外研版必修四课文及词汇Module4至Module6

1、Module 4 Great Scientists19.sterile38.brillia nt1.biochemistry20.breakthrough39.career2.biology21.support/supportive40.brief/ in brief3.bota ny22.as a result of41.partly4.gen ducti on/productive42.physical/me ntal5.zoology24.convert43.graduate from/graduati on6.staple25.cash crop44.pers o

2、ducer/produce/product26.export/import45.relativity/relative8.leadi ng27.hybrid46.earn on e s livi e to power10.bring cate/educati on al/educated30.quantity/a of/ties le nn ium12.n ick name31.quality50.gun powder13.agriculture/

3、agricultural32.be known for51.explosi on14.breed ing33.best-seller52.explode15.species34.cosmology53.escape16.yield产量/v屈服,投降35.diag no se/be diag no sed with54.arrow17.origi nal/origi n/origi nate36.motor neurone disease55.straight18.publish37.victim56.clearThe Student Who Asked QuestionsL In a hung

4、ry world rice is a food and China is the worlds largest Rice is also grow n in many otherAsia n coun tries, and in some Europea n coun tries like Italy In the rice-grow ing world, the Chin ese scie ntist, YuanLongpin g, is a 2. Yuan Longping was born and in China As a boy he was educated in many sch

5、ools and was given the , the stude nt who asks questi on s3. From an early age he was interested in plants He studied in college and as a young teacher he beganexperiments in crop He thought that the key to feeding people was to have more rice and to produce it more quickly. He thought there was onl

6、y one way to do this by differe ntof rice pla nt, and the n he could produce anew plant which could give a higher than eitof theplants.4. First Yuan Longping experimented with different types of rice The results of his experiments were published in China in 1966 Then he began his search for a specia

7、l type of rice plant It had to be male It had tobe Fin ally, in 1970 a _ male rice pla nt was discovered This was the Researchers were from all over China to develop the new system. The research was supported by the gover nment5. As a result of Yuan Longping* s discoveries Chinese rice in the 1990 s

8、 There were other advantages too. 50 thousand square kilometres of rice fields were converted to growing vegetables and other 丄 Following this, Yuan Longpin g s rice was exported to other coun tries, such as Pakista n and the Philipp in es.6. In Pakistan rice is the second most important crop after

9、wheat and will be grown in many parts of thecountry. The new rice has been developed by the Yuan Longping Hightech Company of China Its is much greater than the of other types of rice grown in Pakistan.Rockets1. Today rockets are very advanced machines which we can use to send astronauts into space.

10、 They are also used in firework displays to celebrate great events, such as the end of the Olympic Games or the beg inning of the new mille nnium in the year 2000.2. Rockets were probably inven ted by accident about 2, 000 years ago. The Chin ese had a form of gunpowder which was put in bamboo tubes

11、 and thrown into fires to make explosions during festivals Perhaps some of the tubes jumped out of the fire instead of exploding in it. The Chinese discovered that the gas Escaping from the tube could lift it into the air . The idea of the rocket was born.3. The first military use of rockets was in

12、1232 The Song Dynasty was at war with the Mongols During the battle of Kaife ng, the Song army shot ，zarrows of flying fire，z The tubes were attached to a long stick which helped keep the rocket moving in a straight direction Soon the Mongols learned how to make rockets themselves and it is possible

13、 that they introduced them to Europe Between the 13th and 15th centuries there were many rocket experiments in England, France and Italy. They were used for mi lit ary purposes One It alian scie nt ist even inven ted a rocket which could travel over the surface of water and hit an en emy ship.4. But

14、 not everybody wan ted to use rockets in battles Wan Hu, a Chin ese gover nment official, i nven ted a flying chair. He attached two big kites to the chair , and 47 rockets to the kites The rockets were lit, there was a huge explosion and clouds of thick smoke. When the smoke cleared Wan Hu and his

15、chair had disappeared No one knows what happe ned Did Wan Hu die in the explosi on? Or was he carried miles into space, beco ming the worlds first astr on aut?Module 5 A trip along the Three Gorges1.cave17.dock33.mountainous2.peak18.hilly34.imme nse3.plain19.raft35.fertile4.plateau20.n arrow36.remot

16、e5.shore21.at least37.st eep6.slope22.detour38.varied7.valley23.lege nd/lege ndary39.spot&wood24.be heavy with40.rip off9.flat25.deck41.get a kick out of10.at the edge of26.dista nt/dista nee42.view11.surround27.exploit43.pin12.colleague28.in the dista nee44.n aturally13.dow nstream29.cruise45.torch

17、14.goods30.cabin15.trade31.forbid/forbad/forbade/forbidde n16.temple32.loun geA Trip Alo ng the Three GorgesIn August 1996, Peter Hessler, a young American teacher of English, arrived in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River He and a two years there teaching English at a teacher training college T

18、hey were the only foreigners in the tow n. The first semester fini shed at the end of January and they had four weeks off for the Spring Festival. They could go any where they wished They decided to take a boat 1. We decided to buy tiekets for the Jia ngyou boat Our colleagues said, You should n, t

19、go on those ships They are very crowded They are mainly for and people trading along the river They don t stop at the temples and there won t be any other foreig nersThat soun ded fine to me. We just had to show our passports and they let us get on the boat2. We left the docks on a beautiful after n

20、oon. The sun was shining brightly as we sailed through a on. Men Men rode bamboo rafts along the river s edge and coal boats went past As the sun set we docked at Fengdu. We could see the sun setti ng beh ind the white pagoda It was beautiful3. We slept through the first gorge, which is called the Q

21、utang Gorge The gorge 350 feet as the river rushes rushes through the two-mile-high mountains. 0h, well, “ my friend said, at least we have two more left4 At Wushan we made a the Daning River to see some of the smaller gorges The next day we went through through the big gorges on the Yangtze River I

22、t was a lovely morning as we went through the Wu Gorge We passed iver, home of Qu Yuan, the 3rd century BC poet. There was so much history along the Yangtze River, stream that joined the great river carried its nd every hill ith the pas t5. As we came out of the third gorge, the Xiling Gorge, we sai

23、led into the cons true tion site of the dam. All the passe ngers came on ook pictures and poin ted at the site, but we were n, t get off the boat The Chin ese flag was flag was blowi ng in the wind On a mountain was a sign in 20-foot characters Build the Three Gorges Dam, the Van gtze River, “ it sa

24、idPostcards to MyselfIn 50 years of travelling Colin McCorquodale has visited every country in the world, except three And everywhere he goes, he sends himself a postcard He always chooses a postcard with a beautiful view, and sticks on an interesting stamp Usually he writes just a short message to

25、himself His latest one, from the Malvinas isla nds, reads Good fish ingOn a wall in his home in London there is a large map of the world There are hundreds of little red pins stuck in it. Its good to get a pin in the map,says Mr McCorquodale, but I follow the rules Tm allowed to stick one in only if

26、 Fve been in a place for more than 24 hoursNaturally, Mr McCorquodale has his favourite places New Zeala nd he describes as won derful，z. In Europe, Italy is a favourite placeTheres a saying in the travel trade that all tourists are ripped off Well, at least theItalia ns rip you off with a smile Of

27、China he says, This is one country in the world which is completely differe nt Theres no Europea n in fluenee Its been around for 6,000years,yet its a countryof the futureWherever hegoes,Mr McCorquodale takeswithhim aphoto of his wife, a candle,atorch,a shirtwithasecretpocket,andapen for writing his

28、 postcardsSo why doeshe doit? Forthe postcardsor the travel? Mr McCorquodalelaughsIdoitfor thejourney, hesaysIgetakick out of tiravelling,and allthe planning.”Module 6 Unexplained Mysteries of the natural world1.mon ster17.surface32.fierce2.attack18.horn33.destruct ion /destroy3.footpri nt19.dive34.

29、gen erous/ge nerosity4.hairy20.calm35.un predictable5.frighte ning21.sceptical/skeptical36.emperor6.creature22.un likely/be to37.robe7.grey23.volca nic38.reputati on8.claw24.cover39.border9.exist/existe nee25.adapt to40.positive/negative10.sharp/sharpe n/sharply26.disappear/disappears nee41.in dicat

30、e/i ndicatio n11.nail27.extinct42.ide ntity12.journal28.evolve/evoluti on43.due to13.sighti ng29.die out44.myth14.seal30.throw light on45.fortune15.mysterious/e straight to the point16.claim to do/have doneThe Monster of Lake Tianchiafter severalblack in1. The of Lake Tian chi i n the C

31、han gbai Mountains in Jili n provi nee, n ortheast Chin a, isrecent sightings The director of a local tourist office, Meng Fanying, said the , which seemed to be colour, was ten metres from the edge of the lake during the most recent It jumped out of the water like a about 200 people onChan gbais we

32、ster n saw it, he said Although no one really got a look at the , Xue Junlin, a local photographer, claimed that its head looked like a horse2. In another recent , a group of soldiers they saw an animal moving on the of the water Thesoldiers, who were walki ng along the side of the lake, watched the

33、swimmi ng for about two minu tesIt wasgree ni sh-black and had a round head with 10-ce ntimetre horn s, one of the soldiers said3. A third report came from Li Xiaohe, who was visiting the lake with his family. He claims to have seen a round black movi ng quickly through the water After three or four

34、 hun dred metres it dived into the water. Ten minu tes later the appeared aga in and repeated the acti on. Mr Li Xiaohe said that he and his family were able to see the clearly because the weather was fine and the lake was 4. T here have been reports of mon sters in Lake Tian chi since the begi nnin

35、g of the last cen tury, although no one has seen one. Some photos have been taken but they are not because it was too far away. Many people think the may be a cousin of in Scotia nd. They also th ink that there might be similar creatures in other lakes around the world Scien tists, however, are They

36、 say that the low-temperature lake is to be able to such large livi ng creatures5. Lake Tian chi is the highest lake in the world It is 2,189 metres high and covers an area of about ten square kilometres In places it is more tha n 370 metres deepThe Universal Dragon1. Drago ns can be frien dly or fi

37、erce, they can bring good luck or cause death and destruction , but one thi ng is sure people talk about them almost everywhere in the world For a creature that does nt actually exist, thats quite something.2 In Chinese culture, dragons are generous and wise, although they can be unpredictable The dragon was closely connectedto the royal famil