7.呼风唤雨的世纪

Lesson Seven

The Century That Calls for Wind or Rain

1.The 20th century is a century that calls for wind and rain.

2.Who is the conqueror?

3.Human beings, of course.

4.By what means?

5.Modern science and technology.

6.In the 100 years of the 20th century, mankind has made so many miraculous and unexpected discoveries and inventions by using modern science and technology.

7.It is these discoveries and inventions that have greatly changed human life, and such a change is extraordinary in human history.

8.Human beings have been relying on nature for millions of years, living in a slow, quiet and dark world at night.

9.There were no electric lights, no TV, no radio and no cars.

10.People can only put their good wishes on the supernatural beings’ hands, such as Thousand-mile Eye and Wind accompanying Ear, and those who can walk on air.

11.Our ancestors probably did not expect that in the last 100 years, so many of their fantasies have become reality.

12.The achievements in the 20th century can really be described by the poem that “as if the vernal breeze had come back overnight, adorning thousands of pear trees with blossoms white.”

13.In the 20th century, human beings landed on the moon, dived into the deep sea, gained insight into celestial bodies tens of billions of light years away, and explored the mysteries of the nuclear world.In the 20th century, television, program-controlled telephones, the Internet, civil aviation planes, high-speed trains, ocean-going ships, etc.increasingly turned the planet inhabited by human beings into a closely connected “global village”.

14.The comfort and convenience of human life are beyond the imagination of the nobles and nobles in the past.

15.Science is changing the spiritual and cultural life of mankind as well as the material life of mankind.

16.In 1923, Bertrand Russell, a British mathematician and philosopher, said,“in the final analysis, it is science that makes our time different from any previous era.”

17.That is still true today.

18.Looking back on the centenary course of the 20th century, science has indeed created one myth after another and created a better life for mankind than ever before.

19.In the new century, modern science and technology will continue to create miracles and constantly improve our lives.