大学英语精读第二册课件Unit2

• He was very of his appearance • He may seem a bit nerdy but when it comes to work, he is and efficient. • China has began to be of the environmental problems. • She failed to regain and died two days later. • Where is your when you abuse your power to hurt someone as innocent as her?

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• strike • I might have shown disbelief had I not been accustomed to such responses, for long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little.
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• It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill. • conscious– aware of and responding to one’s surroundings; awake; aware be conscious of security-conscious self-conscious consciousness
conscious, consciousness, conscience and conscientious

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Part One
Say Yes
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Warm-up
I. On the Origin of Racism II. Enjoy a Song III. Enjoy a Poem （for reference） IV. Make up a Story
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II. Listen to a Song
Love is Color-Blind
I remeber as a young boy I watched my neighbourhood go up in flames I saw the whole thing thru tears of pain and a situation's rackin' my brain I wish I could fly away and never come back again we need some love y'all we need some real deal help from above y'all I mean the kids watchin' and I just can't see it stoppin', I don't understand I mean we all bleed the same blood, man!
Yeah, it's time for some changes
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I doubt the ~ of this plan. （我怀疑这个计划的可行性。） feasible a. 可行的 a ~ plan/idea opp. unfeasible 不可行的

1本周，金星上有一件非常值得兴奋的事件。科 学家们首次将一颗人造卫星成功登陆地球，目前已 发回信号和照片。
金融商业中心，华尔街
百老汇，帝国大厦，纽 约时代广场，大都会艺 术博物馆
哥伦比亚大学，曼哈顿 音乐学院
New words and phrases
There was great excitement…
excitement : an exciting thing 令人兴奋的事情 exciting a. 令人兴奋的 （事情） exited a. 兴奋的（人） e.g.
Unit One Is There Life on Earth?
Art Buchwald(1925-2007), was an American humorist, known for his column(专栏）
in The Washington Post.
His column focused on political satire(讽刺) and commentary.
conclude v. 总结，结束，使…终止 e.g. He concluded by wishing everyone a safe trip. 他在结束时祝愿大家一路平安。 The performance concluded with a dance. 这场演出以一支舞蹈结束。
…composed of solid concrete and … solid a. 坚硬的，结实的，坚实的，可靠的 solid foundation 坚实的基础 solid evidence 可靠的证据

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dogs: bow-wow; woof-woof, bark, yap, yelp growl, bay, snarl
puppy: yelp
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Onomatopoeia
• monkey: screech gibber chatter, jabber, howl
• ape: gibber
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cat: mew, purr, miaow, meow
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4. Onomatopoeia (animal cries)
• tiger: howl • ape: gibber • dog: bow-wow, woof-woof • pigeon: coo • mouse: squeak • frog: croak • bull: bellow • cat: mew, purr • pig: squeal, grunt • hen: cluck • bear: growl
hard for him to stand the pace in the city.
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pace
• Put sb. (sth.) through his paces: make someone do sth. in order to show their abilities
• e.g. The film director spent a whole day in putting the new understudy through his paces.
costs. • Set the pace: fix the speed; set an example • e.g. The coach lets the fastest runner set the pace

preposition
preposition
a word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence.
examples
"in", "on", "by", "with", "about"
总结词
通过词根和词缀记忆单词
详细描述
学习者通过学习单词的词根和词缀，理解单词的构成和含义。这种方法有助于学习者快 速记忆大量单词，并提高单词拼写的准确性。
Associative memory method
总结词
通过联想记忆单词
详细描述
学习者通过将单词与相关的图像、故事、场 景等联系起来，形成深刻的印象。这种方法 有助于学习者更长久地记忆单词，并提高记 忆的趣味性。
The Application of Words in Writing Expression
• Vocabulary and Grammar: Understanding words allows students to use a wider variety of vocabulary and grammar in their writing. This helps to create more expressive and coherent texts. For example, using the word "fascinating" instead of "interesting" can add depth and drama to a sentence.

• Media: mass mailings, leaflets and the Internet • Strategy: public rallies and protests Ideology: some Christian fundamentalist beliefs, Christian Identity, white supremacy • Financial support: little • Targeting those set free after the American Civil War—the African Americans, KKK designed to spread fear throughout the Black population that still lived in the southern states. The most hatred was directed against the poor black families in the south who were very vulnerable to attack. • With the enactment of Congressional legislation and enforcement of the law by the federal government, the Klan was extinguished in 1871—1872.
T 5. The husband had known all along what his wife wanted
from him, but simply didn’t want to give in to her.
into their house and made some strange noise.

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Foster Care
Children who are removed from their parents’ or legal guardian’s 监 护 人 homes are cared for in out-of-home placement settings such as foster care homes, group residential homes, residential care facilities or with a family member.
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Say Yes to Life, and Say No to Drug
“Illicit非法的 drugs destroy innumerable individual lives and undermine 破 坏 our societies. Confronting正视 the illicit trade in drugs and its effects remains a major challenge for the international community."
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2. Illegal drug trade and drug dealer
For some drugs, large-scale （ 大 规 模 ） drug production is not usually located in developed countries where those drugs are illegal -- rather, those drugs are often manufactured or harvested in developing nations where corruption（腐败） and instability（不稳定） allows producers to operate with minimal interference from law enforcement agencies（执法机构）.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865):
the 16th President of the United States, born on February 12, 1809 in a backwoods cabin three miles south of Hodgenville, Kentucky, preserved the Union during the Civil War and brought about the emancipation of the slaves.
Donald John Trump（1946-）
1946年6月14日出生于纽约，美国第45任总统、 美国商业大亨、政治家、电视名人。
唐纳德·特朗普是特朗普集团董事长及总裁， 也是特朗普娱乐公司的创始人，在全世界经营 房地产、赌场和饭店。
由于担任自己的NBC实境节目秀《谁是接班人》 的主持人而更广为人知。
Information about Thomas Jefferson
• The third president of the US • Author of the Declaration of Independence • A committee member as a young man • Statesman/diplomat (Ambassador to France) • Expert in agriculture, archeology and medicine • Philosopher/thinker • Inventor • Architect • Educator • Writer
depend/ dependence/ dependent on
obtain vt.&vi. 获得

大学英语精读第二册Unit Two-The Dinner PartyA heated discussion about whether men are braver than women is settled in a rather unexpected way.The Dinner PartyI first heard this tale in India, where is told as if true -though any naturalist1 would know it couldn't be. Later someone told me that the story appeared in a magazine shortly before the First World War. That magazine story, and the person who wrote it, I have never been able to track down.The country is India. A colonial official and his wife are giving a large dinner party. They are seated with their guests -- officers and their wives, and a visiting American naturalist -- in their spacious2 dining room, which has a bare marble floor, open rafters and wide glass doors opening onto a veranda3.A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown4 the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the- sight-of-a-mouse era and a major who says that they haven't."A woman's reaction in any crisis," the major says, "is to scream. And while a man may feel like it, he has that ounce more of control than a woman has. And that last ounce is what really counts."The American does not join in the argument but watches the other guests. As he looks, he sees a strange expression come over the face of the hostess. She is staring straight ahead, her muscles contracting slightly. She motions to the native boy standing5 behind her chair and whispers something to him. The boy's eyes widen ：he quickly leaves the room.Of the guests, none except the American notices this or sees the boy place a bowl of milk on the veranda just outside the open doors.The American comes to with a start. In India, milk in a bowl means only one thing -- bait for a snake. He realizes there must be a cobra in the room. He looks up at the rafters -the likeliest place -- but they are bare. Three corners of the room are empty, and in the fourth the servants are waiting to serve the next course. There is only one place left -- under the table.His first impulse is to jump back and warn the others, but he knows the commotion6 would frighten the cobra into striking. He speaks quickly, the tone of his voice so commanding that it silences everyone."I want to know just what control everyone at this table has.I will count three hundred -- that's five minutes -- and not one of you is to move a muscle. Those who move will forfeit7 50 rupees. Ready?"The 20 people sit like stone images while he counts. He is saying "...two hundred and eighty..." when, out of the corner of his eye, he sees the cobra emerge and make for the bowl of milk. Screams ring out as he jumps to slam the veranda doors safely shut."You were right, Major!" the host exclaims. "A man has just shown us an example of perfect self-control.""Just a minute," the American says, turning to his hostess."Mrs. Wynnes, how did you know that cobra was in the room?"A faint smile lights up the woman's face as she replies ："Because it was crawling across my foot."NEW WORDSheateda. with strong, excited, and often angry feelings 热烈的；激烈的unexpecteda. not expected 意外的naturalistn. one who makes a special study of plants or animalsoutdoors 博物学家(尤指直接观察动植物者)shortlyad. Soon; (in) a little time 不久，马上colonial]a. of or related to a colony or colonies 殖民地的spaciousa. big; having much space 广阔的；宽阔的diningn. 餐厅bare。

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Unit2 Lessons from Jefferson
Lessons from Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, may be less famous t han George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, but most people remember at least one fact about him: he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Of all Jefferson's many talents, one is central. He was above all a good and tireless writer. His comp lete works, now being published for the first time, w ill fill more than fifty volumes. His talent as an au thor was soon discovered, and when the time came to w rite the Declaration of Independence at Philadelphia in 1776, the task of writing it was his. Millions hav e thrilled to his words: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ..."

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4. What kinds of things will you pay attention to in hunting a job?
Such as :
high salary
working conditions
the opportunity for promotion
Some famous places of interest in London
1. Big Ben 2. Tower Bridge 3. The Tower of London 4. Buckingham Palace 5. Trafalgar Square 6. The British Museum 7. The National Gallery
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Eton College
Almost all the school's pupils go on to universities, about a third of them to Oxford or Cambridge.
19 British Prime-Ministers, including Minister, David Cameron
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Under the new system, there is no “eleven
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Princes William and Harry . The economist John Maynard Keynes The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

大学英语精读第二册U n i t2L e s s o n s f r o m J e f f e r s o n(总3页)--本页仅作为文档封面，使用时请直接删除即可----内页可以根据需求调整合适字体及大小--Jefferson died long ago, but many of his ideas are still of great interest.Unit2 Lessons from JeffersonThomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, maybe less famous than George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, but most people remember at last one fact about him: he wrote the Declarationof Independence.Although Jefferson lived more than 200 years ago, there is much that we learn from him today. Many of his ideas are especially interesting to modern youth. Here are some of the things he said and wrote:1. Go and see. Jefferson believed that a free man obtains knowledge from many sources besides books and that personal investigation is important. When still a young man, he was appointedto a committee to find out whether the South Branch of the JamesRiver was deep enough to be used by large boats. While the other members of the committee sat in the state capitol and studied papers on the subject, Jefferson got into a canoe and made on-the-spot-observations.2. You can learn from everyone. By birth and by educationJefferson belonged to the highest social class. Yet, in a day whenfew noble persons ever spoke to those of humble origins except togive an order, Jefferson went out of his way to talk with gardeners, servants, and waiters. Jefferson once said to the French nobleman, Lafayette, "You must go into the people's homes as I have done, look into their cooking pots and eat their bread. If you will only do this, you may find out why people are dissatisfied and understand the revolution that is threatening France."3. Judge for yourself. Jefferson refused to accept other people's opinions without careful thought. "Neither believe nor reject anything," he wrote to his nephew, "because any other person has rejected or believed it. Heaven has given you a mind for judgingtruth and error. Use it."Jefferson felt that the people "may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment. Were itleft to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitatea moment to preferthe latter."4. Do what you believe is right. In a free country there will always be conflicting ideas, and this is a source of strength. It is conflict and not unquestioning agreement that keeps freedom alive. Though Jefferson was for many years the object of strong criticism,he never answered his critics. He expressed his philosophy in lettersto a friend, "There are two sides to every question. If you take one side with decision and on it with effect, those who take the other side will of course resent your actions."5. Trust the future; trust the young. Jefferson felt that the present should never be chained to customs which have lost their usefulness. "No society," he said, "can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs to the living generation." He did not fear new ideas, nor did he fear the future. "How much pain," he remarked, "has been caused by evils which have never happened! I expect the best, not the worst. I steer my ship with hope, leaving fear behind."6. Jefferson's courage and idealism were based on knowledge. He probably knew more than any other man of his age. He was an expert in agriculture, archeology, and medicine. He practiced crop rotation and soil conservation a century before these became standard practice,and he invented a plow superior to any other in existence. He influenced architecture throughout America, and he was constantly producing devices for making the tasks of ordinary life easier to perform.7. Of all Jefferson's many talents, one is central. He was aboveall a good and tireless writer. His complete works, now being published for the first time, will fill more than fifty volumes. His talent as an author was soon discovered, and when the time came to write the Declaration of Independence at Philadelphia in 1776, the task of writing it was his. Millions have thrilled to his words: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…"8. When Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of American independence, he left his countrymen a rich legacy of ideas and examples. American education owes a great debt to Thomas Jefferson, who believed that only a nation of educated people could remain free.大学英语精读第二册 Unit 3 My First JobTrying to make some money before entering university, the author applies for a teaching job. But the interview goes from bad to worse... My First Job While I was waiting to enter university, I saw advertised in a local newspaper a teaching post at a school in a suburb of London about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short money and wanting to do something useful, I applied, fearing as I did so, that without a degree and with no experience in teaching my chances of getting the job were slim.However, three days later a letter arrived, asking me to go to Croydon for an interview. It proved an awkward journey: a train to Croydon station; a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter to feel nervous.The school was a red brick house with big windows, The front garden was a gravel square; four evergreen shrubs stood at each corner, where they struggled to survive the dust and fumes from a busy main from a busy main road.It was clearly the headmaster himself that opened the door. He was short and fat. He had a sandy-coloured moustache, a wrinkled forehead and hardly any hair. He looked at me with an air of surprised disapproval, as a colonel might look at a private whose bootlaces were undone. 'Ah yes,' he grunted. 'You'd better come inside.' The narrow, sunless hall smelled unpleasantly of stale cabbage; the walls were dirty with ink marks; it was all silent. His study, judging by the crumbs on the carpet, was also his dining-room. 'You'd better sit down,' he said, and proceeded to ask me a number of questions: what subjects I had taken in my General School Certificate; how old I was; what games I played; then fixing me suddenly with his bloodshot eyes, he asked me whether I thought games were a vital part of a boy's education. I mumbled something about not attaching too much importance to them. He grunted. I had said the wrong thing. The headmaster and I obviously had very little in common.The school, he said, consisted of one class of twenty-four boys, ranging in age from seven to thirteen. I should have to teach all subjects except art, which he taught himself. Football and cricket were played in the Park, a mile away on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.The teaching set-up filled me with fear. I should have to divide the class into three groups and teach them in turn at three different levels; and I was dismayed at the thought of teaching algebra and geometry-two subjects at which I had been completely incompetent at school. Worse perhaps was the idea of Saturday afternoon cricket; most of my friends would be enjoying leisure at that time. I said shyly, 'What would my salary be' 'Twelve pounds a week plus lunch.' Before I could protest, he got to his feet. 'Now', he said, 'you'd better meet my wife. She's the one who really runs this school.'This was the last straw. I was very young: the prospect of working under a woman constituted the ultimate indignity.。

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National Flag
The colors of the Indian flag were taken from the flag of the Indian National Congress. Dark orange represents courage and sacrifice. Green represents faith, fertility, and chivalry. White represents truth and peace. The emblem in the center was added upon independence in 1947. It is a Buddhist dharma chakra, or wheel of life, used in India thousands of years ago.
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Before Reading
Global Reading Detailed Reading
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India
1. Location and Capital 2. National Flag 3. British Colony 4. Mahatma Gandhi 5. The Taj Mahal 6. The Victoria Memorial 7. Marriage 8. Sacred Cow
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About the Author and the Story

Match the verbs with the nouns.
pitch in on
this trick
pinch
the housework
resort to
the silverware
mop
the floor
spray
her brows
snap through
her indifference
demonstrate
Tobias Wolff (1945-)
His Works
Short stories (O Henry Award): • “In the Garden of the North
American Martyrs” (1981) • “Next Door” (1982) • “Sister” (1985) • Our Story Begins (short story
boy; traveled widely with his mother; soon forced to endure life under his strict and cruel stepfather.
• From 1964 to 1968, lieutenant with the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets) in Vietnam.
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from him, but simply didn’t want to give in to her.
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• You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
How Reading Changed My Life Unit 2
Theme
Structure
Detailed Analysis
Text Analysis
Anna Quindlen the Novelist
• Full-time novelist since 1995
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Anna Marie Quindlen
Author of five best-selling novels, three
of which made into movies
Background
2. Discuss the meaning of reading. 3. Identify the problems facing reading and work on possible
solutions.
How Reading Changed My Life Unit 2
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Background
reading… (para.12)
Warming up Check-on Preview
What do you know about the following novels?
Middlemarch A Little Princess Anna Karenina Gone with the Wind Rebecca
2. What does reading mean to you?
Warming up Questions/Activities
3. How has the Internet changed people’s way of reading? 4. How do you account for such changes?

UNIT2杰斐逊很久以前就死了，但是我们仍然对他的一些思想很感兴趣,杰斐逊的箴言, 布鲁斯.布利文、托马斯.杰斐逊美国第三任总统，也许不像乔治.华盛顿和亚伯拉罕.林肯那样著名，但大多数人至少记得有关他的一件事实：《独立宣言》是他起草的。

虽然杰斐逊生活在二百多年以前，但我们今天仍可以从他身上学到很多东西。

他的许多思想对当代青年特别有意义。

下面就是他讲过和写到过的一些观点：自己去看。

杰斐逊认为，一个自由的人除了从书本中获取知识外，还可以从许多别的来源获得知识；亲自做调查是很重要的。

当他还年轻的时候，他就被任命为一个委员会的成员，去调查詹姆斯河南部支流的水深是否可以通行大型船只。

委员会的其他成员都坐在州议会大厦内，研究有关这一问题的文件，而杰斐逊却跳进一只独木舟去做现场观测。

你可以向任何人学习。

按出身及其所受的教育，杰斐逊均属于最高的社会阶层。

然而很少跟出身卑贱的人说话的年代，在那个贵人们除了发号施令以外。

杰斐逊却想尽办法跟园丁、仆人和侍者交谈。

有一次杰斐逊曾这样对法国贵族拉斐特说：你必须像我那样到平民百性的家里去，看看他们的烧饭锅，吃吃他们的面包。

只要你肯这样做，你就会发现老百姓为什么会不满意，你就会理解正在威胁着法国的革命。

”自已作判断。

未经过认真的思考，杰斐逊绝不接受别人的意见。

“不要相信它或拒绝它。

”他在给侄子的信中写道，“因为别的人相信或拒绝了什么东西。

上帝赐予你一个用来判断真理和谬误的头脑。

那你就运用它吧。

杰斐逊觉得人民是“完全可以依赖的，应该让它们听到一切真实和虚伪的东西，然后作出正确的判断。

倘使让我来决定，我们是应该有一个政府而不要报纸呢，还是应该有报纸而不要政府，我会豪不犹豫地选择后者。

”做你认为是正确的事。

在一个自由的国家里总会有各种相互冲突的思想，而这正是力量的源泉。

使自由保持活力的是冲突而不是绝对的一致。

虽然有好多年杰斐逊一直受到激烈的批评，但他从不回答那些批评他的人。

他在想写给一位朋友的信中表达他自己的观点：“每个问题都有两面。