人教版高中英语选修八unit3 Inventors and inventions
unit3 Inventors and inventionsⅠ.阅读理解AToday, bicycles are elegantly simple machines that are common around the world. Many people ride bicycles for recreation, whereas others use them as a means of transportation. The first bicycle was invented in Germany in 1818. Because it was made of wood, it wasn’t very strong nor did it have pedals (脚踏板). Riders moved it by pushing their feet against the ground.In 1839, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, a Scottish blacksmith, invented a much better bicycle. Macmillan’s machine had iron-covered wheels to keep them from getting worn down. He also used foot-operated levers, similar to pedals, so his bicycle could be ridden at a quick pace. It didn’t look much like the modern bicycle, though, because its back wheel was substantially larger than its front wheel. Although Macmillan’s bicycles could be ridden easily, they were never produced in large numbers.In 1861, Frenchman Pierre Michaux and his brother Ernest invented a bicycle with an improved pedal mechanism. They called their bicycle a VELOCIPEDE, but most people called it a “bone shaker” because of the effect of the wood and iron frame. Despite the impolite nickname, the VELOCIPEDE was a hit. After a few years, the Michaux family was making hundreds of the machines annually, mostly for fun-seeking young people.Ten years later, James Starley, an English inventor, made several innovations that revolutionized bicycle design. He made the front wheel many times larger than the back wheel, put a gear on the pedals to make the bicycle more efficient，and lightened the wheels by using wire spokes. Although this bicycle was much lighter and less tiring to ride, it was still clumsy, extremely top-heavy, and ridden mostly for entertainment.It wasn’t until 1874 that the first truly modern bicycle appeared on the scene. Invented by another Englishman, H. J. Lawson, the safety bicycle would look familiar to today’s cyclists. The safety bicycle had equal-sized wheels, which made it easier to ride. Lawson also attached a chain to the pedals to drive the back wheel. By 1893, the safety bicycle had been further improved with air-filled rubber tires, a diamond-shaped frame, and easy braking. With the improvements provided by Lawson; bicycles became extremely popular and useful for transportation. Today, they are built, used, and enjoyed all over the world.1．This passage was most likely written in order to ________.A．compare bicycles used for different purposesB．describe the problems early bicycle makers experiencedC．persuade readers to use bicycles for transportationD．tell readers about the early history of the bicycle解析：选D推理判断题。
通观全文，第一辆自行车是于1818年在德国被发明的——1839年Kirkpatrick Macmillan发明了一辆更好的自行车——1861年法国人Pierre Michaux 和他的兄弟Ernest 发明了一辆改进了脚踏板机械装置的自行车——两年后James Starley做出了一些革新，彻底改变了自行车的设计——1874年真正的现代自行车出现了——1893年安全脚踏车被进一步改进——今天，自行车在全世界被制造、运用和喜爱。
这讲的是自行车的发展史。
2．Which of the following bicycle types was invented by James Starley?解析：选B细节理解题。
第四段“He made the front wheel many times larger than the back wheel, ...”James Starley制造的前车轮比后车轮大好几倍。
和图片B相符。
3．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A．Two hundred years ago, bicycles did not exist.B．The first bicycle could be ridden at a very quick pace.C．The Michaux brothers called their bicycle a “bone shaker”．D．Macmillan’s machine had wheels with rubber tires.解析：选A推理判断题。
第一段“The first bicycle was invented in Germany in 1818.”第一辆自行车是在1814年被发明的，而200年前是1814年，所以那时自行车还不存在。
故选A。
4．The information about bicycles in this passage is arranged according to ________.A．importance B．timeC．place D．interest解析：选B细节理解题。
本文讲的是自行车的发展史，是逐段按时间排列出这些信息的。
故选B。
BAudrey Hepburn (奥黛丽·赫本) won an Academy Award as BestActress for her first major American movie, Roman Holiday, whichwas released in 1953. But she is remembered as much for her aidwork as for her acting.Born in Belgium in 1929, Audrey’s father was British and hermother was Dutch. Audrey was sent to live at a British school for partof her childhood. During World War Ⅱ，she lived and studied in the Netherlands. Her mother thought it would be safe from German attacks. Audrey studied dance as a teenager and during college. But when she returned to London after the war she realized she wasn’t going to be a ballerina (芭蕾舞女演员). So she began taking acting parts in stage shows. Later she began to get small parts in movies.But it was Audrey Hepburn’s move to America that brought her true fame. In 1951 she played the character “Gigi” in the Broadway play of the same name to great critical praise. Two years later, Roman Holiday made her a star at the age of 24.Audrey made more than 25 movies. Among her most popular roles was Hoolly Golinghtly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1961. Three years later she played Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.She was married two times and had one child by each husband. In 1989, the UN Children’s Fund named Audrey a goodwill ambassador. She travelled all over the world in support of UNICEF (联合国儿童基金会) projects. The UN agency said she was a tireless worker. She often gave 15 interviews a day to gain money and support for UNICEF projects.Audrey Hepburn often said her loyalty to UNICEF was the result of her experiences as a child during World War Ⅱ. She said she knew what it was like to be starving and to be saved by international aid. She was a goodwill ambassador until her death in 1993 from colon cancer.语篇解读：这是一篇人物传记。
高中英语《Unit3 Inventors and inventions》教学设计 新人教版选修8-新
Unit 3 Inventors and inventionshe First Period SpeakingTeaching goals 教学目标1. Target language：discovery, application, evaluate, presentation, alternative, messenger, get together, make a case for, add up2. Ability goalsEnable the students to talk about information and different.3. Learning ability goalsHelp the students learn how to talk about inventions and discoveries.Teaching important & difficult pointsHow to talk about inventions and discoveries.Teaching methodsDiscussion.Teaching aidsA puter and a projector.Teaching procedures & waysStep I Warming upTalk about inventions and discoveries.T: The importance of inventions to social progress can never be changed. Each invention carries the world a step forward and provides stimulation for later ones. Whit inventions turning up all the time, our world is always taking on a new look. But do you know what an invention is?S1: The creation of something newS2: A creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation.S3: The creation of new things.…Ask the students to talk about the pictures with the teacher’s help, and then discuss the first two questions.T: And what is a discovery? What’s the difference between a discovery and an invention? Now look at the pictures on page 1. Work in pairs and talk about the three different things, telling them apart and giving reasons.Show the following.1. Which o these pictures show inventions? Does any of them show discoveries?2. Work out two rules that will help you decide what is a discovery and what is an invention? S1: I think the first two are inventions, i. e. the amphibious car and Stevenson’s “Rocket” while the last picture about the DNA is a kind of discovery. Because the first two products were quite new to people at that time and no one had ever seen or designed such kind of vehicles before though some others had made similar cars or machines which had less functions and advantages as these two. I think the picture about the DNA isa kind of scientific discovery in biology because such cells and their structure do existin living creatures and they have been found out by a certain scientist and are made known to the public nowadays. So I think a discovery is something existing before but unknown while an invention is something unknown and not existing before.S2: I think the first two pictures show us great human inventions about the transportation because they were invented by people for certain purposes and they had special advantages and could satisfy people’s needs in some ways. On the other hand the third picture showing the formation of DNA is a kind of discovery because these special cells exist and function in the body of life all the time no matter who discovers it or when and where it is discovered. In my opinion a discovery is something found out or brought to view now but it was unknown before while an invention is something created or designed by people, which is pletely new not only now but in the past.T: Well, from these pictures we can see that there lies differences between a discovery and an invention. There are certain rules or questions you should pay attention to while distinguishing them. Did it exist in the past? Is it created or developed by people?An invention is something that is created by a human being, such as the lightning rod.To the contrary, a discovery merely makes known something that already existed in nature, such as the discovery on the New Continent by Columbia. OK. Let’s go on with some other questions of this part. You may talk with your partner first before we have a check five minutes later.Show the following.What modern inventions do you know? Describe them to your partner and how useful they are in life today.S1: Adidas 1 is the thinking shoes with a built-in microprocessor that decides how soft or firm the wearer needs the support. It has been chosen by Popular Science magazine as the best recreation invention of 2004. It is very fortable to wear it all day without worrying about your toes being hurt and you can adjust the height and stiffness according to your demands whenever you want and wherever you go. Thus it is a very practical choice for both the young and the old when having exciting sports outdoors or resting at home during holidays.S2: Camera phones have opened up a new way to municate. Because many of them look like regular cell phones, you can snap pictures as discreetly as any spy and, with the push of a few buttons, pop them into an or upload them to the Web in less than a minute. No wires or to the Web in less than a minute. No wires or puter hookups necessary. To be sure, most camera phones end up taking pictures of friends family, babies and pets. But they have also been used to snap pictures of VIPs at private parties, copy recipes from cookbooks at bookstores and even document crimes in progress. But with an estimated80 million camera phones sold in 2003, 6 million in the U. S. alone−the cat may alreadybe out of the camera bag. Like it or not, these camera phones have been very popularand widely used by people even today.S3: A kind of robot heart called AbioCor was invented in 2001. On July 2, 2001, the 59-year-old grandfather and retired librarian Robert Tools became the first human to get one. It’s been long since the operation, and Tools’ new heart is s till beating.He can walk a city block without stopping and he’s even making plans for the future.Though not everybody needs a new heart, hundreds of thousands eventually may. Nor will an artificial heart rid the world of sickness or poverty or terror. But sometimes it really helps.T: Very good! I am glad to see that all of you have known so many modern inventions both at home and abroad and you have thought a lot about them. It’s certain that modern discoveries and inventions do have great effects in peo ple’s life and can always represent the advanced science and technology, so you should to distinguish them and make good use of them.Step II TalkingT: Suppose you are working for a mobile pany. It is your job to suggest new ways of developinga mobile. In pairs discuss some new applications of a mobile. Make a list of the onesyou like and that seem the most useful. Choose one you both like and think will be popular with other people. Now work in groups of four to discuss the question.S1: I suggest the new applications of mobile should be: portable entertainment players, cameras, membership and loyalty cards, guidebooks, maps, tickets, watches, and devices for accessing everything from news to corporate databases. Among them, we like the applications of devices for accessing everything from news to corporate databases. We both think they are useful and will soon be popular with others in the near future because the ability will enable a whole class of workers to rely less on their memory and more on their pany’s and even world’s knowledge maintenance, sales construction,transportation, taxicab drivers, and many other workers spend a great deal of time fromoffices. Thus, when they need information, they must either have it in their heads or stop what they are doing and make a pone call.S2: I think the new mobiles can be developed better with 4G to listen to the radio, watch TV, play games, do shopping, chat on the QQ,surf the internet, control the electrical equipment at home in the distance, give off harmless rays and be used as puters with special operating systems which can do business, have fun and work as intelligent P4 puters. Among them, we like the new application of surfing the internet and doing shopping and we both think they are useful and will soon be popular among youngsters because it is very convenient for people to find various useful information whenever and wherever possible. As there are different kinds of goods to choose from online and it’s very funny and exciting to make choices and buy what we need at a reasonable price without going out and bargain with sellers in the markets.…T: Very good. Now get together with another pair to discuss whether your suggestion is a good one. Make a case for your idea. Let the other pair evaluate it. Then swap so that you evaluate their idea. Decide which idea you like better and prepare to explain it.Then present it to the class.S1: I think the first classmate’s expectation that the mobile phones can do so much, maybe more than they can offer. The mobile phones usually have limited size and capacity. SoI think it will take time before the mobiles are designed to meet his needs.S2: I think it’s practical and meaningful for the second classmate to develop the mobiles in that way. Though it has been used in some ways but we can do better because every day we have much information to look for and different types of things to do and the smart mobile can make it more convenient for us to achieve our goals in life.…。
高中英语 Unit 3 Inventions and inventors Reading课件 新人教版选修8
Stephenson’s “Rocket” an invention
George Stephenson was one of the first men to design engines for the railways which were new at that time. It was a great invention
An amphibious car an invention
This is the first car that can travel safely on water and on land. When moving on water, the wheels of the car turn sideways and move into the body. The underneath of the car is strong enough to sail as a boat. It is a prototype and is not yet being produced for sale. This is an interesting modern invention.
高中英语人教新课标选修八Unit3Inventorsandinventions知识点课件
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单句语法填空/完成句子。 ①Parents should not have too high________(expect) beyond their children's ability, overlooking (忽视) the individual differences between each other. ②The dog wagged its tail________expectation of a bone. ③The show________________—it was wonderful! 这场演出不负众望——精彩极了！ ④________________，the play was greatly popular. 大大出乎意料的是那出戏大受欢迎。
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根据句子的要求在括号里填入适当的介词或翻译。 1)Can you distinguish _______ those two objects? 2)Children should be taught to _______ _______ _______ _______ (分辨好 坏). 3)Speech distinguishes human beings _______ the animals. 4)The Chinese nation is distinguished _______ its dilige ①He called me up to tell me the good news. ②The doctor was called up twice during the night to attend urgent cases. ③He is ill;you should call in the doctor right away. ④He decided to call off his regular press conference. ⑤I was called up three months after the war broke out. ⑥The film The Horizon of the Child，showed in May，2015，called up memories of my childhood.
高中英语高考英语(人教版)要点梳理 重点突破：选修8 Unit 3 Inventors and inventions教案
选修8Unit 3Inventors and inventions要点梳理高效梳理·知识备考●重点单词1．distinguish vi. & vt.显示……的差别；使……有所不同；辨别2．merciful adj.宽大的；仁慈的；慈悲的→mercy n．宽大；仁慈3．product n．产品4．abrupt adj.突然的；意外的→abruptly adv.突然地，唐突地5．convenient adj.便利的，方便的，就近的→convenience n．方便，便利→conveniently adv.便利地，方便地6．caution n．小心，谨慎→cautious adj.小心的，谨慎的→cautiously adv.小心地，谨慎地7．passive adj.被动的；消极的；被动语态的8．seize vt.抓住；捉住；夺9．file n．文件；档案；文件夹vt.提交；将……归档10．freezing adj.冰冻的；严寒的→freeze v．冰冻11．innocent adj.清白的；无罪的；天真的→innocence n．天真，清白12．bear vt.忍受；忍耐；负担13．tap vt.轻打；轻拍；轻敲n．轻轻地敲击(声)；(水)龙头14．current n．(水或气)流；电流adj.现在的；当前的15．stable adj.稳固的；稳定的；安定的16．associate vt.联想；联系n．同伴，伙伴17．practical adj.实际的；实践的；实用的18．petence n．能力；胜任；本领●重点短语1．call up给……打电话2．now and then 偶尔；有时3．set about开始；着手4．dive into 迅速把手伸入；一心投入5．set out(to do) 开始(做)6．hang on 不挂断；稍等；紧紧握住7．out of order次序颠倒；发生故障8．get through 设法联系上(尤指打通电话)；(设法)做完；通过9．ring back回复电话10．ring off挂断电话●重点句型1．The next morning I got up early before the sun was hot. 第二天早上趁天还不太热，我就早早地起来了。
人教版高中英语选修8：《Unit 3 Inventors and inventions》
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高三英语备考复习精品课件Unit3 Inventors and inventions(新人教版选修8)
Willard Boyle explained how his invention had
impacted him personally：
“I guess the most important part of our invention that affected me personally was when the Mars probe was on the surface of Mars and it used a camera like ours, and it would not have been possible without our invention. And
capture images called a chargecoupled device or CCD.
This has become the electronic eye of digital cameras and is used in many medical applications as well.
we saw for the first time the surface of Mars. I was sitting
in my own little house and here I could move around on the surface of Mars and see the little stones there, and
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答案：B
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人教版高中英语选修八《Unit 3 Inventors and inventions》Warming up 课件
1. Electric shoes The heel of these shoes is a machine that makes electricity with every step you take. You will never need to buy batteries again.
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Thomas Edison
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1 Body scanners to see whether you are ill
3. ______ is called “Father of Dynamite (炸药)”. A. Alfred Nobel B. Albert Einstein C. Alexander Bell
4. Marconi (马可尼) invented the _____ in the world. A. TV B. long distance radio transmission C. typewriter
Stephenson’s “Rocket” (1781-1848)
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4.Request examination of your patent request. You must request examination of your patent application within five years of the Canadian filing date and pay the appropriate fee. If you don’t request examination of your patent application,it will be considered to be abandoned. Looks simple,doesn’t it? But unfortunately,getting a patent is one of those “there’s a slip between the cup and the lip” situations which are quite a bit more complicated than they look like at first glance.
人教版高中英语选修八 Unit3 Inventors and inventions-语法篇(学生版)-精选教育文档
第6讲Inventors and inventions 语法篇____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________1.掌握动词过去分词的用法和功能；2.能够熟练运用非谓语中的动词的过去分词。
一. 概述：分词分为现在分词和过去分词。
在句中作定语、状语、表语和宾语补足语。
(一). 分词的作用：1、作定语（1）单个分词作定语，分词前置。
如：The sleeping boy is my son.The excited people rushed into the building.A lost opportunity never returns.He is a retired worker.（2）分词短语作定语，分词后置；分词修饰不定代词something等要后置；个别分词如give，left等作定语也后置。
如：The girl standing under the tree is my niece.The building built last year is our library.This is the question given.There is nothing interesting.（3）过去分词作定语与其修饰的词是被动关系，相当于一个被动语态的定语从句。
如：Most of the people invited to the party were famous scientists2、作表语现在分词作表语多表示主语具有的特征，过去分词作表语多指主语所处的状态。
如：The film is touching.The glass is broken.She looked tired with cooking.He remained standing beside the table.3、作宾语补足语分词和不定式一样，在一些感官动词或使役动词后作宾语补足语。