1、【 精品教育资源文库 】 Unit 2 Cloning 听第 1 段材料,回答第 1 题。 1 What does the woman hate? A Seafood. B Vegetables. C Chicken. 答案: A 听第 2 段材料,回答第 2 题。 2 Why does the man want to drop his class? A He doesnt want to get up early. B He feels it is too difficult. C He has chosen another science course. 答案: A 听第 3 段材料,回
2、答第 3 至 5 题。 3 How do animals communicate with each other? A Animals use a language like human beings. B They communicate using their own ways. C Some animals can use words. 答案: B 4 What does a rabbit use its tail for? A To warn other rabbits of danger. B To tell other rabbits where food is. C To mak
3、e itself look fierce. 答案: A 5 Who can use words and sentences to express ideas and thoughts? A All animals. B Human beings. C All birds. 答案: B 【技巧点拨】 在听力考试中,考生应抓紧听力播放的各段间隙时间快速阅读并理解各个问题,从而对即将播 放的听力材料做到心中有数,有的放矢。有时考生也会惊喜的发现有些问题根据常识即可选出正确答案,如听力第 5 题。这样既节省做题时间,得分也相对容易。 Text 1 M: Have you tried the fish?
4、 It is very tasty. W: As a matter of fact, I dont care for seafood. 【 精品教育资源文库 】 M: Really? What about the green vegetables? W: I like anything but seafood. Text 2 M: Im going to drop my information science class. I need to get up too early in the morning. W: Is that really the good reason to drop
5、the class, Tony? Text 3 M: Animals, including insects, do not have a language like ours. They do not talk to each other in words or sentences. But if we watch them, we can see that they do have ways of communicating. Can you see the rabbits tail? When rabbits see this white tail moving up and down,
6、they are warning each other to run. They know that there is danger. When a bee has found some food, it goes back to its home. It cannot tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does a little dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is. Some animals say things by
7、making sound. A dog barks, for example when a stranger comes near. A cat purrs when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning. Sometimes we human beings speak in the same way. We make sounds like “Oh” or “Ah ! ” when we are frightened or pleased or when we dr op so
8、mething on our toes. Of things, actions, feelings or ideas, we are able to give each other all kinds of different expressing. But we have something that no animals have a large number of words which have the meanings, information in words and sentences, which no other animals can do. No other animal
9、s have so wonderful a language as we have. 1核心单词 (1)differ (vi.) 不同;相异 difference (n.) 不同;差异 different (adj.) 不同的 (2)cast (vt.) 扔;投;掷 cast (过去式 /过去分词 ) (3)object (vi.) 反对;不赞成 objection (n.) 反对;不赞成; 异议 (4)obtain (vt.) 获得;赢得 obtainable (adj.) 可获得的;可得到的 (5)owe (vt.) 欠 (账、钱、人情等 );归功于 ? owing (adj.) 欠着的;
10、未付的 (6)retire (vi.) 退休;离开 retirement (n.) 退休;退职 retired (adj.) 退休的 (7)bother (vt.) 打扰 (vi.) 操心 (n.) 烦扰 (8)strike (vt. is that 联想积累 【 精品教育资源文库 】 1当 then, now, here, there, away, off, in, out 等副词置于句首,主语是名词且谓语动词是 be, come, go, lie, run 等时,句子应完全 倒装。当句子主语是人称代词时,主谓语不倒装。 2 The advantage is that . 类似句式一览 T
11、he advantage is that . “ 优势是 ?” ,此处 that 引导表语从句。 The advantage/strength of . is that . ? 的优势是 ? The disadvantage of . is that . ? 的不足是 ? The drawback of . is that . ? 的缺点是 ? The pr oblem of . is that . ? 的问题是 ? The chances are (that) . 有可能 ? 单词点津 objection n. 不赞成;反对;异议 教材原句 On the other hand, Dollys
12、 appearance raised a storm of objections and had a great impact on the media and public imagination. 另一方面,多莉的出现引起了一阵强烈的反对, 对媒体和公众的想象力也产生了极大的影响。 (1)raise an objection to sth. 对某事提出异议 make/take/have an objection to (doing) sth. 反对 (做 )某事 (2)object n. 物体;目标 vi. 反对;不赞成 object to sb./sth. 反对某人 /某事 object
13、 to doing sth. 反对做某事 object that . 反对 ? (3)objective adj.真实的;客观的;无偏见的 【特别提醒】 (1)object to 中的 to 为介词,后接名词、代词或动名词。 (2)object 表示 “ 反对 ” ,为不及物动词,接宾语需加介词 to; oppose 表示 “ 反对 ” ,为及物动词,接宾语不需加介词。 be opposed to . 表示 “ 反对 ? ,和 ? 相反 ” 。 【即景活用】 单句语法填空 Many people raised an _ (object) to the news report, arguing
14、that it was not objective. I have no objection _ your going, but you must promise to come back before ten. Do you have any objection to _(change) your working hours? 答案: objection to changing 【 精品教育资源文库 】 forbid vt.(forbade/forbad, forbidden)禁止;不准 教材原句 Some began to reform their legal systems and f
15、orbade research into human cloning . 有些政府开始改革他们的法律制度,禁止进行克隆人的研究 ? forbid doing sth. 禁止做某事 forbid sb. to do sth. forbid sb. from doing sth. 禁止某人做某事 be forbidden to do sth. 被禁止做某事 forbid that . 禁止 ?( 从句中常用 should动词原形 ) It is forbidden to do sth. 做某事是被禁止的 图解助记 【即景活用】 (1)单句语法填空 The new law forbids _ (sm
16、oke) in offices. The guard forbade us _ (look) out of the window when the train was moving. For this writer there is no such thing as a _ (forbid) topic. 答案: smoking t o look/from looking forbidden (2)单句改错 It is forbid to swim in the river alone. _ 答案: forbidforbidden owe vt. 欠 (钱、账、人情等 );归功于;感激 教材原
17、句 You owe the lady an apology. 你必须向这位女士道歉。 (1)owe sb. sth. owe sth. to sb. 欠某人某物;把 ? 归功于某人 owe it to sb. that . 多亏某人 ? 【 精品教育资源文库 】 owe sb. an apology 该向某人道歉 owe thanks to sb. 感谢某人 (2)owing adj. 欠着的;未付的 owing to because of on account of due to 因为;由于 【特别提醒】 如果 owe 的宾语是动词不定式或名词性从句,可使用 it 作形式宾语,将充当真正宾
18、语的动词不定式或名词性从句放在句尾。如: He owes it to his doctors care that he is quite well again. 他恢复得很好,他把这归功于医生的照顾。 【即景活用】 单句语法填空 He owes his good health _ plenty of exercise and a regular life. He owed _to his first teacher of English that he had a good pronunciation. She had a headache, _(owe) to the weather her
19、e, but she is now accustomed to it. 答案: to it owing strike v. (struck, struck)打;撞击;罢工 n. 罢工 教材原句 . proves how the idea struck a mixture of fear and excitement into peoples hearts. ? 证明了这一想法使人们感到既恐惧又兴奋。 (1)strike . into ones heart 使 ? 刻骨铭心 be struck by/with 被 ? 击中 /打动 /感动 It strikes/hits/occurs to sb
20、. that . 某人突然想起 ? Sth. strikes/hits/occurs to sb. 某人突然想起 ? (2)go/be on strike 举行罢工 /在罢工 【即景活用】 (1)单句语法填空 Dont strike terror _ my heart. _struck me that I would have an important meeting in Shanghai the next day. 答案: into It (2)完成句子 The visitors _ the beauty of the tourist area. 游客被旅游区的美景迷住了。 答案: were struck by/with 短语点拨 【 精品教育资源文库 】 pay off 得到好结果;取得成功;偿清 教材原句 But at last the determination and patience of the scientists paid off in 1996 with a breakthrough the cloning of Dolly the sheep. 但是,科学家们的决心和耐心最终得到了回报,这就是 1996 年具有突破性的克隆羊 “ 多莉 ” 的诞生。 pay sth. off 全部偿还;偿清 ?债务 ?pay sb. off ?给工资后 ?解雇;