1、Unit 1Great scientistsSection Warming Up,Pre-reading,Reading & Comprehending一、单词拼写1.The doctor asked him not to leave his wound (暴露).答案:exposed2.The boss finally drew the (结论)that the lady wasnt the person for the job.答案:conclusion3.They said the problem was in the engine,which was just what I had (
2、怀疑).答案:suspected4.The girl (挑战) me to a chess game and I accepted.答案:challenged5.The enemy was (打败)by the soldiers and the fight ended.答案:defeated6.I cant carry the bucket if the (把手) is broken.答案:handle7.His heart disease has been (治愈).答案:cured8.They can grow well because they can (吸收) the energy f
3、rom the heat.答案:absorb二、用适当的介词填空1.All of the teachers are absorbed preparing their lessons.答案:in2.Dont put the blame others.答案:on3.The poor children are exposed terrible fights.答案:to4.Can you think of a way to cure the patient his illness?答案:of5.We should not conclude that her death was necessarily
4、linked the money.答案:to/with三、完成句子1.汤姆,不要把皮肤暴露在阳光下。Tom,dont your skin the sun.答案:expose;to 2.乔治应该为这次失败负责。George the failure.答案:is to blame for3.他看来已经知道了真相。 he had known the truth.答案:It seemed that4.我觉得此事难下结论。I find it difficult to on this.答案:draw/reach a conclusion5.让我们一起去听来自北京大学的李教授的演讲吧。Lets by Prof
5、essor Li from Peking University.答案:attend the lecture四、用方框中所给短语的适当形式填空put forwardattend todraw the conclusionexpose.to be absorbed inbe linked tocure.of.suspect.of.1.Im sorry I cant help with the cleaning.I have a lot of things to .答案:attend to2.Dont disturb him when he his work.答案:was absorbed in3.
6、Who the theory of relativity?答案:put forward4.Rock music drug culture.答案:is linked to5.That lesson him his carelessness forever.答案:cured;of6.What made you him having stolen the dictionary?答案:suspect;of7.From what is said above,we can that he is honest.答案:draw the conclusion8. your skin the sun for to
7、o long may harm your skin.答案:Exposing;to五、同义句转换1.Nobody should be blamed for the accident.Nobody for the accident.答案:was to blame2.The machine will start as soon as you press the button.The machine will start you press the button.答案:immediately3.Tom doesnt like popular music.His parents dont like po
8、pular music either. popular music.答案:Neither Tom nor his parents like4.I have concluded that he is not the right person for the job.I that he is not the right person for the job.答案:have drawn the conclusion六、阅读理解AMarie Curie,born in Warsaw,Poland in 1867,led a hard life as a girl.Her parents,both te
9、achers,had low salaries and were quite poor,especially after her mother stopped teaching to raise five children and take care of her poor health.Maries mother suffered from tuberculosis and died of it when Marie was ten.When Marie was young,she showed great interest in science.She loved to study and
10、 hoped to become a scientist when she grew up.Her parents encouraged her interest in science.Excellent as she was in her studies,she couldnt go on with the advanced education she needed because Poland was then ruled by Russia and women were not permitted to go to college.In order to continue her edu
11、cation,she smoothed away many difficulties and entered Paris University,where she lived a simple life and studied hard.She graduated with the highest grades in her class.After graduation she was engaged in scientific research in Paris University.There she met Pierre Curie,whom she married.Pierre joi
12、ned her in her research into an unknown phenomenon “radiation”,which a certain scientist had declared that uranium gave off.The Curies spent several years trying their best to find the element that produced radiation.Finally they succeeded in 1902.Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes,one for physics in
13、1906,together with her husband and another scientist;the other for chemistry herself in 1911.Madame Curie was a scientist of great achievement,and the first woman ever to be honored in the Nobel Prize history.1.When Marie was young,her family became poorer because .A.the family had five childrenB.Ma
14、ries father had a low salaryC.Maries mother gave up her jobD.the family was cruelly taxed by the Russians答案:C解析:细节理解题。由第一段第二句可知,玛丽的妈妈放弃了工作来抚养五个孩子和照顾自己身体的时候,家里更贫穷了。2.Marie couldnt continue the advanced education because .A.she wanted to help her father to support the familyB.her father couldnt afford
15、 to send her to college C.her grades were very poorD.colleges in Poland would not take women as students then答案:D解析:细节理解题。由第二段最后一句可以得出答案。3.Whats the best title for this passage?A.A Brief Account(叙述)of Madame Curies LifeB.Madame Curie and RadiumC.Marie Curies ChildhoodD.Madame Curies Interest in Scie
16、nce 答案:A解析:推理判断题。本文主要介绍了居里夫人的人生中一些重要的事情。BDo you suppose Darwin,one of the greatest scientists of all time,really did foolish experiments?Or did he do experiments that were so simple and basic that other people just thought they were foolish?Sometimes,people think they already know the answer to a qu
17、estion or the solution to a problem.Sometimes,they really do know an answer or a solution,but without thinking they are important.Charles Darwin didnt settle for just thinking he knew something.And he believed all things could be important however simple they seemed to be.Suppose you drop sheets of
18、paper that are of exactly the same size and shape.If you drop them at the same time in the same place,they will fall in the same way.Now make one of the sheets of paper into a tight little ball and let it drop along with the other sheets.What happens?You have done an experiment that is so simple tha
19、t you might think it couldnt be worth anything.But this simple experiment is important.It explains part of our present-day understandings of physics that were worked out long ago by Galileo and Newton.And these understandings set aside some of ancient Greek physics.Scientists sometimes stop to look
20、at very simple things and to think very hard about them.Even the simplest idea,which we might think is foolish,can shake the foundations of science.4.The passage tells us that Charles Darwin .A.was a great English scientistB.always liked doing the experiments that others thought difficultC.thought e
21、ven the simplest thing was importantD.didnt get on well with others答案:C解析:推理判断题。文中并没有说达尔文是哪个国家的科学家,可排除A项;由第二、三段可知别人认为达尔文的许多实验不值得做,可把B项排除;文中没有论述有关达尔文与别人相处的事情,可排除D项。由第三段中的“And he believed all things could be important however simple they seemed to be.”可推出答案为C项。5.The underlined phrase “set aside” most
22、probably means “”.A.throw awayB.store upC.put to useD.realize答案:A解析:词义猜测题。由上文可知作者认为做这个简单的实验是重要的,它解释了目前人们对于物理方面的理解。因此这些理解当然是推翻了一些希腊古典物理学的观点。由此可推知set aside与throw away同义。6.The author of the passage tries to .A.convince us that Charles Darwin,Galileo and Newton are the greatest scientists in the worldB.
23、draw the conclusion that basic sciences are simple thingsC.prove that two sheets of paper,with the same size and shape,will fall at the same speedD.draw our attention to everyday happenings around us答案:D解析:主旨大意题。短文的最后一段点明,最简单的事情都可能动摇科学的根基,意在告诉读者要留意身边的每一件事,哪怕它非常简单。7.Which of the following is TRUE?A.D
24、arwin really did foolish experiments.B.According to some people Darwin did foolish experiments.C.It is believed by all the people that things could be important though they seemed to be simple.D.Galileo and Newton worked out ancient Greek physics.答案:B解析:细节理解题。第一段第二句“Or did he do experiments that wer
25、e so simple and basic that other people just thought they were foolish?”明确告诉我们,有些人认为达尔文做了愚蠢的实验。七、短文改错Many young boys and girls had the habit of smoking,though they are middle school student.As we all know,smoking do harm to human beings.More and more people have realized how seriously this problem i
26、s.And they are never bored with it.Some people think smoking is a kind of fashion,and other think smoking can refresh themselves.In the fact,smoking causes many illnesses.The most serious illness causing by smoking is lung cancer.Meanwhile,smoking is a waste money.Whats more,careless smokers may cause dangerous fires.答案:第一句hadhave第一句studentstudents第二句dodoes第三句seriouslyserious第四句AndBut第五句otherothers第六句 去掉the第七句causingcaused第八句money前加of第九句moreworse
