2015-2016学年高中英语讲练Book 5 Unit 3 Reading Tasks

Unit 3 Life in the future
Pre-reading activities
Task I. Tell your partners what transportation you will use to go to work in 3015 AD.
Task II. Will airplanes still exist in one thousand years? If yes, what will they look like and how fast will they travel? Have a discussion with your partners.
Task III. What preparations should you make for space travel?
Task IV. Read the following information and try to add something more you know about time travel.
Time travel is moving through time usually using a theoretical invention called a time machine. Time travel can be found in many works of philosophy and fiction but not so much in the world of physics. Ancient folk tales and myths sometimes mention moving forward in time but moving back in time seems to be a more modern idea. Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733) by Samuel Madden, is an early example of a story that involves some traveling through time into the past.
While-reading activities
Task I. Read Paragraph 1 as fast as you can and pick out the words describing Li Qiang’s feelings in the early stages of time travel.
Task II. Read Paragraphs 2 and 3 and fill in the blanks in the chart below. Try to understand the process of Li Qiang’s trip through time.
Task III. Read Paragraph 4 and fill in the blanks. Then try to tell your partners what Li Qiang saw in the room.
Task IV. Below is a summary of the text with some words missing. Choose the words from the
Dear Mum and Dad,
I can’t believe I am in the year 3008! At first I had time lag. If you get time lag you see things from 1. ________ times. Because I was worried about it, my friend Wang Ping gave me some green tablets, which helped me a lot. After the stewardess in the time capsule gave us all a(n) 2. ________, we were safely taken 1000 years into the future to the year 3008. As the air was thin because of gases and a lack of 3. ________, Wang Ping gave me a(n) 4. ________ to wear so I could breathe more easily. We got into 5. ________ driven flying vehicles and flew to a house. The house’s walls were made of 6. ________ which provided oxygen. Tables, chairs and a bed came up out of the 7. ________. After eating at the table I was very tired and went to bed.
I’ll give you some more news later.
Li Qiang
(By Ray Cama)
Post-reading activities
Task I. Tell your partners briefly the process of Li Qiang’s travel according to the chart of Task II in while-reading activities.
Task II. Make up a dialogue between Li Qiang and Wang Ping according to the chart of Task III in while-reading activities.
Task III. Write a short passage describing a place which impressed you most.
Keys:
Pre-reading activities
Task I. 略
Task II. 略
Task III. 略
Task IV. 略
While-reading activities
Task I. worried, unsettled, nervous, uncertain
Task II. 1. sleepy 2. 3008 3. surroundings 4. mask 5. carriage 6. earth Task III. 1. floor 2. lighting 3. leaves 4. screen 5. chairs
Task IV. 1. previous 2. calming drink 3. oxygen 4. mask 5. computer
6. trees
7. floor Post-reading activities
Task I. 略
Task II. 略
Task III. 略。