新思维职业英语综合教程 3 New Thinking Vocational EnglishUnit Four.ppt

Intensive Reading Warm-up Exercises II. Describe a famous woman to your partners and ask them to guess who she is. Your description should be brief and clear. Sample: She won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1911. She was in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element. Answer: Marie Curie. Intensive Reading Structure Vocabulary Notes 1 The Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 to Wangari Maathai for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace. “We have added a new dimension to the concept of peace,” said Ole Danbolt Mjoes, head of the Nobel Committee. “We have emphasized the environment, democracy building and human rights, and especially women’s rights.” Kenya’s “Green Militant”—Wangari Maathai Intensive Reading Structure Vocabulary Notes 2 Wangari Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940, the daughter of farmers. She excelled at the local school and applied repeatedly for scholarships to continue her education, eventually winning one to attend college in the United States. In 1964, she received a degree in biological science from a college in Kansas. She received a master’s degree two years later from the University of Pittsburgh, and in 1971, a PhD from the University of Nairobi. That made her the first woman in eastern Africa to earn a doctorate. She also became the first female professor at the University of Nairobi. Kenya’s “Green Militant”—Wangari Maathai Intensive Reading Structure Vocabulary Notes 3 When returning to Kenya in 1966, Maathai was shocked at the degradation of the forest and farmland caused by deforestation. Heavy rains had washed away much of the topsoil; silt was clogging the rivers; chemical fertilizers were de