大学英语精读第二册unit4the professor and the yo yo.ppt

Before Reading_2 Before Reading_2_2_1 Before Reading_2_2_2 Before Reading_2_2_3 More about Einstein In his early childhood he was slow to learn to talk and did not seem to be very bright. 2. But by the time he was 14, he had taught himself advanced mathematics from textbooks. More about Einstein 6. On another occasion he used a check for $1,500 as a bookmark and then he lost the book. 7. Often there were visitors like the 12-year-old girl who, for a time, formed the habit of visiting him on her way home from school. Before Reading_3 After Reading_2_1 few, a few, little, a little （1）few, a few是可数的, little, a little是不可数的。 （2）a few, a little含肯定意味，few, little含否定意味。 An Analysis of Einstein’s Personality Einstein had no personal ambition. 1. He was ready to come to terms with himself and the world around him. 2. He knew there were answers beyond his intellectual reach. 3. He was content to go as far as he could. 4. He never showed jealousy, vanity, bitterness, anger, resentment, or personal ambition. Einstein believed in simplicity. 1. He was beyond pretension. 2. He bought his stationery in Woolworth’s, a five-and-ten-cent variety store. 3. He needed only a pencil and a pad of paper to do his work. 4. He never carried money with him because he had no use for it. 5. He used only water and safety razor to shave. Einstein was purely and exclusively a theorist. 1. He did not have the slightest interest in the practical application of his ideas and theories. 2. He would not walk down the street to see a reactor create atomic energy. 3. He did not have any curiosity in observing how his Photoelectric Theory could make TV possible. 4. He tried in vain to deduce the operating principle of a toy bird but refused to take it apart to see how it actually worked. Einstein was easy to approach. 1. He wrote a long poem of thanks to a small boy who had sent him a Yo-Yo. 2. He thought that his ideas had been accepted because he was