Unit Three Little ThoughtsPart One W arming-upListening Activity1Directions:Listen to the following dialogues and fill in the blanks with the missing words.Dialogue 1Mary: Hi, Liu Y ong. I didn’t see you at work this morning. Are you all right?Liu Y o ng: Oh, I feel miserable. I’ve got a bad cold. My head is dizzy and my nose is running.Mary: Oh, I feel sorry to hear that. Have you seen a doctor or taken any medicines? Liu Y ong: As a matter of fact, I have. The doctor said it’ll go away after a day or two.He’s prescribed me some tablets.Mary: Are you feeling better?Liu Y ong: Yes, it helps me a lot now.Mary: Do you want me to come by today?Liu Y ong: OK, if it’s not too much trouble for you.Mary: Of course not. I’ll take you some fruits, too.Liu Y ong: Y ou are so kind. Thank you very much.Dialogue 2Mike: Long time no see! Y ou look not so good, are you alright?Linda: Oh, I always feel tired these days. And I have a bad sleep.Mike: It is necessary for you to keep health, so you need to do some exercise. Linda: But I do not know the right method to keep fit.Mike: I will try my best to help you. Do you go on a diet these days?Linda: Y es, because I want to lose weight.Mike: Then you should follow the right way instead of having the crash diet. Cras h diet is not good for your health. If you want to lose weight in a proper way, you should know that you mustn’t eat the food with much oil and fat. Y ou should eat the low-calorie food like apple, chicken, fish and so on.Linda: And what can I do about my sleep?Mike: The average adult needs eight hours sleep per night. If you can’t sleep, get up and do something active.Linda: Thank you very much. I’ll follow your advice.2Directions: Listen to the following passage and finish the exercises after it.The passage will be spoken two times. You must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.In the United States, 30 percent of the adult population has a weight problem. Some people think the reason is clear---they eat too much. But the scientific evidence does little to support this idea. Going back to the America of 1910, we can find that people were thinner than today, but they ate more food than us. In those days people worked harder physically, walked more, used machin es much less and didn’t watch TV.Several modern studies, such as a study of 3,545 London office workers in 1979, report that fat people eat less than thin people.Studies show that thin people are more active than fat people. A study by a research group at Stanford University found the following interesting facts: the more the men run, the more their body fat lost; the more they run, the more food they need; those who run the most eat the more and lose the greatest amount of body fat.1. C2. D3. C4. A5. A3Directions:In this section, you will hear 3 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, question will be asked about what was said. The conversation and question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.1. BW: Good afternoon. Can I help you?M: I’d like a single room with bath.Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?2. DM: Let’s see. I’ll take the mushroom soup and sour cream salad.W: I’m not too hungry. Just give me a hamburger.Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?3. CW: Good afternoon. Can I help you?M: Y es. I’d like to cash a traveler’s check please.Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?Reading Activity1. D2. C3. D4. C5. APart Two Reading AA. About the AuthorCaroline Jalango is an ex-lawyer, life strategist and motivational coach for women who want to do better for themselves. As a coach, she draws on her diverse personal and professional experiences to provide practical life changing information and strategies that help her clients jump-start and transform their lives from that of mere existence into rewarding ones infused with purpose, action and fulfilled dreams. She also conducts seminars and workshops for groups and organizations that support women’s personal, professional and socio-economic development, self-esteem and so forth.B. Warm-up Discussion1. What do you know about thought?2. If you have a little thought, what do you usually do?3. Are the little thoughts useful?4. How should people treat the little thoughts?C. StructurePart I Paras. 1-2 The introduction of the topic.Part II Paras. 3-11 The suggestion about what we should do when we havesome little thoughts.Part III Para. 12 The conclusion.D. Detailed Study of the Text1. …suddenly a light bulb is turned on in the dark tunnel of your mind as a thought or an idea crosses your mind. (Para. 3)…when a thought or an idea suddenly appears in your mind, it makes an impression.2. The thought catches your attention, but it seems very meaningless and you are tempted to get rid of it. (Para. 3)Y ou will be attracted by the thought, but yo u don’t think this thought is significant and you are trying to get rid of it.3. That thought could be the potential beginning of the success that you have so much yearned for. (Para. 4)That thought could be the possible beginning of the success and that kind of success is what you have hoped to get in your deep heart.yearn for (someone or something): to have a strong, often melancholy desire forsomeone or something; to long for someoneor something; to desire someone orsomething stronglye.g. The sailors out at sea yearned for their families.Mary yearned for a big bowl of high-butterfat ice cream.4. As the thought crosses your mind, your senses become alert and you suddenly see a possibility, a realization, a solution, a conclusion, or find the answer to a problem whose solution has long eluded you. (Para. 4)When the thought occurs to you, you become very intellectually active and you suddenly see that it may be a possibility, a realization, a solution, a conc lusion, or maybe you suddenly solve a problem that you have failed to find the solution to it for a long time.cross one’s mind: (also pass through one’s mind) (of a thought) suddenly occur to one, especially for a short period of timee.g. It never crossed my mind that they would turn the proposal down.It crossed her mind that he might have gotten lost.It had not crossed Flora’s mind that they might need payment.elude: (of an idea or fact) fail to be understood or remembered by (someone)e.g. This fact sometimes eludes the people writing about it.Some of the more technical details eluded him, but he understood most of what his companions were saying.However, one important fact has eluded you: If you take this job, how much will you be paid?5. It is almost as if a divine being has whispered the perfect solution into your ear or awakened your senses to a reality thereby bringing illumination to your life. (Para. 5)It seems that God has told you the solution to a reality secretly, and then it brings enlightenment to your life.illumination: spiritual or intellectual enlightenmente.g. Socrates was put to death, but the Socratic philosophy rose like the sun inheaven, and spread its illumination over the whole intellectual firmament.6. This becomes an aha moment and everything freezes around you as you excitedly try to grasp the practicality of that little but powerful thought. (Para.6)This moment becomes a happy one. It seems that everything around you becomes motionless when you try to understand the practical use of that little but powerful thought in a very enthusiastic and eager manner. At that moment, you would not pay attention to anything around you because your focus is that thought.an aha moment: a moment of sudden insight or discoverye.g. He had an aha moment when looking at my medications past and present freeze: become suddenly motionless or paralyzed with fear or shocke.g. For a moment, there was silence in the center of Potters Bar as everyone nearbyfroze at the shock of the noise.A schoolgirl told how she froze with fear as she was allegedly troubled by adrunken man in an early hours attack.While the two other women ran, Linda testified that she froze, fearing she would be shot.7. When you become conscious of the great possibilities that can arise if that littlethought is acted upon, your self-confidence and enthusiasm will increase. (Para. 7)When you realize that there will be the great possibility if that little thought is put into practice, you will become very confident and enthusiastic.act upon/on: take action according to or in the light of; to take action on a particular problem. (upon is more formal and less commonly used thanon.)e.g. Last but not least, the new mayor said that he would also be acting on asuggestion by Cllr. Browning.We really do welcome your suggestions and try to act on them when possible.This was because his role in that came to light too late for the Hutton inquiry to act on it.8. This becomes the moment to build upon that thought and to write down any ideas that are streaming from that little thought for later review. (Para. 7)It is time to write down any ideas that appear in your mind based on that little thought because later you can review them when necessary.stream:(of a mass of people or things) move in a continuous flow in a specified directione.g. He was watching the taxis streaming past.I do not expect to see lines of refugees streaming to the borders.People are streaming past the windows in both directions.Soon a long line of tractors streamed over the lone bridge connecting Kosovo with Albania.9. When they are acted upon, seemingly meaningless little thought or ideas havea potential to explode into great projects. (Para. 8)The little thoughts once seemed very meaningless, but when they are put into practice, they may have the capacity to become great projects.potential: (n. often potential for/to do something) the possibility of something happening or of someone doing something in the futuree.g. They were of course unaware of the latent potential for economic growth justaround the corner.It has experienced strong growth in the past three years and has good potentialfor future growth.More to the point still, is this potential to anger particularly strong in the media?10. Many successful projects have been born from the little positive thoughts that were carefully nurtured and recognized as tickets to great things. (Para. 9) Many successful projects have grown up from the little thoughts. The little positive thoughts were carefully protected while they are growing into meaningful ones. They were regarded as the methods to achieve great things.nurture: v. care for and protect (someone or something) while they are growing e.g. They also want to maintain their carefully nurtured relationships withindividual solicitors.Doherty took the rural heartlands and has so carefully nurtured over the pastfour years.11. in a flash (Para. 10)(or: like a flash) very quickly; immediatelye.g. She was out of the back door in a flash.I closed the door quickly and like a flash.It happened in a flash. Suddenly my wallet was gone.12. follow something through (Para. 12)continue an action or task to its conclusione.g. Lamont follows this argument through to its logical conclusion.Finally, we do individual sessions to follow people through a full task, to make certain it’s working the way they want it to.I had to follow it through to its conclusion or semi-conclusion.E. Translation of the Text你在忽略那些小想法吗?-------卡罗琳·加兰果你曾经想到过的那个绝妙的主意后来怎样了？你是否因为觉得那只是个小小的念头而将其忽略了呢？你是否考虑过，如果你依照直觉行事，或是多用点心，当初那个小小的念头将会变成怎样？想象这样一个场景：你正坐在家里看电视或看书，一个想法或念头闪过脑际，令你眼前一亮，豁然开朗。
