21世纪大学英语电子版_21世纪大学英语课文音频

21世纪大学实用英语综合教程第四册reading aloud

Unit 1

21世纪大学英语电子版_21世纪大学英语课文音频

21世纪大学英语电子版_21世纪大学英语课文音频

If great achirs share anything, said Simonton, it is an unrelenting drive to succeed. “There's a tendency to think that they are endowed with soming super-normal,” he explained. “But what comes out of the research is that there are great people who he no amazing inlectual processes. It's a difference in degree. Greatness is built upon tremendous amounts of study, pract and devotion.

He cited Winston Churchill, Britain's prime minister during World War 2, as an example of a risk-taker who would nr give up. Thrust into off when his country's morale was at its lowest, Churchill rose brilliantly to lead the British people. In a speech following the Allied evacuation at Dunkirk in 1940, he inspired the nation when he said, “We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end... We shall nr surrender.”

西蒙顿说，如果成就巨大者具有什么共性的话，那就是一种坚持不懈地追求成功的动力。“往往有人认为他们具备一些超常非凡的东西，”他解释道。“但研究表明，有些伟人并没有惊人的智力,有的只是程度上的异而已。伟大是建立在大量的学习、实践和献身精神的基础之上的。”

他举了二战时期的英国首相温斯顿?丘吉尔作为放弃敢于冒险的。丘吉尔在全国士气最为低落的时候被推上了台，并出色地了英国。在1940年盟军敦刻尔克大撤退之后的一次演讲中，他的话激励了全国，“我们决不会退缩、失败。我们一定要坚持到底......我们永远不会屈服。”

Unit 2

Some persons refrain from expressing their gratitude because they feel it will not be welcome. A patient of mine, a few weeks after his discharge from the hospital, came back to thank his nurse. “I didn't come back sooner,” he explained, “because I imagined you must be bored to death with people thanking you.”

“On the contrary,” she replied, “I am delighted you came. Few realize how much we need encouragement and how much we are ed by those who give it.”

Gratitude is soming of which none of us can give too much. For on the iles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build up their philosophy of life.