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Section Ⅳ “Developing ideas”的课文习读环节
泛读课文,完成以下学习任务
(一)理清文脉结构
(二)把握主旨大意
What is the main idea of the passage?
A.The night sky.
B.Development of telescopes.
C.The Hubble Space Telescope.
D.The first Earthbased telescope.
答案:B
精读课文,完成以下学习任务
(一)阅读理解
1.What did ancient people use to create a world in the sky?
A.Imaginations. B.Their eyes.
C.Bronze statues. D.Archaeological sites.
2.What the main function of the Hubble Space Telescope?
A.Taking pictures of the universe beyond the earth.
B.Working out the age of the universe alone.
C.Discovering new planets with life.
D.Making the universe expanding more and more.
3.What is “Eye of Heaven” used for?
A.Building more advanced telescopes.
B.Searching for dark matter.
C.Replacing ordinary telescopes.
D.Exploring the edge of the sky.
4.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A.There was no need to explore the early universe.
B.We humans have explored the universe for the most part.
C.We have seen stars and galaxies billions of light years away.
D.Larger radio telescopes will do more to help us explore the universe.
答案:1~4 AABD
(二)阅读表达
1.What dramatically changed our power to investigate and understand space?
The_invention_of_the_first_telescope.
2.How much do you know about the FAST telescope?
As_the_largest_and_most_powerful_radio_telescope_in_the_world,_it_will_remain_a_worldclass_telescope_for_the_next_20_to_30_years._The_new_design_idea,_combined_with_the_unique_location_advantage,_has_pushed_the_telescope_beyond_the_100meter_engineering_limit,_creating_a_new_model_for_the_construction_of_giant_radio_telescopes.
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本文是一篇说明文。文章按照时间顺序介绍了人类探索太空所使用的望远镜的发展历程,并在最后指出宇宙还有很多的未知领域,探索太空人类只是刚刚起步,因此人类还需要不断地探索,同时也表明人类对未知领域的好奇心和求知欲。阅读时既要通过查找时间关键词把握行文脉络,又要在把握语篇整体结构的前提下,深度理解文章的主题意义。
(一)赏用词之妙
1.Our power to investigate and thus understand space changed dramatically when the first telescope was angled at the night sky, ...
赏析:本句中使用了高级词汇dramatically,表明第一台望远镜的发明彻底改变了人类探索和理解太空的能力。
2. ... giving astronomers — indeed all of us — the first breathtakingly beautiful images of our universe taken from beyond Earth.
赏析:本句中的breathtakingly加强了语气,形象地表达了人们对宇宙中奇妙的景色的感叹之意。
①The sky dramatically_changed from bright blue to dark gray as the storm approached.
暴风雨来临时,天空从明亮的蓝色急剧变成了深灰色。
②The highland landscape is_breathtakingly_beautiful at any time of year.
高原景色在一年中的任何时候都是美不胜收的。
(二)赏句式之高
1. ... increasing as it did the power of the human eye and enabling us to understand that the universe is far larger than was previously imaginable.
赏析:此处运用了现在分词短语increasing ... and enabling ...作状语,其中又含有that引导的宾语从句,具体解释了第一台望远镜的发明对宇宙探索的影响。
2.The planets were seen to be worlds similar to our own, many of them even having their own moons.
赏析:本句中运用了独立主格结构,言简意赅地介绍了这些行星的情况。
The network news is equipped with pictures and videos, enabling_readers_to_appreciate_the_news_in_a_lively_and_visual_way.
网络新闻配有图片和视频,使读者能够以生动、直观的方式欣赏新闻。
(三)赏修辞之功
1.Some 300 years later, we learnt that the Milky Way itself was just one galaxy among billions of others, spread across the blackness of space like great islands of light and matter floating in a vast cosmic ocean.
赏析:本句中运用了明喻的修辞手法,将银河系比作漂浮在宇宙汪洋中的一座光与物质组成的大型岛屿,形象地说明了银河系只是无数星系之一。除了介词like, 连词as, as if, as ...as,系动词seem,以及句型A is to B what C is to D等表示“好像”意义的词汇与句式都可以用来构成比喻句。
2.So much of the universe remains unexplored that we are still close to the start of this incredible journey of discovery.
赏析:本句中运用了暗喻的修辞手法,将人类对宇宙的探索比作一段奇幻发现之旅,表明了对宇宙探索的无限向往。
①(完成句子)The stars twinkled in the night sky
as_if_they_were_countless_diamonds_scattered across a black velvet cloth.
夜空中的星星闪烁着,仿佛是无数颗钻石散落在黑色的丝绒上。
②(翻译句子) His laughter was music to my ears.
他的笑声就像音乐一样动听。
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