新概念英语第二册31课

• Edison is called the greatest inventor because he has 1,093 inventions. Of all these inventions, some have changed our life a lot. For example, the light bulb. Without Edison, we may still use candles today. It is terrible, isn’t it? • When people called him a genius, he only said that “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.”
Lesson31 Success story 成功者的故事
1.Describe some of the things you used to do when you were young? 2. What is your dream when you are a child? 3. What qualities must a person have to build up a successful business? 4. What kind of success would you like to have in life?
3.bicycle
• N.自行车 bike • They usually go to school by bicycle/bike. • 扩展 • handtruck手推运货车
truck卡车
• automobile [‘ɔːtəməʊbiːl] 汽车 • • taxi/cab [kæ b] 出租车，计程车
1.retire
• V.退休 • His mother will retire at the age of sixty.
• retirement n.
2.company
firm[fɜːm] Eg. My father works for an oil company.
N.公司=Βιβλιοθήκη Baidu
in company一块，一起 a company of一队，一组
4.save
• V.积蓄 • 挽救,节约=rescue['reskjuː] • He operated on Edison’s mother at once, and she was saved. • save one’s life救某人的命 • save money 省钱
He said he liked people who never give up.
What do you know about Bill Gates?
1955/10/28 出生在西雅图 1973年进入哈佛大学法律系，19岁退学， 与同伴创办电脑公司。后改名微软公司， 自任董事长、总裁兼首席执行官。 1988年1月，将总裁一职让给史蒂夫-鲍尔 默。 盖茨被誉为电脑奇才、20世纪最伟大的 计算机软件行业巨人。36岁成为世界最 年轻的亿万富翁。1999年《福布斯》评 选，盖茨居世界亿万富翁首位，纯资产 850亿美元,被《时代》周刊评为在数字技 术领域影响重大的50人之一。
Bill and his friends, also his partners
下排:Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen 摄于1978年12月7日
Read the passage and make notes as follows.
Name: Bill Gates Date of birth: Oct. 28, 1955 Favorite subjects at school: science and maths Hobbies: play with computers What Gates did at 17: Work out a software with his friends In 1973: Went to Harvard University In 1975: Began his company In 1994: Married Melinda French In 1999: Wrote a book Additional information: Enjoys reading and playing golf and bridge
留声机 录音机 无线电 电灯泡 印刷机
An Inventor with 1,093 Inventions • Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio,俄亥俄州1847. • When he was twelve years old. He got his first job selling newspapers and sweets on the train. At age 15, he saved the life of a young boy.
1.Why can Frank be said to be successful in business? 2. What was Frank’s job in a small shop? 3. What did Frank do in 1958? 4. What did Frank’s wife want him to do?
Newton
Edison
Bill Gates
Thomas Alva Edison (Feb. 11th, 1847-- Oct.18th, 1931) was an American inventor who invented many important inventions. (more than one thousand) Phonograph Dictaphone Radio Electric bulb Autographic printer