高中英语配套课件：选修8Unit4Period1(人教,课标通用).docx

? ENGLISH n ? ENGLISH n 英语 Unit 4 Pygmalion HUATIMEIWENXINSHANG 》话题美文欣赏 经典有约，高考无忧 As I was having breakfast this mornings I ①happened to be listening to Robert Schuller and thought Id pass on to you his closing illustration. To the best of my recollection（记i乙），it went something like this: 他们智商很高 特别聪明 I recently met a professor in physics who told me that he taught at a university where he was told he needed to flunk 50% of his students each year. And each year， thafs exactly what happened一50% of his students failed. Then he started attending a church where the pastor（牧师） kept preaching （布道）on being positive and believing in the best about others. The next fall，he began his class with the following statement，Class，in previous一years, 50% of the students have failed this course. But this year, I have?a feeling that this year is going to be different. Ive checked your records and you are a special group of students. So this year，Ifm confident that none of you are students who would have failed in previous years didnt. That is simply incredible. But it happens all the time. The most famous experiment about this in education happened in the 1960!s in San Francisco and you can read about it in Pygmalion in the Classroom. In that study5 a normal distribution (正态分布) of students increased their IQs by 15 to 30 points in one year simply because the teachers believed they were the best teachers and that they were given the best students(neither of which was true). Expectations drive so much③of what happens around us. So please，never underestimate the power of your expectationson the people around you—or on yourself! In fact，why dont you raise them right now? You just might be surprised by the difference! expectations I ?阅读短文，判断正(T)误(F) 1 ? The students improve so much because the professor raised his expectations from failure to success. ( 50% of Schullers students failed in previous exams.( If you underestimate yourself，that means you dont think you are able to succeed accord