高中英语人教版高二下课文01

[07:47.23]并为我国首次载人航天飞行做好了准备。
[07:50.10]SOLVING THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE
[07:52.08]探索生命的奥秘
[07:54.07]China has long been a leader in the field of genetic research
[07:57.05]很长时间以来，中国在提高生活水平、解决生活因难
[08:00.03]aimed at improving agriculture.
[08:02.00]农业产量的基因研究方面一直处于世界领先地位。
[08:03.97]One of the most important achievements in a new kind of rice
[08:06.91]其中一个重要的成就就是我们已经培育出了一种可以增加产量的稻谷。
[08:09.85]which allows farmers to increase production.
[08:14.89]Over the past twenty years,
[08:16.77]在过去的二十年中
[08:18.65]China also became part of an international research programme
[08:21.63]中国也是国际人体研究工程的一个组成部分。
[08:24.61]which examined the human body.
[08:28.76]In 2000,Chinese scientists announced that they had completed
[08:32.14]2001，中国科学家宣布他们已完成了
[08:35.53]their part of the international human genome project,
[08:38.41]自已所担负的国际人类基因绘图工作，
[08:41.30]proving that Chinese scientists are among the world's best.
[08:44.33]从而证明中国科学们的研究能力位居世界前列。
[08:47.36]E-VOLUTION
[08:48.78]发展
[08:50.21]It seems to be love at first byte for China and computers.
[08:53.15]因特网正受到越来越多人的欢迎。
[08:56.08]The Internet is becoming increasingly popular
[09:01.13]and a new high-speed broadband network was recently started.
[09:03.96]而且高速的宽带网已经被建立，
[09:06.80]Chinese computer engineers have also developed the supercomputer Shenwei,
[09:10.52]中国的电脑工程师还发明了超级电脑-神威，
[09:14.24]one of the world's fastest computers,
[09:16.58]它是世界上第四十八快速电脑。
[09:18.92]and built the nation's first humanoid robot.
[09:21.49]他们还研制了我国第一个具有人的形状和特征的机器人。
[09:24.06]FIGHTING CANCER
[09:25.75]与癌症作斗争
[09:27.43]For the first time ever,
[09:29.35]有史以来
[09:31.27]scientists have been able to create a chemical element that can fight cancer cells.
[09:35.15]科学家们已经研制出一种可以杀死癌症细胞的化学元素。
[09:39.03]The breakthrough,made by scientists in Shanghai,
[09:41.90]这一重大突破是上海科学家努力工作的结果，
[09:44.78]gives hope to cancer patients all over the world
[09:47.60]它给全世界癌症病人带来了希望，
[09:50.42]and makes China one of the world leaders in the battle against the deadly disease.
[09:54.14]同时它也表明了中国在与致命疾病的斗争中处于领先地位。
[09:57.86]Workbook  Unit 11 INTEGRATING SKILLS
[10:07.61]Reading    THE AGES OF MAN
[10:11.87]Human achievements come in all shapes and sizes.
[10:16.93]Knocking tow rocks together can be just as important
[10:22.18]as sending a man to the moon.
[10:25.74]When ancient humans learnt to use stone tools and make fire,
[10:31.80]it meant the beginning of modern society.
[10:36.47]Later discoveries-bronze,iron,steam,electricity,to name a few
[10:44.94]-continued the development of society and shaped history.
[10:50.19]So important were these achievements that we often divide human history
[10:56.43]into time periods named after the latest technology of the time:
[11:02.91]the Stone Age,the Bronze Age,the Iron Age and so on.
[11:08.66]In modern times,
[11:11.82]scientific achievements have continued to drive the development of society.
[11:18.19]The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
[11:22.34]saw the widespread use of electricity
[11:26.71]and the birth of the steam engine.
[11:30.55]leading to factories and cities as we know them today.
[11:35.59]It was also the beginning
[11:39.04]of public education and the modern branches of science.
[11:44.91]The twentieth century brought us cars,nuclear power and space exploration,
[11:52.07]and is sometimes called the "Atomic Age"or the "Space Age".
[11:58.73]Recently,the effect of computers and the Internet
[12:03.46]has given rise to the idea that we are living in the "Information Age".
[12:10.23]The connection between science and society is easy to see.
[12:15.48]Whatever the "age",
[12:19.13]each time period is shaped by the latest and most advanced technology.
[12:25.20]Scientific achievements also lead to new discoveries and inventions.