模块六•Unit 1

1、模块六·Unit 1一、完形填空(2019届江苏省海安高级中学高三阶段检测)In childhood, we often linked fear with imagination, afraid that a monster was hiding behind the door or under the bed, or that an airplane would crash on our houses.As we grow up, we're often encouraged to think of _1_ as weakness. However, scientists

2、have actually shown that human beings tend to be optimists. So maybe that's _2_ we think of fear, sometimes, as a danger in and of itself. “Don't worry，” we like to say to one another, “Don't panic.” In English, fear is something we _3_. It's something we overcome. But what if we loo

3、ked at fear in a(n) _4_ way? What if we _5_ fear as an amazing act of the imagination?Maybe it's no _6_ that some of our most creative minds _7_ to leave fears behind as adults. The incredible _8_ that produced “The Origin of Species”， “Jane Eyre” and “The Remembrance of Things Past” _9_ intense

4、 worries that affected the _10_ lives of Charles Darwin, Charlotte Bronte and Marcel Proust. So the question is, what can the rest of us learn about fear from imaginations and young children?Now, some of us naturally _11_ our fears more _12_ than others. Recently I read about an essay of study on su

5、ccessful businessmen, and the _13_ found that these people _14_ a habit that he called “productive paranoia(偏执狂)，” which meant that these people, instead of _15_ their fears, read them closely, they _16_ them, and then they _17_ that fear into preparation and action. So that way, if their worst fear

6、s came true, their businesses were _18_And maybe if we all _19_ to read our fears, they could offer us something as _20_ as our favorite works of literature: a little wisdom, a bit of insight and a version of that most elusive thingthe truth.() BdangerCimagination Dchildhood() Bwhat Cbecause Dwhere(

7、) Blike Cpanic Dimagine() Bstrange Cridiculous Dfresh() of Brelied onCthought of Dcounted on() BwayCsignificance Dcoincidence() Bfail Ctry Ddecide() BdeterminationsCpreparations Dimaginations() BgeneratedCrelieved Dcriticized() BdisastrousCadult Dearly() BexposedCread Dhid() BsecretlyCroughly Dreluc

8、tantly() BauthorCreaders Dothers() Bsuffered Cshared Dsought() BreportingCdismissing Dwriting() BhidCabandoned Dstudied() BtransferredCtransmitted Dtransplanted() BruinedCdeclining Dready() BhesitatedCfailed Dallowed() BpreciousCconscious Dsuspicious二、阅读理解After my pubic lectures on evolution, someon

9、e in the audience asks, “Are we still evolving？” People want to know if humans are getting taller, smarter, better looking or more athletic. My answer is truthful but disappointing: We're almost certainly evolving, but we don't know in what direction or how fast. We've seen some evolutio

10、n in our species over the past few millennia(千年), but it was detected by reconstructing history from DNA sequences. For example, we know that during the past 10，000 years, several populations of humansthose keeping sheep, cows or goats for milkgained the ability to digest dairy products. This trait

11、was useless in our earlier ancestors who, after babyhood, never encountered milk. And in the past 3，000 years, Tibetans have acquired genetic adaptations that allowed them to develop well in their high­altitude, low­oxygen home. But these well­documented changes are limited to particu

12、lar populations, so the evidence for recent evolution of our entire species, remains not much. The authors of Evolving Ourselves disagree. Not only, they claim, are we evolving faster than ever, but we're doing it to ourselves. Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans argue that humans have controlled ev

13、olutionnot just in our own species but virtually in all species: “For better or worse, we are increasingly in charge. We are the primary drivers of change. We will directly and indirectly determine what lives, what dies, where, and when. We are in a different phase of evolution: the future of life i

14、s now in our hands.”According to the authors, we've replaced natural selection with what they call “unnatural selection”. Overfishing, for example, has reduced the average size of many fish species, for taking the biggest fish selects in favor of those that reproduce when younger and smaller.Yet

15、 while there's no doubt that we're changing the planet, the claim that we're completely changing evolution on the planet does not follow. Let's take those fish that are evolving to reproduce smaller and younger. This phenomenon has been documented in many species that we eat, but thi

16、s is just a minuscule fraction(极小的一部分) of the 30，000 known species of fish. The authors speak with unwarranted assurance about how our species is evolving in response to nearly everything. When they assert, for example, our ingestion(摄取) of drugs and exposure to chemicals mean that “our children'

17、;s brains are evolving fast，” they are overplaying their hand and abusing the word “evolution”. Out children's brains may be changing fast in response to the new pharmacological(药理学的) environment, but change alone is not evolution.()1.The two examples in Paragraph 2 are given to _ Ashow in what

18、direction humans evolve Bexplain the importance of DNA sequences Cillustrate the evidence for evolution of our entire species is insufficient Ddemonstrate how slow humans have evolved over the past few millennia()2.The authors of Evolving Ourselves claim that_ Ahumans dominate the future of other li

19、fe Bfish become smaller because of natural selection Chumans are to blame for changing the planet for the worse Dthe boundary between natural selection and unnatural selection is unfixed()3.What is the major question discussed in the passage? AAre humans still evolving? BIs unnatural selection power

20、ful? CAre humans the main driver of evolution? DDoes evolution require many genetic changes?三、书面表达请阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。It is true that all of us need recreation(娱乐). We cannot work or study all the time if we are going to maintain good health and enjoy life. Good physical and mental health i

21、n fact enables us to work or study more efficiently.Everyone has his own way of relaxing. Perhaps the most popular way is to participate in sports. There are team sports, such as baseball, basketball, and football. There are individual sports, also, such as golf and swimming. In addition, hiking, fishing, skiing and mountain climbing have a great attraction for people who like to be in the great outdoors. Chess, card­playing, and dancing are forms of indoor re