Apples in Our History
New Horizon English Course 3
Warning: This was transcribed from New Horizons English Course 3 Teacher's Manual, 2006. Therefore, it is not a permissible recitation.
Do you like apples? People have eaten apples for a long time. The Bible ways that Adam and Eve who were the parents of the human race lived in the beautiful garden of Eden. There was a big tree in the garden. God said to them, "Don't eat the fruit of the tree." But Adam and Eve ate the fruit. The fruit was the apple.
The Bible says that Adam died at 930 after he ate the apple.
Have you ever read the story of William Tell? He was a legendary hero of Switzerland. Tell was very goog at shooting. An Austrian officer told everyone to bow to a hat on a pole. Tell did not bow, and he was arrested. The officer said to Tell, "If you can shoot an apple on your son's head, you can go free." Tell started a revolt, and his country became free.
Today you all know that the moon orbits around the Earth. What holds the moon in its orbit? One afternoon when Isaac Newton was drinking tea in the garden, an apple fell down from the tree. Thus he suddenly realized that the same force that pulls the apple to the Earth keeps the moon in its orbit. He discovered the law of gravitation when he was 23.
Apples have certainly played an important part in our history.
