2017年3月8日下午，高一英语组齐聚教职工之家，召开备课组会议。

组长宁希宏老师主持会议，对英语教研工作进行统筹安排，同时强调要重视教材，活用教材。

根据组长的要求，备课组在此次会议上将?？?课文中的重要段落进行改编，变为语法填空的题材。

M3U1：
Many people wonder if there is any __________(connect) between our senses and our health. Scientists observe that ______(make) the most of our senses when we are young can keep us ________(health) later on life.
Why do we feel _________(anxiety) or tired? One study shows that approximately 90% of our time _________(spend) watching television or using computers. It is added _____ while our sense of sight is used too much, our senses of touch and smell have been ignored.
People often ask _________ or not we should develop all our senses. The answer is yes. Experts suggest that we do the following things more often. While having dinner, listen to some enjoyable music rather than watch television. While relaxing at home, have some flowers next to you that smell nice. Before going to bed, turn the lights _____. While sleeping, wear a nightshirt that is __________(please) to touch—it will make us sleep well.


M3U2：
One big difference between British and American English is __ vocabulary. For example, the British use the word ”autumn” _____ the Americans use the word “fall”. In this case, the older word is “autumn”. However, about four hundred years ago, the word “autumn” was replaced with “fall”. Later, the British returned to “autumn”, while the Americans still use “fall”. 
Of course, people from many different countries came to America and made their contributions __ American English. Indeed, in American English there are words from every major tongue ______(speak) on Earth. Many of these words are ______(absence) in British English.
Another big __________(distinct) between American and British English is spelling. After the Americans _______(defeat) the British in 1781 and gained independence, they wanted to make the spelling of English words ________(simple). Therefore, Americans write “color” instead of “colour”.
Finally, the pronunciations and accents are different. Both countries have ______(slow) changed the way they say the same words, but in different ways. This process ____________(continue) even today.


The Chinese language __________(differ) from Western languages in _____, instead of an alphabet, it uses characters which stand for ideas, objects or deeds. Chinese words are formed by putting together different characters.___ many cases, a single character can also make up a word. The history of the Chinese language can _______ (examine) by looking at how these characters developed.
Chinese writing began thousands of years ago. According to an ancient story, a man _____(name) Cang Jie invented Chinese writing. One winter day while he was hunting, he saw the _________(track) of animals in the snow and observed that the _______(appear) of each one was different. Then he had the idea that he could use different shapes to represent different objects. The first Chinese characters were drawings of physical objects. Some characters _____________(simplify) and others have been made more difficult ______ time. However, __ a whole, the characters have developed from drawings into standard forms. The character for a mountain was at first three mountaintops together. This became one mountaintop and three lines, and over time turned ___ the character used nowadays.



M3U3:
A scholar from the local cultural institute, Professor Zhang, told us that around the year 1900 the European _________(explore) Sven Hedin discovered the ruins of Loulan Kingdom. Sven found the ________(remain) of buildings buried _______ the sand, together with a lot of treasures, ____________(include) coins, painted pots, material such as silk, documents and wall paintings. When we went to the city, we saw the city walls, palaces, temples, workshops and towers. We found the ruins most _______(interest). There was an ancient water system that ran through the middle of the city. The desert was once a green land with huge trees, but they were cut ____ and that resulted ___ the city being buried by sand---________ a pity!



The word “philosophy” ________(mean) “love of wisdom”. Philosophy can _________(think of) as a way ___ looking at the world around us, or of answering the great questions of life, such as “Why are we here?” and “What is truth?”
The father of Western philosophy was Socrates (469-399BC). Socrates was from Athens, in Greece. When he was young, he was a brave soldier. Later, he became a teacher, but he taught ___ free and ______(earn) his salary from being a common worker. Aside from this, we know very little about him. Since he never wrote a book, we also know very little about his philosophy. Yet, Socrates has had a deep influence __ Western thought and science.
To understand how this can be true, we must understand how Socrates taught. Socrates taught by asking questions. Through this, he __________(challenge) his students to develop and explain their own _________(argue). In many cases, his questions made his students aware of their own errors. Many students got _______(embarrass) and even angry when this happened, while others changed their opinions. Socrates’ way of __________(approach) the truth is now called the Socratic Method. The idea of asking questions until you reach the right answer is the basis of modern philosophy and science.