Section Ⅳ Learning about Language & Using Language课前预习检测单词识记1.construct (vt.) 建设；修建→construction (n.) 建设；建筑物2．contribute (vt.& vi.) 捐献；贡献→contribution (n.) 贡献3．positive (adj.) 积极的；肯定的→positively (adv.) 积极地4．spin (vi.& vt.) (使)旋转；纺(线或纱)5．move (v.) 移动；搬动→movement (n.) 移动6．enthusiastic (adj.) 热情的；热心的→enthusiasm (n.) 热心；热情7．cautious (adj.) 小心的；谨慎的→cautiously (adv.) 小心地→ caution (n.) 谨慎8．reject (v.) 拒绝→rejection (n.) 拒绝9．universe (n.) 宇宙；世界→universal (adj.) 宇宙的；全世界的；普遍的10．responsible (adj.) 有责任的→responsibility (n.) 责任心；责任短语完形1.apart_from 除……之外；此外2．be_strict_with 对……严格的3．come_to_an_end 结束4．be_enthusiastic_about 对……热心/充满热情5．lead_to 导致；通向6．make_sense 讲得通；有意义7．take_in 吸收；理解；欺骗8．work_on 从事；致力于；努力提高9．at_times 有时；偶尔10．contribute__to 有助于；对……做出贡献；捐助语篇理解根据课文内容填空Nicolaus Copernicus was frightened and his mind was __1__ (confuse) when all his mathematical calculations led to the same conclusion __2__ the earth was not the centre of the solar system. Only if you put the sun there __3__ the movements of the other planets in the sky make sense. Yet he didn't tell anyone about his theory as the powerful Christian Church would __4__ (punish) him. They believed God had made the world __5__ the earth was special and must be the center of the solar system. In 1514 he showed it __6__ (private) to his friends. But he didn't want __7__ (attack) by the Christian Church, so he only published it as he lay __8__ (die) in 1543. Now Copernicus' theory is the basis __9__ which all our ideas of the universe are built. People can see that there is __10__ direct link between...
