英语泛读教程3Unit 12.pdf

Unit 12 Why Are You So Smart? Contents 1. Text: Why Are You So Smart? 2. Reading Skill: Reading the Feature Story 3. Fast Readings Fill blanks with words or phrases given. instantaneous, barring, prone to , attired, well-groomed, counts , simultaneous, upstage, repertoire 1. She ___ herself in silk. 2. We shall return at midnight, ___ accidents. 3. He always looks ___. 4. Women are especially ___ this disease. 5. Julia has a vast ___ of smiles. 6. He tried to ___ his boss at the meeting. 7. It not what you say but what you do that ___. 8. He had an ___ response. 9. We need a ___ interpreter. 10. The names of two of my friends were included among those ___ missing. Text: Why Are You So Smart? Topic: Smart Main idea: Intelligence is both malleable and genetically programmed. Structure: When the subject is human intelligence, you don’t have to go far to find an argument…After decades of research, most intelligence experts have come to decide that it is both, in roughly equal measure. So it was perhaps inevitable that someone would begin the research for ‘smart’ genes. That someone is Robert Plomin… I think the implications for science are much greater that the social implications. Language points 1. Bicker （p223）: to quarrel, esp about sth unimportant The two children used to bicker with each other over/about who should do the washing-up.这两个小孩子过去常为该由谁洗 餐具一事而相互争吵。 2. (p224) His work has provoked visions and fears of DNA doctors tinkering with the gears of cognition. provoke: to be the sudden cause of (a usu. unpleasant feeling or reaction); to cause Don’t throw one bone to two dogs; you will provoke a fight. 不 要把一块骨头扔给两只狗，那只会引起他们打架。