[00:00.00] Unit 4
[00:01.88]Lesson 13
[00:03.53]by the time
[00:04.31]到……的时候
[00:05.09]Mozart
[00:06.56]莫扎特（奥地利作曲家）
[00:08.02]Lord Kelvin
[00:09.78]凯文勋爵（英国科学家）
[00:11.55]project n.
[00:12.58]研究课题；工程
[00:13.61]hurry n.
[00:14.73]匆忙；急忙
[00:15.86]violin n.
[00:17.23]小提琴
[00:18.60]scientist v.
[00:20.38]科学家
[00:22.15]complete v.
[00:23.89]完成
[00:25.63]hide v.
[00:27.35]把……藏起来；隐藏
[00:29.07]army n.
[00:29.91]军队
[00:30.75]war n.
[00:32.12]战争
[00:33.49]World War II
[00:35.11]第二次世界大战
[00:36.73]several adj.&pron.
[00:38.20]几个；若干
[00:39.68]a great deal(of)
[00:41.16]很多；大量的
[00:42.63]1.Annie and Yongxian
[00:47.39]are talking about Annie's history project.
[00:50.73]Listen to their conversation
[00:53.00]and answer the questions.
[00:55.56]Yongxian:Hi,Annie.You're walking very fast.
[00:59.04]What's the hurry?
[01:01.18]I'm going to the library to do some more work on my project.
[01:05.15]You're collecting stories about famous children,aren't you?
[01:08.70]Yes.Many famous people
[01:11.44]had done wonderful things when they were children.
[01:14.21]Yongxian:Like Mozart?
[01:16.46]Annie:Yes.He's my favourite.
[01:19.99]He had learned to play the violin
[01:22.26]and the piano before he was eight!
[01:25.03]He wrote music,too.
[01:27.38]Yongxian:Who else?
[01:29.13]Annie:Well,there was Lord Kelvin.
[01:31.79]He was a great scientist.
[01:34.35]By the time he was ten years old,
[01:36.50]he had completed university!
[01:39.13]Yongxian:Wow!Not many people go to university
[01:42.48]before they're ten.
[01:44.05]Annie:No.I'm already too old!
[01:47.00]I'm also too old to be like Anne Frank.
[01:50.16]By the time she was thirteen,
[01:52.43]she'd already started writing her famous diary.
[01:56.09]Yongxian:Why was her diary famous?
[01:58.54]Annie:She wrote it after her family
[02:01.89]had hidden themselves from the German army
[02:04.66]during World War II.
[02:06.69]Her diary tells us what she felt about her life.
[02:11.06]Yongxian:I'd like to read your project.
[02:13.41]Maybe I can do something famous,too!
[02:16.18]Lesson 14
[02:17.72]as prep.
[02:18.29]作为；当作
[02:18.87]possible adj.
[02:19.44]可能的；可能发生的
[02:20.02]however adv.
[02:20.55]然而；可是；尽管如此
[02:21.09]prison n.
[02:21.82]监狱
[02:22.55]lose v.
[02:23.53]失去
[02:24.51]bill n.
[02:25.79]账单；清单
[02:27.07]return v.
[02:27.64]回；归；归还
[02:28.22]writer n.
[02:28.79]作家
[02:29.37]sell v.
[02:29.90]卖；售
[02:30.44]Charles Dickens
[02:31.37]查理·狄更斯（英国小说家）
[02:32.29]no longer
[02:32.92]不再
[02:33.55]1.Read about a writer's life
[02:37.31]and answer the questions.
[02:39.16]Have you read any of my books?
[02:41.44]I was born in 1812.
[02:44.39]My parents had eight children,
[02:46.43]but two of them died when they were young.
[02:48.59]As a child,I was often sick
[02:51.05]so it wasn't possible for me to go to school.
[02:53.51]However,although I didn't go to school like other children,
[02:57.45]I still learned to read and I loved books.
[03:00.32]When I was nine years old,
[03:02.96]my family moved to London.
[03:04.92]My parents had always been poor,
[03:06.96]but in London they were even poorer.
[03:09.60]After a few years there,
[03:11.27]my father was sent to prison
[03:13.31]because he had lost all his money
[03:15.47]and couldn't pay his bills.
[03:17.33]My mother,brothers and sisters went with him.
[03:20.18]I started working in a factory but I hated it.
[03:23.62]Three months later,when my father had paid his bills,
[03:27.78]my family returned home.
[03:29.53]I went to school for two years.
[03:31.57]After that,
[03:32.72]I had a job in an office
[03:35.48]and then I worked as a newspaper reporter.
[03:38.83]I also wrote funny stories for a magazine.
[03:41.60]Then,I began to write my first book.
[03:44.76]Everyone wanted to read this book.
[03:47.71]Very soon,I was a famous writer!
[03:51.18]I wrote 22 more books.
[03:54.71]They all sold very well.
[03:57.64]My wife and I were no longer poor
[04:01.16]and neither were my ten children.
[04:04.53]My name is Charles Dickens.
[04:08.48]Lesson 15
[04:09.94]swimming pool
[04:10.67]游泳池
[04:11.40]lunch-time n.
[04:12.13]午餐时间
[04:12.87]4.Listen to these sentences.
[04:16.99]The speakers think some words are more important than others.
[04:20.18]They stree these words.
[04:22.64]Underline the stressed words.
[04:25.27]A:How long had he had the toy truck?
[04:27.83]B:He'd had the toy truck since he was a boy.
[04:30.29]A:How long had she had the library book?
[04:33.35]B:She'd had the library book for several days.
[04:36.82]A:How long had they had their tickets
[04:39.77]B:They'd had their tickets since National Day.
[04:42.41]A:How long had you had that house?
[04:45.18]B:We'd had that house for a long time.
[04:47.74]Lesson 16
[04:49.20]stone n.
[04:49.83]石头
[04:50.46]Rosetta
[04:51.03]罗塞塔（地名）
[04:51.60]Jean Champollion
[04:53.04]珍·商博良（法：人名）
[04:54.48]Egypt n.
[04:55.11]埃及
[04:55.73]Egyptian adj.
[04:56.36]埃及的；埃及人；埃及语
[04:56.99]sand n.
[04:57.86]沙；沙子
[04:58.74]work out
[04:59.42]弄明白；了解
[05:00.09]secret n.
[05:01.68]秘密
[05:03.26]letter n.
[05:03.74]字母
[05:04.22]sign n.
[05:04.80]符号
[05:05.37]represent v.
[05:06.10]等于；代表
[05:06.83]sound n.
[05:07.67]声音
[05:08.51]study n.
[05:09.83]研究
[05:11.14]blind adj.
[05:11.77]瞎的
[05:12.40]alphabet n.
[05:13.08]字母表
[05:13.76]Louis Braille
[05:14.49]路易·布拉耶
[05:15.22]terrible adj.
[05:16.13]可怕的
[05:17.05]tool n.
[05:17.57]工具
[05:18.09]raised adj.
[05:18.72]凸出的
[05:19.35]dot n.
[05:19.88]点
[05:20.42]name v.
[05:20.99]命名
[05:21.57]1.Read about the Rosetta Stone and answer the questions.
[05:27.92]Reading the Rosetta Stone
[05:29.77]Jean Champollion (1790-1832)
[05:34.03]was very good at languages.
[05:35.99]By the time he was 16 years old,
[05:38.23]he had learned seven languages.
[05:40.69]Later,he learned five more languages.
[05:43.56]He learned Chinese,too.
[05:45.52]When he was 18,he began teaching history at university.
[05:49.49]He was younger than many of his students!
[05:52.05]Jean was very interested in ancient Egypt
[05:55.81]and in 1821 he began to study the Rosetta Stone.
[05:59.97]A group of soldiers had found this stone at Rosetta
[06:02.92]when Jean was still a young boy.
[06:05.06]It had lain under the sand
[06:06.71]for hundreds of years until they dug it up.
[06:09.27]There was a lot of strange writing on the stone.
[06:11.70]The writing was a message in three languagues.
[06:14.54]One of the languages was ancient Egyptain.
[06:17.10]However,until Jean had worked out its secret,
[06:20.89]no one could read this language.
[06:23.24]Ancient Egyptian wasn't written with letters and words like English.
[06:27.00]It was written with signs.
[06:28.86]At first,the signs were thought to represent things and ideas,
[06:32.70]but Jean believed that some of them represented sounds.
[06:36.07]By the time he had completed his study of the Rosetta Stone,
[06:39.31]he had found fifteen of these signs.
[06:42.18]Today,it is possible to understand
[06:44.53]what people in Egypt wrote 4,000 years ago.
[06:48.29]2.Listen to Annie's speech about a young inventor
[06:53.94]and draw lines to complete the sentences.
[06:56.81]As a child,Louis Braille
[06:58.95]had wanted one thing more than anything else.
[07:01.88]He had wanted to read.
[07:03.63]He was a clever child
[07:05.30]and he had done well at school
[07:07.05]but he couldn't read because he was blind.
[07:09.69]He hadn't always been blind,however.
[07:13.24]Until he was three years old,
[07:15.20]he had been able to see as well as anyone else.
[07:18.75]But then he had a terrible accident.
[07:21.70]Louis'father made shoes
[07:23.74]and he often used to take Louis with
[07:26.01]when he went to his shop.
[07:27.87]One day,when he had left the shop for a moment,
[07:31.11]Louis started to play with his tools.
[07:33.85]The tools were very sharp
[07:35.81]and Louis hurt his eyes.
[07:37.85]He hurt them so badly
[07:39.81]that he was never able to see again.
[07:42.55]While he was at school,
[07:44.12]Louis had read a few books for blind people.
[07:46.76]They had very large letters
[07:48.61]and were difficult to read.
[07:50.47]He wanted to invent a better way for blind people to read and he did!
[07:54.33]By the time he was fifteen years old,
[07:56.58]he had invented a special alphabet using raised dots.
[08:00.55]This alphabet is called Braille. |