2026届高考英语二轮复习：语法填空课件(共25张PPT)

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Learning from Nature
2026届完胜高考语法填空
(5篇)
Giant Banyan Tree in Samoa
The Healing Power of Plants
Even as a kid in Utah Paul Cox was wild about(极为喜欢) plants. He built a greenhouse and collected weird(不寻常的) insect-eating plants.
Cox studied to become 1.______ ethnobotanist(民族植物学家). This he explains “is someone who loves plants and people and studies the relationship between them.” Cox is most interested in how to use plants for 2._______(heal).
Learning from Nature
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healing
When he won an important science award, Cox decided 3.______(use) the money to “go live with native healers to learn from them.” He, his wife and their four kids moved to a remote village in Samoa, an island nation in the South Pacific. They lived for a year in a hut without running water 4._____ electricity.
to use
or
Cox studied how the people of Samoa use plants to treat 5.______(ill). One tree he learned about from a native healer could someday 6.________(use) to make a 7.________(value) drug. If so, “the native healer’s whole village will share the riches” says Cox. The leafy(绿树成阴的) kingdom of plants 8._____(be) full of such treasures.
Cox’s work and the knowledge of native healers may ultimately(最终) lead 9.______ medicines that save many 10._______(life).
be used
illness
valuable
is
to
lives
Teaching “Earthkeeping(守护地球)”
For more than 27 years, Joseph Andrews has tried to instill(逐渐灌输) a love of nature in his students. “I try to tie nature into every subject” he explains. Andrews teaches a 1._________(combine) fourth- and fifth-grade class at Jones Lane Elementary School in Gaithersburg Maryland.
combined
二
One year his students helped build an outdoor
classroom for the school. There students can enjoy a view of a meadow(草地) and stream while they learn. Language arts, social studies and Earth science all come 2._____ life in the outdoor classroom. Sometimes the students read poetry and Native American tales. At other times they 3._______(simple) listen to the sounds of nature and hope to catch a glimpse of the deer and 4._______(fox) that make their homes near the school.
simply
to
foxes
“Mr. Andrews calls us his earthkeepers” says fifth-grader Emmanuel Maru. Andrews says 5._______(give) students that title helps them understand that they have an important role in helping to protect 6.________ environment.
the
giving
The “Biodiversity” Man
Edward Osborne Wilson was a naturalist from the start. As a child growing up in Alabama and northern Florida, he loved to study nature. He made his first important scientific 7._________(discover) when he was 13. In a vacant lot in Mobile, Alabama, he found the first known U.S. colonies(群) of fire ants. Starting as an entomologist(昆虫学家)—a scientist who studies insects—E.O. Wilson went on to become one of the most respected 8._________(scientist)
in the world. He is most well known for making the world
discovery
scientists
making the world aware of the importance of
biodiversity. “Bio” means “life.” “Diversity” comes
from the word “diverse,” 9._______ means “different from one another.” Biodiversity describes the complex web of life, with many different plant 10._______ animal species, that is necessary to keep Earth healthy.
which
and
A Historic Journey
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson asked Captain
Meriwether Lewis to explore a huge area of North America
known as the Louisiana Purchase. The United States was about 1._______(buy) this land from France. The effect of this purchase was to double the size of the United States territory, but very little was known about it. Jefferson hoped it included a water route between the Mississippi River 2._______ the Pacific Ocean that would help U.S. trade.
to buy
三
and
Besides 3._________(learn) about the geography of the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis 4.___________(order) to report on the people, plants, and animals that inhabited this vast territory.
was ordered
learning
Accompanying Lewis on this adventure was Captain William Clark, Lewis’s best friend. During their historic journey, each of these two army captains would prove to be an excellent naturalist(博物学家). They kept superb maps and 5._______(diary) of everything they saw and learned. They were the first to write about many Native American tribes who lived in the territory. Their 6._________(combine) efforts produced descriptions of
the diverse plant and animal life in the territory—122 kinds of animals and 178 kinds of plants.
combined
diaries
Barking Squirrels or Ground Rats
The expedition started in May 1804. Lewis and Clark led a 33-member team out of St. Louis, Missouri. That September, the team set eyes on an endless sea of little animals that French members of the team called petite chiens—French for “little dogs.” Plans for future travel were halted(停下) until these creatures could be 7.__________(thorough) investigated. Lewis called them “barking squirrels.” Clark preferred to call them “ground rats.” The name we now know—“prairie dogs” — came later. The team even captured a live prairie dog and sent it back to President Jefferson in Washington.
thoroughly
prairie dog
Where Do the Buffalo Roam
The Missouri River from St. Louis to 8.______ is now North Dakota was already well-traveled by trappers and traders. But Lewis and Clark collected a trove(宝库) of new plant and animal specimens(标本) from the area. They also created a detailed map of the route.
what
The farther north Lewis and Clark and their team traveled in the summer of 1804, 9.______ more buffalo(野牛) they saw. By fall, however, the immense(巨大的) herds() were starting to move south toward their wintering(过冬的) grounds. A few months later, feasts of fresh buffalo were just pleasant memories. Thankfully, the explorers enjoyed the hospitality(友好) of two Native American tribes, the Mandan and Hidatsa. Mule deer replaced buffalo as a source of meat for the explorers.
the
In 1805 the expedition paddled(用桨划船) northwest on the Missouri River toward Montana. There Lewis and Clark found less open prairie. The land was broken up by shallow gullies(溪谷) and streams. It was dotted 10._____ bushes and scrubby(灌木丛生的) trees. The rugged landscape(崎岖的地貌) of western North Dakota amazed
and challenged the expedition. They crossed the Badlands—a harsh, nearly vacant area of rolling hills and little vegetation—and moved onto the plains.
with
Here the explorers spotted wondrous(绝妙的) sights. Meriwether Lewis wrote this in his journal on September
16, 1805: “... vast herds of buffalo, deer, elk(驼鹿; 麋), and antelopes were seen feeding in every direction as far as the eye of the observer could reach.”
Keeping Track While Making Tracks
More than 500 days and 4,000 miles after they had set out, Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific. Clark—who was a horrible 1._______(spell)—wrote in his journal “Ocian view! O! the joy!”
Lewis and Clark never found the water route that Jefferson hoped they would, 2.______ they became the first U.S. citizens 3._________(explore) the Midwest and West—the endless Great Plains, the jagged(有尖突的) Rocky Mountains, and the glittering Pacific. They took the time to write down in their journals everything they saw each day.
speller
四
but
to explore
Perhaps 4._____ greatest effect of the Lewis and Clark expedition was the 5._______(open) of U.S. territory west of the Mississippi River to other explorers and to settlers. 6._______(thank) to the courage, 7._________(endure), and keen observation skills of Lewis and Clark, we can look back
today and see the land as it 8.______(be) then. The
record of their journey helps to instill(逐渐灌输；培养) 9.________ Americans today the same sense of wonder and adventure they must 10._________(feel) more than two hundred years ago.
opening
the
Thanks
endurance
was
in / into
have felt
Designed by Nature
Like birds, airplanes have wings and tails that are necessary for flight. 1._____ seems natural that the design of airplanes would 2.__________(inspire) by the bodies of birds. Engineers are still trying to make airplanes do as many things in flight as birds can do.
It
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be inspired
Just spend a little time on a beach 3.________(watch) seagulls, 4.________ you’ll recognize the challenge. A seagull swoops(俯冲) over the sand, suddenly changes direction, pauses in midair(半空中), drops earthward(向地面), lands, and takes off again—all in just a few 5.________(second). An airplane can’t do that. Scientists don’t yet understand 6.______ birds are able to make certain kinds of movements in the air.
watching
and
seconds
how
Understanding how birds perform their aerial(空中的) feats is one step in the effort 7.___________(improve) the design of aircraft.
The hope is to make aircraft more efficient and maneuverable(灵活的)—able to change direction 8.______(easy). Someday this research may produce an airplane 9.______ wings that are dramatically(明显地)
different from the wings we see today. Another 10._________(possible): airplane wings that can actually morph, or change shape, in flight.
easily
to improve
with
possibility