Unit 2 Section 5 Developing ideas&Presenting ideas-【赢在微点】轻松课堂2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第一册（外研版2019）

Section 5　Developing ideas&Presenting ideas 原|文|诵|读 Three Days to See 1．I have often thought it would be a ① if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life②. Darkness would make him more ③ of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. 2.④ I have tested my seeing friends to discover what they see. Recently, I asked a friend who had just returned from a long walk in the woods what she had observed. “Nothing ⑤，” she replied. 3．How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing ⑥ of note? I who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me through ⑦ touch. If I can get so much pleasure from touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sight? And I have imagined what I should most like to see if I were given the use of my eyes, say for just three days. 4．On the first day, I should want to see the people whose kindness and ⑧ and ⑨ have made my life worth living⑩. I do not know what it is to see into the heart of a friend through that “window of the soul”， the eye. I can only “see” through my ⑪ the ⑫ of a face. I should like to see the books which have been read to me, and which have revealed to me the deepest channels of human life and the human spirit. In the afternoon I should take a long walk in the woods and ⑬ my eyes on the beauties of the world of nature. That night, I should not be able to sleep. 5．On my second day, I should like to see the ⑭ of man's progress, and I should go to the museums. I should try to ⑮ into the soul of man through his art. The things I knew through touch I should now see. The evening of my second day I should spend at a theater or at the movies. 6．The following morning, I should again greet the ⑯， anxious to discover new ⑰， new ⑱ of beauty. Today I shall spend in the ⑲ world, ⑳ the of men the business of life. 7．At midnight night would close in on me again. Only when darkness had again upon me shou