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1、 Unit 2 Achieving Success 广东理工学院大学英语4Warm-upWhat do you think it takes for a person to be successful?How do you usually deal with failure?Please tell a success story that you happen to know.Background Knowledge Charles Schulz brought happiness to millions of people.He was born in 1922 in Minneapolis
2、,Minnesota.His father was a barber.When Charles was five,his teacher told him,“Some day,Charles,you are going to be an artist.”But he sometimes had trouble with his school work.In high school,he was poor at sports.He was afraid to ask a girl to go out with him.His high school publication rejected so
3、me of his drawings he hoped it would publish.At the age of seventeen,Charles began studying art.He took a class by mail from a Minnesota art school.This was the only art education he ever had.Background Knowledge Charles Schulz drew“Peanuts”for fifty years.The comic strip first appeared in seven Ame
4、rican newspapers in 1950.At that time,the subjects were all children and animals.They still are.People love these characters because they demonstrate the failings and strengths of all human beings.For example,Charlie Brown usually cannot get things right.But he tries his best.And he never stops tryi
5、ng.Schulz was 77,and died in his sleep at about 9:45 p.m.at his home in Santa Rosa.He was diagnosed with colon cancer and suffered a series of small strokes during emergency abdominal surgery in November 1999,and announced his retirement a few weeks afterward.Schulz had seemed fine earlier in the da
6、y and had gone to his daughter Jill Transkis home in Santa Rosa.Only his wife,Jeannie,was with him when he died,Craig Schulz said.PreparationPreparation1.What was Charles Schulzs masterpiece?The“Peanuts”comic strip.PreparationPreparation2.When did Charles Schulz write a letter to Walt Disney Studio?
7、As soon as he graduated from high school.PreparationPreparation3.How did Charles Schulz cope with his failures?Although he failed time and again,he never gave up.Thanks to his perseverance,he eventually succeeded.The Making of a Comic Strip Artist 1Charles Schulzs“Peanuts”made its debut on Oct.2,195
8、0,and was run in more than 2600 newspapers,reaching millions of readers in 75 countries.2“Peanuts”was also featured in a series of animated TV specials and became a successful stage show.3However,before this enormous success,Charles Schulzs life had been full of frustrations.4He said in the comic st
9、rip“Peanuts”he saw himself in some of the characters and recognized himself in Charlie Browns continued failures.Some of the situations in“Peanuts”do seem to have developed from Charles Schulzs own life experiences.译文译文 1For Charles,school was all but impossible.He failed every subject in the eighth
10、 grade.2He flunked physics in high school.3Receiving a flat zero in the course,he distinguished himself as the worst physics student in the schools history.Charles also flunked Latin,Algebra and English.He didnt do much better in sports.4Although he did manage to make the schools golf team,he prompt
11、ly lost the only important match of the season.5There was a consolation match;he lost that,too.译文译文 Throughout his youth,Charles was awkward socially.He was not actually disliked by the other students;1no one cared that much.2He was astonished if a classmate ever said hello to him outside of school
12、hours.There was no way to tell how he might have done at dating as he never once asked a girl to go out in high school.3He was just too afraid of being turned down.译文译文 Charles was a loser.He,his classmates.everyone knew it.1So he rolled with it.2Charles had made up his mind early in life that if th
13、ings were meant to work out,they would.3Otherwise he would content himself with what appeared to be his inevitable mediocrity.译文译文 However,one thing was important to Charles drawing.He was proud of his artwork.1Of course,no one else appreciated it.In his senior year of high school,he submitted some
14、cartoons to the editors of the yearbook.They were turned down.2Despite this particularly painful rejection,Charles was so convinced of his ability that he decided to become a professional artist.译文译文 1Upon graduating from high school,he wrote a letter to Walt Disney Studio.2He was told to send some
15、samples of his artwork,and the subject matter for a cartoon was suggested.3Charles drew the proposed cartoon.4He invested a great deal of time in it and in all the other drawings he submitted.Eventually the reply came from Disney Studio,and he had been rejected once again.Another loss for the loser.
16、译文译文 So Charles decided to write his own autobiography in cartoons.He described his childhood self a little-boy loser and chronic underachiever.Eventually he succeeded in creating the“Peanuts”comic strip,whose cartoon character,Charlie Brown,has become famous worldwide.Over the years Schulz drew about eighteen thousand comic strips.He did it without any help from others,which is very unusual for a comic strip artist.Charles Shultz also wrote the stories for the television and film productions of
