人教版英語選擇性必修二課后練習(xí)Unit 1SectionA Reading andThinking(含答案)

1、Unit 1SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTSSection AReading and Thinking課后篇鞏固提升基礎(chǔ)夯實(shí).單詞拼寫1.Although we are suffering such a (嚴(yán)重的) natural disaster,we will eventually overcome the temporary difficulty.答案severe2.The public are holding a number of apparently (矛盾的)attitudes towards the matter.答案contradictory3. (處理) the

2、 most important tasks first,and youll feel a real sense of achievement.答案Handle4.The factory used 65 percent of the (原始的) materials,the rest of which were saved for other purposes.答案raw5.Most tennis is played on hard courts,but a (大量的) amount is played on clay.答案substantial6.Experts (懷疑) it was evol

3、ution in other animals that caused the change.答案suspect(ed)7.If you have any of these symptoms,change your life goals and (減少;降低) your tolerance of stress.答案decrease8. (統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)字) suggested that a decreasing number of children showed interest in reading.答案Statistics.短語填空thanks to,attend to,die from,once

4、and for all,give birth,as a result of,subscribe to,in general1.Bill and Tom asked the teacher to settle the argument .答案once and for all2.I have never the view that schooldays are the happiest days of life.答案subscribed to3. his parents encouragement and support,he finally realized his dream.答案Thanks

5、 to4.I was told the plant the effects of over-exposure to the sun.答案died from5.The Nile River to the immortal civilization of the Egyptians.答案gave birth6.I cant go to your birthday party on Sunday because I have something important to .答案attend to7.,the two scientists methods have much in common,but

6、 the results are quite different.答案In general8.Nearly all the people are believed to be staying at home the disaster.答案as a result of.完成句子1.好像問題在于沒有人知道怎樣操作這臺機(jī)器。What seems to be the trouble is that nobody knows this machine.答案how to operate2.老師好像很欣賞我為我的同學(xué)們做的一切。 the teacher appreciated what I did for

7、my classmates.答案It seemed that3.如果人們總是長時間坐在電腦屏幕前,他們很可能會患上背部問題。People from back problems if they always sit before computer screens for long hours.答案are likely to suffer4.機(jī)場附近的房屋經(jīng)常被飛過頭頂?shù)膰姎馐斤w機(jī)震破窗戶。Houses near airports often by the jet planes passing overhead.答案have their windows broken5.事實(shí)是,有好幾年時間,我還以

8、為他在電話公司上班呢。 for years I thought he worked for the phone company.答案The truth was that素養(yǎng)提升.閱讀理解A主題語境:科學(xué)家語篇類型:說明文詞數(shù):279難度:There are many famous scientists in the world,some of whom are very young.Here are four hot young scientists working right now to change the world.Rizia BardhanRizia Bardhan is 29 a

9、nd a post doctor at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.Her research mainly deals with amazing possibilities of micro robots that can be used to cure diseases which are now untreatable.In an interview,she said that when she thought of science,she would think of major problems that she could help to solve

10、.Heather KnightHeather Knight,the 28-year-old Chief Executive of the Marilyn Monrobot company,is performing new applications for robotics by casting her shows with robots.She considers humor to be one of the most important human features.Therefore,if she can teach humor to robots,they will be able t

11、o better connect with humans.Imre BartosImre Bartos is a 29-year-old Columbia University graduate student.As one of the young minds,he is remarkable enough to drive others crazy with envy.He studies everything from the formation of black holes to the physics of how mosquito eyes see the world.In the

12、 paper Hunting Black Holes with a Gas Cloud,he explains that a gas cloud meeting a black hole in its path will be partially eaten by the black hole.His task is to check the X-rays that are given off during the process.Jeremy EnglandJeremy England is a 36-year-old professor at MIT,a school that is kn

13、own for its young genius.He is working right now on new ideas about the physics behind basic biology.He says that he wants to make sense of life at the molecular(分子) level.【語篇解讀】文章主要介紹了四位不同領(lǐng)域的當(dāng)代年輕科學(xué)家。1.What might be used to cure the untreatable disease?A.Basic biology.B.Micro robots.C.Atoms.D.X-rays

14、.答案B解析細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第二段中的“Her research mainly deals with amazing possibilities of micro robots that can be used to cure diseases which are now untreatable.”可知,微型機(jī)器人有可能用來治療目前無法醫(yī)治的疾病。2.Whats Heather Knights aim?A.To make new inventions.B.To teach humor to robots.C.To make it easier to communicate.D.To make r

15、obots learn to show.答案B解析推理判斷題。由第三段中的“She considers humor to be one of the most important human features.Therefore,if she can teach humor to robots,they will be able to better connect with humans.”可知,Heather Knight認(rèn)為幽默是人類重要的特征之一。如果她能教給機(jī)器人幽默的話,他們將能夠和人類更好地交流。由此可推知,Heather Knight的目標(biāo)就是教給機(jī)器人幽默。3.Whose st

16、udy shows new ideas about physics?A.Jeremy England.B.Rizia Bardhan.C.Imre Bartos.D.Heather Knight.答案A解析細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由最后一段中的“He is working right now on new ideas about the physics behind basic biology.”可知,Jeremy England現(xiàn)在主要研究基礎(chǔ)生物學(xué)背后的物理學(xué)新觀點(diǎn)。B主題語境:社會語篇類型:議論文詞數(shù):334難度:Weve all had the experience of wanting to g

17、et a project done but putting it off to a later date.So why do we delay things?Are we built to operate this way sometimes?These questions are central to my research on goal pursuit (追求).It all starts with a simple choice between working now on a given project and doing anything else.The decision to

18、work on something is driven by how much we value accomplishing the project in that moment what psychologists call its subjective value.And delay,in psychological terms,is what happens when the value of doing something else outweighs the value of working now.This way of thinking suggests a simple tri

19、ck to defeat delay.For example,instead of cleaning my house,I might try to focus on why grading papers is personally important to me.Its simple advice,but sticking to this strategy (策略) can be quite difficult.People are not entirely wise in the way they value things.For example,a dollar bill is wort

20、h exactly the same today as it is a week from now,but its subjective valueroughly how good it would feel to own a dollardepends on other factors besides its face value,such as when we receive it.The tendency for people to devalue money and other goods based on time is called delay discounting.For ex

21、ample,receiving $100 three months from now is worth the same to people as receiving $83 right now.People would rather lose $17 than wait a few months to get a larger reward.Getting something done is a delayed reward,so its value in the present is reduced: the further away the deadline is,the less at

22、tractive it seems to work on the project right now.The tendency to delay things closely follows economic models of delay discounting.One way to manage it is to make the finish line seem closer.For example,vividly imagining a future reward reduces delay discounting.【語篇解讀】本文是一篇議論文,作者在文中主要分析了拖延的原因以及應(yīng)對辦

23、法。4.Which of the following best explains “outweighs” in Paragraph 2?A.Is equal to.B.Is greater than.C.Is involved in.D.Is central to.答案B解析詞義猜測題。根據(jù)本段內(nèi)容可知,要去做某件事的決定是被我們在那一刻完成計(jì)劃的評估驅(qū)動的心理學(xué)家稱其為某件事的“主觀價值”。而拖延從心理學(xué)的角度講,就是當(dāng)做別的事情的價值大于即刻就工作的價值時發(fā)生的情況,故選B項(xiàng)。5.What should we do to overcome delay in the authors opin

24、ion?A.Avoid setting a deadline too strictly.B.Consider doing nothing temporarily.C.Increase the subjective value of working now.D.Realize great fun of working immediately.答案C解析推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段第三、四句“The decision to work on something is driven by how much we value accomplishing the project in that moment w

25、hat psychologists call its subjective value.And delay,in psychological terms,is what happens when the value of doing something else outweighs the value of working now.”可知,作者認(rèn)為人們之所以會拖延是因?yàn)樗麄儗ν瓿僧?dāng)前工作任務(wù)的主觀價值評估較低;再結(jié)合第三段的內(nèi)容可推知,人們可以通過提高對自己完成當(dāng)前工作任務(wù)的主觀價值評估來克服拖延,故選C項(xiàng)。6.Which proverb can best summarize the theory of delay discounting?A.Time and tide wait for n