Unit 4 Breaking boundaries 一轮词汇复习课件 -2026届高三英语外研版选择性必修第二册

2026 高三一轮复习 词汇复习 Unit 4 Breaking Boundaries 话题： 人与社会 MY 100 DAYS WITH MSF 22 March 2015 Today we celebrate. It’s exactly one month since the last ________ (report) case. But it is vital not ________ (take) any chances. So. 20 health care workers from almost as many countries, comrades in arms, raise virtual glasses to each other. I arrived in Liberia with MSF almost three months ago. When I saw the ________ (tragedy) scenes on the news, I felt it was my duty as a doctor ________ (go) there and offer my help. I knew I was putting my life ________ risk, but I thought, “If I don’t do it. who will?” It is important to remember that Ebola doesn’t respect national boundaries. There are no borders for doctors, for patients or for anyone else involved in ________ (combat) this terrible disease. reported to take tragic to go at combating My mission was ________ (relieve) Emma, a Canadian specialist ________ infectious diseases at the end of her posting. Emma spent an hour with me in the staff room ________ (talk) me through the daily routine. As she talked, I could hear at least three different languages being spoken at the tables around us. Later, Emma introduced me ________ some of the others working for or alongside MSF: Wilton, a young local man, who helped carry the very sick into the treatment clinic and who disinfected clothing and surfaces; Maisy, a retired public health official from Darwin, Australia, ________ local team of volunteers educated people on preventing ________ (infect); Alfonso, a soft-spoken Argentinian doctor in his ________ (fifty), who had previously worked on Ebola ________ (outbreak) in Sierra Leone and Guinea. The list went on. I found that I was the only Chinese doctor among people of all ages, colours and ________ (belief), from every continent except Antarctica. With each person I met, I felt a growing sense of pride as part of this extraordinary team, _________ devotion to the cause ________ (shine) from their eyes. to relieve in talking to whose infection fifties outbreaks beliefs whose shone In the few weeks since then, I ________ (come) to know these people very well. We have worked together, _________ (surround) by blood, vomit and death. But, although the death rate is very high, we will never give up ________ a patient, and our efforts do sometimes end in miracles. Just after my arrival, a family of six ________ (bring) here in the back of a van. All of them were infected. The twin girls and their parents soon died. We knew there was little hope for the brothers, but we did everything we could _________ (save) them. When we visited the ward the next morning, we were amazed to see that against all odds, both boys were still ________ (live). Pascal and Daniel have since made a full ________ (recover). This small but unexpected success compensated ________ many other less fortunate cases. have come surrounded on were brought to save alive recovery for To be caught up in such a crisis ________ (create) powerful bonds between people, not only between carers and patients, but also between all those ________ have come from different parts of the world and joined together in a common cause. It is so ________ (inspire) to have colleagues like Wilton, Maisy, and Alfonso, not to mention all the others I have worked with. Now my time is almost up. In a few days, someone else will arrive to step into my shoes, and the tireless work that the MSF members do in more than 70 countries and regions around the world will go on. In a world still ________ (face) so many problems, it is absolutely essential for us all to collaborate to create a ________ (globe) community with a ________ (share) future of peace and prosperity. creates who inspiring facing global shared 1.boundary n.边界 2.statistic n.统计数据 3. assist v 协助（help/aid）→assistance n帮助，援助→assistant n 助手，助理 assist sb. with sth 帮助某人某事 assist sb. to do sth. 帮助某人做某事 assist sb. in doing sth. 帮助某人做某事 4. tackle v 处理，对付难题，与…交谈，与…交涉 tackle sb. about sth. 与某人商谈某事 deal with 处理，应对= do with = cope with 5. vital adj 极其重要的 (essential) be vital to / for 对…很重要 of vital importance 至关重要 It is vital to do sth. …..是极其重要的 It is / was vital that + 句子 （句子中谓语动词用 should+动词原形，should可以省略）…..是极其重要的 6.tragic adj.悲惨的；不幸的 7.combat 与···战斗；防止；抑制 8.relieve v.使减轻→relieved adj.宽心的；宽慰的 9.specialist n.专家(expert) 10. infectious adj 传染性的，有感染力的→infect v 传染 → infection n 传染，感染 11.clinic n.诊所 12.disinfect v.给···消毒→disinfectant n 消毒剂 13.outbreak n.爆发，突然发生 14.devotion 忠诚，热爱，专心 15.vomit n.呕吐物 v.呕吐 16.miracle n.奇迹，不平凡的事，意外的幸运事（wonder） 17.ward n.病房 18.compensate v.补偿，弥补（make up for） 19.collaborate v.合作，协作 20.mankind 人类 21.gender discrimination 性别歧视 22. realistic adj 能够实现的，现实的→unrealistic adj 不现实的，不切实际的→realistically adv 现实地， 实在地 23. minority n 少数派，少数→ minor adj 较小的，次要的 be in a / the minority 占少数，成为少数派 minimum adj 最小的，最少的 n最小量 major adj 重要的，多数的 → majority n 多数，大多数 24. cast v 选派（角色）, 投票，扔，投下(AAA)n.全体演员，投 拓展： cast sb. as … 选派某人饰演 cast a vote / ballot 投票 (be）cast down 使沮丧，使失望 25.inclusive adj.包括的，包容广阔 26. joint adj 联合的，共同的→ jointly adv 共同地，连带地 make a joint effort to do sth 共同努力做某事 27. harmonious adj 和睦的，融洽的，悦耳的， 颜色协调的→harmony n一致，和谐，融和→ harmonize v协调，和谐 in / out of harmony with … 与…协调 / 不协调 harmonize …. with…. 使….与….协调 28.mutual efforts/support/benefits 29. rewarding adj 值得做的，有意义的,报酬高的→ reward n 报酬，酬劳 v 报酬，答谢 (award , prize) The Words That Changed A Nation ________ a grey afternoon on 19 November 1863, a tall, thin man mounted a platform in a field in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and began to speak. The place was the site of a recent battle ________ thousands of soldiers had died. The man was Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and he was there in memory of the soldiers who had died. The speech he gave ________ (be) just 268 words long and lasted two minutes. But this address ________ the crowd changed the minds of his people and helped shape a nation. At that time, America was ________ (bitter) divided. For two years, its people ________ (be) deep in a civil war between the slave-owning Confederate Southern States and the “free” Northern States of the Union. The ________ (bad) battle lasted three days and took place at Gettysburg in 1863. The Union side won, ________ at a great cost. Over 50, 000 soldiers were killed or wounded, and people lost hope and purpose. ________ was all this suffering for? On where was to bitterly had been worst but What Lincoln understood the feelings of the civilian people. Hi speech gave them hope, belief and a reason ________ (look) to the future. He gave them a new vision of ________ the United States of America should be, ________ (base) on the ideas set down by its Founding Fathers 87 years before. It was what the soldiers had died for. Now it was up to the living to remove not only the divisions between North and South, ________ the boundaries between black and white, and work step by step towards the ________ (equal) of humankind. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition ________ all men are created equal. to look what based but equality that Now we are engaged in a great civil war, ________ (test) whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it ________ a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether ________ (fit) and proper that we should do this. testing as fitting But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, ________ struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power _________ (add) or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so ________ (noble) carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task ________ (remain) before us — that from these honored dead we take increased ________ (devote) to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. (“The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln) who to add, nobly remaining devotion 1. mount v 走上，登上，准备，安排(arrange)，上升，增加 n 山，峰 climb v 爬山 ascend vi 一直上升 mount 作为名词时，孤岛，孤山前一般不用冠词 Mount Tai 泰山 2. civil adj 公平的，国民的，国内的→ civilian n 平民 adj 平民的，百姓的→ civilization n文明，文化，文明社会 civil war 内战 civilian clothes 便服 3.slave n.奴隶，生活方式受支配的人 4.confederate adj.联盟的，同盟的 5. division n 分歧，分裂， 部门，除法→divide v 分开，分隔，分离 separate v 分开 division between / with / among…. …..之间的分歧 6. bring forth 使产生， 使出现 bring about 导致，引起 bring in 引进，吸收 bring up 抚养，呕吐 bring back 使回忆起，恢复 7.liberty n自由→ liberate v 解放 → liberal adj 思想开明的 at liberty 自由的 take liberty with 任意篡改 be at liberty to do sth. 有权做某事 violate sb’s liberty 侵犯某人的自由 guard / safeguard the liberty of … 保护….的自由 allow / grant sb. the liberty of … 允许某人自由地…. freedom n 自由 freedom from sth. 从某事物中摆脱 -liber / -liver （释放）： deliberate adj 故意的，v 仔细思考 deliver v 递送 8.dedicate oneself/sth to (doing) sth 致力于做某事 9.endure v.忍受（bear），持续，持久（last） endure doing /to do 忍受做某事 10. a major portion 大部分 11. altogether adv 完全，总共(in all/in total),总的来说（all in all） not altogether 并不全是 all together 全体在一起，同时在一起 12.detract from 减损，破坏（不用于进行时） 13.noble adj.贵族的，崇高的，宏伟的→ nobly adv 高尚地 14. in vain 白白地 拓展： vain adj 徒然的， 无益的，自负的 in the vain hope 徒然 vain attempt 徒劳的尝试 15.perish v.死亡 16. influential adj 有影响力的→ influence n / v 影响 be influential in …. 对….有影响力 17.communist n.共产主义者 adj 共产主义的 18.prejudice n.偏见v 使抱偏见→prejudiced adj.有偏见，歧视的 have a prejudice against sb $