安徽省六安市舒城中学2016年高一英语暑假作业21.docVIP

安徽省六安市舒城中学2016年高一英语暑假作业21 第二十一天 美文晨读 Adversity 逆境 When a man is determined, what can stop him? ?Cripple him and you have a Sir Walter Scott. ?Put him in a prison cell and you have a John Bunyan. ?Bury him in the snows of Valley Forge and you have a George Washington. ?Have him born in abject poverty and you have a Lincoln. ?Put him in the grease pit of a locomotive roundhouse and you have a Walter P. Chrysler. ?Make him second fiddle in an obscure South African orchestra and you have a Toscanini. ?The hardships of life are sent not by an unkind destiny to crush, but to challenge.? 当一个人下定决心时，什么能够阻止他？身体残疾激发出了沃儿特·斯各特；牢狱生活磨练出了约翰·班扬；山谷雪地造就出了乔治·华盛顿；出身贫寒养育出了亚伯拉罕·林肯；机车库的润滑油坑培养出了沃儿特·克莱斯勒。人生的艰难困苦不是由厄运来摧毁你而是来挑战你。 1. appeal to someone _________________________. 2. international organisations ___________________. 3. for a start _________________________________. 4. a tree-planting programme ___________________. 5. what’s more ______________________________. Ⅱ．语法填空。 Just up the road from my home is a field，with two horses in it. From a distance，each horse looks like any other horse. But if you get a__6__ close look you will notice one of them is blind. Instead of abandoning him，his owner has made him a safe and comfortable barn to live in. And if you stand nearby and listen，you will hear the sound of a bell__7__ come from__8__smaller horses. Attached to__9__ it halter is a small，copper-colored bell assisting the blind friend to follow him. __10__ you watch them，youll find the horse with the bell always checking on the blind one，and that the blind horse will listen for the bell and then slowly walk to__11__the other one is，trusting he will not__12__ lead astray. When the horse with the bell returns to the barn each evening，he will stop__13__ frequent to look back，making sure that the__14__isnt too far behind to hear the bell. Life does not throw us away just because we are not perfect or because we have problems or challenges. Sometimes we are the blind horse being gui