大学生英语精读book5第七章课程.pptVIP

Roaming the Cosmos;;Warming up;Warming up;Warming up;;;; Darkness has fallen on Cambridge, England, and on a damp and chilly evening kings Parade is filled with students and faculty. ; Then, down the crowded thoroughfare comes the University of Cambridges most distinctive vehicle, bearing its most distinguished citizen. In the motorized wheelchair, boyish face dimly illuminated by a glowing computer screen attached to the left armrest, is Stephen William Hawking, 46, one of the worlds greatest theoretical physicists. ; As he skillfully maneuvers through the crowd, motorists slow down, some honking their horns in greeting. People wave and shout hello.; A huge smile lights up Hawkings bespectacled face, but he cannot wave or shout back. Since his early 20s, he has suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive deterioration of the central nervous system that usually causes death within three or four years. ; Hawkings illness has advanced more slowly, and now seems almost to have stabilized. Still, it has robbed him of virtually all movement. He has no control over most of his muscles, cannot dress or eat by himself and has lost his voice.; Now he speaks only by using the slight voluntary movement left in his hands and fingers to operate his wheelchairs built-in computer and voice synthesizer. ; While ALS has made Hawking a virtual prisoner in his own body, it has left his courage and humor intact, his intellect free to roam. And roam it does, from the infinitesimal to the infinite, from the subatomic realm to the far reaches of the universe. ;Intellect智力；理解力；领悟力；思维能力；获取知识能力；[总称]知识界同根词：词根：?intellectadj. intellectual?智力的；聪明的；理智的 intelligent?智能的；聪明的；理解力强的 intelligible?可理解的；明了的；仅能用智力了解的adv. intellectually?智力上；理智地；知性上 intelligibly?易理解地n. intellectual?知识分子；凭理智做事者 intelligence?智力；情报工作；情报机关；理解力; In the course of these mental expeditions, Hawking has conceived