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Section_ⅣLearning_about_Language__Using_Language[原文呈现][读文清障]ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELLAlexander Graham Bell① was born in 1847 in Scotland, but when he was young his family moved to Boston, USA. His mother was almost entirely② deaf, so Alexander became interested in helping deaf people communicate and in deaf education. This interest led him to③ invent the microphone④. He found that by pressing his lips against⑤ his mothers forehead⑥， he could make his mother understand what he was saying.He believed that one should always be curious and his most famous saying was：“Leavethebeaten track⑦occasionally⑧anddive into⑨thewoods. Everytime⑩youdoyouwillbecertaintofindsomethingthatyouhaveneverseenbefore?. Followitup, exploreallaroundit, andbeforeyouknowit?， youwillhavesomethingworththinking?abouttooccupyyourmind. Allreallybigdiscoveriesaretheresultofthought.”①Alexander Graham/??lIɡzɑ?nd? ɡreI?m/Bell亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔②entirely adv.完全地；彻底地③lead sb. to do sth.致使/导致某人做某事④microphone/maIkr?f??n/n.麦克风；话筒⑤press ...against压在……上⑥forehead/f?rId/n.额头⑦beaten track被踩出来的路；常规；惯例⑧occasionally/?keI??n?lI/adv.偶然地；不时地⑨dive into迅速把手伸入；一心投入⑩every time是名词短语作连词，引导时间状语从句，相当于whenever，意为“每次……”。?that you have never seen before是that引导的定语从句，修饰something。?before you know it可翻译成“不知不觉地”。?be worth doing sth.值得做某事， doing此处用主动形式表示被动含义。亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔[第1～2段译文]亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔1847年出生于苏格兰，但在他还小的时候，他家就搬到了美国的波士顿。他的母亲几乎全聋了，因此他有志于帮助聋人交流，并从事聋人教育事业。这一爱好促使他发明了麦克风。他发现他把嘴唇放到母亲的额头上，就可以使母亲听懂他所说的话。他认为一个人应当具有好奇心，他最著名的一句话是：“偶尔离开平路去寻求困境。当你这样做的时候，你一定会发现你从未见过的东西。跟踪下去，不断探索，不知不觉中，你就会发现某种值得思考的东西占据着你的头脑。所有真正伟大的发现都是思考的结果。”It was this exploring around problems and his dynamic? spirit that? led to his most famous invention — the telephone in 1876. Bell never set out to? invent the telephone and what he was trying to design? was a multiple? telegraph. This original telegraph sent a message over distances using Morse code? (a series of dots?tapped out along a wire in a particular order). But only one message could go at a time. Bell wanted to improve it so tha