大学英语精读第二册 Unit 5 The Villain in the Atmosphere

Unit 5
The Villain in the Atmosphere Study & Practice
Vocabulary Activities
• 1. • 1) h • 2) e • 3) a • 4) g • 5) f • 6) d • 7) b • 8) c
• 2
8) transparent • 1) makes up 9) to make matters • 2) fraction worse • 3) perspective 10) consume • 4) from year to year11) be replaced 12) interior • 5) poisonous 13) has disappeared • 6) liberate 14) came about
Thank You!
• • • •
1. at first 2. firstly / first 3. First of all 4. first of all / first
5. firstly 6. first 7. at first 8. at first
Structure
1.
• 1) A ballet dancer who does not practice every day loses a lot of skill, as does a musician. • 2) Almost all the teachers at the training center were women, as were the majority of the learners. • 3) The first lines gripped him, as did the next verse and then the whole poem. • 4) Isaac watched her winning smile, as every man in the group. • 5) Anyone accompanying a disabled person will be admitted to the meeting, as will guide dogs. • 6) The second individual session began with a review of the homework assignment, as did all sessions.

W B T L E
To be continued on the next page.
Lesson 5—Say Yes
II. Listen to a Song
Love is Color-Blind
It don't matter if you're black white or yellow, if your brown or red
Lesson 5—Say Yes
Part One
Say Yes
W
B
T
L
E
ENTER
Lesson 5—Say Yes
II. Listen to a Song
Love is Color-Blind
It don't matter if you're black white or yellow, if you're brown or red let's get down to that love is color-blind I remember when I was a child and couldn't understand people having fun discriminating all the different ones mama just used to say when you grow up you'll maybe find a way to make these people see that everything I do comes back to me
W B T L E
To be continued on the next page.
Listen to the song.

Quick Fix SocietyJanet Mendell Goldstein1.My husband and I just got back from a week's vacation in West Virginia. Of course, we couldn't wait to get there, so we took the Pennsylvania Turnpike and a couple of interstates. "Look at those gorgeous farms!" my husband exclaimed as pastoral scenery slid by us at 55 mph. "Did you see those cows?" But at 55 mph, it's difficult to see anything; the gorgeous farms look like moving green checkerboards, and the herd of cows is reduced to a few dots in the rear-view mirror. For four hours, our only real amusement consisted of counting exit signs and wondering what it would feel like to hold still again. Getting there certainly didn't seem like half the fun; in fact, getting there wasn't any fun at all.2.So, when it was time to return to our home outside of Philadelphia, I insisted that we take a different route. "Let's explore that countryside," I suggested. The two days it took us to make the return trip were filled with new experiences. We toured a Civil War battlefield and stood on the little hill that fifteen thousand Confederate soldiers had tried to take on another hot July afternoon, one hundred and twenty-five years ago, not knowing that half of them would get killed in the vain attempt. We drove slowly through main streets of sleepy Pennsylvania Dutch towns, slowing to twenty miles an hour so as not to crowd the horses and horse carriages on their way to market. We admired toy trains and antique cars in country museums and saved 70 percent in factory outlets. We stuffed ourselves with spicy salads and homemade bread in an "all-you-can-eat" farmhouse restaurant, then wandered outside to enjoy the sunshine and the herds of cows—no little dots this time—lying in it. And we returned home refreshed, revitalized, and reeducated. This time, getting there had been the fun.3.Why is it that the featureless turnpikes and interstates are the routes of choice for so many of us? Why doesn't everybody try slowing down and exploring the countryside? But more and more, the fast lane seems to be the only way for us to go. In fact, most Americans are constantly in a hurry—and not just to get from Point A to Point B. Our country has become a nation in search of the quick fix—in more ways than one.4.Now instead of later: Americans understood the principle of deferred gratification. We put a little of each paycheck away "for a rainy day." If we wanted a new sofa or a week at a lakeside cabin, we saved up for it, and the banks helped us out by providing special Christmas Club and vacation Club accounts. If we lived in the right part of the country, we planted corn and beans and waited patiently for the harvest. If we wanted to be thinner, we simply ate less of our favorite foods and waited patiently for the scale to drop, a pound at a time. But today we aren't so patient. We take out loans instead of making deposits, or we use our credit card to get that furniture or vacation trip—relax now, pay later. We buy our food, like our clothing, ready-made and off the rack. And if we're in a hurry to lose weight, we try the latest miracle diet, guaranteed to take away ten pounds in ten days... unless we’re rich enough to afford liposuction.5.Faster instead of slower: Not only do we want it now; we don't even want to be kept waiting for it. This general impatience, the "I-hate-to-wait" attitude, has infected every level of our lives. Instead of standing in line at the bank, we withdraw twenty dollars in as many seconds from an automatic teller machine. Then we take our fast money to a fast convenience store (why wait in line at the supermarket?), where we buy a frozen dinner all wrapped up and ready to be put into the microwave... unless we don't care to wait even that long and pick up some fast food instead.And if our fast meal doesn't agree with us, we hurry to the medicine cabinet for—you guessed it—some fast relief. We like fast pictures, so we buy Polaroid cameras. We like fast entertainment, so we record our favorite TV show on the VCR. We like our information fast, too: messages flashed on a computer screen, documents faxed from your telephone to mine, current events in 90-second bursts on Eyewitness News, history reduced to Bicentennial Minutes. Symbolically, the American eagle now flies for Express Mail. How dare anyone keep America waiting longer than overnight?6.Superficially instead of thoroughly: What's more, we don't even want all of it. Once, we lingered over every word of a classic novel or the latest best seller. Today, since faster is better, we read the condensed version or put a tape of the book into our car's tape player to listen to on the way to work. Or we buy the Cliff’s Notes, especially if we are students, so we don't have to deal with the book at all. Once, we listened to every note of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Today, we don't have the time; instead, we can enjoy 26 seconds of that famous "da-da-da-DUM theme"—and 99 other musical excerpts almost as famous—on our Greatest Moments of the Classics CD. After all, why waste 45 minutes listening to the whole thing when someone else has saved us the trouble of picking out the best parts? Our magazine articles come to us pre-digested in Reader’s Digest. Our news briefings, thanks to USA Today, are more brief than ever. Even our personal relationships have become compressed. Instead of devoting large parts of our days to our loved ones, we replace them with something called "quality time," which, more often than not, is no time at all. As we rush from book to music to news item to relationship, we do not realize that we are living our lives by the iceberg principle—paying attention only to the top and ignoring the 8/9 that lies just below the surface.7.When did it all begin, this urge to do it now, to get it over with, to skim the surface of life? Why are we in such a hurry to save time? And what are we going to do with all the time we save besides, of course, rushing out to save more time? The sad truth is that we don't know how to use the time we save, because all we're good at is saving time... not spending time.8.Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying we should go back to growing our own vegetables or making our own clothes. I'm not even advocating a mass movement to cut all our credit cards into little pieces. But I am saying that all of us need to think more seriously about putting the brakes on our "we-want-it-all-and-we-want-it-now" lifestyle before we speed completely out of control. Let's take the time to read every word of that story, hear every note of that music, and enjoy every subtle change of that countryside. Let's rediscover life in the slow lane.三角形及其性质（基础）知识讲解【学习目标】1. 理解三角形及与三角形有关的概念,掌握它们的文字、符号语言及图形表述方法．2. 理解三角形内角和定理的证明方法；3. 掌握并会把三角形按边和角分类4. 掌握并会应用三角形三边之间的关系．5. 理解三角形的高、中线、角平分线的概念，学会它们的画法．【要点梳理】要点一、三角形的定义由不在同一条直线上的三条线段首尾顺次相接所组成的图形叫做三角形．要点诠释：（1）三角形的基本元素：①三角形的边：即组成三角形的线段；②三角形的角：即相邻两边所组成的角叫做三角形的内角，简称三角形的角；③三角形的顶点：即相邻两边的公共端点.（2）三角形的定义中的三个要求：“不在同一条直线上”、“三条线段”、“首尾顺次相接”.（3）三角形的表示：三角形用符号“△”表示，顶点为A 、B 、C 的三角形记作“△ABC ”，读作“三角形ABC ”，注意单独的△没有意义；△ABC 的三边可以用大写字母AB 、BC 、AC 来表示，也可以用小写字母a 、b 、c 来表示，边BC 用a 表示，边AC 、AB 分别用b 、c 表示．要点二、三角形的内角和三角形内角和定理：三角形的内角和为180°．要点诠释：应用三角形内角和定理可以解决以下三类问题：①在三角形中已知任意两个角的度数可以求出第三个角的度数；②已知三角形三个内角的关系，可以求出其内角的度数；③求一个三角形中各角之间的关系．要点三、三角形的分类1.按角分类：⎧⎪⎧⎨⎨⎪⎩⎩直角三角形三角形　锐角三角形斜三角形　钝角三角形 要点诠释：①锐角三角形：三个内角都是锐角的三角形;②钝角三角形：有一个内角为钝角的三角形.2.按边分类：。

quick fix societyMy husband and I just got back from a week’s vacation in West Virginia. Of course, we couldn’t wait to get there, so we took the Pennsylvania Turnpike and a couple of interstates. “Look at those gorgeous farms!” my husband exclaimed as pastoral scenery slid by us at 55 mph. “Did you see those cows?” But at 55mph, it’s difficult to see anything; the gorgeous farms look like moving green checkerboards, and the herd of cows is reduced to a few dots in the rear-view mirror. For four hours, our only real amusement consisted of counting exit signs and wondering what it would feel like to hold still again. Getting there certainly didn’t seem like half the fun; in fact, getting there wasn’t any fun at all.So, when it was time to return our home outside of Philadelphia, I insisted that we take a different route. “Let’s explore that countryside,” I suggested. The two days it took us to make the return trip were filled with new experiences. We toured a Civil War battlefield and stood on the little hill that fifteen thousand Confederate soldiers had tried to take on another hot July afternoon, one hundred and twenty-five years ago, not knowing that half of them would get killed in the vain attempt. We drove slowly through main streets of sleepy Pennsylvania Dutch towns, slowing to twenty miles an hour so as not to crowd the horses and horse carriages on their way to market. We admired toy trains and antique cars in country museums and saved 70 percent in factory outlets. We stuffed ourselves with spicy salads and homemade bread in an “all-you-can-eat” farmhouse restaurant, then wandered outside to enjoy the sunshine and the herds of cows----no little dots this time----lying in it. And we returned home refreshed, revitalized. This time, getting there had been the fun.Why is it that the featureless turnpikes and interstates are the routes of choice for so many of us? Why doesn’t everybody try slowing down and exploring the countryside? But more and more, the fast lane seems to be the only way for us to go. In fact, most Americans are constantly in a hurry---and not just to get Point A to Point B. our country has become a nation in search of the quick fix—in more ways than one.Now instead of later: Americans understood the principle of deferred gratification. We put a little of each payback away “for a rainy day.” If we wanted a new sofa or a week at alakeside cabin, we saved up for it, and the banks helped us out by providing special Christmas Club and vacation Club accounts. If we lived in the right part of the country, we planted corn and beans and waited patiently for the harvest. If we wanted to be thinner, we simply ate less of our favorite foods and waited for the scale to drop, a pound at a time. But today we aren’t so patient. We take out loans instead of making deposits, or we use our credit card to get that furniture or vacation trip—relax now, pay later. We buy our food, like our clothing, ready—made and off the rack. And if we ‘re in a hurry to lose weight, we try the latest miracle diet, guaranteed to take away ten pounds in ten days… unless we’re rich enough to afford liposuction.Faster instead of slower: Not only do we want it now; we don’t even want to be kept waiting for it. This general impatience, the “I-hate-to-wait” attitude, has infected every level of our lives. Instead of standing in line at the bank, we withdraw twenty dollars in convenience store(why wait in line at the supermarket?), where we buy a frozen dinner all wrapped up and ready to be put into the microwave… unless we don’t care to wait even that long and pick up some fast food instead. And if our fast meal doesn’t agree with us, we hurry to the medicine cabinet for—you guessed it—some fast relief. We like fast pictures, so we buy Polaroid cameras. We like fast entertainment, so we record our favorite TV show on the VCR. We like our information fast, too: messages flashed on a computer screen, documents faxed from your telephone to mine, current events in 90-second bursts on Eyewitness News, history reduced to Bicentennial Minutes. Symbolically, the American eagle now flies for Express Mail. How dare anyone keep America waiting longer than overnight?Superficially instead of thoroughly: What’s more, we don’t even want all of it. Once, we lingered over every word of a classic novel or the latest best seller. Today, since faster is better, we read the condensed version or put a tape of the book into our car’s tape player to listen to on the way to work. Or we buy the Cliff’s Notes, especially if we are students, so we don’t have to deal with the book at all. Once, we listened to every note of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Today, we don’t have the time; instead, we can enjoy 26 second of that famous “da-da-da-DUM theme”—and 99 other musical excerpts almost as famous—on our Greatest Moments of the Classics CD. After all, why waste 45 minutes listening to the whole thing when someone else has saved us the trouble of picking out the best parts? Our magazine articles come to us pre-digested in Reader’s Digest. Our news briefings, thanks to USA Today, are more brief than ever. Even ourpersonal relationships have become compressed. Instead of devoting large parts of our days to our loved ones, we replace them with something called “quality time,” which, more often than not, is no time at all. As we rush from book to music to news item to relationship, we do not realize that we are living our lives by the iceberg principle—paying attention only to the top and ignoring the 8/9 that lies just below the surface.When did it all begin, this urge to do it now, to get it over with, to skim the surface of life? Why are we in such a hurry to save time? And what are we going to do with all the time we save besides, of course, rushing out to save more time? The sad truth is that we don’t know how to use the time we save, because all we’re good at is saving time…not spending time.Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying we should go back to growing our own vegetables or making our own clothes. I’m not even advocating a mass movement to cut all our credit cards into little pieces. But I am saying that all of us need to think more seriously about putting the brakes on our “we-want-it-all-and-we-want-it-now” lifestyle before we speed completely out of control. Let’s take the time to read every word of that story, hear every note of that music, and enjoy every subtle change of that countryside. Let’s rediscover life in the slow lane.。