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A biography of Isaac Asimov

A biography of Isaac Asimov. Skimming:. Glance through the passage and then find out the answers to such questions:. Which paragraph tells you when and where Asimov was born and died? Which paragraph tells you about his education? Which paragraph tells you about awards he received?.

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A biography of Isaac Asimov

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  1. A biography of Isaac Asimov

  2. Skimming: Glance through the passage and then find out the answers to such questions: • Which paragraph tells you when and where Asimov was born and died? • Which paragraph tells you about his education? • Which paragraph tells you about awards he received?

  3. Which paragraph tells you when and where Asimov was born and died? Para.2 2.Which paragraph tells you about his education? Para.3 3.Which paragraph tells you about awards he received? Para.5

  4. Scanning : Read through the text and then find out the answers to the following questions: • What subject did Asimov teach? • When did he start having stories published? • How many children did he have?

  5. 1.What subject did Asimov teach? He taught biochemistry. 2.When did he start having stories published? In 1939. 3.How many children did he have? Two children, a son and a daughter.

  6. Date Event • Born in Russian • 1922 • 1923 • Parents bought a candy store. • 1929 Sister born Moved with family to New York Started working in candy store. Started to take himself seriously as a writer. 1931

  7. _____________________________________________________. Began having stories published in science fiction magazines 1939 _____ 1942 1942-1945 _____ Gained Master’s degree in chemistry. 1941 Finished working in candy store. ________________________. Got married Worked as junior chemist, Philadelphia Navy Yard __________________________________________________________. 1948 Got PhD in chemistry.

  8. Became a biochemistry teacher, Boston University School of Medicine. _____ 1950 1951-1953 _____ _____ 1949 Published his first novel.______________________. Developed three laws for robots. Published “I, Robot” Published “The Foundation Trilogy” and won an award for it. 1953 Published first science book. 1958 Became a full-time writer.

  9. Divorced his first wife. ____________________________. 1973 _____ 1992 Married for a second wife Had a blood transfusion. Became infected with HIV. 1983 Died in New York ___________________________.

  10. Asimov’s Laws For Robots First Law : A robot must not injure human beings or allow them to be injured. Second Law : A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings (as long as human being are not injured ). Third Law : A robot must protect its own existence (as long as human beings are not injured; and as long as the robot does not disobey the human beings).

  11. Isaac Asimov was an American scientist and writer who wrote around 480 books that included mystery stories, science and history books, and even books about the Holy Bible and Shakespeare. • Asimov had both an extraordinary imaginationthat gave him the ability to explore future worlds and an amazing mind with which he searched for explanations of everything, in the present and the past. 阿西莫夫不仅有着超凡的想象力，使他能对未来世界进行探索，而且还有惊人的智力，使他能对现在的和过去的各种事物作出解释。

  12. 3. It ended in New York on 6 April, 1992, when he died as a result of an HIV infection that he had got from a blood transfusion nine years earlier. 4. He helped outthrough his school and university years until 1942, a year after he had gained a master's degree in chemistry. In 1948 he got his PhD in chemistry. 5. It was when Asimov was eleven years old that his talent for writing became obvious. 6. This really surprised Asimov and from that moment, he started to take himself seriously as a writer. 阿西莫夫的一生在纽约结束，他死于1992年4月6日。他是因为9年前的一次输血中感染了艾滋病毒而去世的。

  13. 7. Asimov began having stories published in science fiction magazines in 1939. 8. Throughout his life, Asimov received many awards, both for his science fiction books and his science books. 9. Among his most famous works of science fiction, one for which he won an award was the Foundation trilogy (1951-1953), three novels about the death and rebirth of a great empire in a galaxy of the future. 阿西莫夫一生中多次获过奖，既有科幻奖，也有科学书籍奖。在他那些最富盛名的科幻小说中，有本获奖的书叫做《基地三部曲》（1951-1953），有三个故事讲的是未来银河系中一个伟大帝国的灭亡与复兴。

  14. 8. It was loosely based on the fall of the Roman Empire but was about the future. 9. These books are famous because Asimov invented a theoretical framework which was designed to show how ideas and thinking may develop in the future. 10. He is also well known for his collection of short stories, I, Robot (1950), in which he developed a set of three "laws" for robots. 11. Some of his ideas about robots later influenced other writers and even scientists researching into artificial intelligence. 他的小说集《我，机器人》(1905)也是享有盛名的。在这本书里他提出机器人的三大“原则”。

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