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选修
7
Unit
1
Living
well-Reading


MARTY’S
STORY



Hi,
my
name
is
Marry
Fielding
and
I
guess
you
could
say
that
I
am

in
a

million
In
other
words,
there
are
not
many
people
like
me.
You
see,
I
have
a
m
uscle
disease
which
makes
me
very
weak,
so
I
can't
run
or
climb
stairs
as
quickly

as
other
people.
In
addition,
sometimes
I
am
very
clumsy
and
drop
things
or
bum
p
into
furniture.
Unfortunately,
the
doctors
don't
know
how
to
make
me
better,
but
I

am
very
outgoing
and
have
learned
to
adapt
to
my
disability.
My
motto
is:
live
O
ne
day
at
a
time.


Until
I
was
ten
years
old
I
was
the
same
as
everyone
else.
I
used
to
climb
tr
ees,
swim
and
play
football.
In
fact,
I
used
to
dream
about
playing
professional
foo
tball
and
possibly
representing
my
country
in
the
World
Cup.
Then
I
started
to
get
weaker
and
weaker,
until
I
could
only
enjoy
football
from
a
bench
at
the
stadium.
I
n
the
end
I
went
into
hospital
for
medical
tests.
I
stayed
there
for
nearly
three
mo
nths.
I
think
I
had
at
least
a
billion
tests,
including
one
in
which
they
cut
out
a
pie
ce
of
muscle
from
my
leg
and
looked
at
it
under
a
microscope.
Even
after
all
that,

no
one
could
give
my
disease
a
name
and
it
is
difficult
to
know
what
the
future
holds.


One
problem
is
that
I
don't
look
any
different
from
other
people.
So
sometimes

some
children
in
my
primary
school
would
laugh,
when
I
got
out
of
breath
after
r
unning
a
short
way
or
had
to
stop
and
rest
halfway
up
the
stairs.
Sometimes,
too,

I
was
too
weak
to
go
to
school
so
my
education
suffered.
Every
time
I
returned
after
an
absence,
I
felt
stupid
because
I
was
behind
the
others.




My
life
is
a
lot
easier
at
high
school
because
my
fellow
students
have
accepte
d
me.
The
few
who
cannot
see
the
real
person
inside
my
body
do
not
make
me
annoyed,
and
I
just
ignore
them.
All
in
all
I
have
a
good
life.
I
am
happy
to
have
found
many
things
I
can
do,
like
writing
and
computer
programming.
My
ambition
i
s
to
work
for
a
firm
that
develops
computer
software
when
I
grow
up.
Last
year
in
vented
a
computer
football
game
and
a
big
company
has
decided
to
buy
it
from
m
e.
I
have
a
very
busy
life
with
no
time
to
sit
around
feeling
sorry
for
myself.
As
w
ell
as
going
to
the
movies
and
football
matches
with
my
friends,
I
spend
a
lot
of
ti
me
with
my
pets.
I
have
two
rabbits,
a
parrot,
a
tank
full
of
fish
and
a
tortoise.
To

look
after
my
pets
properly
takes
a
lot
of
time
but
I
find
it
worthwhile.
I
also
have

to
do
a
lot
of
work,
especially
if
I
have
been
away
for
a
while.


In
many
ways
my
disability
has
helped
me
grow
stronger
psychologically
and
b
ecome
more
independent.
I
have
to
work
hard
to
live
a
normal
life
but
it
has
been

worth
it.
If
I
had
a
chance
to
say
one
thing
to
healthy
children,
it
would
be
this:
having
a
disability
does
not
mean
your
life
is
not
satisfying.
So
don't
feel
sorry
for
the
disabled
or
make
fun
of
them,
and
don't
ignore
them
either.
Just
accept
them
f
or
who
they
are,
and
give
them
encouragement
to
live
as
rich
and
full
a
life
as
yo
u
do.


Thank
you
for
reading
my
story.


A
LETTER
TO
AN
ARCHITECT


Look
at
the
pictures.
Discuss
the
problems
that
people
with
walking
difficultie
s
might
have
in
a
cinema.


Ms
L
Sanders
Alice
Major




Chief
architect
64
Cambridge
Street


Cinema
Designs
Bankstown


44
Hill
Street


Bankstown


24
September,
200__


Dear
Ms
Sanders,


I
read
in
the
newspaper
today
that
you
are
to
be
the
architect
for
the
new
Ba
nkstown
cinema.I
hope
you
will
not
mind
me
writing
to
ask
if
you
have
thought
ab
out
the
needs
of
disabled
customers.
In
particular
I
wonder
if
you
have
considered

the
following
things:


1
Adequate
access
for
wheelchairs.
It
would
be
handy
to
have
lifts
to
all
parts

of
the
cinema.
The
buttons
in
the
lifts
should
be
easy
for
a
person
in
a
wheelcha
ir
to
reach,
and
the
doors
be
wide
enough
to
enter.
In
some
cinemas,
the
lifts
are

at
the
back
of
the
cinema
in
cold,
unattractive
places.
As
disabled
people
have
t
o
use
the
lifts,
this
makes
them
feel
they
are
not
as
important
as
other
customers.


2
Earphones
for
people
who
have
trouble
hearing.
It
would
help
to
fit
sets
of
earphones
to
all
seats,
not
just
to
some
of
them.
This
would
allow
hearing-impaire
d
customers
to
enjoy
the
company
of
their
hearing
friends
rather
than
having
to
sit

in
a
special
area.


3
Raised
seating.
People
who
are
short
cannot
always
see
the
screen.
So
I'd

like
to
suggest
that
the
seats
at
the
back
be
placed
higher
than
those
at
the
fron


t
so
that
everyone
can
see
the
screen
easily.
Perhaps
there
could
be
a
space
at
t
he
end
of
each
row
for
people
in
wheelchairs
to
sit
next
to
their
friends.


4
Toilets.
For
disabled
customers
it
would
be
more
convenient
to
place
the
toil
ets
near
the
entrance
to
the
cinema.
It
can
be
difficult
if
the
only
disabled
toilet
is
in
the
basement
a
long
way
from
where
the
film
is
showing.
And
if
the
doors
coul
d
be
opened
outwards,
disabled
customers
would
be
very
happy.


5
Car
parking.
Of
course,
there
are
usually
spaces
specially
reserved
for
disa
bled
and
elderly
drivers.
If
they
are
close
to
the
cinema
entrance
and/or
exit,
it
is
easier
for
disabled
people
to
get
to
film
in
comfort.


Thank
you
for
reading
my
letter.
I
hope
my
suggestions
will
meet
with
your
ap
proval.
Disabled
people
should
have
the
same
opportunities
as
able-bodied
people

to
enjoy
the
cinema
and
to
do
so
with
dignity.I
am
sure
many
people
will
praise
your
cinema
if
you
design
it
with
good
access
for
disabled
people.
It
will
also
mak
e
the
cinema
owners
happy
if
more
people
go
as
they
will
make
higher
profits!


Yours
sincerely,


Alice
Major
选修
7
Unit
2
Robots
-
Reading


SATISFACTION
GURANTEED


Larry
Belmont
worked
for
a
company
that
made
robots.
Recently
it
had
begun
experimenting
with
a
household
robot.
It
was
going
to
be
tested
out
by
Larry's
wife,

Claire.




Claire
didn't
want
the
robot
in
her
house,
especially
as
her
husband
would
be
absent
for
three
weeks,
but
Larry
persuaded
her
that
the
robot
wouldn't
harm
her
or
allow
her
to
be
harmed.
It
would
be
a
bonus.
However,
when
she
first
saw
the

robot,
she
felt
alarmed.
His
name
was
Tony
and
he
seemed
more
like
a
human
t
han
a
machine.
He
was
tall
and
handsome
with
smooth
hair
and
a
deep
voice
alt
hough
his
facial
expression
never
changed.


On
the
second
morning
Tony,
wearing
an
apron,
brought
her
breakfast
and
the
n
asked
her
whether
she
needed
help
dressing.
She
felt
embarrassed
and
quickly
told
him
to
go.
It
was
disturbing
and
frightening
that
he
looked
so
human.


One
day,
Claire
mentioned
that
she
didn't
think
she
was
clever.
Tony
said
that

she
must
feel
very
unhappy
to
say
that.
Claire
thought
it
was
ridiculous
to
be
offe
red
sympathy
by
a
robot.
But
she
began
to
trust
him.
She
told
him
how
she
was
overweight
and
this
made
her
feel
unhappy.
Also
she
felt
her
home
wasn't
elegant

enough
for
someone
like
Larry
who
wanted
to
improve
his
social
position.
She
wa
sn't
like
Gladys
Claffern,
one
of
the
richest
and
most
powerful
women
around.


As
a
favour
Tony
promised
to
help
Claire
make
herself
smarter
and
her
home

more
elegant.
So
Claire
borrowed
a
pile
of
books
from
the
library
for
him
to
read,

or
rather,
scan.
She
looked
at
his
fingers
with
wonder
as
they
turned
each
page
and
suddenly
reached
for
his
hand.
She
was
amazed
by
his
fingernails
and
the
so
ftness
and
warmth
of
his
skin.
How
absurd,
she
thought.
He
was
just
a
machine.


Tony
gave
Claire
a
new
haircut
and
changed
the
makeup
she
wore.
As
he
wa
s
not
allowed
to
accompany
her
to
the
shops,
he
wrote
out
a
list
of
items
for
her.

Claire
went
into
the
city
and
bought
curtains,
cushions,
a
carpet
and
bedding.
The
n
she
went
into
a
jewellery
shop
to
buy
a
necklace.
When
the
clerk
at
the
counter



was
rude
to
her,
she
rang
Tony
up
and
told
the
clerk
to
speak
to
him.
The
clerk

immediately
changed
his
attitude.
Claire
thanked
Tony,
telling
him
that
he
was
a

dear
As
she
turned
around,
there
stood
Gladys
Claffern.
How
awful
to
be
discove
red
by
her,
Claire
thought.
By
the
amused
and
surprised
look
on
her
face,
Claire
k
new
that
Gladys
thought
she
was
having
an
affair.
After
all,
she
knew
Claire's
hus
band's
name
was
Larry,
not
Tony.


When
Claire
got
home,
she
wept
with
anger
in
her
armchair.
Gladys
was
ever
ything
Claire
wanted
to
be.

can
be
like
her,
Tony
told
her
and
suggested
th
at
she
invite
Gladys
and
her
friends
to
the
house
the
night
before
he
was
to
leave

and
Larry
was
to
return.
By
that
time,
Tony
expected
the
house
to
be
completely

transformed.


Tony
worked
steadily
on
the
improvements.
Claire
tried
to
help
once
but
was
t
oo

fell
off
a
ladder
and
even
though
Tony
was
in
the
next
room,
he
m
anaged
to
catch
her
in
time.
He
held
her
firmly
in
his
arms
and
she
felt
the
warmt
h
of
his
body.
She
screamed,
pushed
him
away
and
ran
to
her
room
for
the
rest
of
the
day.


The
night
of
the
party
arrived.
The
clock
struck
eight.
The
guests
would
be
arr
iving
soon
and
Claire
told
Tony
to
go
into
another

that
moment,
Tony
fold
ed
his
arms
around
her,
bending
his
face
close
to
hers.
She
cried
out

and
then
heard
him
declare
that
he
didn't
want
to
leave
her
the
next
day
and
that
he
f
elt
more
than
just
the
desire
to
please
her.
Then
the
front
door
bell
rang.
Tony
fre
ed
her
and
disappeared
from
sight.
It
was
then
that
Claire
realized
that
Tony
had
opened
the
curtains
of
the
front
window.
Her
guests
had
seen
everything
!




The
women
were
impressed
by
Claire,
the
house
and
the
delicious
cuisine.
Ju
st
before
they
left,
Claire
heard
Gladys
whispering
to
another
woman
that
she
had

never
seen
anyone
so
handsome
as
Tony.
What
a
sweet
victory
to
be
envied
by

those
women!
She
might
not
be
as
beautiful
as
them,
but
none
of
them
had
such

a
handsome
lover.


Then
she
remembered
-Tony
was
just
a
machine.
She
shouted

me
alo
ne
and
ran
to
her
bed.
She
cried
all
night.
The
next
morning
a
car
drove
up
and

took
Tony
away.


The
company
was
very
pleased
with
Tony's
report
on
his
three
weeks
with
Cla
ire.
Tony
had
protected
a
human
being
from
harm.
He
had
prevented
Claire
from
harming
herself
through
her
own
sense
of
failure.
He
had
opened
the
curtains
that

night
so
that
the
other
women
would
see
him
and
Claire,
knowing
that
there
was

no
risk
to
Claire's
marriage.
But
even
though
Tony
had
been
so
clever,
he
would

have
to
be
rebuilt
-you
cannot
have
women
failing
in
love
with
machines.


A
BIOGRAPHY
OF
ISAAC
ASIMOV


Isaac
Asimov
was
an
American
scientist
and
writer
who
wrote
around
480
boo
ks
that
included
mystery
stories,
science
and
history
books,
and
even
books
about

the
Holy
Bible
and
Shakespeare.
But
he
is
best
known
for
his
science
fiction
stori
es.
Asimov
had
both
an
extraordinary
imagination
that
gave
him
the
ability
to
explo
re
future
worlds
and
an
amazing
mind
with
which
he
searched
for
explanations
of
everything,
in
the
present
and
the
past.




Asimov's
life
began
in
Russia,
where
he
was
born
on
2
January,
1920.
It
ende
d
in
New
York
on
6
April,
1992,
when
he
died
as
a
result
of
an
HIV
infection
that

he
had
got
from
a
blood
transfusion
nine
years
earlier.


When
Asimov
was
three,
he
moved
with
his
parents
and
his
one-year-old
siste
r
to
New
York
City.
There
his
parents
bought
a
candy
store
which
they
ran
for
the

next
40
or
so
years.
At
the
age
of
nine,
when
his
mother
was
pregnant
with
her
third
child,
Asimov
started
working
part-time
in
the
store.
He
helped
out
through
his

school
and
university
years
until
1942,
a
year
after
he
had
gained
a
master's
deg
ree
in
chemistry.
In
1942
he
joined
the
staff
of
the
Philadelphia
Navy
Yard
as
a
ju
nior
chemist
and
worked
there
for
three
years.
In
1948
he
got
his
PhD
in
chemistr
y.
The
next
year
he
became
a
biochemistry
teacher
at
Boston
University
School
of

Medicine.
In
1958
he
gave
up
teaching
to
become
a
full-time
writer.


It
was
when
Asimov
was
eleven
years
old
that
his
talent
for
writing
became
o
bvious.
He
had
told
a
friend
two
chapters
of
a
story
he
had
written.
The
friend
tho
ught
he
was
retelling
a
story
from
a
book.
This
really
surprised
Asimov
and
from
t
hat
moment,
he
started
to
take
himself
seriously
as
a
writer.
Asimov
began
having

stories
published
in
science
fiction
magazines
in
1939.
In
1950
he
published
his
fi
rst
novel
and
in
1953
his
first
science
book.


Throughout
his
life,
Asimov
received
many
awards,
both
for
his
science
fiction
books
and
his
science
books.
Among
his
most
famous
works
of
science
fiction,
on
e
for
which
he
won
an
award
was
the
Foundation
trilogy
(1951-1953),
three
novels

about
the
death
and
rebirth
of
a
great
empire
in
a
galaxy
of
the
future.
It
was
lo
osely
based
on
the
fall
of
the
Roman
Empire
but
was
about
the
future.
These
boo
ks
are
famous
because
Asimov
invented
a
theoretical
framework
which
was
design
ed
to
show
how
ideas
and
thinking
may
develop
in
the
future.
He
is
also
well
kno


wn
for
his
collection
of
short
stories,
I,
Robot
(1950),
in
which
he
developed
a
set
of
three

for
robots.
For
example,
the
first
law
states
that
a
robot
must
not
i
njure
human
beings
or
allow
them
to
be
injured.
Some
of
his
ideas
about
robots
la
ter
influenced
other
writers
and
even
scientists
researching
into
artificial
intelligence.


Asimov
was
married
twice.
He
married
his
first
wife
in
1942
and
had
a
son
an
d
a
daughter.
Their
marriage
lasted
31
years.
Soon
after
his
divorce
in
1973,
Asim
ov
married
again
but
he
had
no
children
with
his
second
wife.
选修
7
Unit
3
Under
the
sea
-
Reading


OLD
TOM
THE
KILLER
WHALE


I
was
16
when
I
began
work
in
June
1902
at
the
whaling
station.
I
had
heard

of
the
killers
that
every
year
helped
whalers
catch
huge
whales.
I
thought,
at
the
time,
that
this
was
just
a
story
but
then
I
witnessed
it
with
my
own
eyes
many
tim
es.


On
the
afternoon
I
arrived
at
the
station,
as
I
was
I
sorting
out
my'
accommod
ation,
I
heard
a
loud
noise
coming
from
the
bay.
We
ran
down
to
the
shore
in
tim
e
to
see
an
enormous
animal
opposite
us
throwing
itself
out
of
the
water
and
then

crashing
down
again.
It
was
black
and
white
and
fish-shaped.
But
I
knew
it
wasn'
t
a
fish.



Old
Tom,
the
killer,
one
of
the
whalers,
George,
called
out
to
me.

s
telling
us
there's
a
whale
out
there
for
us.


Another
whaler
yelled
out,

This
was
the
call
that
announc
ed
there
was
about
to
be
a
whale
hunt.





on,
Clancy.
To
the
boat,
George
said
as
he
ran
ahead
of
me.
I
had
a
lready
heard
that
George
didn't
like
being
kept
waiting,
so
even
though
I
didn't
hav
e
the
right
clothes
on,
I
raced
after
him.


Without
pausing
we
jumped
into
the
boat
with
the
other
whalers
and
headed
o
ut
into
the
bay.
I
looked
down
into
the
water
and
could
see
Old
Tom
swimming
by

the
boat,
showing
us
the
way.
A
few
minutes
later,
there
was
no
Tom,
so
Georg
e
started
beating
the
water
with
his
oar
and
there
was
Tom,
circling
back
to
the
b
oat,
leading
us
to
the
hunt
again.


Using
a
telescope
we
could
see
that
something
was
happening.
As
we
drew
cl
oser,
I
could
see
a
whale
being
attacked
by
a
pack
of
about
six
other
killers.



they
doing?
I
asked
George.



it's
teamwork
-
the
killers
over
there
are
throwing
themselves
on
top
of
t
he
whale's
blow-hole
to
stop
it
breathing.
And
those
others
are
stopping
it
diving
o
r
fleeing
out
to
sea,
George
told
me,
pointing
towards
the
hunt.
And
just
at
that
moment,
the
most
extraordinary
thing
happened.
The
killers
started
racing
between
our
boat
and
the
whale
just
like
a
pack
of
excited
dogs.


Then
the
harpoon
was
ready
and
the
man
in
the
bow
of
the
boat
aimed
it
at
the
whale.
He
let
it
go
and
the
harpoon
hit
the
spot.
Being
badly
wounded,
the
wh
ale
soon
died.
Within
a
moment
or
two,
its
body
was
dragged
swiftly
by
the
killers

down
into
the
depths
of
the
sea.
The
men
started
turning
the
boat
around
to
go
home.



happened?
I
asked.

we
lost
the
whale?

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