文档介绍：Unit1 Making a difference
Revision:
I. Translation:
很显然你错了. (obvious)
2. 我家离学校不到两英里.(within)
3. 毫无疑问他回家了.(doubt)
4. 上星期六我们班举行了一次辩论会.(debate)
It’s obvious that you’re wrong
My house is within two miles from the school.
There’s no doubt that he’s gone back to his hometown.
Our class held a debate last Saturday.
II. Fill in the blanks:
1. His speech gave me a lot of _________(灵感).
2. The young man has a ______(天才) for drawing.
3. Reading stories can develop a child’s _______
(想象力).
4. He’s thought to be one of the greatest _______ (人物) at that time.
5. It won’t make any ________(影响) to me whether you stay or leave.
6. There was a look of _____(恐惧) on her face.
inspiration
genius
imagination
minds
difference
fear
Reading
No Boundaries
Speech impaired
Steven Hawking
physicist /
mathematician
Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 (300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England. At eleven Stephen went to St Albans School, and then on to University College, Oxford, his father's old college.
With Roger Penrose he showed that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes.
Fast reading:
Answer the questions on P3
Careful reading:
Finish the first two questions on P4.
More questions:
1. How would most people feel when they were told that they had incurable diseases?
2. What did Hawking write in 1988?
3. What did Hawking explain in the book A Brief History of Time?
Most of people would probably feel very sad and give up their dreams and hopes for the future.
A Brief History of Time
He explains both what it means to be a scientist and how science works. He tells readers about how discoveries are made and how they change the world.