2018届高三英语话题阅读话题《热门话题》学案含答案

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2018届高三英语话题阅读话题《天气》学案含答案

话题天气WeatherClass：Name：Group：No：Learning Objectives：1.Review the important words and expressions in the reading material:2. Learn the reading skills: scanning and skimmingLearning Key Points：1.Grasp the important words and expressions in the reading material2.Master the reading skills: scanning and skimmingLearning Difficult Points：Improve the reading abilityLearning Procedures：I.【Pre-class homework】Read the passage and choose the best an swer(1)S c i e n t i s t s t o d a y a r e m a k i n g g r e a t e r e f f o r t t o s t u d y o c e a n c u r r e n t s (洋流).M o s t d o i t u s i n g s a t e l l i t e s a n d o t h e r h i g h-t e c h e q u i p m e n t.H o w e v e r,o c e a n e x p e r t C u r t i s E b b e s m e y e r d o e s i t i n a s p e c i a l w a y—b y s t u d y i n g m o v e m e n t s o f r a n d o m f l o a t i n g g a r b a g e. A s c i e n t i s t w i t h m a n y y e a r s’ e x p e r i e n c e,h e s t a r t e d t h i s t y p e o f r e s e a r c h i n t h e e a r l y1990s w h e n h e h e a r d a b o u t h u n d r e d s o f a t h l e t i c s h o e s w a s h i n g u p o n t h e s h o r e s o f t h e n o r t h w e s t c o a s t o f t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s.T h e r e w e r e s o m a n y s h o e s t h a t p e o p l e w e r e s e t t i n g u p s w a p m e e t s t o t r y a n d m a t c h l e f t a n d r i g h t s h o e s t o s e l l o r w e a r.E b b e s m e y e r f o u n d o u t i n h i s r e s e a r c h e s t h a t t h e s h o e s—a b o u t 60,000 i n t o t a l— f e l l i n t o t h e o c e a n i n a s h i p p i n g ac c i d e n t. H e p h o n e d t h e s h o e c o m p a n y a n d a s k e d i f t h e y w a n t e d t h e s h o e s b a c k.A s e x p e c t e d,t h e c o m p a n y t o l d h i m t h a t t h e y d i d n’t. E b b e s m e y e r r e a l i z e d t h i s c o u l d b e a g r e a t e x p e r i m e n t. I f h e l e a r n e d w h e n a n d w h e r e t h e s h o e s w e n t i n t o t h e w a t e r a n d t r a c k e d w h e r e t h e y l a n d e d,h e c o u l d l e a r n a l o t a b o u t t h ep a t t e r n s o f o c e a n c u r r e n t s.T h e P a c i f i c N o r t h w e s t i s o n e o f t h e w o r l d’s b e s t a r e a s f o r b e a c h c o m b i n g (海滩搜寻) b e c a u s e w i n d s a n d c u r r e n t s j o i n h e r e, a n d a s a r e s u l t, t h e r e i s a g r o u p o f s e r i o u s b e a c h c o m b e r s i n t h e a r e a. E b b e s m e y e r g o t t o k n o w a l o t o f t h e m a n d a s k e d f o r t h e i r h e l p i n c o l l e c t i n g i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t w h e r e t h e s h o e s l a n d e d. I n a y e a r h e c o l l e c t e d r e l i a b l e i n f o r m a t i o n o n 1, 600 s h o e s. W i t h t h i s d a t a, h e a n d a c o l l e a g u e w e r e a b l e t o t e s t a n d i m p r o v e a c o m p u t e r p r o g r a m d e s i g n e d t o m o d e l o c e a n c u r r e n t s,a n d p u b l i s h t h e f i n d i n g s o f t h e i r s t u d y.A s t h e r e s u l t o f h i s w o r k,E b b e s m e y e r h a s b e c o m e k n o w n a s t h e s c i e n t i s t t o c a l l w i t h q u e s t i o n s a b o u t a n y u n u s u a l o b j e c t s f o u n d f l o a t i n g i n t h e o c e a n.H e h a s e v e n s t a r t e d a n a s s o c i a t i o n o f b e a c h c o m b e r s a n d o c e a n e x p e r t s,w i t h500s u b s c r i b e r s f r o m We s t A f r i c a t o N e w Z e a l a n d. T h e y h a v e r e c o r d e d a l l l o s t o b j e c t s r a n g i n g f r o m p o t a t o e s t o g o l f g l o v e s.（N M E T2014广东）41.T h e u n d e r l i n e d p h r a s e s w a p m e e t s i n P a r a g r a p h1i s c l o s e s t i nm e a n i n g t o _________.A.f i t t i n g r o o m sB.t r a d i n g f a i r sC.b u s i n e s s t a l k sD.g r o u p m e e t i n g s42.E b b e s m e y e r p h o n e d t h e s h o e c o m p a n y t o f i n d o u t_________.A.w h a t c a u s e d t h e s h i p p i n g a c c i d e n tB.w h e n a n d w h e r e t h e s h o e s w e n t m i s s i n gC.w h e t h e r i t w a s a l l r i g h t t o u s e t h e i r s h o e sD.h o w m u c h t h e y l o s t i n t h e s h i p p i n g a c c i d e n t43.H o w d i d E b b e s m e y e r p r o v e h i s a s s u m p t i o n?A.B y c o l l e c t i n g i n f o r m a t i o n f r o m b e a c h c o m b e r s.B.B y s t u d y i n g t h e s h o e s f o u n d b y b e a c h c o m b e r s.C.B y s e a r c h i n g t h e w e b f o r o c e a n c u r r e n t s m o d e l s.D.B y r e s e a r c h i n g o c e a n c u r r e n t s d a t a i n t h e l i b r a r y.44.E b b e s m e y e r i s m o s t f a m o u s f o r_________.A.t r a v e l i n g w i d e l y t h e c o a s t a l c i t i e s o f t h e w o r l dB.m a k i n g r e c o r d s f o r a n y l o s t o b j e c t s o n t h e s e aC.r u n n i n g a g l o b a l c u r r e n t s r e s e a r c h a s s o c i a t i o nD.p h o n i n g a b o u t a n y d o u b t f u l o b j e c t s o n t h e s e a45.W h a t i s t h e p u r p o s e o f t h e a u t h o r i n w r i t i n g t h i s p a s s a g e?A.To c a l l p e o p l e’s a t t e n t i o n t o o c e a n p o l l u t i o n.B.To w a r n p e o p l e o f s h i p p i n g s a f e t y i n t h e o c e a n.C.To e x p l a i n a u n i q u e w a y o f s t u d y i n g o c e a n c u r r e n t s.D.To g i v e t i p s o n h o w t o s e a r c h f o r l o s t o b j e c t s o n t h e b e a c h.(2)Cold weather can be hard on pets, just like it can be hard on people. Sometimes owners forget that their cats are just as used to the warm shelter (住所) as they are. Some owners will leave their animals outside for a long period of time, thinking that all animals are used to living outdoors. T his can put their pets in danger of serious illness. There are things you can do to keep your animal warm and safe.Keep your pets inside as much as you can when the weather is bad. If you have to take them out, stay outside with them. When you're cold e nough to go inside, they probably are too. I you must leave them outside for a long time, make sure they have a warm, solid shelter against the wind, thick bedding, and plenty of non-frozen water.If left alone outside, dogs and cats can be very smart in their search for warm shelter. They can dig into snow banks or hide somewhere. Watch them closely when they are left outdoors, and provide them with shelter of good quality. Keep an eye on your pet's water. Sometimes owners don't realize that a water bowl has frozen and their pet can't get anything to drink. Animals that don't have clean and unfrozen water may drink dirty water outside, which may contain something unhealthy for them. （NMET 2012全国II）41. What do we learn about pets from Paragraph 1?A. They are often forgotten by their owners.B. They are used to living outdoors.C. They build their own shelter.D. They like to stay in warm places.42. Why are pet owners asked to stay with their pets when they are out in cold weather?A. To know when to bring them inside.B. To keep them from eating bad food.C. To help them find shelters.D. To keep them company.43. If pets are left on their own outdoors in cold weather, they may ________.A. run short of clean waterB. dig deep holes for funC. dirty the snow nearbyD. get lost in the wild44. What is the purpose of this text?A. To solve a problem.B. To give practical advice.C. To tell an interesting story.D. To present a research result.II.【While-class】Step1. Lead-inStep2. Group discussion and presentationStep3．Consolidation: Read the following passage and choose the best answer(1)El Nifio, a Spanish term for “the Christ child”, was named by South American fisherman sho noticed that the global weather pattern, which happens every two to seven years, reduced the amount of fishes caught around Christmas. El Nifio sees warm water, collected over several years in th e western Pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken, or sometimes the other way round.The weather effects both good and bad, are felt in many places. Rich countries gain more from powerful Nifio, on balance, than they lo se. A study found that astrong Nifio in 1997 helped American’s economy grow by 15 billion, partly because of better agricultural harvest, farmers in the Midwest gained from extra rain. The total rise in agricultural in rich countries in growth than the fa ll in poor ones.But in Indonesia extremely dry forests are in flames. A multi-year drought (干旱）in south-east Brazil is becoming worse. Though heavy rains brought about by El Nino may relieve the drought in California, they are likely to cause surface flooding and other disasters.The most recent powerful Nino, in 1997-98, killed around 21,000 people and caused damage worth $36 billion around the globe. But such Ninos come with months of warning, and so much is known about how they happen that governments can prepare. According to the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards. This is despite evidence that a dollar spent on risk-reduction saves at least two on reconstruction.Simple improvements to infrastructure (基础设施）can reduce the spread of disease. Better sewers (下水道）make it less likely that heavy rain is followed by an outbreak of the disease of bad stomach. Stronger bridges mean villages are less likely to be left without food and medicine aft er floods. According to a paper in 2011 by Mr. Hsiang and co-authors, civil conflict is related to El Nino’s harmful effects—and the poorer the country, the stronger the link. Though the relationship may not be causal, helping divided communities to prepar e for disasters would at least reduce the risk that those disasters are followed by killing and wounding people. Since the poorest are least likely to make up for their losses from disasters linked to El Nino, reducing their losses needs to be the priority. (NMET 2016江苏)61. What can we learn about El Nino in Paragraph 1?A. It is named after a South American fisherman.B. It takes place almost every year all over the world.C. It forces fishermen to stop catching fish around Christmas.D. It sees the changes of water flow direction in the ocean.62. What may El Ninos bring about to the countries affected?A. Agricultural harvests in rich countries fall.B. Droughts become more harmful than floods.C. Rich countries’ gains are greater than their losse s.D. Poor countries suffer less from droughts economically.63. The data provided by ODI in Paragraph 4 suggest thatA. more investment should go to risk reductionB. governments of poor countries need more aidC. victims of El Nino deserve more compe nsationD. recovery and reconstruction should come first64. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?A. To introduce El Nino and its origin.B. To explain the consequences of El Nino.C. To show ways of fighting against El Nino.D. To urge people to prepare for El Nino.Step4．PresentationStep5．SummaryIII.【Post-class】Self- reflectionKeys:Suggested Answers:I. Pre-class homework41. B 42. C 43. A 44. D 45. C 41-44DAABII. While-class （课堂教学流程）61.D 62.C 63.A 64.D。

2018年高考英语二轮复习专题辅导与测试四热门话题下的书面表达押题学案(六)计划与愿望

2.用上面的 7、8 及 there be 句式翻译句子当生病时，我们没有必要去医院，因为机器人能检查我们并把信息传送到医院。
When we fall ill, there is no need to go to hospital because our robots can examine us and send our information to the hospital.
2．(2016·浙江高考书面表达)Planning is good as it decides in
detail how we do what we want to do. However, a plan can bear no fruit without being actually carried out . 计划是好的，因为它决定了我们如何去做我们想做的事情。然而一个计划如果没有实际执行，就不会有结果。
7.检查某人 8.把信息传送到…… 9.精通英语 10.有学习经验 11.抱着……的希望
examine sb. send information to ... have a good command of English have learning experience in the hope that ...
8．Realizing the benefits and importance of this activity, I __h_a_v_e_a__ strong desire to participate in it. 意识到本次活动的益处和重要性，我强烈希望参与其中。
12.为……做准备
make arrangements for ...
13.即将到来
draw near/around the corner/be approaching

2018届高三英语话题阅读话题《语言学习》学案含答案

Topic Languge LearningReadingClass：Name：Group：No：Learning Objectives：1.Review the important words and expressions in the reading material:2. Learn the reading skills: scanning and skimmingLearning Key Points：1.Grasp the important words and expressions in the reading material2.Master the reading skills: scanning and skimmingLearning Difficult Points：Improve the reading abilityLearning Procedures：I.【Pre-class homework】Read the passage and choose the best answer(1)One of the latest trend（趋势）in American Childcare is Chinese au pairs. Au Pair in Stamford, for example, has got increasing numbers of request for Chinese au pairs from aero to around 4,000 since 2004. And tha t’s true all across the country.“I thought it would be useful for him to learn Chinese at an early age” Joseph Stocke, the managing director of a company, says of his 2-year old son. “I would at least like to give him the chance to use the language in th e future,” After only six months of being cared by 25-year-old woman from China, the boy can already understand basic Chinese daily expressions, his dad says.Li Drake, a Chinese native raising two children in Minnesota with an American husband, had anoth er reason for looking for an au pair from China. She didn’t want her children to miss out on their roots.” Because I am Chinese, my husband and I wanted the children to keep exposed to(接触) the language and culture（文化）.” she says.“Staying with a native spe aker is better for children than simply sitting in a classroom,” says Suzanne Flynn, a professor in language- 1 -education of Children.” But parents must understand that just one year with au pair is unlikely to produce wonders. Complete mastery demands contin ued learning until the age of 10 or 12.”The popularity of au pairs from China has been strengthened by the increasing numbers of American parents who want their children who want their children to learn Chinese. It is expected that American demand for au pairs will continue to rise in the next few years.（NMET 2014 大纲）64. What does that term” au pair” in the text mean?A. A mother raising her children on her ownB. A young foreign woman taking care of children.C. A professor in language education of chil drenD. A child learning a foreign language at home65. Li Drake has her children study Chinese because she wants them ______.A. to live in ChinaB. to speak the language at homeC. to catch up with other childrenD. to learn about the Chinese cul ture66. How can children learn a foreign language best according to Flynn?A. From their parents.B. By attending classes.C. From a native speaker.D. By starting at an early age.67. What can we infer from the text?A. Learning Chinese is becoming popular In America,B. Educated woman do better in looking after childrenC. Chinese au pairs need to improve their English Skills.D. Children can learn a foreign language well in six months.(2)As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing.In fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, acco rding to the United Nations Educational , Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations _UNESCO and National Geographic among them—have for many years been documenting dying l anguages and the cultures they reflect.Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Centre Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal.Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayan reaches of India , Nepal, Bhutan, and China . But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wea lth of important materials-including photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes—which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.- 3 -Now, through the two organizations that he has founded –the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project __Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, for the world available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected. Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities. （NMET 2014 新课标1）32. Many scholars are making efforts to ______.A. promote global languagesB. rescue disappearing languagesC. search for language communitiesD. set up language research organizations.33. What does “that tradition’ in Paragraph 3 refer to ?A. Having full records of the languagesB. Writing books on language teaching.C. Telling stories about language usersD. Living with the native speaker.34. What is Turin’s book based on?A. The cultural studiesB. The documents available at Yale.C. His language research in Bhutan.D. His personal experience in Nepal.35. Which of the f ollowing best describe Turin’s work?A. Write, sell and donate.B. Record, repair and reward.C. Collect, protect and reconnect.D. Design, experiment and report.II.【While-class】Step1. Lead-inStep2. Group discussion and presentationStep3．Consolidation: Read the following passage and choose the best answer(1)I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language — the way it can evoke（唤起）an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all — all the Englishes I grew up with.Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” English. But feel embarrassed to say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken”, as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked certai n wholeness. I’ve heard other terms used, “limited English,” for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’s perceptions（认识）of the limited English speaker.I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, m y mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what- 5 -she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I won’t get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”, and what I imagine to be her translatio n of her Chinese, her internal（内在的）language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure: I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show; her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts. （NMET 2009天津B篇）41. By saying “Language is the tool of my trade”, the author means that______.A. she uses English in foreign tradeB. she is fascinated by languagesC. she works as a translatorD. she is a writer by profession42. The author used to think of her mother’s English as ______.A. impoliteB. amusingC. imperfectD. practical43. Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?A. Americans do not understand broken English.B. The author’s mother was not respected sometimes.C. The author’ mother had positive influence on her.D. Broken English always reflects imperfect thoughts.44. The author gradually realizes her mother’s English is _____.A. well structuredB. in the old styleC. easy to translateD. rich in meaning45. What is the passage mainly about?A. The changes of the author’s attitude to h er mother’s English.B. The limitation of the author’s perception of her mother.C. The author’s misunderstanding of “limited” English.D. The author’s experiences of using broken English.(2)How words came into being is unknown. All we assume is that some early men invented certain sounds, in one way or another, to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could talk with each other. Later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, whi ch could be put together to show those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, are called words.The power of words, then, lies in their associations-the things they bring up to our minds. Words become f illed with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words bring back to us the happy and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something to us increases.Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which have powerful effects on our minds and feelings. This clever use of words is what we call literary style. Above all, the real poet is a master of words. He can express his meaning in words which sing like music, and which by their position and association can move men to tears. We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use then correctly, or they will make our speech silly and common. (NMET 2010 全国)58. We learn from the text that language might have begun- 7 -with_______.A. expressionsB. actionsC. signsD. sounds59. What is mainly discussed in Paragraph 2?A. The learning of new words.B. The importance of old words.C. The relation of human experience with words.D. The gradual change and development of words.60. In the last paragraph, what does the author suggest that we should do?A. Use words skillfullyB. Make musical speechesC. Learn poems by heartD. Associate with listenersStep4．PresentationStep5．SummaryIII.【Post-class】Self- reflectionKeys:Suggested Answers:I. Pre-class homework64．B 65．D 66．C 67．A32-35: BADCII. While-class （课堂教学流程）DCBDA58. D 59. C 60. A。

2018届高三英语话题阅读话题《节假日活动》学案含答案-最新学习文档

话题节假日活动Festivals, holidays and celebrationsClass：Name：Group：No：Learning Objectives：1.Review the important words and expressions in the readin g material:2. Learn the reading skills: scanning and skimmingLearning Key Points：1.Grasp the important words and expressions in the reading material2.Master the reading skills: scanning and skimmingLearning Difficult Points：Improve the reading abilityLearning Procedures：I.【Pre-class homework】Read the passage and choose the best answer(1)What makes a gift special? Is it the price you see on the gift receipt? Or is it the look on the recipient's face when they receive it that determines the true value? What gift is worth the most?This Christmas I was debating what to give my father. My dad is a hard person to buy for because he never wants anything. I pulled out my phone to read a text message from my mom saying that we were leaving for Christmas shopping for him when I came across a message on my phone that I had locked. The message was from my father. My eyes fell on a photo of a flower taken in Wyoming and underneath a poem by William Blake. The flower, a lone dandelion standing against the bright blue sky, inspired me. My dad had been reciting those words to me since I was a kid. That may e ven be the reason why I love writing. I decided that those words would be my gift to my father.I called back. I told my mom to go without me and that I already created my gift. I sent the photo of the cream-colored flower to my computer and typed the poem on top of it. As I was arranging the details another poem came to mind. The poem was written by Edgar Allan Poe; my dad recited it as much as he did the other. I typed that out as well and searched online for a background to the words of it. The poem was focused around dreaming, and after searching I found the perfect第 - 1 - 页picture. The image was painted with blues and greens and purples, twisting together to create the theme and wonder of a dream. As I watched both poems passing through the printer, the white p aper coloring with words that shaped my childhood. I felt that this was a gift that my father would truly appreciate.Christmas soon arrived. The minute I saw the look on my dad's face as he unwrapped those swirling black letters carefully placed in a chea p frame, I knew I had given the perfect gift.（NMET 2019 湖南）56. The idea for a special gift began to form when the author was______.A. doing shoppingB. having a debateC. reading a messageD. leaving for Wyoming57. The author's inspiration for t he gift came from_____.A. a photo of a flowerB. a story about a kidC. a call from the motherD. a text about Christmas58. The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refers to a poem by_____.A. the fatherB. the authorC. William BlakeD. Edgar Allan Poe59. The author made the gift by____.A. searching for the poems onlineB. drawing the background by handC. painting the letters in three colorsD. matching the words with pictures60. What is the main purpose of the passage?A. To show how to design images for gifts.B. To suggest making gifts from one's heart.C. To explain how computers help create gifts.D. To describe the gifts the author has received(2)Easter (复活节) is still a great day for worship, candy in baskets and running around the yard finding eggs, but every year it gets quite a bit worse for bunnies.And no, not because the kids like to pull their ears. The culprit is climate change, and some researchers found that risi ng temperatures are having harmful effects on at least five species of rabbit in the US,Take the Lower Keys Marsh rabbit, for instance. An endangered species that lives in the Lower Florida Keys, this species of cottontail is a great swimmer -- it lives on the islands! -- but it is already severely affected by development and now by rising sea levels. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, an ocean level rise of only 0.6 meters will send these guys jumping to higher ground and a 0.9-meter rise would wipe out their habitat (栖息地) completely.The snowshoe hare, on the other hand, has a color issue. Most of these rabbits change their fur color from white in the wintertime to brown in the summer, each designed to give them better cover from pred ators (捕食者). As the number of days with snow decreases all across the country, however, more and more bunnies are being left in white fur during brown dirt days of both fall and spring, making them an easier mark for predators. Researchers know that the co lor change is controlled by the number of hours of sunlight, but whether the rabbit will be able to adapt quick enough to survive is a big question. The National Wildlife Federation has reported that hunters have noticed their numbers are already markedly down.American pikas or rock rabbits, a relative of rabbits and hares, might be the first of these species to go extinct due to climate change. About 7-8 inches long, pikas live high in the cool, damp mountains west of the Rocky Mountains. As global temperatures rise, they would naturally migrate (迁移) to higher ground -- but they already occupy the mountaintops. They can’t go any higher. The National Wildlife Federation reports that they might not be able to stand the new temperatures as their habitat h eats up.The volcano rabbit has the same problem. These rabbits live on the slopes of volcanoes in Mexico, and recent studies have shown that the lower range of their habitat has already shifted upward about 700 meters, but there are not suitable plants for them to move higher, so they are stuck in the middle. Scientists are concerned about their populations.Native to the US, pygmy rabbits weigh less than 1 pound and live in the American West. They are believed to be the smallest rabbits in the wor ld. Their habitats have been destroyed by development. Several populations, such as the Columbia Basin pygmy, almost went extinct and were saved by zoo breeding programs. Pygmy rabbits also rely on winter cover by digging tunnels through the第 - 3 - 页snow to escape predators, but lesser snowfall is leaving them exposed.All of this gives new meaning to dressing up in a giant bunny costume this Easter. （NMET 2019 浙江）41. The writer mentions Easter at the beginning of the passage in order to.A. show the importance of Easter DayB. introduce the issue about bunniesC. remind people of Easter traditionsD. discuss the relationship between Easter and bunnies42. The word “culprit” (Paragraph 2) is closest in meaning to_________.A. criminalB. judgeC. victimD. producer43. According to the passage, some rabbits can now be easily discovered by predators because they_________.A. are exposed to more skillful huntersB. have moved to habitats with fewer plantsC. haven’t adapted themselves t o climate changeD. can’t change their fur color into white in the fall and the spring44. The problem faced by volcano rabbits and rock rabbits is that ________.A. both are affected by less snowB. both are affected by rising sealevelsC. neither can find enough foodD. neither can migrate to higherplaces45. Which best describes the writer’s tone in the passage?A. Approving.B. Concerned.C. Enthusiastic.D. Doubtful.II.【While-class】Step1. Lead-inStep2. Group discussion and presentationStep3．Consolidation: Read the following passage and choose the best answer(1)In 1947 a group of famous people from the art world headed by an Austrian conductor decided to hold an international festival of music, dance andtheatre in Edinburgh. The idea was to reunite Europe after the Second World War.At the same time, the “Fringe” appeared as a challenge to the official festival. Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in 1947, in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform, and they did so in a public house disused for years.Soon, groups of students firstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the universities of Oxford and Camb ridge, Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little-known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh.Today the “Fringe”, once less recognized, has far outgrown the fe stival with around 1,500 performances of theatre, music and dance on every one of the 21 days it lasts. And yet as early as 1959, with only 19 theatre groups performing, some said it was getting too big.A paid administrator was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself. In 2019 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 di fferent countries. More than 1.25 million tickets were sold. (NMET 2019新课标II)40. Point was the purpose of Edinburgh Festival at the beginning?A. To bring Europe together again.B. To honor heroes of World War II.C. To introduce young theatre groups.D. To attract great artists from Europe.41. Why did some uninvited theatre groups come to Edinburgh in 1947?A. They owned a public house there.B. They came to take up a challenge.C. They thought they were also famous.D. They wanted to take part in the festival.42. Who joined the "Fringe" after it appear ed?A. Popular writers.B. University students.C. Artists from around the world.D. Performers of music and dance.第 - 5 - 页43. We may learn from the text that Edinburgh Festival ________.A. has become a non-official eventB. has gone beyond an art festivalC. gives shows all year roundD. keeps growing rapidly(2)If you are a fruit grower —or would like to become one —take advantage of Apple Day to see what’s around. It’s called Apple Day but in practice it’s more like Apple Month. The day itself is on October 21, but since it has caught on, events now spread out over most of October around Britain.Visiting an apple event is a good chance to see, and often taste, a wide variety of apples. To people who are used to the limited choice of apples such as Golden Delicious and Royal Gala in supermarkets, it can be quite an eye opener to see the range of classical apples still in existence, such as Decio which was grown by the Romans. Although it doesn’t taste of anything special, it’s stil l worth a try, as is the knobbly (多疙瘩的) Cat’s Head which is more of a curiosity than anything else.There are also varieties developed to suit specific local conditions. One of the very best varieties for eating quality is Orleans Reinette, but you’ll need a warm, sheltered place with perfect soil to grow it, so it’s a pipe dream for most apple lovers who fall for it.At the events, you can meet expert growers and discuss which ones will best suit your conditions, and because these are family affairs, child ren are well catered for with apple-themed fun and games.Apple Days are being held at all sorts of places with an interest in fruit, including stately gardens and commercial orchards(果园).If you want to have a real orchard experience, try visiting the Nati onal Fruit Collection at Brogdale, near Faversham in Kent. (NMET 2019 全国III)8. What can people do at the apple events?A. Attend experts’ lectures.B. Visit fruit-loving families.C. Plant fruit trees in an orchard.D. Taste many kinds of apples.9. What can we learn about Decio?A. It is a new variety.B. It has a strange look.C. It is rarely seen now.D. It has a special taste.10. What does the underlined phrase “a pipe dream” in Paragraph 3 mean?A. A practical idea.B. A vain hope.C. A brilliant plan.D. A selfish desire.11. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?A. To show how to grow apples.B. To introduce an apple festival.C. To help people select apples.D. To promote apple research.Step4．PresentationStep5．SummaryIII.【Post-class】Self- reflectionKeys:Suggested Answers:I. Pre-class homework56-60 CADDB41-45 BACDBII. While-class （课堂教学流程）ADBD8. D 9. C 10. B 11. B第 - 7 - 页。

2018届高三英语话题阅读话题天气学案含答案

Weather天气话题Group ：No：Class：Name：Learning Objectives：1.Review the important words and expressions in the reading material: 2. Learn the reading skills: scanning and skimming：LearningKey Points Grasp the important words and expressions in the reading material1. Master the reading skills: scanning and skimming2.Learning Difficult Points：Improve the reading abilityLearning Procedures：I.【Pre-class homework】Assessment:Read the passage and choose the best answer(1)Scientists today are making greater effort to study ocean currents(洋流) . Most do it using satellites and other high-tech equipment.However, ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special way—bystudying movements of random floating garbage. A scientist with manyyears' experience, he started this type of research in the early 1990swhen he heard about hundreds of athletic shoes washing up on the shoresof the northwest coast of the United States. There were so many shoesthat people were setting up swap meets to try and match left and rightshoes to sell or wear.Ebbesmeyer found out in his researches that the shoes—about 60,000in total—fell into the ocean in a shipping accident. He phoned the shoecompany and asked if they wanted the shoes back. As expected, thecompany told him that they didn't. Ebbesmeyer realized this could be agreat experiment. If he learned when and where the shoes went into thewater and tracked where they landed, he could learn a lot about the页 - 1 - 第patterns of ocean currents.The Pacific Northwest is one of the world's best areas forbeachcombing (海滩搜寻) because winds and currents join here, and as aresult, there is a group of serious beachcombers in the area. Ebbesmeyergot to know a lot of them and asked for their help in collectinginformation about where the shoes landed. In a year he collected reliableinformation on 1, 600 shoes. With this data, he and a colleague were ableto test and improve a computer program designed to model oceancurrents, and publish the findings of their study.As the result of his work, Ebbesmeyer has become known as thescientist to call with questions about any unusual objects found floatingin the ocean. He has even started an association of beachcombers andocean experts, with 500 subscribers from West Africa to New Zealand.They have recorded all lost objects ranging from potatoes to golf gloves.（NMET 2019 广东）41. The underlined phrase swap meets in Paragraph 1 is closest inmeaning to _________.A. fitting roomsB. trading fairsC. business talksD. group meetings42. Ebbesmeyer phoned the shoe company to find out _________.A. what caused the shipping accidentB. when and where the shoes went missingC. whether it was all right to use their shoesD. how much they lost in the shipping accident43. How did Ebbesmeyer prove his assumption?s.rebmochcaeb morf noitamrofni gnitcelloc yB A.B. By studying the shoes found by beachcombers.C. By searching the web for ocean currents models.D. By researching ocean currents data in the library.44. Ebbesmeyer is most famous for _________.A. traveling widely the coastal cities of the worldB. making records for any lost objects on the seaC. running a global currents research associationD. phoning about any doubtful objects on the sea45. What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?A. To call people's attention to ocean pollution.B. To warn people of shipping safety in the ocean.C. To explain a unique way of studying ocean currents.D. To give tips on how to search for lost objects on the beach.(2)Cold weather can be hard on pets, just like it can be hard on people. Sometimes owners forget that their cats are just as used to the warm shelter (住所) as they are. Some owners will leave their animals outside for a long period of time, thinking that all animals are used to living outdoors. This can put their pets in danger of serious illness. There are things you can do to keep your animal warm and safe. Keep your pets inside as much as you can when the weather is bad. If you have to take them out, stay outside with them. When you're cold enough to go inside, they probably are too. I you must leave them outside for a long time, makesure they have a warm, solid shelter against the wind, thick bedding, and plenty of non-frozen water.If left alone outside, dogs and cats can be very smart in their search for warm shelter. They can dig into snow banks or hide somewhere. Watch them closelywhen they are left outdoors, and provide them with shelter of good quality. Keepan eye on your pet's water. Sometimes owners don't realize that a water bowl has frozen and their pet can't get anything to drink. Animals that don't have clean and unfrozen water may drink dirty water outside, which may contain something unhealthy for them. （NMET 2019全国II）页 - 3 - 第41. What do we learn about pets from Paragraph 1?A. They are often forgotten by their owners.B. They are used to living outdoors.C. They build their own shelter.D. They like to stay in warm places.42. Why are pet owners asked to stay with their pets when they are out in cold weather?A. To know when to bring them inside.B. To keep them from eating bad food.C. To help them find shelters.D. To keep them company.43. If pets are left on their own outdoors in cold weather, they may ________.A. run short of clean waterB. dig deep holes for funC. dirty the snow nearbyD. get lost in the wild44. What is the purpose of this text?A. To solve a problem.B. To give practical advice.C. To tell an interesting story.D. To present a research result.II.【While-class】Assessment:Step1. Lead-inStep2. Group discussion and presentationStep3．Consolidation: Read the following passage and choosethe best answer(1)El Nifio, a Spanish term for “the Christ child”, was named by South American fisherman sho noticed that the global weather pattern, which happens every two to seven years, reduced the amount of fishes caught around Christmas. El Nifio sees warm water, collected over several years in the western Pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken, or sometimes theother way round.The weather effects both good and bad, are felt in many places. Rich countriesgain more from powerful Nifio, on balance, than they lose. A study found that a partlybillion, 15 by grow economy American's helped 2019 in Nifio strongbecause of better agricultural harvest, farmers in the Midwest gained from extra rain. The total rise in agricultural in rich countries in growth than the fall in poor ones.But in Indonesia extremely dry forests are in flames. A multi-year drought (干旱）in south-east Brazil is becoming worse. Though heavy rains brought about byEl Nino may relieve the drought in California, they are likely to cause surface flooding and other disasters.The most recent powerful Nino, in 2019-98, killed around 21,000 people and caused damage worth $36 billion around the globe. But such Ninos come with months of warning, and so much is known about how they happen that governments can prepare. According to the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards. This is despite evidence that a dollar spent on risk-reduction saves at least two on reconstruction.Simple improvements to infrastructure (基础设施）can reduce the spread of disease. Better sewers (下水道）make it less likely that heavy rain is followed byan outbreak of the disease of bad stomach. Stronger bridges mean villages are less likely to be left without food and medicine after floods. According to a paper in 2019 by Mr. Hsiang and co-authors, civil conflict is related to El Nino's harmful effects—and the poorer the country, the stronger the link. Though the relationship may not be causal, helping divided communities to prepare for disasters would at least reduce the risk that those disasters are followed by killing and wounding people. Since the poorest are least likely to make up for their losses from disasters linked to El Nino, reducing their losses needs to be the priority. (NMET 2019江苏)61. What can we learn about El Nino in Paragraph 1?A. It is named after a South American fisherman.B. It takes place almost every year all over the world.C. It forces fishermen to stop catching fish around Christmas.D. It sees the changes of water flow direction in the ocean.62. What may El Ninos bring about to the countries affected?A. Agricultural harvests in rich countries fall.页 - 5 - 第B. Droughts become more harmful than floods.C. Rich countries' gains are greater than their losses.D. Poor countries suffer less from droughts economically.63. The data provided by ODI in Paragraph 4 suggest thatA. more investment should go to risk reductionB. governments of poor countries need more aidC. victims of El Nino deserve more compensationD. recovery and reconstruction should come first64. What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?To introduce El Nino and its origin. A.B. To explain the consequences of El Nino.C. To show ways of fighting against El Nino.D. To urge people to prepare for El Nino.Step4．PresentationStep5．Summary【Post-class】 III.Self- reflectionI enjoyed learning aboutI found these words useful:I found these expressions useful:I have learned aboutSome examples:Keys:Suggested Answers:I. Pre-class homework41. B42. C43. A44. D45. C41-44DAABII. While-class （课堂教学流程）61.D 62.C 63.A 64.D。

2018年高考英语一轮复习 Unit 3 Life in the future话题(含解析)新人教版

Unit 3 Life in the futureToday, the world is rapidly urbanizing. With half of the world population expected to live in cities by the early part of the 21st century, the Shanghai 2010 World Expo’s focus on a better city bears profound meaning.当下，全球城市化进度迅猛。

在城市人口超过全球人口总数一半的21世纪初叶，＂城市＂成为上海世博会的主题别有深义。

What might future cities looklike 28 years from now? Here are somescenarios: things to come, things togo.28年后的城市生活又将会是什么样子？这里是一些假设：一些事物即将出现，另一些则将消失。

Zero waste 洁净世界Waste disposal is one of the biggest headaches for cities. Apart from recyclable waste, everything is buried or incinerated, only to pollute the environment. Plastic waste remains underground for several decades. The world produces much more garbage that it can dispose of.垃圾处理是许多城市的顽疾之一。

除一些可循环利用的垃圾之外，其余废弃物都是通过填埋或燃烧的方式进行处理，这样一来势必污染环境。

塑料垃圾被深埋地下几十年都无法降解。

2018届高三英语话题阅读话题《自然》学案含答案-最新教学文档

话题自然NatureClass：Name：Group：No：Learning Objectives：1.Review the important words and expressions in the reading material:2. Learn the reading skills: scanning and skimmingLearning Key Points：1.Grasp the important words and expressions in the reading material2.Master the reading skills: scanning and skimmingLearning Difficult Points：Improve the reading abilityLearning Procedures：I.【Pre-class homework】Read the passage and choose the best answer(1)Life in the ClearTransparent animals let light pass through their bodies the same way light passes through a window. These animals typically live between the surface of the ocean and a depth of about 3,300 feet—as far as most light can reach. Most of them are extremely delicate and can be damaged by a simple touch. Sonke Johnsen, a scientist in biology, says, “These animals live through their life alone. They never touch any thing unless they’re eating it, or unless something is eating them.”And they are as clear as glass. How does an animal become see-through? It’s trickier than you might think.The objects around you are visible because they interact with light. Light typically travels in a straight line. But some materials slow and scatter(散射) light, bouncing it away from its original path. Others absorb light, stopping it dead in its tracks. Both scattering and absorption make an object look different from other objects around it, so you can see it easily.But a transparent object doesn’t absorb or scatter light, at least not very much, Light can pass through it without bending or stopping. That means a transparent object doesn’t look very different from the surrou nding air or water. You don’t see it ----you see the things behind it.To become transparent, an animal needs to keep its body from absorbing or scattering light. Living materials can stop light because they contain pigments(色素) that absorb specific col ors of light. But a transparent animal doesn’t have pigments, so its tissues won’t absorb light. According to Johnsen, avoiding absorption is actually easy. The real challenge is preventing light from scattering.Animals are built of many different materia ls----skin, fat, and more----and light moves through each at a different speed. Every time light moves into a material with a new speed, it bends and scatters. Transparent animals use different tricks to fight scattering. Some animals are simply very small or extremely flat.第 - 1 - 页Without much tissue to scatter light, it is easier to be see—through. Others build a large, clear mass of non-living jelly-lie(果冻状的)material and spread themselves over it .Larger transparent animals have the biggest challenge, because they have to make all the different tissues in their bodies slow down light exactly as much as water does. They need to look uniform. But how they’re doing it is still unknown. One thing is clear for these larger animals, staying transparent is an active p rocess. When they die, they turn a non-transparent milky white.（NMET2019北京卷C篇）63. According to Paragraph 1, transparent animals_______.A. stay in groupsB. can be easily damagedC. appear only in deep oceanD. are beautiful creatures64. The underlined word “dead” in Paragraph 3 means__________.A. silentlyB. graduallyC. regularlyD. completely65. One way for an animal to become transparent is to ________.A. change the direction of light travelB. gather materials to scatter light.C. avoid the absorption of lightD. grow bigger to stop light.66. The last paragraph tells us that larger transparent animals________.A. move more slowly in deep waterB. stay see-through even after deathC. produce more tissues for their survivalD. take effective action to reduce light spreading(2)Their cheery song brightens many a winter's day. But robins are in danger of wearing themselves out by singing too much. Robins are singing al l night一as well as during the day, British-based researchers say.David Dominoni, of Glasgow University, said that light from street lamps, take away signs and homes is affecting the birds' biological clock, leading to them being wide awake when they s hould be asleep.Dr Dominoni, who is putting cameras inside nesting boxes to track sleeping patterns, said lack of sleep could put the birds’ health at risk. His study shows that when robins are exposed to light at night in the lab, it leads to some ge nes being active at the wrong time of day. And the more birds are exposed to light, the more active they are at night.He told people at a conference, "There have been a couple of studies suggesting they are increasing their song output at night and during the day they are still singing. Singing is a costly behavior and it takes energy. So by increasing their song output, there might be some costs of energy."And it is not just robins that are being kept awake by artificial light.Blackbirds and seagulls are also being more nocturnal. Dr Dominoni said, "In Glasgow where I live, gulls are a serious problem. I have people coming to me saying `You are the bird exp ert. Can you help us kill these gulls?'.During the breeding(繁殖)season, between April and June, they are very active at night and very noisy and people can't sleep."Although Dr Dominoni has only studied light pollution, other research concluded that robins living in noisy cities have started to sing at night to make them heard over loud noise.However, some birds thrive(兴旺)in noisy environments. A study from California Polytechnic University found more hummingbirds in areas with heavy industrial machinery. It is thought that they are capitalising on their predators(天敌)fleeing to quieter areas.(NMET2019四川卷D篇)42. According to Dr Dominoni's study, what cause robins to sing so much?A. The breeding season.B. The light in modemC. The dangerous environment.D. The noise from heavy machinery.43. What is the researchers' concern over the increase o f birds' song output?A. The environment might be polluted.B. The birds' health might be damaged.C. The industry cost might be increased.D. The people's hearing might be affected.44. What does the underlined word "nocturnal" in Paragraph 5 mean?A. Active at night.B. Inactive at night.C. Active during the day.D. Inactive during the day.45. Why do some birds thrive in noisy environments?A. Because there are fewer dangers.B. Because there is more food to eat.C. Because there is less light pollutionD. Because there are more places to take shelterII.【While-class】Step1. Lead-inStep2. Group discussion and presentation第 - 3 - 页Step3．Consolidation: Read the following passage and choose the best answer(1)California Condor’s Shocking RecoveryCalifornia condors are North America’s largestbirds, with wind-length of up to 3 meters. In the1980s, electrical lines an d lead poisoning (铅中毒)nearly drove them to dying out. Now, electric shock training and medical treatment are helping to rescue these big birds.In the late 1980s, the last few condors were taken from the wild, and there are now more than 150 flying over California and nearby Arizona, Utah and Baja in Mexico.Electrical lines have been killing them off. “As they go in to rest for the night, they just don’t see the power lines,” says Bruce Rideout of San Diego Zoo. Their wings can bridge the gap between lines, resulting in electrocution(电死) if they touch two lines at once.So scientists have come up with a shocking idea. Tall poles, placed in large training areas, teach the birds to stay clear of electrical lines by giving them a painful but undeadly electric shock. Before the training was introduced, 66% of set-freed condors died of electrocution. This has now dropped to 18%.Lead poisonous has proved more difficult to deal with. When condors eat dead bodies of other animals containing lead, they absorb large quantities of lead. This affects their nervous systems and ability to produce baby birds, and can lead to kidney(肾) failures and death. So condors with high levels of lead are sent to Los Angeles Zoo, where they are treated with calcium EDTA, a chemical that removes lead from the blood over several days. This work is startin g to pay off. The annual death rate for adult condors has dropped from 38% in 2019 to 5.4% in 2019.Rideout’s team thinks that the California condors’ average survival time in the wild is now just under eight years. “Although these measures are not ef fective forever, they are vital for now,” he says. “They are truly good birds that are worth every effort we put into recovering them.” (NMET 2019 北京)63. California condors attract researchers’ interest because they .A. are active at nightB. had to be bred in the wildC. are found on in CaliforniaD. almost died out in the 1980s64. Researchers have found electrical lines are.A. blocking condors’ journey homeB. big killers of California condorsC. rest places for condors at nightD. used to keep condors away65. According to Paragraph 5, lead poisoning .A. makes condors too nervous to flyB. has little effect on condors’ kidneysC. can hardly be gotten rid of form condors’ bloodD. makes it different for condors to produce baby birds66. The passage shows that .A. the average survival time of condors is satisfactoryB. Rideout’s research interest lies in electric engineeringC. the efforts to protect condors have brought good resultsD. researchers have found the final answers to the problem(2)Chimps (黑猩猩) will cooperate in certain ways, like gathering in war parties to protect their territory. But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have little instinct (本能) to help one another. Chimps in the wild seek food for themselves. Even chimp mothers regularly decline to share food with their children. Who are able from a young age to gather their own food?In the laboratory, chimps don’t naturally share food either. If a chimp is put in a cage where he can pull in one plate of food for himself or, with no great effort, a plate that also provides food for a neighbor to the next cage, he will pull at random ---he just doesn’t care whether his neighbor gets fed or not. C himps are truly selfish.Human children, on the other hand are extremely corporative. From the earliest ages, they decide to help others, to share information and to participate achieving common goals. The psychologist Michael Tomasello has studied this cooperativeness in a series of expensive with very young children. He finds that if第 - 5 - 页babies aged 18 months see a worried adult with hands full trying to open a door, almost all will immediately try to help.There are several reasons to believe that the urges to help, inform and share are not taught .but naturally possessed in young children. One is that these instincts appear at a very young age before most parents have started to train children to behave socially. Another is that the helping behaviors are not improved if the children are rewarded. A third reason is that social intelligence. Develops in children before their general cognitive（认知的）skills, at least when compared with chimps..In tests conducted b y Tomtasell, the children did no better than the chimps on the physical world tests, but were considerably better at understanding the social world.The cure of what children’s minds have and chimps’ don’t in what Tomasello calls what. Part of this ability is that they can infer what others know or are thinking. But that, even very young children want to be part of a shared purpose. They actively seek to be part of a “we”, a group that intends to work toward a shared goal. (NMET 2019江苏)58. What can we learn from the experiment with chimps?A. Chimps sel dom care about others’ interests.B. Chimps tend to provide food for their children.C. Chimps like to take in their neighbors’ food.D. Chimps naturally share food with each other.59. Michael Tomasello’s tests on young children indicate that they____.A. have the instinct to help othersB. know how to offer help to adultsC. know the world better than chimpsD. trust adults with their hands full60. The passage is mainly about ____.A. the helping behaviors of young childrenB. ways to train childre n’s shared intentionalityC. cooperation as a distinctive human natureD. the development of intelligence in childrenStep4．PresentationStep5．SummaryIII.【Post-class】Self- reflectionKeys:Suggested Answers:I. Pre-class homework63. B 64. D 65. C 66. D42.B 43.B 44.A 45.AII. While-class （课堂教学流程）63. D 64. B 65. D 66. C58. A 59. A 60. C第 - 7 - 页。

专题15热点话题-五年高考(2014-2018年)英语阅读理解话题分类解读与训练(Word版含解析)

专题15 热点话题“热点话题”是高中新课程标准24话题之一，亦是高考英语热点话题。

本话题主要包括全球变暖、节约能源、环境保护、交通问题、人口问题等。

通过本话题的学习和高考的考查，帮助学生学习有关气候、能源和环保的有关知识，树立“节约能源，保护环境”的主人翁意识。

“热点话题”在高考英语当中通常以阅读理解、完形填空、七选五或书面表达的形式出现，例如：2018年北京卷阅读理解C、D篇，2018年江苏卷阅读理解C篇，2018年浙江卷B、C篇，2018年天津卷阅读理解A篇；2017年新课标卷II阅读理解C篇；2017年北京卷阅读理解B篇，江苏卷阅读理解D篇；2016年北京卷阅读理解B篇、2014年新课标全国卷Ⅱ阅读理解B篇等。

Passage 1（2018年·新课标II卷）体裁话题词数难度建议时间议论文放下手机，与人沟通330 ★★☆☆☆5分钟We’ve all been there: in a lift, in line at the bank or on an airplane, surrounded by people who are, like us, deeply focused on their smartphones or, worse, struggling with the uncomfortable silence.What’s the problem? It’s possible that we all have compromised conversational intelligence. It’s more likely that none of us start a conversation because it’s awkward an d challenging, or we think it’s annoying and unnecessary. But the next time you find yourself among strangers, consider that small talk is worth the trouble. Experts say it’s an invaluable social practice that results in big benefits.Dismissing small tal k as unimportant is easy, but we can’t forget that deep relationships wouldn’teven exist if it weren’t for casual conversation. Small talk is the grease(润滑剂) for social communication, says Bernardo Carducci, director of the Shyness Research Institute at Indiana University Southeast. ＂Almost every great love story and each big business deal begins with smalltalk,＂ he explains. ＂The key to successful small talk is learning how to connect with others, not just communicate with them.＂In a 2014 study, Elizabeth Dunn, associate professor of psychology at UBC, invited people on their way into a coffee shop. One group was asked to seek out an interaction(互动) with its waiter; the other, to speak only when necessary. The results showed that those who chatted with their server reported significantly higher positive feelings and a better coffee shop experience. ＂It’s not that talking to the waiter is better than talking to your husband,＂ says Dunn. ＂But interactions with peripheral(边缘的) members of our social network matter for our well-being also.＂Dunn believes that people who reach out to strangers feel a significantly greater sense of belonging, a bond with others. Carducci believes developing such a sense of belonging starts with small talk. ＂Small talk is the basis of good manners,＂ he says.32. What phenomenon is described in the first paragraph?A. Addiction to smartphones.B. Inappropriate behaviours in public places.C. Absence of communication between strangers.D. Impatience with slow service.33. What is important for successful small talk according to Carducci?A. Showing good manners.B. Relating to other people.C. Focusing on a topic.D. Making business deals.34. What does the coffee-shop study suggest about small talk?A. It improves family relationships.B. It raises people’s confidence.C. It matters as much as a formal talk.D. It makes people feel good.35. What is the best title for the text?A. Conversation CountsB. Ways of Making Small TalkC. Benefits of Small TalkD. Uncomfortable Silence【文章大意】这是一篇议论文。

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Topic Topical issuesReadingClass：Name：Group：No：Learning Objectives：1.Review the important words and expressions in the reading material:2. Learn the reading skills: scanning and skimmingLearning Key Points：1.Grasp the important words and expressions in the reading material2.Master the reading skills: scanning and skimmingLearning Difficult Points：Improve the reading abilityLearning Procedures：I.【Pre-class homework】Read the passage and choose the best answer(1)T he first Earth Day in 1970, Americans have gotten a lot ―greener‖ toward the environment（环境）. ―We didn’t know at that time there even was an environment, let alone that there was a problem with it,‖ says Bruce Anderson, president of Earth Day USA.But what began as nothing important in public affairs has grown into a social movement. Business people, political leaders, university professors, and especially millions of grass-roots Americans are taking part in the movement. ―The understanding has increased many, many times,‖ says Gaylord Nelson, the former governor from Wisconsin, who thought up the first Earth Day.According to US government reports, emissions（排放）from cars and trucks have dropped from 10.3 million tons a year to 5.5 tons .The number of cities producing CO beyond the standard has been reduced from 40 to 9 .Although serious problems still remain and ne ed to be dealt with , the world is a safer and healthier place .A kind of ―Green thinking ‖ has become part of practices .Great improvement has been achieved .In 1988 there were only- 1 -600 recycling（回收利用）programs; today in 1995 there are about 6,600 .Advanced lights ,motors , and building designs have helped save a lot of energy and therefore prevented pollution .Twenty –five years ago , there were hardly any education programs for environment .Today , it’s hard to find a public school , university , or law school that does not have such a kind of program .‖ Until we do that, nothing else will change! ‖ say Bruce Anderson.（NMET 2014 大纲）60. According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about ___A. the social movementB. recycling techniquesC. environmental problemsD. the importance of Earth Day61. Where does the support for environmental protection mainly come from?A. The grass –roots levelB. The business circleC. Government officialsD. University professors62. What have Americans achieved in environmental protection?A. They have cut car emissions to the lowestB. They have settled their environmental problemsC. They have lowered their CO levels in forty cities.D. They have reduced pollution through effective measures.63. What is especially important for environmental protection according to the last paragraph?A. EducationB. PlanningC. Green livingD. CO reduction(2)The kids in this village wear dirty, ragged clothes. They sleep beside cows and sheep in huts made of sticks and mud. They have no school. Yet they all can chant the English alphabet, and some can make words.The key to their success: 20 tablet computers(平板电脑) droppedoff in their Ethiopian village in February by a U.S. group called One Laptop Per Child.The goal is to find out whether kids using today’s new technology can teach themselves to read in places where no schools or teachers exist. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers analyzing the project data say they’re already amazed. ―What I think has already happened is that the kids have already learned more than they would have in one year of kindergarten,‖ said Matt Ke ller, who runs the Ethiopia program.The fastest learner—and the first to turn on one of the tablets—is 8-year-old Kelbesa Negusse. The device’s camera was disabled to save memory, yet within weeks Kelbesa had figured out its workings and made the camera work. He called himself a lion, a marker of accomplishment in Ethiopia.With his tablet, Kelbasa rearranged the letters HSROE into one of the many English animal names he knows. Then he spelled words on his own. ―Seven months ago he didn’t know any Englis h. That’s unbelievable,‖ said Keller.The project aims to get kids to a stage called ―deep reading,‖ where they can read to learn. It won’t be in Amharic, Ethiopia’s first language, but in English, which is widely seen as the ticket to higher paying jobs. （NMET 2014 山东）62. How does the Ethiopia program benefit the kids in the village?A. It trains teachers for them.B. It contributes to their self-study.C. It helps raise their living standards.D. It provides funds for building school s.63. What can we infer from Keller’s words in Paragraph 3?A. They need more time to analyze data.B. More children are needed for the research.C. He is confident about the future of the project.D. The research should be carried out in kinde rgartens.64. It amazed Keller that with the tablet Kelbesa could _______.- 3 -A. learn English words quickly.B. draw pictures of animals.C. write letters to researchers.D. make phone calls to his friends.65. What is the aim of the project?A. To offer Ethiopians higher paying jobs.B. To make Amharic widely used in the world.C. To help Ethiopian kids read to learn in English.D. To assist Ethiopians in learning their first language.II.【While-class】Step1. Lead-inStep2. Group discussion and presentationStep3．Consolidation: Read the following passage and choose the best answer(1)Last summer, two nineteenth-century cottages were rescued from remote farm fields in Montana, to be moved to an Art Deco building in San Francisco. The houses were made of wood. These cottages once housed early settlers as they worked the dry Montana soil; now they hold Twitter engineers.The cottages could be an example of the industry’ s odd love affair with ―low technology,‖ a concept associated with the natural world, and with old-school craftsmanship (手艺) that exists long before the Internet era. Low technology is not virtual (虚拟的) —so, to take advantage of it, Internet companies have had to get creative. The rescued wood cottages, fitted by hand in the late eighteen-hundreds, are an obvious example, bu t Twitter’s designs lie on the extreme end. Other companies are using a broader interpretation (阐释) of low technology that focuses on nature.Amazon is building three glass spheres filled with trees, so that employees can ―work and socialize in a more n atural, park-like setting.‖ At Google’s office, an entire floor is carpeted in glass. Facebook’s second Menlo Park campus will have a rooftop park with a walking trail.Olle Lundberg, the founder of Lundberg Design, has worked with many tech companies o ver the years. ―We have lost the connection to the maker in our lives, and our tech engineers are the ones who feel impoverished (贫乏的) , because they’re surrounded by the digital world,‖ he says. ―They’re looking for a way to regain their individual identity, and we’ve found that introducing real crafts is one way to do that.‖This craft based theory is rooted in history, William Morris, the English artist and writer, turned back to pre-industrial arts in the eighteen-sixties, just after the Industrial Revolution. The Arts and Crafts movement defined itself against machines. ―Without creative human occupation, people became disconn ected from life,‖ Morris said.Research has shown that natural environments can restore(恢复) our mental capacities. In Japan, patients are encouraged to ―forest-bathe,‖ taking walks through woods to lower their blood pressure.These health benefits apply to the workplace as well. Rachel Kaplvin, a professor of environmental psychology, has spent years researching the restorative effects of natural environment. Her research found that workers with access to nature at the office—even simple views of trees and flowers—felt their jobs were less stressful and more satisfying. If low-tech offices can potentially nourish the brains and improve the mental health of employees then, fine, bring on the cottages. （NMET 2014 浙江）50. The writer mentions the two nineteenth-century cottages to show that ________.A. Twitter is having a hard timeB. old cottages are in need of protectionC. early settlers once suffered from a dry climate in Montana- 5 -D. Internet companies have rediscovered the benefits of low technology51. Low technology is regarded as something that _______.A.is related to natureB. is out of date todayC. consumes too much energyD. exists in the virtual world52. The main idea of Paragraph 5 is that human beings ________.A. have destroyed many pre-industrial artsB. have a tradition of valuing arts and craftsC. can become intelligent by learning historyD. can regain their individual identity by usin g machines53.The writer’s attitude to ―low technology‖ can best be described as ________.A. positiveB. defensiveC. cautiousD. doubtful54. What might be the best title for the passage?A. Past Glories, Future DreamsB. The Virtual World, the Real ChallengeC. High-tech Companies, Low-tech OfficesD. The More Craftsmanship, the Less Creativity(2)As has been all too apparent in recent days at Balcombe, few issues cause greater concern than energy policy. Many village communities feel their countryside is being ruined by the power-producing machines of wind farms; yet they never take "direct action", even though the planning laws put them at a s evere disadvantage. And the generous subsidies (财政补贴) , which encourage the expansion of wind power, are not favorable to the village communities and set landowners in conflict with other residents (居民) .Those who disagree with the rapid expansion of wi nd farms state that the damage they cause is out of proportion(比例) to the benefits theybring, because their energy output cannot match that of thecarbon-based power stations they are supposed to replace. Supporters insist that wind must be part of a mix of renewables, nuclear and carbon, and that the country is committed to meeting EU ( European Union) targets for non-carbon energy generation.Against this background, the fact that there is an argument within the Government over whether to publish an o fficial report on wind farms' impact on the countryside becomes even more extraordinary. The two parties in the coalition (联合) government are in disagreement over what it should say.We have some advice for the two parties: publish the report, and let the country be the judge. Even if it contains evidence that wind farms are harmful, it will hardly be a pleasant surprise to people who do not like them. Equally, supporters must argue their case by acknowledging the concerns and explaining why they are eith er misplaced or worthy of much attention.The suggestion that further negotiations are to take place to produce an "acceptable" report suggests that the politics of coalition government are doing the country harm in a certain way. Given the sensitivities involved, all the information should be available so that people can reach their own conclusions, rather than being left with the suspicion（猜疑）that facts are being replaced by political beliefs. (NMET2014福建卷E篇)72. We can learn from the first paragraph th at__________.A. energy policy catches much attention of the publicB. the residents are in favor of the expansion of wind farmsC. many village communities are satisfied with the subsidiesD. the planning laws offer great benefits to the r esidents73. Supporters think that the expansion of wind power____.A. is more rapid than that of carbon-based powerB. guarantees an increase in energy outputC. is expected to be much better than that of nuclear powerD. agrees with EU targets for non-carbon energy generation- 7 -74. It can be inferred from the passage that____.A. an official report will settle the energy problemB. the two parties are divided over the issue of wind farmsC. the two parties have agreed on a furthe r negotiationD. political beliefs concerning energy issue go against facts75. Which of the following reflects the author's opinion?A. Increase political impact on energy policy.B. Release a statement of supporters on wind farms.C. Let the nation judge the facts about wind power.D. Leave the two parties to reach their own conclusions.Step4．PresentationStep5．SummaryIII.【Post-class】Self- reflectionKeys:Suggested Answers:I. Pre-class homework60．C 61．A 62．D 63．A62-65 BCACII. While-class （课堂教学流程）50-54 DABAC72. A 73. D 74. B 75. C。