2021-2022学年度第43期总第780期
Technology flies out of our imagination (P6)
吉林毓文中学 姜晓琳
I. Lead in
Do you know what they are?
submarine
Lu Ban saw
steam engine
How were they invented by their inventors?

II. Read for general information
1. What's the structure of the text?
  General- specific writing pattern.             
2. What's the main idea of the text?
Some technologies inspired by science fiction.               
3. Why does the author use Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos as examples?
a. To support the main idea.
b. To lead to more examples.              
III. Read for details
Read the text and fill in the form.

Decide whether the following sentences are True or False.
1. Jeff Bezos founded his space company because of his childhood dream.
2. Commercial drones came into use soon after the novel came out.
3. Amazon supports the use of delivery drones.
4. The “replicator” makes use of the heat of light to change resin from a liquid to a solid.
5. The sci-fi novel Frankenstein has a huge impact on one piece of important medical equipment.
F
F
T
F
T
IV. Language use
Fill in the blanks with proper words.
1. Elon Musk’s dream of humans ____(live) on other planets was first inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Foundation book series.  
2. The Star Trek television series inspired him ______(found) his very own space company Blue Origin.
3. Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune ______(feature) a small flying robot device that is piloted remotely.
4. In 2006, drones became a reality and can now be found ____(take) on multiple roles.
living
to found
features
taking
5. They provide new angles for photography, help farmers maintain their crops and ______(use) in the military.
6. The television show Star Trek, first _________(appear) on screens in 1966, inspired science.
7. Earl Bakken, the inventor of the pacemaker (起搏器), a device ____(place) into the chest that helps the heart to pump blood using small electrical impulses (脉冲), ________(inspire) by the 1931 movie adaptation of the book.“______ intrigued me the most … was the creative spark of Dr Frankenstein’s electricity,” Bakken told the Atlantic.
8. Defibrillators (除颤仪),____ restart the heart with an electrical current after a cardiac arrest (心脏骤停), also resemble the electric shock _________gave the monster life.              
are used
appearing
placed
was inspired
What
which
that/which
V. Thinking quality
What qualities do you think an inventor should have ?

VI. Link to NEMT

What message can we learn from the text and the following text?

(2020 天津高考 )
     After years of observing human nature, I have decided that two qualities make the difference between men of great achievement and men of average performance curiosity and discontent. I have never known an outstanding man who lacked either. And I have never known an average man who had both. The two belong together.
     Together, these deep human urges (驱策力) count for much more that ambition. Galileo was not merely ambitious when he dropped objects of varying weights from the Leaning Tower at Pisa and timed their fall to the ground. Like Galileo, all the great names in history were curious and asked in discontent, “Why? Why? Why?”
      Fortunately, curiosity and discontent don’t have to be learned. We are born with them and need only recapture them.
     “The great man,” said Mencius (孟子), “is he who does not lose his child’s heart.” Yet most of us do lose it. We stop asking questions. We stop challenging custom. We just follow the crowd. And the crowd desires restful average. It encourages us to occupy our own little corner, to avoid foolish leaps into the dark, to be satisfied.
     Most of us meet new people, and new ideas, with hesitation. But once having met and liked them, we think how terrible it would have been, had we missed the chance. We will probably have to force ourselves to waken our curiosity and discontent and keep them awake.
     How should you start? Modestly, so as not to become discouraged. I think of one friend who couldn’t arrange flowers to satisfy herself. She was curious about how the experts did it. How she is one of the experts, writing books on flower arrangement.
     One way to begin is to answer your own excuses. You haven’t any special ability? Most people don’t; there are only a few geniuses. You haven’t any time? That’s good, because it’s always the people with no time who get things done. Harriet Stowe, mother of six, wrote parts of Uncle Tom’s Cabin while cooking. You’re too old? Remember that Thomas Costain was 57 when he published his first novel, and that Grandma Moses showed her first pictures when she was 78.
     However you start, remember there is no better time to start than right now, for you’ll never be more alive than you are at this moment.  
What should you do?

The greatest advances in science have been brought about by a new bold  imagination.  
                                                                   -- John Dewey

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
                                                                    --Jules Verne