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1、2019-2020年高中英语第二册上Makingadifference(1)Period1(Unit1BII)Warmingup&Listening&SpeakingI.Warmingup1.Introducesomefamousscientists.TheGerman-AmericanphysicistAlbertEinstein,b.Ulm,Germany,Mar.14,1879,d.Princeton,N.J.,Apr.18,1955,contributedmorethananyotherscienti
2、sttothe20th-centuryvisionofphysicalreality.Inthewakeof(随着...而来)WorldWarI,Einstein'stheories--especiallyhistheoryofrelativity--seemedtomanypeopletopointtoapurequalityofhumanthought,onefarremovedfromthewaranditsaftermath.Seldomhasascientistreceivedsuchpublic
3、attentionforhavingcultivatedthefruitofpurelearning.MARIECURIEopenedupthescienceofradioactivity（放射能）.Sheisbestknownasthediscovereroftheradioactiveelements（元素）polonium（钋）andradium（镭）andasthefirstpersontowintwoNobelprizes.Forscientistsandthepublic,herradiumwas
4、akeytoabasicchangeinourunderstandingofmatterandenergy.Herworknotonlyinfluenced（影响）thedevelopmentoffundamental（基础的）sciencebutalsoushered（引导）inanewera（纪元）inmedicalresearchandtreatment.AlfredNorthWhitehead(b.1861-d.1947),Britishmathematician,logicianandphiloso
5、pherbestknownforhisworkinmathematicallogicandthephilosophyofscience.IncollaborationwithBertrandRussell,heauthored（创造）thelandmark（里程碑）three-volumePrincipiaMathematica(1910,1912,1913)andcontributedsignificantlytotwentieth-centurylogicandmetaphysics（形而上学）.Atth
6、etimethatGalileoarrivedattheUniversity,somedebatehadstartedupononeofAristotle's"laws"ofnature--namely,thatthatheavierobjectsfellfasterthanlighterobjects.Aristotle'swordhadbeenacceptedasgospeltruth,andtherehadbeenfewattemptstoactuallytestAristotle'sconc
7、lusionsbyactuallyconductinganexperiment!Accordingtolegend,Galileodecidedtotry.Heneededtobeabletodroptheobjectsfromagreatheight.Theperfectbuildingwasrightathand--theTowerofPisa,54meterstall.Galileoclimbeduptothetopofthebuildingcarryingavarietyofballsofvaryin
8、gsizeandweight,anddumpedthemoffofthetop.Theyalllandedatthebaseofthebuildingatthesametime(legendsaysthatthedemonstrationwaswitnessedbyahugecrowdofstudentsandprofessors).Aristotlewaswrong.Whowerethey?Wha
