【正文】 ? 13. 溫室效應 greenhouse effect ? 14. 核武器 nuclear weapons ? 15. 基因工程 geic engineering ? 16. 死記硬背 learn by rote ? 17. 使銷量減半 halve the sales ? 18. 分子生物學 molecular biology ? 19. 外星文明 alien civilization ? 20. 對 … 充滿信心 have sufficient faith in… AR_ 7. Proverbs and Quotations1 Proverbs and Quotations 1. Science has no enemy but the ignorant. 2. Science rests on phenomena. 3. Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now always. A. Schweitzer, German surgeon 科學的敵人是愚昧無知。 科學依據(jù)自然現(xiàn)象。 真理沒有自己特定的時間段。 它的時間永遠是現(xiàn)在。 德國醫(yī)生 A. 施威策 AR_ 7. Proverbs and Quotations2 Proverbs and Quotations when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. Bertrand Russell, British logician Golden Rule is that there are no golden rules. G. B. Shaw, Irish writer 即使所有的專家都一致贊同 , 他們也可能錯了 . 英國邏輯學家 伯特蘭 羅素 真正的金科玉律就是世上并無金科玉律 . 愛爾蘭作家 蕭伯納 Exercise AR_4. Interview1 Suppose you are Professor Zhang, who is in charge of a project of cloning only the best and brightest of the human race, and your partner is the host of Tell It like It Is (實話實說 ), a popular TV program concerning hot issues of current affairs and social topics. The interview may cover the following topics. Interview Text B: How to Make Sense of Science ? Background Information ? 1. El Nino:an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific, is one part of what39。s called the Southern Oscillation. The Southern Oscillation is the seesaw pattern of reversing surface air pressure between the eastern and western tropical Pacific。 when the surface pressure is high in the eastern tropical Pacific it is low in the western tropical Pacific, and viceversa. Because the ocean warming and pressure reversals are, for the most part, simultaneous, scientists call this phenomenon the El Nino/Southern Oscillation or ENSO for short. South American fisherman have given this phenomenon the name El Nino, which is Spanish for The Christ Child, because it es about the time of the celebration of the birth of the Christ ChildChristmas. ? : (Greek: apoca39。lipsis, meaning literally: the lifting of the veil), is a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the majority of humankind. Today the term is often used to mean End of pla Earth, which may be a shortening of the phrase apokalupsis eschaton which literally means revelation at the end of the 230。on, or age. Words and phrases: ? yield: to reveal, offer, produce ? . An examination of the plane yielded vital secrets about their antiweapon technology. ? Talks between the two sides have yield no results. ? He finally yielded his consent ? Random: made, done, happening or chosen without method or conscious decision ? . The way the books were arranged seemed pletely random. ? The quality inspectors made a random check of the products. ? at random ? submit sth. for: present sth. to a person or body for consideration or judgment ? . He submitted his application to the mittee for consideration. ? Have you submitted your plan to your boss for approval. ? Wear down: overe by persistence ? As I waited for him for nearly three hours, my patience wore down. ? The strategy was designed to wear down the enemy’s resistence. Assignment: ? Writing Practice ? Write a paper of about 80 words entitled Should cloning of human beings be banned? Your paper should cover the following points. ? opinion on cloning of human beings. ? 2. Give supporting evidence. ? 3. Use to begin with, secondly, thirdly and finally to ? connect all the evidence. Thanks for Your Kindly Attention!