新教材2021-2022学年高中外研版英语选择性必修第四册学案：UNIT 2 LESSONS IN LIFE 导读 话题妙切入 WORD版含解析.doc

1、1The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.Goethe人生重要的的事在于确立一个伟大的目标，并有决心使其实现。歌德2Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.T.Fuller生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成。富勒3No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else.C.Dickens在这个世界上能为别人减轻

2、负担的人都是有用的。狄更斯4Dont waste life in doubts and fears.Emerson不要把生命浪费在怀疑与恐惧中。爱默生5Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.生活像一面镜子，你对它微笑它便会对你微笑。A boy found an eagles egg and he put it in the nest of a prairie chicken.The eagle hatched and thought he was a chicken.He grew up doing

3、 what prairie chicken doscratching at the dirt for food and flying short distances with a noisy fluttering of wings.Gradually the eagle grew older and bitter.One day he and his prairie chicken friend saw a beautiful bird soaring on the currents of air, high above the mountains.“Oh, I wish I could fl

4、y like that！”said the eagle.The chicken replied.“Dont give it another thought.Thats the mighty eagle, the king of all birdsyou could never be like him！” And the eagle didnt give it another thought.He went on cracking and complaining about life.He died thinking he was a prairie chicken.One day，about

5、ten years ago，while working at the cash register in the gift shop at my University Museum of Natural History，I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair.As I looked closer at this girl，I found that she was fixed on her chair.I then realized she had no arms or legs，just a head，

6、a neck and her upper body，dressed in a little white skirt.As the couple wheeled her up to me，I turned my head towards the girl.When I took the money from her grandparents，I looked back at the girl，who was giving me the most optimistic smile I had ever seen.All of a sudden, her handicap was gone and

7、all I saw was this beautiful girl，whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of what life is all about.She took me from a poor, unhappy college student to her world: a world of smiles，love and warmth.Im a successful businessman now and whenever I think about the t

8、roubles of the world，I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.探究发现1Try to think of the authors thought at the first sight of the disabled girl.She must have gone through lots of hardship and is leading an unhappy life.2Find out what left a deep impression on the author when he looked back at the girl.The girls most optimistic smile.3Find out what important lessons the author got from the girl.Whatever troubles we meet in the life, we should be optimistic and love the life.2