学术英语Unit_2.pptVIP

6 Reading Critically 3 Yes, a maverick is a unbranded calf, and here it is used figuratively to refer to a stubborn person with unorthodox views. Savaged means cruel, vicious or hostile. The two words used to describe scientists and a book shows that the writer has a strong personal, perhaps even opinionated and biased feeling. 4 Yes. Those metaphorical expressions will make language more vivid and easier to understand, but as they lack preciseness, they are generally avoided in scientific papers. Unit 2 Searching for Information Read Text 10 and discuss the questions on p.72 6 Reading Critically 5 Text 9 quotes Roger Revelle, an oceanographer, Jacques Chirac, French president, Al Gore, Vice president of USA, Ross Gelbspan, an author of a book about Earth’s climate change from global warming, Schneider, from the National Center of Atmospheric Research, and Elmer Robinson, the director of Mauna Loa Observatory. The quotation of those experts and authorities make the writers’ arguments more convincing. 6 Text 9’s criticism avoids being subjective and personal and resorts to more authorities and cold reasoning, hence it is more objective. Unit 2 Searching for Information Read Text 10 and discuss the questions on p.72 6 Reading Critically 7 The use of the first-person view and figurative speech is often considered informal and less serious. 8 Text 9, because the writer uses more quotations from experts and authorities than Text 10 and less emotional words . Unit 2 Searching for Information Read Text 10 and discuss the questions on p.72 Unit 2 Searching for information Additional questions for your understanding of Text 10 1 How long is the sunspot cycle? 11 years. 6 Reading Critically Additional questions for your understanding of Text 10 2 Why is pinning down the true variation in global temperatures over the past thousand years difficult? Attempting to pin down the true variation in global temperatures over the past thousand years is difficult, n