1-5单元课件中的阅读理解题及答案.doc

Unit 1True or False 1. The problem for advanced students is that the more they learn, the less they know. （F）Students may feel that the more they learn, the less they know, which according to the author, is not true. The problem for advanced students lies in the seemingly much slower progress they are making at this level.2. Beginners can make obvious progress because they are learning the basic structures and patterns of the language which they can put into practice more easily. （T）3. The teacher feels frustrated because he can do nothing when he sees his students struggling with the bewildering variety of idioms and phrases and more complex structures and patterns. （ F）Because he finds his efforts appear to produce less obvious results.4. Students feel frustrated when they discover that the process of learning English does not appear to become simpler. （T ）5. According to the text, some students give up learning English because they are disgusted at the teachers’ frustration. （F）Because they are now confronted with a vast untouched area of English vocabulary and usage which falls outside the scope of basic textbooks and it is difficult for them to make and see any progress. 6. The author thinks that a good command of the more complex language structures and patterns is indispensable for students to make themselves well understood in the communication. （F ）According to the author, the more complex structures and patterns one encounters in a language are not as vital to making oneself understood and so have a less immediate field of application.7. At the advanced level, selecting what should be taught has become more challenging for teachers. （ T）Questions and Answers1. Does the author think the suggestion practicable that students should spend a few years in an English-speaking country? Why or why not?No, he doesn’t, because few students can afford the time and money to do so.2. What does the author think of wide reading?He thinks it is helpful and that it is necessary to make some kind of selection.What is the author’s advice to teachers of English?Teachers should choose the right teaching material and use the right method so that students can become fluent both in speaking and in writing.Unit 2 noneUnit 3 True or False1) All of us are fully aware of our self-image, i.e. a mental picture of ourselves. (F) 2) You will act like the person of your self-image subconsciously. (T)3) It has been difficult for some people to change their way of life because their efforts at change are directed to their self-images. (F)4) In order to think positively about a particular situation, you have to hold a positive concept of self. (T)Unit 4Questions and Answers1. How would most parents in the past feel if their child had developed certain abilities or inclinations at an earlier age than usual?They would feel upset2. What do many parents believe now? They believe that to be exceptional at an early age will put a child in an advantageous position.3. What’s your opinion about the two assumptions: “early ripe, early rot” and “early ripe, early rich”? Do you agree?Open-ended.4. Have you found that many parents in China today also entertain the notion that we can create exceptional children by early instruction? If you have, please come up with your examples.Open-ended.Unit 5True or False 1. Science started as soon as history began to be recorded. ( F )Science had its beginnings before recorded history.2. It is nature’s dependability that enables humans to control it. ( T )3. Supernatural forces prevented science from advancing. ( F )The powerful opposition to scientific methods and ideas made advance slow.4. Bruno supported Copernicus when Copernicus’s book was still banned by the Church. ( T )5. Geologists were condemned for centuries because they disapproved of the Genesis account of creation. ( F )They were condemned in the early 1800s, but safe later in the same century.6. Though evolution theories were taught in class, they met with violent condemnation. ( F )Theories of evolution were condemned and the teaching of them forbidden.Questions and Answers1. What methods are mentioned in scientific study in this part?Galileo’s cookbook method, trial and error, experimentation without guessing, accidental discovery, etc.2. Why is Aristotle’s idea that falling bodies fall at a speed proportional to their weight false?According to Galileo’s law of falling bodies, bodies fall at the same speed and with the same acceleration regardless of their weight and size. This law was confirmed by an experiment conducted on the moon in 1971.3. What must scientists first overcome in order to see the truth? They must first of all overcome humanity’s weakness of self-deception.4. What makes the most widespread assumptions the least questioned?Because when people adopt the assumption, they tend to pay special attention to cases that support it, and distort, belittle or ignore cases that refute it.5. What is the diff。