【新教材】2021年人教版高中英语必修第三册UNIT 5全章课件 .pptx

UNIT 5 THE VALUE OF MONEY;素养导航 ;The Million Pound Bank Note When I was twenty-seven years old,I was a mining-broker’s clerk in San Francisco,and an expert in all the details of stock traffic.I was alone in the world,and had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation①;but these were setting my feet in the road to eventual fortune,and I was content with the prospect②.;My time was my own after the afternoon board,Saturdays,and I was accustomed③ to put it in on a little sail-boat on the bay.One day I ventured④ too far,and was carried out to sea.Just at nightfall,when hope was about gone,I was picked up by a small brig which was bound for London.It was a long and stormy voyage,and they made me work my passage without pay,as a common sailor.When I stepped ashore in London my clothes were ragged and shabby,and I had only a dollar in my pocket.This money fed and sheltered me twenty-four hours.During the next twenty-four I went without food and shelter.;About ten o’clock on the following morning,seedy(脏的) and hungry,I was dragging myself along Portland Place,when a child that was passing,towed by a nurse-maid,tossed a luscious(美味的) big pear—minus one bite—into the gutter(路边水沟).I stopped,of course,and fastened my desiring eye on that muddy treasure.My mouth watered for it,my stomach craved it,my whole being begged for it.But every time I made a move to get it,some passing eye detected my purpose,and of course I straightened up then,and looked indifferent,and pretended⑤ that I hadn’t been thinking about the pear at all.This same thing kept happening and happening,and I couldn’t get the pear.I was just getting desperate⑥ enough to brave all the shame,and to seize it,when a window behind me was raised,and a gentleman spoke out of it,saying,?;“Step in here,please.” I was admitted by a gorgeous flunkey(奴才),and shown into a sumptuous room where a couple of elderly gentlemen were sitting.They sent away the servant,and made me sit down.They had just finished their bre