高级英语5课件unit 3 Albert Einstein.ppt

0. Pre-reading questions How much have you known about Albert Einstein? I. Library Work 1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791), Austrian composer, one of the world’s great musical geniuses, wrote masterpieces in every branch of music. During his short life, Mozart composed a great volume of music. His 789 compositions include operas, symphonies, concertos（协奏曲）, quartets for the piano and for stringed instruments, and sonatas（奏鸣曲） for both piano and violin. His music has delicate beauty and is always fresh and pleasing to the ear. I. Library Work 2. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827), German composer, was one of music’s greatest geniuses. His works have a rare originality, emotional depth, and expressive power. He was known for his nine symphonies, piano concertos and sonatas, and string quartets（四重奏）. Most of Beethoven’s compositions were written in the classical forms established by his predecessors Mozart and Haydn, so he is sometimes considered the last great composer in the classical tradition. I. Library Work But he also remolded and expanded the old forms and infused them with a highly personal intensity of emotion, so he is also referred to as the first of the Romantics. I. Library Work 3. the Nobel Prize: Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833 – 1896), a distinguished Swedish chemist and industrialist, provided for the award of the Nobel Prizes. He experimented with different kinds of explosives such a nitroglycerin（硝化甘油[na?tr?gl?s?r?n] ）and dynamite（[da?n?ma?t]达纳炸药，氨爆炸药）, both deadly explosives. However, he was a pacifist and he feared that his inventions might further warfare. In his will he left about $9 million in a fund to reward those who did I. Library Work most for their fellow men in science, literature, and peace. In his will, he specified that the interest accrued by the fund “be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind” in the field of physics, chemistry,