Unit 3 The world of science词汇专项提升训练-2026-2027学年外研版高中英语必修第三册

外研版高中英语必修第三册

Unit3 The world of science词汇专项提升训练

一、重点单词词性转换

1. science (n.) 科学 → ________ (adj.) 科学的 → ________ (adv.) 科学地
2. experiment (n.) 实验 → ________ (adj.) 实验的 → ________ (adv.) 实验上
3. theory (n.) 理论 → ________ (adj.) 理论的 → ________ (adv.) 理论上
4. discover (v.) 发现 → ________ (n.) 发现 → ________ (n.) 发现者
5. invent (v.) 发明 → ________ (n.) 发明 → ________ (n.) 发明家
6. analyse (v.) 分析 → ________ (n.) 分析 → ________ (adj.) 分析的
7. observe (v.) 观察 → ________ (n.) 观察 → ________ (n.) 观察者
8. prove (v.) 证明 → ________ (n.) 证据 → ________ (adj.) 已证明的
9. hypothesis (n.) 假设 → ________ (adj.) 假设的 → ________ (adv.) 假设地
10. technology (n.) 技术 → ________ (adj.) 技术的 → ________ (adv.) 技术上
11. develop (v.) 发展 → ________ (n.) 发展 → ________ (adj.) 发展的
12. apply (v.) 应用；申请 → ________ (n.) 应用；申请 → ________ (n.) 申请人
13. cure (v.) 治愈 → ________ (adj.) 可治愈的 → ________ (adj.) 无法治愈的
14. evidence (n.) 证据 → ________ (adj.) 明显的 → ________ (adv.) 显然
15. conclude (v.) 得出结论 → ________ (n.) 结论 → ________ (adj.) 决定性的
16. measure (v.) 测量 → ________ (n.) 测量 → ________ (adj.) 可测量的
17. calculate (v.) 计算 → ________ (n.) 计算 → ________ (n.) 计算器
18. accurate (adj.) 精确的 → ________ (n.) 精确性 → ________ (adv.) 精确地
19. significant (adj.) 显著的 → ________ (n.) 重要性 → ________ (adv.) 显著地
20. repeat (v.) 重复 → ________ (n.) 重复 → ________ (adj.) 重复的
21. physics (n.) 物理学 → ________ (adj.) 身体的；物理的 → ________ (adv.) 身体上
22. examine (v.) 检查 → ________ (n.) 检查；考试 → ________ (n.) 主考人

二、根据括号里单词的正确形式填空

1. It took the team eleven years of careful ________ (analyse) before they could explain why the cells of the sick mice had changed so quickly in the warm laboratory.
2. The ________ (discover) that the virus could pass from person to person was made by a young doctor in Guangzhou in 2003, and it changed public health for ever.

3. Her ________ (observe) of the night sky, recorded in six notebooks between 1998 and 2004, later helped astronomers confirm the orbit of a new comet.
4. The ________ (prove) that the drug worked came only after three separate laboratories had repeated the test with samples taken from patients in different countries.
5. Scientists must test a ________ (theory) idea against the real world before they can claim that it works, however elegant it looks on paper or in a lecture hall.
6. So unusual were the ________ (experiment) results that the professor asked two colleagues in Berlin to repeat the whole procedure with fresh samples of the same material.
7. He was ________ (apply) for a place on the research programme when the laboratory in Zurich offered him a job that he had not even applied for.
8. The ________ (develop) of a cheap vaccine took nearly fifteen years, yet it now protects two million children a year, many of whom live far from any hospital.
9. ________ (compare) with the old method, the new technique is faster, cheaper and far more accurate on small samples, which matters most in small rural clinics.
10. The ________ (invent) of the microscope opened a world that nobody had ever imagined, full of creatures too small to see and too strange to describe.
11. It was ________ (science) proven that the water was safe, yet many villagers still refused to drink it and walked two kilometres to a spring instead.
12. A good ________ (science) knows that a single result proves very little until it has been repeated several times by other people working in other laboratories.
13. What changed everything was not a machine but a simple new way of storing, copying and sharing data, a ________ (technology) advance that cost almost nothing.
14. ________ (base) on the data from twelve hospitals, the report concludes that the treatment works best in children under ten and in adults over sixty who have no other illness.
15. The ________ (conclude) of the study, published in March, surprised even the researchers who had designed it, since they had expected exactly the opposite result.
16. Every ________ (measure) was taken twice, once at dawn and once at dusk, to avoid the effects of temperature on the instruments in the open field.
17. Careful ________ (calculate) showed that the satellite would pass within forty kilometres of the earth's surface, close enough to be seen with the naked eye.
18. Modern instruments are far more ________ (accuracy) than the ones used by scientists a hundred years ago, yet a careless reading, which takes ten seconds, can still ruin a year of work.

19. There has been a ________ (significance) rise in the number of girls studying physics since 2010, though they still make up only a quarter of the class.
20. Another team's ________ (repeat) of the experiment gave exactly the same result, which strengthened the case for publishing the findings in a major journal that autumn.
21. Her interest in ________ (physical) began when her father bought her a small telescope at the age of nine, and it survived every examination she later failed.
22. A doctor ________ (examine) the sample under the microscope for nearly an hour before he found the strange cells that nobody in the laboratory could explain.
23. No ________ (evident) was found to support the claim, so the paper was refused by the journal and the author had to begin again from nothing.
24. ________ (have) tested the material at temperatures above a thousand degrees, the engineers were confident that it would survive the fierce heat of the launch.
25. Working in the Arctic for four months, the ________ (research) collected ice samples that no one had ever studied and recorded the temperature every three hours.
26. Nobody could ________ (hypothesis) why the metal became heavier overnight, until a student noticed that it was slowly absorbing oxygen from the damp air of the cellar.
27. In hospitals the ________ (apply) of this discovery has already saved thousands of premature babies, and it costs less than a single night in intensive care, which few families can afford.
28. Scientists now believe that the disease is ________ (cure) if it is found in its first three months, which is why early testing matters so much.
29. ________ (judge) from the early results, the treatment may be ready for general use within five years, though two more large trials are still needed.
30. An ________ (observe) who had watched the birds for thirty years noticed the change before any machine did, simply by counting the nests on the cliff.

三、根据句子中首字母提示完成合适的单词填空

1. The s________ community welcomed the news, though a few experts warned that the result had to be checked by two other teams before anyone celebrated.
2. Her r________ into sleep and memory has taken her from Beijing to Boston and back again over twenty years, and it has changed how schools timetable lessons.
3. Our teacher's e________ was simple: put one plant in the light and one in a dark cupboard, then measure both after a week and compare the leaves.
4. Darwin's t________ of evolution was attacked for decades before it was finally accepted by most biologists, and even now it is argued about in some schools.

参考答案

一、重点单词词性转换。

1. scientific; scientifically
2. experimental; experimentally
3. theoretical; theoretically
4. discovery; discoverer
5. invention; inventor
6. analysis; analytical
7. observation; observer
8. proof; proven
9. hypothetical; hypothetically
10. technological; technologically
11. development; developmental
12. application; applicant
13. curable; incurable
14. evident; evidently
15. conclusion; conclusive
16. measurement; measurable
17. calculation; calculator
18. accuracy; accurately
19. significance; significantly
20. repetition; repetitive
21. physical; physically
22. examination; examiner

二、根据括号里单词的正确形式填空。

1. analysis
2. discovery
3. observations
4. proof
5. theoretical
6. experimental
7. applying
8. development
9. Compared
10. invention
11. scientifically
12. scientist
13. technological
14. Based
15. conclusions
16. measurement
17. calculations
18. accurate
19. significant
20. repetition
21. physics
22. examined
23. evidence
24. Having
25. researchers
26. hypothesise
27. application
28. curable
29. Judging
30. observer

三、根据句子中首字母提示完成合适的单词填空。

1. scientific
2. research
3. experiment
4. theory
5. discover
6. invention
7. analyse
8. observed
9. evidence
10. prove
11. hypothesis
12. laboratory
13. technology
14. development
15. apply
16. cure
17. conclusion
18. scientist
19. application
20. experiments
21. technological
22. physics
23. observation
24. calculation
25. discovery
26. observe
27. analysis
28. inventor
29. measured
30. physical

四、用括号里汉语提示完成单词填空。

1. science
2. scientist
3. scientific
4. research
5. experiment
6. experimental
7. theory
8. discovery
9. invention
10. inventor
11. analyse
12. analysis
13. observe
14. observation
15. evidence
16. prove
17. hypothesis
18. laboratory
19. technology
20. development
21. application
22. cure
23. conclusion
24. measurement
25. calculation
26. accurate
27. significant
28. physics
29. theoretical
30. researcher
31. test
32. data
33. proof
34. microscope
35. observer
36. accurately
37. curable
38. repetition
39. measure
40. technological