跟读练习: The Apple That Shook the World - Learn English Through Stories Level 1 - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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The apple that shook the world.
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The apple that shook the world.
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Can a falling fruit change how we see the stars?
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In 1666, Isaac Newton was a young man of 23, living in a small village called Woolsthorpe in England.
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The world was not calm.
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A terrible sickness, the great plague, had spread through cities like London.
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Schools closed, and people hid in their homes.
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Newton, a student at Cambridge University, had to leave his studies and return to his family's farm.
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The farm was quiet, with green fields, stone walls, and a big garden full of flowers and fruit trees.
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One warm summer afternoon, Newton sat under an apple tree in the garden.
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The tree was old, its branches heavy with red and green apples.
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The air smelled sweet, and bees buzzed around.
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Newton was not like other young men.
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He didn't care for games or gossip.
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His mind was always busy, chasing questions no one else asked.
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He wore a plain shirt and vest, his long hair tied back.
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In his hands was a notebook filled with strange drawings, circles, lines, and numbers.
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He loved math and science, but he felt stuck.
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Why do things move, he wondered.
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What holds the moon in the sky?
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That day, Newton was tired.
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He had spent weeks reading heavy books about planets and stars.
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His eyes hurt from squinting at tiny words.
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He leaned against the tree, feeling the rough bark on his back.
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The sun was low, painting the sky orange and pink.
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He closed his notebook and looked up.
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The leaves moved gently in the wind, making shadows dance on his face.
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He thought about the moon.
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It's so far, he said to himself.
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Why doesn't it fall like a stone?
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Suddenly, a small sound broke his thoughts.
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Thump!
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An apple fell from the tree, landing on the grass near his feet.
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Newton stared at it.
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The apple was round and red, with a tiny dent where it hit the ground.
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He picked it up, turning it in his hands.
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Why did you fall?
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He whispered.
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Most people would laugh and eat the apple, but Newton was different.
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His mind started to race.
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He looked at the tree, then at the sky.
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The apple falls to the ground, he thought.
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Does the moon want to fall too?
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Newton stood up, his heart beating fast.
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He paced under the tree, kicking grass with his boots.
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The apple was still in his hand.
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He dropped it again, watching it hit the earth.
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Something pulls it down, he said.
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He thought about stones, rain, even birds landing on branches.
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Everything fell toward the ground.
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But why?
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He sat again, opening his notebook.
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He drew the apple, the tree, and an arrow pointing down.
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A force, he wrote.
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A force pulls things.
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His mind jumped to the stars.
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He had read about planets moving in circles around the sun.
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What if the same force pulls the moon to the earth, he thought.
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He imagined a giant hand in the sky, holding everything together.
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But it wasn't a hand.
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It was something invisible.
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He called it gravity.
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The word felt right, like a key opening a locked door.
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He wrote faster, his pencil scratching loud in the quiet garden.
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The sun began to set, but Newton didn't notice.
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He was lost in ideas.
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He thought about cannonballs.
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If I shoot one far, it falls slower, he said.
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He drew a hill, a cannon, and a ball flying out.
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What if I shoot it so far, it never falls?
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Like the moon?
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His drawings grew wild.
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Curves.
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Circles.
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Lines crossing everywhere.
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He laughed.
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A rare sound.
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The Earth pulls the apple.
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The moon.
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Even me.
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Newton stayed under the tree until it was dark.
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The air grew cool and stars appeared.
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He looked up, seeing the moon glowing white.
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You're falling too, he told it, smiling.
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He felt like he found a secret.
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But he wasn't I need to test this, he thought.
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He knew math could help.
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He had learned about numbers that could explain movement, formulas from men like Galileo.
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He would use them to check his idea.
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The next day, Newton went to his room.
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It was small, with a wooden desk and shelves of books.
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He worked for hours, writing equations.
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He measured things.
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Apples, stones, even the distance to the moon.
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His mother called him for dinner, but he forgot to eat.
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Just a minute, he shouted, his pen moving fast.
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His sister Hannah peeked in.
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Isaac, you're strange, she said.
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He grinned.
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Maybe, but I'm right.
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Weeks turned to months.
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Newton kept his idea quiet.
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He was shy and didn't like fights.
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Other scientists might laugh.
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Falling moons?
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Silly, they'd say.
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But Newton worked on.
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He wrote letters to friends asking about stars and math.
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By 1667, the plague was weaker, and he went back to Cambridge.
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There, he shared his thoughts with a few people.
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Gravity, he said, it pulls everything.
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Apples, planets, everything.
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Some nodded.
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Others frowned.
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Years later, in 1687, Newton wrote a book, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, or Principia.
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It was long and heavy, full of math.
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He explained gravity, how it made apples fall and kept the moon in place.
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The book changed science.
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People read it in England, France, even faraway lands.
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They called Newton a genius.
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He didn't care for fame.
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I just watched an apple, he said laughing.
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Newton grew old, with white hair and deep lines on his face.
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He became a leader at Cambridge and helped run England's money.
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But he never forgot the apple tree.
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It was still there, in Woolsthorpe, growing old like him.
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Visitors came to see it, asking, Is this the tree?
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Newton nodded.
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Maybe, he said with a wink.
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He liked the story, even if it grew bigger than the truth.
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In 1727, Newton died at 84.
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His ideas lived on.
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Today, we use gravity to send rockets to space, to land on the moon.
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Scientists still read Principia.
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The apple tree is gone, but its story stays.
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A tale of a young man who saw fruit fall and asked why.
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Newton once looked at the stars and thought, can one question open the sky?
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His life said yes.
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From a quiet garden, he gave the world a new way to understand everything.
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- Why do things move?（为什么事物会移动？）
- The air smelled sweet.（空气中散发着甜蜜的气息。）
- He picked it up, turning it in his hands.（他捡起苹果，放在手中旋转。）
- Something pulls it down.（有什么东西将它拉下来。）
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