1、Unit 1 Women of achievement话 题 导 读你知道并了解多少伟大的女性先驱？她们做出了哪些贡献？一起随着本文了解这四位杰出女性及她们对社会的影响吧！You probably know who Marie Curie was,but you may not have heard of Rachel Carson.Of the outstanding ladies listed below,who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years?Jane Addams(18601935)Anyo
2、ne who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank.Addams helped the poor and worked for peace.She encouraged a sense of community(社区)by creating shelters and promoting education and services for people in need.In 1931,Addams became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peac
3、e Prize.Rachel Carson(19071964)If it werent for Rachel Carson,the environmental movement might not exist today.Her popular 1962 book Silent Spring raised awareness of the dangers of pollution and the harmful effects of chemicals on humans and on the worlds lakes and oceans.Sandra Day OConnor(1930pre
4、sent)When Sandra Day OConnor finished third in her class at Stanford Law School,in 1952,she could not find work at a law firm because she was a woman.She became an Arizona state senator(参议员)and,in 1981,the first woman to join the US.Supreme Court.OConnor gave the deciding vote in many important case
5、s during her 24 years on the top court.Rosa Parks(19132005)On December 1,1955,in Montgomery,Alabama,Rosa Parks would not give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger.Her simple act landed Parks in prison.But it also set off the Montgomery bus boycott.It lasted for more than a year,and kicked off t
6、he civil-rights movement.“The only tired I was,was tired of giving in，”said Parks.Section Warming Up&Pre-reading&ReadingComprehending练读文 记词汇 学翻译1 教材助读通语篇 学理解 重分析2语篇理解.Read the text and match the main idea of the paragraphs.1Para.1 AWhat Jane discovered about chimps.2Para.2 BHow the group followed Ja
7、nes way of studying chimps in the wild.3Para.3 CShe has achieved everything she wanted to do.4Para.4 DHer attitude to the animals.答案：14 BADC.Read the text carefully and choose the best answer according to the text.1From the first paragraph,we can see that.Athe group happened to see a family of chimp
8、s wake upBit must be a tiring job to follow and watch chimp familiesCchimps are friendly to humansDchimps of a family are used to sleeping separately2Which of the following isnt Janes discovery about chimps?AChimps usually live peacefully with other animals.BChimps eat meat as well as fruit and nuts
9、.CChimps have a social system in some sense.DChimps have their body language to communicate with each other.3From what Jane says,it can be inferred that.AJane thinks it right for humans to protect chimps in cagesB Jane feels it right to let chimps live in their own environmentCJane likes to watch ch
10、imps in cagesDJane thinks it dangerous to use chimps for entertainment4 The purpose of the authors writing this passage is to.Atell us something about the living habits of chimpsBtell us some mistakes common people make about chimpsCtell us the great achievements Jane won in her chimp observations D
11、call on human beings to care for chimps5The author writes this passage in a(n)attitude.Asubjective BadmiringCironic Dhumourous答案：15 BABCB.Analyze the following difficult sentences in the text.1This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before.分析宾语 宾语 定语
12、翻译 这意味着我们要返回前一天晚上我们离开时黑猩猩一家睡觉的大树旁。2For example,one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat.分析 定语从句 表语从句 翻译 比方说，她的一个重要发现是黑猩猩捕猎并吃肉。3She has achieved everything she wanted to do：working with animals in their own environment,gaining a doctors degree and showing that women can live in the forest as men can.分析 翻译 她已经完成了她想做的一切：在动物生活的环境中研究它们，获得博士学位，证明女人能像男人一样在森林里生活。