高中英语 uit 1 great scientists reading课件2 新人教版必修5.ppt

* Unit 1 Great Scientists Warming Up What do you know about great scientists? Try this quiz and find out who knows the most. Alexander Bell electricity Thomas Edison the First telephone Wright Brothers the electric Lamp Madame Curie black holes in Universe Franklin Theory of Gravity Steven Hawking the First Plane Elbert Einstein Radium Isaac Newton the Theory of Relativity Scientists Contributions: 1. Which scientists discovered that objects in water are lifted up by a force that helps them float? Archimedes 阿基米德Archimedes, Ancient Greek (287-212 BC), a mathematician. 2. Who wrote a book explaining how animals and plants developed as the environment changed? Charles Darwin达尔文Charles Darwin, Britain (1808-1882).The name of the book is Origin of Species. 3. Who invented the first advanced steam engine? James Watt瓦特James Watt (1736-1819) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer, who was renowned for his improvements of the steam engine. 4. Who used peas to show how physical characteristics are passed from parents to their children? Gregor Mendel门德尔Gregor Mendel, Czech, a botanist and geneticist. 5. Who discovered radium? Marie Curie 居里夫人 Marie Curie, Polish and French, a chemist and physicist. She discovered radium. 6. Who invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities? Thomas Edison 爱迪生 Thomas Edison, American, an inventor. He invented the lights and the gramophone. 7. Who was the painter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people? Leonardo da Vinci 达芬奇Leonardo da Vinci, Italian, an artist. 8. Who invented a lamp to keep miners safe underground? Humphry Davy 汉弗莱 戴维 Sir Humphry Davy, British, an inventor and chemist. 9. Who invented the earliest instrument to tell people where earthquakes happened? 张衡Zhang Heng, ancient China, an inventor. 10. Who put forward a theory about black holes? St