Unit 1
阅读理解
阅读THE ROAD IS ALWAYS AHEAD OF YOU，然后回答下列问题。
1. What’s the main idea of the passage? Give one sentence to describe it.
2. What did Ashrita achieve recently?
3. Ashrita has been one of Sri Chinmoy’s students. Sri Chinmoy believes that _______
A. it is not so important for people to develop their bodies as it is to develop their minds.
B. there is physical limitation.
C. there is no physical limitation.
D. people just need to develop their hearts and spiritual selves.
4. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. Ashrita was asked by his spiritual leader to enter the marathon after doing some training.
B. Ashrita moviation to keep trying to break records comes through his devotion to his teacher.
C. Ashrita broke his first Guinness record in New York’s Central Park in 1978.
D. Before the bicycle marathon Ashrita believed that the seemed to be able to accomplish anything.
5. From the passage we can infer that ________.
A. the events Ashrita participates in are childish.
B. the events Ashrita participates in only cause laughter.
C. people show no respect to Ashrita though he has broken many Guinness records.
D. the events Ashrita participates in really require an enormous amount of strength and fitness as well as determination.
再次阅读THE ROAD IS ALWAYS AHEAD OF YOU，然后完成下面表格。
when facts
As a child Ashrita was _________ and was not at all interested in _________. However, he was _________ by the Guinness Book of World records.
As a teenager Ashrita began _________ deeper meaning in life. He studied _________ and aged 16, discovered an Indian _________ called Sri Chinmoy.
Since the early 1970s Ashrita has been one of Sri Chinmoy’s students. Sri Chinmoy says it is just as important for people to develop _________ as it is to develop their _________, _________ and _________. He believes that there is _________ to people’s physical abilities.
In 1978 Ashrita _________ in 24-hour bicycle marathon in New York’s Central Park. He came to understand that his body was just an _________ of the _________ and that he seemed to be able to use his spirit to _________.
In 1979 Ashrita broke _________ with 27,000 jumping jacks.
Over the last 25 years Ashrita has broken _________ 93 Guinness records. More than twenty of these he still _________, including the record for having_________.
答案：
阅读：
1. Ashrita Furman is a sportsman who likes the challenge of breaking Guinness records.
2. He achieved his dream of breaking a record in all seven continents.
3-5. C B D
文脉理解：
very unfit; sports; fascinated; searching for; Eastern religion; meditation teacher; their bodies; minds; hearts; spiritual selves; no limit; came third; instrument; spirit; accomplish anything; his first Guinness record; approximately; holds; the most records
Unit 2
阅读SAILING THE OCEANS 然后回答下列问题。
1. What is the text mainly about?
________________________________________
2. What would seamen use to navigate without modern navigational aids then?
________________________________________
3. What part of nature could seamen use to help navigate?
________________________________________
4. How many navigational instruments are mentioned in search of longitude and latitude?
A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D. 7
5. What does the word “random” in “Finding latitude” stand for?
A. organized B. intentional
C. arbitrary D. planned
6. Without secure method of measuring longitude before the 17th century, the British sailors really knew________.
A. how to estimate longitude using speed and time.
B. how to measure speed involved throwing a knotted rope.
C. how to count the knots as a ship advanced through the water.
D. what to do deal with the compass to calculate longitude
7. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. The bearing circle was the first instrument to measure position between the sun and the ship.
B. The quadrant was awkward to handle and used a moving ship as a fixed point of reference.
C. The astrolabe, quadrant and sextant all connected were developed into the most accurate and reliable instrument, sextant.
D. The astrolabe was a special instrument to tell the distance among the ship, the sun and stars.
8. We can infer from the passage__________.
A. Earliest seamen explored the oceans since latitude and longitude made it possible to plot a ship’s position.
B. Earliest sailors only used celestial bodies, the weather, and tides and currents to navigate.
C. The first seamen began to use navigational instruments to find longitude instead of using nature.
D. In history of sailing the oceans, man mainly used nature to sail before navigational instruments were made.
再次阅读SAILING THE OCEANS 然后完成下面表格。
Seamen explored the oceans by using _______ and navigational _______.
Using nature navigators could keep alongside the _______, use such celestial bodies as North Star to _______ their positions, as the sun overhead to _______ by, as clouds over islands to indicate land close by. Wildlife, especially _______ could tell how far or close the ship was to land and _______ could be use to show the way. Fog could help identify the _______ of a stream or river and winds direct the sailing. Certain tides and currents could be used to carry ships to the _______.
Navigational instruments helped the sailor to find ______. They used the compass to calculate longitude and find the _______ for the ship to go. The _______ was the first instrument to measure the sun’s position. The astrolabe could tell the position of the _______ in relation to the _______ and stars. The quadrant measured how high stars were above the _______ and the sextant was the updated version of the astrolabe and quadrant, measuring the _______ between two fixed objects outside the ship. It _______ to be the most accurate and reliable of the earlier _______ instruments.
答案：阅读：
1. It explains how seamen explored the ocean and what kind of navigational instruments were used at sea before the 17th century use nature and navigational instruments to sail the oceans.
2. They would use nature and navigational instruments to sail the oceans.
3. They could use celestial bodies, wildlife, the weather and the sea.
4-8: B C A C D
文脉理解
nature, instruments, coastline, plot, navigate, seaweed, sea birds, position, destination; longitude, direction, bearing circle, ship, sun, horizon, angle, proved, navigational
Unit 3
阅读课文的五篇短文，然后回答下列问题。
1. What topic.ruiwen.common to all five text?
2. What does Text 1 “Glimpses Australia” mainly tell us?
3. On Australia Day, ________.
A. people sing and dance together
B. people enjoy Australian food
C. some people from overseas were accepted as the citizens in Australia
D. people can travel all over Australia
4. If you trip from Sydney to Perth, you can see _______.
A. mountains and trees
B. mountains and plains
C. mountains, plains and wildlife
D. plains, trees and wildlife
5. The rock in Uluru is amazing because _____
A. it is very high
B. it is very large
C. it is sacred
D. I can change colour
6. How many World Heritage areas is mentioned in the five texts?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 14
再次阅读课文的五篇短文，然后完成下列表格：Something about Australia
Official name
Capital
Population ______________ million, approximately 80% live in the _________
Area _________km2,the _________ country in the world.
The number of states
Two largest cities
Famous for
Australia Day On_________, more people who come from overseas will become _________
Travel from Sydney to Perth View_________,_________ and_________
Travel from Adelaide to Darwin Observe_________, _________ and _________.
Uluru Rock It appears to _________, from _________, _________ and _________
Cradle Mountain National Park It is famous for _________, _________ and _________.
There is a _________ track and _________.
答案：
阅读：
1. The five texts are about some aspect of Australia.
2. A general description of the physical features and ecology of Australia and its political organization.
3-6: C C D C
文脉理解：
Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, 20 million; the south-eastern coastal area, 7,686,850; sixth largest, Six, Melbourne and Sydney, it huge, open spaces, bright sunshine, enormous number of sheep and cattle and it unusual wildlife, 26 January; Australian, Blue Mountains; plains of Nulbarbor, a variety of wildlife, the rolling hills, the rusty reds of Australia’s center, the tropical splendour of Darwin, change colour, grey-red at sunshine, burning red at he dusk, it’s mountain peaks, lakes, ancient forests, walking, a range of short walks
Unit 4
阅读Plant exploration in the 18th and 19th centuries, 然后回答下列问题。
1. What’s the main idea of the passage?
2. Of the following plant collectors, who had ever been to China?
Robert Fortune, Father Farges, E.H.Wilson, Sir Joseph Banks, James Cook, Dr. Nathaniel Ward, Father d’Incarville
3. Who first sent seeds of the Dove Tree to Europe? And what about the seeds?
4. What can we learn from the passage?
A. The Tree of Heaven in Europe was firstly brought in from China.
B. The first plant collecting expedition recorded in history was unknown.
C. Father d’Incarville was sent to Beijing in the 1740s. And he took some Tree of Heaven seeds back to England.
D. Robert Fortune was the earliest French plant collectors to use Wardian cases.
5. What resulted in the complete change of plant exploration?
A. James Cook’s first voyage.
B. The invention of the Wardian case.
C. The Dove Tree’s growing in Europe.
D. French Catholic missionaries’ set up.
6. Who had ever been to Australia?
A. Ward. B. Banks.
C. Robert. D. Both A and B
再次阅读Plant exploration in the 18th and 19th centuries, 然后下列表格。
When Who What
1500BC Queen of Egypt sent ship away to gather plants, animals and other goods.
In the 1740s Father d’Incarville was sent to __________
______ Father d’Incarville had some seeds of Tree of Heaven sent back to England.
In 1769 __________ Collect quantities of plants in Australia which had never been found by Europeans before.
In 1784 __________was introduced in North America.
_______ __________ shipped two cases of British plants to Sydney.
In 1835 Ward made a return trip with some __________ species back to London successfully.
Between 1843 and 1859 Robert Fortune shipped __________ from Shanghai to India as well as introduced __________ of plants to Western gardens.
_______ Father Farges one of Catholic missionaries sent to China from ________, sent the seeds of __________ back to __________.
In 1899 E H Wilson of the western plant collectors to China, also collected many seeds of __________ and many other new plants to __________.
答案：
阅读理解：
1. It’s about plant exploration in the 18th and 19th centuries and some plant collectors, who came to China and Australia to look for plants species.
2. Robert Fortune, Father Farges, E.H.Wilson, Father d’Incarville
3. Father Farges first sent 37 seeds of the Dove Tree back to France in 1897, but one of them grew.
4-6: A B D
文脉理解：
When: In 1751, In 1833, In 1897
Who: Banks, Ward
What: Beijing, Tree of Heaven, Australian, 20,000 tea plants, over 120 species, France, the Dove Tree, France, the Dove tree, Western gardens
Unit 5
阅读HOW ADVERTISING WORKS, 然后回答下列问题。
1. What’s the main idea of the text?
2. What is an advertisement and what is its function?
3. Effective advertisements are supposed to _____.
A. appeal to customers
B. identify different target groups
C. use a suitable medium
D. A, B, & C
4. The environmental protection advertisement “We only have one clear sky and this belongs to us all.” will __________.
A. attract everyone in the World
B. appeal to our conscience or our desire to be worthy citizens.
C. persuade us all not to pollute the air.
D. earn much money
5. Government all over the world pay a great deal of money for ads so as to __________.
A. benefit from ads
B. promote produce sales
C. persuade people to buy goods
D. make people aware of social problems or policies and change their opinions
6. The first paragraph of the text implies that ____.
A. ads are found here and there
B. advertising works
C. we can avoid being controlled by ads
D. there are many effective advertisements
再次阅读HOW ADVERTISING WORKS, 然后完成下列表格。
Advertisement A ________ or announcement that ________ or influences people.
Make effective ads ________ the target groups, understand their interest and try to make the product ________ their lives. ________ to varieties of customers, grab their attention and meet their ________. Choose and use a suitable medium in order to reduce the advertising expense/fee.
effective ads If people likely to be ________ to buy products or their opinions to be________ by ads, these ads should be effective.
答案：
阅读理解：
1. The text mainly tells us about how advertising works and the way to make effective advertisements.
2. An advertisement is a message or announcement that informs or influences people. Ads can inform or educate the public; Frequent advertising helps companies to increase product sales or to promote a new product.
3-6: D B D A
文脉理解：
message, informs, Identify, fit into, Appeal, desire, persuaded, changed