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必修5 Unit 1
JOHH SHOW DEFEATS “KING CHOLERA”
John Snow was a famous doctor in London - so expert, indeed, that he attend
ed Queen Victoria as her personal physician. But he became inspired when he tho
ught about helping ordinary people exposed to cholera. This was the deadly diseas
e of its day. Neither its cause nor its cure was understood. So many thousands of
terrified people died every time there was an outbreak. John Snow wanted to face
the challenge and solve this problem. He knew that cholera would never be contr
olled until its cause was found.
He became interested in two theories that possibly explained how cholera kille
d people. The first suggested that cholera multiplied in the air. A cloud of dangero
us gas floated around until it found its victims. The second suggested that people
absorbed this disease into their bodies with their meals. From the stomach the dis
ease quickly attacked the body and soon the affected person died.
John Snow suspected that the second theory was correct but he needed evide
nce. So when another outbreak hit London in 1854, he was ready to begin his en
quiry. As the disease spread quickly through poor neighbourhoods, he began to gat
her information. In two particular streets, the cholera outbreak was so severe that
more than 500 people died in ten days. He was determined to find out why.
First he marked on a map the exact places where all the dead people had liv
ed. This gave him a valuable clue about the cause of the disease. Many of the de
aths were near the water pump in Broad Street (especially numbers 16, 37, 38 an
d 40). He also noticed that some houses (such as 20 and 21 Broad Street and 8
and 9 Cambridge Street) had had no deaths. He had not foreseen this, so he mad
e further investigations. He discovered that these people worked in the pub at 7 C
ambridge Street. They had been given free beer and so had not drunk the water f
rom the pump. It seemed that the water was to blame.
Next, John Snow looked into the source of the water for these two streets. He
found that it came from the river polluted by the dirty water from London. He imm
ediately told the astonished people in Broad Street to remove the handle from the
pump so that it could not be used. Soon afterwards the disease slowed down. He
had shown that cholera was spread by germs and not in a cloud of gas.
In another part of London, he found supporting evidence from two other deaths
that were linked to the Broad Street outbreak. A woman, who had moved away fr
om Broad Street, liked the water from the pump so much that she had it delivered
to her house every day. Both she and her daughter died of cholera after drinking
the water. With this extra evidence John Snow was able to announce with certaint
y that polluted water carried the virus.
To prevent this from happening again, John Snow suggested that the source o
f all the water supplies be examined. The water companies were instructed not to
expose people to polluted water any more. Finally Cholerawas defeated.
COPERNICUS’ REVOLUTIONRRY THEORY
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Nicolaus Copernicus was frightened and his mind was confused. Although he h
ad tried to ignore them, all his mathematical calculations led to the same conclusio
n: that the earth was not the centre of the solar system. Only if you put the sun t
here did the movements of the other planets in the sky make sense. Yet he could
not tell anyone about his theory as the powerful Christian Church would have pun
ished him for even suggesting such an idea. They believed God had made the wo
rld and for that reason the earth was special and must be the centre of the solar
system.
The problem arose because astronomers had noticed that some planets in the
sky seemed to stop, move backward and then go forward in a loop. Others appe
ared brighter at times and less bright at others. This was very strange if the earth
was the centre of the solar system and all planets went round it.
Copernicus had thought long and hard about these problems and tried to find
an answer. He had collected observations of the stars and used all his mathematic
al knowledge to explain them. But only his new theory could do that. So between
1510 and 1514 he worked on it, gradually improving his theory until he felt it was
complete.
In 1514 he showed it privately to his friends. The changes he made to the old
theory were revolutionary. He placed a fixed sun at the centre of the solar system
with the planets going round it and only the moon still going round the earth. He
also suggested that the earth was spinning as it went round the sun and this expl
ained changes in the movement of the planets and in the brightness of the stars.
His friends were enthusiastic and encouraged him to publish his ideas, but Coperni
cus was cautious. He did not want to be attacked by the Christian Church, so he
only published it as he lay dying in 1543.
Certainly he was right to be careful. The Christian Church rejected his theory,
saying it was against God's idea and people who supported it would be attacked.
Yet Copernicus' theory is now the basis on which all our ideas of the universe are
built. His theory replaced the Christian idea of gravity, which said things fell to ea
rth because God created the earth as the centre of the universe. Copernicus show
ed this was obviously wrong. Now people can see that there is a direct link betwe
en his theory and the work of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
必修5 Unit 2
PUZZLES IN GEOGRAPHY
People may wonder why different words are used to describe these four countr
ies: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. You can clarify this question if
you study British history.
First there was England. Wales was linked to it in the thirteenth century. Now
when people refer to England you find Wales included as well. Next England and
Wales were joined to Scotland in the seventeenth century and the name was chan
ged to BritainHappily this was accomplished without conflict when King Ja
mes of Scotland became King of England and Wales as well. Finally the English g
overnment tried in the early twentieth century to form the United Kingdom by gettin
g Ireland connected in the same peaceful way. However, the southern part of Irela
nd was unwilling and broke away to form its own government. So only Northern Ir
eland joined with England, Wales and Scotland to become the United Kingdom and
this was shown to the world in a new flag called the Union Jack.
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To their credit the four countries do work together in some areas (eg, the curr
ency and international relations), but they still have very different institutions. For e
xample, Northern Ireland, England and Scotland have different educational and lega
l systems as well as different football teams for competitions like the World Cup!

England is the largest of the four countries, and for convenience it is divided r
oughly into three zones. The zone nearest France is called the South of England, t
he middle zone is called the Midlands and the one nearest to Scotland is known a
s the North. You find most of the population settled in the south, but most of the i
ndustrial cities in the Midlands and the North of England. Although, nationwide, the
se cities are not as large as those in China, they have world-famous football team
s and some of them even have two! It is a pity that the industrial cities built in th
e nineteenth century do not attract visitors. For historical architecture you have to g
o to older but smaller towns built by the Romans. There you will find out more ab
out British history and culture.

The greatest historical treasure of all is London with its museums, art collectio
ns, theatres, parks and buildings. It is the centre of national government and its ad
ministration. It has the oldest port built by the Romans in the first century AD, the
oldest building begun by the Anglo-Saxons in the 1060s and the oldest castle cons
tructed by later Norman rulers in 1066. There has been four sets of invaders of E
ngland. The first invaders, the Romans, left their towns and roads. The second, the
Anglo-Saxons, left their language and their government. The third, the Vikings, infl
uenced the vocabulary and place- names of the North of England, and the fourth, t
he Normans, left castles and introduced new words for food.

If you look around the British countryside you will find evidence of all these in
vaders. You must keep your eyes open if you are going to make your trip to the
United Kingdom enjoyable and worthwhile.
SIGHTSEEING IN LONDON
Worried about the time available, Zhang Pingyu had made a list of the sites s
he wanted to see in London. Her first delight was going to the Tower. It was built
long ago by the Norman invaders of AD 1066. Fancy! This solid stone, square tow
er had remained standing for one thousand gh the buildings had expan
ded around it, it remained part of a royal palace and prison combined. To her gre
at surprise, Zhang Pingyu found the Queen's jewels guarded by special royal soldie
rs who, on special occasions, still wore the four-hundred- year-old uniform of the tim
e of Queen Elizabeth I.
There followed St Paul's Cathedral built after the terrible fire of London in 166
6. It looked splendid when first built! Westminster Abbey, too, was very interesting.
It contained statues in memory of dead poets and writers, such as Shakespeare.
Then just as she came out of the abbey, Pingyu heard the famous sound of the cl
ock, Big Ben, ringing out the hour. She finished the day by looking at the outside
of Buckingham Palace, the Queen's house in London. Oh, she had so much to tell
her friends!

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The second day the girl visited Greenwich and saw its old ships and famous c
lock that sets the world time. What interested her most was the longitude line. It is
an imaginary line dividing the eastern and western halves of the world and is ver
y useful for navigation. It passes through Greenwich, so Pingyu had a photo taken
standing on either side of the line.
The last day she visited Karl Marx's statue in Highgate Cemetery. It seemed st
range that the man who had developed communism should have lived and died in
London. Not only that, but he had worked in the famous reading room of the Libr
ary of the British Museum. Sadly the library had moved from its original place into
another building and the old reading room was gone. But she was thrilled by so m
any wonderful treasures from different cultures displayed in the museum. When she
saw many visitors enjoying looking at the beautiful old Chinese pots and other obj
ects on show, she felt very proud of her country.
The next day Pingyu was leaving London for Windsor Castle. I will s
ee the Queen?she wondered as she fell asleep.

必修5 Unit 3

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