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Practical English Unit 4 Text A Social Responsibility of Scientists Lead-in Vocabulary Outline Text Study Summary Quizzes How far do you think the scientists should be responsible for society? Vocabulary adopt assess so far as conclude essential as a whole occasional prejudice be free from sponsor short of be up to lead to pay for make a point be responsible for 1.???? Focus on the debate2.???? Scientists’ attitude toward their social responsibilities3. The author’s view on the problem Text Study 1. There has been much debate for a number of years about how far scientists should be responsible for society for the results of their work.------ For a number of years, people have talked much about what kind of duties scientists have to society for the results of their work. be responsible for: to be the cause ofe.g. Who is responsible for breaking the window? Someone called the police that he was responsible for the accident. Be responsible to sb for sth: answerable to someone for sth e.g. He is responsible to the manager for the way his staff behave. You’re responsible to your mother for keeping the house tidy. ?2. sponsor: to act as a person who takes the financial responsibilities for someone or somethinge.g. The firm sponsors several golf tournaments. The administration is sponsoring some major programs of research and development.3. short of: expect for, without doing something as bad, unpleasant,etc. as(something else); not as far as or as much as, insufficient e.g. Short of calling a meeting I don’t know how to get our plan approved. Short of murder, there is nothing he wouldn’t have tried to get w