高中英语 Unit 1 Great scientists Listening 课件必修5.pptVIP

1. Which of the following statements describes what this listening passage is about? Give your reasons. A. This is about a man who wants to name a flower. B. This is about a man who finds a flower and wants to own it. C. This is about a man who finds a flower and wants to know if it is a new species of flower. It does not give enough information. B is inaccurate. * Listen to the tape again and complete the following passage. To find the name of an unknown flower first you should ask your ________ teacher to help you. He /She will look in a special _____ written by Carl Linnaeus. biology book * He lived in ______ from ____ to _____. He was very important because he solved a ______ problem for biology. Sweden 1707 1778 serious * Listen to the tape for the third time and answer these questions. 1. If Robert Briggs finds the flower in the book, what does that mean? It means that his flower has already been identified and has a name. 2. How would he know if his lily is a new species? He would know by checking his lily against other lilies in the specialist book. If his lily is different it will be a new species. * 3. Why do plants all have two names? All plants have two names just like people. The first is the group of flowers they belong to and is like the family name. the second is the kind fo flower within that group and is like a given/personal name. * 4. What was the serious problem for biology that Linnaeus solved? Before Linnaeus there was no way of finding out whether a plant was new or not. This caused problems because different scientists claimed that they had found and named flowers first. After he organized his system it was easy to discover whether a plant was new or not and so who had the right to name it. * pure(纯的), symbol(符号), Л(圆周率); sine(正弦), cosine(余弦), topology(拓扑学) angle(角), diagram(图表) Listening Task (P44) Listen to Part 1 again and tick the words above that Euler i