Unit 4 Life on Mars Reading 2
一、词组翻译
1.生活在另一个行星上 2.到2100年
3. 变得越来越拥挤 4. 目前
5.随着科技的发展 6. 以光的速度 _________________
7.八分之三的 8.使许多人感觉不舒服
9.漂浮在太空 10.在许多方面
二、根据课文内容判断正误,正( T)误 ( F )
1. By 2100, people might live on Mars. ( )
2. Mars is becoming crowded and polluted. ( )
3. Humans on Mars have to wear special boots to make themselves lighter. ( )
4. Now, it takes months for a spacecraft to travel from earth to Mars. ( )
5. Mars has one-eighth the gravity of Earth. ( )
6. People will have less space on Mars. ( )
7. Students will go to school by spacecraft. ( )
8. Space travel might make people feel ill. ( )
三、根据课文内容填空
It may d_______ to i_______ that we will live on M_______. Our Earth is b _______more and more p_______ and c_______. We can go there by s_______ _______ at half the s_______ of light. G_______ is only _______of that on Earth. Food will be in f_______ of pills. There will
p _______be no schools there. Life on it may not be b_______ than life on Earth.
四、选择填空
( )1. We have so many kinds of computers for you ________.
A. to choose B. to choose from C. to be chosen D. to be chosen from
( )2. About _______ of the books in our school library are written in Chinese.
A. four-fifth B. four-fifths C. fourth-fifths D. fourths-fifth
( )3. _______ on Mars have to wear special boots _________ themselves heavier.
A. Human, to make B. Humans, to make C. Human, make D. Humans, making
( )4. _______ in a dome with 10 bedrooms is ________ possible.
A. Live, highly B. Living, high C. Live, higher D. Living, highly
( )5. Each of the students __________hard on __________ lessons.
A. works; their B. works; his C. work; their D. work; his
( )6. The water in the river smells terrible, people must __________ dirty things into it.
A. be stopped to throw B. be stopped from throwing
C. stop to throw D. stop from throwing
( )7. The boy’s growing _______ because he keeps eating.
A. fat and fat B. more and more fat C. fatter and fatter D. fatter and fattest
( )8. The surface of Mars is ____like the surface of Earth than ___planet in our solar system.
A. much; the other B. much; any other C. more; the other D. more; any other
( )9. You can hardly imagine a man ________ friends with a volleyball.
A. make B. making C. to make D. made
( )10. Food on Mars will not be as ________ as they are on Earth.
A. tasty B. taste C. tastier D. taste
五、用所给词组的适当形式填空
at the speed of, compare with, in some ways, popular, large numbers of
1. schools in China, schools in the USA are very different.
2. Films can make people feel excited .
3. He drove 120km/h.
4. Boots are very among the young.
5. animals move to the south in winter.
六、完成句子
1. 航天飞机将以光的速度航行。
_________________________________________________.
2. 与地球上生活相比,在某种程度上来说,月球上生活将会更好。
_____________________________________________________________.
3. 火星上的食物将不如地球上的食物可口。
________________________________________________________.
4. 机器人将帮助他们做大部分的事情,这样一来,他们就会有更多的时间放松。
__________________________________________________________.
5. 许多人认为生活在火星上会比生活在地球上好得多。
_____________________________________________________________
七、重点点击
1.crowded adj. 拥挤的, crowd v. 挤满,n.人群
E.g. The train was very________ , and we had to stand.
They disappeared into the _________.
Groups of tourists _________ the main street.
2.develop vi. 开发,研制 developed/ developing adj.发达的/发展中的
development n.发展
E.g. He _________ an interest in history.
China is a ____________ country.
America is one of the ___________ countries.
One person may have difficulty with language__________.
参考答案
一、
1.life on another planet 2. by the year 2100
3. become more and more crowded 4. at present
5. with the development of technology 6. at the speed of light
7.three eighths 8. make many people uncomfortable
9. float off into space 10. in many ways
二、TFFT FFFT
三、difficult ,imagine, Mars, becoming , polluted ,crowded,
space shuttles, speed , Gravity, three-eighths, forms, probably, better
四、1—5 BBBDB, 6--10 ACDDA
五、1.compared with 2. in some ways 3. at the speed of 4. popular
5. Large numbers of
六、
1. Spacecraft will travel at the speed of light
2. Compared with life on Earth, life on Mars would be better in some ways.
3.Food on Mars would not be as tasty as it on Earth.
4. The robots would do most of their work so that they could have more time to relax.
5. Many people think that life on Mars would be much better than it on the Earth.
七、1.crowded, crowd, crowded
2. developed, developing, developed , development