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课件网) 外研版 高一年级(必修4) Module 4 Reading and writing 《时间简史》是英国物理学家斯蒂芬·霍金创作的科学著作，首次出版于1988年。 全书共十二章，讲的全都是关于宇宙本性的最前沿知识，包括：我们的宇宙图像、空间和时间、膨胀的宇宙、不确定性原理、黑洞、宇宙的起源和命运等内容，深入浅出地介绍了遥远星系、黑洞、粒子、反物质等知识，并对宇宙的起源、空间和时间以及相对论等古老命题进行了阐述。 在该书里，霍金探究了已有宇宙理论中存在的未解决的冲突，并指出了把量子力学、热动力学和广义相对论统一起来存在的问题，该书的定位是让那些对宇宙学有兴趣的普通读者了解他的理论和其中的数学原理。 该书自1988年首版以来，已被翻译成40种文字，累计销售量达2500万册，成为一本畅销全世界的科学著作。 ①Check the meaning of these words. best-seller cosmology diagnose disability motor neurone disease victim 运动神经元病 残疾 诊断 宇宙论 畅销书 受害者 ②Read the passage about Stephen Hawking and number the paragraphs in the correct order. Victims of motor neurone disease cannot move and cannot speak but their brains may work perfectly. In Stephen Hawking’s case it was discovered that he was a brilliant scientist. Moving in a wheelchair and speaking through a special computer, he has become the voice of science. 2 1). Please be brief because I’m in a hurry. 我有急事, 请长话短说。 2). Mozart’s life was brief. 莫扎特的一生很短暂。 3). His remarks were brief and to the point. 他的话简洁, 而且说到了点子上。 to be brief /in brief 简言之 1. brief Stephen Hawking has spent his career at Cambridge University, where he became Professor of Physics in 1977. His work was in the area of cosmology and he wrote about black holes in space. His book A Brief History of Time was published in 1988 and is still a best-seller. Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous scientists in the world partly because of his scientific discoveries and partly because of his physical disability. He was born in 1942 in Oxford and graduated from Oxford University. In the 1960s he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. 3 1 派生: brief adv. 短暂地, 简洁地, 简言之 briefing n. 简明指示, 情况简介 拓展: in brief 简言之 类似的表达: in short in a word in a nutshell ③ Write the number of the paragraph. This paragraph explains why Hawking is famous. _____ This paragraph talks about Hawking’s personal life. _____ This paragraph talks about Hawking’s scientific career.____ 3 1 2 victim brilliant career partly physical graduate from theory of relativity earn his living Nobel Prize for physics came to power 受害者 优秀的，极好的 生涯 部分地 物理的；身体的 从……毕业 相对论 谋生 诺贝尔物理学奖 开始掌权 ④ Read the notes about Albert Einstein. born in Ulm , Germany, 1879 didn’t speak until he was three loved mathematics had the idea of his theory of relativity when he was 16 got a job in an office to earn his living awarded Nobel Prize for physics in 1921 left German when Hitler came to power and went to work in the US earn one’s living＝make one’s living谋生 Thank you! ... ...
