【2017年整理】21世与纪英语读写译。B4_U01_A.ppt

Unit 1: Part A; Pre-Reading Activities Text A: Language Points Exercises Assignment;Pre-reading Activity;Pre-reading Activity;Pre-reading Activity;Pre-reading Activity;Pre-reading Activity;Pre-reading Activity;Language Points;Language Points;3 For decades, scientists have been asking such questions. And, in the past few years, they have found evidence to help explain why some people rise above, while others — similarly talented, perhaps — are left behind. Their findings could have implications for us all.;4 Who is great? Defining who is great depends on how one measures success. But there are some criteria. “Someone who has made a lasting contribution to human civilization is great,” said Dean Keith Simonton, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis and author of the 1994 book Greatness: Who Makes History and Why. But he added a word of caution: “Sometimes great people don’t make it into history books. A lot of women achieved great things or were influential but went unrecognized.”;5 In writing his book, Simonton combined historical knowledge about great figures with recent findings in genetics, psychiatry and the social sciences. The great figures he focused on include men and women who have won Nobel Prizes, led great nations or won wars, composed symphonies that have endured for centuries, or revolutionized science, philosophy, politics or the arts. Though he doesn’t have a formula to define how or why certain people rise above (too many factors are involved), he has come up with a few common characteristics.;6 A “never surrender” attitude. If great achievers share anything, said Simonton, it is an unrelenting drive to succeed. “There’s a tendency to think that they are endowed with something super-normal,” he explained. “But what comes out of the research is that there are great people who have no amazing intellectual processes. It’s a difference in degree. Greatness is built upon tremendous amounts of study, practice and devo