20172024学年高中英语Unit3AhealthylifeSectionⅠWarmingamp;ReadingPrereading教学案新人教版选修6

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Our story begins at the John Burroughs Elementary School in Washington, D．C. The school's kindergarten students are staying late today — an hour after classes normally end. The boys and girls are not seeking help with reading skills or mathematics. Instead, they are tasting kale, a vegetable that many of them are eating for the first time.

The school's teacher Dionne Hammiel says her students have learned healthy eating habits from the program. She hopes they will keep a healthy diet for the rest of their lives.

The program is taught by young people like Karen

Davison. She is a member of FoodCorps. The non-profit group gets money from the AmeriCorps National Service Program. Since the beginning of the school year, Ms. Davison has spent each day in this Washington, D．C. classroom. She gives the kindergarteners vegetables that many of them have never tasted. She teaches them where their food comes from and how they can choose to eat healthier meals.

FoodCorps was set up five years ago. It sends more than 180 young Americans to 500 schools across the United States. The young people teach students about nutrition and how they can eat healthy food both at school and at home. FoodCorps also works with other groups to plant vegetable gardens in schools and bring healthier food to stores — especially stores in cities. Many small urban stores often sell only packaged food.

Maddie Morales is a member of FoodCorps. She says the group's work is especially important in the fight against childhood obesity — when a child has too much body fat. She notes that the child obesity rate in the United States is twice what it was 30 years ago.

语篇解读：本文介绍了FoodCorps正在做的一个教孩子们健康饮食的项目。 1．Why are the school's kindergarten students staying late? A．They are attending extra classes. B．They are learning about eating healthily.

C．They are learning how to pick out fresh vegetables. D．They are being punished because of their poor performance.

解析：选B 细节理解题。由第一段“Instead, they are tasting kale ... the first time.”和第二段第一句“The school's teacher Dionne Hammiel says ... habits from the 11

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program.”可知，孩子们放学后还没走，是在学习健康饮食。

2．What do we know about FoodCorps? A．It makes money by selling healthy food.

B．It helps a lot in fighting against childhood obesity. C．It teaches students how to plant healthy vegetables.

D．It aims at introducing rare vegetables across the United States.

解析：选B 细节理解题。由最后一段“She says the group's work is especially important in the fight against childhood obesity ...”可知，FoodCorps在解决儿童肥胖问题上的贡献尤为突出。

3．What can we infer from the text?

A．Food sold in city stores is usually unhealthy. B．Most of the children in the program are overweight. C．Compared with healthy food, packaged food is cheaper.

D．The problem of overweight is getting worse in the United States. 解析：选D 推理判断题 由最后一段“She notes that the child obesity rate in the United States is twice what it was 30 years ago.”可知，美国的儿童肥胖问题更为严重了。

B

Starting on April 1, the Navajo Nation — one of the largest tribal (部落的) governments of the North American Indian tribes — will charge a 2% tax (税) on junk food sold on its reservation — the first tax of its kind in the United States. The change is part of the Healthy Diné Nation Act, which will also remove a 5% sales tax on healthy foods, like fresh fruits and vegetables.

Denisa Livingston of the Diné Community Advocacy Alliance, a group that helped pass this law, hopes to make people in the community more aware of their food choices. “This is a friendly awareness tax，” she told TimeForKids.

About 24,600 Navajo tribe members face obesity, and type 2 diabetes has developed as a growing public health concern affecting up to 60% of the Navajo people in some areas.

Livingston says that the Navajo Nation's status (身份) as a “food desert” contributes to the health problems her people face. A food desert is an area where fresh, healthy food is expensive and hard to find. Food deserts are especially common in low-income communities, such as the Navajo Nation, where 38% of the population lives at the poverty level. 12

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Livingston hopes the law will lead to major changes. “If we continue on the route that we are now on, then eventually we're not going to be looking forward to healthy generations to come，” she said.

The money that the government collects from junk food taxes will be put towards projects that encourage people to eat healthy foods, like community vegetable gardens, greenhouses, and farmer's markets.

“This act is going to open the door to many more opportunities and conversations and ideas about how we move to ‘a food oasis (绿洲)’，” Livingston said. “Whether you're deep in the reservation or the neighboring towns, you will have the availability of healthy foods.”

语篇解读：本文是说明文。文章介绍了纳瓦霍族政府推行的一项致力于提高人民健康的法案。

4．What does Denisa Livingston think of the junk food tax? A．It is much too high.

B．It has been introduced too late. C．It should be applied nationwide.

D．It is a wake-up call to the Navajo Nation.

解析：选D 推理判断题。根据第二段Denisa Livingston说的“... make people ... more aware of their food choices. ‘This is a friendly awareness tax，’”可知，她希望这项税收政策能够唤醒纳瓦霍族人对食物选择的意识。

5．What can we learn about the Navajo people? A．They live a quiet and happy life. B．They are good at planting gardens. C．They are facing some health problems. D．They are quite friendly with one another.

解析：选C 细节理解题。根据第三段的“About 24,600 Navajo tribe members face obesity, and type 2 diabetes has developed as a growing public health concern”可知，纳瓦霍族人正面临严峻的健康问题。

6．What is the main purpose of this text? A．To introduce a plan for good health. B．To discuss if healthy food should be taxed. C．To explain why junk food can cause obesity. D．To describe how the Navajo Nation live their life.

解析：选A 写作意图题。本文主要介绍了纳瓦霍族政府推行的一项致力于提高人民健13

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康的法案，以及该法案的支持者Denisa Livingston的个人看法。

C

Soda (苏打汽水), while sweet and inexpensive, may not be worth drinking. Sugary drinks can have many bad health effects, including a 26% greater risk of diabetes (糖尿病) for regular soda drinkers. And men drinking one can of sugary drinks per day have a 20% higher risk of having or dying from a heart attack than those who rarely drink them. The health effects of drinking soda also affect pre-school children, heightening their chances of becoming obese at a very young age. According to Harvard School of Public Health, one in three children in America are obese or overweight, and childhood obesity has tripled (增至三倍) in the last 30 years. Should government get people to reduce their drinking of soda and sugary drinks due to health effects?

People in San Francisco were given the opportunity to voice their opinion on Proposition E, which suggested a soda tax (税). The tax, which needed to pass with a two-thirds majority, would have provided money for health and physical education programs, and the hope was that it would also discourage citizens from buying unhealthy drinks. Although San Francisco's Proposition E failed to be passed, Berkeley citizens succeeded in passing the nation's first ever sugary drink tax on their similar Measure D.

People who were for the tax hoped that the price of sugary drinks would discourage people from buying them. Mexico recently introduced a tax on drinks, which, though not well received by the public, was successful in reducing the amount of soda bought. After the tax was put into effect, Mexico's biggest soda production company's sales dropped by 6.4%.

People who were against the tax were concerned about their right to buy whatever drinks they wanted, without any additional taxes. Those who also disagreed were the market, the bar, and soda industries, which would possibly lose money from reduced sales of these drinks because of the added cost. And although the Proposition E tax money was supposed to go to city-operated programs, some citizens were doubtful about how well this plan would have been carried out.

语篇解读：本文是议论文。饮用碳酸饮料对健康有很多不利的影响，政府是否应该向碳酸饮料征税呢？

7．Harvard School of Public Health found that in America ________. A．soda drinkers doubled in recent 30 years 14

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B．26% of children are suffering from diabetes C．the number of obese children has increased greatly D．young soda drinkers often suffer from heart attacks

解析：选C 细节理解题。由第一段中的“one in three children in America are ... in the last 30 years”可知，哈佛公共卫生学院发现美国有三分之一的儿童肥胖或超重，而在过去的三十年中，肥胖儿童的数量增长了三倍。

8．What do we know about Proposition E? A．San Francisco citizens accepted it. B．It was passed successfully in Berkeley. C．It aimed to reduce the sales of sugary drinks. D．It was meant to raise money for poor children.

解析：选C 推理判断题。由第二段中的“the hope was that it would also discourage citizens from buying unhealthy drinks”可知，对碳酸饮料征税，其目的是为了劝人们不要购买不健康的饮料。

9．According to the text, the tax in Mexico ________. A．helped prevent people buying sugary drinks B．greatly reduced the production of soda drinks C．received a warm welcome from the local citizens D．forced many soda production companies to close down

解析：选A 细节理解题。由倒数第二段中的“was successful in reducing the amount of soda bought ... sales dropped by 6.4%”可知，墨西哥实施的饮料税收成功降低了碳酸饮料的销量。

10．Those who were against the tax worried that it might ________. A．not be carried out smoothly B．affect their rights and interests C．fail to achieve the expected goal D．do no good to society or the economy

解析：选B 推理判断题。由最后一段中的“were concerned about their right to buy whatever drinks ... additional taxes”和“which would possibly lose money from reduced sales of these drinks because of the added cost”可知，反对征税的人士担忧税收会损害他们的权利和利益。

Ⅱ.阅读七选五

Large meals make people full and sleepy. __1__ We want our children to learn, not falling asleep at their desks, so let's keep those lunches on the lighter side. 15