Unit 5 Text A The Company Man

Unit 5 Text A The Company ManWord Study1. die of/fromThe animals died of starvation in the snow.patients who are dying from cancer2. acquaintance n. [countable] ▶SOMEBODY YOU KNOW◀someone you know, but who is not a close friendI have a nodding acquaintance with German.She was a casual acquaintance of my family in Vienna.He heard about the job through a mutual acquaintance (=someone you and another person both know) .2) make somebody's acquaintance formal to meet someone for the first timeI should be delighted to make Mrs McGough's acquaintance.At the hotel, I made the acquaintance of a young American actor.我与他素昧平生。

I have never made his acquaintance.make sb.’s acquaintance drop an acquaintance have a casual acquaintance renew an acquaintancecf. 区别friend, mate, acquaintance, pal3．workaholic n.-aholic [in nouns and adjectives] someone who cannot stop doing something or using somethinga workaholic (=someone who never stops working)a chocaholic (=someone who loves chocolate)shop-aholic，golf-aholic，tobaccoholicalcoholic n. [countable] someone who regularly drinks too much alcohol and has difficulty stopping4. extracurricular a.extra- eg.extracurricular activitiesextracurricular lifeextracurricular pastimeextracurricular books5. survive v. 1) [intransitive and transitive] to continue to live after an accident, war, or illnessOnly 12 of the 140 passengers survived.She survived the attack.people who survive cancer2) [intransitive and transitive] to continue to live normally in spite of many problemsI'm sure she will survive this crisis.I've had a tough few months, but I'll survive.3) [transitive] to live longer than someone else, usually someone closely related to youHe is survived by his wife, Sue.survivor n. [countable]1) someone who continues to live after an accident, war, or illness2) someone who continues to live after other members of their family have diedShe was the last survivor of the family.6. beloved a. much lovedEvery lover sees a thousand graces in the beloved object.7. embarrass v. [transitive] to make someone feel ashamed, nervous, or uncomfortable, especially in front of other peopleHe didn't want to embarrass her by asking questions.embarrassed / ɪmˈbærəst / a. 1) feeling nervous and uncomfortable and worrying about what people think of you, for example because you have to talk or sing in public, or because you have made a silly mistakeLori gets embarrassed if we ask her to sing.He looked embarrassed when I asked him where he'd been.very/deeply/highly/acutely embarrassedMichelle was acutely embarrassed (=very embarrassed) at having to ask for money. embarrassed smile/laugh/grin etcKen gave her an embarrassed grin.There was an embarrassed silence.embarrassed to do somethingHe was embarrassed to admit making a mistake.embarrassed about/atI felt embarrassed about how untidy the house was.2) financially embarrassedhaving no money or having debtsembarrassing/ ɪmˈbærəsɪŋ / a. making you feel ashamed, nervous, or uncomfortableShe asked a lot of embarrassing questions .an embarrassing situationembarrassment / ɪmˈbærəsmənt / n. [uncountable] the feeling you have when you are embarrassedembarrassment atShe suffered extreme embarrassment at not knowing how to read.He could not hide his embarrassment at his children's rudeness.to somebody's embarrassmentTo her embarrassment, she couldn't remember his name.8. board n. 1) 木板，硬纸板，板子，牌子eg. … boards from packing --- Tony would gather and take home.a notice board / blackboard / breadboard /2) [countable also + plural verb] British English a group of people in a company or other organization who make the rules and important decisionsa board meetinga board memberboard ofThe Board of Directors met yesterday.There was disagreement among the agency's board of governors.The decision was discussed and agreed at board level.sit on a board/have a seat on a board (=be a member of a board)He gave up his seat on the board after 40 years.3) ▶MEALS◀[uncountable] the meals that are provided for you when you pay to stay somewhereIn the nursing home she will have to pay for room and board .The landlord provides board and lodging (=meals and a place to stay) . boarding -school4) on board on a ship, plane, or spacecraftboard v.The couple boarded the train for New York.He boarded at my house with me until he found a flat.Dickie was sent away to school as soon as he was old enough to board. cf. abroad adv. eg. go abroad / live abroad / travel abroad9. straighten out to deal with problems or a confused situation and make it better, especially by organizing thingsￚsynonym sort outThere are several financial problems that need to be straightened out quickly.straighten = straight + enCan you straighten your leg?10. option n. 1)▶CHOICE◀ [countable]a choice you can make ina particular situationHe had two options .This was not the only option open to him.2) ▶RIGHT TO BUY/SELL◀[countable] formal the right to buy or sell something in the futureoption onThe government has agreed to buy 20 planes, with an option on a further 10.Connor now owns 302,000 shares and options.optional a. optional coursescompulsory courses11. inquire (enquire) v. •inqu ire (v): ask for information询问inquire about : 询问关于…的信息inquire (sth) of sb: 向某人询问…inquire + 从句(how/ where/ whether ..)inquire after: 问候,问好，问安inquire into : look into查问,调查eg. 'Why are you doing that?' the boy inquired.I am writing to inquire about your advertisement in The Times.The waiter inquired whether we would like to sit near the window.'Where's the station?' she inquired of a passer-by.Toby would have liked to inquire further (=ask more questions) .I did not inquire the reason for his lateness.inquiry (enquiry) n. plural inquiries[countable]a question you ask in order to get informationinquiry aboutWe're getting a lot of inquiries about our new London-Rio service. inquiry frominquiries from potential applicantsI don't know who sent the gift, but I'll make some inquiries .。

Unit5 The Company Man1.He worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning.2.The obituary didn’t say that, of course. It said that he died of a coronary thrombosis — I think thatwas it — but everyone among his friends and acquaintances knew it instantly. He was a perfect Type A2, a workaholic, a classic, they said to each other and shook their heads — and thought for five or ten minutes about the way they lived.3.This man who worked himself to death finally and precisely at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning — onhis day off —was fifty-one years old and a vice-president. He was, however, one of six vice-presidents, and one of three who might conceivably — if the president died or retired soon enough — have moved to the top spot. Phil knew that.4.He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night, during a time when his owncompany had begun the four-day week for everyone but the executives. He worked like the Important People3. He had no outside “extracurricular interests,” unless, of course, you think about a monthly golf game that way. To Phil, it was work. He always ate egg salad sandwiches at his desk. He was, of course, overweight, by 20 or 25 pounds. He thought it was okay, though, because he didn’t smoke.5.On Saturdays, Phil wore a sports jacket to the office instead of a suit, because it was the weekend.6.He had a lot of people working for him, maybe sixty, and most of them liked him most of the time.Three of them will be seriously considered for his job. Th e obituary didn’t mention that.7.But it did list his “survivors” quite accurately. He is survived by his wife, Helen, forty-eight yearsold, a good woman of no particular marketable skills, who worked in an office before marrying and mothering. She had, according to her daughter, given up trying to compete with his work years ago, when the children were small. A company friend said, “I know how much you will miss him.” And she answered, “I already have.”8.“Missing him all these years,” she must have given up part of herself which had cared too muchfor the man. She would be “well taken care of.”9.His “dearly beloved” eldest of the “dearly beloved” children is a hard-working executive in amanufacturing firm down South. In the day and a half before the funeral, he went around the neighborhood researching his father, asking the neighbors what he was like. They were embarrassed.10.His second child is a girl, who is twenty-four and newly married. She lives near her mother andthey are close, but whenever she was alone with her father, in a car driving somewhere, they had nothing to say to each other.11.The youngest is twenty, a boy, a high-school graduate who has spent the last couple of years, like alot of his friends, doing enough odd jobs to stay in grass and food4. He was the one who tried to grab at his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home. He was his father’s favorite. Over the last two years, Phil stayed up nights worrying about the boy.12.The boy once said, “My father and I only board here5.”13.At the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president told the forty-eight-year-old widow that thefifty-one-year-old deceased had meant much to the company and would be missed and would be hard to replace. The widow didn’t look him in the eye. She w as afraid he would read her bitterness and, after all, she would need him to straighten out the finances — the stock options6 and all that.14.Phil was overweight and nervous and worked too hard. If he wasn’t at the office he was worriedabout it. Phil was a Type A, a heart-attack natural. You could have picked him out in a minute from a lineup.15.So when he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, no one wasreally surprised.16.By 5:00 p.m. the afternoon of the funeral, the company president had begun, discreetly of course,with care and taste, to make inquiries about his replacement. One of three men. He asked around: “Who’s been working the hardest?”公司人1.他终于在星期天凌晨三点整因过度劳累而离开人世。

Unit 5 The company man 课后练习Vocabulary1 Fill in the gaps with words or phrases given in the box. Change the form where necessary.1 married2 finance3 survive4 grab at5 monthly6 replacement7 classic8 give up 9 manufacture 10 stock 11 look sb. In the eye 12 option13 acquaintance 14 instantly 15 straighten out 16 pick out1 A ___ statement is a general term for a personalized financial record that regularly informs a recipient about the status of his or her account. It is generally mailed to the recipient on or near the same day each month.2 Over a hundred children came to the annual Christmas party which was a good opportunity for them to gather and renew ________.3 My parents’ marriage was a ______ of its time--those years of the so-called cultural revolution, with no wedding ceremony and no honeymoon.4 Having failed in the examination, Owen didn’t dare ____ his father _____.5 Britain still has a bicycle industry; frames and complete bicycles are _____ here, though most of the components are imported.6 The employees of the company are treated right with handsome paychecks and stocks ______.7 San Francisco is on of the largest cities in California and a leading center of culture, ______, and industry in the United States.8 Steve announced just now that he was leaving, but the coach had already started looking around for a ______ weeks before.9 Shortly after he learned of the earthquake, the man hurried back to his hometown, searching high and low to find out whether his parents had ______ the calamity.10 I was listening for Grace’s voice, but it wasn’t easy to ___ it____ among all the others.11 The survey reveals that an increasing number of young people claim they enjoy ____ life.12 Someone _______ the letter I was reading. Looking up, I was delightfully surprised to find that it was my former classmate.Keys:1 monthly2 acquaintances3 classic4 look... in the eye5 manufactured6 options7 finance8 replacement9 survived 10 pick...out 11 married 12 grabbed at2 Rewrite each sentence with the word or phrase in the brackets, keeping the same meaning. The first part has been written for you.1 An eight-month-old baby girl was the sole survivor of a car crash that killed both her parents.Only an eight-month-old baby girl ________________. （survive)2 Sarah read my poem out to the whole class- I almost died of embarrassment.I was_____________________________. (embarrass)3 The seriously injured pupils will be under the care of doctors and nurses of the Children’s Hospital.Doctors and nurses _____________________________. （care for)4 Several people have phoned the personnel department to inquire about the position of Chief Financial OfficerThe personnel department has received _____________. （inquiry)5 We can help you find a solution to all your financial problems if you join our club. We can help you _______________________. ( straighten out)Keys1 Only an eight-month-old baby girl survived a car crash that killed both her parents.2 I was almost embarrassed to death when Sarah read my poem out to the whole class.3 Doctors and nurses of the Children’s Hospital will care for the seriously injured pupils.4 The personnel department has received several phone calls making inquiries about the position of Chief Financial Officer.5 We can help you straighten out all your financial problems if you join our club.3 Complete the sentences, using the words or phrases in brackets. Make additions or changes where necessary.1 On further______，we learned that the earthquake caused heavy casualties and material losses to the inhabitants. Many old people _____ and thirst after they were trapped for nearly a week. Fortunately most younger ________. (die of, survive, inquiry)Keys: inquiry; died of hunger; people survived2 _______the news spread among employees of the firm that David had decided to _______ current position and retire. Thereupon everyone became curious about who would ______ as chief _____ officer. (retire, executive, replace, instantly, give up) Keys: Instantly; give up his ; retire; replace him; executive3 Brown used to live on his parents. However after ____ father died he had to support himself economically. He did a lot of ______, including shining shoes, washing dishes, ____.( and all that, beloved, odd)Keys: his beloved ; odd jobs; and all thatWord FormationComplete the sentences by adding a suffix to the given base in brackets.1 He looked down at the floor in an attempt to hid his ______.(embarrass)2 Rescue workers continued to search for ____, nearly 72 hours after the collapse ofthe World Trade Center. (survive)3 A tiny old lady was among a group looking at an art exhibition in a ____ opened gallery. (new)4 The reality is that we all have ____ skills such as writing , consulting, or designing and selling things. (market)5 Many people are now having trouble making their _____ house payments. (month)6 A spelling bee is a______ in which people try to correctly spell words. (complete)7 The total energy given off by the devastating earthquake was many times more than any ___ chemical reaction could produce.(conceive)8 It shocked me to learn that the young man was released simply because he came from a _____ middle-class family.(respect）UsageRewrite the parts in italics with the+adj...1 Some Democrats believed they lost the election because poor people didn’t turn out to vote. ______________2Those who had died were completely innocent victims of the bomb. ________________3 The governor has guaranteed health care for pregnant women, pre-school children, and disabled people. _________________4 Do you know why French people are skinnier than Americans? It is because French people stop when they’re full, Americans stop when the plate is empty(or the TV show ends). _______________5 The person who was accused denied stealing his student’s ideas and publishing them. ___________6 People who are not employed will receive a monthly payment from the local government. ______________7 People who are not employed will receive a monthly payment from the local government. _______________8 Where unemployment and crime are high, it can be assumed that crime is due to unemployment. ______the latter ... the formerComprehensive Exercises1 Cloze1 Text-relatedI hear poor Phil has ___1__ a heart attack. Died ____2___, I believe. Mind you, if you were looking for a heart attack victim, he was a ____3____ case. You need only ______ 4_____ to hear everyone say that he worked all hours, never taking a break. That sort of person all too often risks not __5___ long enough to __6___ on a pension. No doubt the chief _7____ is already looking around for Phil’s ___8____. I know you can’t afford to be sentimental in business, not with __9___ holders breathing down your neck(紧盯着) all the time. Still, he must have found it difficult to __10_ Phil’s widow ____10______ at the funeral after allowing him to overwork like that.2 Them-relatedSelect one appropriate word for each gap.1 contrary2 completely3 instead4 accomplish5 revealed6 given7 personal 8 commitment 9 individual 10 professionally 11 impressed 12 diligence 13 perform 14 balance 15 competeOne summer evening, shortly after I arrived at my new assignment, my boss walked by my house and saw my wife and children sitting on our front porch(门廊). He asked her where I was. My wife told him I was still at the office. When she told this to me, in the corner of my heart I secretly hoped he was __1___ by my work ethic(职业操守）.The next morning, my boss called me. I expected a verbal pat on the back for my __2____ and hard work. ___3____, he asked me what I was doing so late at the office and inquired if I have been doing that every night since taking over. I told him I had indeed been working late every night._4_____ to what I expected, he told me anyone could be a workaholic and achieve great things ____5_____. Ye he had hired to ___6___ and excel in not one but two areas : my professional and personal life.This incident caused me to do a lot of introspection. I examined my professional, family and __7___personal life and found that they weren’t in _8__. So I made a __9___ to myself to work on achieving a better balance in these three areas. This is what my little voyage of self discovery __10___ to me.TranslationSentences1 我不太清楚你在哪儿能找到个好木工（carpenter）--你最好四处打听打听。

Unit5 The Company Man1.He worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning.2.The obituary didn’t say that, of course. It said that he died of a coronary thrombosis — I think thatwas it — but everyone among his friends and acquaintances knew it instantly. He was a perfect Type A2, a workaholic, a classic, they said to each other and shook their heads — and thought for five or ten minutes about the way they lived.3.This man who worked himself to death finally and precisely at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning — onhis day off —was fifty-one years old and a vice-president. He was, however, one of six vice-presidents, and one of three who might conceivably — if the president died or retired soon enough — have moved to the top spot. Phil knew that.4.He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night, during a time when his owncompany had begun the four-day week for everyone but the executives. He worked like the Important People3. He had no outside “extracurricular interests,” unless, of course, you think about a monthly golf game that way. To Phil, it was work. He always ate egg salad sandwiches at his desk. He was, of course, overweight, by 20 or 25 pounds. He thought it was okay, though, because he didn’t smoke.5.On Saturdays, Phil wore a sports jacket to the office instead of a suit, because it was the weekend.6.He had a lot of people working for him, maybe sixty, and most of them liked him most of the time.Three of them will be seriously considered for his job. Th e obituary didn’t mention that.7.But it did list his “survivors” quite accurately. He is survived by his wife, Helen, forty-eight yearsold, a good woman of no particular marketable skills, who worked in an office before marrying and mothering. She had, according to her daughter, given up trying to compete with his work years ago, when the children were small. A company friend said, “I know how much you will miss him.” And she answered, “I already have.”8.“Missing him all these years,” she must have given up part of herself which had cared too muchfor the man. She would be “well taken care of.”9.His “dearly beloved” eldest of the “dearly beloved” children is a hard-working executive in amanufacturing firm down South. In the day and a half before the funeral, he went around the neighborhood researching his father, asking the neighbors what he was like. They were embarrassed.10.His second child is a girl, who is twenty-four and newly married. She lives near her mother andthey are close, but whenever she was alone with her father, in a car driving somewhere, they had nothing to say to each other.11.The youngest is twenty, a boy, a high-school graduate who has spent the last couple of years, like alot of his friends, doing enough odd jobs to stay in grass and food4. He was the one who tried to grab at his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home. He was his father’s favorite. Over the last two years, Phil stayed up nights worrying about the boy.12.The boy once said, “My father and I only board here5.”13.At the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president told the forty-eight-year-old widow that thefifty-one-year-old deceased had meant much to the company and would be missed and would be hard to replace. The widow didn’t look him in the eye. She w as afraid he would read her bitterness and, after all, she would need him to straighten out the finances — the stock options6 and all that.14.Phil was overweight and nervous and worked too hard. If he wasn’t at the office he was worriedabout it. Phil was a Type A, a heart-attack natural. You could have picked him out in a minute from a lineup.15.So when he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, no one wasreally surprised.16.By 5:00 p.m. the afternoon of the funeral, the company president had begun, discreetly of course,with care and taste, to make inquiries about his replacement. One of three men. He asked around: “Who’s been working the hardest?”公司人1.他终于在星期天凌晨三点整因过度劳累而离开人世。