Please learn Unit 3 by yourselves with the reference uploaded to the online course. Please try to cover the following tasks before 1. go over the new words and expressions; 2. make a close study of the difficult sentences; 3. analyse the structure and writing skills of the passage; 4. finish the exercises after the text with marks or lines showing your understanding of the key language points. Please fill in the blanks with the given expressions to complete the Questions and Answers for para. 1-3. the vast majority of the population human initiative and inventiveness prevent further developments the steady increase in the standard of living go back to what they see as a purer and simpler age a great interest in science bring about advances in technology 1 . What is the attitude of some people towards the changes brought about by science and technology? ( Some people would like to stop these changes and 1. _____________ .) 2 . What was life like before science and technology began to change our way of life? ( For 2. _____________ , life was nasty, brutish, and short. ) 3 . What would happen if all government money for research were cut off? ( The force of competition would still 3. _____________ if all government money for research were cut off. ) 4 . Is it possible to prevent science and technology from further development? Why or why not? ( No. The only way to 4. _____________ would be a global state that suppressed anything new, and 5. _____________ are such that even this would not succeed. ) 5 . What are general public’s attitudes towards science and technology? ( They expect 6. _____________ that new developments in science and technology have brought to continue, but they also distrust science because they don’t understand it. Besides, the public also has 7. _____________ . )