Unit 2 Onwards and Upwards课文中英对照 清单-2026-2027学年高中英语外研版选择性必修第一册

该高中英语单元围绕“勇往直前”主题，整合4篇语篇构建学习支架。包含作家坚持故事的记叙文、积极态度的议论文、海伦·凯勒经典文本节选及经历写作实践，知识清单涵盖人物故事分析、情感词汇运用、跨文化背景理解和经历类写作技巧，形成从输入到输出的完整学习链。 知识链路以“坚持与积极态度”为主线，从真实案例（罗琳等）到经典文本再到实践写作，逻辑清晰。亮点在于通过多语篇类型培养学生思维品质（分析人物坚持精神）、语言能力（情感表达与写作实践），结合跨文化背景提升文化意识，助力综合素养发展。

Unit 2 Onwards and Upwards / 勇往直前 本单元共收录 4 篇（组）英文语篇。 1. We Regret to Inform You… / 我们遗憾地通知你…… “We regret to inform you...” These are the words that every writer dreads receiving, but words every writer knows well. The response from a publisher comes back and the writer eagerly opens and reads it, their hearts sinking when they reach that final sentence. You may have spent years giving up your weekends and free time to write your life’s work, yet still this is often not enough. Everyone knows that success rarely happens overnight, but perhaps not many know that a lot of highly successful writers have previously faced rejection. Take for example J.K. Rowling. When she received her first rejection letter, she decided that it meant she now had something in common with her favourite writers, and stuck it on her kitchen wall. Rowling had spent years surviving on little money, spending all her time writing. When she finally finished her first book, she received comments from publishers along the lines of “too difficult for children”, “too long”, “Children would not be interested in it”. Nevertheless, she persevered. “I wasn’t going to give up until every single publisher turned me down, but I often feared that would happen,” she later posted. After a total of twelve rejections, one publisher eventually agreed to print 500 copies of her first book, and as we know, Harry Potter became a global success, with over 400 million books sold and translated into more than seventy different languages. All too often writers of great works have had to face criticism along with rejection. J.D. Salinger started writing short stories in high school, but later struggled to get his works published. “We feel that we don’t know the central character well enough” was the criticism he received on his manuscript for The Catcher in the Rye. Despite rejections from several publishers, J.D. Salinger refused to give up. Even when serving in the US Army during the Second World War, he carried six chapters of The Catcher in the Rye with him and worked on the novel throughout his war service. When it was eventually published, the book became an immediate best-seller and went on to sell millions and millions of copies. Perhaps the overall prize for perseverance should go to three sisters from Victorian England who dreamt of seeing their words in print. This, however, was a time when women were not encouraged to become writers. As the then Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, wrote to one of them: “Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life, and it ought not to be.” Nevertheless, the sisters didn’t stop trying. Their response was to write a book of poems under male names. Even when the book sold only two copies, the sisters still didn’t give up. They started writing novels, and today Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey are regarded as classics of world literature. In fact, it is within the pages of Jane Eyre that we can find these words: “I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends…” So, it seems that talent alone isn’t enough to guarantee success. While a lot of hard work and a touch of luck play a part, perseverance is the key. Keep trying and eventually you will read the words “We are delighted to inform you…” “我们遗憾地通知你……”这是每一位作家都害怕收到、却又十分熟悉的一句话。出版社的回复寄来，作家满怀期待地拆开阅读，可读到最后这句话时，心便沉了下去。你也许已经花费数年，放弃周末和所有空闲时间，写出自己毕生最重要的作品，但这往往仍然不够。人人都知道成功很少会一夜降临，可也许并没有多少人知道，很多极其成功的作家都曾经遭到拒绝。 以J.K.罗琳为例。收到第一封退稿信时，她认为这意味着自己终于和最喜欢的作家有了共同之处，于是把信贴在厨房墙上。罗琳多年来靠很少的钱维持生活，把全部时间都用来写作。终于写完第一本书后，她收到出版社这样的评价：“对儿童来说太难”“篇幅太长”“孩子不会感兴趣”。尽管如此，她仍坚持不懈。她后来在网上写道：“在每一家出版社都拒绝我之前，我绝不会放弃；但我常常担心这种情况真的会发生。”经历总计十二次退稿后，终于有一家出版社同意印刷她第一本书的500册。正如我们所知道的那样，《哈利·波特》后来风靡全球，销量超过4亿册，并被译成70多种语言。 伟大作品的作者往往不仅要面对拒绝，还要承受批评。J.D.塞林格高中时就开始写短篇小说，后来却一直难以让作品出版。他的《麦田里的守望者》手稿曾收到这样的批评：“我们觉得自己对主人公还不够了解。”尽管被多家出版社拒绝，塞林格仍不肯放弃。即使第二次世界大战期间在美军服役，他也随身携带着《麦田里的守望者》的六章稿件，并在整个服役期间继续修改这部小说。作品最终出版后，立刻成为畅销书，后来售出数千万册。 如果要颁发坚持不懈的最高奖，也许应该授予维多利亚时代英国的三姐妹，她们梦想着看到自己的文字印成书。然而，当时的社会并不鼓励女性成为作家。正如当时的桂冠诗人罗伯特·骚塞在给其中一人的信中写道：“文学不能成为女性一生的事业，也不应该成为。”尽管如此，三姐妹并未停止尝试。她们用男性笔名出版了一本诗集。即使这本书只卖出两册，她们仍没有放弃，转而开始创作小说。如今，夏洛蒂·勃朗特的《简·爱》、艾米莉·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》和安妮·勃朗特的《艾格妮丝·格雷》都被视为世界文学经典。事实上，《简·爱》中就有这样一句话：“我尊重忍耐、毅力、勤奋和才华，因为人们正是凭借这些品质成就伟大的事业……” 由此看来，单有天赋并不足以保证成功。大量的努力和一点运气固然会发挥作用，但毅力才是关键。不断尝试，终有一天，你会读到这样的文字：“我们很高兴地通知你……” 2. Looking on the Bright Side / 看到事情积极的一面 With life being made up of ups and downs, it is not always easy to maintain a good and enthusiastic attitude. Nevertheless, looking on the bright side is the best thing that we can do for ourselves as well as for others. A good attitude can have a positive effect on other people. So if someone you know is feeling low, lend them an ear and try to cheer them up. Remember, your attitude is contagious, so make sure you pass on a good one! 生活由高峰与低谷组成，因此始终保持良好、热情的态度并不容易。尽管如此，看到事情积极的一面，仍是我们为自己和他人所能做的最好选择。良好的态度会给别人带来积极影响。因此，如果你认识的人情绪低落，就耐心听他们倾诉，并努力使他们振作起来。请记住，态度具有感染力，所以一定要把积极的态度传递出去！ 3. Three Days to See / 假如给我三天光明 I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. Now and then 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 in particular,” she replied. How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worthy of note? I who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me through mere 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. On the first day, I should want to see the people whose kindness and gentleness and companionship have made my life worth living. 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 fingertips the outline 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 intoxicate my eyes on the beauties of the world of nature. That night, I should not be able to sleep. On my second day, I should like to see the pageant of man’s progress, and I should go to the museums. I should try to probe 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. The following morning, I should again greet the dawn, anxious to discover new delights, new revelations of beauty. Today I shall spend in the workaday world, amid the haunts of men going about the business of life. At midnight permanent night would close in on me again. Only when darkness had again descended upon me should I realize how much I had left unseen. I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight must be the most delightful. (Excerpts from “Three Days to See” by Helen Keller) 我常常想，如果每个人在成年早期的某个阶段都能失明、失聪几天，那也许会是一种福分。黑暗会使人更加珍惜光明，寂静会使人懂得声音的欢乐。 我时常考验那些看得见的朋友，想知道他们究竟看到了什么。最近，我问一位刚刚在树林里长时间散步归来的朋友，她观察到了什么。“没什么特别的。”她回答。 我不禁问自己：一个人怎么可能在树林里走上一个小时，却没有看到任何值得留意的东西？我虽然看不见，仅凭触摸便能发现数百件令我感兴趣的事物。如果触觉能给我带来如此丰富的快乐，那么视觉该揭示多少更多的美啊！于是我想象，如果能拥有视力——哪怕只有三天——我最希望看见什么。 第一天，我想看看那些以善意、温柔与陪伴使我的生命值得度过的人。我不知道通过眼睛这扇“心灵的窗户”看进朋友内心是什么感觉；我只能用指尖“看见”一张脸的轮廓。我还想看看那些别人读给我听过的书，它们曾向我揭示人类生活和人类精神最深处的通道。下午，我会在树林里长久漫步，让双眼沉醉于大自然的美丽之中。那一夜，我一定无法入睡。 第二天，我想观看人类进步的壮丽画卷，并前往博物馆。我想通过艺术探寻人的灵魂。那些从前只凭触摸认识的事物，我终于可以亲眼看见。第二天晚上，我会到剧院或电影院度过。 第三天清晨，我会再次迎接黎明，急切地寻找新的喜悦与新的美的启示。这一天，我要置身平凡的工作世界，走入人们为日常生活忙碌奔走的地方。 午夜时分，永恒的黑夜将再次向我合拢。只有当黑暗重新降临，我才会意识到，自己还有那么多事物没有看见。 作为一个盲人，我可以给有视力的人一个忠告：使用你的双眼吧，就像明天你将失明一样。这种方法同样适用于其他感官。倾听人声的音乐、鸟儿的歌唱和管弦乐队雄浑的旋律，就像明天你将失聪一样；触摸每一件你想触摸的事物，就像明天你的触觉将会消失一样；闻花朵的芳香，津津有味地品尝每一口食物，就像明天你再也无法嗅闻和品味一样。不过，在所有感官中，我确信视觉一定是最令人愉悦的。 （节选自海伦·凯勒《假如给我三天光明》） 4. Writing about an Experience: Dining in the Dark / 经历写作：黑暗中用餐 Recently I accompanied a friend to dine at a “dark restaurant”, where people eat in complete darkness, served by blind staff. We wanted to understand the experience of being blind, and we thought eating would be the most difficult activity. It was a difficult meal. Because we couldn’t see where anything was, my friend and I knocked over glasses and dropped food. My senses of taste and smell became more sensitive, and I ate much more slowly, trying to guess what I was eating. Pouring water was very difficult, plus I kept drinking from my friend’s glass. After failing to pick up any food with a fork for five minutes, I decided to use my hands. I reached down, expecting rice and vegetables, but instead stuck my hand into a bowl of warm, thick soup. “It’s best to use a spoon for this course,” the waiter said into my ear, helpfully but much too late. Even using a spoon, I spilled most of the soup on my shirt. I felt embarrassed, even though no one could see me. Our waiter advised us to lift the plates and bowls close to our faces. However, I still left the restaurant feeling hungry, though I was much more aware of the challenges that blind people face. 最近，我陪一位朋友到一家“黑暗餐厅”用餐。顾客在完全黑暗的环境中进食，服务员则是盲人。我们想体验失明的感受，并认为吃饭会是其中最困难的活动。 这顿饭吃得十分艰难。因为看不见任何东西的位置，我和朋友打翻了杯子，也把食物掉在地上。我的味觉和嗅觉变得更加敏锐，吃东西的速度也慢了许多，因为我一直在猜自己究竟吃的是什么。倒水非常困难，而且我还不断误喝朋友杯子里的水。 我用叉子整整五分钟都没能叉起任何食物，最后只好决定直接用手。我伸手向下摸去，以为会碰到米饭和蔬菜，结果却把手伸进了一碗温热浓稠的汤里。 “这道菜最好用勺子。”服务员在我耳边好心提醒，可惜已经太晚了。即使后来改用勺子，我还是把大半碗汤洒到了衬衫上。虽然没人能看见我，我仍感到十分尴尬。 服务员建议我们把盘子和碗端到脸边。尽管如此，离开餐厅时我还是觉得没有吃饱。不过，我对盲人所面临的种种困难有了深得多的认识。 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $