While I respect him, I don’t agree everything
he says.
While he works hard at English, he is still poor in it.
D ______ volleyball is her main focus, she’s also great at basketball. A. Since B. Once
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Whether GM plants are safe for Paragraph 5 the environment.
Many countries are cautious Paragraph 6 with this new technology.
Fast reading
2. If we continue in this way, what might happen? The planet we live on will be eventually destroyed.
3. What different attitude towards
environmental conservation? One side: If we focus only on environmental
Read the second passage and then
answer the following question:
How can a plant or an animal be
genetically modified?
How can a plant or an animal be genetically modified?
GM food: hope or danger? Read the passage again carefully and then find the main idea of each paragraph.
Read the article and give the main idea for each paragraph.
2. Do you think the problem of humans winning and nature losing can be settled? If so, can you suggest some solutions?
1.How do people harm nature? People have harmed nature through agriculture, fishing, hunting and tourism.
concerned about saving nature while
many poorer nations pay more attention to economic development but less to the
environment.
GM food: hope or danger?
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Main idea I n recent years, there has been great progress in the study of genetics.
There are two ways in which a plant or an animal can be genetically modified.
拜托某人
do sb. a favour
= do a favour for sb. 帮助某人 find favour with a person 受青睐
favour sb. with sth. 对某人施„„恩惠
【真题在线】
When asked about their opinions about the
2. Do you think the problem of humans
winning and nature losing can be settled? Yes, it should not be a question of humans winning and nature losing.
Careful reading Read the passage again carefully and then find the main idea of each paragraph.
3. While many people are excited about these new technologies, these same technologies frighten others. 尽管许多人对这些新技术感到兴奋，但其 他人则对这些同样的技术感到害怕。
while在这里的意思是“尽管；虽然”。
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Humans are moving towards an important point Paragraph 3 ______________. in the relationship with nature Humans can only really win Paragraph 4 by_________________. protecting nature
难道我们为了保护自然就应该停止
发展吗？ in favour of: 有利于;赞同（接名词、代 词和动名词）
I’m in favour of your plan. The policy is in favour of the less developed countries.
【拓展】
ask a favour of
He arrived at the station on time, running all way. D Sarah pretended to be cheerful, _____nothing about the argument. A.says B. said C. to say D. saying
Unit 3 Science and nature
Project
Man and nature
Fast reading
Read the first passage on Page 58 and then
answer the following questions:
1. How do people harm nature?
are only doing what humans have always
done, using nature to meet our own needs. 根据有些人的观点，我们只是在做人类一
直在做的事情——利用自然满足我们自己
的需求。
point of view 意思是“观点;着眼点” 。
using nature to meet our own needs是现在分 词短语，在句中作状语，表示方式。 People developed a way of printing, using rocks.
More reading
Read the passage again and then answer more questions.
1. What have people done to nature? They have done a lot to destroy and damage nature.
schoolmaster, many teachers would prefer to
see him step aside _____ younger men. C A. in terms of B. in need of
C. in favor of
D. in praise of
2. From the point of view of some people, we
conservation, then people may suffer. Should
the economic development be stopped in
favor of nature? we are only doing what
humans have always done, using nature to meet our needs.
First, new material can be inserted into
its DNA to give the plant or animal qualities
which is would never have in nature. Second, material can be taken from the DNA of a
seldom、hardly、nowhere等。
Never have I taken a plane. Seldom do I have time to go to the cinema now.
D We’d say that never before_______ so moving a film as After Shock. A．we had seen B．had we seen C．we have seen D．have we seen
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One aim of GM research is to Paragraph 3 produce food which will make us healthier.
Many questions have been Paragraph 4 raised about GM food.
plant or an animal in order to remove