內容簡介
讀偉人傳記學英文:認識歷史上的Amazing People。
Collins English Readers: Amazing People系列是一系列短篇傳記讀本,按行業領域劃分,介紹歷史上藝術、思想、政治、商業和科學等不同領域偉人的生平。
每本包含同領域五到六位傑出人士的傳記,獨立成篇,並附有主角的生平大事記。讀者可從頭依序讀起,也可以跳躍式挑幾篇細讀。在學習英語的同時品嘗一篇篇雋永的真實傳記,邀請您一同認識這些改變歷史的傳奇人物。
本系列按文章難度共分四級,適合初階至中等的英語學習者。每篇文章皆會標註超過該閱讀等級之生字,並在書末加以釋義。單字注釋使用Collins COBUILD Essential English Dictionary(一、二級)及Collins COBUILD Advanced English Dictionary(三、四級)。每本書附有CD配件,網路上也有資源可供參考,請至 www.collinselt.com/readers 查詢。
Collins English Readers Series:
The inspiring stories of the people who changed history.
The Amazing People readers are collection of short stories in which exceptional people from history tell their story.
Each title includes:
A CD with a full reading of each person’s story
A COUBILD glossary of the more difficult words
A timeline to accompany each story
Free online resources for students and teachers
In thisbook read about:
Antoine Lavoisier who wrote the first modern chemistrytextbook
發表第一個現代化學元素列表的法國近代化學之父─安東萬‧拉瓦節
Humphry Davy who discovered ˊlanghing gas’
發現笑氣的英國無機化學之父─漢弗里‧戴維爵士
Charles Darwin who changed people’s ideas with his theory ofevolution
提出進化論的英國博物學家─查爾斯‧達爾文
Gregor Mendel who first discovered the science of genetics
以豌豆實驗發現基因遺傳的奧地利遺傳學家—格雷戈爾‧孟德爾
Louis Pasteur who saved millions of lives by killing germs
法國免疫微生物學之父─路易‧巴斯德先生
Francis Crick who helped to discover the structure of DNA
發現DNA結構的英國諾貝爾生理學家─弗朗西斯‧克里克先生