1、Introduction,Stories and legends about “water horses“ have been told in the Scottish highlands for centuries, though theres no clear link to the Loch Ness monster.数世纪以来，关于“水怪”的故事和传说一直在苏格兰高地广为流传，虽然到现在为止对尼斯湖水怪还没有清楚的信息。,Page 2,First:Lets whtch a piece of news!,Do you believe it is true?,Whats the evide
2、nce?,The first opinion:,There has the Loch Ness Monster.,Evidence has three,first evidence:,1.Early in 1934 there was a land sighting of the beast. Arthur Grant, a young veterinary student, was out on his motorcycle one evening when he almost ran into the monster as it crossed the road. Grants descr
3、iption of the thing, small head, long tapering neck and tail with a bulky body and flippers, seemed to match the appearance of the plesiosaurus. The plesiosaurus, an aquatic, reptilian contemporary of the dinosaurs, was thought to have been extinct for at least 65 million years.,2.One Internet fan c
4、laims he found the legendary Loch Ness monster in satellite images on the virtual globe, Daily Mail reported.(据英国每日邮报报道，一英国网民在虚拟地球的卫星图片中发现了传说中的尼斯湖水怪！),third evidence:,Shapes of the purported sightings of the Loch Ness monster.,Misidentification of common animals（误认常见的动物） Bird wakes Eels (蛇形鱼类,如鳝、电鳗、
5、七鳃鳗等) Elephant Resident animals Seals,The second opinion:,The Loch Ness Monster does not exist !,Evidence has two,first evidence:,1.Searching for the Loch Ness Monster BBC (2003),BBC proves Nessie does not exist,Using 600 separate sonar beams and satellite navigation technology to ensure that none o
6、f the loch was missed, the team surveyed the waters said to hide Scotlands legendary tourist attraction but found no trace of the monster.,A BBC team says it has shown there is no such thing as the Loch Ness monster.,second evidence:Sonar image (2012),On 20 April 2012 a Loch Ness boat skipper photog
7、raphed a sonar image of a long 5ft wide unidentified object which was apparently following his boat for two minutes at a depth of 75ft. The skipper ruled out the possibility of any small fish or seal being what he believed to be the Loch Ness Monster. A scientist from the National Oceanography Centr
8、e has said that this image is a bloom of algae and zooplankton(盛开的藻类、浮游动物).,Our opinions:,As human beings,we all have some superstition,because we couldnt explain a lot of things even use the science.And we always stand by what we believed. So when someone come up with the opinion there has the Loch
9、 Ness Monster,we believe it in our subconscious (潜意识）.So the only explanation for the persistence of the myth of the monster is that people see what they want to see.,http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/ http:/
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