Intensive Reading —7. Stories

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年级：高二课时数：3 辅导科目：英语
课题Intensive Reading —7. Stories
教学目标进行各种故事类文章的阅读，掌握其常用词汇含义并且灵活运用
教学内容
Step1：Greetings & Free T alk
1、Talk about the week in school. What news / story / book / movie … have u got?
2、Is there sth important\special\interesting happening this week?
Step2：Assignments checking &Revision
I、错题重现
II、重点知识回顾
Step3：Reading
I. Directions: Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. except
B. retire
C. successfully
D. pushing
E. as
F. examined
G. carefully
H. suspecting
I. unless
J. duty
Henry's job was to examine cars which crossed the frontier to make sure that they were not smuggling anything into the country. Every evening __1 at the weekends, he would see a factory worker coming up the hill towards the frontier, 2
a bicycle with a big load of straw on it. When the bicycle reached the frontier, Henry used to stop the man and make him take the straw off and 3 it. Then he would examine the straw very 4 to see whether he could find anything, after which he would look in all the man's pockets before he let him tie the straw again. The man would then put it on his bicycle and go off down the hill with it. Although Henry was always 5 to find gold or jewellery or other valuable things hidden in the straw, he never found anything even though he examined it very carefully. He was sure that the man was smuggling something, but he was not able to imagine what it could be. Then one evening, after he had looked through the straw and emptied the factory worker's pockets 6 usual, he said to him, "Listen, I know that you are smuggling things across this frontier. Won't you tell me what it is that you're bringing into the country so 7 ? I'm an old man, and today's my last day on the 8 . Tomorrow I'm going to 9 . I promise that I shall not tell anyone if you tell me the truth." The man did not say anything for some time, then he smiled, turned to Henry and said quietly, "Bicycles."
II. Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and always took __1 in the record that she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been 2 for her driving too fast. Then one day she 3 lost her record. A police car was following her and the policeman in it saw her 4 a red light without stopping. When Mrs. Jones was brought before the 5 , he looked at her and said that she was too old to drive a car and
that the 6 why she had not stopped at the red light was 7 probably that her eyes became weak 8 old age so that she had simply not seen it. When the judge had finished what he was saying, Mrs. Jones opened her big handbag, from which she took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she chose a 9 with a very small eye and threaded it at her first attempt. When she had 10 done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and thread to the judge, saying, "Now it is your 11 . I suppose you drive a car and your 12 must be very good. " The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen 13 , he had still not succeeded. The case 14 Mrs. Jones was dismissed and her record 15 unbroken.
1. A. an interest B. part C. pride D. noti ce
2. A. fired B. dismissed C. scolded D. puni shed
3. A. suddenly B. nearly C. certainly D. probably
4. A. knocking into B. rushi ng C. pass D. race
5. A. judge B. conductor C. actor D. detective
6. A. fact B. probl em C. mistake D. reason
7. A. so B. very C. most D. rather
8. A. with B. because C. for D. thanks to
9. A. needle B. wheel C. whale D. noodle
10. A. nearly B. already C. aimlessly D. successfully
II. A. duty B. wish C. sense D. turn
12. A. car B. skill C. eyesight D. record
13. A. threat B. attempts C. experiments D. services
14. A. against B. of C. about D. opposite
15. A. left B. remained C. was not D. seemed
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I. 1-5. A D F G H 6-9. E C J B
II. 1-5. C D B C A6-10. D C A A D 11-15. D C B A B
III. Directions: Read the following two passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have read.
A
Helen Thayer is to celebrate her 6th birthday in a special way. She is bound for a three-month, 1,500-mile solo hike across Antarctica.
In the Antarctica, where temperatures can drop to 40 degrees below zero, she plans to walk at least 12 hours a day, with about five minutes of rest every hour. Anything longer will make her body temperature drop too much. Anything too tiring will make her sweat and freeze. She spent two years getting in shape for this venture, with a workout plan that included 10-mile runs, 20-mile hikes and hours of weight training each week. Thayer also put in a daily hour pulling a pack loaded with concrete, to train her for the pack—full of carefully weighed items—she'll carry across Antarctica.
Every little thing counts. The handle of her toothbrush has been cut off to make it lighter. Her wedding ring is in her left jacket pocket keeping her link with husband Bill, because it could freeze on her finger and cut off circulation.
For three months, only her journal will keep her company. No music, no books. "There's going to be plenty to
keep me occupied and boredom will not be a factor," she said with a smile. "I make this plan mainly for the sake of my kids— through what I can gather
through my camera lens and my notes for them. I want them to learn how to set goals, plan for success and be the best they can. "
W ord Ba n k
solo hike 单独远足circulation n. 循环be bound for 准备去
1. To celebrate her 60th birthday, Helen Thayer is to .
A. take a two-year training
B. hike across Antarctica
C. give a family party with her husband and kids
D. keep a diary of what she has done for the rest of her life
2. To prepare for the trip, Thayer .
A. took lots of short-distance runs
B. spent all her time lifting weights
C. trained for a long period of time
D. tried to lose weight
3. She put her wedding ring in her pocket because .
A. she broke up with her husband long ago
B. her ring is too heavy to wear on her finger
C. it's dangerous to wear the ring in cold weather
D. she doesn't like wearing rings
4. The main purpose of her plan is to .
A. prove how strong she is as a 60-year-old woman
B. realize her long- time dream
C. experience how difficult the journey is for an old woman
D. set a good example for her kids
B
My first reaction was annoyance. It was Friday afternoon, and I was within an hour of finishing my work for the week. As I was leaving, a nurse brought me one more patient message. The statement read: " Mrs Jones called to say that she has had blurred vision ever since her medical test this morning." I smiled. Suddenly our tests were causing eye problems.
This week my patients had questioned everything. My patient with high blood pressure had stopped coming to her treatment on the advice of an Internet chat room. A woman who had a mental problem was substituting St. John's word for her medication. Now Mrs Jones was imagining problems. I rolled my eyes.
My second reaction was worry. As I looked through her record, I tried to figure out why she would have blurred vision, but nothing in her record explained the new problem. She's probably just anxious, I thought. Still, she wouldn't have called if she had been all right. I picked up the phone.
What I next felt can only be described as delight. Before I made the call, the nurse ran in: Mrs Jones called. Her vision was fine. It turned out that she picked up the wrong glasses when she left the office. The X-ray technician has been having the same problem. I let out a laugh. Mrs Jones had been right. Her vision had been blurred. Now we know why.
Finally I felt shame. I came to realize what Mrs Jones had taught me. I had first known she was wrong, that her anxiety had clouded her judgment. Instead, my medical training had clouded mine. Now I came for my help. They pay me to listen,
diagnose, treat and talk. That suggests trust; I must remember that, and trust them too.
W ord Ba n k
blurred vision 视觉模糊diagnose v. 诊断
5. The writer smiled while reading the patient message because he knew .
A. Mrs Jones would ask for more tests
B. the patient was being unreasonable
C. the nurse was joking with him
D. Mrs Jones would joke with him
6. What had caused Mrs Jones' eye problem?
A. Wrong glasses.
B. Medical checkup.
C. Her own imagination.
D. Chatting on the internet.
7. The underlined words "clouded her judgment" probably mean " ".
A. made her less trustful toward the doctor
B. put her in control of her own feelings
C. made her less able to think clearly
D. put her in a dangerous situation
8. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. The doctor felt upset about Mrs Jones's message.
B. Several patients felt doubtful about the doctor's diagnoses.
C. Mrs Jones' problem was the only case of this kind.
D. The doctor learned a valuable lesson from this incident.
C
A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail in to the post, he felt a tug on his coat. He looked down into the eyes of a little boy.
"Mister," he said, "I want to buy one of your puppies."
"Well," said the farmer, "these puppies come from fine parents and cost a good deal of money."
The boy dropped his head for a moment. Then reaching deep into his pocket, he pulled out a handful of change and held it up to the farmer. "I've got thirty-nine cents. Is that enough to take a look?"
"Sure," said the farmer.
And with that he let out a whistle, "Here, Dolly!" he called.
Out from the doghouse ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur. The little boy stepped towards the fence. His eyes danced with delight.
As the dogs made their way to the fence, the little boy noticed something else moving inside the doghouse. Slowly another little ball appeared; this one noticeably smaller. Then in a somewhat awkward manner the little pup began running toward the others, doing its best to catch up.
"I want that one," the little boy said.
The farmer knelt down at the boy's side and said, "Son, you don't want that puppy. He will never be able to run and play with you like these other dogs would."
With that the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down, and began rolling up one leg of his trousers. In doing so he revealed a steel brace running down both sides of his leg attaching itself to a specially made shoe. Looking back up at the
farmer, he said, "Y ou see sir, I don't run too well myself, and he will need someone who understands."
The world is full of people who need someone who understands.
W ord Bank
pub n. 幼小动物tug n. 猛拉
nail v. 用钉子钉brace n. 钢柱
9. How did the farmer advertise his puppies?
A. Make an advertisement in the newspaper.
B. Put up a sign in his yard.
C. Show them to his neighbors from door to door.
D. Send pictures to the local magazine.
10. The underlined words "four little balls of fur" refer to .
A. four toy balls
B. four balls made of fur
C. four lovely dogs
D. four puppies with no fur
11. Why did the boy choose the last dog?
A. Because he didn't have enough money and it was the cheapest one.
B. Because they had something in common and could understand each other.
C. Because he thought the dog was the most lovely one.
D. Because the farmer wouldn't sell him the other dogs.
12. According to the story, we know that the boy .
A. didn't like dogs at all
B. needed a dog to help him
C. could run as fast as others
D. had an artificial leg
D
Janet was employed a s a designer in an advertising company. She had worked there for two years, when she was offered a promotion to become head of her department. She was very happy when she heard of her promotion. However, she was also rather concerned as she had recently found out that she was pregnant. Later that day, she asked her husband what he thought she should do. He felt that she should first accept the promotion and then, a few months later, tell her employers about her pregnancy. Janet wasn't so sure this was a good suggestion, as she felt that it might be dishonest of her not to let her employers know about the change in her condition. She telephoned her best friend and asked for her advi ce. Cheryl, her best friend, asked her if she felt that she would be able to continue working as hard after the birth of her child as she had been working up to that point in time. Janet assured her that this was the case and so her friend told her to trust her husband's judgment.
A few months later, Janet told her employers about her pregnancy. At first, they
ongratulated her on her pregnancy and wished her all the best. Over the next few weeks, she felt that her workload was slowly increasing to the point that she could not handle. Later that month, she received a call from the personnel department and was told that due to her
inability to keep up with the demands of her job, they were going to have to let her go. Janet couldn't believe what she was hearing. She could understand why, if a few months earlier they had promoted her for her excellence, they had now decided to let her go.
W ord Bank
pregnant adj. 怀孕的personnel department 人事处
13. Where did Janet work according to the passage?
A. In a department store.
B. In an advertising agency.
C. In a trading company.
D. In a public service enterprise.
14. Why was Janet worried when she was offered the promotion?
A. Because she was not sure whether she was qualified for the new job or not.
B. Because she found it difficult to continue working after pregnancy.
C. Because she was afraid that her husband didn't like her to be promoted.
D. Because she was not sure what would happen if the company knew about her
pregnancy.
15. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A. Janet finally took her husband's advice.
B. Janet's friend gave her the same suggestion.
C. Janet failed to keep her job despite her efforts.
D. Janet didn't work as hard after the promotion.
16. What did Janet think of the decision made by her employers?
A. Ridiculous.
B. Acceptable.
C. Inevitable.
D. Sensible.
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III. 1-4 BCCD 5-8 BACC 9-12 BCBD 13. BDDA
IV. Directions: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. （高二Unit10）
A teenage girl from the State of Connecticut has won the top prize in the Intel Science Talent Search. The competition was known as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search until 1998. It is the oldest program in the United States that honors the science projects of high school students. The Intel Science Talent Search celebrated its sixtieth anniversary this year.
The winners receive money for a college education and a new computer. More than one thousand five hundred students entered projects for the competition. The students were from thirty-six states and the District of Columbia. Forty-nine percent were female and fifty-one percent were male. Their research projects involved every area of science, including chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, social science and biology.
Forty students were invited to Washington, D. C. for the final judging by w ell-known scientists. They judged the students on their research ability and creative thinking. They also questioned the students about scientific problems before deciding on the top ten winners.
The first place winner was Mariangela Lisanti of Westport, Connecticut. She received one hundred thousand dollars for her college education. Her physics project involved the use of single atoms to create electronic devices. She developed a new way to measure electron movement in tiny structures.
The second place winner was Nathaniel Jay Craig of Sacramento, California. He received seventy-five thousand dollars for his college education for a physics project. He developed a method for expressing the strength of specially prepared glass by describing the super cooled liquid from which it was formed.
The third place winner was Gabriel Drew Carroll of Oakland, California. He received fifty thousand dollars for his college education. His mathematics project involved the partial order of numbers.
The president of Intel, Craig Barrett, praised all the finalists as future leaders. He said their understanding of science and
mathematics is important for making sense of the technological world today. And it is important for making the best decisions in the future.
1. How much is the top prize this year?
2. ____________________________________________________ students entered the final competition.
3.The top-prize winner has got the prize because of _________________________________________ .
4.Where was the final competition held?
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2. 40
3. a physics project
4. Washington D. C
Step4: Summary and Problem-solving
What have you learned from this period?
What problems or questions do you want to be solved next period?
Step5: Homework
1. 复习本次课上所讲的重要考点，整理笔记。

2．完成课后作业
A
Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in bed for an hour a day to take in fresh air. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.
The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, and where they had been on vacation. And every afternoon when the man in the bed next to the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.
The man in the other bed would live for those one-hour periods where his world was broadened by all the activity and color of the outside world.
The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake, the man had said. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Lovers walked arm in arm among flowers of every color of the rainbow. A fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance. As the man by the window described all this in detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene. One warm afternoon the man by the window descri bed a parade passing by. Although the other man could not hear the band, he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.
Unexpectedly, a strange thought entered his head: Why should he have all the pleasure of seeing everything while I never get to see anything?
Late one night, the man by the window began to cough. He was coughing badly. The other man, listening from across the room, did not move, nor did he push his own button, which would have brought the nurse running in. In less than five minutes, the coughing stopped, along with the sound of breathing. Now, there was only silence—deathly silence.
The following morning a day nurse, called Mary, arrived to bring water for their baths.
When she found the lifeless body of the man by the window, she was saddened and called the attendant to take it away.
As soon as it seemed appropriate, the man asked if he could be moved next to the window, Mary was happy to make the switch and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone. Slowly, painfully and desperately, he lifted himself
up to take his first look. Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it all himself. He struggled to turn to look out of the w indow beside the bed. A blank wall was all that he saw.
W ord Bank
on end 连续地picturesque adj. 风景如画的
1. The word "where" in Paragraph 2 refers to " ".
A. their homes
B. the hospital room
C. in their involvement in the military service
D. some places where they spent their holidays
2. What can be inferred from the story?
A. There were children sailing the model boats with ducks and swans.
B. The person who died had a beautiful mind.
C. The wall outside the window must be newly built.
D. The man near the window was actually murdered by his roommate.
3. The man would probably feel when he saw the blank wall outside at last.
A. excited
B. disappointed
C. guilty
D. on top of the world
4. The phrase "live for" in Paragraph 3 means " .
A. long for
B. pay for
C. stand for
D. make for
Keys: DBCA
B
American magician David Blaine left the glass box in which he has lived for 44 days without food on October 19. Hundreds of people came to watch the end of hunger experiment, which has become one of London's main tourist attractions.
Looking thinner and darker, 30-year-old Blaine was taken out of his box over the River Thames and immediately went to hospital. He was then slowly reintroduced to food, a process doctors say could be life threatening. He had been drinking only water since September 5.
People are divided over that they think Blaine has achieved: some admire him; others just threw eggs at the glass box.
"Either he has done this for real so he is an amazing human being, or has cheated in which case he is a brilliant magician," said Jack Butler, 20, who saw the show.
A native of Brooklyn, New Y ork, Blaine first became known as a street magician in the early 1990s. Over the last decade Blaine has become famous with a combination of breathtaking magic and clever tricks aimed a getting a lot of attention.
"I think a lot of people are unable to accept that they're able to do what they can do," he said. "They don't realize we can survive. The human being is an amazing creation. "
But he seems to have suffered from spending so long in the glass box. He said that at times he was unable to see, had serious back pains and lost his sense of taste.
Word Bank
magician n. 魔术师reintroduce v. 恢复
1. David Blaine stayed in a glass box over the River Thames for 44 days .
A. believing that he was able to survive
B. making a scientific experiment
C. Hoping to collect money for the poor
D. promoting tourism in London
2. "People are divided" in Paragraph 3 refer to .
A. people attend different class
B. people hold different opinions
C. people share the joys
D. people vote on the matter
3. Over the past 10 years Blaine has become known in the world .
A. as a top-class musician
B. for his devotion to the charity
C. for his deep interest in human endurance
D. with his astonishing magic and clever tricks
4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned about Blaine's health condition after he left the box?
A. He lost his sense of pride.
B. He lost much weight.
C. He was blind sometimes and had serious back pains.
D. He was still in danger of death.
Keys: ABDA
C
In 1789 the US government passed a law which said that the land of the American Indians could never be taken from them without their agreement. One hundred years later, however, the Indians only had a very small part of the land that originally belonged to them. How did this great injustice occur?
After 1812 white settlers began to move west across North America. At first, the settlers and the Indians lived in peace. However, the number of settlers increased greatly every year, and slowly the Indians began to see the white settlers as a danger to their survival. To feed themselves, the settlers killed more and more wild animals. The Indians, who depended on these animals for food, had to struggle against starvation. The settlers also brought with them many diseases which were common in white society, but which were new for the Indians. Great numbers of Indians became sick and died. Between 1843 and 1854 the Indian population in one area of the country went down from 100,000 to 30,000.
More land was needed for the increasing number of white settlers. In Washington, the old respect for the rights of the Indians disappeared. The old promises to the Indians were broken; the government began to move groups of Indians from their original homelands to other poorer parts of the country. Some Indians reacted angrily and violently to this treatment. They began to attack white settlers, and the Indian war began. For 30 years, until the late 1880s, different groups of Indians fought against the injustices of the white man. They had a few famous successes, but the result of the struggle was never in doubt. There were too many white soldiers, and they were too powerful. Many Indians were killed; the survivors were moved from their homelands to different areas of the country. It was a terrible chapter in the history of a country that promised freedom and equality to everyone.
W ord Bank
injustice adj. 不公正
5. It can be inferred from the passage that .
A. in the US there were many laws that provided the rights of American Indians
B. the law which was passed in 1789 by the US government was not successfully carried out
C. in the 19th century no injustices were done against the Indians by the US government
D. the majority of white settlers were openly opposed to the law passed in 1789
6. According to the passage which of the following is TRUE?
A. The Indians believed that killing too many wild animals had disturbed the balance of nature.
B. The government began to have a better understanding of the Indians in the fifties of the nineteenth century.
C. Between 1843 and 1854 about 70,000 Indians were killed in the battle.
D. The whites carried serious diseases into where the Indians lived.
7. It is implied in the passage that .
A. the Indians had many great successes in the Indians wars
B. the Indians had no doubt that they would win the wars
C. after the war the Indians stayed where they were before
D. the Indians were too weak to win the struggle
8. What is the writer's opinion about the treatment that the Indians received from the US government?
A. He believed that the government always respected the rights of the Indians.
B. He believed that the government can't be criticized for its treatment to the Indians.
C. He believed that the government treated the Indians unjustly.
D. He believed that the government's unfair treatment against the Indians was not
Keys: BDDC。