人教版高中英语选修八课件：Unit 1 Learning about language(共34张PPT)

Unit 1 A land of diversity Learning about language课时作业

I. 阅读理解

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。

A

Goldie’s Secret

She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away.

No way, not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before.＂We’re

moving house.＂; ＂No space for her any more with the baby coming.＂＂We never really

wanted her, but what could we have done? She was a present.＂ People find all sorts of excuses

for abandoning an animal.And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen.

I called her Goldie. If I had known what was going to happen I would have given her a more

creative name. She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had

such an air of sadness about her. There was nothing I could do to make her happy, it seemed.

人教版高中英语选修8

1 Period Three Learning about Language

Ⅰ.阅读理解

A An average 30yearold person who has eaten three meals a day since birth has eaten more

than 30,000 meals to date.Even if you’ve only eaten half that much you have to admit this：you’ve let some of that breakfast，lunch or dinner go to waste.And it turns out we’re all to blame

for this shaming fact：30%of all food produced in the world each year is wasted or lost.That’s

about 1.3 billion tons，according to a new report by the U．N.Food and Agriculture Organization.

That’s the weight of more than 8.6 million fullgrown blue whales，the largest creatures on

earth.That’s the weight of more than 2.3 million Airbus A380s，the largest planes in

existence.That’s as if each person in China，the world’s most populous country with more than

1.3 billion people，had one ton mass of food they could just throw into the dustbin.It’s almost

Unit 2 cloning learning about language课时作业

I．阅读理解

A

Amazon is breaking into physical retail in a new way.The online retail

giant revealed a new kind of physical store concept in a video published on

Monday.

The store，called Amazon Go，doesn’t work like a typical Walmart or

supermarket.Instead，it’s designed so that shoppers will use an app，also called Amazon Go，to

automatically add the products that they plan to buy to a digital shopping cart by scanning a QR

code(二维码).They can then walk out of the building without waiting in a checkout line because

Amazon will charge their Amazon account and send them a receipt.

The first Amazon Go store is located in Seattle，where Amazon is headquartered.For years，there have been rumors the e-commerce company would expand its dominance from digital to

physical shopping.Amazon began experimenting with physical bookstores a year ago，but Amazon

人教版高中英语选修8

1 Learning about Language and Using Language

1．I cannot bear the smell of burnt sausage on the barbecue.(P24)

我忍受不了架子上烤焦的香肠的味道。

★bear (bore, borne) vt.忍受；忍耐；负担

bear doing/to do 忍受······

bear sb./sb.’s doing 忍受某人做某事

bear sth.in mind 牢记

bear/keep in mind that ... 记住······

bear the responsibility/the blame 承担责任/受责备

①I couldn’t bear to listen/listening any longer, so I left the room.

我实在听不下去了，便离开了房间。

②He can’t bear people smoking while he’s eating.

他不能容忍他吃饭时有人吸烟。

③You must bear/keep in mind that your parents hope to depend on you to become a good

doctor.

你要记住你的父母指望你成为一名好医生。

【点津】 bear 意为“忍耐，忍受”时，通常与can, could 连用，用于疑问句或否定句中，常见近义词还有：put up with, stand, tolerate等。

2．Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.(P25)

偶尔离开平路，去寻求困境。

★dive into向某方向冲去或奔去；跳水(头朝下)；迅速把手伸入；一心投入

①The swimmer dived into the river to save the drowning child.