译林牛津英语第三册第四单元课本内容
Extended reading, Project, Asssment & Further study
Extended reading
Read the adapted version of a scientist’s public lecture about he importance of science.rou
The value of science
When i was younger, I thought science would make good things for everybody. It was obviously uful; it was good. But then during the war I worked on the atomic bomb. This result of science was obviously very rious---it reprented the destruction of people of and it put our future at risk. I had to ask mylf, “Is there some evil involved in science?”
Put another way, what is the value of the science I had long devoted mylf to----the thing I had loved----when I saw what terrible things it could do? I thought long and hard about this question, and I will try to answer it today.
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The first way in which science is of value is familiar to everyone: scientific knowledge enables us to do and make all kinds of things. Of cour, if we make good things, it is not only to the credit of science; it is also to the credit of the moral choice which led us to good work. Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad----but it doe snot carry instructions on how to apply it. Such power has obvious value; however, the power is decided by what one does.
Another value of science is the intellectual enjoyment it can provide us with.
When we look at any problem deeply enough, we feel the excitement and mystery coming to us again and again. With more knowledge comes a deeper, more wonderful mystery, inspiring one to look deeper still. Never concerned that the answer may let us down, with pleasure and confidence we turn over each new stone to find unimagined strangeness leading on to more wonderful questions and mysteries. Thanks to the scientific effort. We have been led to imagine all sorts of things more fantastic than poets and dreamers of the past ever could.
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I would now like to turn to a third value that science has. The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of great importance. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has an idea as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt.
Now, we scientists take it for granted that it is perfectly possible to live and not know. But our freedom to doubt was born out of a deep and strong struggle against authority in the early days of science. In order to progress, we must not forget the importance of this struggle; we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for uncertainty. Permit us to question, to bout, to be unsure.
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 discusd, and to ensure this freedom for all coming generations.
(Adapted from a public lecture by Richard Feynman, an American scientist who won the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965).
A Write a summary of Richard Feynman’s ideas on the value of science.
bwhB Feynman believes that “Of all its(science’s) many values, the greatest must be the freedom to doubt.” How do you understand this quote?
Project:
long vacationMaking a fact file about a great scientist
A: As a class, discuss some scientists that have changed the world. You can think of both Chine and Western scientists in different fields. Then in groups of four, choo a great scientist to rearch.
B:andreea balan As a group, rearch your chon scientist. U the ideas below to help you.
●Personal information(name, date of birth/death, nationality, childhood, education, etc)
●Scientific rearch (rearch area and achievements, published works, etc.)
●Influence
●Interesting facts
C As a group, put together your information to make your fact file. U the example below to help you. Then prent your fact file to the rest of the class.
Charles Darwin
Personal information:
Date of birth: 12 February 1809
Date of death: 19 April 1882
Nationality: English
Education: Studied at the University of Edinburgh Medical School and the University of Cambridge
Scientific rearch and achievements
He put forward the theory of evolution by natural lection and published On the Origin of Species in 1859.
有限公司英文缩写Influence
His theory of evolution by natural lection has greatly influenced the development of biology.
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Interesting facts
Darwin was such a scientific man that before he made up his mind to get married, he made a careful list of the advantages and disadvantages of marriage.
Asssment
A In pairs, rank your performance level in the following areas from 1 to 5. Write down your own asssment in the column between的用法“Me” and ask your partner to write down his/her as
ssment of your performance in the column “Partner”.
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