学术英语(理工)详解答案_Unit 2.ppt

Enhancing your academic language Lecture 9 4. It is more accurate and much cheaper. The problem is to lower the radiation dose，but it is solved. 5. Because some economic and political factors keep it from entering the market. 6. A New Tool to Find Breast Tumors. 8 Writing a summary Unit 2 Searching for Information * 6 Reading Critically 5 Text 9 quotes Roger Revelle, an oceanographer, Jacques Chirac, French president, Al Gore, Vice president of USA, Ross Gelbspan, an author of a book about Earth’s climate change from global warming, Schneider, from the National Center of Atmospheric Research, and Elmer Robinson, the director of Mauna Loa Observatory. The quotation of those experts and authorities make the writers’ arguments more convincing. 6 Text 9’s criticism avoids being subjective and personal and resorts to more authorities and cold reasoning, hence it is more objective. Unit 2 Searching for Information 6 Reading Critically 7 The use of the first-person view and figurative speech is often considered informal and less serious. 8 Text 9, because the writer uses more quotations from experts and authorities than Text 10 and less emotional words . Unit 2 Searching for Information Unit 2 Searching for information Additional questions for your understanding of Text 10 1 How long is the sunspot cycle? 11 years. 6 Reading Critically Additional questions for your understanding of Text 10 2 Why is pinning down the true variation in global temperatures over the past thousand years difficult? Attempting to pin down the true variation in global temperatures over the past thousand years is difficult, not least because records prior to the last couple of hundred years are far from reliable. A further complication arises from the fact that while one part of the world might be heating up, another might be cooling down. Unit 2 Searching for information 6 Reading Critically Additional questions for your understanding of Text 10 3 What was the goal of the K