Unit3TheMillionPoundBankNoteⅠ.阅读理解A体裁：记叙文话题：人物与事件词数：308时间：6′Patrickwasonadietoffruitandvegetables，believingthiswouldmakehimlivelong，verylong.Ironically(嘲讽地)enough，hisownwork“EndofTimesin2012”(1977)shockedhimsodeeplythatitputhimonaworldwideresearch.PatrickGerylistheauthorof9books，writteninDutch，ofwhichwaspublishedinGermany，called“TopfitmitSonnenkost”．Allofthembecamebestsellers.SincehischildhoodPatrickwasveryinterestedinastronomyanduptonowhestudiedhundredsofpublicationsandbooksonthissubject.Inhisfirstpublishedbookonastronomy(“AnewSpace－TimeDimension”，1979)，helaunchedanattackontheworld－famousrelativitytheory：hepredictedseveralveryimpressivethingsthatwereconnectedtotheuniverse.Hispredictionswereprovedinthelasttenyears，gettingalotofpublicattentionintheBelgiumpressandtelevision.Withinthreeyears'timehehopestopresenthisbookintheUSA，butfirsthehasmoreimportantthingstodo.Throughhisastronomicalknowledge，hediscoveredatraceleadingtoahigh－developedcivilizationthatwasdestroyedbyapolarreversal(反转)．Thedescendants(后裔)ofthiscivilization，theMayaandOldEgyptians，predictasimilardisasterfortheyear2012.Noticingtheurgencyofthiswarning，Patrickstartedanintensive(彻底的)researchandwrotethreebooksonthissubject.Thefirstbook，“TheOrionProphecy”，waspublishedin1998inBelgiumandHolland.Itwastranslatedandpublishedattheendof2001intheUSA.InthemeantimethebookbecameabestsellerinPoland.“TheWorldCataclysmin2012”waspublishedin2005intheUSA.ItalsobecameabestsellerinPoland.“Howtosurvive2012”waspublishedattheendof2006.【语篇解读】PatrickGeryl自小喜欢天文学，他已发表了九部关于天文学方面的书，这些书都是畅销书。1．WhichofthefollowingmadePatrickGeryldohisresearchworkworld－widely?A．“EndofTimesin2012”．B．“AnewSpace－TimeDimension”．C．“TheOrionProphecy”．D．“TheWorldCataclysmin2012”．答案A[细节判断题。根据第一段可知，“EndofTimesin2012”使他非常震惊并做了世界范围内的研究。]2．WecanknowfromthepassagethatPatrickGeryl'sworks________．A．shockedtheworldsodeeplythatnobodybelievedinhimB．wereallpublishedinEuropeancountriesC．becamebestsellerssoonafterhisdeathD．weretranslatedintomanylanguages答案B[推理判断题。根据文章中涉及到的PatrickGeryl的书的出版国家来判断，他的书都是在欧洲国家出版的。C、D两项短文中没有提到。所以B正确。]3．Thepassagetellsusthat“AnewSpace－TimeDimension”________．A．willbepublishedattheendof2012B．gotalotofpublicattentionintheAmericanpressandtelevisionC．waswritteninGermanandpublishedinBelgiumandHollandD．wasonastronomywhichhewasinterestedinsincehewasaboy答案D[细节理解题。根据第三段中的SincehischildhoodPatrickwasveryinterestedinastronomy和第四段中的Inhisfirstpublishedbookonastronomy(“AnewSpace－TimeDimension”，1979)可知D项正确。]4．Thewriterwrotethispassageinordertotellthereadersabout________．A．amanwhocanpredictandhisworksonastronomyB．apolarreversalwhichwillhappenin2012C．theMayaandOldEgyptcivilizationD．atraceleadingtoahigh－developedcivilization答案A[主旨大意题。本文主要介绍了一位预言家PatrickGeryl以及他的有关天文方面的作品。]B体裁：议论文话题：社会词数：249时间：7′Everyonedreamsofchangingtheworld.Butcanteenagersreallymakeadifference?Andhowshouldwegoaboutit?MichaelNorton'sbook“365WaystoChangetheWorld”isagoodstartingpoint.Thebookgivesaninspiringideaortasktodoforeverysingledayoftheyear.Thetasksincludevolunteeringatalocalhomel...
