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必修第三册UNIT4阅读题组——练速度

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Ⅰ.阅读

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TheBookList

UnderaWhiteSkybyElizabethKolbert

ElizabethKolbert’sbook,UnderaWhiteSky,eateengineeringandotherbidstoaddresshumanity’simpactonnature.Below,thePulitzerwinningauthorofTheSixthEmendsseveralotherbooks.

EncounterswiththeArchdruidbyJohnMcPhee(1971)

McPhee’svividportraitofDavidBrower,theCaliforniamountaineerconsideredbymanytobethe“father”ofthemodernenvironmentalmovement,isaclassic.Itintheprocessposesoneofthecentralquestionsofourtime:Canadeveloped,technologicalsocietycoexistwithnature,orarethetwocontradictory?

Spillover:AnimalInfectionsandtheNeicbyDavidQuammen()

Forunderstandinghowourbehaviourtowardsanimals,bothdomesticatedandwild,madethepandemics—inevitable,there’snobetterguide.

TheAlchemyofUs:HowHumansandMatterTransformedOneAnotherbyAinissaRamirez()

Ramirez,amaterialsscientist,arguesthatwithourtechnologieswehavetransformednotjusttheworldaroundusbutalsoourselves.It’safascinatingidea,andRamirezmakesitcomealivethroughthestoriesofinventors,somewell-known,othersunderappreciated.

AFriendoftheEarthbyT.C.Boyle()

Fictionaboutecologicaldisastertendstobewritteninatragickey.Boyle,bycontrast,favoursthedarklycomic.Inthisnovel,setin,anagingenvironmentalistiscaringforapopstar’sNoah’sArk-likeanimalshelterwhenarealfloodarrives.

1.Whatdothesebookshaveincommon?

A.Theyareallcollectionsofshortstories.

B.Theyareallaboutpeopleandtheplanet.

C.Theyallfocusontheeffectsofanimals.

D.Theyallintroducethemostinfluentialpeople.

2.WhatkindofbookisAFriendoftheEarth?

A.Asciencefiction. B.Atragedy.

C.Amysterynovel. D.Acomedy.

3.Whosebooktellsabouttheimpropertreatmentofanimals?

A.ElizabethKolbert. B.JohnMcPhee.

C.DavidQuammen. D.AinissaRamirez.

B

Asurveyhasshownthatwhatyoudoonaplanecanbedeter