Unit 5 Revealing nature
Developing ideas
词汇知识·自主学习
Ⅰ. 根据语境及汉语提示写出正确的单词及短语
1. a thing of myths and legends(神话传说)
2. talking trees are fantasy (虚幻的)
3. communicate (交流)with each other
4. release (释放) the chemicals
5. detect (察觉) the chemicals
6. the wasps (黄蜂) kill the insects
7. more surprisingly (令人惊讶地)
8. grow crops without pesticides (杀虫剂)
9. an amazing (惊人的) system
10. be linked (联系) by
11. fungal (真菌的) network
12. spread poisons (毒物)
Ⅱ. 选词填空
1. The extinction of the Pinta Island tortoise is blamed on humans.
2. I learned about tennis and got to spend a lot of time with my friends during my holiday.
3. Developing good communication skills is a good way to drive depression away!
4. We call for more educational resources to these places.
5. The Caribbean Sea is well known for its lakes,  volcanoes,  and beaches.
6. It helps you face personal interviews and communicate with the local people and fellow students.
7. Many cultures have stories of talking trees that give advice as well as warning to people.
8. If you want to get a job as a maths teacher,  send your resume to us.
9. They share their emotions and feelings with friends who they have never met in their life.
10. All twenty facilities will be linked by satellite broadcasting system so that employees can see and speak with each other.
翻译下列课文原句, 并观察黑体部分
1. Some of these chemicals drive insects away. Others attract insects—the wasps!  译文: 其中一些化学物质会把昆虫赶走。还有一些吸引昆虫——黄蜂!
2. A chilli plant can tell if a neighbouring plant is helpful,  or unfriendly.
译文: 辣椒可以分辨出附近的植物是友好的还是不友好的。
3. Some trees make clicking noises when there is not enough water,  indicating drought is arriving.
译文: 当没有足够的水时, 一些树会发出咔哒咔哒的声音, 这表明干旱即将来临。
4. Scientists call this system the “wood wide web”.
译文: 科学家称这个系统为“木材万维网”。
5. While the Internet is a worldwide network of computers linked by cables and satellites,  the wood wide web is linked underground by fungi.
译文: 虽然互联网是由电缆和卫星连接的全球计算机网络, 但木材万维网是通过地下真菌连
接的。
阅读研析·合作学习
Task 1框架宏观建构: 整体理解
Skim the passage and fill in the blanks.
Task 2文本微观剖析:  细节探究
1. Choose the best answer.
(1)The recent scientific studies have shown that plants can _______.
A. communicate with other living things in a chemical way when being eaten by an insect
B. hardly react to the chemicals the neighbour released
C. can release some chemicals from the leaves that are being eaten to drive the insects away
D. call the wasps to kill the insects that are eating their leaves
(2)What can we infer from Paragraph 4?
A. People can’t hear the noise created by the plants because we can’t use sound to communicate with them.
B. All the plants can make noises with their roots.
C. Only chilli plants can tell if a neighbour plant is helpful or unfriendly.
D. When some plants make clicking noises, perhaps it suggests drought is coming.
(3)How do you think the plants link with each other in a forest?
A. They can keep linked by cables and satellites like the Internet we use.
B. They have an amazing system of communication called “wood wide web”.
C. They are linked underground by their roots.
D. They use the fu ngal network to share information and food but they can’t attack others like our own Internet.
(4)What might be the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A. To tell us the importance of talking plants.
B. To convince people that talking plants are only a thing of myths and legends.
C. To introduce some ways in which plants communicate.
D. To tell the readers how to communicate with plants.
(5)The text is likely to appear in_______.
A. a newspaper advertisement
B. a diary
C. a science magazine
D. a guidebook
答案: (1)～(5)ADBCC
2. Long sentence analysis.
(1)Using the wood wide web(现在分词短语作方式状语),  plants can share information and even food with each other.
译文: 利用木材万维网, 植物可以彼此分享信息甚至食物。
(2) Scientists are learning more every day about the secret ways in which plants talk to each other(介词+关系代词引导的定语从句).
译文: 科学家们每天都在更多地了解植物之间相互交流的秘密方式。
Task 3阅读思维升华: 主题实践
1. How many secret ways in which plants talk to each other are mentioned in the text? which one is mostly interesting to you? Why?
Three. I think their amazing system of communication is the most interesting to me,  because the system called “wood wide web” is just like our human Internet but it is linked underground by fungi.
2. Do you think it’s useful to study the secrets of plants communication?  Wh y?  What can we benefit from it?
As far as I am concerned,  it is very important to study this. Because it can not only benefit our human beings a lot but also be good to creatures around us. We can better understand the nature,  summarize the law,  and promote the harmony between human and nature for a brighter future of the world.
要点精研·探究学习
*With us long believing that talking plants are fantasy,  new research has revealed something amazing:  it appears that plants can communicate after all.react to翻译
长久以来, 我们一直认为会说话的植物是幻想, 而最新的研究揭示了一些令人惊奇的事情: 植物似乎可以交流。
*(2020·全国Ⅲ卷)“We were so amazed that they could stay underwater much longer than us local islanders, ” Dr. Jubilado said.
“他们能比我们这些当地岛民在水下待的时间长得多, 这让我们感到非常惊讶, ”朱拉多博
士说。
*Think about it differently,  and find an amazingly wonderful way forward.
换一种方式思考, 然后到一种令人惊讶的绝妙的前进方式。
【词块积累】
amaze  vt. 使惊奇
amazingly adv. 令人惊讶地
amazed  adj. 惊奇的, 吃惊的
be/get amazed by 对……感到惊讶
amazement  n. 惊异, 惊愕
to one’s amazement令人吃惊的是
(1)语法填空。
①(2020·浙江高考)Taking pictures of polar bears is amazing(amaze) but also dangerous.
②From his amazed(amaze) look,  I knew he hadn’t expected my early arrival.
(2)What amazes me is how long she managed to hide it from us.
使我惊诧的是, 她竟然瞒了我们这么久。
(3)To everyone’s amazement,  he changed beyond recognition.
令大家惊讶的是, 他变得面目全非。
2. call for 需要;  要求
*This is like a warning, or a call for help.
这就像一个警告, 或者一个求助电话。
*Your father is ill. You should call in a doctor at once.
你父亲病了, 你应该立即去请医生。
*They’ve called off the game because of the thick fog.
因为大雾他们取消了比赛。
*He called upon me to speak immediately after him.
他号召我在他之后立即讲话。
*The injured soldiers called out in pain.
那些受伤的士兵痛苦地大叫。
【词块积累】
call for 需要; 要求; 去接某人

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