摘要:
该初中英语知识清单围绕“卫星时代的开启”主题,系统梳理Unit 6 Reading Plus核心内容。从1957年Sputnik 1发射事件切入,涵盖卫星相关词汇(satellite, launch等)、语法点(现在分词作定语/状语、定语从句、被动语态等),延伸至通信、气象、定位卫星的应用,构建“事件-语言知识-实际应用”的学习支架。
知识链路按“事件描述-词汇语法解析-应用拓展”逻辑清晰呈现,每个句子配套词汇注释、语法点分析及多样化练习(词性转换、改错、填空等)。通过语境化学习提升语言能力,练习设计促进思维品质发展,系统梳理培养学习能力,体现“学用结合”的英语学科特色。
内容正文:
Unit 6 Reading Plus 知识点精讲
句子 1
In October 1957, people listening to radios around the world heard something no one had ever heard before.
satellite /ˈsætəlaɪt/n. 卫星 man-made adj. 人造的
listening to radios 现在分词作后置定语修饰 people;something 后省略关系代词 that,定语从句 no one had ever heard before 使用过去完成时,表示 “在此之前从未听过”。
翻译:1957 年 10 月,全世界收听收音机的人们听到了一种前所未有的声音。
拓展例句
People living in the city can watch live shows through satellites.
配套练习
①词性转换:man-made(同义短语)→made by humans
②改错:People watch TV listen to the satellite signals. listen→listening
句子 2
Millions of people sat round their radios just listening for this beep.
millions of 数百万的;sit round 围坐在…… 旁;listen for 留心听(等待某种声音);beep n. 滴滴声
listening for this beep 现在分词作伴随状语,表人们坐着的同时一直在做的动作。
翻译:数百万人围坐在收音机旁,静静等候这滴滴声响。
配套练习
填空:He stood by the window, ________ (wait) for the satellite news. 答案:waiting
句子 3
The amazing thing was the place where it came from— space.
amazing adj. 令人惊叹的;space n. 太空;come from 来自
where 引导定语从句修饰先行词 the place,破折号用来解释说明 place 具体是 space。
翻译:真正令人震撼的是这声音的来源 —— 太空。
句子 4
The beep came from the world's first man-made satellite, Sputnik 1.
the world’s first 世界首个;man-made satellite 人造卫星
Sputnik 1 同位语,补充说明前面 satellite 的名称。
翻译:这滴滴声来自人类第一颗人造卫星斯普特尼克一号。
句子 5
Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.
launch /lɔːntʃ/v. 发射;Soviet Union 苏联;年份、具体日期前介词用 on
一般过去时被动语态 be launched by… 由…… 发射。
翻译:斯普特尼克一号于 1957 年 10 月 4 日由苏联发射升空。
配套练习
填空:Many new satellites ________ (launch) every year now. 答案:are launched
句子 6
It was round, made of metal, and more than two times larger than a basketball.
be made of 由…… 制成(能看出原材料);two times larger than 比…… 大两倍(倍数比较级)
三个并列表语 round /made of metal /more than two times larger,共用系动词 was。
翻译:它外形呈球形,由金属打造,体积比篮球大两倍多。
配套练习
翻译:这座塔是由石头建成的。The tower is made of stone.
句子 7
It weighed about 84 kilograms, travelled at 29,000 kilometres an hour, and took 96.2 minutes to circle Earth.
weigh v. 重量为;kilogram n. 千克;at + 速度 以…… 速度;circle v. 环绕…… 运行
三个并列谓语动词 weighed, travelled, took;固定句型 it takes + 时长 + to do sth. 做某事花费多久。
翻译:它重约 84 千克,运行时速 29000 千米,环绕地球一圈需要 96.2 分钟。
配套练习
填空:It takes satellites months ________ (circle) the whole earth many times. 答案:to circle
句子 8
Sputnik 1 stopped beeping when its radio battery died on 26 October, and it burnt up when it fell back to Earth on 4 January 1958.
stop doing sth. 停止做某事;battery n. 电池;die v. 耗尽电量;burn up 烧毁;fall back to 落回
两个 when 分别引导时间状语从句,and 连接前后两个并列复合句。
翻译:10 月 26 日卫星无线电电池耗尽,滴滴声就此停止;1958 年 1 月 4 日,它落回大气层并焚毁。
配套练习
填空:When the battery ________ (die), the machine stops working. 答案:dies
句子 9
The launch of Sputnik 1 also began the age of satellites.
launch n. 发射;the age of …… 的时代
of 所有格,the launch of Sputnik 1 斯普特尼克一号的发射。
翻译:斯普特尼克一号的发射也开启了卫星时代。
句子 10
Through them, we can better understand the world we live in.
through prep. 通过;better adv. 更好地;the world we live in 省略关系代词的定语从句,我们所生活的世界
翻译:借助这些卫星,我们能更好地认识我们赖以生存的地球。
句子 11
They also send back photographs that help us to make better maps of our world.
send back 传回;photograph n. 照片;that 引导定语从句修饰 photographs
翻译:卫星还会传回影像照片,帮助我们绘制更精准的世界地图。
配套练习
填空:The pictures ________ satellites send back are very clear. 答案:that
句子 12
Communication satellites were also soon developed.
communication satellite 通信卫星;develop v. 研发,研制
一般过去时被动语态 were developed 被研发出来。
翻译:通信卫星很快也被研制出来。
句子 13
These allow TV and radio signals to be sent across oceans or to places thousands of kilometres away.
signal n. 信号;allow sth. to be done 允许某物被……;across oceans 跨越大洋;thousands of kilometres away 数千公里之外
不定式被动结构 to be sent 作宾语补足语。
翻译:这类卫星可以让电视、无线电信号跨越大洋,传输到数千公里之外的地区。
配套练习
改错:Satellites allow signals send to faraway places. send→to be sent
句子 14
Weather satellites soon followed. These can tell us when a storm is coming or whether it will snow next week.
weather satellite 气象卫星;storm n. 暴风雨;when /whether 分别引导宾语从句作 tell 的宾语
翻译:气象卫星紧随其后问世。它们能预判暴风雨何时来袭,或是下周是否会下雪。
句子 15
One new kind of satellite that is now becoming more useful to the public is the positioning satellite.
positioning satellite 定位卫星;the public 公众;that 引导定语从句修饰 satellite
主系表结构,主语较长,定语从句修饰主语。
翻译:如今对大众越来越实用的一类新型卫星是定位卫星。
句子 16
This satellite works with a highly complicated system, like the BDS (BeiDou Navigation Satellite System), which can tell us where our car or even our mobile phone is.
highly complicated 高度复杂的;navigation n. 导航;which 引导非限制性定语从句修饰 BDS;where 引导宾语从句
翻译:这种卫星依靠一套高度复杂的系统运行,例如北斗卫星导航系统,它能定位我们的汽车甚至手机的位置。
配套练习
词性转换:complicate(形容词)→complicated
句子 17
It seems that there is no end to the possible uses of satellites.
It seems that… 看起来……;there is no end to …… 永无止境;use n. 用途
that 引导表语从句,固定句型 It seems that。
翻译:卫星的潜在用途似乎无穷无尽。
配套练习
翻译:人类探索太空的脚步永无止境。There is no end to human space exploration.
句子 18
The only real limit to their use is our own imagination.
limit n. 限制,局限;imagination n. 想象力;the limit to sth. …… 的局限(固定介词 to)
翻译:制约卫星应用的唯一真正局限,是我们自身的想象力。
配套练习
填空:What is the limit ________ your dream? 答案:to
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