Unit 2 Robots Section Ⅳ Learning about Language &；Using Language[原文呈现][读文清障]A BIOGRAPHY①OF ISAAC ASIMOVIsaac 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' ɡr fI/ɒən ． ( 由 他 人 撰 写的)传记；传记文学②holy/'hlI/əʊadj.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 /I mæd I'neI n/ˌʒʃn ． 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'fjun/ːʒn．输血艾萨克·阿西莫夫传[第 1～2 段译文]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的科幻小说。阿西莫夫不仅有着超凡的想象力，使他能对未来世界进行探索，而且还有着惊人的智力，使他搜寻对现在的和过去的各种事物的解释。阿西莫夫的一生从俄罗斯开始，他生于 1920 年 1 月 2 日。其一生在纽约结束，他于1992 年 4 月 6 日去世，他是因为 9 年...
