1、Section Grammar课后篇巩固提升一、完成句子1.No one likes (被别人嘲笑).答案to be laughed at by others2.Im glad (被给了这次机会) to visit your country.答案to have been given the chance3. (被人爱) is a happy thing.答案To be loved4.The book is said (已被译成了英语).答案to have been translated into English5.He hurried to the theatre (结果被告知票已经卖光了).
2、答案only to be told that the tickets had been sold out二、变式训练1.Ill try my best to make it easy to understand the text.=Ill try my best to make the text easy .答案to understand2.We need to do more work to achieve the final success.=More work needs to achieve the final success.答案to be done3.The boy asked u
3、s to give him an opportunity to try again.=The boy asked an opportunity to try again by us.答案to be given4.Two more bridges will be built here in the coming year.=Two more bridges will be built here in the year .答案to come5.These flowers dont need watering,for it rained last night.=These flowers dont
4、need ,for it rained last night.答案to be watered三、阅读理解ADo you want to live another 100 years or more?Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.“I think we are knocking at the door of im
5、mortality(永生),” said Michael Zey,a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future.“I think by 2075 we will see it and thats a conservative estimate(保守的估计).”At the conference in San Francisco,Donald Louria,a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said ad
6、vances in using genes as well as nanotechnology(纳米技术) make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what was possible in the past.“There is a great effort so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said.“Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200
7、 or 300 or 500 years.”However,many scientists who specialize in aging are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last past about 120 years.Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease,they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.Scientis
8、ts also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live.“It remains to be seen if you pass 120,you know;could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life?” said Leonard Poon,director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre.“At present people who could get to that point are not i
9、n good health at all.”1.By saying “we are knocking at the door of immortality”,Michael Zey means .A.they have got some ideas about living foreverB.they believe that there is no limit of livingC.they are able to make people live past the present life spanD.they are sure to find the truth about long l
10、iving答案A解析推理判断题。根据文章第二段“I think we are knocking at the door of immortality(永生), said Michael Zey,a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future.I think by 2075 we will see it and thats a conservative estimate(保守的估计).”可知,教授表明到2075年就可以实现永生,由此判断出这里的含义是科学家们对如何获得永生有
11、了一些想法。故选A项。2.Donald Lourias attitude towards long living is that .A.the human body is designed to last past about 120 yearsB.it is possible for humans to live longer in the futureC.it is still doubtful how long humans can liveD.people can live from 120 to 180答案B解析细节理解题。根据第三段“At the conference in San
12、 Francisco,Donald Louria,a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology(纳米技术) make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what was possible in the past.”可知,教授觉得人类在未来会活得更久是有可能的,故选B项。3.The underlined word“it”(in Paragraph 4)refer
13、s to .A.a great effortB.the conservative estimateC.the idea of living to 200,300 or 500 yearsD.the idea of living beyond the present life span答案C解析代词指代题。根据第三段末尾“Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.”有些科学家表明,人类可以活到200年,300年或者500年都是没有限制的,但是许多
14、专攻衰老方面的科学家对此抱有疑问。所以这里it指代前一段提到的人类可以活到200年,300年或500年,故选C项。4.What would be the best title for this text?A.No Limit for Human LifeB.Living Longer or notC.Science,Technology and Long LivingD.Healthy Lifestyle and Long Living答案B解析主旨大意题。整篇文章围绕着人类是否能够永生展开。故短文的最佳标题为“人类是否能够活得更长”。故选B项。BAs Internet users becom
15、e more dependent on the Internet to store information,are people remembering less?If you know your computer will save information,why store it in your own personal memory,your brain?Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how.In a recent study,Professor Betsy Sparrow c
16、onducted some experiments.She and her research team wanted to know how the Internet is changing memory.In the first experiment,they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer.The first group of people understood that the computer would save the information.The second group understood t
17、hat the computer would not save it.Later,the second group remembered the information better.People in the first group knew they could find the information again,so they did not try to remember it.In another experiment,the researchers gave people facts to remember,and told them where to find the info
18、rmation on the computer.The information was in a specific computer folder(文件夹).Surprisingly,people later remembered the folder location(位置) better than the facts.When people use the Internet,they do not remember the information.Rather,they remember how to find it.This is called“transactive memory(交互
19、记忆).”According to Sparrow,we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet.Instead,computer users are developing stronger transactive memories;that is,people are learning how to organise huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date.This d
20、oesnt mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent,but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.5.The passage begins with two questions to .A.introduce the main topicB.show the authors attitudeC.describe how to use the InternetD.explain how to store information答案A解析文章结构题。议论文常
21、以设问的形式提出论点,然后逐步论证。本文主要谈论的就是电脑储存对记忆的影响这一话题。因此可以看出,这两个设问引出了全文的论题。6.What can we learn about the first experiment?A.The Sparrows team typed the information into a computer.B.The two groups remembered the information equally well.C.The first group did not try to remember the information.D.The second grou
22、p did not understand the information.答案C解析细节理解题。由第二段的最后一句可知,由于第一组受测人知道电脑会储存而且信息可以再次找到,他们就没有试图记忆这些信息。7.In transactive memory,people .A.keep the information in mindB.change the quantity of information C.organise the information like a computerD.remember how to find the information答案D解析推理判断题。第三段用实例解释了“
23、交互记忆”这个概念。从本段内容可知,另一实验的受测人没有记忆信息本身,而是记住了信息存储的位置。8.What is the effect of the Internet according to Sparrows research?A.We are using memory differently.B.We are becoming more intelligent.C.We have poorer memories than before.D.We need a better way to access information.答案A解析推理判断题。由短文最后一句可以看出,Sparrow 的
24、实验表明,人们没有因为电脑而变得聪明或愚蠢,但是使用电脑改变了人们记忆的方式。四、七选五阅读理解The days when a cellphone was used for nothing beyond calling and texting are gone.Today,we turn smart phones into magical machines with apps that transform them into musical instruments or business machines or video players.But it turns out that we ar
25、e only searching the surface.Who knew that smart phones would make pretty good satellites?1.Smart phones forecast the weatherNetworking expert OpenSignal has discovered something interesting:the sensors in Android phones designed to measure battery temperature,light,pressure and so on can be used to
26、 generate surprisingly accurate weather reports.2.Smart phones save the rainforestsDetecting illegal logging(盗伐) may sound like a novel app,3:in Indonesia,the non-profit organisation Rainforest Connection wants to use donated Android phones to detect illegal logging.As New Scientist reports,“The pho
27、nes are equipped with solar panels specifically designed to take advantage of the brief periods when light reaches the forest floor.Their microphones stay on at all times,and the software listens for the sound of a chainsaw(链锯).”4Researchers at the university of Illinois have developed an iPhones ap
28、p that turns the phone into a fully featured mobile medical lab that uses the phones camera to detect proteins,bacteria,viruses and other organisms.Smart phones drive carsGoogles self-driving cars carry around $30,000 of high-tech hardware and sensors,but students at Australias Griffith University t
29、hink they can get the job done with a single smart phone.5.A.but its a serious businessB.Here are some uses for smart phones the makers probably didnt imagineC.so it can be used to detect the sound of a chainsawD.It has been used in many fieldsE.Get enough phones involved and you will have a weather
30、 sensing networkF.Smart phones serve as mobile medical labsG.They have built a model that relies mainly on the phones camera and built-in GPS答案15 BEAFG五、语篇填空Before the invention of the postage stamp,it was difficult to send a letter to another country.The sender paid for the letter 1.(travel) in his
31、 or her own country.Then the person in the 2. country paid for that part of the trip.If a letter crossed several countries,the problem was 3.(bad).Rowland Hill,a British teacher,had the idea of a postage stamp with glue on the back.The British post office made the first stamps 4. 1840.They were the
32、Penny Black and the Twopence Blue.A person 5.(buy)a stamp and stuck it on a letter.The post office delivered 6. letter.When people received letters,they didnt have to pay anything.The letters were prepaid.Postage stamps became popular in Great Britain 7.(immediate).Other countries started making 8.(
33、they) own postage stamps very quickly.Today post offices in every country sell beautiful stamps.9.(collect) stamps is one of the most popular 10.(hobby) in the world,and every stamp collector knows about the Penny Black and the Twopence Blue.答案1.to travel2.other3.worse4.in5.bought6.the7.immediately8
34、.their9.Collecting10.hobbies六、选词创境运用下列词汇,自己创设一个小语境,形成一个小语段。set aside,be bound to,digital,receiver,staff,junior,talent,obey,navy,thinking参考范文Im working in a factory,which produces receivers.One day,I had an idea that I was bound to set aside some money every month to buy a digital camera.I learned photography when I served in the navy and the staff said I had a talent for photography.However,my wife,a teacher in a junior middle school,was strongly against it.She said that she would divorce me unless I changed my thinking.At last,I had to obey her and gave up the idea.
