1. Unit 1 Great scientists
Listening

2. Listen to Part 1. Using Language A GREAT CHINESE SCIENTIST
Father of the Chinese space programme
Yu Ping (YP) is talking to her friend
Steve Smith (SS) about Qian Xuesen
and his work as a rocket scientist.

3. Listen again and fill in the blanks.
A GREAT CHINESE SCIENTIST
Father of the Chinese space programme
Yu Ping (YP) is talking to her friend Steve
Smith (SS) about Qian Xuesen and his
work as a _____ ________.
rocket scientist

4. YP: What do you want to be when you
_____ ___, Steve?
SS: I want to be an __________ and visit
stars. I wish to visit ______ one day.
YP: I think I’d like to work in the space
industry too. I'd like to be a ______
________ like Qian Xuesen.
SS: What did he have to do to become a
rocket scientist?
grow up
astronomer
Mars
rocket
scientist

5. YP: Well, he first studied at _________ to
be an engineer. Later he went to
America to study for his ________
_______. It was then he began to work
on rockets.
SS: So it was ______ for our space
programme that he came back to
China.
university
doctor’s
degree
lucky

6. YP: Very much so. There was no work ___
space rockets in China before he
began his ________ to design and
build rockets to go into space. on
institute

7. Listen to Part 2.

8. Listen again and fill in the blanks.
Part 2
SS: Do you think he wanted to travel
into space in one of his rockets?
YP: I have no idea but I believe he
_______ ________ to the first space
flight by a Chinese astronaut.
looked
forward

9. SS: Yes. Now that China has ______
satellites _____ space. I hope we’ll be
the _____ to land on Mars. That would
really be something special and if I
were that astronaut I would put Qian
Xuesen’s _______ on Mars to show
how much we _______ his work.
sent
into
first
picture
admire

10. YP: Indeed. He is rightly called the
_____ of the Chinese space programme.
He is my _____ and he is why I want to
be a rocket scientist.
SS: Well, we’d better ___ __ ____ our
homework. We need good _______
to get into university.
YP: Right you are. See you, then.
SS: See you.
father
hero
get on with
grades

11. Workbook-Listening
NAMING A FLOWER
Robert Briggs (RB) is talking to Zhang
Wei (ZW) about a new kind of lily he
has found.

12. Listen again and fill in the blanks.
NAMING A FLOWER
Robert Briggs (RB) is talking to Zhang
Wei (ZW) about a new kind of ____ he
has found.
lily

13. ZW: Hello Robert. What’s that book
you’re ________?
RB: A book that helps you _______ a
flower.
ZW: I see. Why do you want that?
RB: I’ve found this lily. It looks ________
to me. So I want to ____ ____ if it’s
new or not. Our biology teacher told
me that if it’s already ______, I’d
find it in this book.
carrying
identify
different
find out
known

14. ZW: Wow! So you think you may have
found a new lily?
RB: I hope so, but I have to do some
________ first to find out for sure.
ZW: What happens if it’s in the book?
RB: It means that somebody else has
found it and _______ it. Then I’ll
know its biological name.
ZW: What do you mean by the ________
name?
research
named
biological

15. RB: Actually like us a flower has _____
names. The first is the group of
flowers it _______ to – like a family
name. A rose is one such group. The
second is the kind of flower – like a
_____ name. It may describe what
the rose ______ like; for example, the
colour of an autumn ______. Together
you get the flower’s name, which is
Rose Autumn Sunset.
two
belongs
given
looks
sunset

16. ZW: Gosh! Who made that _______?
RB: A great ________ called Carl
Linnaeus. He lived in Sweden
from _____ to 1778.
ZW: So long ago!
RB: Yes, and he solved a very _______
problem for biology.
ZW: What was that?
system
scientist
1707
serious

17. RB: Before him _______ could tell if a
plant was new, as there was no
way of ________. There’re so
many plants, you see!
ZW: Yes, I __________ that! So his
system is still used?
RB: ______ it is. If my flower isn’t in
this book, I’ll know that I’ve found
a new kind of lily.
nobody
checking
appreciate
Indeed

18. ZW: That’s great! Can I come and
help you? This research _______
fun.
RB: Yes, and if I’m lucky …
(fading out)
sounds

19. Workbook-Listening Task
Listen to Part 1.
A MATHEMATICIAN'S PROBLEM
John Smith (JS) is talking to Zhao Yang
(ZY) about a mathematician who interests him.

20. Listen again and fill in the blanks.
A MATHEMATICIAN'S PROBLEM
John Smith (JS) is talking to Zhao Yang
(ZY) about a mathematician who ________ him.
interests

21. JS: Do you know that we’ve been
studying Euler in ______?
ZY: Who is he? I’ve never ______ of
him.
JS: Well, he was a famous
mathematician in the _________
century. He revised all the _____
mathematics that was known in
his day.
maths
heard
eighteenth
pure

22. ZY: That probably wasn’t very much.
JS: You’re wrong there. He wrote
_____ _____ any other
mathematician before or since.
ZY: Really! Well, what did he do?
JS: He introduced a lot of _______ into
mathematics ____ ___ pi and the
terms sin and cosin.
more than
symbols
such as

23. ZY: Wow!
JS: And he did half of this work
when he was ______.
ZY: How did he do that?
JS: He told his ideas to someone
else who _____ them _____.
blind
wrote
down

24. Listen to Part 2.

25. Listen again and fill in the blanks.
Part 2
ZY: What were his ____________?
JS: He introduced a new _______ of
mathematics called topology.
It helps you understand things by
using ________. The _______ map
is a good example.
achievements
branch
diagrams
subway

26. it shows how stations ________
It does not tell you ________ but
it shows how stations ________
together.
ZY: How did he start topology?
JS: Well, in _____ he was _______
by a problem in the city of
Konigsberg where he lived.
distances
connect
1735
inspired

27. Look at the map in your book.
Konigsberg had a river running
________ it. The centre is an ______.
As the river ______ the island, it breaks
into two parts. Seven bridges were built
_____ the river. Euler wondered if you
could walk _______ the city so that you
_____ each bridge only once.
through
island
passes
over
around
cross

28. ZY: Let me try that. It sounds quite
______ to me.
JS: Try, but it’s not ___ easy ____ it
looks.
simple as as

29. Thank you.