高中英语Module4GreatScientistsSectionⅠIntroductionReading课时作业外研版.docx

Module 4 Great Scientists Section Introduction Reading.单词拼写1Our main task now is increasing _(产量)2This year alone she _(出版) four books.3_(农业) plays an important part in our daily life.4It is not our price but _(质量) that sells our shoes.5The poor man had to find another job to _(支持；供养) his big family.6She is the _(主要的) lady in the play.7The public should be _(教育) in how to use energy more efficiently.8This is an important military _(突破)9Tom is less significant a _(人物)10They _(出口) their products to markets throughout the world.答案：1.production2.published3.Acated8breakthrough9.figure10.export.语法填空Yuan Longping is a _1_ (lead) figure in the ricegrowing world. He was born and _2_ in China. As a boy, he _3_ (educate) in many schools and interested in plants, so he was given the nickname “the student _4_ asks questions”. As a young teacher, he began experiments in crop breeding. He thought there was only one way _5_ (have) more rice quickly. That was to cross different species of rice plant. Then he began to search for a special type of rice plant. Finally, a _6_ (nature) sterile male rice plant was discovered in 1970. This was a breakthrough. _7_ a result of his discovery, Chinas rice production rose by 47.5% in _8_ 1990s. And 50 thousand square kilometres of rice fields were covered to grow _9_ (vegetable) and other cash crops. Follow this, the new hybrid rice was exported to _10_ countries.答案：1.leading2.brought up3.was educated4who5.to have6.naturally7.As8.the9vegetables10.other.阅读理解AFew of us havent read Cinderella, the story of a young woman living in poverty who meets the prince of her dreams. Some might not want to admit it, but there is a hidden Cinderella in everyones heartwe all wish we could achieve recognition or success after a period of obscurity (默默无闻) or neglect.Mary Santiago has that secret dream, too. Her story is featured in Another Cinderella Story, a film set in a US high school.Mary is shy but loves to dance. Compared with other girls, she is invisible. However, her world changes completely when a famous teenage pop singer, Joey Parker, appears.Joey is everything the rest of the boys in her class are notkind, handsome and desirable. Mary and Joeys paths cross at a ball. They meet and fall in love with each other. But when Mary has to rush back home, she leaves behind her MP3 player, which becomes the only clue Joey has to find the girl of his dreams. Of course, there is a wicked (邪恶的) stepmother, who turns out to be Dominique Blatt and she takes in Mary after her dancer mother dies. Dominique treats Mary like a maid and does everything she can to make sure Mary doesnt get into the top dance school. Her two daughters are equally determined to stop Joey falling for Mary, even if that means embarrassing her.The story, though it mostly follows Cinderella, does add a few modern day twists to the classic fairy tale. Refreshingly, the film, unlike many high school films, does not focus on looks, although the actors are all beautiful. There is also a lot less materialism in Another Cinderella Story than in many similar movies.“The movie takes the fairy tale Cinderella as its jumping off point，” writes movie critic Amber Wilkinson. “The focus is firmly on following your dream. ”1The first paragraph is mainly to _.A. build interest and lead us to Marys secret dreamB. remind us why Cinderella is popular all the yearsC. inform us of the main topic of the whole passageD. tell us how interesting the fairy tale Cinderella is答案与解析：A推理判断题。通过第一段的介绍，主要是建立兴趣和引导人们去探寻Mary的秘密梦想。2In the movie, Mary Santiago is the main character who _.A. is brave in expressing her loveB. is attended to badly by the stepmotherC. has a dream of meeting a princeD. is embarrassed by the pop singer答案与解析：B细节理解题。由第四段中的wicked stepmother, takes in Mary, treats Mary like a maid可知，她的继母对她不好。3What can we infer from the passage?A. Joey is just like other boys in Marys class.B. Marys mother influences her a lot in singing.C. Not many people have a dream to be realized.D. The MP3 player helps Joey in finding Mary.答案与解析：D推理判断题。由第四段第四句.she leaves behind her MP3 player, which becomes the only clue Joey has to find the girl of his dreams.可知，MP3是Joey找到Mary的唯一线索。4According to the passage, Another Cinderella Story _.A. follows Cinderella with nothing newB. pays more attention to the looks of the actorsC. encourages young people to follow their dreamsD. focuses more on materialism than other films答案与解析：C推理判断题。结俣第一段以及最后一段可知Another Cinderella Story鼓励年轻人追求自己的梦想。BAbout ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier; only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman!There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shadows of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of greena strange world indeed.Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones”. These help us to see in a bright light and to tell the difference between colors. There are also millions of “rods”， but these are used for seeing when it is near dark. They show us shape but no color. Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes prefer blue to yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible colors around us. 5The passage is mainly about _.A. color and its surprising effectsB. women being luckier than menC. danger caused by color blindnessD. color blindness答案与解析：D主旨大意题。本文第一段讲述了男女色盲的比例，第二段主要讲了色盲的形式，第三段主要讲了关于色盲很难解释的一些事情。故选D。6Which of the following statements about the colorblind is TRUE?A. Not all of them have the same problem in recognizing color.B. None of them can see deep red.C. None of them can tell the difference between blue and green.D. All of them see everything in shades of green.答案与解析：A推理判断题。根据第二段可知人与人之间有不同形式的色盲。7According to the passage, with the help of the “cones”， we can _.A. tell different shapesB. see in a weak lightC. kill mosquitoesD. tell orange from yellow答案与解析：D细节理解题。根据第三段第三句“These help us to see in a bright light and to tell the difference between colors.”可知“cones”可帮助我们分辨颜色，故选D。8We can attract and kill mosquitoes by using a _.A. red light B. yellow lightC. blue light D. green light答案与解析：C推理判断题。根据最后一段第二句“Mosquitoes prefer blue to yellow.”可知蚊子喜欢蓝色。故选C。.七选五阅读Different weather makes people feel different. It influences health, intelligence and feelings.In August, it is very hot and wet in the southern part of the United States. _1_ In the Northeast and the Middle West, it is very hot at some times and very cold at other times. People in these states have more heart trouble after the weather changes in February or March.The weather can also influence intelligence. For example, in a 1983 report by scientists, IQ of a group of students was very high when a very strong wind came, but after the strong wind, their IQ was 10% lower. _2_ Very hot weather, on the other hand, can make it lower. Students in many schools of the United States often get worse on exams in the hot months of the year (July and August)Weather