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高中英语专题

Ⅰ.Match the word with its meaning.

1.terrify A.追逐,追赶,追踪

2.chase B.害怕,恐惧

3.disgust C.呼吸

4.emotion D.使惊恐,使受惊吓

5.murder E.拒绝

6.refuse F.对照

7.breathe G.谋杀

8.contrast H.冲,猛冲

9.rush I.使觉得恶心;使厌烦

10.fear J.感情;情绪

答案:1~5 DAIJG 6~10 ECFHB

Ⅱ.Write down the meaning of phrases in each sentence.

1.The cold weather contrasts with last week's heat. 与……形成对照

2.I was struck with amazement as I saw the great ship for the first time. 第一次

3.Teachers, like a candle, burn out themselves to give light to others. 燃尽,烧完自灭

4.She wanted to cry out, but she couldn't make a sound. 发出声音

5.When leaving the airport she waved again and again to us. 一再,屡次

6.I threw myself on the bed and fell asleep immediately I got home. 扑倒在……上

1.Look at this photo. What is it? Could you tell the class something about this photo?

参考答案:It is the photo of Dolly the sheep (1996-2003).Dolly became a scientific

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sensation when her birth was announced in relatively early death in February

2003 fuels the debate about the ethics of cloning research and the longterm health of

clones.

2.What are your opinions of cloning?

参考答案:Cloning has some advantages we can make use of. For example, we can clone some

organs used for curing some serious illnesses or we can clone some animals which have

died out. However, I think cloning humans is unacceptable because it can bring about

many unexpected problems.

Ⅰ.Fastreading

Match the following parts with their main ideas.

Part 1 A.How the scientist felt when he saw the ugly creature he created.

Part 2 B.The main plot of

Frankenstein.

答案:Part 1-B Part 2-A

Ⅱ.Carefulreading

Choose the best answer according to the text.

1.Why could Frankenstein create the monster?

A.Because he wanted to prove his ability.

B.Because he had some magical power.

C.Because he wanted to make more money.

D.Because he discovered the secret of how to create life.

2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A.The monster hated all the people around him because they all treated him badly.

B.The monster could speak but didn't have human emotions.

C.The monster died in the ice and snow in the end.

D.The monster chased the scientist to the Arctic.

3.Which word can be used to describe the scientist's feeling after seeing the monster?

A.Excited. B.Regretful.

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C.Satisfied. D.Astonished.

4.Why did Frankenstein wake shaking with fear?

A.Because he had terrible dreams.

B.Because the monster kept touching him.

C.Because the monster kept talking to him.

D.Because he saw his dead wife.

5.How did Frankenstein like his creation?

A.It was a success.

B.It was a failure.

C.It was a wonder.

D.It was a small achievement.

答案:1~5 DCBAB

Ⅲ.Studyreading

Analyze the difficult sentences in the text.

1.The creature, which is very large and strong, and is also extremely ugly, terrifies

anyone who sees it.

[句式分析]

[尝试翻译] 这个怪物异乎寻常地高大强壮,并且极其丑陋,吓坏了所有见到它的人。

2.Feeling very anxious, I prepared the equipment that would give life to the thing that

lay at my feet.

[句式分析]

[尝试翻译] 它躺在我的脚边,我紧张不安地准备好赋予它生命的设备。

阅读理解

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Last spring, I worked in Washington D.C. There I visited Ford's Theater and looked at

Abraham Lincoln's impressive memorial (纪念碑).But at the National Museum of Health

and Medicine, my nose could almost touch pieces of the man himself: a lock of his hair,

pieces of his skull and a handkerchief with his blood on it. As I stood there, I wondered,

“Could we clone Abraham Lincoln?”

Since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996, scientists have cloned mammals from mice to

mules, but we've never cloned a human. Maybe it's a horrible desire, but if we ever decided

to clone someone, I would vote for Abraham Lincoln.

After Abraham Lincoln was shot, his doctors and friends collected bits of his skull and

bloody pieces of cloth for autopsy (尸检). Locks of his hair were passed around like

holy relics. Long before they knew about DNA, these pieces of Lincoln represented the

essence (本质) of the man.

While we do have his genes, we probably don't have the entire DNA sequence needed for

cloning. Sheryl Bernauer, lab supervisor for the DNA Sequencing Facility at UC Davis,

said that when cells die over time, the DNA becomes less useful. The DNA in Lincoln's

145yearold bloodstains and hair is probably futile for cloning. “The hair itself would

be very hard to get the entire DNA sequence from unless you have a complete follicle

(毛囊),” Bernauer said. We don't have any of Lincoln's follicles, so that's a nogo.

Still, it's interesting to think about how the development of cloning has changed the

way we view human remains. Humans have always honored the dead, but now we know that

— in DNA at least — part of the dead lives on.

语篇解读:作者思考了我们是否可以克隆出Abraham Lincoln的问题,但目前来说条件不允许。

1.At the National Museum of Health and Medicine, the author .

A.touched pieces of Abraham Lincoln

B.looked at Abraham Lincoln's memorial

C.was asked about cloning Abraham Lincoln

D.saw something belonging to Abraham Lincoln's body

解析:选D 细节理解题。根据第一段的“But at the National Museum of Health and

Medicine ...a lock of his hair, pieces of his skull and a handkerchief with his blood

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on it.”可知,作者在那里看到了一些林肯身上的东西。

2.Why were bits of Abraham Lincoln's skull and bloody pieces of cloth collected?

A.To remember him.

B.To learn about his death.

C.To store for cloning in the future.

D.To be passed around like saintly relics.

解析:选B 推理判断题。根据第三段的“his doctors and friends collected bits of his skull

and bloody pieces of cloth for autopsy (尸检).”可知,是为了了解Abraham Lincoln的死因。

3.What does the underlined word “futile” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A.Useless. B.Interesting.

C.Exciting. D.Necessary.

解析:选A 词义猜测题。根据第四段的“when cells die over time, the DNA becomes less useful

(毛囊)”可知,该词是指那些血迹里的DNA可能已经“没用”了。

4.It's implied in Paragraph 4 that a complete follicle .

A.doesn't have cells that die over time

B.is in Abraham Lincoln's remains

C.doesn't tell well about someone's genes

D.has one's entire DNA sequence

解析:选D 推理判断题。根据第四段的“The hair itself would be very hard to get the entire

DNA sequence from unless you have a complete follicle”可知,完整的毛囊里面有完整的基因序列。

B

If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding

of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough

exercise — and as a result, we are ageing unnecessarily soon.

Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern

Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age,

and how the process of ageing could be slowed down.

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With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain

volumes of a thousand people of different ages and varying occupations.

Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the

volume of the front and side sections of the brain, which relate to intellect (智力)

and emotion, and determine the human character. (The rear section of the brain, which

controls functions like eating and breathing, does not contract with age, and one can

continue living without intellectual or emotional faculties.)

Contraction of front and side parts — as cells die off — was observed in some

subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in some sixtyyearolds and

seventyyearolds.

Matsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple remedy to the contraction

normally associated with age — using the head.

The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in

people in the country than in the towns. Those least at risk, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers,

followed by university professors and doctors. White collar workers doing routine work

in government offices are, however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm workers,

bus drivers and shop assistants.

Matsuzawa's findings show that thinking can prevent the brain from shrinking. Blood

must circulate properly in the head to supply the fresh oxygen the brain cells need.

“The best way to maintain good blood circulation is through using the brain,” he says,

“Think hard and engage in conversation. Don't rely on pocket calculators.”

语篇解读:一项研究表明多思考、多用脑会让人老得慢一些。

5.The team of doctors wanted to find out .

A.why certain people age sooner than others

B.how to make people live longer

C.the size of certain people's brains

D.which people are most intelligent

解析:选A 细节理解题。由第二段“Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why

otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think

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and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of ageing could be slowed down.”可知医生们想要弄清楚为什么一些人比其他人老得更快。

6.On what are their research findings based?

A.A survey of farmers in northern Japan.

B.Tests performed on a thousand old people.

C.The study of brain volumes of different people.

D.The latest development of computer technology.

解析:选C 细节理解题。由第三段“... he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand

people of different ages and varying occupations.”可知选C。

7.The doctors' test shows that .

A.our brains shrink as we grow older

B.the front section of the brain does not shrink

C.sixtyyearolds have better brains than thirtyyearolds

D.some people's brains have contracted more than

other people's

解析:选D 细节理解题。由倒数第二段“The findings show in general terms that contraction

of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns.”可知医生们的测试发现,一般而言,乡下人比城市里的人的大脑萎缩得更早。故选D。

8.The word “subjects” in Paragraph 5 means “ ”.

A.something to be considered

B.branches of knowledge studied

C.persons chosen to be studied in an experiment

D.any member of a state except the supreme ruler

解析:选C 词义猜测题。由画线词后的“...but it was still not evident in some sixtyyear-olds and seventyyearolds.”可知“subjects”指的是被选入实验做研究的人。故选C。

C

The Hall of Presidents is about to get terrible, at least if Disney's researchers

get their 's because they're face cloning people at a laboratory in Zurich in

order to create the most realistic animatronic (电子动物的) characters ever

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of all, yes, Disney has a laboratory in 's one of the six around the world

where the company researches things like computer pictures, 3D technology and, I can

only imagine,how to absorb money out of your pocket at most when you visit Disneyworld.

What does physical face cloning involve? Researchers used video cameras to catch

several expressions on a subject's face, recreating them in 3D computer models down to

individual wrinkles and facial then experimented with different thicknesses

of silicone (硅树脂) for each part of the face until they could create an example for

the perfect synthetic (合成的) skin.

They put that silicone skin on a 3Dprinted model of the subject's head to create

their very own replica. As the authors of the study point out, it's not all that different

from creating a 3D model for a Pixar movie, except that in real life you have to worry

about things like materials and the motors that make the face change expressions.

The plan is to develop a complete process for making the physical reproduction (复制品) of a human face on animatronics equipment, meaning all you'll have to do in the

future is record a person's face and the computer will do the rest. This is a different

process than the one used to make the famous Geminoid robots from Osaka University, whose

skin is individually made by artists through experiments and mistakes.

In order to give the researchers more degrees of freedom in copying facial

expressions, the next step is developing more advanced equipment and multilayered

synthetic skin. That means next time you go on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, don't

be surprised to see a terrifyingly realistic Johnny Deppbot playing with an appropriately

deadeyed Orlando Bloom.

语篇解读:本文主要介绍了当今克隆面部表情的一些信息。

9.According to the passage, Disney's laboratory researchers

are able to .

A.clone people freely

B.create the real animals

C.develop computer technology

D.make visitors spend more money

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解析:选D 推理判断题。根据第一段中的“...I can only imagine, how to absorb money out

of your pocket at most when you visit Disneyworld.”可知,“我”能想象到当你参观迪斯尼世界的时候,迪斯尼会从你的口袋里最

大限度地捞钱。由此可推出,迪斯尼的研究者们可以让游客进入迪斯尼世界后最大限度地掏钱消费。

10.What equipment do researchers need to start their “face cloning”?

A.Video phones and 3Dfilms.

B.Video cameras and 3D computer models.

C.3D TVs and Video cameras.

D.Computers and 3D TVs.

解析:选B 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“Researchers used video cameras to catch several

expressions on a subject's face, recreating them in 3D computer models down to individual

wrinkles and facial hair.”可知,研究人员利用摄影机来捕捉一个实验对象的几个脸部表情,然后在3D计算机模型上重新创造个体的皱纹和面部毛发。由此可知,研究人员制作面部表情需要的设备是摄影机和3D计算机模型。

11.What does the underlined word “replica” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A.A copy of the original.

B.A new subject's head.

C.A changed subject's head.

D.A changed silicone skin.

解析:选A 词义猜测题。根据第三段中的“They put that silicone skin on a 3Dprinted model

of the subject's head to create their very own ...”可知,他们把硅树脂做的皮肤压制在实验对象头部的3D打印模型上是为了创造他们自己的复制品。由此可猜测出画线单词的含义为“复制品”。

12.What's the main idea of this passage?

A.Some information about face cloning.

B.The process of making face cloning.

C.Some new information about Disney.

D.Where to buy face cloning products.

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解析:选A 主旨大意题。本文主要介绍了当今克隆面部表情的一些信息。

[课 文 对 译]

Frankenstein's Monster

Part 1The story of Frankenstein

Frankenstein is the name of a young scientist from Geneva, in Switzerland. While studying

at university, he discovers the secret of how to create life. Using bones from dead bodies,

he creates a creature that resembles a human being and gives it life. The creature, which

is very large and strong, and is also extremely ugly, terrifies anyone who sees it.

However, the monster, who has learnt to speak, is intelligent and has human emotions.

He becomes lonely and unhappy when he cannot find any friends and soon he begins to hate

his creator Frankenstein. When Frankenstein refuses to create a wife for him, the

monster murders Frankenstein's brother, his best friend Clerval, and finally,

Frankenstein's new wife Elizabeth. The scientist chases the creature to the Arctic

in order to destroy him, but he dies there. At the end of the story, the monster disappears

into the ice and snow to end his own life.

Part 2Extract from Frankenstein

It was on a cold November night that I saw my creation for the first time. Feeling very

anxious, I prepared the equipment that would give life to the thing that lay at my feet.

It was already one in the morning and the rain fell against the window. My candle was

almost burnt out when, by its tiny light, I saw the yellow eye of the creature open.

It breathed hard, and moved its arms and legs.

How can I describe my emotions when I saw this happen?How can I describe the monster

who I had worked so hard to create? I had tried to make him beautiful. Beautiful! He

was the ugliest thing I had ever seen! You could see the veins beneath his yellow skin.

His hair was black and his teeth were these things contrasted horribly with

his yellow eyes, his wrinkled yellow skin and black lips.

I had worked for nearly two years with one aim only, to give life to a lifeless body.

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For this I had not slept, I had destroyed my health. I had wanted it more than anything

in the world. But now I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and horror and

disgust filled my heart. Now my only thoughts were, “I wish I had not created this

creature, I wish I was on the other side of the world, I wish I could disappear!”When

he turned to look at me, I felt unable to stay in the same room as him. I rushed out,

and for a long time I walked up and down my bedroom. At last I threw myself on the bed

in my clothes, trying to find a few moments of sleep. But although I slept, I had terrible

dreams. I dreamt I saw my fiancée walking in the streets of our town. She looked well

and happy but as I kissed her lips, they became pale, as if she were dead. Her face changed

and I thought I held the body of my dead mother in my arms. I woke, shaking with fear.

At that same moment, I saw the creature that I had created. He was standing by my bed

and watching me. His mouth opened and he made a sound, then seemed to smile. I think

he wanted to speak, but I did not hear. He put out a hand, as if he wanted to keep me

there, but I ran out of the room. I hid in the garden and stayed there till morning,

terrified by what I had done. Again and again I thought, “I wish I had not done this

terrible thing, I wish I was dead!”

You cannot imagine the horror of that face! I had seen him when he was unfinished —

he was ugly then. But when he stood up and moved, he became a creature from my worst

nightmares.,弗兰肯斯坦的怪物

第一部分 《弗兰肯斯坦》的故事梗概

弗兰肯斯坦是瑞士日内瓦一位年轻的科学家。还在上大学时,他就发现了怎样创造生命的秘密。利用死人的骨头,他制造出一个像人的生物,并赋予了它生命。那个生物异乎寻常地高大、强壮,并且极其丑陋,任何人见了它都感到害怕。但是,怪物却有着人类的智力和情感,并学会了说话。由于找不到任何朋友,他感到非常孤独和难过,并开始憎恨创造他的那个人——弗兰肯斯坦。当弗兰肯斯坦拒绝为他造一个妻子后,怪物杀害了弗兰肯斯坦的兄弟和他最好的朋友克莱瓦尔,最后,还杀死了弗兰肯斯坦的新婚妻子伊丽莎白。为了除掉怪物,弗兰肯斯坦追赶他到北极,但他却死在了那儿。故事的结尾部分,怪物在冰天雪地中结束了自己的生命。

第二部分 《弗兰肯斯坦》节选

我是在11月的一个寒冷的晚上首次看到我的作品的。它躺在我的脚边,我紧张不安地准备了赋

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予它生命所需的设备。时间已是凌晨1点,雨点敲打着窗户。我的蜡烛即将燃尽,就在此时,借着微弱的烛光,我看见了那个生物睁开了黄色的眼睛。它喘着粗气,挪动着四肢。

该怎样描述我看见这一切发生时内心的感受呢?该怎样描述我费尽心血创造出来的这个怪物的模样呢?我曾尽力想把他创造得好看一些。好看!他是我看到过的最丑陋的东西!他黄色皮肤下的血管依稀可见。他的头发是黑色的,牙齿是白色的。但这些却与他的黄眼睛、皱巴巴的黄色皮肤以及黑嘴唇形成了骇人的对比。

我忙了近两年,目标只有一个人,将生命注入一具尸体。为此,我放弃了睡眠,累坏了身体。它一度是这个世界上我最想要的东西。但现在我已经完成了创作,梦想中的美丽已荡然无存,恐怖和厌恶充斥着我的心灵。现在,我唯一的想法是:“但愿我没有制造出这个家伙,但愿我身处世界的另一边,但愿我可以消失!”当他转过身来看着我时,我受不了和他待在同一个房间里。我冲了出去,接下来的很长时间就在自己的卧室来回踱步。最后我和衣倒在床上,试图睡一会儿。尽管我睡着了,但是噩梦连连。我梦见我的未婚妻走在城镇的大街上。她看上去健康而且快乐,但是,当我亲吻她时,她双唇失色,犹如死人。她的脸变了,我感觉拥抱着的是我死去的母亲。我浑身战栗着吓醒了。就在那一刻,我看见了我创造出来的怪物。他正站在我床边,看着我。他张开嘴,发出一个声音,然后像是笑了。我猜他想说什么,但是我没听见。他伸出手来,好像是想拦住我,但我冲出了房间。由于害怕,我藏身花园,一直待到天亮。我一遍又一遍地想:“但愿我没有做过这可怕的一切,但愿我死了!”

你无法想象那张脸有多可怕!当他还没有生命的时候,我看着他,只觉得他丑陋。但是当他站起来行走后,他就成了我最可怕的噩梦中的怪物。

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