大学英语精读2第四单元.ppt

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. ” — Albert Einstein Describe the appearance of Einstein. image Tangled grey hair , a wrinkled face, unkempt beard, light brown cavernous eyes Theory of Relativity After Reading_1_2 Einstein and The Driver Albert Einstein was travelling around universities in a car giving lectures on the theoyr of relativites. One day, while on the way to a university, the drivre said: “Doctor Einstein, I’ve heard your giving the lecture thirty times. I know it by heart and I’m sure I can give it myself.” “Well, I’ll give you a chance,” said Einstein, “They don’t know me in the next university When we get there, I’ll put on your clothes and you introduce yourself as me and give the lecture..” The driver resite the lecture without making any mistakes. When he finished and started to leave, one of a professor stoped him and asked him a question about a complex problem. The driver thought fast. “The solution to this question is so simple” he said “that I surprised you have to ask the question. To show you how simple it is, I ‘ll ask my driver to come up here to answer it for you.” An Artful Explaination to The Theory of Relativity Einstein came up to the stage and explained the question in the simplest way. “If you sit beside a beautiful girl, you’ll feel it is only five minutes even if it actually has passed an hour.” “but if you sit by a hot stove alone, although it is only five minutes, you feel it has passed one hour.” said Einstein, “ Theory of Relativity is like this.” Warm-up Questions 1. What is his greatest contribution to the mankind? He won the Nobel Prize for phisics in 1921. Albert Einstein was considered the greatest scientist of the 20th century and one of the greatest of all time. His discoveries and theories have greatly influenced science in many fields. Before Reading_1 After Reading_1_1_1 Young Boy Albert Einstein was a very late talker. As a boy, he was slow to learn to talk until 3 years old, which had