Unit1 SectionⅠ-【精讲精练】2023-2024学年高中英语选择性必修第一册人教版（教师用书）

Still Growing Sir Edmund Hillary is famous for being the first person to climb Mt. Everest. What many people do not know is that Sir Hillary did not make it to the top of Everest the first time he tried. The first attempt was a complete failure. His climbing party encountered one problem after another and more than half of his climbing party died. Nonetheless, the British Parliament decided to honor him with some type of award. When he entered the chamber to receive his award, Sir Hillary saw that a large picture of Everest had been set up. During the standing ovation that he was receiving, he walked over to the picture, shook his fist at it and said, “You won, this time. But you are as big as you are ever going to get. And I'm still growing.” We frequently hear the stories of people who have succeeded. And we frequently assume that they succeeded at the first time. But in fact it's the exact opposite. The road to success is paved with the bricks of failure. [词海拾贝] 1．encounter vt. 遭遇； 邂逅　 2．nonetheless adv. 尽管如此； 但是 3．ovation n. 鼓掌； 喝彩； 热烈欢迎 4．make it成功做到； 抵达 5．be paved with铺满； 遍布 Section Ⅰ　Reading and Thinking 原文呈现 TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE 6 October 2015 ❶This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology①or Medicine has been awarded to Tu Youyou (co­winner), whose research led to the discovery of artemisinin②， a crucial③ new treatment for malaria. Artemisinin has saved hundreds of thousands of④lives, and has led to⑤ improved health for millions of people. Over 200 million people around the world get malaria⑥ each year, and about 600, 000 die from⑦ it. Artemisinin has become a vital⑧ part of the treatment for malaria, and ❷is thought to save 100, 000 lives a year in Africa alone⑨. ❶是一个复合句， whose在句中引导定语从句， 表“所属， 所有”； a crucial new treatment for malaria作artemisinin的同位语。 ❷可以转换成句式： It is thought that artemisinin saves 100, 000 lives a year in Africa alone。 ❸Tu Youyou, a committed⑩ and patient scientist, was born in⑪ Ningbo, China, on 30 December 1930, and graduat