牛津译林版八下Unit4Agoodread 单元整体作业设计
People’sinterestinlivinginspacehasneverstopped.SunshineMiddleSchoolisnowhaving
a Space Week. The Class One Grade Nine students are doing a project named “ living in outer
space”.
一、基础性作业
1.Danielandhisgroupmembersaretalkingabout lifeinouterspace.Fillintheblankswith
thehelpofpicturesorwords.
Sandy: It’s said that you’ve been interested in living in outer space these days. Is that true,
Daniel?
Daniel:Yes.I’vereadmanybooksaboutit.
Amy: Doyouwanttotraveltospaceoneday?
Daniel:Yes.Iamreallylookingforwardtothat.
Simon:Whatwouldyoutakeifyoutraveltoanotherplanet?
Daniel:I’dtakeapairof becauseofthelow .
Besides,I’dtakea .
Sandy: If I travel to outer space, I would take some d_______ food because there’s no fresh
_________ or_________ .
Daniel: I’ve found out an article about life in space. Some people believe by the year 2100,
________ could live on Mars. With the __________(develop) of technology, the journey to Mars
mightonlytakeabout20minutesinspacecraftthattravel___________(以光速).Bythen,alarge
numberof__________(乘客)cantraveltherebyspacecraft.
Sandy:Butthejourneymightbevery_________(comfortable).Astheearthisbecoming
more and more __________ and __________ , I am afraid that we
wouldhavetofindanotherplanettoliveon.
Daniel: ________(compare) to Earth, Mars might be a little better, ________(special) in
environment.Simon,Doyouin_________(agree)thatwemightliveonMarsoneday?
Simon:It’shardtosay.________lifeonMarsmightbehardand_________(challenge),moreand
morepeoplewouldthinkaboutmovingthere.
Amy: The world is changing so _______(rapid) and there would be more__________(possible)
waitingforus.
Sandy:Iquiteagree.Ireallywonderwhattheworldwouldbelikein100years.
Daniel:Metoo.2. IsthereanylifeonMars?Danielhasfoundanewsreportaboutthisquestion.Butsome
wordsaremissing.Readandcompleteit.
The question whether there is life on Mars has made the public think a lot for more than a
century．Theclosestpicturewhichwassentbackbythec____1____showedMarstobeadusty,
cold world, covered by air too thin to b____2____．A British spaceship and Europe's Mars
spaceshipplantol____3____onMarsorentertheorbitaroundit．OneoftheNASA's(美国宇航
局)spaceshipsis e_____4____to landon January3rd, the other is going toland on the opposite
sideofMarsonJanuary24th．
Since 1960, over twenty spaceships which were sent to Mars have f____5___．Most have
beenlostonflyinguporlandingbecausethosearethemostdifficulttimesofanyflights．
Scientists wanted to find out whether there was water on Mars．In October, a team of
scientistsreportedthatMarshadbeenad____6____wasteland．Butweekslater,asecondteam
reported d______7_____ that they had found some marks showed clearly that they were made
bytherivers．Suchm____8____toldusthatMarswasawarmerplacebillionsofyearsago, －
justaslifefirstappearedhereonEarth．Scientistsatoncer_____9___aquestion：ifwhatthey
saidist___10_____,
whathappenedonMars?ThenwhatabouttheEarth?
3. Alice, Daniel’s classmate, has written an article about her opinions and questions about
livingonanotherplanet.Butsomeinformationismissing.Let’shelphercompleteit.
SinceNeilArmstrongsteppedontothemoonsurface,peoplehavebeenmore
and more interested in outer space. I still remember I took my first flight
________________( 在 我 十 岁 时 ). I felt so excited
________________________(因为速度很快) thatI fellin love with flying in the
airatonce.WhenIgotolder,Iwastoldthat__________________________(没有
了重力), everything will float in the air. How amazing! Since then, I have read a
lotof books aboutflying in space. Ihave beenaware_________________________(地球和月球
的距离). When I think _________________________(糟糕的气候和环境问题) on the earth, I
am a little worried about our future. I start to wonder __________________________(是否搬离
地球). Over these years, people have known more about Mars and they have found Mars is a
planet _________________________(拥有和地球相似的环境） but its gravity is only
three-eighths of that on earth. That means if we move there one day, we would see
__________________________(穿特制靴子的人们).Besides,there
is no Oxygen on Mars, people would have to wear air tanks if they
live there. Though I know _________________________(地球生活
和太空生活有别）, I am still looking forward to moving to Mars
andIamsurealltheseproblemswillbesolvedifwenevergiveup.二、拓展性作业
1. MrWu has recommend students a documentaryabout the exploration
ofMars.Watchthisdocumentaryandtakesomeimportantnotes.
2. Daniel is now working on a report about life on Mars. Daniel has read a new report by
chancerecently.Buthehas difficultyfindingoutthe answerstothe questions. Let’sreadthe
articleandhelpDanieltogether.
The plan: turn Mars into a blue world with streams and green fields, and then fill it with
creaturesfromtheearth.
Are you in agreement that this idea may sound like something from a science fiction, but it is
actuallybeingtakenseriouslybymanyresearchers.
This suggests the future for the "red planet" will be the main topic for discussion at an
international conference hosted by NASA this Week. Leading researchers as well as science
fiction writers will attend the event. It comes as NASA( 美 国 宇 航 局 ) is preparing a
multi-billion-dollarMarsresearchprogramme.
"Turning Mars into a little earth has long been a topic in science fiction," said Dr. Michael
Meyer, NASA's senior scientist. "Now, with scientists exploring the reality, we can ask what are
therealpossibilitiesofchangingMars."
Mostscientists agree thatMars wouldbepossibletoturnintoalittle earth,althoughmuchtime
andmoneywouldbeneededtoachievethisgoal.Butmanyexpertsareshockedbytheidea.
"We are destroying our own world at an unbelievable speed, and now we are thinking that we
couldruinanotherplanet,"saidPaulMurdinfromtheInstituteofAstronomy,Cambridge,UK.
Over the past months, scientists have become increasingly confident that they will be able to
find Martian life forms. Europe and America's robot explorers have found the proof that water,
mixedwithsoil,existsinlargeamountsontheplanet.
Inaddition,onMarch28,twodifferentgroupsofscientistsannouncedthattheyhadfoundsigns
of methane(甲烷) in the Martian atmosphere, the gas is a waste product of living creatures and
couldbeproducedbymicrobes(微生物)livingintheredplanet'ssoil.
But scientists such as Dr. Lisa Pratt, a biologist at Indiana University, say that these microbes
willbeputindangerbythelittleearthproject."Before we have even discovered if there is life on Mars, we are talking about carrying out
projectsthatwoulddestroyallthesenativelifeforms,allthestrangemicrobesthatwehopetofind
buriedinthesoil,"saidDr.Pratt.
Monica Grady, a planetary scientist at the Natural History Museum, London, shares this view.
"We cannotrisk starting aglobalexperimentthatwouldwipe outthe preciousinformationwe are
lookingfor,"shesaid."Thisisjustwrong".
1. WhoisinterestedinthefutureofMars?
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2. WhatdoesDrMichaelMeyerthinkisthelong-termtopicinsciencefiction?
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3. CouldPaulMurdinagreeontheplanforchangingMarsintoalittleearth?
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4. WhyhavescientistsbeenconfidentthattheywillbeabletofindlifeformsonMars?
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5. What’sthebesttitleforthisarticle?
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三、综合实践性作业
1. DrawamapaboutlifeonMarsoranotherplanetandintroduceittoparents.
2. To do this project, there is another task. Work in groups of four. Make a survey on your
groupmembers’ideasaboutwhethertoliveonMarsorotherplanet.Doyoubelieve Ifyoucanhavea Doyouhaveany
Students’ thathumans chance,wouldyou Why? worriesaboutit?
names mightmoveto liketomovetoMars Whynot? Ifso,whatarethey?
anotherplanet? oranotherplanet?
A
B
C
Yourself
2.Writeareportaccordingtotheresultandmakeaspeechinfrontofthewholeclass.
Dearteachersandclassmates:
Today I am glad to make a speech about life in outer space. During this week, we have studied a
lotandwehavefurtherunderstandingaboutthistopic.
Inourgroup,____________________________________________________________________
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