高中英语人教版高三2 03

[00:04.78]Lesson 65            1 Reading comprehension¹
[00:12.15]Read the text fast to find answers to these questions.
[00:17.48]1 What was the writer's problem?
[00:22.23]2 What did the wrier² learn during this period of her life?
[00:28.00]MY TEACHER(1)
[00:31.95]Before Annie Sullivan came to uor house,
[00:36.62]one or two people had told my mother that I was simple-minded.
[00:42.27]I can understand why.Here was a seven-year-old girl
[00:48.33]who at the age of 19 months had become deaf and blind.
[00:54.18]And because I was deaf,I could not learn to speak.
[00:58.93]Struggling in a world of silence and darkness,
[01:03.97]I must have appeared to them to be simple.
[01:08.65]But this was before Annie Sullivan came to stay.
[01:13.69]She was a lively young woman with patience and imagination.
[01:19.62]A born teacher,
[01:22.89]she thought she could turn a deaf-blind person into a useful human being.
[01:29.55]What a difficult case I must have been to this young teacher!
[01:34.69]I remember the many times she tried to spell words into my small hand.
[01:40.96]But neither words nor letters meant anything to me.
[01:46.89]I thought her finger movements were some kind of game.
[01:51.93]But at last,on April 5th,1887,she reached my understanding.
[01:59.98]About a month after her arrival,she taught me the word"water".
[02:07.24]It happened at the well where I was holding a jar while Annie pumped.
[02:13.80]As the water flowed onto my hand,
[02:17.87]she kept spelling w-a-t-e-r into my other hand with her fingers.
[02:27.02]Suddenly I understood!It was the first joy I had known⁴ for years.
[02:34.88]I reached out to Annie's hand.
[02:38.85]She understood I was begging for new words,for the names of the things I touched.
[02:45.69]The words so full of meaning--flew from her hand to mine.
[02:52.17]Those first words were to change my world.
[02:57.63]One of the first things Annice did was to teach me how to play.
[03:03.09]I had not laughed since I became deaf.
[03:07.17]One day she came into my room laughing happily.
[03:11.90]Putting my hand on her face,she spelled l-a-u-g-h.
[03:19.34]Then she touched me lightly on my arm and made me burst⁵ into laughter⁶.
[03:25.58]Next Annie took me by the hand and taught me how to jump.
[03:31.96]She then immediately spelled the word j-u-m-p for me.
[03:38.72]In a few days I was learning--and enjoying it---like any child.
[03:45.28]Through my hands and fingers,I"heard"the sounds that one hears on a farm,
[03:51.63]the noises made by cows,horses,chickens and pigs.
[03:57.69]She also brought me into touch with everything that could be felt--soil,wood,silk.
[04:05.84]As I look back upon those years,I am struck by Annie's wisdom⁷.
[04:11.90]Perhaps she understood me because she herself had always had very weak eyes.
[04:19.55]Lesson 66            1 Reading comprehension
[04:33.01]Read the text fast to find answers to these questions.
[04:38.28]1 Where did the wrter's teacher Annie grow up?
[04:43.74]2 What did Annie help the writer to do?
[04:48.89]MY TEACHER(2)
[04:53.12]Annie was born in a poor family,on April 4th,1866.
[05:00.38]Her mother died when she was eight years old.
[05:04.93]Two years later,her father disappeared,never to be heard from again.
[05:11.69]Annie and her brother were sent to a children's home.there the boy died.
[05:18.35]Four years later,she left the children's home
[05:22.80]and entered an institution for the blind, where she learnt Braille.
[05:29.25]This is a kind of printing that blind people can read
[05:35.60]by touching⁸ groups of raised points that are printed on paper.
[05:42.07]Later,an operation helped her to get back part of her sight,
[05:47.82]but she remained at the institution for six years more.
[05:52.89]There she studied the teaching⁹ of deaf-blind children.
[05:58.22]One day a letter from my father arrived at the school,asking for a teacher for me

[06:04.75]Annie considered this was just the kind of demanding job she wanted.
[06:10.70]That is how Annie came to be with us.
[06:15.28]Annie was among the first to realize that blind people
[06:20.32]never know their hidden strength until they are treated like normal human beings.
[06:27.40]She never pitied me;she never praised me
[06:33.04]unless what I did was as good as that of the best of a normal person.
[06:39.70]And she encouraged me when I made up my mind to go to college.
[06:44.98]During my years in school,Annie sat beside me in every class.
[06:51.04]She spelled out for me the things that the teacher taught.
[06:56.21]And,because most books were not printed in Braille,
[07:01.54]she herself read them to me by spelling into my hand what was written in the books.
[07:08.49]It took great imagination as well as patience for Annie to teach me to speak.
[07:15.15]Putting both my hands on her face when she spoke¹⁰,
[07:19.90]she let me feel all the movenents of her lips¹¹ and throat.
[07:25.26]Together we repeated and repeated words and sentences.
[07:31.50]My speech was illformed and not pleasant to hear.
[07:36.86]But I was delighted to be able to say words that my family
[07:42.63]and a few friends could understand.
[07:46.99]To Annie I owe³ thanks for this priceless¹² gift of speech.
[07:52.95]It has helped me to serve others.
[07:56.79]My teacher's gifted instruction lived on after her death.
[08:02.25]She had believed in me.I must always keep on trying to do my best.
[08:08.72]"No matter what happens,"she often said,"keep on beginning.
[08:15.18]Each time you fail,start all over again.
[08:20.43]You will grow stronger each time,
[08:25.50]until you can do and finidh what you started out to do.
[08:31.66]Who could count the times Annie tried,failed,and then succeeded?
[08:38.61]What a great teacher!What a great person!
 

1 comprehension   

n.理解，理解力；领悟

参考例句：

• The teacher set the class a comprehension test.老师对全班同学进行了一次理解力测验。
• The problem is above my comprehension.这个问题超出我的理解力。

2 wrier   

wry（扭曲的，歪斜的）的比较级形式

参考例句：

3 owe   

vt./vi.欠（债等）；感激；把……归功于某人

参考例句：

• We still owe one hundred dollars for the car.为这部车我们还欠着100美元。
• We owe it to society to make our country a better place.把国家建设得更美好是我们对社会应尽的责任。

4 known   

adj.大家知道的；知名的，已知的

参考例句：

• He is a known artist.他是一个知名的艺术家。
• He is known both as a painter and as a statesman.他是知名的画家及政治家。

5 burst   

vi.（burst，burst）爆炸；爆破；爆裂；爆发；vt.使…破裂；使…炸破；n.突然破裂；爆发

参考例句：

• We all held our breath till the bomb burst.我们屏住呼吸直到炸弹爆炸。
• She suddenly burst into song.她突然唱起歌来。

6 laughter   

n.笑，笑声

参考例句：

• I don't know how my story caused so much laughter.我不知我的故事怎么引起如此大笑。
• The audience gave way to uncontrollable bursts of laughter.听众忍不住发出一阵阵笑声。

7 wisdom   

n.智慧，明智的行为，学识，名言，贤人

参考例句：

• Experience is the mother of wisdom.经验为智慧之母。
• Ancient Greece was a fountain of wisdom and philosophy.古希腊是智慧和哲学的发源地。

8 touching   

adj.动人的，使人感伤的

参考例句：

• It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
• His letter was touching.他的信很感人。

9 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

10 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

11 lips   

abbr.logical inferences per second 每秒的逻辑推论n.嘴唇( lip的名词复数 )；（容器或凹陷地方的）边缘；粗鲁无礼的话

参考例句：

• Her lips compressed into a thin line. 她的双唇抿成了一道缝。
• the fullness of her lips 她丰满的双唇

12 priceless   

adj.无价的，极其珍贵的

参考例句：

• It is a priceless treasure.这是一件无价之宝。
• The findings could be priceless.这些调查结果可能是极为重要的。