Text A Scientific Attitudes
搭配:
1.Seek answers to questions寻找什么问题的答案(seek的过去式:sought)/动词词组
2.lay aside搁置(lay的过去式:Laid)/动词词组
3.Be curious about对什么好奇/形容词词组
4.Take apart(e.g.a watch)拆散/动词词组
5.Combine sth.with sth.把什么和什么结合在一起/动词词组
6.Carry out the experiment完成试验/动词词组
7.Belief in sth./sb.相信某人或某事/名词词组
8.(there is)an explanation for sth.解释某事/名词性词组
9.There is a good reason why+句子这就是为什么的原因
10.Not at all一点也不/副此词组
11.Regardless of不管;无论/形容词词组
12.Succeed in sth./doing sth.成工作某事/动词词组
13.The solutions to problems问题的解决办法/名词的解决方法
14.In advance提前/副词词组
15.Adapt sth.to sth.使什么适应什么/动词词组
16.Make up one's mind下定决心/动词词组
17.Once and for all一劳永逸地/副词词组
18.Change in thinking思想的转变/名词词组
19.Make sth.necessary事某事很必要/动词词组
20.In the light of sth.根据,参照,考虑到/介词词组
21.Respect for sth.对什么的尊敬/名词词组,动词词组
22.The difficulty comes up.问题产生了
23.Base on sth.根据什么/动词词组
24.It may take time for sth./sb.to do sth.做某事花某人多长时间
25.Conditions for sth.什么的条件/名词词组
语言点:
1.Belief的复数形式为beliefs
2.Well-known/著名的
3.Curious(adj.好奇的)――curiosity(n.好奇);imagine(v.想象)-imagination(n.想象力)
4.Scientifically minded people有科学头脑的人
5.In cases where the explanation is unknown the scientific point of view is that there is a reason if it can only be discovered.在对于现象还无法解释的时候,科学的观点是有理由相信迟早这种解释是可以被发现的。
6.This means the ability to(做什么的能力)face the facts as they are(实事求是)regardless of what one has previously thought.
7.Agree(v.同意)-disagreeable(adj.令人讨厌的)
8.The worker in science must face facts whether they are pleasant or unpleasant.
I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry when I heard the news.是…还是…
Whether he succeeds or fails,he has to do his best.
He doesn't know whether she is in Britain or she has gone to France.
9.Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before he succeeded in producing the first electric lamp.
10.Accept(v.接受)-acceptable(adj.可接受的)
11.Scientific truth offers an explanation that is acceptable only in the light of what is known at a particular time.
12.New ideas are frequently very slow to be accepted.
13.Continued progress继续的发展
14.时态题:There is an experiment on the sprouting of seeds which has been running for more than 50 years.