当代研究生英语读写教程（上）课件Unit3_Text_A教材教学课件.pptVIP

Unit 3;Content;Warming-up;Questions:  1) In what ways does human activity influence the environment?  Offer some examples. 2) Have you experienced the pressure of China’s large  population? Tell about your experiences.  3) For how long do you think China should insist its Family  Planning Activity? Why?; THE CASE AGAINST MAN (PART I)  Isaac Asimov ;Reading—Text A; Main Idea and Structure; Mankind is part of an intricate web of life on the planet and dependent on the rest part of the system. In the past thousands of years, mankind is the single species that has been increasing in numbers. We have to do something to stop human population explosion.;Structure;Text Study;Para.9-11;Para.12-14;Para.15-18;19 How can the human population explosion be stopped? By raising the death rate or by lowering the birthrate. There are no other alternatives. The death rate will rise spontaneously and finally catastrophically, if we do nothing—and that within a few decades. To make the birthrate fall, somehow (almost any how, in fact), is surely preferable, and that is therefore the first order of mankind’s business today. 20 Failing this, mankind would stand at the bar of abstract justice (for there may be no posterity to judge) as the mass murderer of life generally, his own included, and mass disrupter of the intricate planetary development that made life in its present glory possible in the first place.;Sentence Analysis;1. 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 qualify as what we call “life”. (Para.4, Line 1-3) versatile: having great diversity or variety 丰富多变的，多功能的 e.g. a versatile new machine develop: cause to grow 形成 The SVO structure of the above se