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【正文】 Unit 3 Public Attitudes Toward Science Prereading Tasks 1. Please write down some of the scientific and technological discoveries that have changed or will change the way people live. When you are finished, please change your ideas with your partners. Prereading Tasks 2. Please think: 1) In what way do these discoveries change our lives for the better? 2) In what way do these discoveries change our lives for the worse? Later I will invite some of you to tell your partners’ ideas. 3. Read the poem on Page 70 Questions at Night Why is the sky? What starts the thunder overhead? Who makes the crashing noise? Are the angels falling out of the bed? Are they breaking all their toys? Why does the sun go down so soon? Why do the nightclouds crawl Hungrily up to the new laid moon And swallow it, shell and all? If there’s Bear among the stars As all the people say, Won’t he jump over those Pasturebars And drink up the Milky Way? Does every star that happens to fall Turn into a firefly? Can’t it ever get back to Heaven at all? And why is the sky? 4. How much do you know about the sky? How much do you know about the universe? How did the universe begin? Why is the universe the way it is? 5. The scientific and technological discovery can bring us good things and bad things. According to Stephen Hawking, author of this text, it’s up to us to make changes head towards changing our lives for the better. If you turn to the Language Sense Enhancement section after this text, you will find a quotation that expresses the same idea: “People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed（控制及利用自然界能源） by man to do his bidding. ” Let’s look at something about the author Stephen Hawking. New Words and Expressions attitude do without cut off moreover initiative sufficient at the moment in two minds in terms of basis convey in the form of entertain hence proportion attitude : (usu. followed by to/towards) ? 1) 他兒子對待工作的態(tài)度讓他很生氣 。 His son’s ~ to work made him angry.
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