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WELCOME UNIT
UNIT 6 Nature in words
Period 1 Starting out & Understanding ideas
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[基础训练]
Ⅰ 根据语境及汉语提示完成句子
1.But he ______ (坚持认为) on us eating healthy food.
2.The ______ (梅子) trees are the first to flower even as the snow is melting
(融化).
3.These sunglasses are designed to reduce ______ (刺眼的强光).
4.The _______ (教堂) was built at the top of a small rise.
5.He suddenly became very talkative, his face slightly ________ (发红), his eyes much brighter.
insists
plum
glare
church
flushed
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Ⅱ 单句语法填空
1.The fighting broke _____ about two hours after sundown.
2.When you've heard me out, you'll appreciate the reason for ________ (secret).
3.He could hear them talking ________ (faint) in the other room.
4.Once she started to talk about herself, she would talk ______ for a long time.
5.He was personally criticized by _________ (inspect) for his incompetence.
out
secrecy
faintly
away
inspectors
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6.There was a huge bang ____ if someone had exploded a rocket outside.
7.He saved the drowning boy ___ the risk of his own life.
8.In addition to my ________ (week) wage, I got a lot of tips.
9.He's grown a beard to save ________ (shave).
10._____ the time the tests took place, the athletes had had a full 17 hours notice.
as
at
weekly
shaving
By
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[思维训练]
Ⅰ 完形填空
Walk into any bookstore, and you can __1__ avoid “bumping into” Charles Dickens. From Oliver Twist to A Tale of Two Cities, many of Dickens' works still sell well today and are placed on __2__ shelves.
As someone who teaches Dickens, the question of why we still read him is often on my mind. That question, however, was never more troubling to me than when I was giving a lecture one day, nearly ten years ago. I was telling the students that his writing created a “tune-in-next-week” type of __3__ among readers. Then, a hand shot up. “But why should we still read this stuff?” the student asked. The answer I gave at that time was merely __4__. “Because he teaches you how to think,” I said.
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The question __5__ me for years, and for years I told myself answers, but never with complete satisfaction. We read Dickens because he was not just a man of his own times, but also a man for our times. We read Dickens because his __6__ of the human psyche (心灵) is deep. We read Dickens because we can learn from the experiences of his characters almost as __7__ as we can learn from our own experiences.
These are all wonderful reasons to read Dickens. But these are not exactly the reasons why I read Dickens.
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My search for an answer __8__ but never with success, until one day a text message came from a student of mine. “We still read Dickens' novels,” she wrote, “because they tell us why we are what we are.” Simple as it was, that's the explanation I had __9__ for years.
Like most people, I knew who I was without __10__ it. I was Oliver Twist, always asking for more. I was Nicholas Nickleby, __11__ that my dead father was watching me from beyond the grave. I was Pip, in love with someone far beyond my __12__. I was all of these __13__ and I began to understand more about why I was who I was because Dickens had told me so much about human beings and human __14__.
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Dickens casts a light on who we are during the best of times and the worst of times. That's why we still need to __15__ him today.
篇章导读:本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。文章讲述的是我们今天仍然读Charles Dickens (查尔斯·狄更斯)的书的原因。
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1.A.always B.never
C.hardly D.often
解析:根据下文“From Oliver Twist to A Tale of Two Cities ... well today”可知,走近任何一家书店,人们都几乎不(hardly)可避免地会“偶遇”Dickens。故选C。
2.A.top B.dusty
C.library D.outstanding
解析:此处指他的书被放在显眼的(outstanding)货架上。故选D。
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3.A.profits B.sales
C.excitement D.opinions
解析:此处指Dickens笔下的人物个性鲜明,因此读者读故事时会感到很兴奋。故选C。
4.A.acceptable B.unforgettable
C.reliable D.available
解析:根据下文“‘Because he teaches you how to think,’ I said.”可知,作者当时给出的回答是可接受的。故选A。
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5.A.surprised B.bothered
C.frightened D.excited
解析:根据下文“and for years I told ... complete satisfaction”可知,学生的那个问题困扰了作者很多年。故选B。
6.A.destination B.function
C.investigation D.organization
解析:根据下文“of the human psyche (心灵) is deep”可知,此处指他对人类心理的研究很深入。故选C。
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7.A.heavily B.easily
C.hardly D.quickly
解析:根据下文“we can learn from our own experiences”可知,此处指人们可以很容易地从书中学到一些经历。故选B。
8.A.continued B.waited
C.started D.repeated
解析:根据上文“These are all ... read Dickens.”可知,作者继续寻找答案。故选A。
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9.A.sought B.proposed
C.demanded D.found
解析:根据上文“My search for an answer __8__ but never with success”可知,作者收到学生的短信后,觉得她所说的就是自己寻找多年的答案。故选A。
10.A.noticing B.losing
C.knowing D.explaining
解析:根据下文“I was Oliver Twist”可知,此处指我们在阅读Dickens的小说时把自己看作了其中的某个角色,因此不知不觉就知道自己是谁。故选C。
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11.A.hoping B.believing
C.realizing D.worrying
解析:根据下文“that my dead father was watching me from beyond the grave”可知,此处指小说人物相信自己去世的父亲在坟墓外看着自己。故选B。
12.A.control B.belief
C.comprehension D.limit
解析:此处指小说中的人物Pip (皮普)爱上了一个他不能控制的人。故选A。
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13.A.instructors B.actors
C.characters D.spirit
解析:根据上文提到的Oliver Twist,Nicholas Nickleby和Pip可知,此处指作者觉得自己就是Dickens小说里的角色。故选C。
14.A.suffering B.rights
C.impact D.nature
解析:此处指作者认为Dickens告诉了他很多关于人类和人性的事情。human nature “人性”。故选D。
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15.A.comment B.admire
C.read D.respect
解析:此处指作者明白了今天我们仍然要读Dickens的文章的原因。故选C。
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Ⅱ 阅读
Hidden in the trees, behind the leaves, look closely and you'll see eyes staring back at you. This is SlothBot, a robot inspired by the famously slow animal—sloth (树獭).
For the next several months, visitors to the Atlanta Botanical Garden will be able to observe the testing of the new hightech tool in the battle to save some of the world's most endangered species. Researchers are testing the SlothBot near the Garden's popular Canopy Walk.
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Built to take advantage of the lowenergy lifestyle of real sloths, SlothBot has demonstrated how being slow can be ideal for certain applications. Powered by solar panels and using innovative power management technology, SlothBot moves along a cable strung between two large trees as it monitors temperature, weather, carbon dioxide levels, and other information in the Garden's 30acre midtown Atlanta forest.
“Slowness is a design principle of SlothBot,” says Magnus Egerstedt, professor and chair in the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “That is not how robots are typically designed today, but being slow and energyefficient will allow SlothBot to stay in the environment to observe things we can only see by being present continuously for months, or even years.”
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About three feet long, SlothBot’s imaginative 3Dprinted shell helps protect its motors, gearing, batteries and sensing equipment from the weather. The robot is programmed to move only when necessary, and will locate sunlight when its batteries need recharging.
“The most exciting goal we’ll demonstrate with SlothBot is the union of robotics and technology with conservation,” says Emily Coffey, vice president for conservation and research at the Garden. “We do conservation research on endangered plants and ecosystems around the world, and SlothBot will help us find new and exciting ways to advance our research and conservation goals.”
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“SlothBot could do some of our research remotely and help us understand what's happening with pollinators (传粉者), interactions between plants and animals, and other phenomena that are difficult to observe otherwise,” Coffey adds.
篇章导读:本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了一款树獭机器人,它能在不干扰环境的情况下,对研究对象进行全天候的监测,以便于人类更好地保护自然生态。
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1.What do the researchers expect SlothBot to do?
A.Guard the garden. B.Attract visitors.
C.Protect real sloths. D.Help endangered species.
解析:细节理解题。根据第二段中的“For the next ... most endangered species.(在接下来的几个月里,亚特兰大植物园的游客将能够观察到这种新型高科技工具在拯救世界上一些最濒危物种的战斗中的测试。)”可知,机器人树獭的开发是为了拯救濒危物种。故选D。
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2.What does the underlined word “That” in Paragraph 4 probably refer to?
A.SlothBot. B.Slowness.
C.A design principle. D.A lowenergy style.
解析:指代判断题。根据第四段中的“Slowness is a design principle of SlothBot”以及画线词后文“is not how robots are ... or even years”可知,“慢”是树獭机器人的设计原则,“慢”不是当今机器人的典型设计理念,但缓慢和节能将使机器人在该环境中长期运转。由此可知,此处That指的是“慢”。故选B。
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3.What can we know about SlothBot?
A.It always stays still.
B.It can pollinate the plants.
C.Its shell provides protection for itself.
D.Its design will be used to study the ocean.
解析:细节理解题。根据第五段中的“About three feet long ... from the weather.(SlothBot大约三英尺长,这个富有想象力的3D打印外壳有助于保护它的马达、传动装置、电池和传感设备不受天气影响。)”可知,树獭机器人的外壳是用于保护内部装置的。故选C。
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4.What may be the best title for the text?
A.A Slowmoving Sloth Begins Life in a Garden
B.A New Robot Helps Raise Endangered Animals
C.A New Study Aids Conservation Efforts in Atlanta
D.A Conservation Robot Slowly Monitors Endangered Species
解析:标题判断题。文章介绍了一款树獭机器人,它通过对研究对象进行全天候的监测,以拯救濒危物种。D项(一个保护机器人慢慢地监控濒危物种)最适合作为文章标题。故选D。
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【持续背记】
①In this life, the most important thing is to figure out what you can do and what you can't do.
人这一生,最重要的就是弄清楚自己能力所在以及自己力不能及之事。
②But it is not until a disaster strikes that one awakens to how gentle and rare a phrase it is to live in the moment.
可直到灾难降临,人们才会幡然醒悟,活在当下,是个多么温柔又难得的词。
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③He philosophized, he admitted, not because he was certain of establishing the truth, but because it gave him pleasure.
他承认自己进行哲学探讨不是因为他确定找到了真理,而是因为那给了他很多乐趣。
【持续积累】
strike/straIk/v. 侵袭;爆发
philosophize/fə'lɒsəfaIz/v. 进行哲学探讨,理性地思考
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