新标准大学英语(第二版)综合教程2Unit 6 B篇练习答案及课文翻译ppt课件.pptx
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1、Contents,Active Reading 2,Work in groups and discuss the questions:How many branches of science can you think of?anatomy:studying the body astronomy:studying space biochemistry:studying chemical processes botany:studying plants chemical engineering:studying chemical substances cosmology:studying the
2、 universe,Warming Up,ecology:studying organisms and their environment genetics:studying genes and variation meteorology:studying weather microbiology:studying viruses etc nutrition:studying food oceanography:studying the seas pharmacology:studying medical drugs radiology:studying radiant energy such
3、 as X-rays,Warming Up,Warming Up,2.Where did you learn most about science?3.How much do you remember about your science lessons at school?4.Who was your best science teacher?Why do you remember him/her?5.Can you remember any lesson in particular?6.What would you do to improve science teaching at sch
4、ool?,Text,Science:fact or fiction?,Science:fact or fiction?1 Students arent what they used to be.These days,it seems,some of them never even open a book.Such is the depressing picture painted by popular science writer Steve Jones in his book The Single Helix,laying the finger of blame on modern comm
5、unication systems.The message is the medium;once upon a time there were books,but now,Jones says,“the medium is,or so it seems,anything but lines of print on a page.”Many students are just not used to reading books anymore theyre such an outdated form of communication.,Text,2 So how do you get them
6、to learn about science?Well,if you go into a campus bookstore you can find out.There are songbooks for biochemists,with chemical formulae set to music to make them easier to remember.Relativity is explained in a video game which is a simulation of a rocket journey through space:You can play tennis o
7、n board as the rocket speeds up or slows down.And there are cartoons to make even the most obscure scientific subjects accessible,and fun as well.,Text,3 But even these methods of generating interest have become conventional.Rather more radical is the proposal which a physics professor has come up w
8、ith to learn science from the mistakes in science fiction films.Some of the films may be dreadful,but they hide a lot of helpful messages.Students just have to sit back,relax,enjoy the film,and soak up a bit of science at the same time.,Text,4 A few examples will show what the professor has in mind.
9、In The Day the Earth Caught Fire(1961),the earth is pushed towards the sun as a result of two simultaneous atomic explosions.But this contravenes Newtons Third Law of Motion namely,that action and reaction are equal and opposite.Since the Earth weighs six thousand billion billion tons,a huge blast w
10、ould be needed to push it into the right direction.Supposing it hurled a hundred million tons of rock and debris into space.This explosion would require a bomb far greater than any that has ever exploded.But a few basic sums would show that such a blast,as well as killing every single inhabitant of
11、the earth,would only shift the Earth about a quarter of an inch out of its orbit.,Text,5 So the film is fiction without the science.The same could be said of the 1986 film Aliens.In this film the crew saunter around the spaceship as if they were at home on earth whereas they should be floating,in a
12、gravity-free environment.The producers of Aliens would fail a first year physics exam,but Stanley Kubrick and Arthur Clarke,the brains behind 2001:A Space Odyssey,would pass the same exam with flying colours.On board the spaceship a giant wheel rotates,generating centripetal force and giving the ast
13、ronauts on board a sense of“up”and“down”.,Text,6The treatment of relativity in science fiction films is even more confusing.Take Star Trek:The Voyage Home(1987).As the spaceship revolves round the sun,it gathers so much speed that it moves backwards into history.But this is nonsense,not relativity.A
14、s Jones puts it,“Einstein said that nothing travels at more than the speed of light,not that the clocks will run the other way if you go fast enough.”Even Superman(1978)is baffled by the concept.It takes him a split second to fly round the earth anticlockwise to save Lois Lane,who has fallen victim
15、to an earthquake.Jones:“Time is not like a car.It has no reverse gear.”,Text,7 Finally,what about those giant insects like the ones in Empire of the Ants,the 1977 film based on a story by H.G.Wells?The problem is their lungs,or rather,the lack of them.Ants dont have lungs,so they get oxygen by absor
16、bing it through the tissues of their bodies.The bigger the ant,the longer it would take to absorb the oxygen and their body parts would not be able to function well.So an ant the size of a human would be more likely to be gasping for breath than biting off the head of a reckless teenager.,Text,Text,
17、科学:事实还是虚构?1学生已今非昔比。如今,似乎有些学生从来就没有翻开过书本。这是科普作家斯蒂夫琼斯在其单螺旋线一书中描绘的令人沮丧的情景,他把批评的矛头指向现代通信系统。信息即媒介;从前有书本,可是现在,琼斯说:“媒介是,或者说似乎是,一切,但绝不是纸上印的一行行字。”许多学生就是不再习惯读书了书是老掉牙的沟通方式。,Text,2 那么怎样使他们学习科学呢?好吧,你要是走进校园书店,就会找到办法。那里有生物化学家的歌本,其中化学分子式被配上乐曲以便记忆。相对论是用电子游戏来解释的,那是个虚拟乘火箭在空间旅行的游戏:你可以在火箭加速或减速飞行时在上面打网球。还有卡通,它们使哪怕最艰涩的科学话题
18、都变得有趣易懂。,Text,3 可是就连这些激发兴趣的方法也已变得老套了。更激进的方法是一个物理学教授提出来的:从科幻电影的错误中学习科学。有些电影也许糟透了,但其中隐藏有大量有益的信息。学生只需舒舒服服地坐着、放松、欣赏电影,同时吸收一点科学知识。,Text,4 有几个例子可以说明教授的想法。在地球着火之日(1961)中,两颗同时爆炸的原子弹把地球推向太阳。可是这违反了牛顿的第三运动定律即,作用力和反作用力相等且方向相反。既然地球重达六千艾吨,那就需要特大的爆炸才能把它推入正确的方向。假设爆炸将一亿吨岩石和碎渣 抛入宇宙,那么这个炸弹的威力要比任何以往的炸弹都要大。但是,稍做运算就能说明,这
19、样一场爆炸除了会把地球上的生物全部杀死之外,充其量也只能让地球偏离轨道大约四分之一英寸。注:地球的重量应该是610的24次方千克(10的18次方叫艾)。,Text,5 所以,这部电影是没有科学含量的虚构作品。1986年出品的电影异形也是同样。在这部影片中,宇航员们在宇宙飞船中走来走去,就好像在地球上的家里一样而实际上他们应当在无重力环境中漂浮才对。异形的制片人可能会在大学一年级的物理学考试中不及格,但是2001:太空漫游背后的智囊斯坦利库布里克和亚瑟克拉克却会在同样的考试中以高分通过。宇宙飞船上有一巨大的轮子转动着,产生向心力,并给船上的宇航员一种“起伏”感。,Text,6 科幻电影中对相对论
20、的处理更是令人摸不着头脑。以星舰迷航:回家之旅(1987)为例:宇宙飞船围绕太阳飞行,速度越来越快,最后竟然飞回到了历史之中。但这是瞎编乱造,而不是相对论。正如琼斯所说:“爱因斯坦说没有什么比光速更快;但没有说如果你跑得够快,钟表就会倒转。”就连超人(1978)也被此概念所困惑。他在瞬间往逆时针方向绕地球一周去救地震受难者洛伊斯莱恩。琼斯说:“时间不像汽车,它没有倒挡。”,Text,7 最后,1977年根据H.G.威尔斯的小说拍摄的蚂蚁帝国里的那些巨型昆虫又如何呢?问题在于它们的肺,或者说,它们根本没有肺。蚂蚁没有肺,它们是通过身体组织吸收氧气的。蚂蚁越大,吸收氧气的时间就越长这样它们身体的各
21、部件就不能良好地运作。所以像人那么大的蚂蚁更可能老是在大口喘气,而不是把冒失少年的脑袋咬掉。,depressing,anymore,outdated,songbook,biochemist,dreadful,soak,atomic,explosion,contravene,shift,alien,saunter,producer,giant,formula,relativity,simulation,generate,proposal,namely,blast,hurl,debris,inhabitant,rotate,centripetal force,astronaut,trek,revo
22、lve,Words&Phrases,superman,baffle,anticlockwise,gear,empire,reckless,Words&Phrases,on board,speed up,sit back,soak up,be/feel at home,with flying colours,Steve Jones 斯蒂夫琼斯(人名),Stanley Kubrick 斯坦利库布里克(人名),Arthur Clarke 阿瑟克拉克(人名),Lois Lane 洛伊丝莱恩(人名),depressing a.sth.that is depressing makes you feel v
23、ery unhappy and disappointed 令人沮丧的;令人丧气的 e.g.1.The whole experience was very depressing.整个经历令人非常沮丧。2.He always woke with a sense of deep sorrow and depressing loss.他醒来时总是满怀哀愁,抑郁惆怅。Word family:depress v.depression n.depressed a.,Words&Phrases,Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word from the box:
24、1.It _ me that nobody seems to care.2.People who struggle with excessive Internet use maybe _ or have other mood disorders,Orzack said.(CET4-2010-6)3.Studies over a range of illnesses,from _ to heart disease,reveal that the presence of social support helps people fend off illness(CET4-2000-6)4.That
25、thought is too _ for words.,Words&Phrases,depress depressed depression depressing,depresses,depressed,depression,depressing,anymore ad.used when talking or asking about a situation that has ended,or about sth.that sb.has stopped doing(谈论或询问已经结束的情况或某人已经停止做的事)再也 e.g.1.She doesnt live here anymore.她不再住
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