Unit 4 Astronomy: the science of the stars 知识点题库

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Lockers(储物柜)have been the symbol of American high school for decades. But walk down any hallway of the new Germantown High School in Madison County, Mississippi, and you won’t spot a single locker.

New technology such as e-books, interactive(互动的)assignments and Web-based learning is making lockers in American high school a thing of the past.

Officials from schools that have gone lockerless listed several benefits: less noise, less delay and an increased sense of safety. “It's all to create an environment that's student-friendly”, said Ronnie McGehee, chief official of the Madison County School District.

Getting rid of lockers can also cut hundreds of thousands in construction costs. Madison County saved $200, 000 by not including lockers in the new high school, McGehee said.

It is also believed that removing lockers could help prevent school violence. “Lockers give kids a place to hide things”, said Mike Nelson, founder of a safety-training group. Nelson believes that some school shootings and other incidents could have been prevented if there had been no lockers.

However, Andrew Booth, a 10th-grader at Germantown High, said there are some disadvantages of not having a locker. “It can make your book bag really heavy”, he said. The 16-year-old has four textbooks “plus notebooks and a binder(活页夹)”to carry to school each day.

He said some teachers have shelves at the back of the classroom on which students can leave their bags. Others provide an extra set of textbooks in the classroom, so students don’t have to carry books from home.

New York architect Peter Lippman said schools will have to address such concerns and find ways to give students a “sense of space”. “If you are carrying books around, it does limit your flexibility in the classrooms”, he said.

Lippman said he would like to see schools starting to use the new free space to provide less structured learning opportunities for students, including gathering areas and learning centers. “If you think about a school with just rows of lockers—there's nowhere for learning opportunities in that”, he said.

阅读下面短文, 然后按要求写一篇150个词左右的英语短文。

Today I’d like to talk about a great film I recently saw called The Time Machine. It really made a deep impression.

The film is about a young inventor called Dr. Alexander who spends four years of his life building a time travelling machine so he can go back in time and save his murdered sweetheart, Emma.

That film really fired my imagination and made me think about where I would go if I could travel back through time. At first I thought I would travel to the time of the dinosaurs to see the T-Rex and all those other huge and savage beasts. But perhaps that would be a little too dangerous. I don’t just want to go back in time; I want to return safely too. Then I thought about a really great moment in history that I would love to experience. The time I’d like to travel to is 1936 and the place I’d like to go to is Germany. I’d love to be a part of the audience at the Berlin Olympics held that year and see the great American athlete Jessie Owens win four gold medals in front of the evil German leader Adolf Hitler. That was one of the greatest ever sporting performances and it was even more important because it showed the world how wrong Hitler's ideas were. Then I would try to meet Mr. Owens and tell him how famous he would become in the future. Maybe I could even have a photo taken with him as proof.

【写作内容】

1 以约30个词概括这段短文的主要内容;

2 以约120个词就“时间穿梭”的话题进行写作, 内容包括:

①如果能够回到过去, 你最想回到的时间(或时段)及地点;

②描述你回到过去后最想做的事情;

③说明事情的意义。

【写作要求】

1 作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事, 也可以参照阅读材料的内容, 但不得直接引用原文中的句子;

2 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

【评分标准】

概括准确, 语言规范, 内容合适, 篇章连贯。

There still (存在) a rare animal on that lonely island.

The woman gave b to a healthy girl.

It p me a lot how they could do it without modern technology.

What you said (使困惑) me greatly.

他被迫放弃了自己的梦想。

As we all know, Qian Xuesen is a famous(物理学家).

The space shuttle orbited a communication(卫星).

Grace doesn't want to move to New York because she thinks if she(live) there，she wouldn't be able to see her parents very often.

China recently tightened its waters controls near the Huangyan Island to prevent Chinese fishing boats from (attack) in the South China Sea.

He often says that he doesn't believe in any (religious) and only believes in himself.

There was a look on the little girl's face because a problem her. (puzzle)

was needed at that time, she told me, was some good luck.

Therefore, I couldn't spare enough time to write you back time.

It is possible for every student in our school to use a computer in class.

→Our school for every student to use a computer in class.

阅读理解

    The future is time that is to come. The future is not the present or the past. It is later. We have seen many possible futures in science fiction. They range from the world's polar ice caps melting to nuclear winters. But not all futures are morbid. We have seen the human race spread all over our universe, humans and aliens living in harmony together all over the universe.

    It is very likely that we will make some kind of breakthrough in our ability to travel through space sometime in the next 150 years. This would give us the ability to rule other planets.

    Finally, the Earth will die whether it is in 1,000 years or 100,000 years. We will be forced to move to another planet then. It's really just a matter of time. When we do so, what will we discover?

    Personally, I think everyone will be speaking the same language in 200 years. A world government definitely seems to be in our future. It is stable and has few wars. Indeed, the only type of wars that can happen is the civil war.

    And what if we face aliens? If they are friendly, we would probably benefit a lot from putting our knowledge together. They must have advanced technology to travel for great distances. We could benefit from their technology. But if they aren't friendly, then we will be in trouble. Hope that we will have become advanced enough, smart enough, and generally a better race by the time we meet them. But this is all probably being discussed for nothing, because any race out there among the stars is probably as curious as we are about other creatures.

Tom, as well as his parents, _(watch) TV at present.

(宇航员在太空中如何吃饭、睡觉和行走)is very strange and interesting.

(何时战争才会从世上消失) is hard to say.