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【内容提示】
以“Th Man Who Had th Answrs”为题,写一篇关于阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦的故事。内容要点如下:
①阿尔伯特感到功课很困难。老师等待他回答问题时总是不耐烦地用教鞭敲打着黑板,但是,阿尔伯特在回答问题之前总是要想好多事情。
②老师不问阿尔伯特问题时,阿尔伯特就会想出问题问老师。因为他想出许多她不能回答的问题来问她,她就会红着脸对阿尔伯特发火。
③阿尔伯特学得越多,就发现越有东西要去想。他考虑得越多,就越有问题要问。
④他知道,地球、月亮、太阳等星球只是宇宙的一部分;他还知道,宇宙是由我们用眼睛能看得到的星星、数以百万计的只能通过望远镜才能看得到的星星,以及更多更多我们看不见的星星构成的。
⑤阿尔伯特还知道,所有这些星星、我们自己的身体以及其他一切都是由非常小的,甚至用最好的显微镜都看不见的原子组成的。
⑥阿尔伯特想,肯定有某些法则能够解释宇宙间大大小小的一切事物按照自己的规律行事。为什么在天空运行的各种星球不会互相碰撞?是什么力量使微小的原子附着在一起,构成了世界上的物体?
⑦阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦想呀想,直到他认为自己找到了部分答案。后来,人们开始问他问题了,因为他对多年来许多科学家都在寻求解决的问题的答案都胸有成竹。
【作文示范】
Th Man Who Had th Answrs
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Albrt found school vry difficult. His tachr would tap hr pointr① against th blackboard impatintly② whit sh waitd for him to answr hr qustions. Rut Albrt always had to think about many things bfor h could answr. Aftr all, h would say to himslf, thr ar many diffrnt things to think about bfor you can say anything is absolutly crtain.
Whn his tachr wasn't asking Albrt a qustion, Albrt would think of a qustion to ask hr. And oftn whn h did, sh would gt rd in th fac and angry at Albrt for thinking up qustions sh couldn't an
Th mor Albrt larnd, th mor h found to think about. Th mor h thought about, th mor qustions h thought of to ask.
H knw that th arth, othr plants, th moon, and th sun ar just a part of what w call th univrs. H knw that th univrs is also mad up of all th stars w can s with our ys and millions and millions mor that w can s only with th largst tlscops and still mor----w think----that ar so far away that thy can't b sn at all. And h also knw that all ths stars and our own bodis and vrything ls ar mad up of atoms so tiny thy can't b sn vn with th bst microscop③.
H thought thr must b som ruls to xplain why vrything in th univrs, big and littl, acts as it dos. Why don't th stars moving around in th sky bump ④ into ach othr? What maks th tiny atoms stick togthr to form all th diffrnt things thr?
Albrt instin thought and thought until h blivd h had som of th answrs. And th popl startd asking him qustions bcaus h had answrs for many things that scintists had bn trying to figur out for many, many yars.
(选自《英语学习》1986年第7期)
【词语解释】
① pointr ['p&int+]n. 教鞭
② impatintly [im'piM+ntli]ad. 不耐烦地
③ microscop ['maikr+sk+up] n. 显微镜
④bump[b)mp] v. 碰;撞
【写法指要】
在这篇文章中,作者从“爱发问”、“爱思考”这一侧面,叙述了“相对论”创始人阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦其人其事。文章是采用巧设悬念的方法写人的。这一点可从两方面来分析:一是作者先写爱因斯坦对任何事情都要问一个为什么,从而积累了大量知识,最后落脚到他对许多重大问题的答案都胸有成竹。二是作者在文章的前面一直用的是Albrt这个教名,读者还以为说的是别人,直到最后一段才用全名 Albrt instin,人们才恍然大悟,才知道是讲阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦的。