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1、新视野大学英语读写教程第一册福建师范大学本科课程“优质教学和教案”项目UnitSectionABirthofBrightIdeasPre-readingActivityUnderstandingoftheTextPost-readingActivityContentForfunMusicPre-readingActivityBackgroundinformationWarm-upQuestionsQuestionsforUnderstandingoftheTextTopic-relatedvideoBackgroundinformatio
2、nRichardWagner(1813-1883),thegreatestcomposerofGermanopera,madeamajoradditiontothenatureofoperathroughhiswritingsaboutandthecreationofmusicdrama.Musicdramacombinessinging,orchestra,verse,story,dramaandspectacle.Wagner’sworksincludethe“TheRingoftheNibelung”(1853-1874),aset
3、offouroperasbasedonhistoricalGermanstories.ChineseBackgroundinformation里查德·瓦格纳是最伟大的德国歌剧作曲家。通过他写的有关歌剧的文章和他所创作的歌剧，他对歌剧的本质做了重要的补充。歌剧结合了歌唱、管弦乐队、诗歌、故事、戏剧和场景。瓦格纳的作品包括“尼伯龙根的指环”，它是一部以德国历史故事为素材的四幕歌剧。BackgroundinformationTheRhinegold,thefirstofthefouroperasinthe“Ring”cycle,exemplif
4、iesWagner'stheoryofmusicdramainitspurestform.《莱茵的黄金》是瓦格纳的四联神话歌剧《尼伯龙根的指环》的第一部。它是瓦格纳歌剧理论的例证。BackgroundinformationHenriPoincare(1854-1912),agreatFrenchmathematicsandtheoreticalscienceprofessorattheSorbonne(UniversityofParis),hadahighlyoriginalinfluenceonthedevelopmentofpurea
5、ndappliedmathematics.Healsoworkedonfunctionsthatchangedcelestialmechanics,helpedpioneeralgebraictopologyandco-discoveredthespecialtheoryofrelativity.ChineseBackgroundinformation亨利·庞加莱是法国索尔本大学（巴黎大学）的伟大的数学和理论科学教授，他对理论数学和应用数学的发展有独创的贡献。他还对改变天体力学的函数进行研究，同时他是代数拓扑学的先驱思想家，也是相对论的另
6、一位先驱思想家。BackgroundinformationDescartes,Rene(1596-1650),afamousFrenchphilosopher,mathematicianandscientist,wasoneofthemostinfluentialthinkersinhistory.Heisconsideredthefounderofbothmodernphilosophyandanalyticgeometry.Duringhislife,establishedideaswerebeingchallenged,sohetr
7、iedtodevelopawaytoreachthetruth.Hebasedhistheorythattheworldismadeupofmindandmatter（物质和心灵）onaconceptthatcametohiminadream.BackgroundinformationcogitoergosumisLatinfor“Ithink;therefore,Iexist”,akeypointinDescartes’philosophy.Heclaimedthattheonlythinganyonecanbecertainofist
8、hats/hethinksand,therefore,s/heexists.The“I”isthemindwhichcanexistwithoutbeingextendedsothatitca
