21世纪大学英语读写教程第四册reading aloud

Unit 1 If great achievers share anything,said Simonton,it is an unrelenting drive to succeed.There's a tendency to think that they are endowed with something super-normal,he explained.But what comes out of the research is that there are great people who have no amazing intellectual processes.It's a difference in degree.Greatness is built upon tremendous amounts of study,practice and devotion. He cited Winston Churchill,Britain's prime minister during World War 2,as an example of a risk-taker who would never give up.Thrust into office when his country's morale was at its lowest,Churchill rose brilliantly to lead the British people.In a speech following the Allied evacuation at Dunkirk in 1940,he inspired the nation when he said,We shall not flag or fail.We shall go on to the end... We shall never surrender. Unit 2 Some persons refrain from expressing their gratitude because they feel it will not be welcome.A patient of mine,a few weeks after his discharge from the hospital,came back to thank his nurse.I didn't come back sooner,he explained,because I imagined you must be bored to death with people thanking you. On the contrary,she replied,I am delighted you came.Few realize how much we need encouragement and how much we are helped by those who give it. Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much.For on the smiles,the thanks we give,our little gestures of appreciation,our neighbors build up their philosophy of life. Unit 4 When a student's work did not measure up to the teacher's expectations,as often happened,the student was not treated with disappointment,anger,or annoyance.Instead,the teacher assumed that this was an exception,an accident,a bad day,a momentary slip-and the student believed her and felt reassured.The next time around,he tried

harder,determined to live up to what the teacher knew he could do. The exact part of communication that tells a child,I expect the best,is difficult to pinpoint.In part it consists of a level tone showing assurance,a lack of verbal impatience,an absence of negative qualities such as irony,put-downs,and irritation.The teacher who expects the best asks her questions with conviction,knowing the answers she gets will be right,and the child picks up that conviction. Unit 6 EQ is not the opposite of IQ.Some people are blessed with a lot of both,some with little of either.What reseachers have been trying to understand is how they complement each other,how one's ability to handle stress,for instance,affects the ability to concentrate and put intelligence to use.Among the ingredients for success,researchers now generally agree that IQ counts for about 20%,the rest depends on everything from class to luck to the neural pathways that have developed in the brain over millions of years of human evolution. Unit 7 As a child,I identified so strongly with my mother that I thought my father was just a long-term house guest with spanking privileges.She and I are bookish,introverted worriers.My father is an optimist who has never had a sleepless night in his life. Like most fathers and sons,we fought.But there was no cooling-off period between rounds.It was a cold war lasting from the onest of my adolescence untill I went off to college in 1973.I hated him.He was a former navy fighter pilot with an Irish temper and a belief that all the problems of the world-including an overprotected son who never saw anything through to completion-could be cured by the application of more discipline.

Unit 1 If great achievers share anything,said Simonton,it is an unrelenting drive to succeed.There's a tendency to think that they are endowed with something super-normal,he explained.But what comes out of the research is that there are great people who have no amazing intellectual processes.It's a difference in degree.Greatness is built upon tremendous amounts of study,practice and devotion. He cited Winston Churchill,Britain's prime minister during World War 2,as an example of a risk-taker who would never give up.Thrust into office when his country's morale was at its lowest,Churchill rose brilliantly to lead the British people.In a speech following the Allied evacuation at Dunkirk in 1940,he inspired the nation when he said,We shall not flag or fail.We shall go on to the end... We shall never surrender. Unit 2 Some persons refrain from expressing their gratitude because they feel it will not be welcome.A patient of mine,a few weeks after his discharge from the hospital,came back to thank his nurse.I didn't come back sooner,he explained,because I imagined you must be bored to death with people thanking you. On the contrary,she replied,I am delighted you came.Few realize how much we need encouragement and how much we are helped by those who give it. Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much.For on the smiles,the thanks we give,our little gestures of appreciation,our neighbors build up their philosophy of life. Unit 4 When a student's work did not measure up to the teacher's expectations,as often happened,the student was not treated with disappointment,anger,or annoyance.Instead,the teacher assumed that this was an exception,an accident,a bad day,a momentary slip-and the student believed her and felt reassured.The next time around,he tried