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2009 年全国大学生英语竞赛报名背诵、复述、笔记、补课

It’s Never Too Late for Success

Unit 10

For many people, success does not come at an early age. The author tells us a few stories about some famous people and shows us that it’s never too late for success.

Text A

It’s Never Too Late for Success

Useful expressions

Text interpretation

Word family

Sentence structure

Translation

Homework

Useful expressions

名利 遵守承诺 临床症状 陷入绝望 inspire by e.g. 个性形成时期 Talent-spotter

Wealth and fame Keep one’s promise Clinical symptom Fall into despair 身体力行 Formative years 星探

Useful expressions

微弱的灯光 ( 坏 ) 臭蛋 中医 神学院 Country of origin 与…形成对比 摇篮曲，催眠曲

Faint light Addled eggs Traditional … … Divinity college 原产国 Contrast with … Cradle songs

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Starve for 有远见的领导 对…入迷 辞去一份工作 Take advantage of Be given to Well off

渴望，急需 A leader of vision Be fascinated with Quit a job 利用 喜欢 富裕的，处境好的

Text interpretation

Warm-up questions1. What criteria do you use to judge whether a

person is successful or not?

2. What are the most important factors that

contribute to success?

3. Do you think you are going to be successful

in your future career?

Text interpretation

Answer the questions

Speaking Activities 3&4 on p.140

What type is the text generally?

A. narration

B. exposition

C. description

D. argumentation

记叙文 a movie说明文 a lecture描述文 a picture议论文 a debate

Text interpretation

What message does the narrator try to convey to us?

It’s never too late for success.

The text is mainly in the pattern. A. general-specific B. chronological C. spatial D. compare-contrast

Let hear more about some famous people.

总分时间空间比较 - 对比

Anecdotes of famous people

AnecdotesNameNo.1 Mozart

2 Peter

3 Pasteur

Played the piano at midnight

Never showed talent until 22

Did nothing but draw and fish

4 Wright Brilliant at engineering in early teens

Text interpretation

5 Edison Brain “addled”

6 Fermi Read enough mathematics at 17

Anecdotes of famous people

AnecdotesNameNo.

9 Hoover

10 Truman

11 Faulkner

Expert at administration

Tried a dozen jobs before presidency

Quit school in the 5th grade

12 Moses Never sold a painting till 80

Text interpretation

7

Darwin Early life a mess

Wavered until 30

8

Schweitzer

Text interpretation

What can we learn from those famous people in this text?

1. It’s never too late for success.

2. Never say die.

3. Success doesn’t come easy.

4. We are not fired (inspired) yet.

5. Better late than never.

6. More …

Text interpretation

1. …the truth is that many of our greatest figures were given to daydreaming…

2. …they showed no promise of being…3. A man they don’t tell you about4. If you take piano lessons and you don’t feel like

practicing…5. But the point is your parents would not …showed

any interest in music in his formative years.6. In fact he never showed talent in any direction

whatever.7. It was not until he was 22 that he suddenly

became fired with a great passion for music.

Text interpretation

8. The … parents were in despair because Louis did nothing but draw pictures…

9. Pasteur was 20 years old before he became even faintly interested in science.

10. So it goes.11. You have the W brothers, who were brilliant at …12. Charles Darwin’s early life was a mess.13. You care for nothing but shooting dogs…14. You will a disgrace to yourself …15. H Hoover must have learned administration in

the cradle.

Text interpretation

16. Turned down by the West Point, Truman tried…17. Great writers are supposed to be born, not made.18. You have a small army of child prodigies who

were graduated from college…19. So who’s to say what about youth?20. Any of you boy or girl who knows he wants to do

in life is probably the better off for it.21. He has that one special advantage over the

greatest man alive — time.22. If you don’t think time counts, look at Grandma

Moses.

Word family

Well-known, reputation, gift, intelligence, indecisive, resolute, determined, prospect, promising, hopeless, desperate, inspiration, justice, justify, formation, informal, talented, passionate, compassion, painting, messy, confused, physician, hesitate, hesitant, disgraceful, divine, scarcely, therefore, flight, gather, revolution, biologist, original, compare, administrator, starvation, hunger, television, invisible, pharmacy, attractive, charming, exceptional, resign, sophomore, unordinary, unusual, employ, disadvantageous.

More words on pp 141-2

Sentence structure

It is/was … that/who …

It was not until he was 22 that he suddenly

became fired with a great passion for music.

Do the exercise on p.142

Translation

1. Parents should pay special attention to their

children during their formative years and

watch for symptoms of psychological

problems.

2. Geniuses usually have a great passion for

things they’re interested in.

3. He has no idea that Jane is his biological

sister; only her name sounds faintly familiar

to him.

Translation

4. Seeing the rice crops dying in the dry sun,

the peasants could do nothing but sigh.

5. Ever since his boss turned down his request

for a long vocation, Jack has been thinking

about quitting his job.

6. I don’t care for soccer, and today’s no

exception. So I don’t feel like going to watch

the game with you.

Homework

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Don’t forget your plan & promise.