高中英語新教材Unit11教案
4. more than 8,000 hi-tech companies in zhongguancun. more than half of them are it companies.
5. zhongguancun park is home to lenovo and founder and more than 20 famous national companies.
6. the researchers and scientists know that the spirit and creativity they represent are no more than money.
四、post-reading
choose the correct answers. there may be more than one correct answer.
1.according to the author, zhongguancun is home to .
a. some famous research institutes and universities b. many it companies
c. more and more returned overseas chinese d. a number of science parks.
2.what is not true about zhongguancun?
a. it is located in haidian district, in northwestern beijing.
b.it was set up as a special economic zone in the 1990s.
c. most of its companies are doing it business.
d. it is not a good place for new companies.
3.according to the reading, xiang yufang returned to china and opened a company in zhongguancun because .
a. he wanted to see more of the world
b. he enjoyed working with the best scientists in his field
c. he could enjoy his work and contribute to his country at the same time
d. he missed his friends and family
4.according to the graph in the passage, how many of the people who work in zhongguancun have a master’s degree or above?
a. 25,000 b. 30,000 c. 35,000 d. 180,000
5.how is ‘failure” understood in zhonguancun?
a. there are fewer failure in zhongguancun
b. many of its researchers and scientists will try hard not to fail.
c. failure is a necessary part of being successful.
d. the best thing about failure is that you learn every time you fail.
五、discussion (group work)
language input: in this class, we’ve learned more about zhongguancun by reading the passage. as a new center of science and technology, it is known to the world. it is sometimes called “china’s silicon valley”. do you know “silicon valley”? where is it? when was it set up? why was it set up?
task: work in groups of four to compare these two science parks and find out in which ways they are similar and different. you can refer to the following chart.
hi-tech park silicon valley zhongguancun
when was it established?
why was it established?
where is it?
what kinds of companies are located there?
what are some famous companies?