时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:外研社新标准高中英语必修(1-4)


英语课

[00:01.00]Module 4 Great Scientists

[00:08.00]READING AND VOCABULARY

[00:10.40]1 Look at the title of the reading passage below.

[00:15.09]Guess what is about.

[00:17.21]The Students Who Asked Questions

[00:20.89]In a hungry world rice is a staple 1 food

[00:25.29]and China is the world's largest producer.

[00:28.73]Rice is also grown in many other Asian countries,

[00:32.88]and in some European countries like Italy

[00:35.90]In the rice-growing world,

[00:38.61]the Chinese scientist,Yuan Longping,is a leading figure.

[00:43.34]Yuan Longping was born and bought up in China.

[00:47.61]As a boy he was educated in many schools and was given the nickname 2,

[00:52.59]"the student who asks questions".

[00:55.72]From an early age he was interested in plants.

[00:59.40]He studied agriculture in college

[01:02.22]and as a young teacher he began experiments in crop breeding.

[01:06.92]He thought that the key to feeding people was to have more rice

[01:11.43]and to produce it more quickly.

[01:14.81]He thought there was only one way to do this --

[01:17.59]by crossing different species 3 of rice plant,

[01:21.31]and then he could produce a new plant

[01:23.17]which could give a higher yield than either of the original plants.

[01:27.85]First Yuan Longping experiment with different types of rice.

[01:33.49]The results of his experiments were published in China in 1966.

[01:39.24]Then he began his search for a special type of rice plant.

[01:44.34]It had to be male.It has to be sterile 4.

[01:48.77]Finally,in 1970 a naturally sterile male rice plant was discovered.

[01:56.15]This was the breakthrough.

[01:58.40]Researchers were brought in from all over China

[02:01.41]to develop the new system.

[02:03.79]The research was supported by the government.

[02:07.48]As a result of Yuan Longping's discoveries

[02:10.60]Chinese rice production rose by 47.5 percent in the 1990's.

[02:16.39]There were other advantages too.

[02:18.96]50 thousand square kilometres of rice fields

[02:22.60]were converted 5 to growing vegetables and other cash crops.

[02:26.20]Following this,Yuan Longping's rice was exported to other countries,

[02:31.53]such as Pakistan and the Philippines.

[02:34.59]In Pakistan rice is the second most important crop after wheat

[02:40.52]and will be grown in many parts of the country.

[02:43.79]The new hybrid 6 rice has been developed

[02:46.79]by the Yuan Longping High-tech 7 Agricultural Company of China.

[02:51.34]It's yield is much greater than the yield of other types of rice

[02:55.38]grown in Pakistan.

[03:00.11]LISTENING AND VOCABULARY

[03:02.69]2 Listen to the quiz and show and answer the questions.

[06:58.58]PRONUNCIATION

[07:00.39]2 Listen and underline the stresses.

[07:05.40]biology chemistry electric electricity

[07:16.61]genetics government gravity information

[07:29.90]CULTURAL CORNER

[07:32.61]Read the following passage and answer the questions.

[07:36.50]1 How many rockets invented?

[07:40.84]2 What are they used for today?

[07:45.45]Rockets

[07:47.36]Today rockets are very advanced machines

[07:52.22]which we can use to send astronauts into space.

[07:55.68]They are also used in firework displays to celebrate great events,

[08:00.70]such as the end of the Olympic Games

[08:03.35]or the beginning of the new millennium 8 in the year 2000.

[08:07.65]Rockets were probably invented by accident about 2,000 years ago.

[08:13.97]The Chinese had a form of gunpowder 9

[08:17.07]which was put in bamboo tubes

[08:18.92]and thrown into fires to make explosions during festivals.

[08:23.78]Perhaps some of the tubes jumped out of the fire instead of exploding in it.

[08:29.77]The Chinese discovered that the gas escaping from the tube could

[08:33.41]lift it into the air.

[08:35.86]The idea of the rocket was born.

[08:38.68]The first military use of rockets was in 1232.

[08:44.70]The Song Dynasty was at war with the Mongols.

[08:49.38]During the battle of Kaifeng,the Song army shot "arrows of flying fire".

[08:56.09]The tubes were attached to a long stick

[08:59.31]which helped keep the rocket moving in a straight direction.

[09:03.07]Soon the Mongols learned how to make rockets themselves

[09:07.59]and it is possible that they introduced them to Europe.

[09:11.18]Between the13th and 15th centuries

[09:14.80]there were many rocket experiments in England,France and Italy.

[09:19.84]They were used for military purposes.

[09:22.98]One Italian scientist even invented a rocket

[09:27.00]which could travel over the surface of water and hit an enemy ship.

[09:31.56]But not everybody wanted to use rockets in battles.

[09:35.79]Wan 10 Hu,a Chinese government official,invented a flying chair.

[09:42.00]He attached two big kites to the chair,

[09:45.43]and 47 rockets to the kites.

[09:48.52]The rockets were lit,

[09:50.52]there was a huge explosion and clouds of thick smoke.

[09:54.59]When the smoke cleared Wan Hu and his chair had disappeared.

[10:00.06]No one knows what happened.

[10:02.50]Did Wan Hu die in the explosion?

[10:05.51]Or was he carried miles into space,

[10:08.40]becoming the world's first astronaut?

[10:14.40]Module 4 Words and Expressions

[10:19.10]biochemistry n.生物化学

[10:22.35]biology n. 生物学

[10:24.47]botany n. 植物学

[10:26.70]genetics n. 遗传学

[10:29.10]zoology n. 动物学

[10:31.79]staple a. 主要的; 重要的

[10:33.86]producer n. 生产者

[10:36.11]leading a. 主要的

[10:38.18]figure n. 人物

[10:41.02]bring up 培养; 养育

[10:42.97]educate vt. 教育

[10:45.45]nickname n. 绰号

[10:48.52]agriculture n. 农业

[10:51.18]breeding n. 培育

[10:52.90]species n. (动物域植物的)种

[10:55.04]yield n. 产量

[10:57.20]original a. 原来的; 最初的

[10:59.75]publish vt. 出版

[11:02.34]sterile a. (指生物) 不孕育的; 不结果实的

[11:04.90]breakthrough n. 突破

[11:07.32]support vt. 支持

[11:09.82]as a result of 由于……的结果

[11:12.52]production n. 产量

[11:15.61]convert vt. 改变;  转换

[11:17.75]cashcrop n.经济作物

[11:20.40]export vt. 出 口

[11:23.63]hybrid n. 杂交种

[11:25.62]agricultural adj.农业的

[11:28.28]replace vt. 取代;  以...替

[11:30.48]quantity n. 数量

[11:33.27]quality n. 质量

[11:35.43]be known for 因 ……而出名 /闻名

[11:37.95]best-seller n. 畅销书(或唱片等)

[11:40.47]cosmology n. 宇宙生成学;宇宙论

[11:43.41]diagnose vt. 诊断

[11:46.29]motor neurone disease n. 运动神经元病

[11:50.02]victim n. 受害者

[11:52.90]brilliant a. 聪颖的; 才华横溢醚

[11:55.84]career n. 生涯;  经历

[11:58.70]brief a. 简短的;  简洁的

[12:01.17]partly adv. 部分地; 在一定程

[12:03.59]physical a. 身体的

[12:06.03]graduate vi. 毕业

[12:08.81]personal a. 个人的

[12:11.31]relativity n. 相对论

[12:14.18]earn one's living 谋生

[12:17.12]come to power 掌权

[12:20.13]rocket n. 火箭

[12:23.06]millennium n. 千年

[12:25.71]gunpowder n. 火药

[12:28.29]explosion n. 爆炸;  爆炸声

[12:30.88]explode vi. 爆炸

[12:33.02]escape vi. 逃跑;  逃避

[12:35.31]arrow n. (弓)箭

[12:38.52]straight a. 直的

[12:40.56]clear vi. (烟雾) 消散

[12:46.65]Module 5 A Trip Along the Three Gorges 13

[12:51.77]READING AND VOCABULARY

[12:54.06]2 Read the passage

[12:57.50]and check the items in activity 1 which the writer talks about.

[13:02.54]A Trip Along the Three Gorges

[13:06.11]In August 1996,Peter Hessler,

[13:10.81]a young American teacher of English,

[13:13.19]arrived in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River.

[13:17.07]He and a colleague were to spend two years there

[13:21.02]teaching English at a teacher training college.

[13:24.54]They were the only foreigners in the town.

[13:27.67]The first semester finished at the end of January

[13:31.73]and they had four weeks off for the Spring Festival.

[13:34.75]They could go anywhere they wished.

[13:37.72]They decided 14 to take a boat downstream.

[13:41.31]We decided to buy tickets for the Jiangyou boat.

[13:46.65]Our colleagues said,"You shouldn't go on those ships.

[13:50.45]They are very crowded.

[13:52.31]They are mainly for goods and people trading along the river.

[13:56.02]They don't stop at the temples and there won't be any other foreigners."

[14:01.35]That sounded fine to me.

[14:03.63]We just had to show our passports and they let us get on the boat.

[14:09.05]We left the docks 15 on a beautiful afternoon.

[14:14.22]The sun was shining brightly

[14:16.37]as we sailed downstream through a hilly region.

[14:20.11]Men rode bamboo rafts along the river's edge and coal boats went past.

[14:26.59]As the sun set we docked 16 at Fengdu.

[14:30.56]We could see the sun setting behind the white pagoda 17.

[14:33.97]It was beautiful.

[14:36.04]We slept through the first gorge 12,which is called the Qutang Gorge.

[14:42.13]The gorge narrows to 350 feet

[14:45.16]as the river rushes through the two-mile-high mountains.

[14:49.77]"Oh,well," my friend said,"at least we have two more left."

[14:54.77]At Wushan we made a detour 18 up the Daning River to see some of the smaller gorges.

[15:02.50]The next day we went through the big gorges on the Yangtze River.

[15:07.13]It was a lovely morning as we went through the Wu Gorge.

[15:11.68]We passed the Xiang River home of Qu Yuan,the 3rd century BC poet.

[15:18.20]There was so much history along the Yangtze River.

[15:21.67]Every rock looked like person or animal,

[15:25.00]every stream that joined the great river carried its legends,

[15:29.28]every hill was heavy with the past.

[15:32.37]As we came out of the third gorge,the Xiling Gorge,

[15:37.49]we sailed into the construction site of the dam.

[15:40.97]All the passengers came on deck.

[15:44.11]We took pictures and pointed 19 at the site,

[15:47.20]but we weren't allowed to get off the boat.

[15:49.97]The Chinese flag was blowing in the wind.

[15:53.06]On a distant mountain was a sign 20-foot characters.

[15:58.11]"Build the Three Gorges Dam,Exploit the Yangtze River," it said.

[16:03.31]Now say why the writer enjoyed the trip.

[16:09.89]LISTENING

[16:11.81]1 Listen to the conversation and decide where the speakers are.

[16:18.31]I'm interested in booking a classic Three Gorges cruise 20.

[16:25.29]Can you tell me something about the boats?

[16:28.14]Yes,certainly.

[16:29.73]They're big,modern boats,

[16:31.97]and they all have professional English speaking directors.

[16:35.84]You can choose between western and Chinese cuisine 21.

[16:39.88]Right.What about on-board activities?

[16:44.09]Well,first of all,there is a welcome party.

[18:00.55]PRONUNCIATION

[18:02.03]1 Listen and repeat these questions.

[18:05.96]Make sure you pause at the end of each sense group.

[18:10.50]Can you tell me/something about the boats?

[18:17.15]What about/on-board activities?

[18:21.54]What about/swimming in the Yangtze?

[18:27.32]Are there any/other rules I should know about?

[18:36.43]2 Say these sentences aloud.

[18:41.52]Now listen and check.

[18:46.09]What about swimming in the Yangtze?

[18:49.93]Are there any other rules I should know?

[18:54.18]Can you tell me if we're allowed to take photos of the dam?

[19:04.78]3 Listen to these extracts 22 from the passage in Listening activity 1.

[19:12.80]Mark a / where the speaker pauses at the end of each sense group.

[19:18.15]A I'm interested in booking a classic Three Gorges cruise.

[19:25.25]Can you tell me something about the boats?

[19:30.98]B Yes,certainly.

[19:34.72]They're big,modem boats,

[19:37.18]and they all have professional English speaking directors.

[19:41.56]You can choose between western and Chinese cuisine.

[19:46.13]Now work in pairs. Say these sentences aloud.

[19:56.93]4 Now work in pairs Say the sentences aloud.

[20:03.25]Make sure you pause at the end of each sense group.

[20:08.38]Now listen and check.

[20:13.38]A Are there any other rules I should know?

[20:19.21]B There aren't a lot of rules.

[20:24.04]But the boats are non-smoking,

[20:26.57]so you're not allowed to smoke anywhere except in your cabin

[20:31.47]and in the smoking lounge 23.

[20:37.16]CULTURAL CORNER

[20:39.15]Read the passage and answer the questions.

[20:42.54]1 What does Mr McCorquodale like doing when he travels?

[20:48.00]2 Choose any country and imagine you are there.

[20:54.74]Write a short postcard to yourself.

[20:57.70]Postcards to Myself

[21:00.65]In 50 years of travelling

[21:04.25]Colin McCorquodale has visited every country in the world,except three.

[21:10.50]And everywhere he goes,he sends himself a postcard.

[21:15.32]He always chooses a postcard with a beautiful view,

[21:19.97]and sticks on an interesting stamp.

[21:23.10]Usually he writes just a short message to himself.

[21:27.20]His latest one, from the Malvinas islands,reads Good fishing.

[21:33.45]On a wall in his home in London there is a large map of the world.

[21:39.31]There are hundreds of little red pins stuck in it.

[21:43.13]"It's good to get a pin in the map,"says Mr McCorquodale,

[21:48.36]"but I follow the rules.

[21:49.81]I'm allowed to stick one in only if I've been in a place for more than 24 hours."

[21:55.72]Naturally,Mr McCorquodale has his favourite places.

[22:00.81]New Zealand he describes as "wonderful".

[22:04.96]In Europe,Italy is a favourite place.

[22:08.72]"There's a saying in the travel trade that all tourists are ripped 24 off.

[22:13.71]Well,at least the Italians rip 11 you off with a smile."

[22:17.64]Of China he says,

[22:20.00]"This is one country in the world which is completely different.

[22:24.69]There's no European influence.

[22:27.27]It's been around for 6,000 years,yet it's a country of the future."

[22:33.11]Wherever he goes,

[22:35.61]Mr McCorquodale takes with him a photo of his wife,

[22:38.93]a candle,a torch,a shirt with a secret pocket,

[22:43.54]and a pen for writing his postcards.

[22:46.63]So why does he do it?For the postcards or the travel?

[22:51.52]Mr McCorquodale laughs."I do it for the journey," he says.

[22:56.83]"I get a kick of travelling.And all the planning."

 



1 staple
n.主要产物,常用品,主要要素,原料,订书钉,钩环;adj.主要的,重要的;vt.分类
  • Tea is the staple crop here.本地产品以茶叶为大宗。
  • Potatoes are the staple of their diet.土豆是他们的主要食品。
2 nickname
n.绰号,昵称;v.给...取绰号,叫错名字
  • She called me by my nickname.她叫我的外号。
  • Why do you fasten such a nickname on her?你为什么给她取这样一个绰号?
3 species
n.物种,种群
  • Are we the only thinking species in the whole of creation?我们是万物中惟一有思想的物种吗?
  • This species of bird now exists only in Africa.这种鸟现在只存在于非洲。
4 sterile
adj.不毛的,不孕的,无菌的,枯燥的,贫瘠的
  • This top fits over the bottle and keeps the teat sterile.这个盖子严实地盖在奶瓶上,保持奶嘴无菌。
  • The farmers turned the sterile land into high fields.农民们把不毛之地变成了高产田。
5 converted
adj.更换信仰的,修改的v.(使)转变( convert的过去式和过去分词 );(使)转化;皈依;改变(信仰)
  • The hotel is going to be converted into a nursing home. 那家旅馆将被改建成私人疗养院。
  • He's living in a converted loft in lower Manhattan. 他住在下曼哈顿的一间改建的阁楼里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 hybrid
n.(动,植)杂种,混合物
  • That is a hybrid perpetual rose.那是一株杂交的四季开花的蔷薇。
  • The hybrid was tall,handsome,and intelligent.那混血儿高大、英俊、又聪明。
7 high-tech
adj.高科技的
  • The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展,这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
  • The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。
8 millennium
n.一千年,千禧年;太平盛世
  • The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.全世界都在倒计时迎接新千年的到来。
  • We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.我们静候着时钟滴答走过千年的最后几秒钟。
9 gunpowder
n.火药
  • Gunpowder was introduced into Europe during the first half of the 14th century.在14世纪上半叶,火药传入欧洲。
  • This statement has a strong smell of gunpowder.这是一篇充满火药味的声明。
10 wan
(wide area network)广域网
  • The shared connection can be an Ethernet,wireless LAN,or wireless WAN connection.提供共享的网络连接可以是以太网、无线局域网或无线广域网。
11 rip
n.拉裂,破绽,激流,浪荡子;vt.撕裂,激昂地说,贬损;vi.裂开,仓促地冲过...
  • He had seen the rip in the book.他看到了书里的裂缝。
  • I tried not to rip the paper as I unwrapped it.我把纸打开的时候,尽量不把它撕破。
12 gorge
n.咽喉,胃,暴食,山峡;v.塞饱,狼吞虎咽地吃
  • East of the gorge leveled out.峡谷东面地势变得平坦起来。
  • It made my gorge rise to hear the news.这消息令我作呕。
13 gorges
n.山峡,峡谷( gorge的名词复数 );咽喉v.(用食物把自己)塞饱,填饱( gorge的第三人称单数 );作呕
  • The explorers were confronted with gorges(that were)almost impassable and rivers(that were)often unfordable. 探险人员面临着几乎是无路可通的峡谷和常常是无法渡过的河流。 来自辞典例句
  • We visited the Yangtse Gorges last summer. 去年夏天我们游历了长江三峡。 来自辞典例句
14 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
15 docks
n.港区
  • He was born in squalor next to London's docks. 他出生在伦敦码头附近肮脏的地区。
  • The enemy raided the docks. 敌人突然袭击了码头。
16 docked
(使)船停靠码头( dock的过去式和过去分词 ); (使宇宙飞船在外层空间)对接; 减少; 扣除
  • He docked her pocket money until the debt was paid off. 他削减了她的零用钱,直到还清了债务。
  • They docked him of the pleasures of childhood. 他们剥夺了他童年时代的欢乐。
17 pagoda
n.宝塔(尤指印度和远东的多层宝塔),(印度教或佛教的)塔式庙宇
  • The ancient pagoda is undergoing repairs.那座古塔正在修缮中。
  • The pagoda is reflected upside down in the water.宝塔影子倒立在水里。
18 detour
n.绕行的路,迂回路;v.迂回,绕道
  • We made a detour to avoid the heavy traffic.我们绕道走,避开繁忙的交通。
  • He did not take the direct route to his home,but made a detour around the outskirts of the city.他没有直接回家,而是绕到市郊兜了个圈子。
19 pointed
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
20 cruise
v.巡航,航游,缓慢巡行;n.海上航游
  • They went on a cruise to Tenerife.他们乘船去特纳利夫岛。
  • She wants to cruise the canals of France in a barge.她想乘驳船游览法国的运河。
21 cuisine
n.烹调,烹饪法
  • This book is the definitive guide to world cuisine.这本书是世界美食的权威指南。
  • This restaurant is renowned for its cuisine.这家餐馆以其精美的饭菜而闻名。
22 extracts
摘录( extract的名词复数 ); 引用; 提炼物; 浓缩物
  • shower gel containing plant extracts that have a stimulating effect on the skin 含有对皮肤有益的植物精华的沐浴凝胶
  • These are all extracts from Chaucer. 这些都是乔叟诗抄中的精萃。
23 lounge
n.休闲室,休息室,长沙发;v.闲荡,闲散地度过,混日子
  • We had coffee in the lounge.我们在客厅里喝咖啡。
  • Don't lounge away your working hours.不要消磨工作时间。
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hop on the bandwagon
hydrokonite (hydroconite)
ilmens
inter-organizational
iron halogenide
Isobutylisovalerate
jamt
jen
Jenolan
job dyeing
keystone-type piston ring
kneeboarding
La Cavada
load time his tory
martinhal
measure twice, cut once
mechanical face seals
method analysis
microsoft commercial internet system
midmarket
murska
nanoprocessor
nonreduced
obtuse-angle
optimal growth path
Percy cautery
profit allowance
put it this way
raw casting
readable news
reversal colo(u)r film
rotary slasher
rural erosion rate
scaraboids
Scots Gaelic
seam fat
seepage apron
seiters
self-propelled floating crane
separetionist
soapworts
splicing
splicing vise
spring hoop
submerged tooth
suburban areas
syllogisms
temporomaxillary
topographical parallel
townlets
Tracheophytas
trailing cavity
travelling roller pin
unextraneous
unit mass resolution
unyielding foundation
utility-company
Varaire
wakeys-wakeys
yoruba dance (w. africa)