高中英语B5U1 文本研读课1.ppt

-*- Unit 1 Great scientists Unit 1 Great scientists What do you know about great scientists? Try this quiz and find out who knows the most. (1) Which scientist discovered that objects in water are lifted up by a force that helps them float? B. Archimedes C. Thomas Edison A. Charles Darwin Archimedes 287-212 BC, an ancient Greek mathematician. (2) Who wrote a book explaining how animals and plants developed as the environment changed? Marie Curie C. Charles Darwin B. Gregor Mendel Charles Darwin 1808-1882, the British author of The Origin of Species . (3) Who invented the first steam engine? Thomas Newcomen C. Thomas Edison B. Archimedes Thomas Newcomen 1663-1729, British, improved the first steam pump and turned it into a steam engine for taking water out of mines in 1712. (4) Who used peas to show how physical characteristics are passed from parents to their children? Thomas Edison C. Archimedes B. Gregor Mendel Gregor Mendel 1822-1884, Czech, grew pea plants and developed ideas on heredity and inherited characteristics. (5) Who discovered radium? C. Marie Curie B. Newton A. Zhang Heng Marie Curie 1867-1934, Polish and French, won two Nobel Prizes. (6) Who invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities? Stephen Hawking 　 C. Thomas Edison B. Archimedes Thomas Edison 1847-1931, an American inventor. (7) Who was the painter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people? Gregor Mendel C. Marie Curie B. Leonardo da Vinci 　 Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519, an Italian artist. (8) Who invented a lamp to keep miners safe underground? Sir Humphry Davy 　 C. Faraday B. Thomas Newcomen Sir Humphry Davy 1778-1829, British, discovered the medicinal value of nitrous oxide as an anaesthetic. (9) Who invented the earliest instrument to tell people where earthquakes happened? Charles Darwin C. Watt B. Zhang