课后提升训练17 Section Ⅰ Listening and Speaking and Talking(Word练习)-【优化指导】2021-2022学年新教材高中英语必修第一册(人教版2019)

课后提升训练(十七) Section Ⅰ　Listening and Speaking and Talking [对应学生用书P151] Ⅰ.阅读理解 A Six weeks before his birthday, Giuseppe Paternò achieved the dream of a lifetime: He got a university degree. Mr Paternòs graduation has inspired news coverage around the world, partly because of his age. But he has mainly drawn attention because his life story speaks of commitment, a theme that has encouraged millions of schoolchildren in Italy and elsewhere who face extraordinary uncertainty during the coronavirus pandemic． Born in Palermo in 1923, the first of seven children in a “very poor family”， Mr Paternò began working soon after finishing elementary school. “The family was large. There was only one paycheck. We were under fascism, and times were tough, ” he said． Eventually, he ended up at a publishing house where an enlightened boss persuaded his father to send him back to school for a three­year vocational degree. Mr Paternò then worked for an insurance agency while he took private classes to become a telegraph operator. He used skills from the operator job when he was drafted into the navy in World War Ⅱ.This_job also opened doors to the State Railways Company, where he worked for more than four decades. It was only after he retired, in the mid­1980s, that he returned to his books, taking theology courses through the Archdiocese of Palermo after a chance meeting with a philosophy professor who urged him to follow his love. Mr Paternòs son, Ninni Paternò， said that the family had not expected all the attention. “It's unbelievable，” the younger Paternò said of his father. “He achieved his goal, but he didn't mean to be famous in newspapers around the world．” University officials are hoping that Mr Paternò will continue his studies on waster's course. But he isn't so sure. “I have to admit that in this moment, I don't know whether I would do it with the same spirit，” he said on Wednesday. Still, Mr Paternò said he would probably continue anyway. 【语篇解读】 本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述的是一位意大利爷爷追寻梦想