题目内容
2. B refers to the cases,bags,boxes,etc. carried by someone who is travelling.
2. Baggage
1. What it yas to become was uncertain until between 4. 5 and 3. 8 billion years ago when the dust settled into a solid globe. (P25)
[分析]
① 本句是一个主从复合句。
② 主句是 What it was to become was uncertain until between 4. 5 and 3. 8 billion years ago,when 引导 从句。
③ 主句中包含一个由what引导的主语从句，what在从句中作 。
[句意]随后它会变成什么没人能知道，直到38-45亿年 前，这团尘埃才慢慢地形成一个固体的球状物。
[仿写]杰克打算做什么我不知道，直到第二天早上，他 才告诉了我他的计划。
Bart Weetjens has always loved rats. As a kid in the Netherlands,he raised them as pets. He was amazed by their intelligence and their great sense of smell. Today,Weetjens is using rats for a good cause identifying (确认) a disease called tuberculosis (肺结核) , or T B. in Africa. Through his organization,called APOPO,Weetjens trains rats to find TB by using their noses. The rats that APOPO trains are called “HeroRats."
Tuberculosis affects millions of people every year. Usually,if a patient is thought to have the disease,doctors run lab tests to identify it. A doctor takes a sample of mucus (枯液样本) from the patient's lungs. Then lab workers examine the sample to see whether the person has the disease.
But Tanzania and Mozambique,two African countries with high rates of T B. are short of medical workers and labs. As a result,it can take a long time to diagnose (诊断) the disease. In the meantime,more people can get sick as the disease spreads.
In 2002,APOPO began training rats to smell TB in mucus samples. It trains African giant rats,which are friendly and hardworking. To detect T B. the rats smell mucus samples through holes in a glass cage. When a trained rat finds a sample with T B. it pauses over the hole.
HeroRats train for months before they start working. To teach a rat to identify T B. a trainer presents the rat with several mucus samples. The trainer already knows which are samples with TB.
If the rat spends a long time smelling a diseased sample,the trainer gives the .rat a treat. This teaches the rat that finding TB will earn it tasty food.
“The rats learn quickly,since they love food/' says Beyene,an APOPO scientist. The rats are faster than lab workers. In 10 minutes,they can screen as many samples as a person could examine in two days. At centers in Tanzania and Mozambique,HeroRats have found thousands of TB cases that labs missed. Thanks to them,sick people can now be treated earlier than ever before. In the future,APOPO hopes to train its rats to identify other diseases too.
1. What can we learn about Bart Weetjens?
A. He works as a rat trainer.
B. He has studied TB all his life.
C. He has a very sensitive nose.
D. He has a deep interest in rats.
2. What' s the main problem with the diagnosis of TB in Tanzania and Mozambique?
A. It is very slow.
B. It is full of mistakes.
C. It brings pain to people.
D. It wastes a lot of money.
3. During the training,the rats.
A. have better food than usual
B. behave intelligently
C. work long hours
D. get bored easily
4. HeroRats’ jobs .
A. seem dangerous
B. need improving
C. prevent TB in Africa
D. are helping save lives
5. What would be the best title for the text?
A. Noses at work
B. Lovely HeroRats
C. Man with a big heart
D. TB — a deadly disease
[语境展不]阅读下面句子，并从a-d中找出与1-4中的settle down相符
合的释义。
1. Shh!Settle down please!Now turn to page 57.
2. I've been trying to read this book all day,but somehow I can’t settle down to it.
3. My sister settled down in an armchair to watch television.
4. The Browns have lived in several parts in England,but I think they intend settling down in Cambridge.
a.(在某地) 定居下来,过安定的生活 b.(使) 安静下来，平静下来
c.开始专心于 d.舒服地坐着或躺着
[自我归纳]settle down在以上各句中的意思分别为：
1→ ; 2→ 3→ ;4→
[即学即练]翻译下面句子。
1.When are you going to get married and settle down?
2. She settled down in the back of the car and fell asleep quickly.
3. Wait until the children settle down before you start the lesson.
4. John will arrive is unknown. Maybe two hours later.
7. Many people moved to the (城市的) areas for jobs.
6. I live nearby. My house is walking distance of the university.
.
4. When I woke up this morning the ground was covered with(霜).
7. That song always makes me remember my old school days.
That song always me my oldschool days.
