研究生英语读写教程（提高级）周红红-Unit 7.pptxVIP

研究生英语读写教程（提高级）English Reading and Writing for Graduate Students Unit 7 Space and Species 研究生英语读写教程（提高级）English Reading and Writing for Graduate Students Advanced Edition Unit 7 Warming up I Passage A II Passage BIII Academic WritingIV Key to ExercisesVContents 研究生英语读写教程（提高级）English Reading and Writing for Graduate Students Advanced Edition Unit 7 Passage A Passage A— Our Picture of the Universe is an excerpt from Stephen Hawking’s international bestseller A Brief History of Time where you can get involved in some philosophical discussions on where the universe came from and where it is going, what time is and some practical descriptions on what a good theory is.Our Picture of the Universe DirectionWatch the video clips about the shape of the Universe and secrets of the Universe, and talk about how much you know about the Universe or which question fascinate you most. 研究生英语读写教程（提高级）English Reading and Writing for Graduate Students Advanced Edition Unit 7 Warming up 研究生英语读写教程（提高级）English Reading and Writing for Graduate Students Advanced Edition Unit 7How do common people, religious people, philosophers and scientists understand the beginning of the universe? Common people: The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.Religious people: The universe started at a finite, and not very distant, time in the past.Philosophers: The human race and the world around it had existed, and would exist, forever.Scientists: The big bang theory.Question 1 Warming up Warming up I研究生英语读写教程（提高级）English Reading and Writing for Graduate Students Advanced Edition Unit 7What was Edwin Hubble’s landmark observation? How important was the observation to the studies of the beginning of the universe?In 1929, Edwin Hubble made the landmark observation that wherever you look, distant galaxies are moving rapidly away from us. In other words, the universe is expanding. This means that a