中山2021年4月自考英语(一)复习（55）

语言点：

1. Belief的复数形式为beliefs

2. Well-known/著名的

3. Curious(adj.好奇的)――curiosity(n.好奇);imagine(v.想象)-imagination(n.想象力)

4. Scientifically minded people 有科学头脑的人

5. In cases where the explanation is unknown the scientific point of view is that there is a reason if it can only be discovered. 在对于现象还无法解释的时候，科学的观点是有理由相信迟早这种解释是可以被发现的。

6. This means the ability to(做什么的能力) face the facts as they are(实事求是) regardless of what one has previously thought.

7. Agree(v.同意)-disagreeable(adj.令人讨厌的)

8. The worker in science must face facts whether they are pleasant or unpleasant.

I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry when I heard the news.是…还是…

Whether he succeeds or fails， he has to do his best.

He doesn't know whether she is in Britain or she has gone to France.

9. Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before he succeeded in producing the first electric lamp.

10. Accept(v.接受)-acceptable(adj.可接受的)

11. Scientific truth offers an explanation that is acceptable only in the light of what is known at a particular time.

12. New ideas are frequently very slow to be accepted.

13. Continued progress 继续的发展

14. 时态题：There is an experiment on the sprouting of seeds which has been running for more than 50 years.