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Unit 1 Nothing ventured, nothing gained人教課標(biāo)選修人教課標(biāo)選修高三英語(yǔ)上高三英語(yǔ)上Listen to the text.THE RESCUEAs soon as they arrived _ Elephant Island, Shackleton _ to go to the Island of South Georgia for help. He realized that his men were _ _ _ last very long without rescue. But this was not an easy task. Listen again and fill in the blanks.ondecidedtoo ill toThe seas were very _ and the boat he planned to use was very small. Shackleton, _, felt he could not wait. No ships passed Elephant Island, so he knew that if he wanted to _ his men he would have to do it himself.roughhoweverrescue Of course everybody wanted to go with Shackleton but he _ his companions _ _. First, and most _, he needed a navigator to sail through the dangerous sea to South Georgia. Second, he needed to leave a group _ him that would be cheerful enough to _ till he returned. chosewith careimportantlybehindsurviveSo he took the two most _ and _ members with him. The journey in the boat was a _. The movement of the boat was so strong that it was almost _ to _ their position. The navigator was only able to use his instruments three times _ the trip to South Georgia. difficultunfriendlynightmareimpossiblecheckduring_ the sea being so rough, he was so good that they reached land _. If they had missed South Georgia Island, they would have sailed on _ the open sea and there would have been no rescue. Unfortunately Shackleton _ _ the wrong side of South Georgia and had to _ _ the mountains to get help. Despitesafelyintolanded onclimb overThat was a _ journey too. At one point they had to _ _ a mountain on their bottoms (屁股屁股)! When they arrived at the whaling station, Shackleton immediately _ _ a boat to return to Elephant Island. terribleslide downarranged forBut the seas were even _ so they could not get near it. It took another three months of trying before they reached the twenty-two men _ behind, Shackleton grew very _ and looked extremely old and worried _ this time. fiercerleftanxiousduringHe was only happy when he arrived _ on Elephant Island and found everyone still _. As for the men, they began crying with _ when they saw him walking through the water to rescue them.backalivereliefListen to the text.The year is 1860. Fred Jones (FJ) is interviewing Charles Darwin (CD) for a newspaper.WHERE DID HUMANS COME FROM?Listen again and fill in the blanks.FJ: Hello, Mr Darwin, Im your _, Fred Jones. Today Im very glad youve _ _ London to talk to me. Now, Mr Darwin, I hear you have a new _. What is it?interviewercome from theoryCD: My theory of evolution states that all animals originally came from other _ species. It took millions of years. In the old idea, the Bible _ that God made all creatures and plants in six days.FJ: I see. What about human beings?earlierassumedCD: Well. I think people come from _.FJ: That mustve _ Christians, I suppose.CD: _, it upset all the Christians who believe that God made animals _ people in six days. monkeysupsetIndeedincludingFJ: Why did you _ your mind in 1858 and _ your idea nearly twenty years after you thought of it? I knew there would be a lot of _ with the Christian church. So I spent twenty years _ evidence that my theory was correct.troublecollectingchangepublishCD: Well, in that year an _ biologist wrote to me with the same idea. So I knew that I couldnt keep quiet _ _. But I wanted to be fair. So the two of us explained our ideas together in an important meeting in London. The next year I _ On The Origin of Species where I explained all my ideas _ and included all my evidence.unknownany longerpublishedfullyFJ: Did many people think you were _?CD: Yes. It was _ _ _ I had feared. Church leaders thought I was wrong and told everyone to _ my ideas. They said I was a bad Christian. Political leaders took sides. Many of them called me bad names and thought my ideas werewrongas bad asignoreFJ: What did you do?CD: I tried to _ well. For example: one day a girl asked me if I _ our ancestors were monkeys. I said I did. Then she asked where she came from. shocking. My family _ a lot. It made my wife very upset.sufferedbehavebelieved I looked at her She was very _. Id like to think that you came from a particularly beautiful _ of monkeys. I said. She laughed.FJ: It _ _ _ you _ _ the criticism well. Were you ever sorry that your idea was made public?beautifulfamilysounds as ifdealt withCD: Sometimes. But I knew that my observations _ twenty years _ my idea was correct.FJ: So, twenty years of collecting evidence was a good example of _ and a true commitment to your theory. Thank you for talking to us . overprovedperseveranceListen to the text.HOW BEETHOVEN USED HIS DEAFNESS TO MAKE GREAT MUSICListen again and fill in the blanks.In 1802 Beethoven became very upset when he _ that he would never hear accurately _. Because he was _ to _ his feelings with others, he poured all his feelings _ his music. His fifth symphony was the first whererealizedagainunableshareintothese _ feelings were expressed. In the first movement Beethoven _ a strong beat, which is repeated to make a rhythm. It has been described as “fate knocking at the door”. It shows Beethovens _ to his problem of deafness.(Extract of music from fifth symphony first movement)powerfulintroducesattitudeBut his _ changes as the symphony continues. In the third movement his _ was _ _ something much more exciting and challenging. It is _ _ he was refusing to be defeated by his deafness. Listen to the power of the music.(Extract from fifth symphony third movement)mooddespairtransformed intoas ifBeethovens love of _ was well-known. The countryside _ and _ him and also found its way into his music. On many occasions when he was _ _ finish a piece of music he would go for a long walk to sort out his ideas. naturecalmedrelaxedstruggling toHe described this as working _ he walked. These walks found their way in his sixth symphony, called the Pastoral symphony or countryside symphony, which is one of his _ popular compositions.(Extract from the pastoral symphony)whilemostAfter 1812 his hearing became so bad that he became _ upset. Maybe he felt that nothing good would happen to him again. His musical _ almost stopped. But _ enough, this produced some of his most emotional music. severelyoutputstrangelyHis ninth and last symphony, called the choral symphony, was his _ composition. He used a poem by a German poet to _ his feelings of _ _ _.(Extract from last movement of Beethovens ninth symphony)greatestexpresshope and joyBut Beethovens music was not always grand and _. Many of his pieces for the piano are _ and gentle. So we will finish with one of his _ piano pieces, the Moonlight Sonata. The first movement describes a _, quiet and beautiful moonlight night when all troubles have disappeared and only the _ of nature remains.(Moonlight Sonata)importantpersonalbest-lovedpeacefulbeauty