想象比知识更重要天才就是百分之一的灵感加百分之九十

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1、Unit1MakingaDifferenceI.TeachingAims1.Talkaboutscienceandscientists;2.Talkaboutpeople;3.Practisedescribingpeopleanddebating;4.Learnmoreabouttheinfinitive;5.Writeadescriptiveparagraph;II.Teachingtime:fourperiodsIII.BackgroundInformationTheBeginningofTimeandaRemarkableManCalledStephenHawkingIfy

2、ouhaveeventhoughtabouthowtheuniversebeganandwhethertimehasabeginningoranending,thenyoushouldknowabouta55-year-oldEnglishmancalledStephenHawking.Why?BecauseheisconsideredtobeoneofthebrainiestmenintheworldandtobethemodernsuccessorofAlbertEinstein.Stephenhasspenthislifestudyingandthinkingaboutth

3、eoriginsftheuniverseandhowitcanbeexplainedbyusingthemoderntheoriesofphysicssuchasrelativityandquantummechanics.Hisdiscoveriesandhisscientificproposalshavebeenrevolutionary.Peoplecallhimagenius.Justasamazingisthefastthatsincehisearlytwenties,hehasbeensufferingfromanincurablediseaseofthenervous

4、systemwhichhasaffectedhismovementsandhisspeech.But,fortunately,althoughhemustuseawheelchairandothertechnicalaidstodothings,hisbrainfunctionsperfectly.Indeed,itfunctionsbetterthanthevastmajorityofpeople’s.So,inspriteofaseveredisability,hehasmadetremendouscontributionstoourunderstandingofouruni

5、verse.SowhatdoesStephenthinkaboutthebeginningofourworld?Well,hethinksthatitbeganaroundfifteenbillionyearsago.Healsothinksthatouruniversewasprobablycreatedbyanenormousexplosion,a“BigBang”.Thisisaviewheldbymanycosmologists(scientistswhostudytheuniverse).Butscientistsholddifferentviewaboutwhatth

6、euniversewaslikebeforetheBigBang.SomepeoplethinkthatthereisnowaythatmodernphysicscanexplainorpredictanythingbeforetheBigBang.ManyotherpeoplethinkthattheBigBangmusthavebeentheworkofGod.StephenHawkinghashisownviewonwhattheuniversewaslikebeforethebigbang.Hehassuggestedthat,yes,wecansaythattheuni

7、versebeganatoneparticularpoint(abigbang).But,thisonepointwasjustanordinarypointintimelike,say,theNorthPoleisapointonthesmoothsurfaceoftheearth.Itwasnotapointofrealbeginning,justapoint.第28页共28页Stephenbelievesthatifwecanuseourpresentknowledgeof