《2025年优化探究同步导学案高中英语必修第二册人教版》

Activity 1 Look at the title and the two photos, and guess what the text is mainly about.
Title: From Problems to Solutions
The text is about some problems about some cultural relics and the solutions to tackle the problems.
Activity 2 Read quickly and figure out the key words of each paragraph.
Paragraph 1: challenge
Paragraph 2: the proposal led to protests
Paragraph 3: a committee was established
Paragraph 4: brought together
Paragraph 5: success
Paragraph 6: spirit

答案： Activity 1 problems solutions Activity 2 challenge the proposal led to protests a committee was established brought together success spirit

Activity 1 Read again and answer the following questions.
1. Why did the Egyptian government want to build a new dam in the 1950s?
To benefit the area by controlling floods, producing electricity, and supplying water to more farmers in the area.
2. Why did the building of the dam lead to protests?
Because it will damage the cultural relics.
3. How did the government save the cultural relics?
By moving them to a safe place.
4. Which one can describe the project?
A. Successful.
B. Negative.
C. Useless.
D. Doubtful.
5. What can be learned from the Aswan Dam project?
The cooperation can solve difficult problems.

答案： Activity 1 1. To benefit the area by controlling floods, producing electricity, and supplying water to more farmers in the area. 2. Because it will damage the cultural relics. 3. By moving them to a safe place. 4. A 5. The cooperation can solve difficult problems.

Activity 2 Read more carefully and answer the following questions.
1. What do “problems” refer to and what do “solutions” refer to?
Problems:locals’protests against building a new dam across the Nile Solutions:limit damage to the Egyptian buildings and prevent the loss of cultural relics
2. Find out the numbers in paragraph 4 and explain why the author used exact numbers instead of expressions like “many”.
Numbers:1961;20;22;fifty;80 Purpose:to make the information more concrete, and richer, and more importantly, to make it more persuasive and concise
3. What can you infer from “Over the next 20 years, thousands of engineers and workers rescued 22 temples and countless cultural relics”?
The project is so hard that it takes 20 years to finish it.
4. What can you infer from “Fifty countries donated nearly 80 million to the project”?
The project cost a lot of money. Many countries participated in the rescue and it is their team work that has saved the temples.
5. Before the building of the dam, what problems did the Nile bring to the Egyptians?
Floods and droughts; not enough electricity.
6. What words can you think of to describe the working process of the project?
Hard, tough,complicated,amazing,excellent.

答案： Activity 2 1. Problems:locals’protests against building a new dam across the Nile Solutions:limit damage to the Egyptian buildings and prevent the loss of cultural relics 2. Numbers:1961;20;22;fifty;80 Purpose:to make the information more concrete, and richer, and more importantly, to make it more persuasive and concise 3. The project is so hard that it takes 20 years to finish it. 4. The project cost a lot of money. Many countries participated in the rescue and it is their team work that has saved the temples. 5. Floods and droughts; not enough electricity. 6. Hard, tough,complicated,amazing,excellent.

It is a big challenge 1. to find (find) and keep the right balance between progress and the protection of cultural sites. However, big challenges can sometimes lead 2. to great solutions. When the Egyptian government made a proposal 3. to build (build) a new dam, they were faced with various problems, including destroying an important part of Egypt’s 4. cultural (culture) heritage. As a result, the government turned 5. to the United Nations for help in 1959. A committee 6. was established (establish) to limit damage to the Egyptian buildings and prevent the 7. loss (lose) of cultural relics. Finally, a document was signed, and the work began in 1960. Temples and other cultural sites were taken down piece by piece, and then moved and put back together in a safe place. When the project was completed, it was considered a great 8. success (succeed).
Not only had the countries found a path to the future 9. that/which did not run over the relics of the past, but they had also learnt that it was possible for countries to work together to build a better tomorrow. Therefore, if a problem seems too difficult for a single nation, the 10. global (globe) community can sometimes provide a solution.

答案： 1. to find 2. to 3. to build 4. cultural 5. to 6. was established 7. loss 8. success 9. that/which 10. global