上海牛津初中英语九年级下--CHAPTER 3 READING

CHAPTER THREE READING Page 33

[00:14.34]A SUCCESS STORY

[00:16.33]Arthur was responsible for writing stories

[00:21.13]about successful people for the school newspaper.

[00:24.89]Here is a story he wrote.

[00:27.53]The Girl from the Street

[00:30.82]THE SOCIAL workers who brought the nine-year-old to the orphanage 1

[00:35.81]knew little about her.

[00:37.46]The streets where they found her had been her home for many years

[00:42.95]Her parents were un-known. They had aban-doned her long ago

[00:48.74]At the orphanage, the girl, like all the children there,

[00:53.89]was taught to read and write.

[00:56.16]While she was studying at the orphanage,

[00:59.56]she learned something else - to be indepen-dent.

[01:03.37]At twenty-one,she left the orphanage

[01:07.13]and began work as a secre-tary -

[01:09.80]just one of the thou-sands employed in Hong Kong's countless 2 offices.

[01:15.21]And then, in 1975,while she was still working as an ordinary secretary

[01:23.12]something extraordina-ry happened.

[01:26.31]She entered the Miss Hong Kong contest -

[01:29.44]and won it. This was the turning point in her life.Now her name

[01:36.86]Mary Cheung,was on everyone's lips

[01:40.68]Mary entered the con-test because she was ambitious 3

[01:45.93]and because she wanted to show

[01:48.62]that orphanage girls could be some-thing.

[01:51.75]Winning the competi-tion brought her more than fame.

[01:56.40]It gave her the chance to start on a new career path.

[02:01.18]This led her first into television

[02:04.60]and then into the cosmetics 4 business as a manager.

[02:09.20]When she was working as a manager

[02:12.49]she had trouble with her reports.

[02:15.13]'My English just wasn't good enough,'

[02:18.45]she says. Fortunately,she had a boy-friend

[02:22.58](who later became her husband) to help her.

[02:25.79]Mary studied manage-ment at Hong Kong Po-lytechnic and graduat-ed in 1980

[02:33.39]She started her own marketing 5 and fundrai-sing company in 1995

[02:39.92]But she did not lose her burning desire to develop herself

[02:38.92]She then studied for a Fine Arts degree at the University of Hong Kong

[02:45.22]Her ambition was to teach arts

[02:49.97]and to see a proper arts syllabus 6 in every school in Hong Kong

[02:56.11]Since 1987, she has devoted 7 a lot of her time to photography

[03:04.00]She has held several exhibitions of her work in many places,

[03:10.09]including China,New Zealand and Paris.

[03:14.66]She still found time,however, to work on TV and for charity,

[03:13.66]write for newspapers and bring up her fami-ly.

[03:17.92]The girl who wandered the streets has come a long way,

[03:23.30]but her journey is not finished yet.

[03:27.27]LISTENING Page 35

[03:33.25]Receiving telephone messages

[03:36.36]Your name is Tracy Fang 8.

[03:35.36]You work as the personal assistant for Marina Zheng,

[03:40.14]a famous singer and actress

[03:42.70]Listen to the three conversations

[03:45.86]and complete the message form below.

[03:48.60]Later you will give this form to Marina.

[03:52.39]Do not try to write down every word you hear.

[03:58.03]Just write down the most important infor-mation.

[04:03.05]NO.1

[05:17.73]NO.2

[06:34.19]NO.3

[08:05.86]SPEAKING Page 39

[08:09.43]A Talk time

[08:12.12]Offering, accepting and refusing help

[08:17.22]Exercise A1

[08:19.99]Joyce is very busy working on the school newspaper.

[08:26.00]Tony offers to help.

[08:29.08]Read their conversa-tion and answer the questions.

[08:32.89]Then work in pairs to practise the conversa-tion.

[08:37.75]TONY:Hello, Joyce, you look busy. Anything I can do to help?

[08:44.57]JOYCE:Thanks very much but I can manage.

[08:48.44]TONY:Come on, let me give you a hand.

[08:51.73]Don't be so independent all the time!

[08:54.76]JOYCE:No,thanks.I'm OK

[08:57.87]TONY:If you want, I could do some typing.

[09:01.91]JOYCE:Typing? Oh, that would be good.

[09:06.28]I didn't know you could type.Thanks a lot.

[09:06.49]MORE PRACTICE Page 43

[09:11.04]Benjamin Franklin

[09:13.44]Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massa-chusetts in the USA

[09:20.21]on 17 January 1706.

[09:23.84]He had a very big family

[09:26.74]his parents had seventeen children

[09:30.94]He was a man of many  talents and interests.

[09:34.50]Among other things,he was a scientist and an inventor.

[09:38.81]He was naturally curious about the way things worked

[09:37.81]and was always search-ing for ways to make them work better

[09:42.30]In 1747,Benjamin began his experiments on electricity

[09:49.82]with some very simple equipment.

[09:52.13]Although these experi-ments led to the dis-covery

[09:56.33]of some very important findings on electricity,

[10:00.43]Benja-min did not actually invent it.

[10:04.09]However, he did invent the lightning conduc-tor,

[10:08.87]which protects buildings and ships from damage

[10:13.68]caused by lightning.

[10:15.95]Benjamin had poor vi-sion and needed glasses.

[10:20.83]He was tired of always taking them on and off

[10:25.62]so he decided 9 to in-vent a pair of glasses

[10:30.21]that would let him see both near

[10:33.50]and far things at the same time.

[10:37.29]He took the two different types of glasses,

[10:42.10]cut each lens in half,

[10:44.55]and then put half of each lens into another frame.

[10:50.35]Nowadays, this type of glasses is known as bifocals.

[10:57.66]During his lifetime,

[11:00.12]he travelled across the Atlantic Ocean eight times.

[11:04.14]These long journeys gave him a lot of time

[11:08.50]to learn about how ships worked.

[11:11.87]He developed a way to make them safer

[11:15.48]and more efficient by inventing watertight 10 bulkheads.

[11:20.60]Other developments in safety that he made

[11:24.36]included establishing the first fire company in Philadelphia, USA

[11:30.68]and improving the city's street paving 11 and lighting 12.