[高中英语]选修八Unit3 Reading

_p_a_t_en__t
or not.
◆ Your application for a patent
will be published _1_8_ months
from the date you apply if
your claim passes all the tests.
Read the text carefully and choose the best answer.
◆ The patent office makes a
search to check that your
product really is _d_if_f_er_e_n_t_
from everyone else’s.
Applying ◆ Patent examiners examine
for a
whether your claim is _v_a_l_id_
The problem of the snakes
Read the text quickly and complete its main idea.
The text is mainly about the author’s experience in helping her mother get rid of the _sn__a_k_e_s and applying for the p_a_t_e_n_tfor her invention.
A. the first
B. the second
C. the third
D. every
3. The following are used in the three
attempts EXCEPT ____.
A. perfume
B. a bowl
C. jelly
D. ice-cubes
4. Why did cooling the snakes make them less active?
of a
perfume or food
creative ◆ _c_o_o_li_n_g_ the snakes so that
solution they would become sleepy
and could be easily caught
I decided to use the _l_a_st_/_t_h_ir_d_ approach.
1) A discovery is A discovery merely makes known something that already exist in nature, such as the discovery on the New Continent by Columbia.
2) An invention is An invention is something that created by human being, such as the lighting rod.
Do you know the stages every inventor must go through before they can have their invention approved? Inventing is a scientific activity and so follows similar stages to those used in scientific research. Look at the following list and work out a suitable order.
A. Because snakes are warm-blooded animals.
B. Because snakes like high temperature. C. Because snakes are reptiles and their
body temperature depends on the heat around them.
research of snakes to find the easiest way
to trap them.
Three possible approaches:
◆ removing the snakes’ _h_a_b_it_a_t
◆ attracting the snakes into a
Thinking _tr_a_p_ using male or female
Part 3 (para.3) Deciding on the solution
Part 4 (para.4-6) the attempts to catch the snakes
Part 5 (para.7-8) the requirements of getting a patent
Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks.
Discuss in pairs which pictures show inventions and which show discoveries.
An amphibious car Stephenson’s “Rocket”
Baidu Nhomakorabea
DNA
Work out the rules that will help you decide what a discovery is and what an invention is.
solution ◆ putting the frozen bowl over the
snakes’ habitat in the evening
and carrying a small _n_e_t_ to
collect them the next morning
The third attempt was a success.
Divide the passage into several parts and find out the main idea for each paragraph.
Part 1 (para.1) the discovery of the problem of the snakes
Part 2 (para.2) Doing some research about the habits of snakes
Three attempts: ◆ putting the frozen bowl over the
snakes’ habitat early in the
morning
Testing ◆ putting the frozen bowl over the
the
snakes’ habitat _in__th__e_e_v_e_n_in__g
Give your examples of each category and fill in the blanks. Work out the connections between them.
Discoveries
Inventions
1. Systems of delivering
1. Electricity electrical light and heating
5. Which of the following may get a patent according to the text? A. A computer programme. B. A new animal variety. C. A work of literature. D. A truly novel and useful invention.
to homes and offices
2. Household machines for
washing, ironing, keeping
food cold, etc.
3. Computers, telephones,
television, etc.
Discoveries
Inventions
2. The movement 1. Airplane jet engines
television 1923
colour television 1940
photocopier 1937 air conditioner 1902
electronic digital computer 1946
Atomic bomb 1945
Credit cards 1950
Penicillin 1928
6. The purpose in writing this text is ___. A. to show us how to trap the snakes but
not to kill them B. to tell people how to apply for a patent
of the writer’s new idea C. to introduce the writer’s new idea of
1. How did the writer catch the snakes? A. using something the snakes were
interested to attract them into a trap. B. taking their habitat to another place.
What are the important inventions of the 20th century? Which do you think is the most important one?
Thomas Edison invented the electric bulb.
Did Edison invent electricity? Can electricity be invented? Is electricity an invention or discovery? Why?
of air
2. Air balloons, etc
3. The circulation of the blood
Machines to help people with serious disease (like kidney failure)
Discoveries
Inventions
4. X-rays
C. placing the snakes at a low temperature
for them to sleep and then caught them. D. All the above.
2. The writer was successful to catch the
snakes in ____ attempt.
1. Body scanners to see whether you are ill
2. Machines to treat illnesses (like cancer)
Discoveries often lead to inventions.
In pairs discuss any modern inventions you know. Describe them to your partner and explain how they changed people’s lives.
1. Applying for a patent 2. Finding a problem 3. Doing research 4. Testing the solution 5. Thinking of a creative solution 6. Deciding on the invention
trapping the snakes and her application for a patent D. to tell the readers how to get a new idea and make it a patent
Finding Snakes came near my mother’s
a
house now and then and she
problem wanted me to get rid of them
without h_a_r_m__in__g them.
Doing I set out to research the h__a_b_it_s