Unit OneUnit OneMaking a differenceMaking a difference

Make a difference 与众不同 有影响 有关系（ make all/big/little/no ） difference 这对她没有多大影响。 This made little difference to her. 有一个好的老师对艾丽思来说就完全不同了。 Having a good teacher has made all the difference for Alice. 对我来说，你走或留都没有关系。 It doesn’t make any difference to me whether you go or stay.

Let’s get to know the following scientist and their famous quotes.

Albert EinsteinImagination is more important than knowledge.

Madam Curie

radium

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

uranium

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison

Alfred North Whitehead

It takes a very unusual mind to undertakeAnalysis of the obvious.

Galileo GalileiYou cannot teach a man anything; youcan only help him find it within himself.

Victory won’t come to me unless I go to it.     —— M. Moore

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

—— Heywood

Some other famous quotations from famous people

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

—— Benjamin Franklin

Time is money. —— Benjamin Franklin

No Boundaries

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Time Events

in the early 1970s

in 1988

in 2002

become famous; new discoveriesbest-sellerA Brief History of Time

visit China, speak to university students

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1.Imagine this :you are twenty-one years old and a promising graduate student at one of the top universities in the world.

(1)promising adj. = full of promise 有希望 / 前途的有希望的， 有出息的，有前途的

eg.You are promising students.

天气有望好转。 The weather is promising.

他是个有前途的作家。 He is a writer of promise.

(2)promise n. 有成功或良好结果的希望，有前途

(There did not seem) much point in working on my PhD—I did not expect to survive that long

（ 1 ） There is no/little/much point in doing sth. “ 做某事没有 / 几乎没有 / 有很大作用、意义”。 point (n.) 目的；好处；用途说谎是没用的。 我迟早会发现的。 There’s no point in lying. I’ll find out sooner or later. 等他已经没有用了，他不会回来了。There’s no point in waiting for him. He will never return.

表示“做某事没有意义”，还可以说 What’s the point in doing sth.?

What’s the point in lying? I’ll find out sooner or later. What’s the point in waiting for him? He will never return.

(4) that 在此处作副词，意为“那么”，可以修饰形容 词或副词，相当于 so, this 也有类似的用法。Eg. I didn’t expect he was ① that rude. ② I’ve never been out this late before.

他不可能跳得那么远。He can not jump that high. 她太疲劳了，不得不上楼休息。 She was that tired that she had to go upstairs and rest.

go by 1. “ 时间的流逝” 假期里时间过得快。 Time goes by quickly on vacation.go by = pass （时间）过去 One year had gone by before we knew it. 2. “ 走过” “经过” 汤姆上学时通常要路过超市。 Tom usually goes by the supermarket on his way to school. 3. “ 从 ... 判断” 你不能根据她的话判断，她这人不诚实。 You can’t go by what she says. She is not honest.eg. He stood there and watched the traffic ① go by. ② As months went by, the work seemed endless. ③ You should go entirely by what the doctor says.

3.be/get engaged (to sb) ( 与某人 ) 订婚

eg. She has got engaged to a young teacher.

engage (oneself) in sthbe/get engaged in sth 从事于某事，忙于做某事

eg. He wants to ① engage himself in foreign trade.

② He is engaged in writing a letter.

我们整天忙于作业 . We are engaged in our homework all day.

Nor did he let the disease stop him from living the kind of life he had always dream of.1) 此句是倒装句，当否定副词 never, little, neither, nor, not until 等放在句首句子要用倒装结构。

我认为没有必要执行这个计划。 我也认为没有必要。 －－ I don’t think it is necessary to carry out the plan. －－ Nor do I. 否定词包括 nor, never, not, neither, few, little, hardly, scarcely, rarely 等等。 我从未见过她那样。 Never have I seen him be like that. 我刚到家，电话就响了。 Hardly had I got home, when the telephone rang.

He is not familiar with the town.Nor/Neither is he interested in the custom here.

② I shall never forget having so good a meal at your sister’s.

Never shall I forget having so good a meal at your sister’s.

③ I didn’t know about it until yesterday.

Not until yesterday did I know about it.

① He is not familiar with the town. He is not interested in the custom either.

2) he had always dream of 为定语从句，其前省略 了关系代词 that 或 which.

dream of 向往；渴望；梦见 （后接 n.,pron 或 v-ing ）

eg. The delegates ① dreamed of peace.

② He is dreaming of becoming a pilot when he grows up.

3)stop sb (from) doing sth 阻止某人做某事

eg. I stopped him (from) telling it to his friends.

3.2 stop /prevent sb. (from) doing sth

=keep sb from doing sth. 阻止…做…

这场大雨使他们回不了家。

The heavy rain prevented them from going back home.

3.3 dream of 梦想 / 梦到

He often dreams of winning $5,000,000.

• turn out 结果（是），最终情况（是）• turn out +adj/ adv/ n/ to be…• The weatherman said the next day would be fine,but it

turned out rainy.• What he said turned out to be true.

他们说电影很有趣 , 但结果很乏味 .They said the movie was very interesting, but it turned o

ut to be very dull.昨天天气结果很好 . It turned out to be very fine yesterday.最后一切都很顺利。Everything turned out to be all right in the end.结果证明这个方法不太行。It turned out that this method didn’t work well.

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