人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册Unit 1 People of Achievement 大单元整体教学设计
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)大单元整体学习学程
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单元概述
【单元内容】
The theme of this unit is people and society. This unit focuses on people who have made great achievements. We will consider what constitutes true achievement by exploring the lives of people such as Tu Youyou, Albert Einstein, and Helen Keller. This knowledge is then activated by talking and writing about people they admire. You will then gain tools for further study on the subject by making books reports on the biographies of great people. After study we are expected to understand what qualities one needs to make a difference to our life and understand the meaning of greatness.
【课标要求】
核心素养 课标要求
语言能力 语言知识 词汇 能正确使用与“卓有成就的人物”主题相关的词和词块来理解和表达。
语法 能够在语篇中正确理解和使用由关系代词which, who, whom, whose和关系副词when, where引导的非限制性定语从句。
语篇 阅读专题新闻报道，掌握该类型语篇的标题特征、结构特征和语言特点。 阅读人物传记，掌握该类型语篇特点，掌握用故事说明人物品质的方法。 听懂并理解探讨人物成就和人物品质的对话。
语用 能够运用口头表达时用填充语争取思考时间的交际策略。
语言技能 听 听三人之间的对话，听三人对“伟大”与“成就”的讨论。关注表达因果关系的显性和隐形语言。
说 能够以口头的形式，有条理地叙述人物经历和评价人物成就。
读 1.阅读新闻报道，了解人物生平事迹，分析人物性格与品质，探究卓有成就的人成功的原因； 2.阅读人物传记，理解爱因斯坦的杰出成就和突出贡献。
写 1.能用人物传记的方式介绍自己钦佩的人，用故事说明人物品质，用细节刻画人物形象。 2.能够写一篇人物传记的书评。
看 观看京剧大师梅兰芳幼年拜师学艺，少年成名，以及他从事戏曲事业五十年创建梅派，将京剧带向国际舞台等主要经历和成就。
学习能力 能够把握主题，运用寻读策略快速找出语篇中描写人物外貌、品质等特征的表达，为建构主题意义服务。 2.能够以口头和书面的形式，有条理地叙述人物经历和评价人物成就。
文化意识 了解诺贝尔生理学或医学奖获得者屠呦呦的生平和她发现青蒿素的主要研究过程，分析和探讨屠呦呦获奖的原因，理解我国传统中医药对人类健康和世界发招的贡献。 了解国内外取得重大成就的任务及其经理、贡献等，探索这些任务的共同品质，深入理解“伟大”的含义。
思维品质 1.能够主动收集、整合、总结人物信息和人物经历，分析其获得成功到达原因，归纳杰出人物的共同品质。 2.能多角度、多层次地认识、分析具体人物，并形成自己的观点。 3.正确认识、理解“个人成就”与“社会价值”之间的辩证关系，对照自身的成长经历，思考成长的意义和未来努力的方向。
【单元目标】
By the end of the unit, you will be able to:
1. Introduce some people of achievement and their contributions and express your idea about the greatness.
2. introduce the main process of Tu Youyou and her team’s discovery and extraction of artemisinin to treat malaria and identify the reasons for their success.
3. get Einstein’s life story and achievement and write an essay on someone you admire to master the descriptive expressions.
4. make a book report about a biography or autobiography of a great person to share your understanding of greatness and how it is achieved, then have the right attitude of success.
【单元任务】
The Theme of this unit is people of achievement and their contributions to this world. It is important to think about our future. Choose a biography or autobiography of a great person. Read the book and learn from them, then write a book report.
【学习导航&评价预设】
【学时安排】
Period Content Task Form of targets Criteria
1 period Overall Perception Perceive people of achievement and their contributions to make a flow chart 1. The theme-related vocabulary mind map. 2. A chart about people of achievement and their constructions. I can voice concrete contributions of the great people that I admire
6periods Exploration & Construction Explore what greatness means and how it is achieved Introduce of the topic Prediction of the content and text type by looking at the title and picture. Exploration of Tu Youyou’s road to discovering artemisinin and qualities. Creative Talking and Speaking. 5. Conversation between Dr Wang, his daughter Wang Lin, and his daughter’s friend Anna to discuss the “greatness” and “achievement” 6.Exploration of your understanding of greatness. 7. Introduction of the story about Einstein by reading and completing the timeline of the life about Einstein. 8. An essay about someone you admire. 1. I can express the great deeds to my classmates in English fluently and summarize the qualities of people of great achievements 2. I can introduce why the person is great and sum up how I feel about this person. 3.I can get the meaning of greatness and voice out to my classmates.
2periods Application &Transfer Write a book report. 1.Choose a biography or autobiography of a great person. 2.Read the book, and then write a book report. I can write a book report after reading a biography or autobiography of a great person.
3periods Reconstruction & Extension Reconstruct and expand the mind map of morals and virtues. 1. Reconstruct the mind map. 2. Read the provided reading materials related to the morals and virtues. 3. Assessing your progress. I can build up a mind map of this unit, including four aspects: knowledge, ability, logic and value and develop healthy exercise habits.
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Overall Perception
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People of Achievement
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【Learning Objectives】
1. Construct the theme-related vocabulary about people of achievement.
2. Make a flow chart of an event about people of achievement and their contributions through listening.
3. Study what the greatness means and share your opinions initially.
【Context and Task】
As Albert Einstein said “Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.” Who do you admire What makes these people great For this period, you'll have the chance to have a whole perception of this unit.
Activity 1. Construct the theme-related vocabulary
Preview the words and the supplies on 271BAY to activate your vocabulary.
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P
eople of achievement:
Zhong Nanshan
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People of Achievement
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Words describing
great
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boil, acknowledge…
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Activity 2. Understand the meaning of greatness simply
1. Get ready to listen to the conversation. Match the people with achievements.
2. Listen to the conversation again. Who does each speaker admire
Tick in the table below.
Dr Wang Wang Lin Anna Smith
Elon Musk
Bill Gates
Jack Ma
Zhong Nanshan
Florence Nightingale
Alexander Fleming
Dr Wang
3. Listen again and answer the questions.
1). Why does Dr Wang say “money isn’t everything”
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2). What is the real reason Anna admires the famous people, and what examples does she give
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3). What kind of person do you think Wang Lin admires Why
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Activity 3. Who do you admire Please show your opinions about him or her Do you think whether ordinary people are great Why
Some event about people of achievement and their contributions _________________________________________________________________________________ The most impressive sentence I’d like to remember and use from this class: _____________________________________________________________________________
【Reflection】
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Exploration & Construction
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People of Achievement
--- Explore what greatness means and how it is achieved
【Learning Objectives】
1. Sort out Tu Youyou’s road to discovering artemisinin and identify her personal qualities as a great scientist through reading and discussion.
2.Get Einstein’s life story and achievements and explore the common qualities of accomplished people.
3. Describe people of achievement and introduce someone you admire by using descriptive expressions and supporting details and then clarify the true meaning of greatness
【Context and Task】
Look at this photo. Who is the woman in the photo What is happening in this photo What more can you find from this photo
Activity4. Brainstorm:
1. What kind of person makes great discoveries
2. Which is more important for making a great discovery, talent or effort
Activity 5. Look the title and the picture on P2 and predict the text type and content.
1. Where would you most likely find this passage
A. In a blog B. In a book C. In a letter D. In a newspaper
2. What’s the main idea of this passage
The passage is mainly about_____________________________________
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Activity6. Explore Tu Youyou’s road to discovering artemisinin and qualities.
Reading:1. Read the passage carefully and match the main idea of each paragraph.
Para1 A. Tu’s way to the treatment for malaria.
Para2 B. The honor of the discovery.
Para3 C. The significance of Tu’s discovery
Para4 D. The discovery of the artemisinin.
2. Passages like this are most often written in ________ and ______________.
A. the active voice ; offer many opinions
B. the first person ; talk about feelings
C. both active and passive voices; mostly contain facts
3. Reread the passage and build up the mind map of Tu Youyou’s life.
4. Can you find out how is the artemisinin discovered Complete the flow chart. Then tell the story of how artemisinin was discovered.
Thinking and discussing:
1. Why is the discovery of artemisinin important
2. What numbers are mentioned in the text What do they suggest
3. Why is Tu Youyou considered a great person
4. Find descriptive words about Tu Youyou.________________
Activity7. Use your discussion to draw conclusions about the meaning of greatness, and deliver a speech on “My Understanding of Greatness”
The following expressions may help you.
The greatest person I know of is..., who... has achieved financial success
To be great, a person should... has invented new products
To me, greatness means... has made great discoveries
Why do you think that Serves as a good role model
That’s true, but... brings happiness to other people
I want to be like______because he/she Makes great contributions to society
As a senior high school student, what kind of person do you want to be
Activity8. Introduce the story about Einstein by reading and completing the timeline of the life about Einstein.
1. What do you know about Albert Einstein
2. Complete the timeline and introduce Einstein’s life story and achievements in your own words.
3. In pairs, discuss the following questions.
Q1. Apart from his remarkable achievements, what does the passage tell us about Einstein’s life
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Q2. What impressed you most about Einstein State your reasons.
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Activity 9. Study the organization and language features.
Questions Answers
Type of writing
How does the writer develop the text
Find the descriptions that tell us what Einstein looked like and what kind of person he was.
Rhetorical devices(修辞手法)
Activity 10. Write an essay about someone you admire.
Choose the person you are going to write about. It should be someone you think is great in some way. It can be an ordinary person, such as a parent, a relative.
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Activity 11. Make a presentation to the class.
After finishing your essay, please upload on 271BAY or share it to the rest classmates.
Exchange your draft with a partner.
【Reflection】
Tick “√” if you have achieved them.
I can catch some sentence patterns to write an essay about someone I admire
I know how to write an essay about someone I admire;
I can predict the topic and main idea of the passage by looking through the pictures and titles;
I have learned about some people of achievements;
I can write a report after reading a biography or autobiography of a great person.
I can write an introduction about someone I admire.
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Ways I learnt to become a man of value: ____________________________________________________________ The most impressive sentences I’d like to remember and use: ____________________________________________________________ Useful words and expressions to introduce a person: ____________________________________________________________
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Application & Transfer
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People of Achievement
--- Write a book report
【Learning Objectives】
1. Recommend a biography or an autobiography of a great person that you have ever read and try to describe the person.
2. Get how to write a book report according to what you have learned in the textbook.
3. Write a book report and present it to your class.
【Context and Task】
The Theme of this unit is people of achievement and their contributions to this world. It is important to think about our future. Choose a biography or autobiography of a great person. Read the book and learn from them, then write a book report.
Activity 12: Discuss these questions in groups.
1.Have you ever read a biography or an autobiography of a great person Would you recommend this book Why or Why not
2.Which great person would you like to read more about
3.Where can you fine recommendations for good biographies or autobiographies
Activity 13: Choose a biography or autobiography of a great person. Read the book, and then write a book report. Keep these points in mind.
1.Use the examples above to help you.
2.Write about how the book makes you feel or think about that person.
3.Write about your overall feelings about the book and its quality.
4.Give your opinion: Should others read this book as well Why or why not
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Activity 14: Share your book report to your group.
【Reflection】
How to write a book report Step1 _____________________________________________________ Step2 _____________________________________________________ Step3 _____________________________________________________ Step4 _____________________________________________________
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Reconstruction & Extension
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People of Achievement
---Reconstruct this unit as a whole
【Learning Objectives】
1. Broaden your horizons by reading the provided extensive reading materials.
2. Reconstruct the mind map of people of achievement to have a better understanding of the whole unit.
3. Internalize the meaning of greatness and be a person contributing to our society.
【单元拓展】
Activity 15: Group article reading
Elias’ Story
词数：684 文体：说明文摘自：旧人教Book 1&Unit 5
你听过“光辉岁月”这首歌吗？你知道它是为谁创作的吗？现在，就让我们一起聆听伊利亚斯的故事，走近那个一生都在追求自由的伟人曼德拉吧……
My name is Elias. I am a poor black worker in South Africa. The time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life. I was twelve years old. It was in 1952 and Mandela was the black lawyer to whom I went for advice. He offered guidance to poor black people on their legal problems. He was generous with his time, for which I was grateful.
I needed his help because I had very little education. I began school at six. The
school where I studied for only two years was three kilometers away. I had to leave because my family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus fare. I could not read or write well. After trying hard, I got a job in a gold mine. However, this was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg. Sadly I did not have it because I was not born there, and I worried about whether I would become out of work.
The day when Nelson Mandela helped me was one of my happiest. He told me how to get the correct papers so I could stay in Johannesburg. I became more hopeful about my future. I never forgot how kind Mandela was. When he organized the ANC Youth League, I joined it as soon as I could. He said:
“The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping out rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage[footnoteRef:0] where we have almost no rights at all.” [0: stage : n. a stage of an activity, process, or period is one part of it]
It was the truth. Black people could not vote or choose their leaders. They could not get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town in which they had to live were decided by white people. The places outside the towns where they were sent to live were the poorest parts of South Africa. No one could grow food there. In fact as Nelson Mandela said:
“…we were put into a position[footnoteRef:1] in which we had either to accept we were less important or fight the government. We chose to attack the laws. We first broke the law in a way which was peaceful; when this was not allowed…only then did we decide to answer violence[footnoteRef:2] with violence.” [1: positionn. the situation at a particular ] [2: violence n. abehavior that is intended to hurt, injure, or kill people. ]
As a matter of fact, I do not like violence… but in 1963 I helped him blow up some government buildings. It was very dangerous because if I was caught. I could be put in prison. But I was happy to help because I knew it would help us achieve our dream of making black and white people equal.
Comprehending
Fill in the blanks according to the passage.
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They could not __________.
They couldn’t get __________ they wanted.
They had to live in _____________________
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1.What problems did the black people like Elias have at that time
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2.Why did Elias support Nelson Mandela
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Mandela told him __________ the correct papers so that he could keep his job.
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He joined ____________________________
He helped Mandela_____________ some
Government buildings.
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3.How did he support Mandela
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Can you list out the adjectives to describe the great man
A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE
词数：567 文体：记叙文摘自：旧人教版BOOK4 UNIT1
It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Africa. Following Jane's way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest. Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans. Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day. This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before. Everybody sits and waits in the shade of the trees while the family begins to wake up and move off. Then we follow as they wander[footnoteRef:3] into the forest. Most of the time, chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family. Jane warns us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right. However, the evening makes it all worthwhile. We watch the mother chimp and her babies play in the tree. Then we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night. We realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human family. [3: wanderv. move about aimlessly or without any destination]
Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour. She spent years observing and recording their daily activities. Since her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment. However, this was not easy. When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest. Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she allowed to begin her project. Her work changed the way people think about chimps. For example, one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat. Until then everyone had thought chimps ate only fruit and nuts. She actually observed chimps as a group hunting a monkey and then eating it. She also discovered how chimps communicate with each other, and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system.
For forty years Jane Goodall has been outspoken about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. She has argued that wild animals should be left in the wild and not used for entertainment[footnoteRef:4] or advertisements. She has helped to set up special places where they can live safely. She is leading a busy life but she says: “Once I stop, it all comes crowding in and I remember the chimps in laboratories. It's terrible. It affects me when I watch the wild chimps. I say to myself, “Aren't they lucky " And then I think about small chimps in cages though they have done nothing wrong. Once you have seen that you can never forget ...” [4: entertainment n. a diversion that holds the attention]
She has achieved everything she wanted to do: working with animals in their own environment, gaining a doctor's degree and showing that women can live in the forest as men can. She inspires those who want to cheer the achievements of women.
Comprehending
From Jane's study, can you describe the bond between members of a chimp family
What can you learn from the passage.
MODEL OF THE TIMES---Zhang Guimei
词数：833 文体：说明文 摘自：网络
On June 29, 2021, Zhang Guimei was awarded the highest honor of CPC —the July 1st Medal in the Great Hall of the People. This tough, stubborn and even a little paranoid（偏执的） woman once again came into the public's view. She was put into an embarrassing situation in October last year , when she made remarks against her student becoming a full-time mother. Therefore, she has also been labeled "feminism" by many netizens. But I believe that if you read the following story and learn about her original intention and persistence, you will definitely understand and admire her a bit more.
From childhood to youth, Zhang Guimei lived a life of worry-free clothing and food . She was also an outgoing girl who advocated freedom, and loved art. She ever had a pretty happy marriage, and her husband loved her very much. However, the good times did not last long before her husband was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Although she exhausted all her savings to give her husband the best treatment , her husband left her forever in February 1995 .This was a very fatal blow to her , which made her unable to pull herself from grief for some time. Perhaps intending to escape from reality, she applied for a job transfer and moved from Xizhou, Dali to Huaping County , where she started her legendary life.
If she hadn’t seen with her own eyes the unimaginable poverty and ignorance in the mountains and the tragedies that happened to women, Zhang Guimei might not have the idea of building a free girls-only high school . At first, she just wanted all the girls in her class not to drop out of school, but when she went to the mountains to visit her students’ homes, she found that there were so many girls of school age who could not go to school. She was very confused and couldn't think out a method that can completely solve this problem. In the end, she made a conclusion that only by providing them with free education can all this be changed. When she first proposed to build the high school for girls, people around her either thought she had a mental problem or laughed at her for being too naive. However, Zhang Guimei really started to take action. In order to prepare the school's money, she even went to the streets of Kunming to beg and collect donations, but it was far from enough. The turning point came in 2007, when Zhang Guimei became a representative of the Seventeenth National Congress （十七大）of the CPC. Her dream was known by the people of the whole country and recognized by the central leadership so that the construction of the girls-only high school entered a substantive（实质性的） stage.
For most girls in this school, if it hadn’t been for such a free high school and the persuasion of Zhang Guimei, maybe they would marry and have children early in their teens but without knowing how to educate and love their kids. It is precisely（精确地，恰恰） because of the particularity of this group that Zhang Guimei's management of the high school couldn’t be harsher. There is no so-called quality education, only repeatedly learning. She knows that these girls have no way back, and studying is their only chance to change their destiny. Carrying so many children's hopes by herself, she is always under a lot of pressure. So it’s reasonable that her words are a bit aggressive sometimes.
Although Zhang Guimei is now a hero praised by people, in fact she is also an ordinary person. In the very beginning, she did these things perhaps just to find a kind of spiritual sustenance（寄托）. But year after year, seeing her students enter universities, go out of the mountains, and sail away, she feels that all her efforts are worthwhile. She often says that people always have to do something while they are alive. The high school develops better and better, having sent more than 1,800 poor girls to universities in total, yet years of heavy work and stress have taken their toll (代价）on Zhang Guimei. She suffers from more than 20 diseases, relying on a lot of medicine every day, and sometimes she feels so painful that she could only complain to her friends. However, she still has one wish that has not been fulfilled—her students can be admitted to Tsinghua University or Peking University. Perhaps this is also a motivation to support her in fighting so many illnesses.
A person devotes all of her energy to doing one thing—the thing that benefits others. This is already commendable（值得赞扬的）! Let’s pay our respects to Teacher Zhang Guimei, and hope that she can take care of her health and fulfill her unfinished wish!
【单元重构】
Activity 16: 1. Review the unit and reconstruct the 4 structures of “People of Achievement”. You can refer to the mind map below.
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People of Achievement
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【Reflection】
How well can I Self-evaluation
describe a people of achievement
understand the meaning of greatness
introduce someone I admire
write a book report
identify and use the relative clauses in your writing
use the new vocabulary from this unit
5=Excellent; 4=Good; 3=Satisfactory;2=Fair;1=Improvement required
If improvement is required for some of the areas above, make an action plan.
Unit1 People of achievement 单元过关
I. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words.(每空1分，共12分)
1. Reading is of v____________(极其重要的) importance in language learning.
2. The article provide true and o_____________(客观的) information.
3. He loved playing the piano and was c____________(尽心尽力的) to practising it.
4. Parents play a c_____________(关键的) role in preparing their child for school.
5. It is widely a_________________(承认) that students should e__________（评估）in terms of overall quality.
6. In general, keep an eye on their p__________(property) while they are gone.
7. The doctor i__________(坚决要求) that the patient be fed liquid food
8. He o____________(获得) a loan from the government.
9. The doctor a___________(分析) the food and found that it contained dangerous s___________(物质)
10. It is d_____________(清晰的) that smoking is harmful to health.
II. Reading comprehension(每小题2.5分，共计15小题)
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Four of the World’s Best Futurists(未来学家)
Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly is an author. His 1994 publication，OutofControl，discusses a future where machines and systems are so complex as to be indistinguished(难区分的) from living things.
His latest book What Technology Wants suggests that technology is not just a mixture of wires and metals but a living thing that has its own need. The book looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover what it wants.
Dr Michio Kaku
Dr Michio Kaku is a professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York and author of The Future of theMind and Physics of the Future.
In The Future of the Mind，he explores the frontier of neuroscience. He predicts that one day we will be able to upload the human brain into a computer. In Physics of the Future，he predicts that glasses and contact lenses will be connected to the Internet and cars will become driverless with the power of the GPS system.
David Brin
Science fiction author and scientist，David Brin has received awards. In 1998，he won the Freedom of Speech Award for The Transparence Society. The book concerns threats to personal affairs and openness in the information age. In a world where the police monitor public places 24 hours a day with cameras and some credit companies can sell people’s financial details to anyone willing to pay，Brin warns that surveillance(监控) technology will be used by too few people in the future. He argues that the tables should be turned and the public should have access to information like who is buying financial details from credit companies.
Dr Ray Kurzweil
Dr Ray Kurzweil is the main inventor of the first print to speech reading machine for the blind. He is the director of artificial intelligence development at Google.
Over the past 25 years，a number of his predictions have come true. In 1990，he predicted a computer would defeat a human at chess by 1998.He predicts that by the 2020s，most diseases will go away and self driving cars begin to take over the roads.
21．Whose book is discussing about machines and systems in the future
A．Kevin Kelly’s. B．Dr Michio Kaku’s.
C．David Brin’s. D．Dr Ray Kurzweil’s.
22．Which of the following book won the Freedom of Speech Award
A．Out of Control. B．The Future of the Mind.
C．Physics of the Future. D．The Transparence Society.
23．What’s Dr Ray Kurzweil’s attitude towards his prediction of the 2020s
A．Cautious. B．Optimistic. C．Doubtful. D．Disapproving.
B
My teacher，Mr August J．Bachmann，was the most influential teacher I ever had.
I had gotten into trouble in his class：Another student had pushed me for fun，and I became angry and began to hit him. Mr Bachmann stopped the fight，but instead of sending me to the office，he sat me down and asked a simple question：“Penna，why are you wasting your life？Why aren’t you going to college？”
I didn’t know anything about colleges or scholarships. No one had ever considered that a fatherless boy from the poorest neighborhood had a future. That day，instead of rushing off for lunch，he stayed and explained possible education options to me. At the end of our talk，he sent me to see a secretary who had a child at a state college. This was in 1962 at Emerson High School in Union City，New Jersey.
Well,53 years have passed，and what have I done with the knowledge he gave me？I gained a PhD from Fordham University when I was only 29.I taught English and social studies and then moved up the chain of command from teacher to principal.
I’ve sat on the board for Magnet Schools of America and represented that organization at the United Nations. I’ve won a number of great educational awards. But where would I be if a truly caring teacher had not taken the time out of his lunch period to speak to me？It was without question only his confidence in me that helped me forward.
I have repaid his kindness hundreds of times by encouraging misguided youngsters to aim higher. If I have saved any children，it is because of him. If I have been a successful educator，it is because I had a great role model in Mr Bachmann.
24．The writer before Mr Bachmann talked to him.
A．was an active boy B．was an aimless boy
C．liked making troubles in class D．would get punished by his teachers
25．Which of the following best describes Mr Bachmann
A．Fair. B．Confident. C．Inspiring. D．Humorous.
26．How did Mr Bachmann influence the writer
A．He set the writer on the right path. B．He was strict with the writer.
C．He helped the writer with his study.
D．He tried to set a good example to the writer.
27．What does the writer think of his achievement
A．He is very proud of himself.
B．He feels his effort gets paid off at last.
C．He owes his achievement to Mr Bachmann.
D．He thinks it an honor to be a successful educator.
C
It’s shocking that countless species become extinct every year and such extinction means forever. To change the situation，scientists are now on their way to bringing back extinct species.
DNA is the chemical that carries the structure of a living thing，which is needed by researchers to bring back a species. Dinosaurs have been gone too long for any of their DNA to remain in fossils. However it seems possible to bring back more recently extinct species such as Ice Age animal，the woolly mammoth. In 2015，a team of Spanish and French scientists re created the Pyrenean ibex，which had gone extinct three years earlier. The new animal didn’t survive long，but scientific advances should improve the success rate. In January，Australian scientists announced that they were trying to restore the brooding frog.
That we can bring species back doesn’t mean that we should. There may be benefits to bring back a species. But there’s no way to know how it will turn out. For example，would a passenger pigeon fit into its old habitat？Or might it crowd out existing species
Environmentalists worry that our ability to bring species back might cut down support for the hard work of traditional conservation. Why bother to preserve a wildlife habitat or fight poachers(偷猎者) if we know we can make up for our mistakes
But those extinctions are our mistakes to correct. As environmentalist Stewart Brand put it，“Humans have the ability to repair some of that damage.”
We would do well to remember the lesson of Jurassic Park：Continue with caution.
28．What can we know from Para.2
A．Scientists have successfully brought back some dinosaurs.
B．It’s likely for scientists to bring back recently extinct animals.
C．Scientists have discovered DNA of all Ice Age species in fossils.
D．Ice Age animals live longer than before after being brought back to life
29．Paragraph 3 mainly shows that bringing back extinct species is .
A．harmful B．realistic C．helpful D．double edged
30．What makes environmentalists worried according to the passage
A．Scientists cannot make up for the mistakes they made in DNA research
B．Scientists still lack technical support to bring back extinct species to life.
C．Traditional conservation seems useless when restoring species is available.
D．Species that will be brought back to life after distinction will not survive long.
31．What is the probable attitude of Stewart Brand toward bringing extinct species back to life
A．Critical B．Worried. C．Disapproving. D．Supportive.
D
Each day the online community reports on countless social justice issues around the world. From climate change and gun violence to natural disasters，readers come across a story，learn about an issue and often feel compelled to help. However，without any guidance on how to make a difference，many abandon the attempt and move on with their day.
Ideal Impact，a new Web based app(应用程序)，sees that as a lost opportunity. The app is designed to connect news stories with efficient ways to help make a difference in the real world. Let’s say，for example，you recently read an article，“The heartbreaking world of captive(被抓的) exotic birds” and felt moved by the stories of the often sad lives those birds are forced to live. Once installed on your phone or browser，Ideal Impact would show you opportunities to volunteer，donate or get involved to help captive exotic birds.
Founder，Olivier Kamanda，explains in the company’s video，“What would happen when you come across a story that makes you want to get involved in？That arouses a fundamental question，‘How can I help？’ Unfortunately there is no platform that takes you from that moment of inspiration to a meaningful service opportunity. So every year 90 million people are inspired to get involved to do something with their time and they don’t know how. And that comes at a cost of 207 billion dollars in lost volunteer time and donations.” Kamanda said in an interview with the Smithsonian，“Our app bridges the gap between people who are inspired to make a difference and organizations that need support.”
Once the app is installed as a browser plugin(插件) on a desktop(台式电脑) or mobile device，you can read the news as you normally would. And then，when you come across a story that inspires you to take action，you can click on the Ideal Impact button that appears in the main menu of your browser. That will load the app and show you opportunities to get involved with non profit organizations that are working to deal with the issue you just read about.
32．What is Ideal Impact
A．It’s a piece of software. B．It’s a charity group.
C．It’s a computer. D．It’s a non profit organization.
33．How does the author explain the function of Ideal Impact
A．By making comparisons. B．By giving figures.
C．By giving quotations. D．By giving an example.
34．Ideal Impact can help people to .
A．make a contribution B．search for exotic birds
C．read news stories more easily D．make a difference to their career
35．What will happen after you click on the Ideal Impact button
A．You will have fun news to read.
B．You will find a solution to a problem.
C．You may get access to a related charity.
D．The main menu of your browser will appear.
III. Gap-filling
When he was a teenager，Hunter Adams was very unhappy，and he spent many years in the 1960s and 1970s in a special hospital for people with mental health problems.
When he left hospital，Adams decided to become a doctor，so he went to Medical School in Virginia，USA. 36 For example，he didn’t like the doctors’ white coats，so he wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients，and he tried to make them laugh. The doctors at the medical school didn’t like Adams very much because he was too different.
37 He saw unhappy and lonely people，and he tried to help them as patients，but as people too. He spent a lot of time with children in the hospital，and often put a special red nose on his face to look like a clown and to make the children laugh.
When he finished medical school and became a doctor，Adams opened his own hospital，called “The Gesundheit！Institute”，together with some other doctors. 38
Hunter Adams became famous during the 1980s，and in 1998，Universal Pictures made a film about his life. 39 In the film (called PatchAdams)，Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said，“Hunter is a really warm person，who believes that patients need a doctor who’s a friend. 40 ”
A．I enjoyed playing him.
B．It was very successful.
C．He finally gave up his studies.
D．Adams succeeded in persuading other patients.
E．But when he was there，he did things in a different way.
F．But Adams believed that people in hospital need more than medicine.
G．They wanted it to be a place with a different way of working with sick people.
IV, Cloze
Everyday on the way to work I drive down a street lined with pine trees. One tree in particular 41 my attention. It must have suffered some 42 .Part of its trunk grew nearly parallel to the ground，and then in an effort to 43 its own course of life，the trunk took a 90 degree turn 44 to stand tall and stretch toward the sun.
This tree became a 45 for me. Each day as I drove by，I saw this bent but determined tree and I would be 46 .It was a reminder to me that 47 I may not have had the best start in life，I could change 48 in the parts of my life at any time.
I was planning to stop one day to get a perfect 49 of my kindred spirit(志趣相同的) tree. But that week I was 50 .After that busy week，I still didn’t take any action. Every time I drove by the tree I would 51 myself，“Tomorrow，I’ll stop to take one.” Then one day，as I 52 by “my” tree，I glanced over，and much to my 53 I found a sawed off stump(树桩) where that symbolic tree had stood. Gone. I had 54 my plan until “tomorrow” and tomorrow proved to be too 55 .
A picture of a tree gives me a lesson clearly that if we knew we would never have the opportunity to do it again？Why not do those things that you have been putting off until tomorrow
41. A. paid B. caught C．fixed D．escaped
42. A. damage B. influence C．experience D．defeat
43 .A. follow B. design C．change D．imagine
44. A. applying B. attempting C．happening D．learning
45. A. shelter B. signal C．sign D．symbol
46. A. interested B. satisfied C．encouraged D．educated
47. A. even though B. as if C．in case D．if only
48. A. purpose B. plan C．habit D．direction
49. A. glance B. view C．picture D．knowledge
50. A. busy B. free C．worried D．bored
51. A. tell B. help C．call D．see
52 .A. wandered B. drove C．rode D．ran
53. A. surprise B. pleasure C．regret D．happiness
54. A. taken off B. cut off C．put off D．called off
55. A. cold B. far C．sunny D．late
V. Fill in the blanks
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Wu Zetian，the only woman emperor to rule ancient China，is considered 1. _________ one of the most powerful women in Chinese history.
She was born into a(n) 2._________(wealth) family with great beauty and intelligence. This beautiful girl，unlike others in ancient China,3_____.(be) in favour of reading and often travelled around the country with her father when she was young,4._______. increased her knowledge and developed her talents. When she was about fourteen，she 5.__________.(send) to the palace and married to the Emperor. After many difficulties and hardships，she .6___________(successful) made herself queen. A few years after Emperor Gaozong died，Wu Zetian changed the name of the dynasty Tang to Zhou，and became Empress.7.________ seemed like a hard task for women to be rulers in ancient times，but Wu Zetian succeeded.When she ruled the country，she supported economic and cultural 8. ________.(develop) and improved people’s living quality. She also encouraged girls to go to school 9._________ .(study)．Before then，girls were not allowed to go to school.
Wu Zetian died at the age of 82,10._________ .(leave) a gravestone without any words on it. Although the Zhou Dynasty only lasted for one generation，it marked an important period in Chinese history.
附：答案
Activity 1:略
Activity 2:
1.Elon Musk ---founded high-tech and futuristic companies
Bill Gates ---made home computing accessible
Jack Ma (Ma Yun) ---made great advancement in online shopping
Alexander Fleming ---discovered penicillin
Florence Nightingale---founder of modern nursing
Zhong Nanshan ---managed the SARS outbreak
2.
3.
1)Why does Dr Wang say “money isn’t everything” ？
Because he doesn’t believe that money alone is a true measure of success.
2)What is the real reason Anna admires the famous people, and what examples does she give
Because they worked so hard to achieve their goals and have positive contributions to society.
Elon Musk; Bill Gates
3)What kind of person do you think Wang Lin admires Why
She admires people that do good things and inspire her, because she mentions these two things when she talks about how wonderful her father is.
Activity 3：
I admire Florence Nightingale because she is the founder of modern nursing.
Activity 4:
1 Most great discoverers are brilliant and hard-working. Many are perfectionists who are unwilling to accept anything but the best.
2 I think both talent and effort are important for making discoveries. If a person doesn't have any talent, it is possible that even though he or she works hard, it will be difficult to succeed. On the other hand, people even those with great talent---rarely achieve anything without putting in efforts.
Activity 5:
1.D
2. The passage is mainly about Tu youyou’s contribution and her life story.
Activity 6:
1.BADC
2.C
3.
Thinking and discussing:
1. Artemisinin has saved hundreds of thousands of lives and has improved the health for millions of people.
2. 200million; 600,000; 100,000; 2,000; 280,000; 380; 190
These numbers suggest three things: how big a health problem malaria is, how much health problem malaria is, how much time Tu Youyou spent in looking for a possible new treatment for malaria, and how patient and persist Tu youyou and her team were to tackle the disease.
She is considered a great person because through her effort many lives have been saved.
Activity 7: As a senior high school student, I want to be a great person and bring happiness to other people.
Activity8:
1. The Institute for Advanced Study(IAS)was founded in Princeton, New erseyn1930.Though it had its home at Princeton University for several years, it is not related to Princeton University in any formal way. In the 1930s,the IAS became a lifesaver for many mathematicians and physicists, quickly turning it into the leading education and research Centre in the world in thosefields.Altogether,33 Nobel laureates have worked a IAS over the years.
2. 1879-Born in Germany
1895-Tried but failed to enter university in Switzerland
1896-Entered university1900-Graduated from university
1902-Took a job as a clerk in the Swiss patent office
1905-Earned a doctorate in physics
1909-Able to quit his job at the patent office and enter research full-time at a university
1922-Awarded the Nobel Prize
1933-Had to flee Germany
1955-Died in the United States
3.
Q1 Though he was brilliant, he was also a person who faced struggles, for example, when he failed to pass his university entrance exam, when he failed to get a good job, and when he had to flee Germany.
Q2 I am impressed most by how friendly and easy he was to approach. Even when he was busy and did not want to be bothered, he still found a way to deal with people in gentleness and good humour.
Activity 9:
Suggested Answers
I The text is a biography, which is developed chronologically.
2 He had a thick moustache ...received an electric shock. Although he was a genius, ...his friends' birthdays. But despite ...loved by his friends and neighbors. There is even a story...with her homework. In fact,...help explain things. After many such..."Pardon me! sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein!
3 analogy: as the new Isaac Newton; personification: (hair)stood on end; simile: as though he had just received an electric shock; metaphor: the doors of academic institutions; euphemism: passed away
Activity 10:
Possible version
When people talk about sacrifice and charity for others, the name that most often comes up in my mind is Mother Teresa. In fact , she is so famous for work that her name is often used nowadays as a point of comparison by which others are judged. Interestingly, though her name is still heard quite often, many younger people have no clear idea who she was. She was born on 26 August 1910 in Skopje, where is now the modern-day Republic of Macedonia. When she was a young girl ,she decided that she wanted to help poor people in India. For her work, Mother Teresa was awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 1979.
Activity 11:略
Activity 12:
1.Yes. I have ever read a biography of a great person. I recommend Cao Xueqin Biography by Li Jianshu. This book tells the life story of the novelist Cao Xueqin.
2.I would like to read Cao Xueqin more. His novel the Dream of the Red Mansions is very famous.
Activity 13:
Cao Xueqin was born in Nanjing to a wealthy and powerful family. However, when he was a child, his family fell into disfavor with the Emperor, so it was forced to relocate to Beijing, where Cao Xueqin grew up in poverty. As an adult, he lived by selling his paintings, and he worked constantly on his great novel The Dream of the Red Mansions, which was published after his death. The novel is not only widely read at home by numerous readers, but also enjoys a celebrated fame abroad.
People of achievement
单元过关答案：
I. 1. vital 2. objective 3.committed 4. crucial 5.acknowledged, evaluate
6. properties 7. insisted 8. obtained 9.analyzed, substance 10. distinct
II. A: ADB B:BCAC C:BDCD D:ADAC
III. 36．E 37．F 38．G 39．B 40.A
IV. 41-55 BACBD CADCA ABACD
V. 1.as 2. wealthy 3. was 4. which 5. was sent
6. successfully 7. It 8. development 9. to study 10. leaving
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单元概述
【单元内容】
The theme of this unit is people and society. This unit focuses on people who have made great achievements. We will consider what constitutes true achievement by exploring the lives of people such as Tu Youyou, Albert Einstein, and Helen Keller. This knowledge is then activated by talking and writing about people they admire. You will then gain tools for further study on the subject by making books reports on the biographies of great people. After study we are expected to understand what qualities one needs to make a difference to our life and understand the meaning of greatness.
【课标要求】
核心素养 课标要求
语言能力 语言知识 词汇 能正确使用与“卓有成就的人物”主题相关的词和词块来理解和表达。
语法 能够在语篇中正确理解和使用由关系代词which, who, whom, whose和关系副词when, where引导的非限制性定语从句。
语篇 阅读专题新闻报道，掌握该类型语篇的标题特征、结构特征和语言特点。 阅读人物传记，掌握该类型语篇特点，掌握用故事说明人物品质的方法。 听懂并理解探讨人物成就和人物品质的对话。
语用 能够运用口头表达时用填充语争取思考时间的交际策略。
语言技能 听 听三人之间的对话，听三人对“伟大”与“成就”的讨论。关注表达因果关系的显性和隐形语言。
说 能够以口头的形式，有条理地叙述人物经历和评价人物成就。
读 1.阅读新闻报道，了解人物生平事迹，分析人物性格与品质，探究卓有成就的人成功的原因； 2.阅读人物传记，理解爱因斯坦的杰出成就和突出贡献。
写 1.能用人物传记的方式介绍自己钦佩的人，用故事说明人物品质，用细节刻画人物形象。 2.能够写一篇人物传记的书评。
看 观看京剧大师梅兰芳幼年拜师学艺，少年成名，以及他从事戏曲事业五十年创建梅派，将京剧带向国际舞台等主要经历和成就。
学习能力 能够把握主题，运用寻读策略快速找出语篇中描写人物外貌、品质等特征的表达，为建构主题意义服务。 2.能够以口头和书面的形式，有条理地叙述人物经历和评价人物成就。
文化意识 了解诺贝尔生理学或医学奖获得者屠呦呦的生平和她发现青蒿素的主要研究过程，分析和探讨屠呦呦获奖的原因，理解我国传统中医药对人类健康和世界发招的贡献。 了解国内外取得重大成就的任务及其经理、贡献等，探索这些任务的共同品质，深入理解“伟大”的含义。
思维品质 1.能够主动收集、整合、总结人物信息和人物经历，分析其获得成功到达原因，归纳杰出人物的共同品质。 2.能多角度、多层次地认识、分析具体人物，并形成自己的观点。 3.正确认识、理解“个人成就”与“社会价值”之间的辩证关系，对照自身的成长经历，思考成长的意义和未来努力的方向。
【单元目标】
By the end of the unit, you will be able to:
1. Introduce some people of achievement and their contributions and express your idea about the greatness.
2. introduce the main process of Tu Youyou and her team’s discovery and extraction of artemisinin to treat malaria and identify the reasons for their success.
3. get Einstein’s life story and achievement and write an essay on someone you admire to master the descriptive expressions.
4. make a book report about a biography or autobiography of a great person to share your understanding of greatness and how it is achieved, then have the right attitude of success.
【单元任务】
The Theme of this unit is people of achievement and their contributions to this world. It is important to think about our future. Choose a biography or autobiography of a great person. Read the book and learn from them, then write a book report.
【学习导航&评价预设】
【学时安排】
Period Content Task Form of targets Criteria
1 period Overall Perception Perceive people of achievement and their contributions to make a flow chart 1. The theme-related vocabulary mind map. 2. A chart about people of achievement and their constructions. I can voice concrete contributions of the great people that I admire
6periods Exploration & Construction Explore what greatness means and how it is achieved Introduce of the topic Prediction of the content and text type by looking at the title and picture. Exploration of Tu Youyou’s road to discovering artemisinin and qualities. Creative Talking and Speaking. 5. Conversation between Dr Wang, his daughter Wang Lin, and his daughter’s friend Anna to discuss the “greatness” and “achievement” 6.Exploration of your understanding of greatness. 7. Introduction of the story about Einstein by reading and completing the timeline of the life about Einstein. 8. An essay about someone you admire. 1. I can express the great deeds to my classmates in English fluently and summarize the qualities of people of great achievements 2. I can introduce why the person is great and sum up how I feel about this person. 3.I can get the meaning of greatness and voice out to my classmates.
2periods Application &Transfer Write a book report. 1.Choose a biography or autobiography of a great person. 2.Read the book, and then write a book report. I can write a book report after reading a biography or autobiography of a great person.
3periods Reconstruction & Extension Reconstruct and expand the mind map of morals and virtues. 1. Reconstruct the mind map. 2. Read the provided reading materials related to the morals and virtues. 3. Assessing your progress. I can build up a mind map of this unit, including four aspects: knowledge, ability, logic and value and develop healthy exercise habits.
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Overall Perception
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People of Achievement
--- Show your opinions about people of achievement and what the greatness means
【Learning Objectives】
1. Construct the theme-related vocabulary about people of achievement.
2. Make a flow chart of an event about people of achievement and their contributions through listening.
3. Study what the greatness means and share your opinions initially.
【Context and Task】
As Albert Einstein said “Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.” Who do you admire What makes these people great For this period, you'll have the chance to have a whole perception of this unit.
Activity 1. Construct the theme-related vocabulary
Preview the words and the supplies on 271BAY to activate your vocabulary.
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Zhong Nanshan
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People of Achievement
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Activity 2. Understand the meaning of greatness simply
1. Get ready to listen to the conversation. Match the people with achievements.
2. Listen to the conversation again. Who does each speaker admire
Tick in the table below.
Dr Wang Wang Lin Anna Smith
Elon Musk
Bill Gates
Jack Ma
Zhong Nanshan
Florence Nightingale
Alexander Fleming
Dr Wang
3. Listen again and answer the questions.
1). Why does Dr Wang say “money isn’t everything”
_______________________________________________________
2). What is the real reason Anna admires the famous people, and what examples does she give
_________________________________________________________
3). What kind of person do you think Wang Lin admires Why
_________________________________________________________
Activity 3. Who do you admire Please show your opinions about him or her Do you think whether ordinary people are great Why
Some event about people of achievement and their contributions _________________________________________________________________________________ The most impressive sentence I’d like to remember and use from this class: _____________________________________________________________________________
【Reflection】
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Exploration & Construction
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People of Achievement
--- Explore what greatness means and how it is achieved
【Learning Objectives】
1. Sort out Tu Youyou’s road to discovering artemisinin and identify her personal qualities as a great scientist through reading and discussion.
2.Get Einstein’s life story and achievements and explore the common qualities of accomplished people.
3. Describe people of achievement and introduce someone you admire by using descriptive expressions and supporting details and then clarify the true meaning of greatness
【Context and Task】
Look at this photo. Who is the woman in the photo What is happening in this photo What more can you find from this photo
Activity4. Brainstorm:
1. What kind of person makes great discoveries
2. Which is more important for making a great discovery, talent or effort
Activity 5. Look the title and the picture on P2 and predict the text type and content.
1. Where would you most likely find this passage
A. In a blog B. In a book C. In a letter D. In a newspaper
2. What’s the main idea of this passage
The passage is mainly about_____________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Activity6. Explore Tu Youyou’s road to discovering artemisinin and qualities.
Reading:1. Read the passage carefully and match the main idea of each paragraph.
Para1 A. Tu’s way to the treatment for malaria.
Para2 B. The honor of the discovery.
Para3 C. The significance of Tu’s discovery
Para4 D. The discovery of the artemisinin.
2. Passages like this are most often written in ________ and ______________.
A. the active voice ; offer many opinions
B. the first person ; talk about feelings
C. both active and passive voices; mostly contain facts
3. Reread the passage and build up the mind map of Tu Youyou’s life.
4. Can you find out how is the artemisinin discovered Complete the flow chart. Then tell the story of how artemisinin was discovered.
Thinking and discussing:
1. Why is the discovery of artemisinin important
2. What numbers are mentioned in the text What do they suggest
3. Why is Tu Youyou considered a great person
4. Find descriptive words about Tu Youyou.________________
Activity7. Use your discussion to draw conclusions about the meaning of greatness, and deliver a speech on “My Understanding of Greatness”
The following expressions may help you.
The greatest person I know of is..., who... has achieved financial success
To be great, a person should... has invented new products
To me, greatness means... has made great discoveries
Why do you think that Serves as a good role model
That’s true, but... brings happiness to other people
I want to be like______because he/she Makes great contributions to society
As a senior high school student, what kind of person do you want to be
Activity8. Introduce the story about Einstein by reading and completing the timeline of the life about Einstein.
1. What do you know about Albert Einstein
2. Complete the timeline and introduce Einstein’s life story and achievements in your own words.
3. In pairs, discuss the following questions.
Q1. Apart from his remarkable achievements, what does the passage tell us about Einstein’s life
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Q2. What impressed you most about Einstein State your reasons.
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Activity 9. Study the organization and language features.
Questions Answers
Type of writing
How does the writer develop the text
Find the descriptions that tell us what Einstein looked like and what kind of person he was.
Rhetorical devices(修辞手法)
Activity 10. Write an essay about someone you admire.
Choose the person you are going to write about. It should be someone you think is great in some way. It can be an ordinary person, such as a parent, a relative.
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Activity 11. Make a presentation to the class.
After finishing your essay, please upload on 271BAY or share it to the rest classmates.
Exchange your draft with a partner.
【Reflection】
Tick “√” if you have achieved them.
I can catch some sentence patterns to write an essay about someone I admire
I know how to write an essay about someone I admire;
I can predict the topic and main idea of the passage by looking through the pictures and titles;
I have learned about some people of achievements;
I can write a report after reading a biography or autobiography of a great person.
I can write an introduction about someone I admire.
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Ways I learnt to become a man of value: ____________________________________________________________ The most impressive sentences I’d like to remember and use: ____________________________________________________________ Useful words and expressions to introduce a person: ____________________________________________________________
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Application & Transfer
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People of Achievement
--- Write a book report
【Learning Objectives】
1. Recommend a biography or an autobiography of a great person that you have ever read and try to describe the person.
2. Get how to write a book report according to what you have learned in the textbook.
3. Write a book report and present it to your class.
【Context and Task】
The Theme of this unit is people of achievement and their contributions to this world. It is important to think about our future. Choose a biography or autobiography of a great person. Read the book and learn from them, then write a book report.
Activity 12: Discuss these questions in groups.
1.Have you ever read a biography or an autobiography of a great person Would you recommend this book Why or Why not
2.Which great person would you like to read more about
3.Where can you fine recommendations for good biographies or autobiographies
Activity 13: Choose a biography or autobiography of a great person. Read the book, and then write a book report. Keep these points in mind.
1.Use the examples above to help you.
2.Write about how the book makes you feel or think about that person.
3.Write about your overall feelings about the book and its quality.
4.Give your opinion: Should others read this book as well Why or why not
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Activity 14: Share your book report to your group.
【Reflection】
How to write a book report Step1 _____________________________________________________ Step2 _____________________________________________________ Step3 _____________________________________________________ Step4 _____________________________________________________
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Reconstruction & Extension
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People of Achievement
---Reconstruct this unit as a whole
【Learning Objectives】
1. Broaden your horizons by reading the provided extensive reading materials.
2. Reconstruct the mind map of people of achievement to have a better understanding of the whole unit.
3. Internalize the meaning of greatness and be a person contributing to our society.
【单元拓展】
Activity 15: Group article reading
Elias’ Story
词数：684 文体：说明文摘自：旧人教Book 1&Unit 5
你听过“光辉岁月”这首歌吗？你知道它是为谁创作的吗？现在，就让我们一起聆听伊利亚斯的故事，走近那个一生都在追求自由的伟人曼德拉吧……
My name is Elias. I am a poor black worker in South Africa. The time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life. I was twelve years old. It was in 1952 and Mandela was the black lawyer to whom I went for advice. He offered guidance to poor black people on their legal problems. He was generous with his time, for which I was grateful.
I needed his help because I had very little education. I began school at six. The
school where I studied for only two years was three kilometers away. I had to leave because my family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus fare. I could not read or write well. After trying hard, I got a job in a gold mine. However, this was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg. Sadly I did not have it because I was not born there, and I worried about whether I would become out of work.
The day when Nelson Mandela helped me was one of my happiest. He told me how to get the correct papers so I could stay in Johannesburg. I became more hopeful about my future. I never forgot how kind Mandela was. When he organized the ANC Youth League, I joined it as soon as I could. He said:
“The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping out rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage[footnoteRef:0] where we have almost no rights at all.” [0: stage : n. a stage of an activity, process, or period is one part of it]
It was the truth. Black people could not vote or choose their leaders. They could not get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town in which they had to live were decided by white people. The places outside the towns where they were sent to live were the poorest parts of South Africa. No one could grow food there. In fact as Nelson Mandela said:
“…we were put into a position[footnoteRef:1] in which we had either to accept we were less important or fight the government. We chose to attack the laws. We first broke the law in a way which was peaceful; when this was not allowed…only then did we decide to answer violence[footnoteRef:2] with violence.” [1: positionn. the situation at a particular ] [2: violence n. abehavior that is intended to hurt, injure, or kill people. ]
As a matter of fact, I do not like violence… but in 1963 I helped him blow up some government buildings. It was very dangerous because if I was caught. I could be put in prison. But I was happy to help because I knew it would help us achieve our dream of making black and white people equal.
Comprehending
Fill in the blanks according to the passage.
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They could not __________.
They couldn’t get __________ they wanted.
They had to live in _____________________
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1.What problems did the black people like Elias have at that time
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2.Why did Elias support Nelson Mandela
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Mandela told him __________ the correct papers so that he could keep his job.
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He joined ____________________________
He helped Mandela_____________ some
Government buildings.
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3.How did he support Mandela
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Can you list out the adjectives to describe the great man
A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE
词数：567 文体：记叙文摘自：旧人教版BOOK4 UNIT1
It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Africa. Following Jane's way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest. Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans. Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day. This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before. Everybody sits and waits in the shade of the trees while the family begins to wake up and move off. Then we follow as they wander[footnoteRef:3] into the forest. Most of the time, chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family. Jane warns us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right. However, the evening makes it all worthwhile. We watch the mother chimp and her babies play in the tree. Then we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night. We realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human family. [3: wanderv. move about aimlessly or without any destination]
Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour. She spent years observing and recording their daily activities. Since her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment. However, this was not easy. When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest. Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she allowed to begin her project. Her work changed the way people think about chimps. For example, one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat. Until then everyone had thought chimps ate only fruit and nuts. She actually observed chimps as a group hunting a monkey and then eating it. She also discovered how chimps communicate with each other, and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system.
For forty years Jane Goodall has been outspoken about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. She has argued that wild animals should be left in the wild and not used for entertainment[footnoteRef:4] or advertisements. She has helped to set up special places where they can live safely. She is leading a busy life but she says: “Once I stop, it all comes crowding in and I remember the chimps in laboratories. It's terrible. It affects me when I watch the wild chimps. I say to myself, “Aren't they lucky " And then I think about small chimps in cages though they have done nothing wrong. Once you have seen that you can never forget ...” [4: entertainment n. a diversion that holds the attention]
She has achieved everything she wanted to do: working with animals in their own environment, gaining a doctor's degree and showing that women can live in the forest as men can. She inspires those who want to cheer the achievements of women.
Comprehending
From Jane's study, can you describe the bond between members of a chimp family
What can you learn from the passage.
MODEL OF THE TIMES---Zhang Guimei
词数：833 文体：说明文 摘自：网络
On June 29, 2021, Zhang Guimei was awarded the highest honor of CPC —the July 1st Medal in the Great Hall of the People. This tough, stubborn and even a little paranoid（偏执的） woman once again came into the public's view. She was put into an embarrassing situation in October last year , when she made remarks against her student becoming a full-time mother. Therefore, she has also been labeled "feminism" by many netizens. But I believe that if you read the following story and learn about her original intention and persistence, you will definitely understand and admire her a bit more.
From childhood to youth, Zhang Guimei lived a life of worry-free clothing and food . She was also an outgoing girl who advocated freedom, and loved art. She ever had a pretty happy marriage, and her husband loved her very much. However, the good times did not last long before her husband was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Although she exhausted all her savings to give her husband the best treatment , her husband left her forever in February 1995 .This was a very fatal blow to her , which made her unable to pull herself from grief for some time. Perhaps intending to escape from reality, she applied for a job transfer and moved from Xizhou, Dali to Huaping County , where she started her legendary life.
If she hadn’t seen with her own eyes the unimaginable poverty and ignorance in the mountains and the tragedies that happened to women, Zhang Guimei might not have the idea of building a free girls-only high school . At first, she just wanted all the girls in her class not to drop out of school, but when she went to the mountains to visit her students’ homes, she found that there were so many girls of school age who could not go to school. She was very confused and couldn't think out a method that can completely solve this problem. In the end, she made a conclusion that only by providing them with free education can all this be changed. When she first proposed to build the high school for girls, people around her either thought she had a mental problem or laughed at her for being too naive. However, Zhang Guimei really started to take action. In order to prepare the school's money, she even went to the streets of Kunming to beg and collect donations, but it was far from enough. The turning point came in 2007, when Zhang Guimei became a representative of the Seventeenth National Congress （十七大）of the CPC. Her dream was known by the people of the whole country and recognized by the central leadership so that the construction of the girls-only high school entered a substantive（实质性的） stage.
For most girls in this school, if it hadn’t been for such a free high school and the persuasion of Zhang Guimei, maybe they would marry and have children early in their teens but without knowing how to educate and love their kids. It is precisely（精确地，恰恰） because of the particularity of this group that Zhang Guimei's management of the high school couldn’t be harsher. There is no so-called quality education, only repeatedly learning. She knows that these girls have no way back, and studying is their only chance to change their destiny. Carrying so many children's hopes by herself, she is always under a lot of pressure. So it’s reasonable that her words are a bit aggressive sometimes.
Although Zhang Guimei is now a hero praised by people, in fact she is also an ordinary person. In the very beginning, she did these things perhaps just to find a kind of spiritual sustenance（寄托）. But year after year, seeing her students enter universities, go out of the mountains, and sail away, she feels that all her efforts are worthwhile. She often says that people always have to do something while they are alive. The high school develops better and better, having sent more than 1,800 poor girls to universities in total, yet years of heavy work and stress have taken their toll (代价）on Zhang Guimei. She suffers from more than 20 diseases, relying on a lot of medicine every day, and sometimes she feels so painful that she could only complain to her friends. However, she still has one wish that has not been fulfilled—her students can be admitted to Tsinghua University or Peking University. Perhaps this is also a motivation to support her in fighting so many illnesses.
A person devotes all of her energy to doing one thing—the thing that benefits others. This is already commendable（值得赞扬的）! Let’s pay our respects to Teacher Zhang Guimei, and hope that she can take care of her health and fulfill her unfinished wish!
【单元重构】
Activity 16: 1. Review the unit and reconstruct the 4 structures of “People of Achievement”. You can refer to the mind map below.
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People of Achievement
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【Reflection】
How well can I Self-evaluation
describe a people of achievement
understand the meaning of greatness
introduce someone I admire
write a book report
identify and use the relative clauses in your writing
use the new vocabulary from this unit
5=Excellent; 4=Good; 3=Satisfactory;2=Fair;1=Improvement required
If improvement is required for some of the areas above, make an action plan.
Unit1 People of achievement 单元过关
I. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words.(每空1分，共12分)
1. Reading is of v____________(极其重要的) importance in language learning.
2. The article provide true and o_____________(客观的) information.
3. He loved playing the piano and was c____________(尽心尽力的) to practising it.
4. Parents play a c_____________(关键的) role in preparing their child for school.
5. It is widely a_________________(承认) that students should e__________（评估）in terms of overall quality.
6. In general, keep an eye on their p__________(property) while they are gone.
7. The doctor i__________(坚决要求) that the patient be fed liquid food
8. He o____________(获得) a loan from the government.
9. The doctor a___________(分析) the food and found that it contained dangerous s___________(物质)
10. It is d_____________(清晰的) that smoking is harmful to health.
II. Reading comprehension(每小题2.5分，共计15小题)
A
Four of the World’s Best Futurists(未来学家)
Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly is an author. His 1994 publication，OutofControl，discusses a future where machines and systems are so complex as to be indistinguished(难区分的) from living things.
His latest book What Technology Wants suggests that technology is not just a mixture of wires and metals but a living thing that has its own need. The book looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover what it wants.
Dr Michio Kaku
Dr Michio Kaku is a professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York and author of The Future of theMind and Physics of the Future.
In The Future of the Mind，he explores the frontier of neuroscience. He predicts that one day we will be able to upload the human brain into a computer. In Physics of the Future，he predicts that glasses and contact lenses will be connected to the Internet and cars will become driverless with the power of the GPS system.
David Brin
Science fiction author and scientist，David Brin has received awards. In 1998，he won the Freedom of Speech Award for The Transparence Society. The book concerns threats to personal affairs and openness in the information age. In a world where the police monitor public places 24 hours a day with cameras and some credit companies can sell people’s financial details to anyone willing to pay，Brin warns that surveillance(监控) technology will be used by too few people in the future. He argues that the tables should be turned and the public should have access to information like who is buying financial details from credit companies.
Dr Ray Kurzweil
Dr Ray Kurzweil is the main inventor of the first print to speech reading machine for the blind. He is the director of artificial intelligence development at Google.
Over the past 25 years，a number of his predictions have come true. In 1990，he predicted a computer would defeat a human at chess by 1998.He predicts that by the 2020s，most diseases will go away and self driving cars begin to take over the roads.
21．Whose book is discussing about machines and systems in the future
A．Kevin Kelly’s. B．Dr Michio Kaku’s.
C．David Brin’s. D．Dr Ray Kurzweil’s.
22．Which of the following book won the Freedom of Speech Award
A．Out of Control. B．The Future of the Mind.
C．Physics of the Future. D．The Transparence Society.
23．What’s Dr Ray Kurzweil’s attitude towards his prediction of the 2020s
A．Cautious. B．Optimistic. C．Doubtful. D．Disapproving.
B
My teacher，Mr August J．Bachmann，was the most influential teacher I ever had.
I had gotten into trouble in his class：Another student had pushed me for fun，and I became angry and began to hit him. Mr Bachmann stopped the fight，but instead of sending me to the office，he sat me down and asked a simple question：“Penna，why are you wasting your life？Why aren’t you going to college？”
I didn’t know anything about colleges or scholarships. No one had ever considered that a fatherless boy from the poorest neighborhood had a future. That day，instead of rushing off for lunch，he stayed and explained possible education options to me. At the end of our talk，he sent me to see a secretary who had a child at a state college. This was in 1962 at Emerson High School in Union City，New Jersey.
Well,53 years have passed，and what have I done with the knowledge he gave me？I gained a PhD from Fordham University when I was only 29.I taught English and social studies and then moved up the chain of command from teacher to principal.
I’ve sat on the board for Magnet Schools of America and represented that organization at the United Nations. I’ve won a number of great educational awards. But where would I be if a truly caring teacher had not taken the time out of his lunch period to speak to me？It was without question only his confidence in me that helped me forward.
I have repaid his kindness hundreds of times by encouraging misguided youngsters to aim higher. If I have saved any children，it is because of him. If I have been a successful educator，it is because I had a great role model in Mr Bachmann.
24．The writer before Mr Bachmann talked to him.
A．was an active boy B．was an aimless boy
C．liked making troubles in class D．would get punished by his teachers
25．Which of the following best describes Mr Bachmann
A．Fair. B．Confident. C．Inspiring. D．Humorous.
26．How did Mr Bachmann influence the writer
A．He set the writer on the right path. B．He was strict with the writer.
C．He helped the writer with his study.
D．He tried to set a good example to the writer.
27．What does the writer think of his achievement
A．He is very proud of himself.
B．He feels his effort gets paid off at last.
C．He owes his achievement to Mr Bachmann.
D．He thinks it an honor to be a successful educator.
C
It’s shocking that countless species become extinct every year and such extinction means forever. To change the situation，scientists are now on their way to bringing back extinct species.
DNA is the chemical that carries the structure of a living thing，which is needed by researchers to bring back a species. Dinosaurs have been gone too long for any of their DNA to remain in fossils. However it seems possible to bring back more recently extinct species such as Ice Age animal，the woolly mammoth. In 2015，a team of Spanish and French scientists re created the Pyrenean ibex，which had gone extinct three years earlier. The new animal didn’t survive long，but scientific advances should improve the success rate. In January，Australian scientists announced that they were trying to restore the brooding frog.
That we can bring species back doesn’t mean that we should. There may be benefits to bring back a species. But there’s no way to know how it will turn out. For example，would a passenger pigeon fit into its old habitat？Or might it crowd out existing species
Environmentalists worry that our ability to bring species back might cut down support for the hard work of traditional conservation. Why bother to preserve a wildlife habitat or fight poachers(偷猎者) if we know we can make up for our mistakes
But those extinctions are our mistakes to correct. As environmentalist Stewart Brand put it，“Humans have the ability to repair some of that damage.”
We would do well to remember the lesson of Jurassic Park：Continue with caution.
28．What can we know from Para.2
A．Scientists have successfully brought back some dinosaurs.
B．It’s likely for scientists to bring back recently extinct animals.
C．Scientists have discovered DNA of all Ice Age species in fossils.
D．Ice Age animals live longer than before after being brought back to life
29．Paragraph 3 mainly shows that bringing back extinct species is .
A．harmful B．realistic C．helpful D．double edged
30．What makes environmentalists worried according to the passage
A．Scientists cannot make up for the mistakes they made in DNA research
B．Scientists still lack technical support to bring back extinct species to life.
C．Traditional conservation seems useless when restoring species is available.
D．Species that will be brought back to life after distinction will not survive long.
31．What is the probable attitude of Stewart Brand toward bringing extinct species back to life
A．Critical B．Worried. C．Disapproving. D．Supportive.
D
Each day the online community reports on countless social justice issues around the world. From climate change and gun violence to natural disasters，readers come across a story，learn about an issue and often feel compelled to help. However，without any guidance on how to make a difference，many abandon the attempt and move on with their day.
Ideal Impact，a new Web based app(应用程序)，sees that as a lost opportunity. The app is designed to connect news stories with efficient ways to help make a difference in the real world. Let’s say，for example，you recently read an article，“The heartbreaking world of captive(被抓的) exotic birds” and felt moved by the stories of the often sad lives those birds are forced to live. Once installed on your phone or browser，Ideal Impact would show you opportunities to volunteer，donate or get involved to help captive exotic birds.
Founder，Olivier Kamanda，explains in the company’s video，“What would happen when you come across a story that makes you want to get involved in？That arouses a fundamental question，‘How can I help？’ Unfortunately there is no platform that takes you from that moment of inspiration to a meaningful service opportunity. So every year 90 million people are inspired to get involved to do something with their time and they don’t know how. And that comes at a cost of 207 billion dollars in lost volunteer time and donations.” Kamanda said in an interview with the Smithsonian，“Our app bridges the gap between people who are inspired to make a difference and organizations that need support.”
Once the app is installed as a browser plugin(插件) on a desktop(台式电脑) or mobile device，you can read the news as you normally would. And then，when you come across a story that inspires you to take action，you can click on the Ideal Impact button that appears in the main menu of your browser. That will load the app and show you opportunities to get involved with non profit organizations that are working to deal with the issue you just read about.
32．What is Ideal Impact
A．It’s a piece of software. B．It’s a charity group.
C．It’s a computer. D．It’s a non profit organization.
33．How does the author explain the function of Ideal Impact
A．By making comparisons. B．By giving figures.
C．By giving quotations. D．By giving an example.
34．Ideal Impact can help people to .
A．make a contribution B．search for exotic birds
C．read news stories more easily D．make a difference to their career
35．What will happen after you click on the Ideal Impact button
A．You will have fun news to read.
B．You will find a solution to a problem.
C．You may get access to a related charity.
D．The main menu of your browser will appear.
III. Gap-filling
When he was a teenager，Hunter Adams was very unhappy，and he spent many years in the 1960s and 1970s in a special hospital for people with mental health problems.
When he left hospital，Adams decided to become a doctor，so he went to Medical School in Virginia，USA. 36 For example，he didn’t like the doctors’ white coats，so he wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients，and he tried to make them laugh. The doctors at the medical school didn’t like Adams very much because he was too different.
37 He saw unhappy and lonely people，and he tried to help them as patients，but as people too. He spent a lot of time with children in the hospital，and often put a special red nose on his face to look like a clown and to make the children laugh.
When he finished medical school and became a doctor，Adams opened his own hospital，called “The Gesundheit！Institute”，together with some other doctors. 38
Hunter Adams became famous during the 1980s，and in 1998，Universal Pictures made a film about his life. 39 In the film (called PatchAdams)，Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said，“Hunter is a really warm person，who believes that patients need a doctor who’s a friend. 40 ”
A．I enjoyed playing him.
B．It was very successful.
C．He finally gave up his studies.
D．Adams succeeded in persuading other patients.
E．But when he was there，he did things in a different way.
F．But Adams believed that people in hospital need more than medicine.
G．They wanted it to be a place with a different way of working with sick people.
IV, Cloze
Everyday on the way to work I drive down a street lined with pine trees. One tree in particular 41 my attention. It must have suffered some 42 .Part of its trunk grew nearly parallel to the ground，and then in an effort to 43 its own course of life，the trunk took a 90 degree turn 44 to stand tall and stretch toward the sun.
This tree became a 45 for me. Each day as I drove by，I saw this bent but determined tree and I would be 46 .It was a reminder to me that 47 I may not have had the best start in life，I could change 48 in the parts of my life at any time.
I was planning to stop one day to get a perfect 49 of my kindred spirit(志趣相同的) tree. But that week I was 50 .After that busy week，I still didn’t take any action. Every time I drove by the tree I would 51 myself，“Tomorrow，I’ll stop to take one.” Then one day，as I 52 by “my” tree，I glanced over，and much to my 53 I found a sawed off stump(树桩) where that symbolic tree had stood. Gone. I had 54 my plan until “tomorrow” and tomorrow proved to be too 55 .
A picture of a tree gives me a lesson clearly that if we knew we would never have the opportunity to do it again？Why not do those things that you have been putting off until tomorrow
41. A. paid B. caught C．fixed D．escaped
42. A. damage B. influence C．experience D．defeat
43 .A. follow B. design C．change D．imagine
44. A. applying B. attempting C．happening D．learning
45. A. shelter B. signal C．sign D．symbol
46. A. interested B. satisfied C．encouraged D．educated
47. A. even though B. as if C．in case D．if only
48. A. purpose B. plan C．habit D．direction
49. A. glance B. view C．picture D．knowledge
50. A. busy B. free C．worried D．bored
51. A. tell B. help C．call D．see
52 .A. wandered B. drove C．rode D．ran
53. A. surprise B. pleasure C．regret D．happiness
54. A. taken off B. cut off C．put off D．called off
55. A. cold B. far C．sunny D．late
V. Fill in the blanks
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Wu Zetian，the only woman emperor to rule ancient China，is considered 1. _________ one of the most powerful women in Chinese history.
She was born into a(n) 2._________(wealth) family with great beauty and intelligence. This beautiful girl，unlike others in ancient China,3_____.(be) in favour of reading and often travelled around the country with her father when she was young,4._______. increased her knowledge and developed her talents. When she was about fourteen，she 5.__________.(send) to the palace and married to the Emperor. After many difficulties and hardships，she .6___________(successful) made herself queen. A few years after Emperor Gaozong died，Wu Zetian changed the name of the dynasty Tang to Zhou，and became Empress.7.________ seemed like a hard task for women to be rulers in ancient times，but Wu Zetian succeeded.When she ruled the country，she supported economic and cultural 8. ________.(develop) and improved people’s living quality. She also encouraged girls to go to school 9._________ .(study)．Before then，girls were not allowed to go to school.
Wu Zetian died at the age of 82,10._________ .(leave) a gravestone without any words on it. Although the Zhou Dynasty only lasted for one generation，it marked an important period in Chinese history.
附：答案
Activity 1:略
Activity 2:
1.Elon Musk ---founded high-tech and futuristic companies
Bill Gates ---made home computing accessible
Jack Ma (Ma Yun) ---made great advancement in online shopping
Alexander Fleming ---discovered penicillin
Florence Nightingale---founder of modern nursing
Zhong Nanshan ---managed the SARS outbreak
2.
3.
1)Why does Dr Wang say “money isn’t everything” ？
Because he doesn’t believe that money alone is a true measure of success.
2)What is the real reason Anna admires the famous people, and what examples does she give
Because they worked so hard to achieve their goals and have positive contributions to society.
Elon Musk; Bill Gates
3)What kind of person do you think Wang Lin admires Why
She admires people that do good things and inspire her, because she mentions these two things when she talks about how wonderful her father is.
Activity 3：
I admire Florence Nightingale because she is the founder of modern nursing.
Activity 4:
1 Most great discoverers are brilliant and hard-working. Many are perfectionists who are unwilling to accept anything but the best.
2 I think both talent and effort are important for making discoveries. If a person doesn't have any talent, it is possible that even though he or she works hard, it will be difficult to succeed. On the other hand, people even those with great talent---rarely achieve anything without putting in efforts.
Activity 5:
1.D
2. The passage is mainly about Tu youyou’s contribution and her life story.
Activity 6:
1.BADC
2.C
3.
Thinking and discussing:
1. Artemisinin has saved hundreds of thousands of lives and has improved the health for millions of people.
2. 200million; 600,000; 100,000; 2,000; 280,000; 380; 190
These numbers suggest three things: how big a health problem malaria is, how much health problem malaria is, how much time Tu Youyou spent in looking for a possible new treatment for malaria, and how patient and persist Tu youyou and her team were to tackle the disease.
She is considered a great person because through her effort many lives have been saved.
Activity 7: As a senior high school student, I want to be a great person and bring happiness to other people.
Activity8:
1. The Institute for Advanced Study(IAS)was founded in Princeton, New erseyn1930.Though it had its home at Princeton University for several years, it is not related to Princeton University in any formal way. In the 1930s,the IAS became a lifesaver for many mathematicians and physicists, quickly turning it into the leading education and research Centre in the world in thosefields.Altogether,33 Nobel laureates have worked a IAS over the years.
2. 1879-Born in Germany
1895-Tried but failed to enter university in Switzerland
1896-Entered university1900-Graduated from university
1902-Took a job as a clerk in the Swiss patent office
1905-Earned a doctorate in physics
1909-Able to quit his job at the patent office and enter research full-time at a university
1922-Awarded the Nobel Prize
1933-Had to flee Germany
1955-Died in the United States
3.
Q1 Though he was brilliant, he was also a person who faced struggles, for example, when he failed to pass his university entrance exam, when he failed to get a good job, and when he had to flee Germany.
Q2 I am impressed most by how friendly and easy he was to approach. Even when he was busy and did not want to be bothered, he still found a way to deal with people in gentleness and good humour.
Activity 9:
Suggested Answers
I The text is a biography, which is developed chronologically.
2 He had a thick moustache ...received an electric shock. Although he was a genius, ...his friends' birthdays. But despite ...loved by his friends and neighbors. There is even a story...with her homework. In fact,...help explain things. After many such..."Pardon me! sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein!
3 analogy: as the new Isaac Newton; personification: (hair)stood on end; simile: as though he had just received an electric shock; metaphor: the doors of academic institutions; euphemism: passed away
Activity 10:
Possible version
When people talk about sacrifice and charity for others, the name that most often comes up in my mind is Mother Teresa. In fact , she is so famous for work that her name is often used nowadays as a point of comparison by which others are judged. Interestingly, though her name is still heard quite often, many younger people have no clear idea who she was. She was born on 26 August 1910 in Skopje, where is now the modern-day Republic of Macedonia. When she was a young girl ,she decided that she wanted to help poor people in India. For her work, Mother Teresa was awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 1979.
Activity 11:略
Activity 12:
1.Yes. I have ever read a biography of a great person. I recommend Cao Xueqin Biography by Li Jianshu. This book tells the life story of the novelist Cao Xueqin.
2.I would like to read Cao Xueqin more. His novel the Dream of the Red Mansions is very famous.
Activity 13:
Cao Xueqin was born in Nanjing to a wealthy and powerful family. However, when he was a child, his family fell into disfavor with the Emperor, so it was forced to relocate to Beijing, where Cao Xueqin grew up in poverty. As an adult, he lived by selling his paintings, and he worked constantly on his great novel The Dream of the Red Mansions, which was published after his death. The novel is not only widely read at home by numerous readers, but also enjoys a celebrated fame abroad.
People of achievement
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I. 1. vital 2. objective 3.committed 4. crucial 5.acknowledged, evaluate
6. properties 7. insisted 8. obtained 9.analyzed, substance 10. distinct
II. A: ADB B:BCAC C:BDCD D:ADAC
III. 36．E 37．F 38．G 39．B 40.A
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V. 1.as 2. wealthy 3. was 4. which 5. was sent
6. successfully 7. It 8. development 9. to study 10. leaving