U3 Text B and Exercise

When these headlines appeared this year, their stories became the subjects of conversations around the world — talks spiced with optimism and confusion. Imagine the hopes raised in the millions battling cancer. Did the news mean these people never had to worry about cancer again?
• 2. Other researchers will try to repeat the experiment, and the more often it works, the better the chances that the result is sound. • • 别的研究人员会试图重复这一实验，实验成功 的次数越多，其结果就越有可能是可靠的。
• 3 • 1)lies in contact between • 2)basis of is likely sufficient at the moment • 3)the steady ensures will be highly
II Word Formation
• • • • • • • 1 regained 2 undecided 3 undersupplied 4 disabled 5 precondition 6 foresight 7 mispronounced 8 enrich
• 1. The scientific method, as many of us learned in school, is a gradual process that begins with a purpose or a problem or question to be answered. • 正如我们很多人在学校里所学的那样，科学方 法是一个渐进的过程，这个过程始于某个目的， 或某个需要解决或回答的问题。
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• • • • • • • • • • 1)understand 2)travel 3)practical 4)use 5)Another 6)likely 7)affect 8)developments 9)supply 10) Someday
• 1) As is predicted by scientists, • global pollution • be faced with.
• 3. Most people not have enough food to eat. not to speak of accept of that privileges. • 3. Most people doesn’t sufficient food to eat. not to speak of accept education privilege. • Reference Answer: • The majority didn’t even have sufficient food, not to speak of (accepting) the privilege of being educated.
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• 1) has ensured their team a place in the Cup final. • 2)medical workers’ responsibility to heal the wounded and rescue the dying. • 3)entertain as well as educate the learner. • 4)can do without air and water. • 5)is likely to be held in June.
• 3. As President Clinton said that day, the possibility that life existed on Mars billions of years ago was potentially one of the great discoveries of our time. • 正如克林顿总统那天所说，发现亿万年前 火星上可能存在生命这件事，有可能是我 们时代最伟大的发现之一。
El Nino
• El Nino is a global oceanatmosphere phenomenon. • 厄尔尼诺一词源自西班牙文El Niño， 原意是“圣婴” Christ child ，用 来表示在南美洲西海岸（秘鲁和厄瓜 多尔附近）向西延伸，经赤道太平洋 至日期变更线附近的海面温度异常增 暖的现象。 • 当东南信风异常加强时，赤道东太平 洋海水上翻异常强烈，降水异常偏少； 而赤道西太平洋海水温度异常偏高， 降水异常偏多，形成一种严重的灾害， 原来的干旱气候转变为多雨气候，甚 至造成洪水泛滥，这就是厄尔尼诺。
• 1. It is hard to imagine how our forefathers did without so many conveniences that modern technology brought about. • 2. At that time, that is bad. Only a little proportion of the population enjoy comforts. • Reference Answer: • Back then only a small proportion of the population enjoyed the comforts of the life.
4. However, many people blame modern technology, said it caused a lot of questions. Reference Answer: However, many people blame modern technology for bringing about a lot of problems. 5. They want to slow down the rate of progress, but who also can’t put the clock back. Reference Answer : They want to slow down the rate of progress, but no one can put the clock back.
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It is hard to imagine do without conveniences modern technology brought about. a small proportion of the population The majority didn’t even have sufficient food, the privilege of being educated. blame modern technology slow down the rate of progress. put the clock back.
• 4. Some concluded that the “evidence of life” was mostly contamination（污染，毒害） from Antarctic ice or that there was nothing organic at all in the rock. • 有些人得出结论说，这些“生命的证据”大多 来自南极冰的污染，或者那块石头里根本就没 有有机物。
• Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. • — Bertrand Russell, British logician • 即使所有的专家都一致赞同，他们也可能错了。 • —— 英国逻辑学家 伯特兰·罗素
• The Golden Rule is that there are no golden rules. • — G. B. Shaw, Irish writer • 真正的金科玉律就是世上并无金科玉律。 • —— 爱尔兰作家 萧伯纳
• Imagine the hopes raised in the millions battling cancer. • 想象一下，这对于那些正在和癌症抗争的人是 多大的鼓励啊！ • It’s the result of course, that makes the best news — not the years of quiet work. • 成为新闻热点的当然是结果，而非长年默默无 闻的努力。 • It is… that…
How to Make Sense out of Science
David H. Levy
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III Antonyms
• • • • • • • • 1)majority 2) accepted 3)increased 4)weaknesses 5) local 6) late 7)wrong 8)false
• Comprehensive exercises • I Close • 1.Text-related • • • • • • • • • 1)highly 2)bring about 3)evident 4)rate 5)sufficient 6)put across 7)proportion 8)Hence 9)ensurmpetition for • five times as many …as …