1、- 1 - Unit2 Wild life protection Section Reading for Writing 基础巩固 单词拼写 1They have taught a new trick to the _ (海豚) 2Your personal circumstances are _ (equal) important. 3The young teacher told the student to pay attention to _ (spell) 4 The Government continues to pour _ (billion) of pounds into the
2、 project. 5Add a tablespoon of honey to the lemon juice and s_ the mixture. 6They traveled under the _ (protect) of a number of soldiers. 7She was overcome with _ (情绪) and burst into tears. 8My _ (皮肤) is getting a little dry recently. 9He was anu_man with great business talents and a kind heart. 10I
3、n the worst case, I could become a _ (home)person. 单句写作 1这个设计一定能吸引注意力。 The design is sure to _. 2你需要收集信息来支持你的观点。 You need to gather information to _. 3他们能在车祸中幸免于难真是幸运。 They were very lucky _the accident. 4医疗和社会保障之类的大型项目是由政府支付。 Big things, _ hospitals and social security, are paid for by the Governme
4、nt. 5正在紧急开展研究，以便对此事有更多了解。 Research is _urgently to find out more about the issue. 提升训练 七选五 Recently some American scientists have given a useful piece of advice to people in industrialized nations. They say people should eat more of the same kind of food - 2 - eaten by humans living more than 10,000
5、 years ago._1_ The scientists say that the human life has changed greatly. Our bodies have not been able to deal with these changes in lifestyle and this had led to new kinds of sicknesses._2_So they are called “diseases of civilization”. Many cancers and diseases of the blood system are examples of
6、 such diseases. Scientists noted that people in both the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age enjoyed very little alcohol or tobacco, probably none._3_However, a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and that of today. Stone Age people hunted wild animals for the
7、ir meat, which had much less fat than domestic ones. They ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruits. They did not have milk or any other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains._4_We eat six times more salt than our ancestors. We eat more sugar. We eat twice as much fat but only
8、one third as much protein and much less vitamin C. _5_But scientists say that we would be much healthier if we eat much the same way the ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet food. AStoneAge people lived a simple life. BThese new sicknesses were not known in ancient times.
9、 CIn that case, they would live much healthier. DAncient people also got lots of physical exercise. EBut today, we enjoy eating a lot of these. FPeople today probably dont want to live like our ancestors. GModern people used to suffer from “diseases of civilization” 阅读理解 What do the following animal
10、s have in common? Pandas, rhinoceros, Mexican burrowing snakes, pink pigeons and small tooth sawfish. They are all endangered animals! Animals become endangered for a variety of reasons. Sadly, humans are behind every one of them! For centuries, humans have hunted elephants for their tusks, and kill
11、ed tigers for their beautiful furs, caught fish for food. While we still have elephants, tigers, and fish in the wild, we cannot say the same about many others that have simply died out! Year 1505 was a dreadful turning point in the natural history of the island of MauritiusEuropean sailorsW1discove
12、red this beautiful island in the Indian Ocean and - 3 - brought dogs, pigs, monkeys with them. The arrivalW2of humans and those introduced animal species were bad news for dodo birds (渡渡鸟). About 50 pounds and flightless, dodo birds did not have any natural enemies until then. They picked fruits fal
13、len from trees and built their nests on the ground. Shortly after humans set foot onPMauritius, however, dodo birds realized that they were in big troublemen killed them for their meat, and those introduced animal species destroyed their nests and ate their eggs. The effects of excessive W3 hunting
14、and foreign species drove dodo birds to first become much fewer and then die out. The last dodo bird was killed in 1681. Humans and animals have always competed for land and other natural resources. We clear an area of a forest for farming. We cut down trees and use wood to build beautiful houses. W
15、e build reservoirsW4to make sure that we have enough water to use. At the same time that we are trying to make our life comfortable, we destroy the habitats of wild animals. More than once we have seen on television that rescue workers are trying their best to save seabirds in spilled (泄漏的) oil. Mor
16、e than once we have heard about how emissions of carbon dioxide (二氧化碳的排放) and other gases have raised the Earth temperature and caused global warming. Pollution has a serious and longlasting effect. If we choose to do nothing and continue to pollute our planet Earth, our next generations will have t
17、o face an Earth without birds singing and beasts roaring. 1How many reasons are given by the author to explain why the animals become endangered? A3.B4. C5.D6. 2What does the underlined word “dreadful” (in Paragraph 4) mean? ASurprising.BExciting. CUnpleasant.DQuick. 3Paragraph 5 mainly talks about
18、_. Ahow excessive hunting led to endangerment of animals Bwhen foreign species entered the island of Mauritius Cthe human activities caused the loss of habitats of animals Dpollution played a main role in the worsening of environment - 4 - 概要写作 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇 60 词左右的内容概要。 Every time we breathe or b
19、urn something we turn oxygen in the air into carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide in turn is used by plants to breathe and is changed back into oxygen creating a balanced cycle. The total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is quite small. If we increase our oxygen burningfor example, by burnin
20、g a lot of coal or oil to generate electricity or run our carsand cut down trees, we increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. This makes the air a little heavier and it starts acting like a thicker blanket around our earth, warming it up. The actual amount of warming is only a few degrees b
21、ut it is enough to disrupt ( 使 混 乱 ) the delicate balance of naturemelt the polar ice, raise sea levels, cause violent hurricanes and endanger species such as the polar bears and some rare birds. The polar bears are born in dens or caves on land while their mother sleeps through the winter. The moth
22、er and the babies emerge around March famished (挨饿) from a long seclusion and must immediately hunt to feed themselves to stay alive. Now, polar bears cannot hunt on land; the only hunting they know is to catch seals from floating ice in the open ocean. The floating ice is located at the edge of the
23、 polar ice capa floating frozen mass that covers the North Polar arctic region, which is all ocean. So in Marchthe polar bear motherand cubsswim from the land in Spitsbergen to the edge of the polar ice cap so that they can hunt. Normally this is a short swim, since in March the polar ice cap is ver
24、y close to the land, and the polarbears, even babies, are goodswimmers. However, lastyear we saw that the polar ice cap hadreally shrunk in size due to meltdown from global warming. This meant that the polar bears had to swim many miles from the land in Spitsbergensometimes hundreds of milesto find
25、the floating ice where they could hunt. Swimming hundreds of miles, especially when they are famished and have hungry babies in tow is really very hard and many bears are dying through drowning and starvation. - 5 - 参考答案： 【单句语法填空】 1.答案：dolphin 2.答案：equally 3.答案：spelling 4.答案：billions 5.答案：stir 6.答案：
26、protection 7.答案：emotion 8.答案：skin 9.答案：unusual 10.答案：homeless 【单句写作】 (1)答案：attract attention (2)答案：support your opinion (3)答案：to survive (4)答案：such as (5)答案：being carried out 【七选五】 篇章导读：本文是一篇议论文。作者提出了一种观点，认为现代人的生活方 式、食物结构发生了很大变化，随之而来的是各种“文明病”的兴起。要阻止这种现 象就要回到石器时代向古人学习。 1C前面提到“建议人们回到 10,000 多年前，像当时的人们
27、那样吃东西”， 为什么呢？后续语境给出答案：为了健康。故选 C。 2B上文提到，我们的身体不能应对生活方式的改变因此带来了一些新的 疾病，现在人们称之为“文明病”，而以前呢？在古代却没有听说过这些疾病。故选 B。 3D此处关联语境为新时期和旧石器时代人们的生活方式，5 个选项中只 有 D 与之匹配。 4E前面为古人的饮食特点，下文为现代人的饮食结构，而此处承上启下， - 6 - 作为过渡。 5F所在部分为全文结论。But 表转折，后面为科学家建议的饮食结构，故 空格处应表达与此相反的内容。 【阅读理解】 篇章导读：本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了导致许多动物灭绝的原因， 而每种原因都和人类有关
28、系。文章意在警醒人类应该保护野生动物， 保护地球。 1.答案： B细节理解题。 文章第三至六 段讲述了动物灭绝的四个原因，即过度捕杀、外来物种的进入、栖息地遭破坏 和环境污染。 2.答案：C词义猜测题。从本段的内容分析可知正是人类的到来和外来物种的 进入使得 dodo birds 面临灭顶之灾， 所以应是一个不好的、令人不愉快的转 折点， 故选 C。 3.答案： C段落大意题。 从本段可知正 是人类的活动使得动物们的栖息地遭到了破坏， 故选 C。 【概要写作】 写前导读：本文是一篇说明文。讲述了因为人类使用了太多的煤和石油，造 成了二氧化碳的急剧上升，北极熊因此而面临着生存威胁。 精彩范文 D
29、ue to our burning a lot of coal or oil, the amount of carbon dioxide is increasing very rapidly. (要点 1) So the ice in the North Pole is melting quickly. (要点 2) This is a great threat to the polar bears. (要点 3) After a long hunger, they are weak and can not swim a long distance, but they have to swim a few miles and even hundreds of miles. (要点 4) Many starve or get drowned on the way. (要点 5)
