学习目标 1. Understand the text “The Value of Science” by skimming & scanning； 2. Retell the text in your own words and write a summary of it. 活动方案 Ⅰ. Choose the best answers to the following according to the text. ( ) 1. What type of writing is the text A. Narrative writing. B. Argumentative writing. C. Expository writing. D. Practical writing. ( ) 2. Why did the writer ask himself, “Is there some evil involved in science？” A. To comfort his heart and others. B. To show his concern and worry. C. To respect related scientists. D. To attempt to flee from science. ( ) 3. Which of the following is NOT the value of science A. Scientific knowledge enables us to do and make all kinds of things. B. Science can provide us with intellectual enjoyment. C. Scientists take it for granted that they are ignorant. D. The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, which is of very great importance. ( ) 4. Why must a scientist recognize his ignorance A. To doubt. B. To be sure. C. To have freedom. D. To fear. Ⅱ. Answer the following questions according to the text. 1. What was in his mind when the writer was young 2. Why did the writer think long and hard about the question “What is the value of the science”？ 3. How many values did the writer introduce？What are they 1. What is the purpose of the text 2. What is the tone of the text 1. How did the writer express his ideas so effectively 2. What's the function of the sentence “It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress that is the fruit of freedom of thought, to declare the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but to be welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations”？ 根据课文内容填空。 When I was younger, I thought science would make good things 1. _____ everybody. However, when I worked on the atomic bomb during the war, I found it represented the 2. _____ (destruct) of people and it put our future at risk. What is the value of science The first value is that 3. _____ (science) knowledge enables us to do and make all kinds of things. Scientific knowledge is 4. _____ enabling power to do either good or bad—but it does not carry instructions on 5. _____ to apply it. Such power 6. _____ (have) obvious value. Another value of science is the intellectual enjoyment. Thanks to the scientific effort, we have been led to imagine all 7. _____ (sort) of things more fantastic than poets and dreamers of the past ever could. Let's turn to a third value. The scientist has a lot of experience with 8. _____ (ignore) and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance. Scientists take 9. _____ for granted that it is perfectly possible to live and not know. 10. _____ (know) the great progress that is the fruit of freedom of thought, scientists have responsibility to declare the value of this freedom. Ⅰ. 话题拓展阅读。 Scientific discoveries have changed p ... ...
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