凤凰高职英语综合教程1课件Unit 2

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Unit 2 Friends and Falation
Genes and Characters
1 What makes us the people we are? Where do we
get our characteristics and habits? It is one of the oldest debates in science. Some say it is our experiences in childhood; others say it’s just the genes we get from our parents.
B. Three persons’ ideas on where they get their characters and habits.
C. How well people can remember their childhood experiences.. D. The importance of genes in deciding a person’s character..
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I. Match the adjectives with the pictures. quiet clever strict reliable funny loud
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Translation Angela 3 Being adopted, I can’t help wondering where my character comes from. I get good grades at school and people say Chinese are good students and very hardworking. But so are my adoptive parents. My dad’s clever and mum has a clothes shop in Madrid. I’ve learnt lots from them. I sometimes get disappointed if things go bad and I get really angry. Both my parents are very calm and patient – they never shout. Maybe my anger is because of my genes – but my grandfather says it’s because I have no brothers or sisters and my parents are too liberal!
TEXT A
quiet 4._______
reliable 5.________
6.strict ________
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II. Work in pairs. Complete the table below with three persons you know and three adjectives from Exercise 1. And then make a conversation. TEXT A ① ② ③ ④ Person my brother Adjective quiet
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Example A: What’s your brother like? B: He’s quiet! He doesn’t say much.
TEXT A When we ask about someone’s characteristic, we often use: What’s … like?
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Translation Trent 2 People think identical twins have the same tastes and characteristics, but my brother and I are very different: I’m keen on sport and I’m really active; but he’s really quiet. He has friends, but they’re a bit strange and they always play video games together. We’re probably different because we go to different schools and my parents don’t treat us as “the twins”, as one person. Apart from our appearance, I think the only thing related to genes is having poor sight. But he wears thick glasses and I wear contact lenses!
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II. Choose the best answer for each question or statement below. 1. What is the article mainly about? B A. Some oldest debates in science..
c. wearing contact lenses
b f 2. Angela ___ d. knowing people share a lot of genes with chimpanzees e. identical to his twin brother in a d 3. Justinia ___ appearance f. of Chinese origin
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Translation Justinia 4 Being a scientist, I obviously think genes are important – it’s how evolution works. However, genes are only a small part of who we are: we humans share 30% of our genes with bananas and 98% with chimpanzees. Genes play a part in some illnesses, but having a healthy lifestyle is more important and we learn that behaviour from our parents. Neither of my parents are scientists, but they both read a lot and, they talked to me about lots of different things. I believe my childhood experiences have had great effect on my character.
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Background Information Gene 基因（遗传因子）
基因是遗传的物质基础，是 DNA或RNA分子上具有遗传信息的 特定核苷酸序列。基因通过复制把 TEXT A 遗传信息传递给下一代，使后代出 现与亲代相似的性状。生物体的生、 长、病、老、死等一切生命现象都 与基因有关。
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D 2. Identical twins are usually believed to have ________. A. very different characteristics and tastes B. strange tastes and extreme characteristics
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I. Match the persons 1—3 with relevant descriptions a—f. ___ c e 1. Trent a. whose parents read a lot b. whose mother is a businesswoman
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Background Information 基因与性格
英国和澳大利亚研究人员近日发现，乐观、开朗的性格能够通过基因继承，人与人 的幸福感存在差异，一半原因在于基因不同。因此，幸福感可以遗传。研究人员选择近 1000对年龄在25岁至75岁间的同卵双胞胎和异卵双胞胎作为研究对象。由于同卵双胞 胎基因相同，而异卵双胞胎基因不同，研究人员能够从采集的基因样本中识别一些共同 基因。他们认为，这些共同基因能赋予人某种性格，使人天生容易感到幸福。研究人员 TEXT A 还询问他们一系列问题，包括个性、忧虑度和对本人生活的满意度。 研究人员发现， 这些双胞胎是否感到幸福，一半取决于人际关系、健康和职业等因素，而另一半取决于 本人性格，喜欢社交、活跃、情绪稳定、勤奋和尽责等性格会使人更容易有幸福感。 主持这项研究的英国爱丁堡大学研究员蒂姆·贝茨表示，一个家庭中的同卵双胞胎在性 格和幸福感上非常相似，相比之下，异卵双胞胎的性格和幸福感相似程度只有一半。这 一点强烈暗示，基因对人的性格和幸福感有相当影响。 研究人员还发现，开朗、遇事 冷静、可靠等性格能使人“有效储存”幸福感，当这些人遭遇压力时，“储存”的幸福 感会释放，帮助他们克服压力。这些发现将有助于更好地研究抑郁症的病理，以及了解 人与人幸福感差异的原因。
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Translation Genes are important in making us who we are. But some people believe that their character is a result of childhood experiences more than genes. TEXT A
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Background Information Madrid 马德里
马德里是西班牙首都，亦是西 班牙中央经济区的综合性经济中 心，运输、物流、研发、消费和 高新技术产业的中心。其地理位 TEXT A 置十分重要，在历史上因战略位 置重要而素有“欧洲之门”之称。 马德里也是南欧地区的旅游、文 化中心，历史文化遗迹丰富，现 代旅游设施齐全，服务业发达。
TEXT A
clever 1._______
loud 2.________
funny 3.________
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I. Match the adjectives with the pictures. quiet clever strict reliable funny loud