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.
Text B Solving Problems Scientifically
搭配：
1. Arouse one's curiosity 引起某人的注意/动词词组
2. Result from=arise from 由于/动词词组；result in 导致/动词词组
3. Give clue for doing sth. 为做某事提供线索/动词词组
4. Build a firm foundation for doing sth. 为做某事打下坚实的基础/动词词组
5. Make an inference 做推论/动词词组
6. Turn out to be 结果是/动词词组
7. Check with 与什么相符/动词词组
语言点：
1. Once是连接词，表示一旦。
2. A thoroughly understood problem is well started toward solution. Be well started toward 是什么的良好开端。
3. The development of industry has also brought about large numbers of problems which have to be solved.
4. Related questions 相关问题；unanswered questions 为回答的问题；controlled conditions 被控制的条件
5. Reliable（adj.可信赖的）-unreliable（adj.不可信赖的）
6. Should the observations or predictions turn out to be as expected， the scientist has added confidence in the probable truth of his hypothesis. = If the observations or predictions should turn out to be as expected， the scientist has added confidence in the probable truth of his hypothesis.
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