1. Unit 3
The Secret of Success

2. Brainstorm
Please say some adjectives to describe the qualities related to success.
Examples:
hardworking, intelligent …

3. 1. perseverance 2. ambition 4. motivation 3. confidence 6. enthusiasm
Read the profile on page 38 and find out Victoria Brown’s nine qualities for success.
1. perseverance
2. ambition
4. motivation
3. confidence
5. energy
6. enthusiasm
8. organization
7. interpersonal skills
9. sense of humour

4. 1. perseverance
1. perseverant
2. ambition
2. ambitious
3. confidence
3.confident
4. motivation
4.motivated
5. energy
5.energetic
6. enthusiasm
6.enthusiastic
7. interpersonal skills
8. organization
8.organized
9. sense of humour

5. (1) ambition
(7) polite
(2) aimless
(8) dishonest
(3) lazy
(9) careful
(4) enthusiastic
(10) sense of humor
(5) personality
(6) friendly

6. Skimming
Go through the text quickly and try to summarize the main idea of each paragraph with or within 10 words.

7. Sir Clive Sinclair was a famous British businessman and inventor.
Read Para 1 and choose the correct topic sentence for it.
Sir Clive Sinclair was a famous
British businessman and inventor.
B. Clive’s brilliant Childhood.
C. Clive got a job at 17.
D. Sinclair was mostly self-educated.

8. Sinclair was unfortunate. B. How Clive’s ran his first company.
Read Para 2 and choose the correct topic sentence for it.
Sinclair was unfortunate.
B. How Clive’s ran his first company.
C. Sinclair produced his pocket radio in bulk.
D. Sinclair founded his own company.

9. Sinclair likes computers very much.
Read Para 3 and choose the correct
topic sentence for it.
Sinclair likes computers very much.
B. Sinclair’s computer cost only 100
pounds.
C. Sinclair’s company expended rapidly.
D. Clive was very talented at making little things.

10. Sinclair C5 is good for environment.
Read Para 4 and choose the correct topic
sentence for it.
Sinclair C5 is good for environment.
B. The disadvantage of Sinclair’s new
inventions.
Sinclair’s new invention was laughed at in the newspaper.
D. How Sinclair’s career underwent a
downward slide during the 1980s.

11. Sinclair became chairman of British Mensa.
Read Para 5 and choose the correct topic sentence for it.
Sinclair became chairman of British
Mensa.
B. How Sinclair saved Mensa as a chairman.
Sinclair paid personally for an annual Mensa conference at Cambridge.
D. Sinclair has been an inventor and a
business man.

12. Sir Clive Sinclair was a famous British businessman and inventor.
Read Para 6 and choose the correct topic sentence for it.
Sir Clive Sinclair was a famous
British businessman and inventor.
B. Clive’s latest invention.
C. Clive worked hard.
D. Sinclair was mostly self-educated.

13. Main idea

14. B. Sir Clive’s mini inventions. C. How Sir Clive ran his company.
Read the text quickly and decide which of the following can best express the main idea of the text.
Sir Clive’s stories.
B. Sir Clive’s mini inventions.
C. How Sir Clive ran his company.
D. Sir Clive Sinclair’s life and inventions. D

15. 解题点拨 Reading Strategy: Understanding the topic sentence or theme.
精确地概括全文，防止外延太大或以偏概全。如上题中的A项：Sir Clive’s stories 外延太大；
B项 Sir Clive’s mini inventions和C 项How Sir Clive ran his company 是本文当中的具体事例，为以偏概全。
只有D选项，能够精确地概括全文。

16. The following is a timeline of important dates in Sinclair’s life
The following is a timeline of important dates in Sinclair’s life. Fill in what happened in each year.
1957
1961
1972
He got a job as an assistant editor for a magazine.
Sinclair resigned from his job.
He produced the world’s first pocket calculator.

17. He produced the world’s first digital watch.
1976
1977
1980
1980’s
He produced the world’s first
digital watch.
He produced the world’s first pocket TV.
Sinclair introduced the ZX80 computer.
Sinclair introduced his C5 car.

18. What did Sinclair’s grandfather and father do
2. Why didn’t Sinclair go to university?
______________________________
3. What was the first thing that Sinclair made and sold?
_______________________________
They were both engineers.
Because he decided that university would teach him nothing new.
The pocket-sized radio.

19. 4. Why was the ZX80 computer so
popular?
__________________________________
_______________________________
5. What did the ZX Spectrum prove
most useful for? ____________________________________________________________________________
Because the computer was very cheap,
which cost less than 100 pounds.
It proved more useful for playing computer games on

20. 6. What was Sinclair’s failure?
_______________________________
7. What did the growth of Mensa
demonstrate?
________________________________
____________
His C5 car.
It demonstrated that Sinclair had
skillful leadership and strength of
personality.

21. 1元钱一瓶汽水，喝完后两个空瓶换一瓶汽水，问：你有20元钱，最多可以喝到几瓶汽水？
答：39瓶，从第2瓶开始，相当于1元买2瓶。

22. Skimming
Read the project quickly and try to find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.

23. A. My father’s constant care about me and my brother
B. My father’s hard childhood.
C. My father made the best Christmas for us.
D. What I value about my father.
E. My father helped his friend’s son go on study.
F. My father’s good qualities of success.
G. My father helps in our local community.
H. My father’s optimism.

24. A. My father’s constant care about me and my brother
Read the transcript of a speech “ My father, my hero” and match column A with column B. A
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4 B
A. My father’s constant care about me and my brother
B. My father’s hard childhood.
C. My father made the best Christmas for us.
D. What I value about my father.

25. E. My father helped his friend’s son go on study.
F. My father’s good qualities of success.
G. My father helps in our local community.
H. My father’s optimism.
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8

26. What makes a successful father? Money, fame or love?

27. The Secret of Success —— Never Give up
Writing
The Secret of Success —— Never Give up

28. 1.描述图片内容，如图中人物的行为和心情等；2.揭示图画所要表达的人数哲理
3.结合自身实际，谈谈这一漫画给你的启示。挖土：cut earth

29. Never Give up
Many people fail in life because they do not realize how close they are to success when they give up.
In this picture, we can see…….
This story tells us a very simple but important piece of truth:……..
As a student preparing for the entrance examinations, I……

30. Never Give up
Many people fail in life because they do not realize how close they are to success when they give up.
In this picture, we can see…….
This story tells us a very simple but important piece of truth:……..
As a student preparing for the entrance examinations, I should …….

31. Never Give up
Many people fail in life because they do not realize how close they are to success when they give up.
In this picture, we can see a man is cutting earth in a tunnel, hoping to find some diamonds. He makes great efforts in his work. However, after a long time of pains without gains, he decides to give up, feeling disappointed and depressed. But in fact he is very close to success when he gives up. With one or two more attempts of cutting, he would have seen those diamonds right in front of him.
This story tells us a very simple but important piece of truth: we should be confident in what we have chosen to do and never stop our effort until we succeed.
As a student preparing for the entrance examinations, I should learn a lesson from the man. Just like the diamonds in the picture, success is just waiting for my last efforts. I have been cutting earth for so many years, so I will never give up before I succeed.