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1、Prof. Spirkins recollections of his experience of working in the secret laboratory:,One of the authors of the,Before Reading_ MAIN,About the Author,Alexander Spirkin,Read and Think,Environmental Issues,Group Discussion,A corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.,Dialectical Materialism,A
2、lexander Spirkin,A prominent scientist, a well-known Soviet philosopher and psychologist.,Great Soviet Encyclopedia.,Director of the Department of General Problems of Dialectical Materialism at the Academy Institute of Philosophy.,Used to be the first director of a secret laboratory of clairvoyants
3、in the USSR.,Before Reading_1.1,I still know nothing about the results of those scientific works with remote viewers even so many years after. Soviet military officials were interested in our work, too. They listened to my lectures with great interest. On many occasions I was taken to secret militar
4、y headquarters, the whereabouts of which I didnt know either they were taking me there in cars with curtains on the windows. In the end I had to leave the laboratory. New technologies and devices started to appear but I could hardly understand anything about them. A special committee came to check o
5、ur equipment, and they were shocked to see how outdated it was. The laboratory was not closed. A younger scientist took my place in the lab, but I know nothing about its current activities.,About the Author,Alexander Spirkin,Read and Think,Environmental Issues,Group Discussion,Dialectical Materialis
6、m,Dialectical Materialism, written by Professor Alexander Spirkin, was published in 1983 by This book is a Leninist philosophy, its central and problems, its historical role and in the complex world of today. It is an attempt to expound the and ideas of this philosophy in a compressed form. Its phil
7、osophy and art, man and his in the world, the of human reason, man and culture and many other problems that are not usually on Marxist-Leninist philosophy.,Before Reading_1.2,Directions: One of the most famous books written by Alexander Spirkin is Dialectical Materialism，where the text comes from. L
8、isten to a brief introduction to the book and try to catch the missing words or phrases for the blanks in the passage.,consideration,_,Progress Publishers,_,significance,_,propositions,_,range,_,encompasses,basic principles,_,existence,_,creative power,_,examined,_,in similar courses,of the essence
9、of Marxist-,About the Author,Alexander Spirkin,Read and Think,Environmental Issues,Group Discussion,Dialectical Materialism, Moscow.,Before Reading_2,Directions: Read the following poster. Can you understand what the poster means? What information can you learn from it? How do you feel after reading
10、 the poster?,About the Author,Alexander Spirkin,Read and Think,Environmental Issues,Group Discussion,Dialectical Materialism,The worlds water supplyIf all earths water fit in a gallon jug, available fresh water would equal just over a tablespoon less than half of one percent of the total. About 97 p
11、ercent of the planets water is seawater; another two percent is locked in icecaps and glaciers. Vast reserves of fresh water underlie earths surface, but much of it is too deep to economically tap.,Before Reading_3.1,1. What environmental issues do you think are the most pressing now? 2. Can you rec
12、ognize what environmental issues do the following pictures show? What do you know about them? Share your knowledge with your classmates.,About the Author,Alexander Spirkin,Read and Think,Environmental Issues,Group Discussion,Dialectical Materialism,Before Reading_3.2,Deforestation,( ),Air Pollution,
13、( ),Global Warming,( ),Ozone Depletion,( ),About the Author,Alexander Spirkin,Read and Think,Environmental Issues,Group Discussion,Dialectical Materialism,We human beings live on the earth and always keep developing our civilization. Where do you think human civilization is heading? How can we live
14、in harmony with nature? Discuss with your group members and share your experiences with them.,Before Reading_4,Directions:,About the Author,Alexander Spirkin,Read and Think,Environmental Issues,Group Discussion,Dialectical Materialism,Global Reading_1.1,Parts,Paras.,Main Ideas,1,2,12,34,Man lives in
15、 the realm of nature. He is connected with nature by “blood ties” and he cannot live outside nature.,As society develops, man tends to become less dependent on nature directly, while indirectly his dependence grows because the industrial transformation of the earth makes it increasingly difficult to obtain irreplaceable natural resources for the needs of production.,True or False,Part Division of the Text,
