北師版高中英語(yǔ)課文unit-16-stories-在線瀏覽
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【正文】 e from the southern part of our province. So my name tells me where I am from and it tells me what to aim for!Heather Smith: My name is Heather Smith. “Smith” is one of the most mon names in Britain. A smith is somebody who works with metal. Other family names with the same origin include Smithers and Smythe. I guess there were lots of smiths in Europe in the days when horses were the fastest form of land transport and riders counted on the services of smiths for metal horse shoes. Well there are very few of them these days and no one in my family can figure out which ancestor was a smith but I suppose we must have had one sometime in the past. My first name is easier to explain. “Heather” is a purple flower that grows a lot in certain parts of the country. My mother es from a place in northern England where heather turns whole hills a vivid purple every July. But when she had me, she was living in London and although she was delighted to have a new baby girl, she was also discouraged because she missed her home in northern England, and because her mother, my grandmother, was ill at that time and couldn39。s a very conventional name that doesn39。t think it had a story to it, but I believe that when you dig deep enough, every name has a story to it. “Evans” is a very mon Welsh name and I39。s a lot of industry there. He put up with a lot of hardship and suffering all his life to provide a good future for his family and I39。s name. You might think thatI got called “Isaac” because my parents couldn39。d be wrong. My parents are classical musicians and they named me after a famous violinist called Itzhak Perlman. They admired him because he was a great musician and he wasn39。t play a musical instrument, but I am a painter and I often listen to classical music when I paint. When I listen to Itzhak Perlman39。TapescriptGuo Jiangsheng: My name is Guo Jiangsheng. Jiangsheng means “born on the river”, and guess what? I was born on a boat! My family lives in a small mountain village. My parents needed to travel by boat to Chongqing where my mother was going to stay in a hospital for my birth. They were still on the boat outside Chongqing when suddenly my mother started to feel some pain. Then I was born. My parents got off the boat with their new baby and then went to the hospital to see if everything was OK. The doctors and nurses were very surprised and said my mother and I were both very healthy. After that my parents decided I should be called Jiangsheng!TapescriptAmazing But True!One day, a fisherman on the Arral Sea was sailing home after a day39。t feel very happy. He hadn39。t caught very many fish. Suddenly, he heard a strange noise. A cow was flying towards his boat! The cow hit the boat and nearly destroyed it. When the fisherman got back home, people didn39。Helen KellerHelen Keller was a very special girl who needed a superb teacher. By the time she was seven years old, she still couldn39。t see or hear. With these severe restrictions on her munication, Hele
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