初中英语广州版6A 02

[05:53.04]One of her inventions is a kind of cotton,
[05:58.11]which she calls'Hotcotton' because it changes colour when you get too hot.
[06:05.98]It is now used in many hospitals in China.
[06:11.02]Last August,when Meimei was visiting her friends Sam and Jane in London,
[06:18.46]she thought of another invention.
[06:22.62]The three friends were walking beside the River Thames
[06:28.18]and it started to rain They didn't have umbrellas
[06:34.11]but they were wearing hats.'We need,'said Meimei to herself,
[06:40.38]a hat that turns into an umbrella!'
[06:45.03]Now you can find her'Umbrellahat' in many stores.
[06:50.80]At the hospital the doctors often ask Meimei for ideas.
[06:57.36]Recently,Dr Zhang,who works with people with broken bones,
[07:04.12]asked her for a cheap,easy way to stop broken bones from moving.
[07:10.89]Meimei had just come back from a trip to Guilin.
[07:16.35]She had ridden a bicycle around the city and mended one of its tyres.
[07:23.32]'Could I use air to hold the bones together?'she asked herself.
[07:29.25]She made a special kind of bandage,put it round her leg and filled it with air.
[07:36.99]It was very strongand it held the bones very well.
[07:42.76]She called her new invention 'Airhold'.
[07:47.72]Lesson 8
[07:50.60]new words and expression
[07:54.44]Srinivasa Ramanujan
[07:56.62]斯里尼瓦沙.拉马努詹
[07:58.80]bright
[08:00.03]adj.聪颖的;伶俐的
[08:01.25]mathematics
[08:02.89]n.数学
[08:04.52]ordinary
[08:05.94]adj.平常的,普通的
[08:07.37]dirt
[08:08.65]n.泥土
[08:09.93]mathematician
[08:11.51]n.数学家
[08:13.09]be poor at
[08:14.62]不擅于
[08:16.14]Einstein
[08:17.62]n.爱因斯坦
[08:19.10]Max Berlitz
[08:20.82]马克斯.贝利茨
[08:22.54]George Schaller
[08:24.23]乔治,沙勒
[08:25.91]Tiger Woods
[08:27.49]蒂格.伍兹
[08:29.07]Lesson 8
[08:34.35]Read about a boy who loved mathematics and answer the questions.
[08:40.80]If you came from a poor family and couldn't go to a good school,
[08:46.37]could one book change your life?
[08:50.21]It did for Srinivasa Ramanujan,a bright young Indian boy.
[08:56.87]When he was 15 years old,he found a book about mathematics.
[09:03.11]It wasn't an ordinary mathematics book.
[09:07.27]It was a special book with 6,000 very difficult problems.
[09:13.43]While Srinivasa's friends played football on the dirt road in front of his house,
[09:19.99]he worked out the answers to these problems.
[09:24.35]He answered them all by himself  without any help from anyone else.
[09:30.91]Then he thought of new problems and answered them,too.
[09:35.77]Soon,he was better at mathematics than all of his teachers.
[09:41.64]A year later,Srinivasa was invited to study at university,
[09:48.12]even though he was really too young.
[09:52.25]However,he failed most of his exams.
[09:57.39]Why?
[09:59.85]Because he was only interested in mathematics
[10:04.53]and didn't care enough about his other subjects.
[10:09.07]He had to leave university but he kept thinking about mathematics.
[10:15.45]He wrote about his ideas and sent his work to magazines.
[10:21.19]A British mathematician read his work and started writing letters to him
[10:27.85]Later he invited Srinivasa to go to England to study and work.
[10:34.83]In England,people didn't care whether Srinivasa was good at other subjects or not
[10:41.49]By the time he was 30,Srinivasa Ramanujan,
[10:47.13]a poor boy who preferred mathematics to playing football,
[10:52.49]had became one of the world's most famous mathematicians.
[10:57.84]2.Listen to a talk about what different people do best and fill in the table.
[11:07.90]Are you good at learning some things by yourself,but not others?
[11:27.36]Do you find it easy to understand art,for example,but not maths?
[11:36.01]If you do,don't be surprised.
[11:42.17]Everyone's mind is different
[11:46.61]and most people are better at some things than others.
[11:51.97]Hardly anyone is good at everything.
[11:57.32]Many famous people were good at one thing but poor at others.
[12:05.68]Mozart was good at music but not very good at maths he never had enough money
[12:15.22]Einstein was good at maths and writing.