余生勿扰all agree that human cloning exerts severe threats on human dignity. Social critics point out that cloned children will lack personality and noumenon. G. Annas, professor of health laws in Boston university, points out that ―human cloning should be banned because it may fundamentally alter the definition of
our selves.‖
VI. Grouping:
A.The change of attitudes towards ethical consideration:
occupy media slots and Sunday supplements, latest battle front, can no longer be swept aside, more sensitive
B.Academic science:
a worldwide institutional web, peer review, respect for priority of discovery, comprehensive citation of the
literature, meritocratic preferment, smuggle ethical considerations from private life, from politics, from religion, from sheer humanitarian sympathy
C.Industrial science:
intimately involved in the business of daily life
D.Post-academic science:
a succession of ―projects‖, compound moral risks with financial risks, largely the work of teams of
scientists
1. inpidualistic
2. energized
3. comprehensive
4. heterogeneous
VII. Topics for Discussion and Writing
(Omitted)
WRITING ? STRATEGY ? CAUSE AND EFFECT
(Omitted)
Text 5 Beauty, Charm, and Strangeness: Science as Metaphor
I. Vocabulary
1. B
2. A
3. C
4. B
5. C
6. B
7. A
8. B
9. A 10. C
II. Rhetoric
1. pitch
2. landscape
3. unblinking
4. yawn
5. wrings
III. Mosaic
1.physical poetic political scientific optical atomic
2. (Omitted)
3. B
4. B
5. A
6. C
7. D
IV. Translation
A.(Refer to the relevant part of the Chinese translation)
B. There are only two forms of human spiritual creation: science and poetry. The former gives us
convenience; and the latter gives us comfort. In more common words, the former enables us to have food to eat when we are hungry; and the latter makes us aware that eating is something more than eating, and it is
very interesting as well. To have science without poetry, atomic bomb will be detonated; to have poetry without science, poets will starve to death.
Scientists should not despise poets; and poets should not remain isolated from scientists. If the two fields conflict each other, human beings would be on the way to doom. In fact, the greatest scientists like Newton, Einstein and Mrs. Currie were all endowed with poetic spirit. I assert that in observing the apple falling to the ground, Newton not only discovered the gravity of the earth, he also wrote a beautiful poem. V. Grouping
A.Human reason:
guilty of hubris, cramped imagination, commonsense logic, an ignorant man
B.Differences between art and science:
different in their methods and in their ends, a scientific hypothesis can be proven, new combinations of old materials, transform the ordinary into extraordinary, a practical extension into technology, the sense of an ending
C.Similarities between art and science:
in their origin, quest to reveal the world
1. indistinguishable
2. transform
3. poetic
4. extension
5. subdue
VI. Topics for Discussion and Writing
(Omitted)
WRITING ? STRATEGY ? DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION
I. Organize the following words into groups.
People: physician; driver; boxer; mother; teacher
Schools: school; college; institute; kindergarten; university
Colors: brown; purple; violet; black; yellow
Prepositions: along; toward; upon; without; into
Verbs:listen; read; write; hear; look
II. Complete the following lists.
1. College students can be classified according to:
A.academic achievement
B.attitude toward politics, friendship, etc.
C.sex
D.height
E.place of origin
F.value of life
G.major
2. Transportation means can be classified according to:
A.speed
B.size
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D.fuel
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F.history
G.water, land, or air
III. Write a paragraph of classification on the books which you like to read.
(Omitted)
Text 6 Is Science Evil?
I. Vocabulary
1. C
2. A
3. D
4. B
5. B
6.A
7. C
8. C
9. D 10. A
II. Definition
1. Canon
2. Validity
3. A premise
4. Disillusionment
5. the process of establishing the truth, accuracy, or correctness of something
6. a mode of thinking based on guessing rather than on knowledge
III. Mosaic
1. 1) / / illusion dis-=not -ment=noun ending
2) / / science pseudo-=false
3) / / conscious -ness=noun ending
4) / / question -able=adjective ending
5) / / extenuate -ation=noun ending
6) / / indict -ment=noun ending
7) / / rebut -al=noun ending
8) / / perpetrate -ion=noun ending
9) / / problem -ic=adjective ending
10) / / dissolute -ion=noun ending
2. Para. 13: Only when scientific criticism is crippled by making particulars absolute can a closed view of the
world pretend to scientific validity – and then it is a false validity.
Para.14: Out of dissatisfaction with all the separate bits of knowledge is born the desire to unite all knowledge.
Para. 15: Only superficially do the modern and the ancient atomic theories seem to fit into the same theoretical mold.
1) Para. 13: Only + adverbial clause of time + inverted order
Para. 14: Prepositional phrase + inverted order
Para. 15: Only + adverb + inverted order
2) Inverted order is used to emphasize.
3. C
4. B
5. A
6. C
IV. Translation
A.(Refer to the relevant part of the Chinese translation)
B. At present there exist two conflicting tendencies towards the development of science and technology. The
opponents of science hold that the development of modern science has not brought blessings to human beings, instead it has brought human beings to the very edge of disaster and peril. On the other hand, the proponents of scientific and technological progress maintains that the crises facing human beings today—such as environmental pollution, ecological unbalance, natural resource exhaustion—are the natural consequences of the development of science, and the solution to which lies in the further development of science. Both of the above tendencies are reasonable in a sense with their respective one-sided view. If we view the development of modern science and technology from the point of view of our times and with dialectic viewpoints, we can find out that the problem facing modern science and technology is not how to understand the progress of modern science and technology, but how to find out the theoretical basis for the further development of science and technology in order to meet the needs of the times.
V. Grouping
A.Attitudes toward science:
expect to be helped by science and only by science, the superstition of science, the hatred of science, the one great landmark on the road to truth
B.Characteristics of science:
powerful authority, solve all problems, thoroughly universal
C.Scientific knowledge:
a concrete totality, cannot supply us with the aims of life, cannot lead us
D.Contrast between ancient and modern science:
progress into the infinite, making particulars absolute, not as an end in itself but as a tool of inquiry
1. corruption
2. totality
3. inquiry
4. superstition
5. landmark
VI. Topics for Discussion and Writing
(Omitted)
WRITING ? STRATEGY ? GENERALIZATION AND SPECIFICATION
WRITING ? STRATEGY ? COMBINATION OF WRITING STRATEGIES
(Omitted)
Unit Two Engineering
Text 7 Engineers’ Dream of Prac tical Star Flight
I. Vocabulary
1. D
2. C
3. B
4. D
5. A
6. C
7.C
II. Definition
1. Annihilation
2. A skeptic
3. A cosmic ray
4. Anti-matter
5. A workshop
6. the curved path in space that is followed by an object going around another larger object
7. any one of the systems of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by
gravitational attraction
III. Mosaic
1. 闭音节, 字母u 发/ / 的音，如A, C and D.
2. (Omitted)
3. (Omitted)
4. C
5. C
6. B
7. A
8. B
IV. Translation
A.(Refer to the relevant part of the Chinese translation)
B. Human beings have long been attempting sending unmanned devices, called interstellar probes, into the
outer space to understand the changes of climates, geological structures and the living beings on the stars and planets out there. A probe is usually sent into the orbit of the earth by ―riding‖ a spacecraft or carrier rockets. After its orbital adjustments are made, the rocket engine is ignited and the probe continues its journey to the orbit of the other star or planet. With the rocket engine broken off, the probe immediately spreads its solar-cell sails and antenna, controlling its posture with sensors. When convinced that it is in the orbit of the targeted star, the probe starts its propeller and flies to the preset destination.
V. Grouping
A.Astronomical phenomena:
interstellar medium, a wind of particles, galaxy, reserves of comets, the Kuiper Belt,
orbit, Pluto, the Oort Cloud, the bombardment photon
B.Space equipment:
interstellar probe, gravitational lens, chemical rocket, thruster, reflective sail
C.To explore the universe:
scoop, bend, sample
D.Challenges and solutions in interstellar flights:
carry its own supply of propellant, matter-antimatter, nuclear power
1. gravitational
