文档介绍：Unit One Growing Up
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If you don’t learn to think when you are young, you may never learn.
— Thomas Edison
如果你年轻时没有学会思考，那就永远学不会思考。
—— 托马斯·爱迪生
Thomas Edison (1847–1931), American inventor, one of the greatest inventors and industrial leaders in history.
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From the moment a child is born, the parents want to give him/her their best. They shower them with love, wrap them in security, feed and comfort them and respond to all their needs. On the path of growing up, however, the child may still need to experience something else. They must grow up to survive unaided not only physically but emotionally and socially. The earlier it starts, the better. Reading the two texts in this unit probably will give you a better idea about the importance of it.
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Listen to the following passage three times. Fill in the blanks numbered from 1 to 7 with the exact words and 8 to 10 with the missing phrases or fragments.
Growing up is not always easy. When 1 _________ difficulties, courage and a spirit of independence can be more 2 _________ than crying for help. That’s what Hong Zhanhui’s story of growing from 3 _________ to man with family hardships tells us.
Hong was born in 1982 in a poor family in Xihua County, Henan Province. When he was only 11, his father 4 _________ mentally ill and one day came back with an abandoned baby girl. A year later, Hong’s mother and younger brother both left home because of 5 _________ and pressure from his ill father.
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Their 6 _________ fell onto the 12-year-old’s shoulders: to treat his father’s illness, bring up the 7 _________ sister Chenchen, and to go on to study.
Hong didn’t give up. Young as he was, he worked in part-time jobs to feed his family. At the same time, he has studied at college. To 8 _____________ Chenchen, he worked hard to rent a r