U3.Understanding Science
1.Some important concepts I learned
Nobody can prevent science from developing，as the world we live in has changed a great deal ，whether we like it or not.
2.Some words struck me
1)nasty adj. 令人難受的
2）put/turn the clock back 倒退，開倒車
3）qualitative adj. 定性的，性質(zhì)上的
3.My favority sentences
1)The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.——Albert Einstein
2)Whether we like it or not，the world we live in has changed a great deal in the last hundred years，and it is likely to change even more in the next hundred.
4.Knowledge points
1)Nor（倒裝） can one prevent further advances in the future.
2）All it would do is (to省略） slow down the rate of change.
3)在過(guò)去的一百年間 in the last hundred years
4)享有特權(quán)的少數(shù)人 a privileged minority
5)當(dāng)今政府 the present government
6)基礎(chǔ)科學(xué) basic science
7)全球政府? a global state 聯(lián)合國(guó) the United Nations
8)民主社會(huì) a democratic society
9)做出明智決定 make informed decisions
10)生活水平? the standard of living
11)卡通人物? cartoon figures
12)科幻小說(shuō) science fictions
13)酸雨 acid rain
14)溫室效應(yīng) greenhouse effect
15)核武器 nuclear weapons
16)基因工程 genetic engineering
17)死記硬背 learn by rote 熟背 learn by heart
18)使銷量減半 halve the sales
19)分子生物學(xué) molecular biology
20)外星文明 alien civilization
21)對(duì)…充滿信心 have sufficient faith in…
22)正如科學(xué)家所預(yù)言的那樣 As is predicted by scientists
23）今年的數(shù)量是去年的五倍 five times as the number of sth. this year as sb. did last year./the number of sth. is four times more than last year's./the number of sth. is five times as many as last year's.
24)太費(fèi)油 burn too much gas
5.The difficulties I meet
1)The paragraph is so abstract that I cannnot grasp the main idea easily.
2)The sentence is so long that I cannot translate it easily.
3)In a long paragraph，I cannot realize what "this"or"it" means here.And I need read the paragraph once again.
4）For some sentences，I can understand the word's common meaning，but don't know the word's meaning in the sentence，which makes me misunderstand the sentences true meaning.
6.My harvest
some new words
some new expression
correct many mispronunciations
7.Advice
1)When teaching，you could use more English and less Chinese，and use Chinese just to explain the meaning of several key words in spoken English.
2)Let's communicate more in English.
