大学英语Unit课文讲解资料.pptVIP

THE CASE AGAINST MAN (PART I)  para I: The first view--think of mankind as a thing in itself. The second view--think of life as a thing in itself. If any animal is isolated totally from other forms of life, . If isolated from water, If isolated from air, If isolated from the Sun, The ocean, atmosphere, and solid crust are independent of each other after formation? Nor were ocean, atmosphere, and solid crust independent of each other after formation. There is interaction always: evaporation, condensation, solution, weathering. Far within the solid crust there are slow, continuing changes, too, of which hot springs, volcanoes, and earthquakes are the more noticeable manifestations here on the surface. What is it like when the earth firstly forms? The earth has undergone a vast evolution. When it first came into being, it very likely lacked what we would today call an ocean and an atmosphere. These were formed by the gradual outward movement of material as the solid interior settled together. How life is formed? Between 2 billion and 3 billion years ago, portions of the surface water, bathed by the energetic radiation from the sun, developed complicated compounds in organization sufficiently versatile to qualily as what we call life. Life forms have become more complex and more various ever since. paraII: It works in reverse, too, for the inanimate portion of Earth is shaped and molded by life. Part III: Situation The neat economy of growth within an organism is disrupted, and a group of cells begins grouping without limit. This is the dread disease of cancer. Unless that growing group of cells is somehow stopped, the wild growth will throw all the body structure out of true and end by killing the organism itself.（Paragraph 12） Chain stage reaction In ecology, one particular type of organism began to multiply without limit, killing its competitors and increasing