全新版大学英语第2版unit_3解析.ppt

Understanding science Public Attitudes towards Science Pre-reading Questions 1,What is science? When we talk about science, what will be mentioned usually? 2,Is science good to us or bad to us? Why? Hints: 1,some great inventions, discoveries, theories… 2, The bad aspect: may lead to the pollution of our environment, the wasting of our resource, the disaster of human being such as nuclear weapons and cloning. The good aspect: can make our life more convenient and comfortable, let us know more about ourselves, the nature and the universe) Nuclear Weapons– the human disaster The victim of atomic bomb Robert Oppenheimer —the father of the atomic bomb. Does human cloning cause the end of ourselves? There are still some mysteries depending on science to find out the reason. Crop Circles UFO Other so-called “unnatural” phenomena. The origin of the universe. Someone says the crop circles are done by the E.T. they are some kinds of signs. While some scientists says it is a kind of nature phenomenon caused by the electromagnetic energies. Till now no one can give a definite and acceptable answer. UFO We still need science research tell us the truth of those phenomena.The key is we should have a rational attitude toward science. That is what Hawking want to tell us in this text. Q: Who is Hawking? Some Information about Hawking Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England. He has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. He showed that Einsteins General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. he discovered that black holes should not be completely black, but should emit radiation and eventually evaporate and disappear. Another conjecture is that the universe has no edge or boundar