Waltzing With Helen Keller

命運的舞者:海倫·凱勒

1.Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing 18 months after she was born. She had not learned how to speak and was plunged into what she called “the unconsciousness of a newborn baby,” an isolated and seemingly inescapable prison.

出生18個月后，海倫·凱勒(Helen Keller)失去了視力和聽力。還沒學會說話的凱勒，陷入了她所說的“新生兒般的無意識狀態”，就像一個與外隔絕、看不到出路的牢籠。

(1).was plunged into 陷入

(2).unconsciousness 無意識

(3).inescapable prison 無路可逃的監獄

2.But by the time Ms. Keller died at 87, on June 1, 1968, she had persevered. 

3.Her front-page obituary said that “she could ‘see’ and ‘hear’ with exceptional acuity; she even learned to talk passably and to dance in time to a fox trot or a waltz.”

(1)front-page obituary 頭版訃告

（2）with exceptional acuity： 非常敏銳（狀語）

     with exceptional careness = very carefully 非常仔細

 （3）passably 過得去

參考譯文：但直到1968年6月1日以87歲的高齡去世之前，凱勒一直在堅持。刊登在頭版的訃告稱，“她能夠異常敏銳地‘看’和‘聽’；她甚至學會了說話，說得還可以，并且學會了跟隨狐步舞曲或華爾茲舞曲的節奏跳舞。”

4.Ms. Keller became a captivating writer, chronicling her life in memoirs, and a kind of motivational speaker, aided by Ms. Sullivan onstage.

（1）captivating 令人著迷的

（2）chronicling 記錄

     chronic 慢性的 

（3） motivational speaker 勵志演講者

凱勒成了一位令人著迷的作家，用回憶錄記載了自己的人生。在沙利文的協助下，她還成了某種勵志演說家。

5.“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is a touch of yearning at times, but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. The wind passes, and the flowers are content.”

“我很少想我的缺陷，它們從來不會讓我感到傷心。或許有時候會有一絲向往，但很輕微，就像微風吹過花叢一樣。風過后，花朵心滿意足

今天的句子：

Ms. Keller’s achievements and indomitable spirit helped alter public perceptions of disabled people, showing them as overcoming obstacles rather than as inviting only pity. 

（1）indomitable spirit 不屈的精神

（2） public perceptions 公眾的看法

今天的配圖文字也是需要大家背誦的句子！找這個配圖也是很花時間啊：）

謝謝你用贊賞來肯定我！

昨天題目的解析：

Since OPEC agreed to supply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel, up from less than $10 last December. The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports. Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term. 

51.The main reason for the latest rise of oil price is ________. 

[A] global inflation 

[B] reduction in supply 

[C] fast growth in economy 

[D] Iraq’s suspension of exports

解析：

在這里我給大家提示一下：latest=recently 最近；就是一個時間概念，沒有比較的含義！所以latest 壓根就不是一個提示詞！

題干 ： “最近，油價下降了，主要原因是什么！”

不是問：“最近的原因的是什么！”

你見過“最近的原因”和“最遠的原因”嗎？有這樣說話的嗎？

出題人就是在給你設一個坑，等你去選D！

D選項和B 選項一比，那個更主要嘛！肯定是“減少供給”是主要原因嘛！

B選項的減少供給說的很模糊，沒說是誰減少的！這樣剛好可以替換第一句的

OPEC減少供給！OPEC是全球的石油輸出國國家組織！比伊拉克不知道大了多少倍！B為正確選項！你選對了嗎！

D選項的伊拉克肯定不可能是主要原因！

在文章沒有提供更多的信息的情況下，基本的常識就是答案依據了哦！

你別覺得不合理！你能找到更好的反駁的理由嗎！而且你要學會接受！

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