Unit 1 外刊撷英-（配套教参）【学霸笔记·同步精讲】2024-2025学年高中英语选择性必修第四册（外研版）

本讲义聚焦科幻文学阅读理解、词汇学习与写作表达核心知识点，通过《The Lost Cause》书评文本分析（涵盖情节、人物冲突等），衔接词汇注释与匹配练习，再延伸至写作任务（介绍科幻小说），构建“输入-内化-输出”的学习支架。 该资料特色在于融合语言能力（词汇注释及匹配题提升词汇理解与运用）、思维品质（分析小说中主角与祖父的观念冲突培养批判思维）、学习能力（写作范文引导学生模仿创作）。实例如词汇匹配题巩固词义，写作任务提供表达模板。课中辅助教师引导文本深度解读，课后助力学生词汇复习与写作练习，有效弥补表达短板。

The Review About The Lost Cause Adapted from Strange Horizons 20240205 In his latest fiction, Doctorow seems to be trying to find an answer to a very contemporary problem: what do you do with people who are messing up① every good thing that you and your community might have achieved? How do you coexist with people who do not share your sense of reality, of the purpose of a society? The Lost Cause is presented② as a science fiction novel, but it reads more like a thought experiment. At a plot③ level, the novel follows high school graduate Brooks Palazzo as he navigates④ the world of Burbank, California, thirty years into the future. The effects of climate change are more visible in the United States by this time: weather patterns have changed, wildfires are rampant⑤ and unpredictable, and coastal cities across the country are at risk of being submerged⑥ due to the rising sea levels, all of which give rise to⑦ refugee⑧ populations moving across the country in search for more habitable places to live in. Brooks is the son of environmental activists⑨ who died fighting wildfires and was raised by his very conservative⑩ grandfather. Brooks often finds himself at odds with⑪ the views held by his grandfather. And this tension⑫ lies at the core of the book, in the conflict between progressive initiatives. Brooks had a very real chance of being a complicated person stuck between two conflicting movements, questioning each of their claims and outcomes. Instead, we see a young man with a firm belief in his ideal—someone who, as a nineteen-year-old, has already considered every possible opposition⑬ to his arguments, and is sure that he would never change his mind, and neither would anyone else. Doubt, in the book, exists only fleetingly⑭， and is intended to underscore⑮ his commitments. This is not necessarily a bad thing. We do need people of steadfast⑯， unshakable idealism working to make the world a better place. I'd argue that this book's practical idealism is its greatest gift! This is a book of ideas, of real progressive and actionable ideas. The book shows us an alternative to the doom⑰ and gloom⑱ that often accompanies the machinations⑲ of politics for most people today. That's where the book shines: it imagines a future worth fighting for and provides a solution to nihilism⑳. ①mess up 搞砸；弄乱 ②present v. 显示；展现 ③plot n. 情节 ④navigate v. 航行 ⑤rampant adj. 泛滥的 ⑥submerge v. 淹没 ⑦give rise to 造成；导致 ⑧refugee n. 避难者；逃亡者 ⑨activist n. 积极分子 ⑩conservative adj. 保守的 ⑪at odds with 与……不一致 ⑫tension n. 紧张 ⑬opposition n. 反对 ⑭fleetingly adv. 短暂地 ⑮underscore v. 强调 ⑯steadfast adj. 坚定的 ⑰doom n. 厄运；毁灭 ⑱gloom n. 黑暗；忧郁 ⑲machination n. 诡计；阴谋 ⑳nihilism n. 虚无主义 答案：1.latest　2.to coexist　3.as　4.effects　5.moving　6.was raised　7.held　8.but　9.working　10.an 1．contemporary adj.　 A．to exist together in the same place, especially in a peaceful way 2．coexist v. B．a person who has completed their school studies 3．graduate n. C．an idea or standard that seems perfect, and worth trying to achieve 4．visible adj. D．belonging to the present time 5．ideal n. E．a thing that you can choose to do out of two or more possibilities 6．alternative n. F．that is obvious enough to be noticed 答案：1～5.DABFC　6.E Please introduce your favourite science fiction. One possible version： The science fiction I like most is The Three-Body Problem which gives me surprises and excitement. The novel, written by Chinese author Liu Cixin, follows the story of Ye Wenjie and Wang Miao, two scientists in the very near future. Ye, whose father was an astrophysicist, joins a secret project to contact aliens. Meanwhile, Wang gets into an online video game called “Three Body”. It is about aliens who are trying to deal with life on a planet with three suns. But Wang discovers the game is more than it seems—it is a danger not only to humans but also to our understanding of physics. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $