新核心综合学术英语教程第二册Unit 4ppt课件.ppt

*Inthisunit,youwilllearnaboutancientChina’scontributiontomodernscience;research“FourGreatInventions”,“TheGeniusofChina”and“TheNobelPrize”andfindreliableinformation;learnwords,expressions,andsentencepatternsrelatedtothethemeandusetheminwritingandspeech;learnstrategiessuchaslisteningfornumbersandstatistics(listening),scanning(reading),usingthesources(discussing),achievinglexicalvariety(writing),etc;giveanoralpresentationonanassignedtopictotheclass.*BackgroundInformationApproachingtheTopicReadingabouttheTopicExploringtheTopicIntegratedExercises*mitteeofAtomicScientistsFritzHaber*aboutTechnologicalEthicsIfthereistechnologicaladvancewithoutsocialadvance,thereis,almostautomatically,anincreaseinhumanmisery.—MichaelHarringtonThereisaneviltendencyunderlyingallourtechnology—thetendencytodowhatisreasonableevenwhenitisn'tanygood.—RobertPirsigHumanityisacquiringalltherighttechnologyforallthewrongreasons.—*aboutTechnologicalEthicsWitheveryincreaseofknowledgeandskill,esmorenecessary,foreverysuchincreaseaugmentsourcapacityofrealizingourpurposes,andthereforeaugmentsourcapacityforevil,ifourpurposesareunwise.—BertrandRussell*AlbertEinsteinAlbertEinstein,(14March1879–18April1955)wasaGerman-,oneofthetwopillarsofmodernphysics(alongsidequantummechanics).Heisbestknowninpopularcultureforhismass–energyequivalenceformulaE=mc2(whichhasbeendubbed"theworld'smostfamousequation").Hereceivedthe1921NobelPrizeinPhysics"forhisservicestotheoreticalphysics,andespeciallyforhisdiscoveryofthelawofthephotoelectriceffect".EinsteinwasvisitingtheUnitedStateswhenAdolfHitlercametopowerin1933and,beingJewish,didnotgobacktoGermany,wherehehadbeenaprofessorattheBerlinAcademyofSciences.*.,,"extremelypowerfulbombsofanewtype"