江苏省太仓市2013—2014英语译林牛津版选修8U2同步教案（Welcome）.docVIP

江苏省太仓市2013—2014英语译林牛津版选修8U2同步教案（Welcome） 【高考备课】阅读理解 The recent publication of autobiographies by two of Britain’s great scientists, biologist Richard Dawkins and physicist Stephen Hawking, is a wonderful opportunity to compare and contrast these two remarkable men. Surprisingly, they have rather more in common than we think. Most striking is the similarity in their backgrounds. They were born in the early 1940s to middle class familiesnot wealthy but comfortably off, with a strong commitment to academic excellence and public service. Both families were keen to send their boys to Oxford Univers