生时，人类才真正意识到，面对强大的自然威力，我们的生命是多么的脆弱。然而，自然灾害真的只是“自然”灾害吗？ Although known as “natural disaster”， I more believe it is caused by long term human impact.Events that harm plants and animals we collectively called disasters. Throughout human history we can see that disasters are caused by two main reasons: natural variation and human impact.Scientists proved to us those natural disasters are rarely caused by pure natural factors, especially nowadays human activities are more frequent.Because humans have immense demands, the destruction they made increases the frequency and extent of natural disasters.Human beings actually play as boosters in natural disasters.As a resident on Earth, we should take the responsibility to protect our mother nature.First, we need do a lot of publicity to raise people's awareness and understanding of environmental conservation.Second, we should stop wasting and littering to conserve natural resources.Third, we should conduct recycling, slow down deforestation and also improve treatment of white pollution, try not to use plastic products.Fourth, turn off your electricity when you are not using it.Recycling batteries after batteries are depleted.There are many ways we can do for our mother nature, sometimes we just need to change a little bit. The only thing we should always keep in mind is that the Earth is the only home we rely on; to protect the Earth and prevent natural disasters is for ourselves and for our future generations to benefit. 【词海淘宝】 1．collectively adv.　　共同地，全体地 2．variation n. 变化 3．immense adj. 极大的；巨大的 4．booster n. (尤指政治上的)支持者 5．deforestation n. 滥伐森林 【语篇理解】 阅读短文，回答问题： 1．What are natural disasters according to the passage? Events that harm plan