分层作业7 Starting out Understanding ideas（新教材外研英语必修3Unit 3　The world of science（教师用书+分层作业））.docxVIP

课时分层作业(七) Ⅰ.单词拼写 根据首字母或汉语提示完成下列句子。 1．Marie Curie was a world-famous chemist． 2．What would you do，for instance，if you found a member of staff stealing? 3．I can work out the problem and it is really beyond my ability. 4．As a biologist，Darwin contributed a lot to the understanding of human evolution. 5．Although he was injured during the game，he held out until the last. 6．We should translate this sentence in passive (被动的)voice. 7．His fathers words had a significant (重大的) influence on his future. 8．The special species (物种)here are rarely seen in other places of the world. 9．What a brilliant (聪明的)idea to go outing with the whole family in sunny day. 10．According to the theory (理论)of relativity，nothing can travel faster than light. Ⅱ.阅读理解 A David Rees runs a truly distinctive business.He charges customers $15 to sharpen their pencils to perfection，using a variety of tools. I know what youre thinking—is this a joke？The 39-year-old gets asked that question a lot.To clarify everything，he even created a special section on his website telling everyone hes actually providing a real service. You can supply your own pencil or you can have Rees sharpen one of his own favorite 2B pencils.After that，he mails it to you in a display tube with the shavings in a separate bag，and an authentic certificate which just happens to mention the pencil is so sharp as to be a dangerous object. To achieve the desired result，the master sharpener uses all kinds of tools，including general sandpaper，pocket knives and even a special $450 sharpening machine.“It depends on what the customer wants to use his/her pencil for，”he says.That determines the most appropriate pencil-sharpening technique.Some customers buy pencils as inspirational symbols while others buy them because of their special memories of classic 2B pencils. $15 to have a pencil sharpened is a bit expensive though，right？Youre not the only one who feels that way，and Davids unique business has really angered lots of people，who talk of inequa