Unit 1Great scientistsWarming up 1.Which scientist discovered that objects in water are lifted up by a force that helps them float?B. ArchimedesC. Thomas EdisonA. Charles Darwin 2. Who wrote a book explaining how animals and plants developed as the environment changed?A. Marie CurieC. Charles DarwinB. Gregor Mendel 3.Who invent the first steam engine?A. Thomas NewcomenC. Thomas EdisonB. Archimedes 4. Who used peas to show how physical characteristics are passed from parents to their children.A. Thomas EdisonC. ArchimedesB. Gregor Mendel 5. Who discovered radium?A. Marie CurieC. NewtonB. Zhang Heng 6.Who invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities?A. Stephen Hawking C. Thomas EdisonB. Archimedes 7.Who was the painter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people?A. Gregor MendelC. Marie CurieB. Leonardo da Vinci 8. Who invented a lamp to keep miners safe underground?A. Sir Humphry Davy C. FaradayB. Thomas Newcomen 9. Who invented the earliest instrument to tell people where earthquakes happened?A. Charles DarwinC. Watt B. Zhang Heng 10.Who put forward a theory about black holes?A. Stephen HawkingC. CopernicusB. Archimedes What impressed you most in 2003?Neither its cause, nor its cure was understood. Which person impress you most during the SARS?钟南山 What other infectious diseases do you know?How do they spread from one person to another? Do you know anything about cholera? cholera?It was caused by drinking dirty water. It caused a lot of deaths in the old times in Europe.John SnowWho helped to defeat the disease? John Snow Defeats “King John Snow Defeats “King Cholera”Cholera”reading While-reading:Questions 1. What do you know about Dr. John Snow’s being well-know...
