新人教高中英语选择性必修一Workbook文章电子稿.docx

1、新人教高中英语选择性必修一Workbook文章电子稿Unit 1 PEOPLE OF ACHIEVEMENTHEROES IN YOUR EYESEveryone knows the people who have helped to change the face of the world in recent years. From Bll Gates tQ Steve Jobs to Jack Ma, few would not recognise their names. However, those who work tirelessly behind the scenes often

2、 go unnoticed, in spite of their great achievements. If you know anyone who deserves to have their contributions recognised, we would love to hear from you! Let us know how these people have helped to make a difference in your eyes.The person I respect most is the geophysicist Huang Danian, who help

3、ed China to make many technological advances.Huang was a remarkable scientist. He had studied and worked in Britain for 18 years, but when he felt that his country needed him, he gave up his well-paid job and returned to China. Over the next seven years, Huang worked to develop many devices needed f

4、or deep-sea exploration.Unfortunately, such achievements didnt come cheap. Due to the frantic pace of his research, Huang was absent from his fathers funeral, and even his own cancer went undetected as he had no time to see a doctor. To sum up, Huang sacrificed everything for his research, and I thi

5、nk more people should honour him.(Zhang Keyu, Hubei)I want to tell everyone about two teachers on Changyu Island, Wang Kaiquan and Lin Zhujin. Few people know about this hometown of mine. The island is beautiful, but its quite isolated, and there arent many modern conveniences. In bad weather, even

6、our water and power supplies are unstable. People who have never been to our island are often surprised by this and find it hard to adjust. Many who live on the island dream of leaving. These two primary school teachers, however, have stayed on for 23 long years! They are the only teachers here, and

7、 they plan to stay for as long as there are children who need to attend school.I want to thank them, and let the world know about these teachers who work tirelessly every day for the sake of the children.(Chen Xueyin, Fujian)My mother, Liu Shurong, is my greatest inspiration. She is 47 years old and

8、 works as a cashier at a neighbourhood supermarket.I used to think her job was pretty easy, but now that I am older, I realise that my mother deserves respect for doing an amazing job all these years. She works long hours every day for the sake of our family, and she still finds the time to help wit

9、h household chores and spend time with me.My mother takes pride in her work. She faces customers with a smile and works hard even when she is tired. Because of her, I have learnt to stay positive even when times are hard.(Luo Tengfei, Jilin)THREE DAYS TO SEE(Adapted)Helen KellerI have often thought

10、it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. Now and then I have tested my seeing friends to discover what they see.Recen

11、tly I asked a friend, who had just returned from a long walk in the woods, what she had observed,“Nothing in particular,”she replied. How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worthy of note? I who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me thr

12、ough mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch,or the rough, shaggy bark of a pine. In spring I touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud, the first sign of awakening Nature after her winters sleep. Occasionall

13、y, if I am very fortunate, I place my hand gently on a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song. At times my heart cries out with longing to see all these things. If I can get so much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sight. And I have imagined wha

14、t I should most like to see if I were given the use of my eyes,say for just three days.On the first day, I should want to see the people whose kindness and companionship have made my life worth living. I do not know what it is to see into the heart of a friend through that“window of the soul, the ey

15、e. I can only“seethrough my finger tips the outline of a face. I can detect laughter,sorrow,and many other obvious emotions. I know my friends from the feel of their faces.For instance, can you describe accurately the faces of five different friends? As an experiment, I have questioned husbands abou

16、t the colour of their wives eyes, and often they express embarrassed confusion and admit that they do not know.I should like to see the books which have been read to me, and which have revealed to me the deepest channels of human life.in the afternoon I should take a long walk in the woods and intox

17、icate my eyes on the beauties of the world of Nature. And I should pray for the glory of a colourful sunset. That night,I should not be able to sleep.On my second day, I should like to see the pageant of mans progress, and I should go to the museums, I should try to probe into the soul of man throug

18、h his art. The things I knew through touch I should now see. The evening of my second day I should spend at a theatre or at the movies.The following morning, I should again greet the dawn, anxious to discover new delights, new revelations of beauty. Today, this third day, I shall spend in the workad

19、ay world, amid the haunts of men going about the business of life.At midnight permanent night would close on me again. Only when darkness had again descended upon me should I realise how much I had left unseen.I am sure that if you faced the fate of blindness you would use your eyes as never before.

20、 Everything you saw would become dear to you. Your eyes would touch and embrace every object that came within your range of vision. Then, at least, you would really see, and a new world of beauty would open itself before you.I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomo

21、rrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of

22、flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty, which the world reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that

23、 sight must be the most delightful.Unit 2 LOOKING INTO THE FUTURECLONING: WHERE IS IT LEADING US?When it was announced in 2018 that the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai had created the worlds first cloned monkeys, Zhongzhong and Huahua, heated discussions followed online. In fact, cloning has

24、 always been with us. It is a way of making an exact copy of another animal or plant. It happens in plants when gardeners take cuttings from growing plants to make new ones. It also happens in animals when identical twins are produced from the same egg. These are both examples of natural clones.Clon

25、ing has two major uses. First, gardeners use it to produce large quantities of plants for sale. Second, it is valuable for research on new plant species and for medical research on animals. Cloning plants is fairly straightforward, while cloning animals is much more complicated and difficult. Over t

26、he years, many scientists failed in their attempts to clone animals, but their determination and patience paid off in 1996 with a breakthroughthe cloning of Dolly the sheep.The sheep cloning procedure works like this:Female sheep A provides an egg cell.The nucleus is removed from the egg cell.The eg

27、g cell is ready for a new nucleus.Female sheep B provides a somatic cell(体细胞) for the clone. The nucleus of this cell contains all the genes needed to produce a new sheep.The nucleus is taken out of the somatic cell.With the advances of scientific research, cloning will have several major uses in th

28、e future. For one thing, it could be used to breed animal species which are endangered, or even bring back species which are now extinct. For another, it could be used to grow human organs or tissue in animals, which could be used for human organ transplants or medical treatments. Finally, cloning c

29、ould be used to breed animals that will provide us with higher quality meat, milk, or eggs.While there are technical issues that need to be worked through to make widespread cloning possible, the biggest concerns are moral. For example, if scientists brought an extinct animal back into existence, it

30、 would probably end up living in a zoo. That is not very good for the animal. Even worse for the animal is using it as a source of organ transplantsbecause it will be injured or even die. In addition, many people worry that eating animal products that result from cloning might be harmful to our heal

31、th over time. The possibility of using cloning to produce human beings is an even bigger concern. What would happen if such knowledge ended up in the wrong hands?When it comes to cloning, we wonder, ultimately, whether cloning will help or harm the world. No doubt, we will be talking about this ques

32、tion for a long time to come.OUR GREATEST ADVENTUREIn the 1960s and 1970s, some writers and university professors called themselves futurists”These futurists tried to predict the future. Only a few of their predictions were right, and all of them missed something that was just around the corner; the revolution in computers and information technology. The problem was that none of these futurists were scientists or engineers. So, while they knew the future would have more powerful computers, they had no clue what these computers would look like, what they could do, or what impact they w