（2021新教材）牛津译林版必修第三册英语各单元Reading 和Extended reading课文语法填空（含答案）.docx

1、1 （一） B3U1 Reading The Amazon rainforest: a natural treasure The Amazon rainforest crosses into eight countries, incuding Brazil and Peru, and one overseas region of France, all on the South American continent. With 1 area of around 6 million square kilometres, the Amazon rainforest is more than hal

2、f the size of China. The Amazon River, from 2 the rainforest gets its name, is close to 6,400 kilometres in 3 (long) -roughly 100 kilometres longer than the Yangtze River. On its journey from the mountains to the ocean, the river supports many different ecosystems. They give this area the 4 (rich) b

3、iodiversity on the Earth: one in ten known species in the world can be found here. Of the 390,000 plant species 5 (know) to us, more than 40,000 can be found in the Amazon. The forests different levels support an 6 (believe) variety of wildlife. More than 1,300 species of birds and over 400 species

4、of mammals hide among the jungles plant life. Amazon rainforest breathes life into the planet by fixing carbon and 7 (produce) over 20 percent of all the Earths oxygen. Thus, it is often known 8 the lungs of the planet. Moreover, the Amazon rainforest is a treasure house of species that can 9 (use)

5、for food or medicine. Yet there is one major danger to these irreplaceable plants and animals: us. Over the past 50 years, about 17 per cent of the rainforest 10 (disappear) due to human activities such as agriculture and cattle farming. （二） B3U2 Reading Girl saves 100 from tsunami On 20 December, a

6、 series of huge waves caused by an undersea earthquake raced across the ocean near Goldshore and left thousands dead. Goldshore Beach was the only local beach 1 (survive) the disaster without any loss of life. A 10-year-old girl, Sabrina Andron, helped around 100 people escape 2_(dangerous) with her

7、 knowledge of tsunamis. The day began like any other on Goldshore Beach. People were walking, running 3 simply sitting on the sandy beach, 4 (enjoy) the warm sea air and the soft wind that brushed their hair. Sabrina was one of the happy 5 (tourist) until she noticed something odd. The water was lik

8、e the bubbles on the top of a beer, she later explained. It wasnt calm and it wasnt going in and then out. It was just coming in and in and in. Sabrina had just learnt about tsunamis in a Geography lesson. It immediately 6 (occur) to her that these were signs of an approaching tsunami. Sabrina was f

9、rightened, but she soon kept her head. She warned her parents of the danger, 7 at first they just thought she was joking. However, Sabrina was certain that a terrible disaster was on 8_ (it) way and kept asking her parents to talk to a safety officer. 9 her great relief, the officer immediately real

10、ized the coming danger. The beach was 10 (rapidly) cleared of people, just before the huge waves crash into the coast. 2 （三） B3U2 Extended Reading The Last Day of Pompeii The awful night rolled slowly away, and the dawn greyly broke on THE LAST DAY OF POMPEII! The crowd looked upwards, and saw, with

11、 unspeakable fear, a huge cloud 1 (shoot) from the top of the volcano. It took the form of a huge tree: the trunk, 2 (black), the branches, fire! This fire moved and changed in colour with every moment: now it was wildly bright, now of a pale and dying red, and now again it burnt with an 3 (bear) li

12、ght! The cries of women broke out; the men looked at each other 4 were silent. At that moment, they felt the earth shaking 5 their feet; beyond in the distance, they heard the crash of falling roofs. A moment later, the mountain-cloud seemed 6 (roll) towards them, dark and rapid, like a river; at th

13、e same time, it 7 (throw) out a shower of ashes and huge pieces of burning stone! Over the empty streetsover the forum far and widewith many 8 noisy crash in the stormy seafell that awful shower! Each turned to flyeach running, pressing, pushing against the other. 9 , in the darkness, wife was separ

14、ated from husband, or parent from child, there was no hope of their meeting again. Each hurried blindly and 10 (fear) on. So came the earthquake . and so ended life in Pompeii. （四） B3U3 Reading The Internet: a world with frontiers The Internet has the power to connect people across the world to a si

15、ngle shared community. Billions of people in diffrent parts of the world 1 (join) it already, and obviously many more will follow. Even in the countryside, the Internet enables people 2 (reach) beyond their vllages and get in touch with the outside world. We can achieve almost anything onlinewith ac

16、cess to the Internet come some truly life-changing advantages. One of the greatest advantages of the Internet lies in the quick and easy access 3 a huge amount of information. To a certain extent, the worlds knowledge is all at our fingertips. No wonder the Internet has now become the first place th

17、at the 4 (major) of people turn to for information. The Internet has also made our lives unbelievably convenient with all sorts of goods and services 5_ (provide) by electronic commerce, more commonly known as e-commerce. You can have food delivered to you using food delivery apps and sites. Gone 6

18、the days of searching shop after shop for the perfect pair of bootsyou can compare styles and prices quickly and 7 (easy) in the comfort of your living room. Above all else, the Internet helps us establish and maintain social ties. With all sorts of communication software, physical distance no longe

19、r gets in 8 way. No matter where we are, we are able to keep in contact with loved ones, find long-lost friends and discover whole new communities 9_ share our hobbies. However, while the Internet brings many valuable advantages, 10 (connect) has its problems. As with any great invention, we must be

20、 aware of these problems and be careful to use the Internet properly and responsibly. 3 （五） B3U3 Extended reading Smartphone: a smart choice? I was a smartphone addict. My eyes were glued to the little screen whenever I walked down the street, had dinner with friends or lay in bed at night. The firs

21、t thing I did when I woke up in the morning was reach 1 my phone. I always asked for Wi-Fi connections when I went to a new restaurant or coffee shop. A dead battery in my smartphone would make me feel stressed. Sliding into the habit was easy, 2_ it was difficult to quit the habit. Then the day cam

22、e 3 I finally realized I had to make a change. Head down, eyes on my smartphone, I stepped into the road and a car 4 (shoot) past, nearly knocking me off my feet! At that very moment, I made up my mind to spend a whole week without my smartphone. The first day was the hardest. I was used 5 (check) t

23、he news and my friends social media updates every few minutes, but now I did not know what 6 (do) with myself. I kept reaching for my pocket, for my smartphone that was not there. Then anyhow I began to feel free. I finally picked up the classic novel I had always wanted to read and soon 7 (lose) in

24、 the beautiful language. My offline reationships benefited as well. I went for 8 long walk with an old friend and also made sure to spend more time with my parents. By the end of the week, I almost did not want to turn my phone back on. Those seven days have given me a great 9 (appreciate) for life

25、beyond the screen. Real life - and real relationships - are more important to me now. Life beyond smartphones is richer and 10 (beautiful), and I am going to take advantage of it. （六） B3U4 Reading Chinese scientist wins 2015 Nobel Prize Tu Youyou has become the first female scientist of the Peoples

26、Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize, awarded for her 1 (contribute) to the fight against malaria, one of the deadliest diseases in human history. Thanks to her discovery of qinghaosu, malaria patients all over the world now have had a greatly increased chance of survival. 2 (bear) in 1930, in

27、 Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, Tu studied medicine at university in Beijing between 1951 and 1955. After graduation, she 3 (work) at the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She completed further training courses in traditional Chinese medicine, acquiring 4_ broad knowledge of both traditional Chin

28、ese medicine and Western medicine. In 1969 Tu became head of a team that intended 5 (find) a cure for the disease. She collected over 2,000 traditional Chinese medical recipes for malaria treatment and made hundreds of extracts from different herbs. When they failed to produce any 6 (promise) result

29、s, Tu referred to the ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine again. On 4 October 1971, after 190 failures, she succeeded in making qinghao extract 7 could treat malaria in mice. The efforts of Tu and her team finally paid off. In November 1972, through trial and error, they 8_ (success) disco

30、vered qinghaosuthe most effective part of the qinghao extract. 9 a key part of many malaria medicines, qinghaosu has since benefited about 200 million malaria patients. 4 More than 40 years after its discovery, eventually Tu 10 (award) a Nobel Prize for her work. （七） B3U4 Extended reading The value

31、of science What is the value of the science I had long devoted myself to - the thing I had loved - when I saw what terrible things it could do? It was a question I had to answer. I 1 (think) long and hard about this question, and I will try to answer it in this talk. The first way in which science i

32、s of value is familiar 2 everyone: scientific knowledge enables us to do and make all kinds of things. Of course, if we make good things, it is not only to the credit of science; it is also to the credit of the moral choice 3 led us to good work. Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do eithe

33、r good or bad - but it does not carry instructions on how 4_ (apply) it. Such power has obvious value - even though the power may be negated by what one does with it. Another value of science is the intelectual enjoyment 5 can provide us with. When we look at any question 6 (deep) enough, we feel th

34、e excitement and mystery coming to us again and again. With more knowledge comes a deeper, more wonderful mystery, 7 (inspire) one to look deeper still. Thanks to the scientific efort, we 8 (lead) to imagine all sorts of things more fantastic than poets and dreamers of the past ever could. I would n

35、ow like to turn to 9 third value that science has. The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty and this experience is of very great importance. When a scientist doesnt know the answer to a problem, he is 10 (ignorance). When he has an idea as to what the result is,

36、 he is uncertain. And when he is pretty sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. 5 答案： （一）1 an 2 which 3 length 4 richest 5 known 6 unbelievable 7 producing 8 as 9 be used 10 has disappeared （二）1 to survive 2 danger 3 or 4 enjoying 5 tourists 6 occurred 7 though 8 its 9 To

37、10 rapidly （三）1 shooting 2 blackness 3 unbearable 4 but 5 beneath 6 to roll 7 threw 8 a 9 If 10 fearfully （四）1 have joined 2 to reach 3 to 4 majority 5 provided 6 are 7 easily 8 the 9 who 10 being connected （五）1 for 2 but 3 when 4 shot 5 to checking 6 to do 7 was lost 8 a 9 appreciation 10 more beautiful （六）1 contribution 2 Born 3 worked 4 a 5 to find 6 promising 7 that 8 successfully 9 As 10 was awarded （七） 1 thought 2 to 3 which 4 to apply 5 it 6 deeply 7 inspiring 8 have been led 9 a 10 ignorant