Section_ⅣLearning_about_Language_&_Using_Language

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　　A BIOGRAPHY① OF ISAAC ASIMOV

　　Isaac Asimov was an American scientist and writer who wrote around 480 books that included mystery stories, science and history books, and even books about the Holy② Bible and Shakespeare③. But he is best known for④ his science fiction stories. Asimov had both an extraordinary imagination⑤ that gave him the ability to explore⑥ future worlds and an amazing mind with which he searched for⑦ explanations of everything, in the present and the past.

　　Asimov's life began in Russia, where he was born on 2 January, 1920⑧. It ended in New York on 6 April, 1992, when he died as a result of⑨ an HIV infection that he had got from a blood transfusion⑩ nine years earlier. ①biography /baI'ɒɡrəfI/ n．(由他人撰写的)传记；传记文学

②holy /'həʊlI/ adj.神的；上帝的；圣洁的

③定语从句who wrote around 480 books that included ...修饰an American scientist and writer。该定语从句中又包含一个定语从句that included ...对books加以修饰和限制。

④be best known for因......最负盛名

⑤imagination /IˌmædʒI'neIʃn/ n．想象(力)；创造力；幻想物

⑥explore vt.探索，探险

⑦search for搜寻，寻找

⑧where he was born ...是where引导的非限制性定语从句，修饰Russia。

⑨as a result of作为......的结果

⑩transfusion /træns'fjuːʒn/ n．输血 　　

　　艾萨克·阿西莫夫传

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艾萨克·阿西莫夫是美国的科学家兼作家，他写过大约480本书，包括怪诞小说、科学和历史方面的书，甚至还写过有关《圣经》和莎士比亚的书。但是，他最有名的作品是他