Unit 1Reading Success 英语第3册 教师用书课件.ppt

Free Reading Walt Disney and Cartoons 1 Walt Disney and cartoons grew up together. Cartoons are really older than motion pictures themselves, but they were slower to change and grow. When Walt was young, cartoons were hardly more than a series of black-and-white lantern slides. One “still” picture after another was shown no faster than a person could put the frames one by one in and out of a projector. Motion, sound, and color were all in the dream stage. 2 Cartoons as we know them grew from those early lantern slides. First there were motion pictures in black and white. Then came the colorful, musical films we see today. The Disney organization started out with 参考译文 a staff of one—Walt. He worked evenings in a ramshackle workshop over a garage. Now there is a three-million-dollar studio with more than a thousand workers. That seems like two stories, but it is only one. It is the story of Walt Disney and his search for “something better”. 3 Unlike many Hollywood celebrities, Walt still uses the name given to him at birth. He was born in 1901 in Chicago, where his father had been a contractor and builder for nearly twenty years. But by the time Walt was six and beginning to notice things, the family had moved to a farm in Missouri. 参考译文 4 Walt’s familiarity with animals grew out of sincere fondness for them. He made pets out of everything that ran around in the barnyard—dogs and cats, chickens, ducks, sheep, horses, and cows. Each of his three brothers and the sister had a favorite horse, cow, or duck. Walt’s prize pet was an old red rooster, but his interest in animals went much further than the barnyard. He ran over the fields chasing rabbits and watching ants build their sandy hills. An active, Keen-eyed youngster, the things he saw stayed fresh in his memory. 5 Walt’s interest in drawing goes back as far as he 参考译文 can remember. A favorite aunt gave him pencils and paper with which to sketch anything that in