Alexander Graham Bell

1. He found that by pressing his lips against his mother’s forehead, he could make his mother understand what he was saying.

2. “Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find sth that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have sth worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought.”

偶尔离开平路, 去寻求困境。当

你这么做的时候, 你一定会发现你从未见过的东西。跟踪下去, 不断探索, 不知不觉中,你就会发现某种值得思考的东西占据着你的头脑。所有真正伟大的发现都是思考的结果。”

1).beaten track: 踏出来的路(常规)

2). occasionally: adv sometimes, but not regularly and not often:

eg: We only see each other  very occasionally (=rarely).

3). dive: vi to jump into deep water with your head and arms going in first

eg: She dived into a pool.

Diving off the cliffs is dangerous.

dive into your bag/pocket

____ I see him, the old man is sitting

in the same chair. 

A. Every time     B. Every time when

C. At each time   D. Each time that

4. Bell never set out to invent the telephone and what he was trying to design was a multiple telegraph.

贝尔从未打算发明电话而是试图设计一种复式电报。

set out (to do sth.): 开始(做某事), 着手干; 为某个目标而努力

set out to do sth. = set about doing sth.

set out for… = set off for… = leave for…

eg: They are setting out to do a new experiment.

他们正在着手干一项新的试验。

Let’s set out before dark.

Tomorrow I’ll set out for Beijing.                

5. He found the problem difficult to solve.

He found it is difficult to solve the problem.

He found to solve the problem is difficult.

He found it difficult to solve the problem.

He found the problem is difficult to solve.

6. If sound wave could be reproduced in a moving electrical current, they could be sent along a wire.

如果声波能够在移动的电流中复制, 它们就能够被沿电线传送。

1) current n. 气流; 水流, 洋流; 电流

 adj. 时下的, 当今的, 流行的, 通用的

eg: Some birds use warm air currents to help them fly.

  a electrical current

The current trend is towards informal clothing.

the current President

== the present President

the President present

7. The patent was given in 1876, but it was not until five days later that Bell sent the first telephone message to his assistant, Watson. 

  这项专利是1876年发布的, 但是贝尔是在5 天之后才跟他的助手华生通了第一次电话。

1) It wasn’t until nearly a month later _____ I received the manager’s reply. (05全国I)

 A. since   B. unless   C. as  D. that

2) --Did Jack come back early last night?

    --Yes, it was not yet eight o’clock ______he arrived home.  (05 福建)

A. before  B. when   C. that  D. unitl

8. Being very stable, it has proved

  invaluable in the design of bridges.

   (四面体)十分稳定牢固, 在桥梁设计

    领域的价值难以估量。

1). Being + adj /n 常作原因状语（实质还是分词做状语）。

eg: Being busy , he can”t come .

==Because he is busy, he can”t come.

 Being poor, he couldn”t afford to go to school .

因为穷，他拿不出钱上学。

2). stable:adj稳固的; 稳定的; 安定的

eg: A wide base will make the structure much more stable.

  He is said to be in a stable condition in hospital.

==It is said that he is in a stable condition in hospital.