Unit 3

The Secret of Success

Please say some adjectives to describe the qualities related to success.

Examples:hardworking, intelligent …

Brainstorm

1. perseverance 2. ambition

3. confidence 4. motivation

5. energy 6. enthusiasm

7. interpersonal skills 8. organization

9. sense of humour

Read the profile on page 38 and find out Victoria Brown’s nine qualities for success.

1. perseverance

2. ambition3. confidence4. motivation5. energy

6. enthusiasm

7. interpersonal skills

8. organization

9. sense of humour

1. perseverant2. ambitious3.confident4.motivated 5.energetic

6.enthusiastic

8.organized

(1) ambition

(2) aimless

(3) lazy

(4) enthusiastic

(5) personality

(6) friendly

(7) polite

(8) dishonest

(9) careful

(10) sense of humor

Go through the text quickly and try to summarize the main idea of each paragraph with or within 10 words.

Skimming

Read Para 1 and choose the correct topic sentence for it.

A. Sir Clive Sinclair was a famous British businessman and inventor.B. Clive’s brilliant Childhood.C. Clive got a job at 17.D. Sinclair was mostly self-educated.

Read Para 2 and choose the correct

topic sentence for it.

A. Sinclair was unfortunate.

B. How Clive’s ran his first

company.

C. Sinclair produced his pocket

radio in bulk.

D. Sinclair founded his own

company.

Read Para 3 and choose the correct topic sentence for it.

A. Sinclair likes computers very much.

B. Sinclair’s computer cost only 100

pounds.C. Sinclair’s company expended

rapidly.D. Clive was very talented at

making little things.

Read Para 4 and choose the correct topic

sentence for it.

A. Sinclair C5 is good for environment.

B. The disadvantage of Sinclair’s new

inventions.C. Sinclair’s new invention was

laughed at in the newspaper. D. How Sinclair’s career

underwent a downward slide during the

1980s.

Read Para 5 and choose the correct topic sentence for it.

A. Sinclair became chairman of British

Mensa.B. How Sinclair saved Mensa as a

chairman.C. Sinclair paid personally for an

annual Mensa conference at Cambridge.

D. Sinclair has been an inventor and a

business man.

Read Para 6 and choose the correct topic sentence for it.

A. Sir Clive Sinclair was a famous British businessman and inventor.B. Clive’s latest invention.C. Clive worked hard.D. Sinclair was mostly self-educated.

Main idea

Read the text quickly and decide which of the following can best express the main idea of the text.

A. Sir Clive’s stories.B. Sir Clive’s mini inventions.C. How Sir Clive ran his company.D. Sir Clive Sinclair’s life and inventions.D

解题点拨

Reading Strategy: Understanding the topic sentence or theme. 精确地概括全文，防止外延太大或以偏概全。如上题中的A 项： Sir Clive’s stories 外延太大；B 项 Sir Clive’s mini inventions 和 C 项 How Sir Clive ran his company 是本文当中的具体事例，为以偏概全。只有 D 选项，能够精确地概括全文。

1957

1961

1972

The following is a timeline of important dates

in Sinclair’s life. Fill in what happened in

each year.

He got a job as an assistant editor for a magazine.

Sinclair resigned from his job.

He produced the world’s first pocket calculator.

1976

1977

1980

1980’s

He produced the world’s first pocket TV.

Sinclair introduced the ZX80 computer.

Sinclair introduced his C5 car.

He produced the world’s first

digital watch.

1. What did Sinclair’s grandfather and father do? _______________________________

2. Why didn’t Sinclair go to university? ______________________________ ______________________________3. What was the first thing that Sinclair made

and sold? _______________________________

They were both engineers.

Because he decided that university would teach him nothing new.

The pocket-sized radio.

4. Why was the ZX80 computer so popular? __________________________________ _______________________________5. What did the ZX Spectrum prove most useful for? ____________________________________________________________________________

Because the computer was very cheap,

which cost less than 100 pounds.

It proved more useful for playing computer games on

His C5

car.

It demonstrated that Sinclair had

skillful leadership and strength of

personality.

6. What was Sinclair’s failure? _______________________________7. What did the growth of Mensa demonstrate? ________________________________ ________________________________ ____________

1 元钱一瓶汽水，喝完后两个空瓶换一瓶汽水，问：你有 20 元钱，最多可以

喝到几瓶汽水？

答： 39 瓶，从第 2 瓶开始，相当于 1 元买 2 瓶。

Read the project quickly and try to find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.

Skimming

A. My father’s constant care about me and my brother

B. My father’s hard childhood.C. My father made the best Christmas

for us.D. What I value about my father. E. My father helped his friend’s son go

on study. F. My father’s good qualities of

success.G. My father helps in our local

community. H. My father’s optimism.

Read the transcript of a speech “ My father, my

hero” and match column A with column B.

A

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

B

A. My father’s constant care

about me and my brother

B. My father’s hard childhood.

C. My father made the best

Christmas for us.

D. What I value about my father.

E. My father helped his

friend’s son go on study.

F. My father’s good qualities

of success.

G. My father helps in our

local community.

H. My father’s optimism.

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

What makes a successful father? Money,

fame or love?

Love.

Writing

The Secret of Success —— Never Give up

1. 描述图片内容，如图中人物的行为和心情等； 2. 揭示图画所要表达的人数哲理3. 结合自身实际，谈谈这一漫画给你的启示。挖土： cut earth

Many people fail in life because they do not realize how

close they are to success when they give up. In this picture, we can see……. This story tells us a very simple but important piece of

truth:…….. As a student preparing for the entrance examinations,

I……

Never Give up

Never Give up Many people fail in life because they do not

realize how close they are to success when they give up.

In this picture, we can see……. This story tells us a very simple but important

piece of truth:…….. As a student preparing for the entrance

examinations, I should …….

Never Give up Many people fail in life because they do not realize

how close they are to success when they give up. In this picture, we can see a man is cutting earth in a

tunnel, hoping to find some diamonds. He makes great efforts in his work. However, after a long time of pains without gains, he decides to give up, feeling disappointed and depressed. But in fact he is very close to success when he gives up. With one or two more attempts of cutting, he would have seen those diamonds right in front of him.

This story tells us a very simple but important piece of truth: we should be confident in what we have chosen to do and never stop our effort until we succeed.

As a student preparing for the entrance examinations, I should learn a lesson from the man. Just like the diamonds in the picture, success is just waiting for my last efforts. I have been cutting earth for so many years, so I will never give up before I succeed.