人教版高二英语教案设计unit12Short passages.docVIP

短文填空 1. The idea of writing the story A Journey to the Center of the Earth c________ from a scientist who explored the crater（火山口） of a certain mountain. Verne got the idea that maybe it would be possible to d__________ even further into the e________. Many of Verne's science s________ have come true in the years f________ his death in the year 1905. A Journey to the Center of the Earth is farthest from r__________. Even with the technology we have t__________, it would be i__________ for one to descend into the earth. As a m________ of fact, we know now that the earth can't be hollow because of extreme pressure and t__________. 2. Jules Verne's Journey to the Center was an e__________ book because instead of the usual facts that are w__________ down, he tells us a story that has theories and facts of the earth included in the storyline. Most of the events t__________ place in the earth itself. This book is about a professor and his nephew who make a discovery that there is a w__________ down to the center of the earth if they ascend a m__________ in Iceland. On their way they meet a guide who l__________ them to the mountain called Mt. Sneffels. After that they descend down into the mountain. They k__________ going down toward the center. They f__________ many dangers and difficulties, such as thirst, getting lost, some i__________ and fatigue. Later in the book they make d__________ that other scientist would have thought that they never existed. 3. Around the World in Eighty Days was written at a time when travel and communications were still a matter of long time. Although the i__________ of steam-powered machines had made the development of trains p__________, they traveled at low speeds Besides railways, steamships were the f__________ and most reliable way of travel. Still, at the time when Jules Verne wrote his book, people believed it was impossible to travel a__________ the world in about 80 days. The story starts in London on October 2, when the main ch