人教版(新教材)高中英语选修1Unit 2 Looking into the Future课时作业8：Reading and Thinking—Comprehending.docx

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1、UNIT 2 LOOKING INTO THE FUTUREReading and Thinking-Comprehendingi .阅读理解AIt s 2035.You have a job, a family and you re about 40 years old! Welcome to your future life.Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror.“Turn red, “ you say.Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red.Tiny prepro

2、grammed electronics are rearranged in your shirt to change its color.Looking into the mirror you find it hard to believe you re 40.You look much younger.With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old.You? re not even middle-aged! As you go into the kitchen

3、and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl, you hear, “To lose weight, you shouldn t eat that. from your shoes.They read the tiny electronic code（电子源码）on the cereal box to find out the nutrition details.You decide to listen to your shoes. Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast? ” A list o

4、f possible foods appears on the counter as the kitchen checks its food supplies.“Ready for your trip to space? ” you ask your son and daughter.In 2005 only specially trained astronauts went into space and very few of them.Today anyone can go to space for day trips or longer vacations.Your best frien

5、d even works in space.Handing your children three strawberries each, you add, “The doctor said you need these for space travel.n Thanks to medical advances, vaccination shots（防疫针）are a thing of the past.Ordinary foods contain specific vaccines.With the berries in their mouths, the kids head for the

6、front door.It s time for you to go to work.Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. My office.Autopilot! ” you command.Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway.You sit back and unroll your e-newspaper.The latest news downloads and fills the

7、viewer.Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video films rather than read it.语篇解读 本文是一篇记叙文。文章设想了2035年时，你的生活会是什么样的。1. What changes the color of your shirt?A. The mirror.B. The medicine.C. The counter.D. The shirt itself.K答案H DK解 析U 细节理解题。根据第三段中的 Tiny preprogrammed electronics are rearrange

8、d in your shirt to change its color.（微小的预先编程的电子设备在你的衬衫里重新排列以改变它的颜 色）“可知，衣服自己会改变它的颜色。应选D。2. How do the shoes know that you shouldn t eat the breakfast cereal?A. By pouring the breakfast into a bowl.B By checking the nutrition details of the food.C. By testing the food supplies in the kitchen.D. By li

9、stening to the doctor? s advice.K答案H BK解 析I 细节理解题。根据第四段第三、四句可知，鞋子通过读取麦片盒子上的电子源码， 根据它的营养成分，来确定你不能吃那个早餐麦片。应选B。3. The strawberries the children eat serve as .A. vaccinesB. lunchC. breakfastD. nutritionK答案I A工解 析H 细节理解题。根据第五段中的uThanks to medical advances, vaccination shots（防 疫针）are a thing of the past.O

10、rdinary foods contain specific vaccines.（多亏了 医学的进步，防疫针 已经是过去的事情了。普通食物中含有特定的疫苗）“可知，孩子们吃的草莓可以当作疫苗。 应选AoHow is the text organized?A. In order of preference.B - In order of appearance.C. In order of time.D. In order of importance.K答案cK解 析U 推理判断题。根据文中的 uGetting ready for work.; As you go into the kitchen

11、 and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl.; Ready for your trip to space? you ask your son and daughter; It? s time for you to go to work.” 可知,本文是按照时间顺序（起床穿衣、 准备早餐、餐桌上的对话、出门上班）排列的。应选C。BOther people may have their own ideas about our lives.We can value their advice, but we don t have to

12、take it to heart.Our parents have dreams for us.They want us to do well in school and to do whatever is necessary to reach our highest potential.Later in life, friends may try to set us up with their ideas of the perfect partner or the perfect job.People close to us may have ideas about how we shoul

13、d live our lives, ideas that usually come from love and the desire for us to be happy.Other times, they come from a place of need within them whether it is a parent who wants us to live out his or her dreams or a friend who wants us to play a good role.Whatever the case, we can appreciate and consid

14、er those people s advice, but ultimately we must follow our own guidance.There may come a time when all the suggestions can become overbearing（专横的）. We may feel that the people we love don t agree on our judgment, which can hurt our feelings.lt can affect the choices we make for our lives by making

15、us doubt ourselves before we ve had a chance to decide what we want.We can tell our loved ones how much we appreciate their thoughts and ideas, but that we need to live our own lives and make our own decisions.We can explain that they need to let us learn from our own experiences.When they see that

16、we are happy with our lives and the path we are taking to reach our goals, they can make sure that all we need them to do is to share in our joy.语篇解读 本文是一篇议论文。文章主要讲了其他人可能对我们的人生规划有帮助，我们可 以考虑他们的建议，但是我们没必要全部放在心上。5 . People close to us often tell us ideas to show their .A. powerB. concernC. potentialD.

17、happinessK答案X B工解析U 细节理解题。根据第二段中的 u People close to us may have ideas about how we should live our lives, ideas that usually come from love and the desire for us to be happy.“ 可知， 我们身边的人经常告诉我们一些想法，来表达他们的关心，应选B。6. When a friend? s advice is overbearing, we may feel .A. determinedB. frightenedC. doubt

18、fulD. gratefulR答案cK解析I 推理判断题。根据最后一段前三句可知，当朋友的建议过于专横时，我们可能会 怀疑自己。应选c。7 . What should we do if we don t accept our friends advice?A. Tell them our choices directly.B Let them experience our ways of life.C. Share our own experiences with them.D. Let them know we should make our own decisions.K答案U D工解析U

19、 细节理解题。根据最后一段中的“We can tell our loved ones how much we appreciate their thoughts and ideas, but that we need to live our own lives and make our own decisions.可知，如果我们不接受朋友的建议，我们应该让他们知道我们要自己做决定，故 选D。8. What is the best title for the text?A. Appreciating SuggestionsB Avoiding Making SuggestionsC. Accep

20、ting SuggestionsD. Offering SuggestionsK答案X AK解 析U 标题归纳题。第一段中的 uWe can value their advice, but we dont have to take it to heart.是全文的主题句，结合全文内容可知，这篇文章主要讲了其他人可能对我们的人生 规划有帮助，我们可以考虑他们的建议，但是我们没必要全部放在心上。所以这篇文章最好 的题目是“欣赏建议，应选A。CA recent study confirms that several turtle species have either greatly dropped

21、 or disappeared from various sections of the Australian Murray River. The problem is that the long life of turtles makes people unable to sense the seriousness of the situation, “ says Ricky Spencer, a co-author of the study, which was published in February in Scientific Reports, It s human nature t

22、hat only when something is gone do we start missing it. ”Spencer and his workmates recorded the population of three once common turtle species at 52 sites along the southern areas of the river.The researchers inferred the species population sizes from the number of individuals they caught in a given

23、 amount of time.They found the turtles have disappeared in places where they were previously rich, and most of the individuals they managed to catch elsewhere were large-and likely old-adults.Spencer and his workmates blame the losses on continuing nest predation（捕食）by foxes, accompanied by other pr

24、oblems, including a worse and worse environment and serious drought in the 2000s.“We have known about the sudden sharp drop of the population of the turtles for tens of years, and although media have covered a lot about the trouble of our rivers, , nothing has been done, “ says Rick Shine from Macqu

25、arie University in Sydney. This paper is a wake-up call that unless we begin to do something about turtle protection, we may lose an attractive part of our native creatures.v“The turtles could recover quickly if action is taken to protect nests from foxes and bring back living areas, “ Spencer notes

26、. But governments tend to respond only when losses reach crisis levels, and the Murray River species currently lack the government? s protection, he says.He and his workmates have a solution, however. Our next step is to start designing community protection efforts for common turtle species, “ he ex

27、plains, “so people can actually do things without having to wait for the government s support.语篇解读本文是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述了人们以为海龟寿命很长，对于海龟面临灭绝 没有给予重视，以斯宾塞为首的科研团队正在努力保护它们：发表论文以作为警告。此外， 保护海龟还需要政府和社区的努力。9. Why are people unaware that turtles are in a very serious situation?A. The government hasn t taken action.

28、B. They know turtles have a long life.C. Old turtles still have a large population.D. Media haven t done any report about it.K答案U BK解析 细节理解题。根据第一段中的 “The problem is that the long life of turtles makes people unable to sense the seriousness of the situation ”可知，对于海龟寿命长的认知使人类没 有意识到海龟正处于危险状况中。应选B项。10.

29、What is the greatest challenge for turtles according to Spencer? s team?A. Foxes catch and feed on them.B - The environment is getting worse.C. The climate is extremely dry.D. Human beings kill them in quantity.K答案A工解 析X 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“Spencer and his workmates blame the losses on continuing nest pre

30、dation（捕食）by foxes, accompanied by other problems, including a worse and worse environment and serious drought in the 2000s.”可知，海龟面临的最大危机是狐狸的捕 食。应选A项。11. Which of the following does Rick Shine agree with?A. Media have already done their best.B. The study gives people a warning.C- Turtles are sure to

31、 disappear soon.D. Turtle protection is a long process.K答案BK解 析 推理判断题。根据第三段最后一句Rick Shine说的话“这篇论文给我们敲响了警 钟，除非我们开始采取措施保护海龟，否那么我们可能会失去本土生物中一个有吸引力的局部” 可知，Rick Shine认为这是一种警示。应选B项。12. What do we know from the last paragraph?A. It s not possible that turtles can avoid disappearing.B The government is taki

32、ng action against the crisis.C. Community efforts to protect turtles will start soon.D. People have to wait for the government? s support.K答案X cK解 析U 推理判断题。根据最后一段中的“ Our next step is to start designing community protection efforts for common turtle species, he explains, so people can actually do thi

33、ngs without having to wait for the government s support.?”可知，社 区有可能开始采取措施保护 海龟。应选C项。II .七选五The jobs of the future have not yet been invented. 1 By helping them develop classic skills that will serve them well no matter what the future holds. CuriosityYour children need to be deeply curious. 2 Ask ki

34、ds, “What ingredients（酉己料）can we add to make these pancakes even better next time? ” and then try them out.Did those ingredients make the pancakes better? What could we try next time? CreativityTrue creativity is the ability to take something existing and create something new from it.3 There are a d

35、ozen different things you can do with them.Experimenting with materials to create something new can go a long way in helping them develop their creativity.Interpersonal SkillsUnderstanding how others feel can be a challenge for kids.We know what s going on inside our own head, but what about others?

36、 Being able to read people prevents kids from misreading a situation and jumping to false conclusions. 4 Why do you think she s crying? ” “Can you tell how that man is feeling by looking at his face? ” “If someone were to do that to you, how would you feel ? ”Self-expression5 There are many ways to

37、express thoughts and ideas-music, acting, drawing, building, photography.You may find that your child is attracted by one more than another.A. Encourage kids to cook with you.B And we can t forget science education.C. We can give kids chances to think about materials in new ways.D. So how can we hel

38、p our kids prepare for jobs that don t yet exist?E. Gardening is another great activity for helping kids develop this skill.F. We can do this in real life or ask questions about characters in stories.G. Being able to communicate ideas in a meaningful way is a valuable skill.语篇解读 本文针对如何让孩子适应未来的工作提出四点

39、建议：好奇心、创造性、人际交往 技巧和自我表达能力。1. K答案】D工解析 空前的“The jobs of the future have not yet been invented.对应 D 项中的 “ prepare for jobs that don? t yet exist”。因此选 D。2. K答案HAK解析力 根据该空后面提供的语境“What ingredients（配料）can we add to make these pancakes even better next time?（下次我们可以添加什么配料来让这些薄煎饼更好吃呢？）”可 知，与cook有关，应选A项“鼓励孩子跟你一起烹饪”。3. K答案HCK解 析R本段标题是Creativity o第一句说，真正的创造性就是用现存的材料创造出新东西的能力。所以下文应该是给孩子提供机会让他们用新的方法思考材料。应选C。4. K答案FK解 析X由空后的几个问题可以判断出本空与F项中的“ask questions”关系密切，且F项与上下文衔接自然，应选F。5. K答案UGK解 析X本段标题是“Self-expression”。根据下句“有很多表达想法的方式”可知，本空选G项，意为“能够用有意义的方式交流想法是一种珍贵的技巧”。