jinchi长喜老师专四阅读周计划-第二周星期三

2020年12月30日发(作者：相龙)
学英语 找长喜
星期3 Wednesday
Success covers a multitude of blunders.成功由大量失望铸就。

学习内容
Text A
Text B
Text C
Text D

今日练习
Text A
It is customary for adults to forget how hard and dull and long school is. The learning by
memory of all the basic things one must know is most incredible and unending effort. Learning to
read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if
you don’t believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it. School is not easy and it is not for the
most part very much fun, but then, if you are very lucky, you may find a real teacher. Three real
teachers in a lifetime are the very best of my luck. My first was a science and math teacher in high
school, my second, a professor of creative writing at Stanford, and my third was my friend and
partner, Ed Rickets.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there
are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human
mind and spirit.
My three teachers had these things in common: They all loved what they were doing. They
did not tell. They catalyzed(催化，刺激) a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the
horizon sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important
of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.
I shall speak only of my first teacher because in addition to the other things, she brought
discovery.
She aroused us to shouting, book-waving discussion. She had the noisiest class in school and
she didn’t even seem to know it. We could never stick to the subject. Our speculation ranged the
world. She breathed curiosity into us so that we brought in facts or truths shielded in our hands
like captured fireflies.
She was fired and perhaps rightly so, for failing to teach fundamentals. Such things must be
learned. But she left a passion in us for the pure knowable world and she inflamed me with a
curiosity which has never left. I could not do simple arithmetic but through her I sensed that
abstract mathematics was very much like music. When she was relieved, sadness came over us but
the light did not go out. She left her signature on us, the literature of the teacher who writes on
minds. I have had many teachers who told me soon-forgotten backs but only three who crested in
me a new thing, a new attitude and a new hunger. I suppose that to a large extent I am the
unsigned manuscript of the high school teacher. What deathless power lies in the hands of such a
person?
I can tell my son who looks forward with horror to fifteen years of drudgery (繁重而乏味的
工作) that somewhere in the dusty dark a magic may happen that will light up the years if he is
题 材
教育人物
自然现象
工业社会
女性人物
词 数
487
404
394
573
建议时间
6分钟
5.5分钟
6分钟
7.5分钟
错误统计
5
4
6
5
做题备忘





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学英语 找长喜
very lucky.
1. According to the first paragraph, the author assumes that
[A] an illiterate adult enjoy learning knowledge.
[B] learning to read is a tough thing.
[C] school life is easy and enjoyable.
[D] adults often remember their dull school life.
2. According to the passage, all of the following can make a teacher EXCEPT that
[A] teachers are keen on their career.
[B] teachers can enlighten students to conceive.
[C] teachers should be also artists in other fields.
[D] teachers inspire students to discover.
3. According to the author, what’s the most important feature for a real teacher?
[A] A teacher should make fun in the class.
[B] A teacher should breathe curiosity into students.
[C] A teacher should school basic things.
[D] A teacher should be knowledgeable.
4. Mentioning the first teacher’s influence, the author compared himself to
[A] a captured firefly.
[B] a musician.
[C] light.
[D] an unsigned manuscript.
5. An appropriate title for the passage might be
[A] What Makes a Real Teacher?
[B] My First Real Teacher
[C] Three teachers of Mine
[D] A Teacher Who Inflames Me

Text B
On most shores you will notice that the sea level changes throughout the day. These ups and
downs of the seas are called tides.
Why should tides occur? Everything on the Earth’s surface is attracted towards the Earth by a
force called gravity. The Moon and the Sun also have a gravitational pull of their own. As the
Moon passes around the Earth it attracts the waters of the oceans on the side facing it, pulling
them away from the Earth, and causing them to bulge. On the opposite side from this “tidal bulge”,
there is another one because on that side, the land is closer to the Moon than the waters, and the
land is pulled away from the seas, leaving a bulge behind. These two bulges remain in the same
position in relation to the Moon, but the rotation of the Earth means that each of them appears to
move around the Earth. These bulges are called high water, and the gaps between them are called
low water.
There are two other factors that help in the formation of the tides. You know that if you cause
the water in your bath to rock, it may rise and fall against the side of the bath for some time. In the
same way, once the tides have begun, the waters tend to continue to rock up and down and they
are given an extra push by the attraction of the Moon. The Sun also tends to attract the Earth’s
oceans towards itself, but because it is so much further away, the attraction is less important. At

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