模块2 Unit 3 Amazing people 知识点题库

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    "If there is one thing I'm sure about, it is that m a hundred years from now we will still be reading newspapers. It is not that newspapers are a necessity. Even now some people get most of their news from television or radio. Many buy a paper only on Saturday or Sunday. But for most people reading a newspaper has become a habit passed down from generation to generation.

    The nature of what is news may change .What basically makes news is what affects our lives - the big political stories, the coverage of the wars, earthquakes and other disasters, will continue much the same. I think there will be more coverage of scientific research, though .It's already happening in areas that may directly affect our lives, like genetic（基因的） engineering. In the future, I think there will be more coverage of scientific explanations of why we feel as we do - as we develop a better understanding of how the brain operates and what our feelings really are.

    It's quite possible that in the next century newspapers will be transmitted（传送）electronically from Fleet Street and printed out in our own home. In fact ,I'm pretty sure how it will happen m the future. You will probably be able to choose from a menu, making up your own newspaper by picking out the things you want to read sports and international news, etc.

    I think people have got it wrong when they talk about competition between the different media（媒体）．They actually feed off each other.  Some people once foresaw that television would kill off newspapers, but that hasn't happened. What is read on the printed page lasts longer than pictures on a screen or sound lost in the air. And as for the Internet. it's never really pleasant to read something just on a screen.

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    If you want to help children develop language and speech skills, UCLA researchers say, listening to what they have to say is just as important as talking to them.

    The effect of a conversation between a child and an adult is about six times as great as the effect of adult speech input(输入)alone, the researchers found. “Adults speaking to children helps language develop, but what matters much more is the interaction, ”said the study's lead author, Frederick Zimmerman, an associate professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. The researchers also found that TV viewing didn't have much of an effect—positively or negatively—as long as it wasn't displacing conversations between an adult and a child.

    The UCLA study included 275 families with children between 2 months and 48 months old. They represented a variety of incomes and education. The researchers found that, in an average day, children heard about 13, 000 spoken words from adults and participated in about 400 adult-child conversations a day.

    Assessed separately, factors positively associated with language development included each additional 100 conversations a day and each 1, 000 words increase in the number of words spoken by adults and heard by children.  When looked at alone, TV was negatively associated with language development. But, when these three factors were analyzed together, the only one that stood out was conversation between adults and children.

    “The more a child speaks and interacts with an adult, the better idea a parent has about where the child is”, Zimmerman said. “Although it's mostly done unconsciously, parents will provide feedback and correct mistakes.  They'll also tailor their speech to the child.  Parents can give the children words by talking to them about what they're doing, such as, ‘I'm putting on your pajamas now'. But give your child the opportunity to talk, hopefully without the rest of the noise in the environment, ”she added. “If parents can carve out some conversation time—maybe at bath time or at dinner time—that's a wonderful thing. ”

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    Two students started quarreling at school. One student shouted dirty words at the other, and a fight began. What can be done to stop fights like this at school? In some schools, the disputants sit down with peer mediators(同龄调解者). Peer mediators are students with special training in this kind of problems.

    Peer mediators help the disputants to talk in a friendly way. Here are some of the ways they use:

1) Put what you think clearly but don't say anything to hurt the other. Begin with “I feel…” instead of “You always…”

2) Listen carefully to what the other person is saying. Don't stop the other person's words.

3) Keep looking at the other person's eyes when he or she talks.

4) Try to see the other person's side of the problem.

5) Never put anyone down. Saying things like “You are foolish” makes the talk difficult. 6) Try to find a result that makes both people happy.

    Peer mediators never decide the result or the winner. They don't decide who is right and who is wrong. Instead, they help the two students to find their own “win-win” result.

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    A beautiful and very successful actress (女演员) was the star for a new musical show. Her home was in the countryside, but she did not want to go back there every night, so she bought an expensive house in the centre of the city, got some beautiful furniture and got a man to paint the rooms in new colours.

    It was very difficult to get tickets for her show, because everybody wanted to see it. So she decided to give the painter two of the best seats. She hoped that this would make him work better for her. He took the tickets without saying anything, and she heard no more about them until the end of the month, when she got the painter's bill (帐单). At the bottom of it were these words: “ Four hours watching Miss Hall sing and dance : 3 pounds,” with this note: “ After 5 p.m. I get 15 shillings (先令) an hour instead of 10 shillings.”

The doctor advised her to eat more bean products________meat which might be harmful to her heart.

Professor White has written some short stories, but he is ______known for his plays.

That is __________ the problem lies.

The professor devoted all his life __________ the treatment of AIDS.

Insurance statistics show that most wives ______ their husbands ,which means that women have stronger hearts.

I was able at last to ______ my brother to follow my advice.

When we ________after a long talk, we found the children sleeping in _______beds.

The foreign friends you referred to _________looking forward to ________around our city.

College students should be encouraged to use _____ Internet as _____ resource when planning a term paper.

— I got that job I wanted at the public library.

— ___________! That's good news.

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）,并在其下面写上该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

短文改错，文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

    I am secretary of the City Student Union (CSU). We were organizing an art exhibition for high school students in city. It will be held in the 9th of July in the Exhibition Hall of Beihai. More than 1000 painting will be on show, but high school students and teachers from all the eight districts will come to the event. As you are very popularly with us Chinese high school students, we'd like to invite for you to the exhibition. We would be grateful when you could join them that day. Looking forward to hear from you soon.

单词拼写与词组填空。

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    As we all know, friendship is of great importance in our daily life. A friend can give us help and share our difficulties and happiness. But how to make friends is still difficult to some of us.

    1). Be friendly to others. You should try to make a stranger feel at home wherever he happens to be. Think more of others than of yourself and never judge a person by his appearance and clothes.

    2). Be reliable. If you and your friend agree to meet somewhere, don't be late. If you're not going to make it on time or make it at all, call them as soon as you realize it. Be someone that people know they can depend on.

    3). Listen carefully to what people say, remember important details about them （their names, their likes and dislikes）, ask questions about their interests, and just take the time to learn more about them.

4). Encourage your friends: A true friend always gives courage to his friends. Never make fun of or laugh at your friends in front of others. You should come to support them.

A．Be a good listener. B．When you say you'll do something, do it. C．A friend to all is a friend to none. D．The following information can give you some tips: E．And never leave your friend when he is in trouble. F．Smile at others and you are sure to get a smile in return. G．He will remain with them in both good as well as bad times.

基础写作。

你是校报小记者，最近进行了一次采访。

时间：上周星期三

对象：王老师

主题：中学生英语单词拼写的问题

现状：（1.）约54%高中同学英语书法很差；

（2.）约45%的英语词汇只会说而不会写

老师解读：（1.）原因：①平时训练不够；②学生懒于记忆

（2.）建议：①提高认识；②加强训练，掌握方法

【写作内容】根据以上情况写一篇采访报道，包括如下内容：

采访的时间、对象和主题；

中学生英语单词拼写的现状；

老师解读。

【写作要求】只能用5个句子表达全部内容。

【评分标准】句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章连贯。

语法填空

    Nowadays, it is common that more and more high school students open their own micro blogs on the Internet. For one thing, it can provide a colorful platform to show their talent. For, it is a useful way （release） their pressure. And all these make it more and more popular with high school students. many parents and teachers hold a different view. They think that （manage） one's micro blogs will take a lot of time and energy, should be used to study．

    In my view, I am in favor the activity. Today the Internet is playing an important role in our life. , as high school students of the Information Age, we need to learn to make use of this meaningful tool to communicate and display （us）.What's more, opening and organizing micro blogs need various abilities such as writing, designing, being skillful at computer and so on. Only if we master those abilities can we make a successful micro blog. a result, we improve ourselves while organizing our micro blogs.

    In fact, micro blog itself is of little harm．It is your attitude towards it matters. We should take the advantages and avoid some bad effects.