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 orphanage¹
[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 countless² 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 ambitious³
[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 cosmetics⁴ 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 marketing⁵ 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 syllabus⁶ in every school in Hong Kong
[02:56.11]Since 1987, she has devoted⁷ 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 Fang⁸.
[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 decided⁹ 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 watertight¹⁰ 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 paving¹¹ and lighting¹².
 

1 orphanage   

n.孤儿院

参考例句：

• They dispensed new clothes to the children in the orphanage.他们把新衣服发给孤儿院的小孩们。
• They gave the proceeds of the sale to the orphanage.他们把销售的收入给了这家孤儿院。

2 countless   

adj.无数的，多得不计其数的

参考例句：

• In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
• I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。

3 ambitious   

adj.有雄心的，劲头十足的，有野心的

参考例句：

• One may be poor but never ceases to be ambitious.人穷志不穷。
• He is an ambitious young man full of enthusiasm and vitality.他是个充满热情与活力的有远大抱负的青年。

4 cosmetics   

n.化妆品

参考例句：

• We sell a wide range of cosmetics at a very reasonable price. 我们以公道的价格出售各种化妆品。
• Cosmetics do not always cover up the deficiencies of nature. 化妆品未能掩饰天生的缺陷。

5 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

6 syllabus   

n.教学大纲，课程大纲

参考例句：

• Have you got next year's syllabus?你拿到明年的教学大纲了吗？
• We must try to diversify the syllabus to attract more students.我们应该使教学大纲内容多样化，可以多吸引学生。

7 devoted   

adj.忠诚的，忠实的，热心的，献身于...的

参考例句：

• He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
• We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。

8 fang   

n.尖牙，犬牙

参考例句：

• Look how the bone sticks out of the flesh like a dog's fang.瞧瞧,这根骨头从肉里露出来，象一只犬牙似的。
• The green fairy's fang thrusting between his lips.绿妖精的尖牙从他的嘴唇里龇出来。

9 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

10 watertight   

adj.不透水的，防水的，无懈可击的

参考例句：

• The ship's hold is built in watertight compartments.船舱建造成许多不漏水的隔间。
• You know how we like to make our little boxes watertight.您知道，我们多希望我们的小盒子滴水不漏。

11 paving   

n.块石面路v.铺( pave的现在分词 )；为…铺平道路

参考例句：

• Weeds grew through the cracks in the paving. 杂草从铺石路面的缝隙中长出来。
• a firm that does paving and walling 从事铺地砌墙的公司

12 lighting   

n.照明，光线的明暗，舞台灯光

参考例句：

• The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
• The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。