文档介绍：Unit 18 Inventions
Reading
Inventions around us
What do the great inventors have in common?
The great inventors’it more difficult for us to understand new ideas.
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Not all inventors
③( )It is impossible to learn how to be creative.
④( ) The best way to find a good solution is to look for one good answer.
⑤( ) Inventors try to avoid failure.
know that failure is a necessary part of the thinking process
as many answers as possible
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⑥( ) The more ways we have of looking at a problem, the more likely it is that we can find a solution.
⑦( ) Most good ideas are the result of a long process of trial and error.
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2. The examples have been mixed up and place them in the right paragraph.
①According to Leonardo da Vinci, problems which had seemed impossible could be solved if he changed the way he described the problem.
② Thomas Edison made a rule saying that he had to make an invention every ten days.
③ Mozart wrote more than 600 pieces of music.
④ Einstein, who changed the world of physics forever with his Theory of Relativity, preferred images to numbers.
⑤ Samuel Morse, the man who
invented the telegraph, got his idea
by watching a rider exchange a tired
horse for a new one.
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Language Points
How do they come up with ideas for new…
come up with sth.: find or produce an answer, a solution, etc
. Is that the best excuse you can come up with?
We've been asked to come up with some new ideas.
come up: 走近;发生;被提出;长出地面;
社会地位高,出头
. One of the teachers came up and started talking to me.
His name came up in the conversation.
The same problems come up every time.
The seeds haven’t come up yet.
He came up the hard way.
a matter of 问题, 事情
a matter of opinion 观点问题,看法不同的问题
a matter of course 理所当然的事
另: a matter of 大约,仅有
. The ambulance arrived in a matter of minutes.
Instead, it seems that c