高二英语 选修七unit2 robots导学单
导学单(二)reading comprehension 教学目标: 帮助学生更多地了解机器人及有关的科幻小说、小说家阿西莫夫及其文学作品。
reading comprehension i
the text mainly tells us _____.
a. why claire fell in love with a human being
b. why a robot fell in love with a human being
c. a story about a household robot being tested out in a family
d. that a robot can save a human being from danger
reading comprehension ii
1. how many characters are mentioned?
2. who are they?
3. what is the relation between them?
characters in the story:
larry belmont: employed in a company________________
claire: ___________ wife, a housewife
tony: ____________ to be tested out by claire in her house
gladys claffern: the most powerful women around, a woman that claire envies
reading comprehension iii
claire’s feelings towards tony changed as the story developed. fill in the occasions when claire had these feelings.
occasion claire
before he arrived _____________________________
when he arrived _____________________________
when he offered to help her dress ______________________________
when he offered to help her improve
her house and herself _____________________________
when he helped her with the salesman _________________________
when she fell off a ladder and was
caught by tony ___________________________
when she heard gladys whispering
to another woman that ___________________________
she had never seen anyone so handsome as tony ________________
she remembered tony was just a machine __________________________
reading comprehension iv true or false
1.larry was going to be away from home so he hired a robot to accompany his wife.
2. claire didn’t like the idea at the beginning, but she agreed to it at last.
3. tony could understand claire when she said she was not clever.
4. when tony offered to help dressing, claire was pleased to accept it.
5. it was claire that first decided to invite gladys and her friends to her house.
6. claire’s guests were filled with admiration when they saw her house was completely changed.
7. the company was satisfied with tony’s report because he had successfully made a woman fall in love with him.
reading comprehension v
read the story again and answer the following questions in groups.
1. why did tony open the curtains?
2. what did tony do to prevent claire from being harmed?
3. why did tony have to be rebuilt?
4. how would you feel if you had a robot like tony in your house?
5. claire spent three weeks with tony in her house. what sentences in the stor show that she kept forgetting and then remembering that he was a machine?
reading comprehension vi
in groups, list tony’s characteristics that were similar to and those that were different from those of a human being.
characteristics similar different
physical
mental