高一英语任务型阅读专项训练2.doc

高一英语任务型阅读一
Beggars are often seen sitting by the side of a street with heads bowed as people pass them by. Some ask people passing by for a small amount of money and some just sit and wait to be given money. A few use aggressive behaviour to earn money.
To solve the problem of aggressive begging, an “alternative giving ”  plan has been suggested. Ten blue money boxes will be placed in busy places such as the market and the railway station. It aims to encourage people not to give money directly to beggars but instead to give generously to local homeless causes.
Supporters of this plan think it will be an effective way to solve the beggars’ alcohol and drug problems. But the police oppose the plan arguing that beggars who do not receive cash may turn to criminality to feed their addictions. The homeless charity “Crisis” said the success of any plan will depend on its style. They think that imaginative and positive plans can help create local understanding and sympathy instead of hardness. Most of the beggars dislike the plan because they think they will not get enough money from the boxes for their showers, food and clothes.
Begging is a big social problem both in developing and developed countries. Governments must play a big role in solving this problem. Training beggars to work and helping them to find appropriate jobs is one option. This is especially true for developing countries where many low-skill jobs exist.
The general community should also be educated to see beggars not as dirty and dangerous, but as people who need understanding and help.

Begging problem
Introduction to the begging problem
●Some beggars ask 3_______for money
●Some beggars just sit and wait to be given
money
An “alternative plan” to the problem
In some busy places, such as the market and railway station, ten blue boxes will be placed to 4_______people to give money to local homeless causes.
Different 1________towards the suggested plan
●Supporters of this plan think it very 5______to solve the problem related to beggars.
●The police oppose the plan arguing the beggars may turn to criminality because of 6_______of cash.
●The homeless charity said that it remains to be seen whether this plan would be 7.________.
●Most of the beggars dislike the plan because the money that they will get from the box will not be 8.________.
2._________to the problem
●Governments must be actively 9_______in solving this problem be training beggars to work and helping them to find proper jobs.
●Beggars shouldn’t be 10________ as dirty and dangerous people but as people needing help and understanding.

高一英语任务型阅读二
Global warming is one of the major environmental problems we are facing today. Scientists think a further rise in the carbon dioxide levels will make this situation worse. The greenhouse effect causes the earth’s heat to be trapped in the atmosphere, which results in the increase in temperature. This, in turn, has an effect on various plants and animals. Global warming makes it difficult for some of them to survive.
Ozone depletion means a drop in the quantity of the ozone(臭氧) in the earth’s stratosphere (平流层). The ozone hole in the Antarctic is mainly due to the release of CFCs ( a type of gas). Because of ozone depletion, humans are facing various problems such as the harmful effects of UV rays.
Water pollution is caused when wastes are thrown into water. What’s more, many harmful chemicals are also put into water, which causes the deaths of many wild animals and endangers the health of humans.
The increasing population is causing a loss of natural resources. This is related to various human activities. For example, overfishing has caused many kinds of fishes to die out. Forests are being cleared to meet the rising demand for paper, wood, even for land. Mining, the work of getting gold, coal etc out of the earth, has led to a further drop in mineral resources. If we used up all the resources, how could our children survive on this planet?
These are some of the current environmental problems we are facing today. Only with an effort from each person, can we hope to save our planet from being destroyed.

Environmental
Problem
Cause
Damage
Global
(1)_____-
Increasing carbon
dioxide levels
Making it difficult for
various plants and animals to
(2) ______
(3)______
Depletion
Releasing CFCs
Various problems such as the harmful effects of UV rays
Water (4) _____
Throwing (5)_____
  into water
Adding harmful (6)
  _____into water
Endangering wild animals’ lives
Endangering humans’ (6) ______
The loss of
Natural(8)____
Increasing (9) _____
Various human activities such as （10）_____, cutting down forests and mining
Endangering the next generation

高一英语任务型阅读三
Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Women's education may be an unusual economical field, but increasing women's contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics, with its focus on encouragement, provides an explanation for why so many girls are rid of an education.
Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else's family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school -- the prophecy (观念) becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious (恶性的) circle of neglect.
An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle.
Few will argue that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant effect on health practices, including family planning.

Topic: The significance of female (1)             in developing countries
Viewpoint
Educating girls is more beneficial and worthy of being (2)            .
Families
From low-income families
From educated mothers' families
Attitudes
Girls are of less (3)             than boys.
Development should be for all the (4)             .
Practices
There is (5)             investment in daughters, while boys are sent to school.
Girls are made to stay at home,
(6)             housework.
It is insisted that girls and boys be offered chances to be educated (7)            .
Consequences
A vicious circle
A virtuous circle
Significance
Educating women (8)             to social benefits, has economic advantages and (9)              health practices significantly, including family planning.
(10)             
Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding.
高一任务型阅读训练四

For centuries people dreamed of going into space．This dream began to seem possible when high-flying rockets were built in the early 1900s.
In 1903 a Russian teacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky figured out how to use rockets for space travel．His plan was the first one in rocket science to use correct scientific calculation．About 30 years later, a U.S．scientist named Robert Goddard built the first rockets that could reach high altitudes．During World War II, German scientists built large rockets that could travel very far and carry dangerous explosives．After the war, scientists from Germany went to the United States and the Soviet Union to help those countries build space rockets.
These two countries were soon racing to get to space first．Each of these countries wanted to prove that it was stronger and more advanced than the other one．Both countries also had powerful bombs．People in the United States were worried when the Soviets were first to launch a space satellite, which was called Sputnik．The Soviets were also first to send a person into space．Yury Gagarin orbited the earth in the Vostok I spaceship in 1961.
The US government set a goal for its space program to be the first country to put a person on the Moon．The U.S．space program built a series of Apollo spaceship．These vehicles were powered by huge Saturn 5 rockets．In 1969 Apollo II took three men to the moon successfully．Nell Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon.
The Soviets may have lost the race to fly people to the Moon, but they built the first space station in 1971．The United States also built a space station．The space stations allowed people to live and work in space．Then the Soviet Union and the United States cooperated to hook two spaceships together in space．This action ended the "space race"．Today a much larger space station, built by several countries together, orbits Earth.
Another new way to go to space is by space shuttle．A space shuttle, first made in the United States in 1981, looks like an airplane．Astronauts who fly spaceships have used shuttles to help put satellites into space.

History of space travel
Time
Events
Information concerned
Early 1900s
High-flying rockets were built.
It made the ancient dream of going to space possible to come 1) ▲
1903
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky 2) out a way to use rockets for space travel.
He planned to put correct scientific calculation to use in rocket science.
Around 3 ▲
Robert Goddard built new rockets.
The rockets could fly very 4) ▲ in the sky.
During and after World War II
German scientists built large rockets that could travel very far and carry dangerous explosives.
Germany was ahead of all the other countries in building space rockets and later it 5) ▲ the Soviet Union and the United States

The Soviet Union and the United States competed to get to space first.
The Soviet Union became the 6) ▲ of the competition when it launched the first satellite and sent the first astronaut into space.
1969
The United States was7) in putting a person on the moon.
In one way, it 8) ▲ the Soviet Union by becoming the first country to fly people to the moon.
1970s
The Soviets built the first space station and was soon followed by Americans．And they finally ended the "space race" by 9)
Astronauts can live and work in space stations.
1980s--
Space shuttles are used as new vehicles for space 10 .
Shuttles are also used to help put satellites into space.
高一任务型阅读训练五

Whenever we meet with difficulty or failure, teachers, parents or others often say to us or perhaps we say to ourselves, “Never give up.” These can be encouraging words and words of determination. A person who believes in himself will keep trying to reach his goal no matter how many times he fails. In my opinion , the quality of determination to succeed is an important one to have. Therefore, I believe that we should never give up.
   One reason is that if we give up too easily, we will rarely achieve anything. It is not unusual for us to fail in our first attempt at something new, so we should not feel disappointed and should try again. Besides, if we always give up when we fail , we will not be able to develop new skills and grow.
   Another reason we should never give up is that we can learn from our mistakes so that we can not make the same ones. If we do not try again, the lesson we have learned is wasted
Finally, we should never give up because as we work to reach our goals, we develop confidence, and this confidence can help us succeed in other areas of our lives. If we never challenge ourselves, we will begin to doubt our abilities.
In short, it is important that we do not give up when working for our goals. Whether we succeed in the end or not , we will learn something , and what we learn will help us to become better and more confident. Furthermore, if we give up , we have no chance of attaining our goals any more , but if we keep making great efforts, there is always a chance that we will succeed one day.

Topic: Never Give Up

Possible meanings and the author’s opinions
♣ The words “ Never give up” can1_ _ others or oneself and express one’s determination.
♣ A person who wants to 2______ should have the quality . So we should never give up.

The 3________
♣If we give up too easily, maybe we will achieve 4_______, so when we fail in our first attempt at something new, we should not5_______ ourselves but try again.
♣ Always giving up means that we will not be able to 6_______ any progress.
♣ Never giving up will make us learn from the mistakes we’ve made before and learn the 7_______ so as not to make the same mistakes.
♣ To reach our goals and develop the confidence which can help us 8_______ourselves, we must not give up but challenge ourselves.
Conclusions
If you give up, you will have no 9______of reaching your goals. Never give up and you will attain your goals sooner or 10_______

高一任务型阅读训练六

Although many Chinese students say that their knowledge of English grammar is good, most would admit that their spoken English is poor. Whenever I speak to Chinese students they always say, “ My spoken English s poor”. However, their spoken English doesn’t have to remain “poor”. I would like to suggest that there may be some reasons for their problems with spoken English.
First, they fail to find suitable words to express themselves due to a limited vocabulary. Obviously the better answer is to expand their vocabulary. However, you can speak with a limited vocabulary, if your attitude is positive. Others will follow you as long as you use the words that you know.
Second, they are afraid of making mistakes. Sometimes they make mistakes when they are speaking, because they are shy and nervous. Yet students should remember that their goal should be fluency not accuracy. Your aim in writing is to be accurate following the rules for grammar and using tenses to get your message across. But to talk to someone in English, as quickly and well as you can, even though sometimes you may use a wrong word of tense, but it doesn’t matter because the person you are speaking to will understand you.
The third reason is that not enough attention is paid to listening. you have one mouth but two ears! All that hearing is necessary for you to start speaking.
Fourth, most Chinese students are reactive