高一英語人教版第二冊上：Unit1 Making a difference(備課資料)

　　Reference for Teaching

　　I.異城風情

　　Who Invented the Lasting Machine?

　　Do you know shoe manufacture today is based upon a remarkable invention developed by a young black genius in 1883?

　　Matzeliger was born in Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, on September 15, 1852. His father was a Dutch engineer who had been sent to the colony to take charge of the government machine shops.

　　When young Matzeliger was ten years old, he joined his father at the machine shops as an apprentice. At the age of nineteen he became a sailor on an East Indian merchant ship. In 1876 Matzeliger went to Boston, Massachusetts. After working there for a year, he moved to Lynn, where he remained for the rest of his life. Because of his knowledge of mechanics and shoemaking, Matzeliger was able to get a job in a shoe factory, operating a sole sewing machine. While working there, he noticed that there was no machine that could last shoes. He began his plans for inventing a shoe lasting machine by closely watching hand-lasters at their work. In his experiments he used old pieces of wood and metal. He even made his own tools. Patiently he tested one idea after another.

　　For years he lived in poverty, saving his money for his project. Fortunately, he succeeded in getting financial help from two businessmen in exchange for a two-thirds interest in his invention. With this extra money, Matzeliger finally achieved what he was after: A lasting machine that could turn out a complete shoe. His machine indeed changed the shoe industry. It not only greatly increased production but cut the cost of shoes by half. By 1889 the demand for the new lasting machine became worldwide.

　　What was Matzeliger's reward? Because of his long and hard work and the lack of proper food and warmth during his years of poverty, his health had suffered. In the summer of 1886 he caught a cold which developed into tuberculosis. For three years he was so sick that he had to remain in bed. Finally, on August 24, 1889, he died at the age of thirty-seven.

　?、?知識歸納

　　1.seek的用法歸納

　　(1)“征求，尋求，謀求”。作及物動詞。相當于ask for。

　　e.g.We seek neither fame nor fortune.

　　我們既不追名，又不求利。

　　They went to the factory and sought the workers’ opinions.

　　他們到工廠去征求工人的意見。

　　They're trying to seek closer trade ties with China.

　　他們謀求與中國建立更緊密的貿易關系。

　　(2)用于被動結構，表示“受歡迎”。相當于be popular。

　　e.g.These goods were sought by the lo。 cal peasants.

　　這些產品受當地農民的歡迎。

　　The book is sought by the readers.

　　這本書很受讀者歡迎。

　　(3)“企圖，試圖”，作為及物動詞，相當于 try(后跟不定式)。

　　e.g。We sought to change his mind.

　　我們試圖改變他的主意。

　　They have never sought to hide their views。

　　他們從來不想隱瞞自己的觀點。