Unit Four Public transport

Unit Four Public transportWelcome to the unit & reading 1学习过程【预习检测】一、重点词汇_____________ adv. 一般地，通常地_______________ adj. 不方便的，不便利的_____________ n. 声誉，名声，区别______________ adv. 分别地，单独地，各自地_____________ adj. 远的，遥远的______________ n. (尤指通过努力)取得，获得；学到_____________ adj. 有历史意义的______________ n. 扩充，扩展，扩大，发展_____________ vt. & n. 运输，运送______________ vi. 起作用；工作，活动，运转______________ prep. & adv. 在……之下______________ n. 周年纪念；周年纪念日_______________ adv. 比较而言，相对地______________ adv. 有效地_______________ adj. 窄的，狭窄的；狭隘______________ vt. & vi. 允许，许可_______________ adj. 高级的，先进的______________ n. 观光，游览_______________ vt. 加速，促进______________ adj. 可怕的，恐怖的_______________ n. 步伐，速度______________ n. 折扣，打折二、学习策略培养When you read a tourist brochure about a place of interest, you will probably find the history of its __________. Another feature is that important people who __________ or changed the development can also be referred to. Interesting ________ are ofetn given in brochures as well. Finally, the brochure will encourage you to _________ the place for yourself.通过预习，你还有哪些方面存在疑问？________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 【序列问题】1. Fast reading(1). When was the first underground system opened?(2) Why was the Victoria Line important ?(3) What did Charles Holden do?2. Careful reading(1) What pulled the first carriages?(2) Why was an underground system first developed in London?(3) What was the London Underground like in 1863?(4) What was the underground used for during the Second World War?(5) What happened to the Underground after the Second World War?(6) Why was the Victoria Line important?【小试牛刀】一、词形变化1. distant----_____________n.2. hostory----______________ adj3. convenient ----____________(反)4. acquisition----___________ v.5. expansion---_____________v.6. effectively ----____________ adj7. permit ----______________n. 允许二、单词填空：根据单词的首字母或汉语意思填写正确单词，注意形式变化。

1. Up to now, many people have agreed that t____________ is an important part of our lives.2. In the 19th century, s___________ trains helped people travel all over the world.3. In the past, many old men don’t believe b uses can carry people o__________ long distance.4. If you go to Britain, you will see the sign at the station, ―welcome to the London u____________‖.5. Most trains went to the distant b___________ of the city in the northern part of the country.6. Cars on the road can c_______ off traffic, so some experts don’t agree car’s mass production.7. The first tunnels were just b______________ the surface of the ground.8. Sometimes, traveling on these lines was very i_____________. So you had better go by car.9. Many caves in the mountains f____________ as bomb shelters during war times.10. Some experts in this field think this helps make the system more u______________.11.It is reported that the train lines were placed under the _________(权力机构) of the Board.12.It was interesting to know about the London ______________（地铁）developed.三、阅读理解As a solo artist, Brightman has sold 26 million albums and two million DVDs in 34 countries. Her musical styles put opera, pop and jazz together. She is popular in the States but not here(Britain) – the image of her and her second husband, Andrew Lloyd Webber (he much older, she his muse) seems for ever frozen.The 47-year-old singer talks about the new album Symphony that came out of a ―very dark t ime‖, including her decision to give up trying to have children. ―People have suggested I could adopt,‖ Brightman says. ―But work is central to my life now. And so I am going to put it to one side. After a while not having children becomes the norm and perhaps that might sound alarming, to parents especially, but I have never known anything different. I’m not hurt by not having children. My life and career are incredibly rich.‖Talking about growing up in a large family in Berkhamsted (father aproperty d eveloper who later committed suicide), she says: ―I was gifted as achild, and very musical. I seemed to be good at anything to do with the arts. At5 I understood the music I was dancing to and had an eye for costume.‖ Shefirst appeared in a West End musical at 11 and hated boarding school.w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.mBrightman led the saucy dance troupe（辣妹三人舞）Hot Gossip and had her first hit with I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper in 1978. At 18 shemarried a music manager called Andrew Graham Stewart. ―I wa s probably in love but I can’t remember. Girls change such a lot between 18 and 22. It didn’t really work out.‖ In 1981 she was spotted by Lloyd Webber. She became his leading lady in Song and Dance,Requiem and Phantom of the Opera. They married in 1984.Brightman says she felt hostility(敌意) ―from the beginning. I haven’t tried to understand it. I’ve done very well everywhere else, especially the US, where I now live, I just accept it for what it is. The more you are away from Britain, the more you appreciate it. But I don’t miss it, altho ughI miss my family. Our profession can be uncomfortable but I enjoy what I do. I get on with it.‖1. The first paragraph tells us that _____.A. Brightman is very popular around the world except in AmericaB. Brightman’s musical style is a mixture of op era, pop and jazzC. the British people don’t like her for her style of musicD. Brightman is much older than Andrew Lloyd Webber2. Brightman decided to give up having children because _____.A. she could adopt oneB. her life and career were unbelievably rich without childrenC. she felt it normal not to have childrenD. she was too busy3. The following statements are true except ______.A. Brightman first appeared in a West End musical at 5B. Brightman disliked life on the campusC. Brightman was very gifted when she was youngD.The saucy dance troupe made Brightman famous4. The underlined word in the fourth paragraph probably means _____.A. locatedB. admiredC. followedD. found5. What does the author try to say in the last parag raph by quoting Brightman’s words?A. Brightman has to accept the fact that she is liked in BritainB. Brightman lives in America but she loves her own countryC. The British coldness towards Brightman led to her hatred to her homelandD. Brightman was at a loss why she was not welcome in Britain四、任务型阅读For centuries people dreamed of going into space. This dream began to seem possible when high-flying rockets were built in the early 1900s.In 1903 a Russian teacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky figured out how to use rockets for space travel. His plan was the first one in rocket science to use correct scientific calculation. About 30 years later, a U.S. scientist named Robert Goddard built the first rockets that could reach high altitudes. During World War II, German scientists built large rockets that could travel very far and carry dangerous explosives. After the war, scientists from Germany went to the United States and the Soviet Union to help those countries build space rockets.These two countries were soon racing to get to space first. Each of these countries wanted to prove that it was stronger and more advanced than the other one. Both countries also had powerful bombs. People in the United States were worried when the Soviets were first to launch a space satellite, which was called Sputnik. The Soviets were also first to send a person into space. Yury Gagarin orbited the earth in the V ostok I spaceship in 1961.The US government set a goal for its space program to be the first country to put a person on the Moon. The U.S. space program built a series of Apollo spaceship. These vehicles were powered by huge Saturn 5 rockets. In 1969 Apollo II took three men to the moon successfully. Nell Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon.The Soviets may have lost the race to fly people to the Moon, but they built the first spacestation in 1971. The United States also built a space station. The space stations allowed people to live and work in space. Then the Soviet Union and the United States cooperated to hook two spaceships together in space. This action ended the "space race". Today a much larger space station, built by several countries together, orbits Earth.Another new way to go to space is by space shuttle. A space shuttle, first made in the United States in 1981, looks like an airplane. Astronauts who fly spaceships have used shuttles to help put satellites into space.【当堂反馈小结】1．交流检查错误订正的情况，老师巡视答疑。