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新外研社高中英语选择性必修三Unit 3 War and Peace
Developing Ideas
Reading
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Guess which university it is.
1) A lot of famous graduates once studied in this university.
Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao
won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957.
Deng Jiaxian won “Two Bombs and One Satellite” Merit Medals (功勋奖章).
More than 170 academicians /əˌkædəˈmɪʃn/ (院士) graduated from it.
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2) Some prominent professors ever taught in this university.
Liang Sicheng
Zhu Ziqing
Wen Yiduo
Qian Zhongshu
Hua Luogeng
Xu Zhimo
important and famous
academic /ˌækəˈdemɪk/
a person teaching at a university
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3) It was founded in the anti-Japanese war in 1937.
4) It was founded by 3 universities (PKU, THU, & NKU) and lasted for only 8 years.
National Southwest Associated University (Lianda)
Predict
What is the passage likely to talk about?
Read for general idea
Skim and tick the ones mentioned in the text.
a The founding of Lianda
b The happy life after the war
c The contributions of Lianda
d The historic status of Lianda
e The victory of the Chinese Army
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Read for structure
Match the paragraphs with the founding, contributions and historic status.
Founding
Contribu-tions
Historic Status
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Founding
Contributions
Historic Status
why
how
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Founding
Contributions
Historic Status
how
aggression of Japan
saving heritage
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Founding
Contributions
Historic Status
aggression of Japan
saving heritage
making an epic journey
immense hardships
daunting challenges
epic: taking place over a long period of time and involving a lot of difficulties
daunting: terrifying
Professors and students alike in the three universities made an epic journey over a distance of more than 2,000 kilometres, most of them on foot. Their bed was the dusty road and their roof was the open sky, often lit up by exploding Japanese bombs. Conditions were little better once they reached the remote and mountainous south-west part of China. They had to live in rough buildings, packed 40