2013牛津译林版必修二Unit 3《Amazing people》ppt拓展课件.pptVIP

* Unit 3　Amazing people教材背景链接 Achievement provides the only real pleasure in life. —Thomas Edison 有所成就是人生惟一的真正的乐趣。 ——托马斯·爱迪生 名言佳句 You have to believe in yourself.That’s the secret of success. —Charles Chaplin 人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。 ——查理·卓别林 The man who has made up his mind to win will never say“impossible”． —Napoleon 凡是决心取得胜利的人从来不说“不可能的。” ——拿破仑 A man，like a watch，is to be valued by his manner of going. —William Penn 一个人，正如一个时钟，是以他的行动来定其价值的。 ——威廉·佩恩 类文欣赏 Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th,1961.His father，Barack Obama Sr.，was born and raised in a small village in Kenya.Obama’s parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii，where his father was a foreign student on scholarship.The couple married on February 2,1961，and Barack was born later that year.For some reason，his parents separated in 1964. Obama’s father eventually returned to Kenya，and Obama grew up with his mother in Hawaii，and for some reason they lived in Indonesia for a few years.Later，he moved to New York，where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983. Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School，where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review.He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree.He worked as a civil rights lawyer in Chicago and taught law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate (参议院) from 1997 to 2004.Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U．S.House of Representatives (众议院) in 2000，he ran for the United States Senate in 2004.During the campaign，several events brought him to national attention，such as his victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary election for the United States Senator From Illinois as well as his prime-time televised address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004.He won the election to the U．S.Senate in November 2004