英语二精讲音频讲义第8章unit the great minds

1、II. Text LearningAn Unwanted Baby, Steve Jobs1 Steve Jobs is a man who has great courage and dares to take risks. He may notbe perfect but he pulled together the most fantastic act by ing, the movie industry and the music business. Jobsfollowed his dreamand led a revolutionhe computing world.2 Steve

2、 Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco,California. Hisbiological mother was an unwed graduate student named Joanne Simpson and decidedto put him up for adoption. (1)Joanne had a college education, and she insistedt the future parents of her boy be just as well educated.Unfortunay, the

3、candidates, Paul and Clara Jobs, did not meet her expecClara didntions:graduate from college and Paul only attended high school. When she found outt both his future parents had never graduated from college,she refused tosign the adoption p and agreed tors. She only relented a few months laterhave he

4、r baby adopted by them, under the firm condition they would send himto college.本部分重点及难点：t显示重难点1. Joanne had a college education, and she insistedfuture parents oft theher boy be just as well educated.当谓语动词是一坚持，二命令，三建议，四要求时，即insist, order,d, advise, suggest, proask 以及 desire,e, demand, request, requi

5、re,mend, prefer, decide, urge 等词时，从句谓语用 should+。We suggestthe meetingt he beime.His painful expres动词presensuggestedt he was ill at ease.请认真答题，答题结果将记入知识点的成绩！【单选题】17. From the anxious expresclearly see his strong desireon his face, we cant his mother from themajor illnesssoon.A recoversB recoverC will

6、 recoverD hasrecovered【】B【】本题考查虚拟语气。desire 后的从句用虚拟语气，谓语动词为should+动词常省略。本句的意思是从他脸上焦急的表情，should 通可以很清楚地看到他希望母亲从这场大病中快速痊愈的强烈愿望。【知识点】虚拟语气3 Steve Jobs went to college but decided to drop out because it was tooexpensive. Recalling his time there he said, I didnt have a dorm room, so Islept on the floor in

7、 friends rooms, I returned coke bottles forthe 5 centsdeits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7acrosstown every Sundaynight to get one good meal ak at the Hare Krishna temple.4 At 20, Steve Jobs and a friend (Steve Wozniak) started acompany in a garageon April 1, 1976. Laterlocal storet year, t

8、hey debuted the Apple I and aoffered to buy 50 machines. To finance the production, they hadto sell theirmost expensivesess. Jobs sold his Volkswagen vanwhile Wozniak sold hisHewlett-Packard scientific calculator. Steve Jobs named their company Apple, inmemory of a happy summer he had spent as an or

9、chard worker in Oregon.5 By 1982, however, his company sales sagged in the face ofcompetition fromIBMs new PC. (2)Not wanting to dwell on sucsive failures,they workeanew machine called the MacSteve Jobs promised toosh. By 1986, the Mac, whichbe insanely great, was a huge sucfrom 2 kidss. After 10 ye

10、ars, startingworking in a garage, Apple computer had grown billion company withover 4000 employees.o a $26 At 30, Steve Jobs, however, was fired from the company he cofounded with SteveWozniak. He left the company after losing a bitter battle over control withApples CEO John Sculley, whom Jobs had r

11、ecruited from PepsiCola. When SteveJobs heard of the message he said, Youve probably had somebody punch you inthe stomach and it knocks the wind out of you and you cannot breathe. (3)Theharder you try to breathe, the more you cannot breathe. And youknowt theonly thing you can do is just relax so you

12、 can start breathing again.显示重难点本部分重点及难点：2. Not wanting to dwell on sucsivefailures, they workemachine called the Maca newosh.非谓语动词的否定形式为：not+非谓语动词（具体参考 Unit 7, Text A）dwellon ： 详述； 老想着t always dwell on the past, lookforward.Hes dwelling on his storyonce again.3. The harder you try to breathe, the m

13、ore you cannotbreathe.the+，the+意为越就越Thefarther a planet is from the earth, thesmaller it looks/appears/seems.试译：你锻炼越多，就越不大可能感冒。你越不可能感冒：You are less likely tocatch a cold.The more exercise you take, the less likely you areto catch acold.Youllhavelesschance/fewchan cold.The more exerciseofcatchingayou

14、 take, the less catching a cold.7 Steve Jobs sold days bicyclingalongthebeach,chance / the fewer chanyoull have ofover $20 million of his Apple stock, spentfeelingsadandlost,touredParis,andjourneyeto Italy.Recalling this publicly heartbreakingdidnt see itsode, Jobs said, (4)Ithen, but it turned outt

15、 getting fired from Apple was the bestthingcould sucthave ever happened to me. (5)The heaviness of being sful wasreplaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. 8 During the next five years he started t

16、wo companies - NeXT and Pixar. NeXTdidnt do as well as Jobs had dreamed for, but Pixar was asucs story. Jobsbecame an instant billionaire. Meanwhile, his old companyApple was underimmense prere from its rivaland in 1996tedbillions of dollars in losses.9 In December 1996, Steve Jobs convinced Apple t

17、o buy NeXT and make its softwarethe foundation of the next-generation Mac OS. The technology he developed atNeXT became the catalyst of Apples comeback. (6)Initiallyappoed as Applesadviser, Steve Jobs was named Apples显示重难点erim CEO in 1997.本部分重点及难点：4. I didnt see it then, but it turned outgetting fir

18、ed fromtApple was the best thing(1) turn out到头来，结果是，竟然是t could have ever happened to me.It turned out the man standing besideme was a pickpocket.He turnedout to be one of my former classmates.(2) happen to sb.e of sb.(3)联想：译文：我当时并没有，但结果表明，被苹果公司，是我遇到的最好的事情。5. The heaviness of being sucsfulwasreplaced

19、 by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.对一切都不确定，从头再来的轻松取代了成功带来的压力。句子的主干是The heaviness was replaced by the lightness.6.Initially appoApplesed as Apples adviser, Steve Jobs was namederim（过渡的，临时的）CEO in 1997.adviser 过去分词作状语。过分表示from here, the valley is very beautiful.app

20、oed as Apples，再如： Seen10 (7)He had made Apple healthy again and returned it to a place where it wascontributing new and innovative technologies to the computerworld. (8)Under hisleadership,innovations.Applereturnedtoprofitabilityandroduced本部分重点及难点：显示重难点7. He had made Apple healthy again and returned it to a place where it wascontributing new and innovative technologies to the computerworld.