[00:-1.00]Look at all the pictures on pages 22-23 in WARMING UP,
[00:-2.00]LISTENING and SPEAKING and give definitions to some of them
[00:-3.00]or describe what you see in them,using attributive clauses.
[00:-4.00]If you are not clear about their definitions,
[00:-5.00]look them up in the English-English dictionary.
[00:-6.00](1)A seismograph is an instrument which is used to detect earthquakes and record seismic tremors
[00:-7.00]and how strong the earthquakes are and how long they last.
[00:-8.00]Zhang Heng is a seismologist who does seismic research and studies seismology
[00:-9.00]which is a branch of science of earthquakes,
[00:10.00]which is a sudden shaking of the earth surface
[00:11.00](which is) caused by underground volcanic forces
[00:12.00]or by breaking or position-changing of rock under the earth surface.
[00:13.00](2)Who do you think Howard Carter is ?
[00:14.00]I think he is an archaeologist ,
[00:15.00]who studies archaeolog ,
[00:16.00]which is a branch of science,which studies ancient civilizations and ancient societies by examining
[00:17.00]remains found in the ground or remaining things of old buildings,
[00:18.00]tombs, graves, tools, weapons, coins, jars, pots etc.
[00:19.00]Archaeologists (British seplling) are intersted in Archaeological (British spelling) dig.
[00:20.00](3) You all know something about the Titanic,
[00:21.00]the name of a huge ship. But who's Titan,from whom derives the adjective "Titanic"
[00:22.00]which means being like or of the Titans and "titanic"
[00:23.00]another adjective, which also size or strength or calling for very great effort.
[00:24.00]"Titan"refers to any of the 12 children of Heaven and Earth,
[00:25.00]who are ancient gods of Greece.
[00:26.00]The 12 children, who have different names but the same fat
[00:27.00]-they were all crushed or defeated by the Olympian gods, who were led by Zeus.
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