Unit 1 Section Ⅱ Reading and Thinking-【金版新学案】2025-2026学年高中英语必修第二册同步课堂高效讲义教师用书（人教版）

Section Ⅱ　Reading and Thinking

Step One：Pre-reading

Look at the pictures below and answer the following questions：

1．What are the two pictures?

Picture 1 is the statues of human face.Picture 2 is the statues of a temple.They are cultural relics.

2．Which country may they be about?

They are about Egypt.

Step Two：While-reading

Ⅰ.Read for the main idea

What's the main idea of the passage?

A．Egypt built a dam to benefit the local people.

B．We can combine making progress with preserving cultural relics by working together.

C．How did the Aswan Dam come into being?

D．Any problem can be solved by working together.

答案：B

Ⅱ.Match the main idea with each paragraph

Para.1　A．The spirit of the Aswan Dam project is still alive today.

Para.2    B．When the project ended in 1980，it was considered a great success.

Para.3    C．How were the cultural relics protected?

Para.4    D．A committee was established to limit damage to the Egyptian buildings and prevent the loss of cultural relics.

Para.5    E．Big challenges，however，can sometimes lead to great solutions.

Para.6    F．Finding and keeping the right balance between progress and the protection of cultural sites can be a big challenge.

答案：Paras.1～6　FEDCBA

Ⅲ.Read for the structure

Ⅳ.Read for details

1．Read Paras. 1－2 and answer the following questions.

(1)Why did the Egyptian government want to build a new dam in the 1950s?

A．To improve the economy.

B．To improve transportation.

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C．To build a tourist attraction.

D．To benefit the area.

答案：D

(2)Why did the building of the dam lead to protests?

A．It would damage the fields.

B．It would cost a lot of money.

C．It would damage the cultural relics.

D．It would damage natural environment.

答案：C

(3)Before the building of the dam，what problems did the Nile river bring to the Egyptians?

Floods，droughts and not enough electricity.

(4)Why did the government ask the UN for help?

Because water from the dam would likely damage a number of temples and destroy cultural relics that were an important part of Egypt's cultural heritage.

2．Read Paras. 3－4 and answer the following questions.

(1)How did the government save the cultural relics?

A．By stopping the project.

B．By moving them to a safe place.

C．By repairing cultural relics.

D．By calling for donation.

答案：B

(2)Which one can describe the project?

A．Successful.    B．Negative.

C．Useless.    D．Doubtful.

答案：A

(3)What words can you think of to describe the working process of the project?

It was really hard，complicated and amazing.

3．Read Paras. 5－6 and answer the following questions.

(1)What can be learned from the Aswan Dam project?

A．It is not suitable for the present time.

B．The protection of cultural sites is easy.

C．The cooperation can solve difficult problems.

D．The cultural heritages are disappearing because of construction.

答案：C

(2)How many years did it take to rebuild the cultural relics?

Twenty years.

(3)What is the most important to rebuild the cultural relics?

Running a programme by UNESCO.

4．What do you think of the spirit of the Aswan Dam project? How can we use it in our study and life? (General Thinking概括性思维)

The spirit of the Aswan Dam project is in fact the team spirit.And it needs cooperation of all sides.We can study and work together to solve the difficult problems in our study and life.

5．As students，what should we do to protect the cultural heritages? (Creative Thinking创造性思维)