Unit 5 Education Period Three（教师用书Word）-【状元桥·优质课堂】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第二册（北师大版2019）

Period Three　Lesson 2 & Lesson 3—Comprehending [教材原文] Who questions much, shall learn much, and remember much. —Francis Bacon It seems obvious① now how we acquire knowledge and understanding.[1]To start with, we need questions. Then, to find answers, we observe the world around us and study the facts. After that, we consider possible answers and test each to find the right ones. Although today we are more used to② typing a few key words into a search engine and waiting for the Internet to give us an answer, modern scientists and thinkers are still solving the world's problems with this type of analysis③—luckily for us. [1]It是形式主语，后面how引导的从句是真正的主语。 However, in the 17th century when Francis Bacon(1561－1626) suggested④ that this type of thinking was the way to gain knowledge, he was going against⑤ the views of the day. Although Bacon held an important rank⑥ in King James' royal court⑦ of England, his true interest was not the day-to-day⑧， slow and inefficient⑨ working style of the government, but the worthy⑩ search for knowledge.This was certainly not the interest of most people in his days. At that time, people believed more in the church than in facts, and people like Galileo Galilei (1564－1642), who proved the idea that “the Earth is not the centre of the universe⑪ ”[2], were often punished by the church with no one coming to their defence⑫[3]. The church and many people tended to⑬ ignore the facts and didn't want to challenge what they had always comfortably believed. In fact, when Galilei proved that the Earth was not the centre of the universe, instead of believing him, people chose to believe views that were almost 2,000 years old! [2]who引导非限制性定语从句，修饰先行词 Galileo Galilei；that引导同位语从句，解释名词idea的内容。 [3]此处是with复合结构，在句中作状语。no one与come之间是逻辑上的主谓关系。 It is not surprising that people wanted to believe these primitive⑭ ideas[4]as they had been put forward⑮ by the great philosopher Aristotle (384－322 BCE⑯). He said that the Earth must be the centre of the universe because