2017-2018学年度高中英语 Unit 4 Astronomy the science of the stars Section Ⅱ Warming Up Reading-Language Points课时作业 新人教版必修3.docVIP

Unit 4　Astronomy: the science of the stars Section 　Warming Up Reading－Language PointsⅠ.单句语法填空 1．Smoking is harmful (harm) to your health, so you should give it up or at least cut down on it. 2．There are lots of religions (religious) in the world and everyone has the right to believe in them. 3．There are a great number of different theories (theory) about learning styles throughout the world. 4．What makes the things worse is that he has lost his patience. 5．The new law makes it possible for us to get more chances in the country. 6．In summer the house will be too hot for the old man to_live (live) in. 7．Social attention should be paid to preventing our earth from being_polluted (pollute)． 8．The wind was so violent (violence) that several big trees were blown down by it. 9．Tom is unlike (like) his brother, Tony. He is outgoing, while Tony is shy. 10．The four-year-old Russian girl has drawn global (globe) attention for her great gift for languages. Ⅱ.阅读理解 American researchers are making final plans to send a spaceship into space for a possible meeting with an asteroid (小行星). The spaceship is called OSIRIS-Rex. It is six meters long and shaped like a mans bow tie (蝶形领结). The asteroid is called Bennu. It is larger than the Empire State Building in New York City. Bennu weighs about 60 million tons and is traveling at a speed of more than 100,000 kilometers an hour. The huge space rock is getting closer to Earth. It comes as close as 500,000 kilometers to the planet every six years. Researchers want to take a close look at Bennu because it is considered one of the most dangerous asteroids in our solar system. The American space agency, NASA, will start its research next month. The plan is to put OSIRIS-Rex in orbit (轨道) around Bennu in about two years. The spacecraft will not land on Bennu, but will make contact (接触) with the asteroid for about five seconds. At that time, a part of the spacecraft will gather about 60 grams of material from Bennus surface. All of that mate