课时素养评价一 Unit 1 People of Achievement Reading and Thinking
Ⅰ. 用所给词的适当形式填空
1. Biden said he wasn’t willing to commit (commit) “either way” when asked if he would run for a second.
2. Apparently (apparent) for lack of documentary evidence, Modi has to hide some of the anger that has been seen on his face.
3. Last year, they evaluated (evaluate) the president’s progress on the fulfillment of election promises.
4. Marketers who can use 5G for brands can make the distinction (distinct) between online and offline become increasingly small.
5. Boiled (boil) with brown sugar and ginger, fruit can be enjoyed better by teenagers as a fashionable drink.
6. One reason for “People taking postgraduate exam on rise” is that obs have higher academic (academy) requirements nowadays.
7. From this picture obtained (obtain) from social media, we can see that Death from New Zealand volcano eruption has risen to 19.
8. AI emotion-detecting technology is exciting but still a long way off, because it is distinct from people whose feeling is based on their analyses (analyse) of facts. 9. He delivered a speech which said the central authorities fully acknowledged (acknowledge) our devotion and hard work.
10. Trump will be faced with a new challenge although he defeated (defeat) Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016. Ⅱ. 选词填空
die from; insist on; find out; draw a conclusion; graduate from; get stuck; lead to
1. “The error, if not checked, could lead to a overall disaster. ” he said. 2. If you ever get stuck, ask around for help until you are able to complete a given task.
3. Up to half of all smokers will die from a tobacco-related disease. 4. They need to interview some people and find out if they like their jobs. 5. Having graduated from USA, Qian Xueshen managed to come back home to serve our motherland.
6. Ma Yun insisted on retiring and trying to have a change of his life last year. 7. You had better keep on trying if you find it difficult to draw a conclusion.
Ⅰ. 阅读理解
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The Nobel Prize is considered one of the most recognizable and admirable awards possible, honoring people of the world for their outstanding achievements in different fields.
Alfred Nobel was born in 1833 to a family of engineers in Stockholm, Sweden. Nobel as a young man studied with Nikolai Zinin, a well-known chemist. In 1850, he met Ascanio Sobrero, the inventor of nitroglycerin (炸药) in Paris. Interested in its unpredictable nature of exploding under pressure or heat, Nobel started to find a way to control it and make a usable explosive(炸药). In 1857 he applied for his first patent (专利), an English patent for a gas meter. After years of efforts, in 1867, at the age of 34, Nobel invented dynamite(炸药), which is much easier and safer to control than nitroglycerin. Dynamite was an immediate business success and it was patented in the US and the UK and was widely used in mining.
During his lifetime, Nobel invented and patented various explosives. He built up his wealth from his 355 inventions, from which dynamite was the most important.
When Alfred’s brother Ludwig died in 1888, a French newspaper mistakenly published Alfred’s obituary (讣告). Reading his own obituary, Nobel was disappointed to find out his public image(形象). The newspaper strongly blamed(责备) Nobel for inventing dynamite, giving him the nickname of “the merchant of death” and saying “Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday. ”
To Alfred, this obituary was a warning. He spent his lifetime alone inventing
things and was deeply concerned with how he would be remembered. This unfortunate event inspired him to make changes in his will(遗嘱), so as to improve his public image, and to be remembered for a good cause.
In 1895, one year before his death, Nobel made the last will, saying clearly that his wealth would be used to create a series of prizes for those who have made great contributions to mankind in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. To widespread astonishment, Dr. Alfred Nobel gave away 94% of his total wealth to found the five Nobel Prizes.
【文章大意】这是一篇记叙文。主要讲述了创立了诺贝尔奖的Alfred Nobel的生平故事。 1. According to Paragraph 2, what led to Nobel’s outstanding achievements? A. The valuable help from his family. B. The strong desire to make money. C. His lifetime dream of achieving success. D. His great curiosity and devotion to science.
【解析】选D。推理判断题。根据第二段的Interested in its unpredictable nature of exploding under pressure or heat, Nobel started to find a way to control it and make a usable explosive. 诺贝尔对其在压力或高温下爆炸的不可预测性很感兴趣, 于是开始寻找控制它的方法, 并制造出一种可用的炸药。可知对科学的好奇心和献身精神让诺贝尔取得了杰出成就。
2. What was Alfred Nobel’s attitude towards the newspaper’s obituary? A. Upset. C. Optimistic.
B. Supportive. D. Satisfied
【解析】选A。推理判断题。根据第四段的Reading his own obituary, Nobel was disappointed to find out his public image. 读到自己的讣告后, 诺贝尔对自己的公众形象感到失望。由此可推之, 诺贝尔对报纸的讣告的态度是沮丧的(upset)。
3. Why did Nobel give away most of his wealth to set up the Nobel Foundation? A. To publish his findings of scientific research. B. To improve his public image.
C. To be remembered as the “Merchant of Death”. D. To prove the importance of his inventions.
2020-2021学年新教材高中英语课时素养评价一Unit1新人教版必修[含答案]
