解密非谓语动词-备战2018年高考英语之高频考点解密(Word版含解析)

Unit 5课时跟踪练(一) Warming Up & Reading —Pre-reading

Ⅰ.阅读理解

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A new course on world heritage and its conservation offers a good opportunity for the young people to learn about the legacy (遗产) of humanity and gain a sense of responsibility to help protect the planet we live on.

According to a world heritage education programme jointly

launched by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and

Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and China's Ministry of

Education, the course will first be offered at several schools in

Beijing before being included as a mandatory course (必修课) for

high school students nationwide.

The new course covers photos, slide shows and documentaries on the magnificence of the world heritage sites.The class aims to tell children what world heritage is and why and how it should be protected.A total of 177 nations, including China, have signed the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage.Listed are 754 sites all over the world, of which 29 are in China —the third most after Spain and Italy.Currently, protection of the country's cultural and natural resources leaves much to be cation is undoubtedly the best way to cultivate people's sense for protecting cultural and natural resources.

The introduction of such a programme in Chinese classrooms will certainly help our young people realize the significance of common heritage, learning about world heritage sites, the history and traditions of different cultures, ecology, and the importance of protecting biological and cultural diversity.

More importantly, it will help cultivate a sense of responsibility in the minds of young participants.This is critical in protecting these cultural and natural legacies, as well as our living environment and the limited resources for sustainable development.

语篇解读：将遗产保护纳入课堂学习，旨在帮助孩子们学习和了解有关遗产的信息及让孩子知道如何保护遗产。

1．Which of the statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The world heritage education programme was jointly launched by the United States and China's Ministry of Education.

B．The course will first be offered at all the schools in Beijing.

C．Protection of the country's cultural and natural resources has been perfect thanks to people's efforts.

D．China ranks high among the countries with 29 sites listed on the list.

解析：选D细节理解题。根据第三段的“Listed are 754 sites all over the world, of which 29 are in China — the third most after Spain and Italy.”可知D项正确。

2．What can you expect to learn at the class?

A．What world heritage is.

B．Why we should protect heritage.

C．How world heritage should be protected.

D．All of the above.

解析：选D细节理解题。根据第三段的“The class aims to tell children what world heritage is and why and how it should be protected.”可知课堂设置的目的是告诉孩子们世界遗产是什么，为什么要保护遗产以及如何保护遗产，故选D项。

3．The underlined word “cultivate” in the third paragraph prob ably means “________”．

A．distribute B．exploit

C．develop D．improvise

解析：选C词义猜测题。根据下文这种课程能帮助孩子意识到保护遗产的重要性可知，此处指的是教育无疑是最好的培养孩子遗产保护意识的最好的方式，故选C项。

4．What's the purpose of the passage?

A．To inform us of the reason for protecting the heritage.

B．To tell us the way to protect the heritage.

C．To tell us a new course.

D．To tell us heritage preservation starts with education.

解析：选D写作意图题。本文主要介绍了在教学中加入遗产保护的课程，写作的目的是告诉我们遗产保护从教育开始，故选D项。

B

Where can you find the first successful airplane, one of the world's biggest bugs (虫子) and Kermit the Frog? They're all at the Smithsonian Institution, American's storehouse of the coolest things ever, in Washington, D．C.More than 138 million objects have been collected by their 19 museums, with more coming in every day.

The Smithsonian was founded in 1846 and named after James Smithson, an English businessman.Smithson never visited America, but he left his entire fortune to the United States to build an institution “for the increase of knowledge.”

Here are just a few of the amazing things in the Smithsonian collection.

Big bugs

The Smithsonian has 35 million bugs.The largest insect in the collection is a beetle (甲虫) from South America called the titan beetle.Titan beetles can grow to more than 6 inches