大学英语 Unit3课文讲解.pptVIP

part I:(para1-5) part II:(para6-11) part III:(para12-17） para IV:(para18-20);THE CASE AGAINST MAN (PART I) ; para I: The first view--think of mankind as a thing in itself. The second view--think of life as a thing in itself. ;If any animal is isolated totally from other forms of life, . If isolated from water, If isolated from air, If isolated from the Sun, ; The ocean, atmosphere, and solid crust are independent of each other after formation? ;What is it like when the earth firstly forms?; The earth has undergone a vast evolution. When it first came into being, it very likely lacked what we would today call an ocean and an atmosphere. These were formed by the gradual outward movement of material as the solid interior settled together. ;How life is formed?;Between 2 billion and 3 billion years ago, portions of the surface water, bathed by the energetic radiation from the sun, developed complicated compounds in organization sufficiently versatile to qualily as what we call life. Life forms have become more complex and more various ever since.;paraII: It works in reverse, too, for the inanimate portion of Earth is shaped and molded by life. ;The entire planet, plus solar energy, is one enormous intricately interrelated system.;A man is composed of 50 trillion cells of a variety of types, all interrelated and interdependent.;Loss of some of those cells, such as those making up an entire leg, will seriously handicap all the rest of the organism: serious damage to a relatively few cells in an organ, such as the heart or kidneys, may end by killing all 50 trillion. ; ;Cells in those organs that suffer constant wear and tear—as in the skin or in the intestinal lining—grow and multiply all life long. Other cells, not so exposed, as in nerve and muscle, do not multiply at all in the adult, under any circumstances. Still other organs, ordinarily quiescent, as liver and bone, stand ready