1、Unit 1 Living well注注: : 另附另附 word word 文档。文档。点击此处链接点击此处链接Listen to the text.AN AMAZING ACHIEVEMENTBarry Minto (B) has just made a successful climb of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. Listen to him being interviewed on the radio by Joan (J).Listen again and fill in the blanks.J: Bar
2、ry, welcome to our _ and congratulations on that great _!B: Thank you. Its good to be here.J: Now, Barry, it was a _ climb, wasnt it?B: Yes, thats right. _ of the group had very bad eyesight or were _ like me, and the other half were _ people who came along to help us.programmeclimbspecialHalfblinds
3、ightedJ: How old were the _?B: Well, the weak-sighted and blind group were between _ and _ years old.J: And the sighted climbers?B: Between _ and _. J: I see. Now, why did you make such a _ climb?B: For _ main reasons: one is to prove that we can _ whatever we decide to do; the other is to raise _ f
4、or other people with weak sight.climbers16192545difficulttwoachievemoneyJ: Mmm. Well done! I know Mount Kilimanjaro is the _ mountain in Africa. But how high is it?B: About _ metres.J: Thats very high! So how many of you reached the _?B: Of the _ poor-sighted and blind climbers, _ made it to the top
5、. Of the _ sighted climbers, _ did.J: Well done!highest5, 900121579topB: Yes, it just shows how _ the poor-sighted and blind climbers were.J: How long did it take you? B: _ days to go up and _ to come down.J: Well, Barry, Im full of admiration for you and your _. What do you plan to do next?B: Oh, I
6、m going to _ next year, but my next climbing _ is to go up Mount Qomolangma one day.determinedFivetwocompanionsuniversityambitionJ: Amazing. I wish you every _ in the future, Barry.B: (fading out) Thank you, Joan.successListen to Part 1.Sara, who is blind, has just returned home from a guide dog sch
7、ool where she learned how to work with her new guidedog, Lucy. A teacher from the school has come to Saras house to teach her and Lucy how to find their way around their own town. LUCY LEARNS THE WAYListen again and fill in the blanks.S=Sara P=Phil M=MotherS: Mum, this is Phil. Phil, this is my _.P:
8、 Pleased to meet you, Mrs Robinson.M: Please, _ me Jane.P: Umm, right, Jane. Saras told me a lot about _.M: Only _ things, I hope.mothercallgoodyouP: Definitely. She told me how much youve helped her since her _.M: Well, Ive done my best, But I know Sara wants to be _ independent.P: Well, with Lucys
9、 help she will be. Hows Lucy _ in, by the way? M: Oh, its like shes always _ here, isnt it, Sara? S: Yes. Shes been _ everything in the house and she knew which was my _ right away. accidentmoresettlingbeensmellingbedroomP: Thats good. So, Sara, what shall we teach Lucy _? S: How to take me to _. Mu
10、ms been driving me but I want so much to be able to get there by _ on my own, like I used to _ the accident.P: Well, lets get started. First well show Lucy the _ to the train station (fading out)firstwork trainbeforewayListen to Part 2.An hour and a half later, Sara, Lucy andPhil return home. (Pause
11、, then sound of door opening and closing and two sets of footsteps)Listen again and fill in the blanks.S: (very excitedly) Mum, where are you?M: In _, dear. S: Lucy did it! She found her own way to the _ and onto the train.M: Wonderful! Clever girl, Lucy. How did she go _ the street?P: She was _. Sh
12、e sat down at the crossing and waited _ the cars stopped herestationcrossingperfecttillS: Then she stood up and took me _ across the road. I wish you could have seen her.M: Me too, but Ill get the chance once youve _ her training. So whats next?P: Well give Lucy a bit of _ and then well ask her to t
13、ake Sara to the station again.S: Then Phils going to _ Lucy how to get off the train and take me to my straightfinishedrestshow office. In a few _, Lucy and I will be going to work on our own. M: Thats _. Im so pleased for you. Now, would you like some _, Phil, while Lucy is having _ break? (fading
14、out)fantasticlunchadaysListen to the text.MY HERO: LOUIS BRAILLEGood afternoon, everyone. Today Id like to tell you about Louis Braille. He made it possible for blind people to _ and _. Louis was born in _ in 1809. Sadly when he was a little boy, he had an _. By the time he was _ years old, he was c
15、ompletely _. Listen again and fill in the blanks.readwriteFranceaccidentfourblindHowever, at the age of _ Louis was lucky enough to go to one of the _ schools for blind children in _. At this particular school they had _ books. They were written in _ French but the letters were raised up off the _,
16、so that the students could feel the _ of the words and read them. But there were two problems with this tenfirstParisspecialordinarypageshapesystem, First, the letters were _ and difficult to _. Second, the books were very _ so the school library only had _ altogether. Louis, who was very clever and
17、 _, thought of a better way to _ books for blind people to read.hugereadexpensivefourteencreativeimprove In 1821, when Louis was _ years old, a _ came to his school. This man had invented a system for soldiers to send and receive messages in the _. _ this idea had not worked very well, Louis became
18、very _ and began experimenting with it. By the time he was _, he had invented a system which used only six _. And by 1827 the first book using his system was _.twelvesoldierdarkexcitedAlthoughfifteendotspublished It still took a long time before people _ what a wonderful invention Brailles system was. In fact Louis _ in 1852 and did not live to see the _ of his system, which has been adapted to almost every _ in the world. Thanks to him, blind or weak-sighted people are able to read or write as well as any _ person.realizeddiedsuccesslanguagesighted
