课时同步（人教版）高二选修6Unit3

Some people believe that greed and selfishness has become the basis of modern society, and we should return to the old traditions of family and community, then we will have a better life. To that extent do you agree or disagree with the above opinion?
In this fast-paced world, many values are undergoing major changes. While people traditionally prioritize caring, sharing and generosity in life and work, modern people seem to be more self-absorbed and self-concerned.
Modern people act selfishly to survive the harsh competition of life. They say that it is a jungle out there. To survive, you have to fight with whatever means that come handy. Obviously greed and selfishness go perfectly well with such ideas. In a company, employees do everything they can to get better pay and higher position, even at the cost of colleagues. We are in any way advocating any selfish conduct. It is just that people are pressured to act in a certain way due to outside influences.
In spite of common practice, it is hard to conclude that modern society is built on greed and selfishness, both of which are not newly invented vocabulary. In ancient times people also did greedy and selfish things though such behaviors were more condemned then. But we can not ignore the fact that people in the past lived a relatively more isolated life and faced less pressure compared with their modern counterparts.
Are we happier to share with others and be generous to them? There is no fixed answer either. Some people take great pleasure helping and giving to others while others feel happy doing the opposite. But I personally think that people should not be too selfish. Caring for others can actually encourage the development of a mutually beneficial relationship.
In conclusion, modern people appear to be more self-centered than those in the past due to strong outside pressure. However, we should encourage people to know the importance of being caring and generous and to build a mutually beneficial relationship with others.
Are Modern People Becoming More Selfish？

Main comparisons	Contexts
are changing.	In the past people put caring, sharing and generosity in the first  .
Nowadays, people seem to be more  about themselves.
are changing too.	People in the past appeared to be modest and self-effacing（谦逊的）.
People may strive to achieve their own   at the price of their co-workers.
The author’s understanding
for the changes in the author’s eyes	Fierce   and great   on modern people may be responsible for the changes.
The author’s   towards this topic	A relationship which can   two sides should be established.

  Tang Dynasty poets sang for about three centuries in different tones. There were many famous poets living in the Tang period, such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi and Li Shangyin. Poems of the Tang Dynasty edited in the Qing Dynasty is a collection of more than 48,900 poems that were written by over 2,200 poets. But it didn’t cover all the poems of the Tang Dynasty.
During the Tang Dynasty, poems were recited when lovers walked under the moonlight. Poems were also recited when soldiers fought on the battlefield. People recited them in the open air or at temple fairs.
Tang Dynasty poets wrote poems to win fame and also to develop their temperament(性情). They poured our deep feelings for their friends and criticized injustice in the world through poems.
In the Tang Dynasty scholars had to be poets. Their readers were not only people of high social position but also common people. Poets recited poems, women singers sang poems and other ranks of people, including old women and children, read Tang poems. This atmosphere affected foreigners who visited the country at that time. As a result, Tang poetry was introduced to some adjacent countries, like Japan and Vietnam.
Tang poetry is a most brilliant page in the history of ancient Chinese literature. It’s a miracle(奇迹) in the cultural history of mankind. The Tang Dynasty was a powerful empire with a vast territory. It inherited(继承) Chinese civilization that went back to ancient times, was combined with the best of other cultures and adopted the benefits of other nations in the world. Tang poetry wasn’t the only spiritual wealth created by the Tang Dynasty people. Philosophy and religion, handwriting and painting, and music and dance all gained new peaks of development. Tang poetry, however, was the jewel in the crown and its greatest achievement.
We can conclude form the passage that ___ .

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

The underlined word “adjacent”probably means ___ .

What does the author really want to tell us in Paragraph 4?

  The Internet has come a long way in the last couple of decades, and we’re seeing some noticeable generational trends. For instance, one of my friend’s aunts ”friended me” on Facebook, and I noticed that she had three times the number of Facebook friends as her nephew, despite the fact that she has only recently started to spend more time on the Internet. She spends more time on Facebook than he does. Yet he is part of the younger generation that grew up using the Internet.
The beauty of Facebook is in the packaging of the service. Almost every facet of Facebook is technology that existed from years before: e-mail, instant messaging, photo galleries, personal Web pages, RSS, etc. Facebook has taken these functions, which young people have been able to do for the past decade, and made them more user-friendly, more accessible—for young and older generation alike.
Facebook is the second act in the people’s Internet Revolution; the first being America Online, which spurred the adoption of the Internet in the homes of ordinary Americans. In a similar fashion, Facebook is spurring the adoption of Internet use in demographics that have been dismissed as the non-Internet users. It gives people a reason to be online in a way that simply checking e-mail, the 1996 equivalent, did not. Facebook is active in a way that the general population may find more rewarding.
The ability to communicate (or not communicate) with your friends in different ways also heightens the ‘stickiness’ of the service. For example, it tells you who else is using Facebook right now. You can then exchange instant messages with any of them. There’s always one more thing to check, see, or do on Facebook. It’s like a never-ending dinner party and all your friends and family are invited.
Compared with the aunt, the nephew ___ .

What does the underlined word in the second paragraph refer to?

Which is true according to the third paragraph?

Using Facebook, you can ___.

What is the main idea of the passage?

The ___ （街道）of the city were crowded with people.
We made an a___ to the villagers for money to build the bridge.
The old lady was increasingly ___ (虚弱的) after her operation.
Ancient Greece was an advanced ___ (文明).
This store has an excellent r___ for fair dealing.
His designs have a strong ___ （可视的） appeal.
He is one of our p___ employees.
These two ___ （签名） are very similar. Can you tell them apart?
The telephone and gramophone were c___ inventions.
The ___ （委员会） has(have) decided to dismiss him.

翻译短语
（对某人）有吸引力
很值得参观
由某人来定
have an preference for
at the same time
be fond of

用所给单词的适当形式填空

 
The children were having fun, running after each other’s ___.
Einstein never ___ what any others had said until he proved it himself.
The prisoners made several ___ to run away, but failed every time.
In china, citizens are not allowed ___ a gun.
The public call for a return to traditional ___ in education, such as firm discipline.
Despite the objection, he was ___ that he was right.
George won a ___ to study at university.

Many animal and plant species have become extinct and many more are in critical danger. Finding ways to protect the earth’s wildlife and protect the natural world they inhabit is now more important than ever.
Now many animals remain threatened with extinction as a result of human activity.
The dodo is a classic example of how humans caused damage to the earth’s wildlife. The flightless dodo was native to the Island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. It lived off fallen fruit from the island’s trees and lived safely until humans arrived in 1505. The easily controlled bird became a source of food for sailors and was attacked by animals introduced to the island by humans such as pigs and monkeys. The population of dodos rapidly decreased and the last one was killed in 1681.
The rhino(犀牛) horn is a highly prized item for Asian medicine. This has led to the animal being hunted in its natural habitat. Once widespread in Africa, Europe and Asia, most rhinos now live in protected natural parks and reserves. Their numbers have rapidly decreased in the last 50 years, and the animal remains constantly threatened by hunters.
The last 100years has seen a 95% reduction in the numbers of remaining tigers to between 5,000 and 7,000 and the Bali, Javan, and Daspian tigers are already extinct. The South China tiger is close to disappearing, with only 20 to 30 still alive. Like the rhino horn, tigers’ bones and organs are sought after for traditional Chinese medicine. These items are traded illegally along with tiger skins.
The World Wildlife Fund is actively involved in many areas of the world fighting to protect the natural habitats of endangered animals from further damage and curb the activities of hunters. Our own efforts at home and in the workplace can also make a difference. By reducing waste and pollution, saving water, wood, and energy, and reusing and recycling whenever possible, we can reduce the possibility of even more animals being lost, never to return.
The purpose of this passage is to ___.

The common reason why many animals are facing extinction is that ___ .

Which of the following statements about the dodo is TRUE according to the passage?

The underlined word “curb” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to “___”.

 If you have a watch, don’t repair it! I know it __. Once I had a beautiful watch. And this watch __ perfect time. But one night it happened that I forgot to __ it up. The next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to __  by the exact time. The watchmaker examined my watch and said: “The regulator(校准器) is to be pushed up __  your watch is four minutes __ .”
I tried to stop him, and tried to __  him understand that my watch kept perfect time, but he did not listen to me and pushed the regulator.
My beautiful watch began to gain time. It __ faster and faster day by day. By the end of the second month it __  all the clocks and watches of the town far behind.
What did I have to do?  To take it to another watchmaker to be regulated. I expected him to regulate the watch immediately __ he asked me to come in a week’s time. When at last I took my watch from him it began to __  down. And I began to be late for trains, business appointments and even missed my dinners.
Now I went to __ watchmaker. While I waited for him to repair my poor watch, he __ it to pieces and said that he could finish this work __  three or four days. I could do nothing but __ . That time my watch went for half a day and then stopped.
So I kept __  my watch from one watchmaker to another for a considerable period of time.
And as a result of it the cleverest main in the world could not __  the time by my watch. The thing was getting __  . My watch had __  two hundred dollars originally but I paid for repairs more than two hundred. At last I decided to buy _  watch, which I did.
A.for reality      B.for truth     C.for certain       D.for certainty
A.kept             B.told           C.observed          D.struck
A.turn             B.wind           C.pick               D.put
A.be turned       B.be taken       C.be put            D.be set
A.as              B.as if         C.when               D.if
A.fast             B.slowly         C.faster            D.slow
A.get             B.persuade       C.make              D.explain
A.gained          B.lost           C.went               D.won
A.had remained     B.had left      C.had stayed         D.had fallen
A.however          B.and           C.but                D.therefore
A.go               B.walk          C.slow               D.take
A.the third       B.the second    C.the first         D.the forth
A.broke           B.took           C.tore              D.cut
A.after           B.before        C.over              D.in
A.to agree         B.agree         C.agreeing           D.agreed
A.taking          B.bringing       C.carrying          D.fetching
A.recognize       B.tell           C.know               D.understand
A.seriously       B.pleasant       C.badly              D.serious
A.spent           B.took           C.cost              D.paid
A.another          B.the other      C.one               D.one more

  In Britain, people have different attitudes to the police. Most people generally them and the job they do-although there are certain people who do not believe that the police have the power that they do.
What does a policeman actually do? It is not job to describe. After all, a policeman has a number of jobs in . A policeman often has to control traffic, either foot in the center of a town, or in a police car on the roads. Indeed, in Britain, he might be in the Traffic Police and spend all, or a lot of, his time up and down main roads and motorways. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving, stop motorists and help when there is an accident.
A policeman has to help keep the , too. If there is a fight or some other disturbance, we the police to come and restore order. And they often have to situation at great risk to their own .
We expect the police to solve crimes, of course, so an ordinary policeman, he is not a detective, will often have to help and arrest criminals.
And do we call when there is an emergency-an air crash, a , a road accident, or a robbery? We call the police. a policeman has to be to face any unpleasant emergency that may happen in the world.
The police do an absolutely, necessary job, they do it well and I support them, but I do not envy policeman, I do not think that I could do the job of a policeman.
A. dislike        B. join        C. appreciated          D. admire
A. should        B. would       C. could               D. must
A. a funny       B. a pleasant   C. an interesting       D. an easy
A. ut             B. one         C. his                 D. them
A. on            B. by          C. under               D. with
A. walking       B. driving      C. wandering           D. searching
A. resting        B. tired        C. speeding            D. drunken
A. peace         B. silence      C. situation           D. condition
A. wait for       B. call         C. think of            D. expect
A. turn to       B. avoid        C. deal with           D. treat
A. safety        B. families     C. future              D. friends
A. although      B. as if        C. however             D. even if
A. get rid of     B. question     C. kook for            D. sentence
A. how           B. where        C. what                D. who
A. power failure  B. fire         C. thunder storm       D. thief
A. Yet           B. Then         C. As                  D. So
A. provided     B. promised       C. prepared           D. presented
A. future       B. modern         C. real               D. whole
A. extremely    B. specially     C. surprisingly       D. particularly
A. hardly       B. forever        C. ever               D. never

根据首字母提示或者汉语意思写出单词
A lamp is concrete but its brightness is a___ .
I’ ve lost f___ in him.
I wish you weren’t so ___ (传统的) in the clothes you wear.
After much deliberation, the president decided to a___ her suggestion.
Sometimes he sits alone in the s___.
It’s the most ___(荒谬的，可笑的) thing I have ever heard in my life.
They a___ to finish the task before July.
He ___(预言) a good harvest.
Nowadays, tobacco advertisements are more and more ___(有争议的).
It was a c___ that he was born on his mother’s birthday.

选择适当短语填空

 
Just ___, I met my old schoolmate Bob again at the same restaurant fifty years later.
Tom ___ his friends is anxious to visit China.
It would help me ___ if you could give me a ride.
What other activities and interests ___ young people?

___ I know, many thousands of tourists from the mainland have been to Taiwan.

根据汉语意思补全下列句子
为了达到目标，他尝试了所有可能的手段。
In order to achieve the goal, he ___ ___ all the possible methods.
一方面，他对日语不通，另一方面，他也不喜欢日本，因此他不会去的。
___ ___ ___ ___ , he knows nothing about Japanese; ___ ___ ___ ___ , he dislikes Japan, so he 
won’t go there.
制造麻烦是他的特点。
It ___ ___ ___ him to make trouble.
巧合的是，我们正好坐一列火车。
___ ___ , we happened to be traveling on the same train.
我们的经济计划的目的在于巩固中产阶级的地位。
Our economic plan is also ___ ___ straightening the middle-class.

Strange stones of Costa Rica
One of the strangest mysteries in archacology was discovered in the Diquis River Delta, in southern Costa Rica. Since the 1930s, hundreds of stone balls have been found. They range in size from a few centimeters to over two metres in diameter.
Who made these perfect spheres(球体) and how they made them remains a mystery. Some researchers believe the stones were made by extreme heating followed by cooling. People could have polished the spheres with sand or leather. The ancient Costa Ricans had no written language so there is no written record of just how they made the spheres.
Almost all are made of granite (花岗岩), a hard stone created by volcanoes. The granite quarries(采石场) were 25 to 30 miles away from the largest stones, which weigh more than 10 tons each. Nobody knows how people moved them..
Many of the stones have been found near the remains of houses or graves. Some believed that the stones contained hidden treasures and a few have been smashed but nothing has been found inside. Despite these losses, the National Museum of Costa Rica has recorded 130 spheres. However, many stones are not included because they have been removed from their original sites and used as ornaments(装饰) in homes, gardens and churches. Clearly, there are also many stones that lie undiscovered.
The stones were discovered ___ .

The writer ___ in the passage.

The underlined word ”polished” refers to “___”.

According to the passage, which of the following is true?

The passage mainly tells us ___ .

We haven’t fixed a s___ date for our meeting.
There is a ___ （大理石） statue on the corner of the street.
There is a group of f___ on the left of the painting.
His job is to c___ the statue out of the stone.
Alice is a___ to the fur of cats.
I received a b___ of flowers yesterday.
The ___（果肉）of the peach was sweet and juicy.
She is fond of ___(几何学).
The dogs are trained to be ___(好斗的).
She will have an e___ of her pictures.

翻译短语
be allergic to
rather than
works of art
巧合地
一串…；一束…
另一方面
大量的

用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空
If I ___ (be) there, I ___ (stop) him from doing it then.
___ you ___ (come) here earlier, you ___ (meet) the famous singer in the flesh.
I don’t know the French much. Or I ___ (help) a lot in translating the novel.
If it ___ (rain) tomorrow, the plan for camping ___ (cancel).
If I ___ (learn) harder in the past three years, I ___ (be) in the university now.

根据汉语意思补全下列句子
遗憾的是他没有见到刘翔本人。It was a pity that he didn;t meet Liu Xiang ___ ___ ___.
他很喜欢宠物，但是却对动物的皮毛过敏。She is fond of pets but she ___ ___ ___ the fur of them.
有一个男孩站在树下，手里拿着一大束玫瑰花。 A boy was standing under the tree, with ___ ___ ___ ___ in his hand.
如果你没有告诉他这一消息的话，一切都会更好点儿。 If you ___ ___ him the news, everything ___ ___ ___ better.
万一我被公司拒绝的话，我还会再试一次的。___ I ___ turned down by the company, I ___ ___ it again.

  Society today tells us that automatic pencils are a lot better than manual ones which you have to sharpen every 5 seconds. Maybe this is true. However, there are some benefits from using an old-fashioned traditional pencil which you cannot get with an automatic one.
To be honest, it is quite convenient to use an automatic pencil with an easy press on the button. Meanwhile a manual pencil doesn’t enjoy any plus point. But it is sort of strange that manual pencils should be used in standardized tests today. Chances are that the manual pencil makes the line of grey look nicer.
Nowadays, it is always a battle of who has the newest, most high-tech gadget(小装置), from pencils, cars to clothes. The newer it is, it seems the more popular it becomes. If you walk around school, you will for sure find at least three out of ten people walking around with the latest iPhone 4S. If you are one of the luckier ones walking around with the newest Nokia phones, you will get laughed at.
Maybe an automatic pencil is better at the moment, but after using it for a while, usually the pencil will break. Most people lose them and don’t remember to carry extra lead(铅芯) to fill them up with, as it sometimes can do so much that it needs a lot of lead, just like an iPhone 4S needs to be charged after it has done so much work. As for the manual pencil, the lead will also run out but unlike the mechanical pencil it will last longer. Besides, the automatic pencil and the iPhone 4S are more likely to get stolen while the manual pencil along with the Nokia phone will be left alone and most likely-returned to you.

Title	Automatic Pencils   Manual Pencils?
People’s   towards different high-tech gadgets	●The newer-gadget like the iPhone 4s becomes more   . ●You will be   at if using the Nokia phones at school.
Advantages	●We can use the automatic pencil more easily by   the button. ●The manual pencil is   to make the line of grey look nicer. ●The manual pencil can last longer.
	●The automatic pencils usually tend to   after being used for a while. ● People often   to take more lead along to fill the automatic pencil up with. ● with the manual pencil, the automatic one is more likely to get stolen.

  Computers are very important to modern life. Many people think that in the future computers will be used in lots of everyday life. It is thought that we won’t have to go shopping because we will be able to get most things which are sold in shops on the Internet. There will be no more books because we will be able to get all texts from computers. The Internet will be used to play games, see films and buy food. Most telephone calls will be made by computers, too.
Some people are glad about these new ways of shopping and communicating. Others do not think that computers will replace our old ways.
Let’s look at books, for example. Some people think that one day we will not read books made of paper. Instead, we will buy and read books using computers. We will read texts on small pocket computers. The computers will keep many different books in them at the same time. We won’t need to turn lots of pages and paper will be saved. Computerized(计算机化) books will be used more and more.
Is Internet shopping such a pleasure as going to the shop? Many people say it is not. It is a pleasure to go into shops and look at things you want to buy. It is also unlikely that many people will want to read large texts on our computers. Because paper books will perhaps be more friendly. Maybe computers won’t change these two habits.
In paragraph 1 it is thought people will use computers for ___.

Which reason for using computerizes books is NOT said in the passage?

Paragraph 4 tells ___.

The title for this passage is ___ .

I didn’t know your mobile phone number; otherwise I ___ you the moment I got to Changsha.

___ it ___ to rain tomorrow, the sports meeting will be put off until the same time nest week.

___ myself to my study, I would be sitting in a comfortable office now.