Unit 3 Section 1 Starting out&Understanding ideas—Prereading-【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 1　Starting out&Understanding ideas—Prereading 原|文|诵|读 THE ROAD TO SUCCESS 1．Near the small town of Grottoes, Virginia, a narrow dirt road goes from the house of Stephen Curry's grandfather to the woods nearby. ① the bright lights and ②courts of the National Basketball ③ (NBA), it was along this road that Stephen's grandfather built a simple basket by attaching a piece of plastic to a telephone pole.④ 2．Like his father, basketball star Dell Curry, Stephen spent many childhood hours playing on this ⑤ basketball court. He probably didn't realise it at the time, but it was where he learnt to be creative and flexible as a player. You see, with every ⑥， the weak plastic ⑦ ⑧. The ⑨ and rocks that lined the road under the basket caused the ball to ⑩ in all directions. Knowing where the ball would go wasn't easy.⑪He had to adjust his own playing style ⑫. Shooting with great accuracy was another thing he learnt. Only shots perfectly aimed at its centre went into the heavy, thick basket. In this way, practising ⑬ helped Stephen ⑭ his skills. 3．Despite his father's successful career, Stephen was thought by many people, including his high school ⑮ and coaches, to be too short, too thin and too weak to ⑯. But Stephen ⑰. Playing basketball was his dream. He would not give up. He finally ⑱ playing college ball at a small, little­known school, Davidson College, not too far from where he lived. His creativity and perseverance made him Davidson's star player. 4．Selected for the NBA in 2009, Stephen joined the ⑲. He performed ⑳with his accurate shooting and continuous efforts. In 2015, Stephen won his first NBA championship, and he led the Warriors to their first championship since 1975. 5．After receiving the Most Valuable Player award for two years ， Stephen explained his ， “I never really to change the game...What I wanted to do was just be myself... I know it inspires a lot of the next generation, a lot of people who love the game of basketball to value the skill of it,