高考英语一轮复习必修4Unit11TheMedia学案北师大版(含答案)

高考英语一轮复习学案：

Unit 11 The Media

Ⅰ. 细品味经典文章

(2019·全国卷Ⅲ阅读理解C)

Before the 1830s, most newspapers were sold through annual subscriptions in

America, usually $8 to $10 a year. Today $8 or $10 seems a small amount of money,

but at that time these amounts were forbidding to most citizens. Accordingly,

newspapers were read almost only by rich people in politics or the trades. In addition,

most newspapers had little in them that would appeal to a mass audience. They were

dull and visually forbidding. But the revolution that was taking place in the 1830s

would change all that.

The trend, then, was toward the “penny paper”—a term referring to papers made

widely available to the public. It meant any inexpensive newspaper; perhaps more

importantly it meant newspapers that could be bought in single copies on the street.

This development did not take place overnight. It had been possible(but not

easy)to buy single copies of newspapers before 1830, but this usually meant the reader

had to go down to the printer’s office to purchase a copy. Street sales were almost

unknown. However, within a few years, street sales of newspapers would be commonplace

in eastern cities. At first the price of single copies was seldom a penny—usually

two or three cents was charged—and some of the older well-known papers charged five

or six cents. But the phrase “penny paper ” caught the public’s fancy, and soon

there would be papers that did indeed sell for only a penny.

This new trend of newspapers for “the man on the street” did not begin well.

Some of the early ventures(企业)were immediate failures. Publishers already in

business, people who were owners of successful papers, had little desire to change

the tradition. It took a few youthful and daring businessmen to get the ball rolling. Ⅱ. 按要求完成任务

1. 写出文章中与媒体有关的单词。

newspaper,

subscription,

annual,

audience,

appeal,

public, copy, reader, development,

printer, purchase, sale, fancy, trend, publisher, business

2. 写出文章中的优美句式。

①In addition, most newspapers had little in them that would appeal to a mass

audience.

②It took a few youthful and daring businessmen to get the ball rolling.

Ⅰ. 重点词汇

1. demand vt. 要求, 请求; 需要 n. 要求; 需求(量), 需要 教材原句

Reforms have been demanded by people from all over the world. (P22)世界各地的人民都要求改革。

【词块必记】

(1)demand to do sth.

要求做某事

demand sth. of sb. 向某人要求某事

demand that. . . (should) do sth. 要求……做某事

(2)meet/satisfy one’s demands 满足某人的要求

in demand 非常需要的; 受欢迎的

(3)demanding adj. 要求高的; 要求严格的

【误区释疑】

demand与介词in和on都可搭配, 但意义不同: in demand有需要的, 受欢迎的; on demand一经要求……

【语境速测】 单句语法填空

①My father came downstairs and demanded to know (know) what was going on.

②The UN has demanded that all troops (should) be withdrawn (withdraw).

③Yesterday evening, the couple came to my house and demanded help of me.

完成句子 ④They

demanded that the company (should) give them an explanation.

他们要求公司给他们一个解释。 ⑤In the unusual hot summer, air conditioners were in great demand.

在这异常炎热的夏天, 空调的需求量极大。

2. employ vt. 雇用; 聘请; 使忙于; 使从事于

教材原句

Newspapers and magazines are willing to pay high prices for photographs of famous

people taken by these self-employed photographers. (P24)

报纸和杂志愿意为自由职业的摄影师拍摄的名人照片出高价。

【词块必记】

employ sb. to do sth. 雇用某人做某事

employ sb. as 雇用某人作为……

employ oneself in=be employed in

从事……

【构词法】

employ+-ment(名词后缀)→employment n.使用; 职业; 雇用

employ+-er/-ee→employer n.雇主, 老板/employee n. 雇员

【语境速测】 单句语法填空

①He has been employed in writing a new book these days.

②Graduates are finding it more and more difficult to find anemployment (employ).

③A number of people have been employed to deal (deal) with the backlog of work.

句型转换

④She has been employed in making preparations for the coming final exam all morning.

→She has employed herself in making preparations for the coming final exam all

morning.

【写作金句】

Your time could be usefully employed in attending night classes.

你的时间可以被有效地利用来上夜课。

3. attempt vt. & n. 尝试, 试图 教材原句

But sometimes, the paparazzi go too far in their attempt to get the best photographs.

(P24)但是, 有时候狗仔队因想拍摄(效果)最好的照片而做得太过分了。

【词块必记】

(1)attempt to do sth. =try to do sth. =seek to do sth.

试图做某事

(2)in an attempt to do sth. 为了做某事

make an attempt to do/at doing sth.

企图做某事

at the first attempt 第一次尝试

(3)attempted adj. 企图的, 未遂的

【思维拓展】attempt to do sth. 相当于try to do sth. , 意为“试图做某事”, 但不一定成功; 而succeed in doing sth. /manage to do sth. 意为“成功地做某事”。

【语境速测】 单句语法填空

①The boys made an attempt

to leave (leave) for camping but were stopped by their

parents.

②Not many people can answer this question at the first attempt.