Unit 1 Great scientists Period 1:Warming up and Pre-readingNobelThe Nobel PrizeYuan LongpingJohn SnowNicolaus CopernicusWhat do you know about great scientists?1. Which scientist discovered that objects in water are lifted up by a force that helps them float?Archimedes.What do you know about great scientists?2. Who wrote a book explaining how animals and plants developed as the environment ? Charles Darwin.What do you know about great scientists?3. Who invented the first steam engine?Thomas Newcomen.What do you know about great scientists?4. Who used peas to show how physical characteristics are passed from parents to their children?Gregor Mendel.What do you know about great scientists?5. Who discovered radium?Marie Curie.What do you know about great scientists?6. Who invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities?Thomas Edison.What do you know about great scientists?7. Who was the painter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people?Leonardo da Vinci.What do you know about great scientists?8. Who invented a lamp to keep miners safe underground?Sir Humphry Davy.What do you know about great scientists?9. Who invented the earliest instrument to tell people where earthquakes happened?Zhang Heng.What do you know about great scientists?10. Who put forward a theory about black holes?Stephen Hawking.阅读 P7“ 背景提点”，完成短文后的练习。( )1. Through his early experimental work, it is clear that ______. A. Nobel was a man of strong will B. Nobel was a man of gift C. Nobel seldom got on well with his work D. Nobel had his heart in his work A阅读 P7“ 背景提点”，完成短文后的练习。( )2. In fact, his inventions were first used in________. A. killing people B. building roads C. diggi...
