1、高中英语必修四Unit15课文填空练习Unit 1 Women of achievement A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Africa. Following Janes way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest. Jane has studied these families of chimps for ma
2、ny years and helped people understand how much they b_ like humans. Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day. This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before. Everybody sits and waits in the s_ of the trees while the family
3、begins to wake up and m_ off. Then we follow as they wander into the forest. Most of the time, chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family. Jane warns us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right. However, the evening mak
4、es it all w_. We watch the mother chimp and her babies play in the tree. Then we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night. We realize that the b_ between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human family. Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp b_. She spent years o_ and
5、 recording their daily activities. Since her c_ she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment. However, this was not easy. When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest. Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she
6、 allowed to begin her project. Her work changed the way people think about chimps. For example, one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat. Until then everyone had thought chimps ate only fruit and nuts. She actually observed chimps as a group hunting a monkey and then eati
7、ng it. She also discovered how chimps communicate with each other, and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system. For forty years Jane Goodall has been o_ about making the rest of the world understand and r_ the life of these animals. She has a_ that wild animals shoul
8、d be left in the wild and not used for e_ or advertisements. She has helped to set up special places where they can live safely. She is l_ a busy life but she says:Once I stop, it all comes c_ in and I remember the chimps in laboratories. Its terrible. It affects me when I watch the wild chimps. I s
9、ay to myself, Arent they lucky? And then I think about small chimps in cages though they have done nothing wrong. Once you have seen that youcan never forget . She has achieved everything she wanted to do: working with animals in their own environment, gaining a doctors degree and showing that women
10、 can live in the forest as men can. She i_ those who want to cheer the achievements of women.答案: behave;shade;move off;worthwhile;bond;nest;behavior;observing;childhood;outspoken;respect;argued;entertainment;leading;crowding;inspires; WHY NOT CARRY ON HER GOOD WORK?I enjoyed English, biology, and ch
11、emistry at school, but which one should I choose to study at university? I did not know the answer until one evening when I sat down at the computer to do some research on great women of China. By c_ I came across an article about a doctor called Lin Qiaozhi, a specialist in womens diseases. She liv
12、ed from 1901 to 1983. It seemed that she had been very busy in her chosen career, travelling abroad to study as well as writing books and articles. One of them caught my eye. It was a small book explaining how to cut the death r_ from having and caring for babies. She gave some simple rules to follo
13、w for keeping babies clean, healthy and free from s_. Why did she write that? Who were the women that Lin Qiaozhi thought needed this advice? I looked carefully at the text and realized that it was i_ for women in the countryside. Perhaps if they had an e_ they could not reach a doctor. Suddenly it
14、hit me how difficult it was for a woman to get medical training at that time. That was a g_ when girls education was always placed second to boys. Was she so much cleverer than anyone else? Further reading made me realize that it was hard work and determination as well as her gentle nature that got
15、her into medical school. What made her succeed later on was the k_ and c_ she showed to all her patients. There was story after story of how Lin Qiaozhi, tired after a days work, went late at night to d_ a baby for a poor family who could not pay her. By now I could not wait to find out more about h
16、er. I discovered that Lin Qiaozhi had devoted her whole life to her patients and had chosen not to have a family of her own. Instead she made sure that about 50,000 babies were safely delivered. By this time I was very excited. Why not study at medical college like Lin Qiaozhi and c_ on her good wor
17、k? It was still not too late for me to improve my studies, prepare for the university entrance examinations, and.答案:chance;rate;sickness;intended;emergency;generation;kindness;consideration;deliver;carry;Unit 2 :Working the landA PIONEER FOR ALL PEOPLE Although he is one of Chinas most famous scient
18、ists, Yuan Longping considers himself a farmer, for he works the land to do his research. Indeed, his s_ face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like those of millions of Chinese farmers, for whom he has s_ for the past five d_. Dr Yuan Longping grows what is called s_hybrid rice. In 1974,
19、he became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow rice that has a high o_. This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce one-third more of the c_ in the same fields. Now more than 60% of the rice produced in China each year is from this hybrid strain. Born into a poor farmers
20、family in 1930, Dr Yuan graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then, finding ways to grow more rice has been his life goal. As a young man, he saw the great need for increasing the rice output. At that time, h_ was a d_ problem in many parts of the countryside. Dr Yuan searched
21、 for a way to increase rice harvests without e_ the area of the fields. In 1950, Chinese farmers could produce only fifty million tons of rice. In a recent harvest, however, nearly two hundred million tons of rice was produced. These increased harvests mean that 22% of the worlds people are fed from
22、 just 7% of the farmland in China. Dr Yuan is now c_ his knowledge in India, Vietnam and many other less developed countries to increase their rice harvests. T_ to his research, the UN has more tools in the b_ to r_ the world of hunger. Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as
23、large as before. Dr Yuan is quite s_ with his life. However, he doesnt care about being famous. He feels it gives him less f_ to do his research. He would much r_ keep time for his hobbles. He enjoys listening to violin music, playing mah-jong, swimming and reading. Spending money on himself or lead
24、ing a comfortable life also means very little to him. Indeed, he believes that a person with too much money has more rather than fewer troubles. He t_ gives millions of yuan to e_ others for their research in agriculture. Just dreaming for things, however, costs nothing. Long ago Dr yuan had a dream
25、 about rice plants as tall as sorghum. Each ear of rice was as big as an ear of corn and each grain of rice was as huge as a peanut. Dr Yuan awoke from his dream with the hope of producing a kind of rice that could feed more people. Now, many years later, Dr Yuan has another dream: to e_ his rice so
26、 that it can be grown around the globe. One dream is not always enough, especially for a person who loves and cares for his people.答案:sunburnt;struggled;decades;super;output;crop;hunger;disturbing;expanding;circulating;Thanks;battle;rid;satisfied;freedom;rather;therefore; equip;grain;export; CHEMICA
27、L OR ORGANIC FARMING ?Over the past half century, using c_ fertilizers has become very common in farming. Many farmers welcomed them as a great way to stop crop disease and increase p_. Recently, however, scientists have been finding that long-term use of these fertilizers can cause damage to the la
28、nd and, even more dangerous, to peoples health. What are some of the problems caused by chemical fertilizers? First, they damage the land by killing the helpful bacteria and p_ as well as the harmful ones. Chemicals also stay in the ground and underground water for a long time. This affects crops an
29、d, therefore, animals and humans, since chemicals get inside the crops and cannot just be washed off. These chemicals in the food supply b_ up in peoples bodies over time. Many of these chemicals can l_ to cancer or other illnesses. In addition, fruit, vegetables and other food grown with chemical f
30、ertilizers usually grow too fast to be full of much n_. They may look beautiful, but inside there is usually more water than vitamins and m_.With these d_, some farmers and many customers are beginning to turn to organic farming. Organic farming is simply farming without using any chemicals. They f_
31、 on keeping their s_ rich and free of disease. A healthy soil r_ disease and helps crops grow strong and healthy. Organic farmers, therefore, often prefer using natural waste from animals as fertilizer. They feel that this makes the soil in their fields richer in minerals and so more fertile. This also keeps the air, soil, water and crops f_ from chemicals. Orga
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