1、优质文档优质文档Unit 3 Amazing people The Firm Helen KellerIn 1882 a baby girl caught a fever that was so fierce that she nearly died. She survived but she could no longer see or hear and she also found it very difficult to speak. So how did this child, blinded and deafened at 19 months old, grow up to beco
2、me a world-famous author and public speaker?The fever cut her off from the outside world, depriving her of sight and sound. Luckily Helen was not someone who gave up easily. Soon she began to explore the world by using h er other senses.By the age of seven she had invented over 60 different signs by
3、 which she could talk to her family.来源:Z,xx,k.ComHelen was unusual in that she was extremely intelligent and also remarkably sensitive. By her own efforts she had managed to make some sense of an alien and confusing world. But even so she had limitations.At the age of five Helen began to realize she
4、 was different from other people. As she got older her frustration grew an d her rages became worse and worse. She became wild and unruly. So, just before her seventh birthday, the fami ly hired a pr ivate tutorAnne Sulliv an.Anne was careful to teach Helen especially those subjects in which she w a
5、s interested. As a result， Hele n became gentler and she soon learnt to read and write in Braille. She also learnt to read peoples lips and speak, a major achievement for someone who could not hear at all.Helen proved to be a remarkable scholar, graduating with honors from Radcliff College in 1904.S
6、he had phenomen al powers of concentration and memory, as well as a dogged determination to succeed.Many books were written about her and several plays and films were made about her life. Eventually she became so famous that she was invited abroa d and received many honors from foreign universities
7、and monarchs. In 1932 she became a vicepresident of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom. After her death in 1968 an organization was set up in her name to combat blindness in the developing world. Today that agency, Helen Keller International, is one of the biggest organ
8、izations working with blind people overseas.坚强的海伦 凯勒1882 年，一名女婴因发高烧差点丧命。她虽幸免于难，但是 她再也看不见、听不见，她想讲话也变得很困难。那么这样一个在 19 个月时就既盲又聋的孩子，是如何成长为享誉世界的作家和演说家的呢？高烧将她与外界隔开，使她失去了视力和声音。万幸的是海伦并不是一个轻易认输的人。不久她就开始利用其他的感官来探索 这个世界了。到 7 岁时，她已经发明了 60 多种不同的手势，靠此得以和家人交流。来源: 学_ 科_ 网海伦在这方面非比一般，她绝顶聪明，又相当敏感。通过自己的努力她对这个陌生且令人迷惑的世界有
9、了一些认识，但她仍有一些局限性。海伦五岁时开始意识到她与别人不同。随着年龄的增长，她的挫败感越来越强，她的怒气越来越大，她变得狂野不驯。于是，在她快到 7 岁生日时，家里便雇了一名私人家庭教师安妮沙利文。来源: 学科网 ZXXK安妮悉心地教导海伦，特别是她感兴趣的东西。这样海伦变得较温和了，而且很快学会了用布莱叶盲文朗读和写作。她又学会了触唇意识,也学会了讲话，这对完全失聪的人来说是个巨大的成就。来源:Z,xx,k.Com海伦证明了自己是个出色的学者，1904 年她以优异的成绩从拉德克利夫学院毕业。她有惊人的注意力和记忆力，同时她还具有不达目的誓不罢休的毅力。她的事迹被许多人著书立说，而且还制作了关于她的生活的几部剧本和电影。最终她声名显赫 ，应邀出国并受到外国大学和国王授予的荣誉。1932 年，她成为英国皇家国立盲人学院的副校长。 1968 年她去世后，一个以她的名字命名的组织建立起来，该组织旨在与发展中国家存在的失明作斗争。如今这所机构国际海伦凯勒，是与海外盲人共同合作的最大组织之一。
