题目内容
Checking Yourself
What grammar have you learned in this unit? (本单元学到了什么语法?)
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解析:
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现在进行时;一般疑问句及其简单答语。 |
News 1
Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, won the World Food Prize on Monday. Yuan developed the world’s first popular and widely known hybrid rice. Hybrid rice plants can make more rice than regular ones.
News 2
Have you ever got angry at books that are full of mistakes? Don’t worry, things will get better soon. Last week, China started checking textbooks, dictionaries and children’s books all over the country. The government said the results of the check would come out at the end of June.
News 3
People will see a new “star” in the sky soon. China plants to send a satellite into space by December 2006.It will stay in space for one year. It will go around the moon and take pictures. It must be very expensive, right? That’s for sure; 1.4 billion yuan!
News 4
Have you ever thought of being able to fly around the world in a few hours? One day, maybe you can. Last Saturday, the American X-43A airplane made its first flight. It reached a speed of 8,000 kilometers per hour. This makes it the fastest plane in the world.X-43A is only three to four meters long, but it’s very heavy. It weighs 1,270 kilograms.
【小题1】The satellite sent by China will move around ________.
| A.the moon | B.the earth | C.the sun | D.the mars |
| A.1.4 kilometers per second | B.43 kilometers per minute |
| C.1,270 kilometers per hour | D.8,000 kilometers per hour |
| A.make a lot of money |
| B.make the children sad |
| C.make sure there are no mistakes in them |
| D.make sure the books are not too expensive |
| A.It will go around the moon. | B.It will stay in space for two years. |
| C.It costs a lot. | D.It will go into space by December 2006. |
| A.he likes to eat hybrid rice |
| B.he is a successful father |
| C.he grows more rice than others |
| D.he developed the world’s first popular and widely grown hybrid rice |
If someone is lost in a forest( 森林 ), he needs only study the trees around him carefully to find his way. On this half of the earth, he will find that the side of the tree with the most leaves and branches(树枝 ) is the south side. Also, by checking the tops of the trees, he will find that they lean(倾斜 ) to the south too.
Another sign( 标志物) for him to know where he is going is found in the bark.( 树皮) That is brighter on the south side.The remanining(树桩 ) of a cut tree is also a finder, for its rings can give him another sign. The rings will be thinner on the south side and thicker on the north side.
One more sign: some very small plants grow at the foot of a tree and they point to the north.
【小题1】 The passage is mainly about __________.
how to find a big tree if one is lost in the forest.
How to cut down trees in the forest
How to find the direction(方向 )in the forest
How to grow trees in the forest .
【小题2】 From a cut tree we can know that ___________.
| A.the direction is written on it |
| B.the rings will be thinner on the south side and thicker on the north side |
| C.the rings will be thinner on the south |
| D.its rings can send messages to you |
| A.three | B.four | C.five | D.six |