高中英语：Unit 4 Astronomy Reading(新人教必修3)

高一英语同步练习：
必修3 Unit 4 Astronomy: the science of the stars
第2课时Reading
基础练习
一. 语言知识学习：
1.solid n. 固体adj. 固体的；实心的,无空隙的；结实的，坚固的
2.be to (do): (something) will definitely happen, or it must happen
不可避免要发生或必须发生
3.in time (for sth/to do sth): not late 及时；不迟She was in time for the class. She will be back in time to prepare dinner. 她来得及回来准备晚饭。

in time: sooner or later; eventually 迟早；最后
You will realize your dream in time.
I’ll see him in time. 总有一天我会遇见
in/out of time: in/not in the correct time 合/不合节拍
The audience clapped in time to the music.观众合着音乐的节拍拍手。

4. to begin with 以。

为开始，开始做。

Knowledge begins with practice.
to begin with首先，最初，第一
To begin with,I couldn`t understand every word.
5. explode
1). （使某物）炸开，爆炸
2). （指感情）激发
3). （指人口）突然或迅速增加
explosion n. 爆炸（声）
explosive adj.爆炸性的，易爆炸的n.炸药，爆炸物
6.as well as 除。

之外还。

，既。

又
I am learning French as well as English.
y eggs 产卵，孵蛋
lie lies lied lied lying 撒谎
lie lies lay lain lying 躺，位于
lay lays laid laid laying 放置，下蛋
8.remain作系动词，意为“保持；仍然是”，后面可以跟名词形容词分词等做表语；作不
及物动词意为“剩下”，后接被动结构的不定式意为“有待于”。

remaining 剩下的；remains 剩余物，遗迹
9.prevent…from doing sth./ stop…from doing sth. /keep…from doing sth.阻止某人做某事
10.on earth 到底，究竟（多用于疑问句）；在地球上on the earth在地球上
11.in all directions 向各个方向
12.cool adj.凉快；冷静；冷淡v. 使）变冷；冷静下来cool down冷却下来
13.be very / much / quite / entirely / totally different from与…不同
There are differences between…and… …与…之间有不同之处
14.tell…from… 把…与…区分开来
15.the same as… 与…一样be similar to 与…相似
16.allow vt.允许，许可
allow+n./pron./doing
allow sb. to do
be allowed to do
17.be harmful to 对…有害
do harm to sb. = do sb. harm 伤害某人，对某人有害处
18.multiply (数目上)增加,增多；乘；（使）繁殖
19encourage 鼓舞；促进；怂恿。

后接名词、代词，也可接不定式作宾语补足语。

21.development
(1)[U]成长,发育；发展(过程)；扩展
(2)[C]开发区, 新社区 a new housing development 新建住宅区
（3) [C]进化,进展；新情况,新闻
What are the latest developments?The use of computers in teaching is a recent development.
教学上使用计算机是新近才有的事.
te adj. 迟到的，晚的；前任的；以前的；已故的
later adv. 后来，较晚时候,过后
adj. late的比较级(更迟的,更后的
latest adj. 最新的
lately adv. =recently 近来
23.grow into生长成为,渐渐成为或变得…（不用于被动语态）
24.It’s generally believed that…一般认为…
generally speaking 一般而言，概括来说
25.阻止某人做某事:
prevent sb. (from) doing sth.
stop sb. (from) doing sth.
keep sb. from doing sth.
26.depend on 信任，依靠
depend on it 没问题，请放心（句末或句首）
That /It (all) depends. 那得看情况而定
count on sb.指望，依靠depend on sb. trust (in) sb. believe in sb. 信任某人
27.give birth to 生育，产生
28.in one`s turn轮到某人；by turns轮流, 交替；take turns轮流, 依次
29.feed 喂养，饲养feed on以...为食feed...with...用...喂养...
30.for the first time第一次；the first time后加从句，意为“第一次...”
31.as a result结果；as a result of...意为“...的结果”
32.cheer up 感到高兴，使振奋
33.now that既然
34.break out爆发
35.die out 灭绝；die down渐弱，消退；die off相继死去；die away(风, 声音)渐息, 渐弱, (树木等)渐渐凋零, 枯萎(根未死), 假死
二.把下列事件按时间顺序排列：
1. Insects and amphibians appeared.
2. Dinosaurs appeared.
3. The earth became a solid ball.
4. Small plants grew on the water.
5. Reptiles appeared.
6. Plants began to grow on dry land.
7. The earth was a cloud of dust. 8. Water appeared on the earth.
9. Shellfish and other fish appeared. 10. The universe began with a “Big Bang”.
11. Clever animals with hands and feet appeared. 12. Mammals appeared.
排列顺序：
三．预习课文并根据课文内容填空：
Many millions of years later, the arrival of _______________________________encouraged the ____________of early ________________________. Next,__________________ began to appear _________. Later ____________ appeared. Some were________. Others, called__________,were able to live on lands as well as __________. When the plants grew into forests, _________appeared for the first time. After they disappeared, _________became more important. They were the last group of animals different from all life forms in the past because they _________to young babies and _________milk from within their bodies.
实战演练
一．用所给动词的适当形式填空：
make watch wonder be cool multiply begin exist explode
Where do we come from? How did the universe ____1______ ? When we ____2___ the stars through the telescope, we ___3______ why the universe ____4____ . After the “Big Bang”,the earth ___5___ just a cloud of energetic dust. Somehow it ____6_____ loudly with fire and rock, which ___7___ the earth’s atmosphere. As the earth ____8___ down water _____9__ to appear on its surface, which was important for the beginning of life. Then living things ____10______ on the earth.
二.用课文中的词汇填空：
After the “Big Bang”, the earth was just a cloud of __1____ dust. It ____2___ loudly with fire and rock, which were _______3_______ to produced the water
vapor, _________4__ and other gases. Then small plants grew. They _____5___ and filled the oceans and seas with oxygen. Many millions of years later the first green plants began to ____6_____ on land. When the plants grew into forests, ___7____ appeared for the first time. They produced young generally by _____8___ eggs. When dinosaurs disappeared, _______9__ became more important. Now small clever animals with __10________ appeared and ___11____ all over the world. As time went by they covered the earth and they are putting too much carbon dioxide into the __12_________, which __13________heat ________14_________ the earth into space. Whether life will continue on earth for millions of years to come will ___15______ whether this problem can be solved.
三. 找出下面句中错误并改正过来：
1.If this is the only way to realize our goals is known to us all.
2.That is still uncertain where we should go first.
3．Your composition is quite all right except that there is a few spelling mistakes.
4.Why we are worried about is that we can hardly have enough money to buy such an expensive car.
5.Is it likely what the valuable cultural relics will be destroyed because of the money?
6.Whomever needs help can turn to him for advice.
四. 单项选择：
1. —Why do you look worried?
—There are so many problems .
A.remaining to settle
B. remained settling
C.remaining to be settled
D. remained to be settled
2. ＿＿＿＿he can pass the college entrance examination remains uncertain.
A. If
B. Whether
C. That
D. What
3. ＿＿＿＿makes this company popular is that it offers good post-sale services.
A. What
B. Who
C. Whatever
D. Whoever
4. What we used to think ＿＿＿＿＿impossible now does seem possible.
A. is
B. was
C. has been
D. will be
5. ______words and expressions have come into the English language from American English.
A. A large amount of
B. Masses of
C. A great deal of
D. Many a
6. How the big forest fire has ＿＿＿＿remains to be a mystery.
A. taken place
B. turned up
C. broken out
D. broken up
7. ------ I’m thinking of the test tomorrow. I’m afraid I can’t pass this time.
------ ＿＿＿＿! I’m sure you’ll make it.
A. Go ahead
B. Good luck
C. No problem
D. Cheer up
8. ______ seems strange to us is ______ the troublesome boy is getting on well with all his teachers.
A. It, that
B. It, how
C. What, that
D. What, how
9. Going on a trip into ＿＿＿＿space must be quite ＿＿＿＿exciting experience.
A. / ; the
B. the; the
C. the; an
D./ ; an
10. China is a ＿＿＿＿country, but America is a ＿＿＿＿country.
A.developing; developing
B. developed; developed
B.developing; developed
C. developed; developing
反馈检测
一．把下列句子译成汉语:
1.What it was to become was a mystery until the dust began to slowly combine into a ball moving around the sun.
2.The problem was that the earth became violent because it was not clear whether the solid shape was to last or not.
3. It allowed the earth to dissolve harmful gases, which had become part of the earth’s atmosphere, in to the oceans and seas.
4. Whether life will continue on the earth for millions of years to come will depend on whether this problem can be solved.
二.阅读理解：
A
Sometimes life gets a little dull. What used to be fun and different becomes boring. That is the time to look for something new. It is the time for a big idea to get your mind off everyday life. So why not search for extra-terrestrial（外星的）intelligence? Or even better, why not get your computer to do it for you?
Over two million people have joined the Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project. Based in California, the SETI project analyses information taken from a giant radio telescope based in South America. Its task is to look for signals from outer space that might prove that life exists on other planets.
Processing this information is far too big a job for one computer. So the SETI project workers divide the work among volunteers who visit their website. Each computer gets some information to work out from the SETI network through the
Internet. This process is often known as “metacomputing”.
It is a wonderful thought. You are sleeping, eating a meal or going out with friends. All this time, your computer is searching the stars for signs that might show something is out there trying to get in touch. Volunteers are proud of being involved in the SETI project. It shows that they understand the potential of computing. They know that it is more than just a way of working or playing games.
Metacomputing may also be creating intelligence as well as looking for it. This idea is based on the theory that human intelligence is created by the way in which different parts of the brain communicate with each other. As the saying goes, “The whole is more than the sum of its parts.” People who join the SETI project sometimes wonder whether their computer will become part of a huge network that has learned to think for itself.
阅读文章，选择正确答案：
1. When you are involved in the SETI project, you _____.
A. have to work in front of your computer
B.should analyse information from other computers
C. don’t have to connect your computer to the network
D. don’t have to sit in front of your computer
2. Which of the following shows the right order in which the SETI network works?
A. Radio telescope→SETI website→Volunteers’ computer→SETI base
B. Radio telescope→SETI base→SETI website→Volunteers’ computer
C. SETI base→SETI website→Volunteers’ computers→Radio telescope
D. SETI base→Radio telescope→SETI website→Volunteers’ computers
3. The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to _____.
A. metacomputing
B. human intelligence
C. the SETI project
D. extra-terrestrial intelligence
4. The passage mainly tells us about _____.
A. a new way to work and play games
B. a new way to work on the computer
C. a new way to search for life outside the earth
D. a new way to make life interesting and different
根据文章内容填空：
You can make your life interesting and different___5____ ___6_____the search for Extra- terrestrial Intelligence. After joining the project, you need to use your computer to get some infor- mation to＿7＿＿＿＿8＿＿from the SETI network____9____ the Internet. This process is often__10_____ as the Metacomputing.____11 ___the SETI project are proud of what they are doing. They think it is __12____ ____13___ just a way of working or playing games.
B
Beijing plans to build huge free or low-cost parking lots beyond the Fourth and Fifth Ring Roads to encourage more car owners to take buses or subways to the downtown area.
The plan is just one of the many measures the city plans to take to reduce its traffic congestion. Low or no parking fees would be used as economic leverage to reduce growing parking demands from urban areas.
Car owners living in the suburbs will be encouraged to park their cars beyond the Fourth and Fifth Ring Roads and take buses or subways to the downtown area. Statistics show that nearly one quarter of the city’s traffic flow is concentrated in the 62-square-kilometre downtown area within the Second Ring Road, which makes up only 12 percent of the city’s total area.
The Beijing Traffic Management Bureau receives between 400 and 500 calls reporting traffic jams every day and more than 90 percent of the roads are filled to capacity during rush hour every morning and evening. Part of the problem is the lack of easy links between bus routes, subways and cars.
According to the communication commission, half of the city’s investment in transportation will go towards public transit construction in the next few years, making a jump from the current only 20 percent. Moreover, Beijing plans to change its
layout by building new city centers, such as at Yizhuang, Tongzhou, Shunyi and Changping, in a bid to reduce the traffic flow to the downtown.
The current layout of Beijing-expanded ring roads around the same center of the Forbidden City, is seen as the root cause of the endless traffic jams. The downtown area is crowded with three business centers and one financial centre, as well as nearly 400 government organs and institutions.
Traffic experts say building more urban centers around Beijing may reduce the number of residents living in the suburbs and traveling long distances to work downtown every day, thus reducing traffic flow.
阅读文章，选择正确答案：
5. In the coming years, if a man beyond the Fourth Ring Road goes to work in the downtown of Beijing, he is encouraged to ____.
A. take buses or subways
B. take a taxi
C. drive the car quickly
D. park his car in a place which asks for no fees
6. According to this passage, while more and more people drive to work in rush hour in Beijing, it is likely to ____.
A. save time
B. cause traffic jams
C. cause traffic accidents
D. reduce air pollution
7. The aim in building new city centers is to ____.
A. make it convenient for people to go shopping
B. develop its local resources
C. reduce the traffic flow to the downtown
D. solve the problem of more laid-off workers
8. The passage suggests the author ____.
A. is tired of driving to work
B. finds it costs less to take subways than to drive
C. is for the plan to reduce Beijing’s traffic congestion
D. has benefited a lot by driving to the downtown every day
9.把文章中划线句子译成汉语：
_______________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________。

第2课时：reading
基础练习：
二: 10 7 3 8 4 9 6 1 5 2 12 11
三：the first extremely small plants, later development, shellfish and all sorts of fish, green plants, on land, land animals, insects, amphibians, in the water, reptiles, mammals, gave birth to,produced,
实战演练：
一.用所给动词的形式填空：
１begin,２watch,３wonder, ４exist,５was,６exploded,７made,８cooled,９began,
10.multiplied
二.用课文中的词汇填空：
１.energetic,２exploded,３in time,４carbon dioxide,５multiplied,６appear,７reptiles,８laying ,９mammals,１０hands and feet,１１spread,１２atmosphere,１３prevents,１４from,１５depend on
三.改错
1．If---Whether, 2.That----It, 3.第二个is---are, 4. Why---What, 5.what--that,
6.Whomever---Whoever
四.单项选择：
1-5 CBABB 6-10 CDCDC
反馈检测：
一．把下列句子译成汉语:
1．随后它会变成什么曾经是一个谜，直到最后这团尘埃开始慢慢地合成一个环绕太阳运转
的球状物。

2．问题是地球（开始）变得激烈动荡，不知道这个固体形状是否会继续存在下去。

3．它使得地球得以把曾经存在于大气层中的有害气体，溶解在海洋里。

4．在未来的千百万年中，生命能否在地球上延续将取决于这个问题能否得到解决。

二.阅读理解：
A.1-4 BDDD
根据文章内容填空：
5.by
6.joining,
7.work
8.out,
9.through,10.known,11.Volunteers,12.more 13.than
B.5-8ABCC
翻译
数据显示，将近四分之一的城市车流集中在二环路以内60平方公里的市区，这只占据城市总面积的百分之十二。