英語二精講音頻講義第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.本部分重點(diǎn)及難點(diǎn)：t顯示重難點(diǎn)1. Joanne had a college education, and she insistedfuture parents oft theher boy be just as well educated.當(dāng)謂語動(dòng)詞是一堅(jiān)持，二命令，三建議，四要求時(shí)，即insist, order,d, advise, suggest, proask 以及 desire,e, demand, request, requi

5、re,mend, prefer, decide, urge 等詞時(shí)，從句謂語用 should+。We suggestthe meetingt he beime.His painful expres動(dòng)詞presensuggestedt he was ill at ease.請(qǐng)認(rèn)真答題，答題結(jié)果將記入知識(shí)點(diǎn)的成績(jī)！【單選題】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【】本題考查虛擬語氣。desire 后的從句用虛擬語氣，謂語動(dòng)詞為should+動(dòng)詞常省略。本句的意思是從他臉上焦急的表情，should 通可以很清楚地看到他希望母親從這場(chǎng)大病中快速痊愈的強(qiáng)烈愿望?！局R(shí)點(diǎn)】虛擬語氣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.顯示重難點(diǎn)本部分重點(diǎn)及難點(diǎn)：2. Not wanting to dwell on sucsivefailures, they workemachine called the Maca newosh.非謂語動(dòng)詞的否定形式為：not+非謂語動(dòng)詞（具體參考 Unit 7, Text A）dwellon ： 詳述； 老想著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+意為越就越Thefarther a planet is from the earth, thesmaller it looks/appears/seems.試譯：你鍛煉越多，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顯示重難點(diǎn)erim CEO in 1997.本部分重點(diǎn)及難點(diǎn)：4. I didnt see it then, but it turned outgetting fir

18、ed fromtApple was the best thing(1) turn out到頭來，結(jié)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)聯(lián)想：譯文：我當(dāng)時(shí)并沒有，但結(jié)果表明，被蘋果公司，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.對(duì)一切都不確定，從頭再來的輕松取代了成功帶來的壓力。句子的主干是The heaviness was replaced by the lightness.6.Initially appoApplesed as Apples adviser, Steve Jobs was namederim（過渡的，臨時(shí)的）CEO in 1997.adviser 過去分詞作狀語。過分表示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本部分重點(diǎn)及難點(diǎn)：顯示重難點(diǎn)7. He had made Apple healthy again and returned it to a place where it wascontributing new and innovative technologies to the computerworld.