高中英语人教版高三2 03

[00:04.78]Lesson 65            1 Reading comprehension 1

[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 wrier 2 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 known 4 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 burst 5 into laughter 6.

[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 wisdom 7.

[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 touching 8 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 teaching 9 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 spoke 10,

[07:19.90]she let me feel all the movenents of her lips 11 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 owe 3 thanks for this priceless 12 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!