【正文】 ll was fully aware of the importance of his invention and wrote to his father: The day is ing when telegraph wires will be laid on to houses just like water or gas – and friends will talk to each other without leaving home. The patent was given in 1876, but it was not until five days later that Bell sent his first telephone message to his assistant Watson. The words have now bee famous: Mr Watson e here I want to see you. Alexander Graham Bell was not a man to rest and he interested himself in many other areas of invention. He experimented with helicopter designs and flying machines. While searching for a kite strong enough to carry a man into the air, Bell experimented putting triangles together and discovered the tetrahedron shape. Being very stable, it has proved invaluable in the design of bridges. Bell was an inventor all his life. He made his first invention at eleven and his last at seventy five. Although he is most often associated with the invention of the telephone, he was indeed a continuing searcher after practical solutions to improve the quality of everybody39。s English decides his/her position in societyColonel Pickering (CP): an officer in the army and later a friend of Higgins39。s language and watching their reactions. While watching, he makes notes. Nearby a flower girl wearing dark garments and a woollen scarf is also sheltering from the rain. A gentleman (G) passes and hesitates for a moment.E: Come over’ere, cap’in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl.G: I39。t any change.E: I can giv’ou change, cap’in.G: (surprised) For a pound? I39。ve got nothing less.E: (hopefully) Oah! Oh, do buy a flower off me, Captain. Take this for three pence. (holds up some dead flowers)G: (unfortably) Now don39。s a good girl. (looks in his wallet and sounds more friendly) But, wait, here39。s raining heavily now, isn39。ve a right to sell flowers, I have. I ain’t no thief. I39。s hurting you, you silly girl? What do you take me for? (gives her a handkerchief)E: I thought maybe you was a policeman in disguise.H: Do I look like a policeman?E: (still worried) Then why did 39。ou took me down right? 39。ou39。s that? That ain39。t read that. (pushes it back at him)H: I can. (reads imitating Eliza) Come over39。in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl. (in his own voice) There you are and you were born in Lisson Grove if I39。s it to you?CP: (has been watching the girl and now speaks to Higgins) That39。s own speech. That39。d bee an upper class lady ...CP: Is that so? Extraordinary!H: (rudely) Look at this girl with her terrible English: the English that will condemn her to the gutter to the end of her days. But, sir, (proudly) once educated to speak properly, that girl could pass herself off in three months as a duchess at an ambassador39。s maid or a shop assistant, which requires better English.E: What39。s sommat I want, that is!H: (ignores her) Can you believe that?CP: Of course! I study many Indian dialects myself and ...H: Do you indeed? Do you know Colonel Pickering?CP: Indeed I do, for that is me. Who are you?H: I39。ll you help me?H: Oh, take that. (carelessly throws a handful of money into her basket) We must have a celebration, my dear man. (leave together)E: (looking at the collected money in amazement) Well, I never. A whole pound! A fortune! That39。ll find you, Henry Higgins. Just you wait and see! All that talk of (imitates him) authentic English ... (in her own voice) I39。 house the next day. Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering are sitting deep in conversation.H: Do you want to hear any more sounds?CP: No, thank you. I rather fancied myself because I can pronounce twentyfour distinct vowel sounds。t distinguish most of them.H: (laughing) Well, that es with practice. There is a knock and Mrs Pearce (MP), the housekeeper, es in with cookies, a teapot, some cream and two cups.MP: (hesitating) A young girl is asking to see you.H: A young girl! What does she want?MP: Well, she39。ll her in, Mrs Pearce.MP: (only half resigned to it) Very well, sir. (goes downstairs)H: This is a bit of luck. I39。ve got this girl in my records. She39。s no use at all. Take her away.CP: (gently to Eliza) What do youwant, young lady?E: (upset) I wanna be a lady in a flower shop 39。 selling flowers in the street. But they won39。less I speak better. So here I am, ready to pay him. I39。t have the face to ask me for the same for teaching me as yer would for French. So I won39。s the best offer I39。ll be worse than a father.CP: I say, Higgins. Do you remember what you said last night? I39。re the greatest teacher alive if you can pass her off as a lady. I39。ll teach you. (to Mrs Pearce) But she39。ll buy her new ones. What39。m Eliza Doolittle and I39。ll have to do the same. They won39。t. I dursn39。t natural and it39。ve never had a bath in my life。d never have e if I39。ll be how to teach her grammar, not just pronunciation. She39。s another problem, Higgins. What are we going to do once the experiment is over?H: (heartily) Throw her back.CP: But you cannot overlook that! She39。t we?H: Well, we39。s usually considered very effective ... (fades out as they go offstage together)選修8 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestorsReadingA VISIT TO THE ZHOUKOUDIAIN CAVES A group of students (S) from England has e to the Zhoukoudian caves for a visit. An archaeologist (A) is showing them round.A: Wele to the Zhoukoudian caves here in China. It is a great pleasure to meet you students from England, who are interested in archaeology. You must be aware that it39。ve been excavating here for many years and ...S1: I39。t have mats, blankets or quilts like we do. It must have been very unfortable.A: We39。t found any doors but we think they might have hung animal skins at the cave mouth to keep out the cold during the freezing winter.S3: What wild animals were there all that time ago?A: Well, we39。s a needle. Goodne