高中英语复习资料 七十年代生的人.docx

1、高中英语复习资料 七十年代生的人高中第一册1、HOW MARX LEARNED FOREIGN LANGUAGESKarl Marx was born in Germany, and German was his native language. When he was still a young man, he was forced to leave his homeland for political reasons. He stayed in Belgium for a few years; then he went to France. Before long he had to mo

2、ve on again. In 1849, he went to England and made London the base for his revolutionary work. Marx had learned some French and English at school. When he got to England, he found that his English was too limited. He started working hard to improve it. He made such rapid progress that before long he

3、began to write articles in English for an American newspaper. In fact, his English in one of these articles was so good that Engels wrote him a letter and praised him for it. Marx wrote back to say that Engels praise had greatly encouraged him. However, he went on to explain that he was not too sure

4、 about two things-the grammar and some of the idioms. These letters were written in 1853. In the years that followed, Marx kept on studying English and using it. When he wrote one of his great works, The Civil War in France, he had mastered the language so well that he was bale to write the book in

5、English. In the 1870s, when Marx was already in his fifties, he found it important to study the situation in Russia, so he began to learn Russian. At the end of six months he had learned enough to read articles and reports in Russian. In one of his books, Marx gave some advice on how to learn a fore

6、ign language. He said when a person is learning a foreign language; he must not always be translating everything into his own language. If he does this, it shows he has not mastered it. He must be able to use the foreign language, forgetting all about his own. If he can not do this, he has not reall

7、y grasped the spirit of the foreign language and can not use it freely. 2、AT HOME IN THE FUTUREA medical examination without a doctor or nurse in the room? Doing shopping at home? Borrowing books from the library without leaving your home?These ideas may seem strange to you. But scientists are worki

8、ng hard to turn them into realities.Let us suppose we can visit a home at the end of this century. We will visit a boy named Charlie Green. He is not feeling well this morning. His mother, Mrs. Green, wants the doctor to see him. That is, she wants the doctor to listen to him. She brings a set of wi

9、res to Charlies room. These wires are called sensors. She places one sensor in his mouth and one on his chest. She puts another one around his wrist and one on his forehead. Then she plugs the sensors into a wall outlet. She says the code TCP. This means telephone call placed. A little light flashes

10、 on the wall. The Greens wireless telephone is ready for a call.Mrs. Green says 2478, the doctors telephone number. From a speaker on the wall comes the doctors voice: Good morning.Good morning, Dr Scott, answers Mrs. Green. Charlie isnt feeling too well this morning. Ive put the sensors on him. I w

11、onder if you can examine him now.Sure, the doctors voice says. Well, he doesnt have a fever. And his pulse is fine. Now, breathe deeply, Charlie.Charlie does so.Just a little cold, says the doctor. Better stay inside today, Charlie. And take it easy.Thank you, Doctor, says Mrs. Green. TCC (telephone

12、 call completed). The light on the wall turns off. The phone call and the examination are finished.Charlie, says Mrs. Green, since you have to stay at home, why dont you do some shopping? You can pick out your new bicycle. After all, your birthday is only two weeks away.Great, Charlie answers.Charli

13、e and his mother sit in front of one of the vision phones. There are several in their house.TCP, says Charlie. The word ready appears on the screen of the vision phone.New Forest Bicycle Shop, a voice says. May I help you?Charlie answers, Id like to see your ten-speed bicycles.In the next few minute

14、s, pictures of many models of the bicycles are flashed on the screen. The price of each model is also shown.Then the voice asks, Are you interested in any of these models?Yes, Im interested in model 6.Do you wish to place an order at this time?Not just yet, answers Mrs. Green. My sons birthday is in

15、 two weeks time. Thank you. TCC.The vision phone shuts off.Such would be our home in the future. 3、The Blind Men and the ElephantOnce upon a time there were six blind men who lived in a village in India. Every day they went to the road nearby and stood there begging. They had often heard of elephant

16、s, but they had never seen one, for, being blind, how could they? One morning an elephant was led down the road where they stood. When they heard that an elephant was passing by, they asked the driver to stop the beast so that they could have a look. Of course they could not look at him with their e

17、yes, but they thought they might learn what kind of animal he was by touching and feeling him. For, you see, they trusted their own sense of touch very much. The first blind man happened to place his hand on the elephants side. Well, well, he said. This beast is exactly like a wall. The second grasp

18、ed one of the elephants tusks and felt it. Youre quite mistaken, he said. Hes round and smooth and sharp. Hes more like a spear than anything else. The third happened to take hold of the elephants trunk. Youre both completely wrong, he said. This elephant is like a snake, as anybody can see. The fou

19、rth opened both his arms and closed them round one of the elephants legs. Oh, how blind you are! he cried. Its very clear that hes round and tall like a tree. The fifth was a very tall man, and he caught hold of one of the elephants ears. Even the blindest person must see that this elephant isnt lik

20、e any of the things you name, he said. Hes exactly like a huge fan. The sixth man went forward to feel the elephant. He was old and slow and it took him quite some time to find the elephant at all. At last he got hold of the beasts tail. Oh, how silly you all are! cried he. The elephant isnt like a

21、wall, or a spear, or a snake, or a tree; neither is he like a fan. Any man with eyes in his head can see that hes exactly like a rope. Then the driver and the elephant moved on, and the six men sat by the roadside all day, quarrelling about the elephant. They could not agree with one another, becaus

22、e each believed that he knew just what the beast looked like. It is not only blind men who make such stupid mistakes. People who can see sometimes act just as foolishly. 4、GALILEO AND ARISTOTLEAbout 2300 years ago, there lived in Greece a great thinker named Aristotle. He observed that feathers fell

23、 to the ground slowly, while stones fell much faster. He thought it over carefully and concluded that heavy objects always fell faster than light ones. His conclusion certainly sounded reasonable. But we now know that it is not true.In those days people seldom did experiments to test their ideas. Wh

24、en they observed anything that happened, they thought about it and then drew a conclusion. Once Aristotle made up his mind that heavy objects always fell faster than light objects, he taught it as a truth to his students. And because he was Aristotle, the great thinker, no one questioned his idea fo

25、r almost 2000 years.Then, almost 400 years ago, an Italian scientist named Galileo began to question Aristotles theory of falling objects. He was not ready to believe something just because Aristotle said so. He decided to do some experiments to test Aristotles theory.Galileo lived in the city of Pi

26、sa, where there is a leaning tower about 180 feet high. From the top of the tower Galileo dropped a light ball and a heavy ball at exactly the same time. They both fell at about the same speed and hit the ground together. He tried the experiments again and again. Every time he got the same result. A

27、t last, he decided that he had found the truth about falling objects. As we know now, heavy objects and light objects fall at the same speed unless air holds them back. A feather falls slower than a stone only because the air holds the feather back more than it does the stone.When Galileo told peopl

28、e of his discovery, no one would believe him. But Galileo was not discouraged. He went on doing experiments to test the truth of other old ideas. He built a telescope through which he could study the skies. He collected facts that proved the earth and all the other planets move around the sun.Today

29、we praise Galileo and call him one of the founders of modern science. He observed things carefully and never took anything for granted. Instead, he did experiments to test and prove an idea before he was ready to accept it.An experiment was done on the moon in July, 1971. One of the US astronauts wh

30、o made the first deep space walk on the moon dropped a hammer and a feather together. They both landed on the surface of the moon at the same time. This experiment proved that Galileos theory of falling objects is true. 5、The Lost NecklacePlace: a park in ParisTime: a summer afternoon in 1870People:

31、 Mathilde Loisel, wife Pierre Loisel, husband(Jeanne is sitting in the park. Mathilde walks towards her, she stops and speaks toJeanne.)Mathilde: Good afternoon, Jeanne.Jeanne : (Looking at the other woman) I，m sorry, but I don，t think I know you.Mathilde: No, you wouldnt but many years ago you knew

32、 me well. I，m Mathilde Loisel.Jeanne : Mathilde! My old school friend. Is it possible? But yes, of course it is .Now Iremember. Where have you been all these years, Mathilde? I hope you weren，t ill .Mathilde: No, Jeanne, I wasn，t ill . You see here an old woman. But it，s because ofhard worten years of hard work.Jeanne : But I don，t understand, Mathilde . There，s only one year between us ; I，mthirty-five and you，re thirty-four. Can hard work change a person that much?Mathilde : Yes, it can . Years of hard work, little food, only a cold room to live in andnev