高二英语unit warming up speaking listening课件.pptVIP

Never leave that until tomorrow, which you can do today.  Listening Text This woman was certainly curious. Together with her husband, she tried to learn the secrets of radioactivity. The couple were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. Eight years later, she received a second Nobel Prize for chemistry. 2. It is said that this English gentleman was sitting in his garden one day when suddenly he was hit by a falling apple. The story is probably not true, but this man did mention that he got one of his best-known ideas while watching apples fall from a tree. His name makes you think that he was not too interested in old things. He discovered the force of gravity, and he drew up a system of how objects move. His laws for motion are still used in physics today, at least in schools and universities. 3. Food is what sets this great mind on fire. Rice, to be exact. This great mind has spent most of his life looking for ways to help farmers grow more rice so that all of us will have enough food to eat. He is known as the father of modern rice, but because of his long friendship with all the farmers in China, he would rather be known as “the farmer”. B)fear so/ not -Are they going to lose the game? -I fear so.我担心会输. -Will they be able to win the game? -I fear not.我担心不会的. 2. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. ＝to analyse (1). It takes sth to do 花费，需要 It took great courage to break away from his family. It took unusual determination to undertake such a difficult task. The patient’s dangerous condition took the doctors and nurses many sleepless nights sth一般不用表示钱的名词 (3) undertake Agree or promise to do sth 同意或答应做某事 Eg: He undertook to finish the job by Friday. 他答应在星期五以前完成工作. I can’t undertake that you will win in the election. 我不能保证你在选举中会赢. 1. genius (1 ) [uncountable] a very high level of intelligence, mental skill, or ability, which only a few people have writer/man