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Unit 2
Inspiring People
Section B 1a-1f
What makes people admire?
It's a seed.
What is this?
They are______.
seeds
seed banks
Where are seeds stored?
What is the seed bank?
Who builds the seed bank?
a seed scientist
Look at the title of the text.
1a
What does a seed scientist do?
Do you think it is an interesting job?
This text is probably _______.
A. A news report
B. A scientific research paper
C. A biographical introduction
D. A short story
人物生平的
Listen and fill in the chart.
1a
The Inspiring Seed Scientist
Name
Lifetime
Profession
Main achievements
Influences
Zhong Yang
53 years old
a Chinese professor/
a seed scientist
C
He collected seeds from Xizang.
He trained local students in field research to become scientists.
He provided the world with lots of new information about the plants in China.
His spirit left behind a huge collection of seeds and his spirit lives on his students.
A:Training local students to do
important work
B:Introduction to Zhong Yang
and seed banks
C:What he left behind
D:Becoming interested in seeds
E:Starting to work and collect
seeds in Xizang
Read again and match each paragraph with its topic.
1c
B
D
E
A
C
On 25 September 2017, the scientific world was shaken by the news that Chinese professor Zhong Yang had died in a car accident. The well-respected biologist had spent his whole life researching plants and seeds. Over the years, he collected many important seeds for China's seed banks. These special banks protect all kinds of plant seeds, including the ones we need for food,and they make sure that important plants do not disappear from the world forever.
Read Para.1 and answer the questions
1.How does the passage begin?Why?
2. What does the writer think of Zhong Yang?
It starts with the sad news of Zhong Yang’s death in a car accident.
It was_________of Zhong Yang to__________________________.
well-respected
spend his whole life researching plants and seeds
A. all kinds of plant seeds
B. the plant seeds for food
C. these special banks
Zhong Yang was born in 1964. When he was young, he showed a deep love and curiosity for the things he studied. He was an excellent student, entering university at the early age of 15. There, he studied radio engineering and later became interested in plants. The research and study of plants, especially the seeds, became the focus of his life after he became a professor at Fudan University.
Read Para.2 and answer questions
1.How did he show a deep love and curiosity for the things he studied?
2.Why did he change his studies?
A. schoolwork
B. research
C. studying room
It is important for seed banks to include many different kinds of seeds. When Zhong Yang discovered that there was not enough research of the seeds from Xizang, he went there to collect seeds himself. In 2001, he began his travels across Xizang. It was very difficult for him to brave the cold weather and great heights. He sometimes fell sick, but he always continued with his work.
Seed banks need
many kinds of seeds
Not enough research on Xizang’s seeds
cold weather
great heights
sometimes fell sick
Read Para.3 and complete the map
Why?
A. courage
B. solve
C. overcome
Zhong Yang knew it was better to include more people when doing important work. He began a programme to find and train local students in field research to become scientists. Together, he and his team collected more than 40 million seeds from around 1,000 plants. Their hard work provided the world with lots of new information about the plants in China.
1. Zhong Yang thought important work should include ________ people.
2. He started a programme to find and _____________________ to be scientists.
3. Zhong Yang’s team collected over ________ million seeds from about ________ plants.
4. Their work offered _____________________ about Chinese plants to the world.
more
train local students
40
1000
new information
Read Para.4 and complete the sentences
Why did Zhong Yang want more people to do seed collection and research?
A.railway
B.help
C.teach
Why?
To build a richer seed bank.
One person’s power is limited.(有限的)
To pass on the spirit of exploration.
Zhong Yang left behind more than just a huge collection of seeds. His love for his job and research lives on in his students. He once said, "My students will continue on the road of scientific exploration and the seeds we have collected may grow hundreds of years from now.”
What did Zhong leave behind?
A huge collection of seeds
His spirit on his students
Read Para.5 and answer the question
not only
How does that happen?
Yu Gong Moves the Mountain
A B C
What did Zhong Yang leave behind?
What are the important events in Zhong Yang's life?
A.Zhong Yang was born.
B.He__________________at the age of 15.
C.He began__________________to train local students.
D.He died in__________________.
E.He studied__________________and later__________________.
F.He travelled around Xizang to__________________.
entered university
a programme
a car accident in 2017
radio engineering
became interested in plants
collect seeds
1d
A
B
E
F
C
D
1979
2001
What is the turning point of his life?
What is the highlight of his life?
This text is written in the order of ___.
A. time
B. space
C. logic
D. the development of a story
How does this passage show Zhong Yang is an inspiring scientist?
What makes him admirable?
It was adj. of /for sb to do....
It was adj. that...
1.Someone related to Chinese history and culture:中国历史文化维度
2.Someone discovered great science and technology:重大科技发现维度:
3.Someone has a big influence on China and the world:中国当代社会及至世界产生深远影响:
4.The role model of the times in China:
中国时代楷模
5.Common people
What can we learn from him?
Discuss in groups.
A. Practice makes perfect.
B.It's never too old to learn.
C.The first step is always the most difficult one.
D.Stick to what you love and carry forward.
The Inspiring Seed Scientist: Zhong Yang
Life ends, but spirits live on.
Inspiring people show us the way forward.
Language points
1.种子科学家
2.被......震惊
3.受人尊敬的
4.用一生在......方面
5.种子库
6.对......深沉的爱
7.无线电工程
8.变得对......感兴趣
9.生活的焦点
10. 生病
11.为......提供......
12.留下,遗留
13.继续存在,继续活着
14.科学探索
Unit 2
Inspiring People
Reading plus
Edward Jenner and the Battle Against Smallpox
Watch and say
Smallpox.
/ˈsmɔːlpɒks/
Edward Jenner.
Watch and say
Read the text. What was Edward Jenner’s major achievement?
1
A. He became one of the best doctors in the world.
B. He developed a new way to do science.
C. He found a way to protect people from a disease.
Number the events in Edward Jenner’s life in the order they happened.
2
____ A. born in England in 1749
____ B. became a family doctor
____ C. developed a vaccine for smallpox
____ D. became a doctor’s apprentice
____ E. went to London to study there
____ E. moved back to the countryside
1
5
6
2
3
4
Write short answers to the questions.
3
1. What was Jenner interested in when he was young?
2. Why did Jenner go back to the countryside?
3. What did Jenner notice about milkmaids?
4. Where did the word “vaccine” come from?
He was interested in nature and medicine.
He wanted to work as a family doctor and observe local patients closely.
He noticed milkmaids who caught cowpox never got smallpox.
It came from the Latin word "vacca", which means cow.
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