Unit 1 Science Fiction教材习题精讲课件(共35张PPT)高二英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第四册

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教材习题精讲
Unit 1
Science Fiction
目录
介绍
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Reading and Thinking
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03
04
Learning about language
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Using language
Part 01
Reading and Thinking
【习题】
(1) How do robots already help humans in their lives today What do you think a domestic robot could do for a family in the future
Robots are most commonly used today in factories to make things. There are a few robots which are being used in shops and in the home, but for the most part they appear to be information providers, educational toys, or house cleaners. There has been a lot of work to design domestic robots lately, and they may soon be a reality. Many of these robots are being designed for the handicapped or the elderly. For example, a handicapped person or an elderly person who has trouble moving around the house could be helped by a robot. The robot can also cook and feed people when they need help.
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【习题】
(2) Read the story below, which was originally written by famous science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. Take notes on who these people are and their relationships to each other.
Larry Belmont:
Claire's husband who works for a company that makes domestic robots.
Claire:
Larry's wife who has Tony, a domestic robot, in her home for three weeks to take care of her, but then falls in love with him.
Tony:
A domestic robot made by Larry's company to take care of Claire.
Gladys Claffern:
A wealthy woman whom Claire admires and wants to be.
(3) How do you think this story will end Work in groups and come up with an ending. Then listen to the rest of the story. How different is it from your ending
The house was perfect, Claire fell into Tony's arms and the doorbell rang just as her husband entered from the garage door Larry had come home early.
Tony declared that he loved Claire. Larry, hearing this, raced to take her from Tony's arms.
"What are you doing, Tony " yelled Larry.
" I am doing as I am programmed!" answered Tony.
Just then the ladies who had rang the doorbell appeared.
"You didn't answer the doors, so we just decided to come in," Gladys said. "See! I told you! That's the man she was talking sweetly to!"
(3) How do you think this story will end Work in groups and come up with an ending. Then listen to the rest of the story. How different is it from your ending
"Good heavens!" shouted all the ladies.
"He's no man!" answered Larry. "He's the robot I designed to take care of Claire. I just never imagined..."
"A robot, this handsome, this helpful with decorating skills, and housework " exclaimed one of the ladies.
"I want him!" demanded Gladys.
"I want one too," shouted all the others.
From that day on, the orders for more Tony's went on and on. Claire remained stylish, kept a beautiful home, and her husband.
Part 02
Learning About Language
Build up your vocabulary
(1) Replace the underlined parts with words of similar meanings from the text. Rewrite the sentences if necessary.
1. We believe he is a man of absolute honesty, and trust his words completely.
2. Henry told me that he was in a hurry as he had arranged to see the dentist at 10:00 a.m.
3. Rumours are like sharp knives, cutting one’s self-respect into pieces. We should be aware of this and not spread unkind news around.
4. Because of the holiday, the students were allowed to go home early.
5. Whoever is charged with a crime should be presumed innocent until proven otherwise.
integrity
had an appointment with
dignity
were dismissed
not guilty
Build up your vocabulary
Discover useful structures
(3) Match each word with the proper definition below.
It would not be surprising if we found it difficult to distinguish between reality and ______________ in the future. For example, robots first appeared in sci-fi novels, but now robot soldiers have already been _____________ in war. Robot experts have also built robots that can see, talk, and do other things like humans. Although a robot that looks __________ a human than a machine could make many people a bit uncomfortable, we have to admit that it is a _____________ possibility. Sophia, currently said to be the most advanced AI robot in the world, is a great example. She has been interviewed many times, appeared on the covers of magazines, and become the first non-human in the world to be given citizenship by a country.
science fiction
tested out
more like
fascinating
Discover useful structures
(3) Match each word with the proper definition below.
When it comes to games, 2017 became a year in which AI defeated humans in so many games that AI researchers say that it will not be long before AI can win at almost everything. So have we lost the __________ of being the most intelligent creature Maybe in the future, as AI becomes even more ____________, it will become a major threat to humans. However, some people __________ this fear. They believe if AI can handle tasks like calculating and driving for us, we will have more time for creating, thinking, and “being human”.
dignity
intelligent
dismiss
Discover useful structures
(1) Scan the reading text and underline all the verbs in the passive voice. Then discuss with a partner why the passive voice is used.
was going to be tested out; to be harmed; was being looked after; was being offered; was not allowed; was being treated badly; to be discovered by her; was being completely transformed
The passive voice is used to focus on the person or object that experiences an action rather than the person or object that performs the action. It is used when we don't know the performer, or the performer is unimportant (and therefore omitted), or the performer is to be highlighted (and therefore placed toward the end).
Discover useful structures
(2) Complete the sentences with appropriate forms of the verbs in brackets. Then try to translate these sentences into Chinese.
1 What is done cannot __________. (undo)
2 Janet ____________ chairwoman of the student union last month. (elect)
3 Two hundred grammes of flour should ____________ to the cake mix. (add)
4 A 3,000-seat venue ________________________ for the circus performance in November. (build)
5 Working efficiency ___________________ since this new software was adopted. (improve)
be undone
木已成舟。
珍妮特上个月当选为学生会主席。
was elected
be added
蛋糕料里需要加人两百克面粉。
一个拥有三千座位，供马戏表演使用的场地于十一月建成/将在十一月建成。
was built/will be built
has been improved
自从采用了新软件，工作效率就被提升了。
Discover useful structures
(2) Complete the sentences with appropriate forms of the verbs in brackets. Then try to translate these sentences into Chinese.
6 Only one piece of carry-on luggage __________ for each economy class passenger. (allow)
7 It is a great honour for me to __________to address this international AI conference. (invite)
8 When I entered the room, I found that the salesman’s salary __________________at the meeting. (discuss)
9 With exams being adapted into Braille, a blind senior high school student scored 630
points out of 650 in the College Entrance Examination. He is expected to __________ to a top university. (admit)
经济舱的乘客每人仅允许携带一件随身行李。
is allowed
be invited
我很荣幸能被邀请在AI大会上发言。
我进会议室的时候发现正在讨论销售员的薪水。
was being discussed
be admitted
使用转换为盲文的高考试卷，一位高中的视障学生考取了630分(总分650)。他有望被一所名校录取。
Discover useful structures
(3) Read the introduction to a science fiction novel and complete the passage using the correct forms of the words in the box.
Science fiction __________ by many people as a mirror through which our future can be freely imagined and ___________________. The Three-Body Problem, __________ by Chinese writer Liu Cixin, is one of those astonishing predictions about the future. The work was first published in a Chinese sci-fi magazine in 2006 and printed as a three-volume book in 2008. When the first volume ______________ into English by Chinese-American author Ken Liu, it attracted attention around the world, becoming the first Asian winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The book __________ many themes such as space exploration, alien contact, AI, and the future of humans.
is regarded
explored/represented
written
was translated
represents
Discover useful structures
(3) Read the introduction to a science fiction novel and complete the passage using the correct forms of the words in the box.
The Three-Body Problem begins with the stories of two unrelated people, Ye Wenjie and Wang Miao. Ye __________ to join a secret project in a remote area of China, which _______________ to contact alien life forms. In the other story, set 20 years later, Wang Miao ________________ in a popular online game called “Three Body”, in which people live on an unknown planet with three suns. But Wang discovers it is more than a game—it uncovers a great danger __________ And how will their behaviour change Earth’s future and the civilisations of other planets Answers to all these questions are waiting to ____________ when you go on reading.
is regarded
has been set up
gets caught up
connected
be discovered
Part 03
Using Language
(1) In groups, discuss what you would do if you could time travel.
【习题】
If I could time travel, I could see the results of my actions or other people's actions, and if the results were bad, I could travel back to the present time, too, and then take another course of action that had a better outcome. But I must learn not to depend on time travel and “cheat every time when I failed or met something bad. I will choose the most important moment to return and not to change others fates without consideration.
THE TIME MACHINE (Adapted)
It was at ten o’clock today that the first of all Time Machines began its career. I gave it a last check, and sat myself in the leather seat. I pushed the starting lever on the main panel forwards an inch then immediately backwards again. Looking around, I saw my laboratory exactly as before. Had anything happened I thought my mind had tricked me. Then I saw the clock. A moment before, it was a minute or so past ten; now it was nearly half past three!
I drew a breath, gripped the lever and pushed it forwards. The laboratory went hazy around me. My niece came in to fetch something, maybe her handkerchief, apparently without seeing me. It probably took her a minute, but to me she moved like a rocket! I pushed the lever further. Night came as if a lamp was being turned out, and in another moment came the day. Tomorrow night came, then skipped to day, again and again, faster and faster still.
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It is hard to explain the strange and unpleasant feeling of time travelling. It felt like I was being driven fast on a winding road. As my pace grew faster, the walls of the laboratory fell away, and I was left in the open air. The sun and moon looked as if they were being thrown across the sky, but soon there was division between night and day. Around me I saw trees growing like puffs of smoke; they grew, spread, and died in moments. I saw huge buildings rise up, then disappear like in a dream. The whole surface of the earth was being changed, melting and flowing before my eyes. I calculated that I was being pushed through time at hundreds of years a minute.
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I had a strong urge to look at the random things that were being flashed before my eyes! I had thought about the risk of stopping the Time Machine many times. So long as I travelled at maximum speed, it didn’t matter. But if I stopped and the same space was being occupied by something else, we would be forced together and explode like a bomb! Like an impatient fool, I pulled the lever backwards hard. With a sudden jolt, the Time Machine was flipped on its side, and I was thrown through the air.
I was stunned for a moment, and then heard the sound of thunder. I was sitting in the rain in some mud next to the machine. “A fine welcome,” I said, “for a man who has travelled thousands of years to be here!”
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(2) The Time Machine was written in 1895 by famous science fiction writer H.G. Wells. Read an extract from this story, and find out how many times the Time Traveller started the machine.
【习题】
The Time Traveller started the machine twice.
(3) Read the text again and answer the questions.
【习题】
He saw the clock move forwards.
1. How does the Time Traveller first know he has travelled through time
It felt strange and unpleasant, He uses the simile: "It felt like I was being driven fast on a winding road."
2. How does the Time Traveller feel when travelling through time What rhetorical devices does the writer use to describe his feelings
If he stopped and the same space was being occupied by something else , they would be forced together and explode like a bomb.
3. Why is the Time Traveller worried about stopping the machine
In some mud in the rain.
4. Where does the Time Machine arrive when the man finally stops it
(4) Work in groups. Discuss what might happen next in the story. Use the following questions to help you and make brief notes.
【习题】
The Time Traveller stops in the year 2701. The whole earth looks like a garden with beautiful, happy people called Eloi who play all the time, but this hides a horrible truth ; there is a whole world of people called Morlocks who live underground in a dark, mechanised society who use the Eloi as a source of food. The Time Traveller meets an Eloi woman and falls in love with her. The Time Traveller and the Eloi woman are attacked by Morlocks.
(4) Work in groups. Discuss what might happen next in the story. Use the following questions to help you and make brief notes.
【习题】
He is able to escape, but he loses contact with the woman and perhaps she is killed. The Morlocks then steal the Time Machine and use it as bait to capture and kill the Time Traveller. However, once he is in the Time Machine, he pulls the lever and begins to travel in time again and is able to make his escape. He travels 30 million years into the future to see the sun cool and the earth turn into a lifeless planet. He then travels back to the time from where he started out, only to find that three hours have passed.
Assessing Your Progress
(1) Complete the following sentences using the correct forms of the words in the box.
1. Batteries are not allowed by airlines in checked luggage, as they might _________ due to overheating.
2 The new generation of smartphones is greatly ___________ older version.
3 Since I don’t have much time, I need to _________ how long it will take me to do the task.
4 Ordered by its master, the AI dog _________ the book from the bookshelf.
explode
superior to
calculate
fetched
(1) Complete the following sentences using the correct forms of the words in the box.
5 I was so pleased to hear the bell ring and our teacher announce, “Class is _________.”
6 The company has to _________ the space exploration project due to financial problems.
7 City people are experiencing increasing psychological pressure as a result of a faster _________ of life and rising competition.
8 At one time or another, each of us probably _______________break the routine of daily life and try something new.
dismissed
suspend
pace
has an urge to
(2) Read and complete the following sentences with appropriate forms of the words in brackets. Then think about why the passive voice is used in these sentences.
1 Mobile phones must _______________ during the concert. (switch off)
2 When I came here at this time last year, the conference hall _________
_______. (build)
3 Topics like life in the future, AI development, and aliens ____________ in sci-fi. (often find)
4 Do you know which country ____________ by Italy, Austria, Germany, and France (border)
be switched off
was being
built
are often found
is bordered
(2) Read and complete the following sentences with appropriate forms of the words in brackets. Then think about why the passive voice is used in these sentences.
5 Continuous research _____________________ on smart schools, smart homes, and smart cities. (conduct)
6 It should _________ that the result of your examinations will not _______________. (note; publicise)
7 It _____________that more species will become extinct if we continue to destroy the ecosystem. (assume)
8 All members of the audience should ______________ smartly, and the wearing of slippers ________________ in the concert hall. (dress; not allow)
is being conducted
be noted
be publicised
is assumed
be dressed
is not allowed
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