【优化方案同步课件】人教英语选修10Unit1教材背景链接.pptVIP

Unit 1　Nothing ventured，nothing gained教材背景链接 Helen Keller at the age of 19 months，was a happy，healthy child.She was already saying a few words.Then she had a high fever which caused her to become deaf and blind.No longer could she see nor hear.She felt lost.She would hang on to her mother’s skirt to get around.She would feel of people’s hands to try to find out what they were doing.She learned to do many things this way.She learned to milk a cow and knead(揉、捏) the bread dough.She could recognize people by feeling of their faces or their clothes. Helen was a very bright child.She became very frustrated because she couldn’t talk.She became very angry.The family knew they had to do something to help her. They found a teacher named Anne Sullivan.Miss Sullivan herself had been blind，but had an operation and regained her sight.She understood what Helen was feeling.She taught Helen the signs for the letters of the alphabet.Then she would“spell”the words in Helen’s hand to communicate with her. One day Anne led Helen to the water pump and pumped water on her hand.She spelled the letters W-A-T-E-R as the water ran over Helen’s hand.She did this over and over again.This opened up a whole new world for her.She ran everywhere asking Anne the name of different things and Anne would spell the words in her hand.This was the key which unlocked the world for her. Anne taught her for years.Helen learned to read Braille.This was a system of raised dots representing letters.A blind person could read by feeling of the dots. When she went to college，her teacher Anne went with her and tapped out the words of the instructors into her student’s hand.Helen had an amazing memory，and she also had skills very few people have ever been able to develop.She could put her fingers to a person’s lips and understand the words which were being spoken. While she was in college she wrote her book called “The Story of My Life”．With the money she earned from the book she was able to buy a house. She beca