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unit 5 Writing Three Thank-You LettersAlex Haley served in the Coast Guard during World War ll. On an especially lonely day to be at sea -- Thanksgiving Day -- he began to give serious thought to a holiday that has become, for many Americans, a day of overeating and watching endless games of football. Haley decided to celebrate the true meaning of Thanksgiving by writing three very special letters.亚历克斯·黑利二战时在海岸警卫队服役。
出海在外，时逢一个倍感孤寂的日子――感恩节，他开始认真思考起这一节日的意义。
对许多美国人而言，这个节日已成为大吃大喝、没完没了地看橄榄球比赛的日子。
黑利决定写三封不同寻常的信，以此来纪念感恩节的真正意义。
Writing Three Thank-You LettersAlex Haley 1 It was 1943, during World War II, and I was a young U. S. coastguardsman. My ship, the USS Murzim, had been under way for several days. Most of her holds contained thousands of cartons of canned or dried foods. The other holds were loaded with five-hundred-pound bombs packed delicately in padded racks. Our destination was a big base on the island of Tulagi in the South Pacific.写三封感谢信亚利克斯·黑利那是在二战期间的1943年，我是个年轻的美国海岸警卫队队员。
原文段落Unit 1I suspect not everyone who loves the country would be happy living the way we do. It takes a couple of special qualities. One is a tolerance for solitude. Because we are so busy and on such a tight budget, we don't entertain much. During the growing season there is no time for socializing anyway. Jim and Emily are involved in school activities, but they too spend most of their time at home.? The other requirement is energy -- a lot of it. The way to make self-sufficiency work on a small scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and other expensive laborsaving devices. Instead, you do the work yourself. The only machinery we own (not counting the lawn mower) is a little three-horsepower rotary cultivator and a 16-inch chain saw.?Unit 2Yet this stop was only part of a much larger mission for me. Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women who together forged the Underground Railroad, a secret web of escape routes and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves from the American South. Between 1820 and 1860, as many as 100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom.? In October 2000, President Clinton authorized $16 million for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to honor this first great civil-rights struggle in the U. S. The center is scheduled to open in 2004 in Cincinnati. And it's about time. For the heroes of the Underground Railroad remain too little remembered, their exploits still largely unsung. I was intent on telling their stories.Unit 3It has been replaced by dead-bolt locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and trip wires hooked up to a police station or private guard firm. any suburban families have sliding glass doors on their patios, with steel bars elegantly built in so no one can pry the doors open.? It is not uncommon, in the most pleasant of homes, to see pasted on the windows small notices announcing that the premises are under surveillance by this security force or that guard company.? The lock is the new symbol of America. Indeed, a recent public-service advertisement by a large insurance company featured not charts showing how much at risk we are, but a picture of a child's bicycle with the now-usual padlock attached to it.??Unit 4He had impressive powers of concentration.Einstein's sister, Maja, recalled "...even when there wasa lot of noise, he could lie down on the sofa, pick up apen and paper, precariously balance an inkwell on thebackrest and engross himself in a problem so much thatthe background noise stimulated rather than disturbedhim."Einstein was clearly intelligent, but not outlandishlymore so than his peers. "I have no special talents," heclaimed, "I am only passionately curious." And again:"The contrast between the popular assessment of mypowers ... and the reality is simply grotesque." Einsteincredited his discoveries to imagination and peskyquestioning more so than orthodox intelligence.Unit 5The Reverend Nelson wrote that his decades as a"simple, old-fashioned principal" had ended withschools undergoing such swift changes that he hadretired in self-doubt. "I heard more of what I had donewrong than what I did right," he said, adding that myletter had brought him welcome reassurance that hiscareer had been appreciated.? A glance at Grandma'sfamiliar handwriting brought back in a flash memoriesof standing alongside her white rocking chair, watchingher "settin' down" some letter to relatives. Character bycharacter, Grandma would slowly accomplish one word,then the next, so that a finished page would consumehours. I wept over the page representing my Grandma'srecent hours invested in expressing her lovinggratefulness to me -- whom she used to diaper!?Unit 6Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the groundfloor beneath them. He was past sixty and had a long,white beard curling down over his chest. Despitelooking the part, Behrman was a failure in art. For fortyyears he had been always about to paint a masterpiece,but had never yet begun it. He earned a little by servingas a model to those young artists who could not pay theprice of a professional. He drank gin to excess, and stilltalked of his coming masterpiece. For the rest he was afierce little old man, who mocked terribly at softness inany one, and who regarded himself as guard dag to thetwo young artists in the studio above.? Sue foundBehrman smelling strongly of gin in his dimly lightedstudio below. In one corner was a blank canvas on aneasel that had been waiting there for twenty-five yearsto receive the first line of the masterpiece. She told himof Johnsy’s fancy, and how she feared she would,indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, when herslight hold upon the world grew weaker.Old Behrman,with his red eyes, plainly streaming, shouted hiscontempt for such foolish imaginings.Unit 7His mind was trapped in a body that didn't work.Speaking was difficult and took time. People wereimpatient and didn't listen. He felt different -- wasdifferent -- from the kids who rushed about in the hallsand planned dances he would never attend.? Whatcould his future be? Porter wanted to do something andhis mother was certain that he could rise above hislimitations. With her encouragement, he applied for ajob with the Fuller Brush Co. only to be turned down.He couldn't carry a product briefcase or walk a route,they said.? Porter knew he wanted to be a salesman.He began reading help wanted ads in the newspaper.When he saw one for Watkins, a company that soldhousehold products door-to-door, his mother set up ameeting with a representative. The man said no, butPorter wouldn't listen. He just wanted a chance. Theman gave in and offered Porter a section of the city thatno salesman wanted.?句子翻译1.We have a problem with the computer system, but Ithink it is fairly minor.我们的计算机系统出了毛病，但我觉得问题比较小。
1. If your friend is in a new dress or buys a new mobile phone which you dislike intensely, and asks for your opinion about it, what will you say? Why do you think people lie?2. If somebody lies to you for your own good, how would you feel?At the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, psychology professor Bella DePaulo got 77 students and 70 townspeople to volunteer for an unusual project. All kept diaries for a week, recording the numbers and details of the lies they told.One student and six Charlottesville residents professed to have told no falsehoods. The other 140 participants told 1535.The lies were most often not what most of us would call earth-shattering. Someone would pretend to be more positive or supportive of a spouse or friend than he or she really was, or feign agreement with a relative's opinion. According to DePaulo, women in their interactions with other women lied mostly to spare the other's feelings. Men lied to other men generally for self-promoting reasons.Most strikingly, these tellers-of-a-thousand-lies reported that their deceptions caused them "little preoccupation or regret." Might that, too, be a lie? Perhaps. But there is evidence that this attitude towards casual use of prevarication is common.For example, 20,000 middle-and high-schoolers were surveyed by the Josephson Institute of Ethics — anonprofit organization in Marina del Rey, California, devoted to character education. Ninety-two per cent of the teenagers admitted having lied to their parents in the previous year, and 73 per cent characterized themselves as "serial liars," meaning they told lies weekly. Despite these admissions, 91 per cent of all respondents said they were "satisfied with my own ethics and character."Think how often we hear the expressions "I'll call you" or "The check is in the mail" or "I'm sorry, but he stepped out." And then there are professions —lawyers, pundits, public relations consultants —whose members seem to specialize in shaping or spinning the truth to suit clients' needs.Little white lies have become ubiquitous, and the reasons we give each other for telling fibs are familiar. Consider, for example, a corporate executive whom I'll call Tom. He goes with his wife and son to his mother-in-law's home for a holiday dinner every year. Tom dislikes her "special" pumpkin pie intensely. Invariably he tells her how wonderful it is, to avoid hurting her feelings."What's wrong with that?" Tom asked Michael Josephson, president of the Josephson Institute. It's a question we might all ask.Josephson replied by asking Tom to consider the lie from his mother-in-law's point of view. Suppose that one day Tom's child blurts out the truth, and she discovers the deceit. Will she tell her son-in-law, "Thank you for caring so much"? Or is she more likelyto feel hurt and say, "How could you have misled me all these years? And what else have you lied to me about?"And what might Tom's mother-in-law now suspect about her own daughter? And will Tom's boy lie to his parents and yet be satisfied with his own character?How often do we compliment people on how well they look, or express our appreciation for gifts, when we don't really mean it? Surely, these "nice lies" are harmless and well-intended, a necessary social lubricant. But, like Tom, we should remember the words of English novelist Sir Walter Scott, who wrote, "What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."Even seemingly harmless falsehoods can have unforeseen consequences. Philosopher Sissela Bok warns us that they can put us on a slippery slope. "After the first lies, others can come more easily," she wrote in her book Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. "Psychological barriers wear down; the ability to make more distinctions can coarsen; the liar's perception of his chances of being caught may warp."Take the pumpkin-pie lies. In the first place, it wasn't just that he wanted his mother-in-law to feel good. Whether he realized it or not, he really wanted her to think highly of him. And after the initial deceit he needed to tell more lies to cover up the first one.Who believes it anymore when they're told that the person they want to reach by phone is "in a meeting"? By itself, that kind of lie is of no great consequence.Still, the endless proliferation of these little prevarications does matter.Once they've become common enough, even the small untruths that are not meant to hurt encourage a certain cynicism and loss of trust. "When [trust] is damaged," warns Bok, "the community as a whole suffers; and when it is destroyed, societies falter and collapse."Are all white lies to be avoided at all costs? Not necessarily. The most understandable and forgivable lies are an exchange of what ethicists refer to as the principle of trust for the principle of caring, "like telling children about the tooth fairy, or deceiving someone to set them up for a surprise party," Josephson says. "Still, we must ask ourselves if we are willing to give our friends and associates the authority to lie to us whenever they think it is for our own good."Josephson suggests a simple test. If someone you lie to finds out the truth, will he thank you for caring? Or will he feel his long-term trust in you has been undermined?And if you're not sure, Mark Twain has given us a good rule of thumb. "When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends."New words:volunteerv. to give or offer (one's help, a suggestion, etc.) willingly or without being paidprofessv. to make a claimfeignv. to pretend to have or bepreoccupationn. the state of constantly thinking or worrying about somethingprevaricationn. the state of avoiding giving a direct answer or making a firm decisionseriala. of, in or forming a number of things, events, etc. of a similar kind, especially placed or occurring one after anotherethicsn. moral correctness; moral principlespunditn. a person who is an authority on a particular subject; an expertconsultantn. a person who gives specialist professional advice to othersfibn. a small unimportant liedeceitn. dishonest act or statementlubricantn. a substance such as oil which cause a machine to operate more easilytanglev. to make or become a mass of disordered and twisted threadswear downto reduce or become weaker until uselessperceptionn. the ability to see, hear and understand; the quality of understandingwarpv. to (cause to) turn or twist out of shapeproliferationn. a rapid increase in the amount or number of somethingcynicismn. the belief that people always act selfishlyfalterv. to lose power or strength in an uneven way, thus no longer making much progressassociaten. a person who is connected to another person as a businesspartner, colleague, or companionunderminev. to gradually make somebody or something less strong or effectiveconfoundv. to confuse and greatly surprise people, causing them to be unable to explain or deal with a situationastoundv. to make somebody very surprised or shocked, especially with (news of) something completely unexpected。
Unit 1Language sense enhancementLanguage focusV ocabularyI.1.1) On balance 2)resist 3)haul 4)wicked 5)illustrated 6)budget 7)lowering 8)boundary 9)involved 10)economic 11)blasting 12)just about2.1)cut back/down 2)pick up 3)get by 4)get through 5)face up to 6)turn in 7)making up for 8)think up3.1) pursued his mathematical studies and taught himself astronomy2) often generate misleading thoughts3) attach great importance to combining theory with practice in our work4) be suspected of doing everything for money5) before he gets through life4.1)their indoor; a profit; to invest it2)device; the improvement; on a global scale3)stacked; temptation; never dined outII. Confusable words1.1)house 2)Home 3)home; family 4)household2.1)doubt 2)suspected 3)doubted 4)suspected 5)suspectIII. Word formation1)rise 2)final 3)regular 4)cash 5)hows; whys 6)upped 7)yellowed 8)bottled 9)lower 10)searchComprehensive exercisesI. cloze1)gets by 2)temptation 3)get through 4)improvements 5)aside from 6)suspect 7)supplement 8)profit 9)stacking1)replaced 2)consider 3)quit 4)world 5)tough 6)fuels 7)provide 8)luxuries 9)balance 10)idealII. translation1.1) We have a problem with the computer system, but I think it’s fairly minor.2) My father died when I was too young to live on my own. The people of myhometown took over(responsibility for ) my upbringing at that point.3) The toys have to meet strict/tough safety requirements before they can be sold to children.4) Radio and television have supplemented rather than replaced the newspaper as carriers of news and opinion.5) When it comes to this magazine, it is/carries a digest of articles from many newspapers and magazines around the world.2. A decade ago, Nancy did what so many Americans dream about. She quit an executive position and opened/set up a household device store in her neighborhood. People like Nancy made the decision primarily for the improvement in the quality of their lives.But, to run a business on a small scale is by no means an easy job. Without her steady income, Nancy had to cut back on her daily expense. Sometimes she did not even have the money to pay the premiums for the various kind of insurance she needed.Fortunately, through her own hard work, she has now got through the most difficult time. She is determined to continue pursuing her vision of a better life.Text BComprehension checkTranslation1.什么？你说那听起来不像你府上的生活？其实，不仅仅是你一个人这么想。
英语第三册第十一课教案Title: Lesson Plan for Unit 3, Lesson 11 of English CourseIntroduction:This lesson plan is designed for the third level of English language learning, focusing on Unit 3, Lesson 11. The aim of this lesson is to enhance students' speaking and listening skills while expanding their vocabulary and grammar knowledge.Objective:By the end of this lesson, students should be able to:1. Understand and use vocabulary related to daily activities.2. Express opinions and preferences in English.3. Use appropriate verb tenses in sentences.4. Enhance listening and speaking skills through various activities.Class Duration:Approximately 60 minutesMaterials Needed:- Whiteboard or blackboard- Markers or chalk- Worksheets with vocabulary exercises- Audio recording for listening activitiesProcedure:Warm-up: (5 minutes)- Greet the students and engage them in a short conversation.- Review the previous lesson briefly to activate prior knowledge on vocabulary and concepts related to daily activities.Presentation: (15 minutes)1. Introduce new vocabulary related to daily activities, such as "work," "study," "exercise," and "cook."2. Write the vocabulary words on the board and provide simple definitions.3. Use pictures or real-life examples to help students understand the meaning and usage of each word.4. Model pronunciation and ask students to repeat the words after you.5. Provide additional examples of sentences using the new vocabulary.Practice: (20 minutes)1. Distribute worksheets with vocabulary exercises to each student.2. Instruct students to complete the exercises individually.3. Monitor their progress and provide assistance when needed.4. After completion, go through the correct answers together as a class.5. Encourage students to ask questions and clarify any doubts regarding the vocabulary.Listening Activity: (10 minutes)1. Play an audio recording of a conversation or dialogue related to daily activities.2. Ask students to listen carefully and jot down any new vocabulary or phrases they hear.3. Play the recording a second time, allowing students to verify their answers.4. Discuss the content of the conversation as a class, focusing on comprehension and vocabulary acquisition.Speaking Activity: (10 minutes)1. Divide the students into pairs or small groups.2. Provide each group with a set of conversation cards related to daily activities.3. Instruct the students to take turns asking and answering questions using the vocabulary learned.4. Monitor their conversations and provide feedback on pronunciation, grammar usage, and fluency.5. Encourage students to use different verb tenses to express past, present, and future actions.Wrap-up: (5 minutes)- Summarize the key points covered during the lesson.- Provide a brief review of the vocabulary words and their usage.- Assign any homework tasks or exercises related to the lesson content.Note: Adapt the above lesson plan according to the specific requirements and level of your students.。
unit 1 Mr. Doherty Builds His Dream LifeIn America many people have a romantic idea of life in the countryside. Many living in towns dream of starting up their own farm, of living off the land. Few get round to putting their dreams into practice. This is perhaps just as well, as the life of a farmer is far from easy, as Jim Doherty discovered when he set out to combine being a writer with running a farm. Nevertheless, as he explains, he has no regrets and remains enthusiastic about his decision to change his way of life.在美国，不少人对乡村生活怀有浪漫的情感。
许多居住在城镇的人梦想着自己办个农场，梦想着靠土地为生。
很少有人真去把梦想变为现实。
或许这也没有什么不好，因为，正如吉姆·多尔蒂当初开始其写作和农场经营双重生涯时所体验到的那样，农耕生活远非轻松自在。
但他写道，自己并不后悔，对自己作出的改变生活方式的决定仍热情不减。
Mr. Doherty Builds His Dream LifeJim Doherty1 There are two things I have always wanted to do -- write and live on a farm. Today I'm doing both. I am not in E. B. White's class as a writer or in my neighbors' league as a farmer, but I'm getting by. And after years of frustration with city and suburban living, my wife Sandy and I have finally found contentment here in the country.有两件事是我一直想做的――写作与务农。
VocabularyUnit 11. My job varies between the extremely tedious and the annoyingly busy. On balanceI think I’m happier during the really busy times; no time to think about how bored Iam.2. It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.3.I figure out a good team of dogs ,hitched to a light sled, can haul 1000 pounds ofgoods.4. In the story, the little girl has a wicked stepmother, who makes her life a misery.5. Nothing has become a real till it is experienced –even a proverb is no proverb toyou till your life has illustrated it.6. Nowadays almost all libraries are finding it increasingly difficult to remain withintheir budget.7. You can increase a tyre’s grip in winter by slightlylowering its pressure.8. Lake superior, Huron Erie and Ontario are shared by united states and Canada ,andfrom part of the boundary between the two countries.9. The police are investigating the three men allegedly involved in organizing andcarrying out the bank robbery.10. I do not doubt in the least that inflation leads to economic decline.11. A blizzard was blasting great drifts of snow across the lake.12. Tim says just about everybody will be affected by the tax increases, but I am surehe’s exaggerating .1. In an effort to feel better, I started to make small changes in my life and cut back/ cut down from 20 cigarettes a day to a mere three or four.2. If I wasted electricity as you do at home, my dad would make me pick upthe bill.3.We can get by with four computers at the moment, but we'll need a couple morewhen the newstaff arrive.4.It is impossible to get through this course just by working hard around exam times.5.Unless they quickly face up to their mistakes, they will miss a unique opportunityto settle the problem once and for all.6.The students were instructed to do the experiment carefully and to turn in theirreports at the beginning of next week.7. I didn't travel much when I was younger, but I'm certainly m aking up for lost timenow.8.Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.1.While farming,Benneker pursued his mathematical studies and taught himselfAstronomy.2.Misused words often g enerate misleading thoughts.3.We attach great importance to combining theory with practice in our work.4.A person who thinks that money will do everything may wellbe suspected of doing everything for money.5. A person surely has to face a good many bitter disappointments before hegets Through life .Unit 21. China’s economic success over the past threedecades has raised the living standards of hundreds of millions of Chinese citizen.2. Citibank picked the chief executive of as its first Chinese customerThursday to open an account at its new branch in the historic peace hotel along shanghai’s fabled waterfront .3. The united states last Wednesday imposed tariffs of up to 30 percent on a range offoreign steel imports to help protect its domestic industry.religious.4. Although he was raised as a Christian, he’s not really very5. You can distinguish between frogs and toads in the following way :frogs haveslender bodies ,long limbs and dark skin.6. Form the airplane window I could see a web of city streets.7. Aunt pat smiled at her little niece and b ade her to eat.8. Dr.Rich Hamilton is plaining his own World Wide Web site on the internet toprovide assistance to anyone who asks for medical help.9. It is difficult to estimate the number of people doing part-time jobs o n the side.10. The president has authorized his foreign minister, Mr.Burns, to act asrepresntaive…11. Advances in telecommunications have meant that it is just as easy to work from acomputer terminal at home as it is from a town center office.12. Until the new gym is built ,you have no option but to m ake the best of existingbuildings which may or may not suit your immediate requirements.1.When she was younger, my mother w ent through a depression so severe she hadto be hospitalized.2.The rest of them used to be really nasty to me, but Susie alwaysstood up for me.3.The local government lied down strict rules and regulations to be followed by allsoccer fans in the upcoming 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea.4.Tim was quite unhappy about having to take on all the household chores when hiswife went out to work.5.Sterling promised to be in the school library by eight o’clock but it looks like he let us down again.6.My professor suggested that I draw on the data accumulated over the years when Iwork on my project.7. The problems we are confronted with fall into two categories: one is financial,the other is technical.toy guns now look so real that they can often be pass for the real thing.8.Children’ｓ1.The Europeans are fully confident that the Americans will not be able to justifytheir measures to protect the struggling American steel industry.2.Clinton is, in the eyes of Joe Klein, staff writer of the New Yorker and author ofThe Natural, the most talented politician of his generation and the most compelling.3.There's not much you can do if people are really intent on destroying themselveswith drugs.4.A different experience of the world could forge a completely different approach tolife.5.It is our conviction that cloning of human beings is bound to cause many ethicaland social problems in the long run.Unit 31. According to some scientists, a global warming threatens the survival of the wholehuman race.2. The number of visitors from parts of Scotland not including the Edinburgh area was,in fact, relatively small and exceeded the number of overseas visitors by a smallmargin.3. The early Spaniards established a chain of missions to civilize the local populationalong the San Antonio River.4. It was common practice then that when the store owners wanted to go on vacationthey simply closed up.5. As they didn’t have realitives or friends there they oftenwandered around nearby malls when they got bored.6. To make a birthday card, you can simply cut out some funny or pretty pictures frommagazines, paste them onto a piece of card and then write your message inside. 7. She picked up the receiver and, without so much as asking the caller to hold on,went off to tell jack that he was wanted on the phone8. To relax himself for a little while, he rose from the computer desk, walked acrosssideways.the room towards the window and stretched both arms upwards and9. The new product has a pair of small loudspeakers fitted inside, which you caneasily hook up to your computer’s sound card.10. Music in fact is a universal language of a non-verbal nature which is rich inexpression.11. This chart is designed to show at a glance how many rooms have been rented outand how many are still available.12. Bathed in glorious sunshine, the boundless stretch of corn fields looked animpressive sight.1,Following a major murder investigation in the local community, the police narrowed down their list of suspects.2.In his autobiography, Mr. Hanson looked back on his second career, taken up at theage of sixty, as the happiest time of his life when his creativity was exercised to the full.3.The heavy rain cut off electricity to large parts of the South and caused the pollutedrivers to flood which later contaminated the entire region.4.The book is small enough to fit into your pocket.5.Both sides are trying to wear down the other by obstinately sticking to their ownpositions in the negotiations.6.The secret of a successful school lies in effective co-operation between professionalleadership, the government and the local authority.7.Many suburban residents in the U.S. put up an invisible electronic fence aroundtheir premises to prevent their pets from running away.8.The initials VAT stand for Value Added Tax, which is a type of tax paid by theperson who buys the goods or service.1) A certain gene which is likely to make people vulnerable to asthma has beenfound by researchers at the Department of Clinical Medicine in Oxford.2) A wardrobe with mirrored doors had to be built in so as to make their small bedroom look larger.3) The NBC show's opening shots f eature the space shuttle Challenger blowing up in January 1986—killing all seven crew.4) When the teacher threatened to keep the pupils in after school,they were quieted at once.5) Energy difficulties are a major barrier to the country's economic growth due tothe fact that imported oil has absorbed 40% of its foreign exchange / because imported oil has absorbed 40% of its foreign exchange.Unit 41. Amy is an expert in her field, and is well-paid accordingly.2. Some parents feel that the school structure is a bit loose，allowing children toomuch freedom when choosing learning tasks.3. She needed all her powers of concentration to stop herself from slipping on theicy road.4. Monetary policy hasn’t been working because interest rates have been reduced toalmost zero without stimulating the economy.s the strongest natural fabric and can stand very high temperatures and be5. It’machine washed.if anything, they6. So far as I know that people’s tastes haven’t changed much, and,are getting more diverse these days than they used to be.7. It’seasier to find excuses for poor customer service than accept reality and do something about it.8. Often there’s no clear evidence one way or the other and you just have to base yourjudgment on i ntuition.9. He was dressed very casually, which made him look a trifle out of place at thereception.10. My grandfather was born in Hong Kong at the turn of the century and movedwith his family to Britain in the early 1920s.11. We love having our grandchildren visit, but they always leave such a mess for usto clean up afterwards.12. His mother died in the accident, too. But we didn’t tell him the news as we wereafraid that would undermine his confidence in full recovery.l. I was surprised that Mom seemed to approve of Kate’s new boyfriend.2. I know life in Hollywood is fast-paced, but could you guys slow down a little?3. To make pancakes, in a large mixing bowl, combine flour and water, stirringconstantly until all water is taken in.sucked in some lengthy argument about who is to blame. (suck)4. I don’t want to be5. What set her apart from the other candidates for the job was that she had a lot oforiginal ideas. (set)6. As we dozed off, we heard somewhat the sound of approaching footsteps andvoices, which jerked us quickly back to life. (doze)7. Great works of classical music can often c all forth a mixture of responses from thelisteners. (call)8. Joan and Jack enjoy meeting their guests and many breakfasts stretch into themid-morning as new friendships are made. (stretch)9. It’s a complicated film and some people may find it hard to keep up with the plot.(keep)10. An online survey shows that the majority of young people believe in theinformation age and the global economy. (believe)1. The beautiful Malvern Hills have provided inspiration for many artists andmusicians over the decades.2. Much of his success is credited to his powers of imagination3. The industrial revolution was firmly built on the foundations of an agriculturalrevolution4. Alexander was determined not to make any complaints in the presence of the nurse.5. September 1939 saw the outbreak of the Second World War.Unit 51. The cook put the meat in a plate,s prinkled it with salt and pepper, wrapped up theplate in aluminum foil and then placed it in the oven to roast.2. Every waking moment we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Ourself-talk, the thoughts we communicate to ourselves, in turn control the way wefeel and act.3. John made everyone laugh when he got the words reversed and referred to himselfas "my husband's wife.”4. You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will perhapsnever be able to repay you.5. Because the Earth is a sphere, sailors at sea only can view other ships to a distanceof about 13 miles before those ships seem to disappear into the horizon.6. Johnson dismissed traditional ideas lightly as no good on several occasions.7 One tends to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether thestatement be true or false.8. Susan told me numerous times how her sister longed for children.9. I don’t know what my roommate is up to because h e does everything in secreteither when I am away or when I am asleep.10. For economic reasons, shipbuilders have designed vessels that can be loaded andunloaded in a minimum amount of time with minimum labor.11. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; w eep , and you weep alone.12. A national debate is now under way about the manner in which we as a societyshould protect our natural resources.1. At the end of a hard day, Sue likes to go home and stretch out in her favouritearmchair listening to a record.2. Tom listened hard, but couldn't make out what his parents were saying becausethey were talking too softly.3. How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.4. If he hears something he can't understand, my brother always turns it over in hismind until he can make sense of it.5. A national flag should be folded carefully and put away when not in use.6. Poetry often reveals to us the loveliness of nature and brings back the freshness ofyouthful feelings.7. Since she met some disabled young girls at college, she got to thinking aboutcreating movies that tell people more about their world.8. Setting a goal is not the main thing. What really matters is deciding how you willgo about achieving it.1. As supplies of traditional fuels diminish, people are working to increase the use ofsolar energy.2. We accord high priority to meeting the challenges of economic and environmentaldevelopment in the region.3. While it is true that children of today are exposed to more information than werechildren of the past,it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated.4. Since she borrowed those books from the library she has been immersed in Britishhistory and culture.5. Everything changed in a flash on June 1, 2000 when he lost both legs in a serioustraffic accident.Unit 61. Some 80 art masterpleces will be brought to South Korea for an annual Frenchcultural festival.ive and emotionally fragile. He craves approval and will do2. Ben’s very sensitalmost anything to gain it even from complete strangers.3. As information bombards (轰炸) us, we must rely on our own experience andintuition to distinguish fact from fancy .4. He can get quite a big headache from listening to her nonsence , but he knows shejust can’t help it.5. These window decorations (装饰品) are made from soft flexible plastic. They clingto glass and other shiny surfaces like magic!6. Those who e ndure hearing loss are at a disadvantage, because they are unable toget everyday sound signals.7. Once I knew I was experiencing a cute panic or anxiety, I followed the tipsrecommended by my doctor to deal with the symptoms.whistle8. This dog is well trained –she’ll come running back to me every time Ito her.9. True, this football team is comparatively weak. But is absolutely wrong to mockat their attempt to qualify for the World Cup Finals.10. It is said the corporation has already subtracted a number of expenditures fromthe total cost; yet it still runs as high as 300 million dollars.Sin to Tell a–“It’s a11. He had a favorite song he used to sing to us in the old daysand I shall always associate it with him.Lie”–12. On bright spring days, you can lovely birds f lutter/fluttering among the bushes.1. The minister reluctantly gave in /gave up and resigned.2. He was trying to figure out why the camera wasn’t working.3. The guide dog s ized up the traffic and decided to lead its master across the road.4. Smallpox wiped out some Native Indian tribes.5. The typhoon destroyed everything on its way, knocking down houses and pullingup trees.6. The waterproof (防水的) coating will wear away very quickly or after many yearsdepending on use and care.7. After a few minutes, my blood pressure became normal and I was allowed tochange my position in bed from lying to sit up again.8. Our main aim in producing the magazine is to give readers inspiration and ideas for-warming to hear of/about the success we’ve had.their homes and i t’s heart。
Unit 11TEXT IShaka — King of the ZulusTextShaka's military career started at about the same time as Napoleon's came to an end at Waterloo. Neither man had ever heard of the other, yet they had a surprising amount in common, particularly in their genius for war and politics. Had Shaka been born in Europe he too might well have altered the course of world affairs. As it was, he built the Zulu nation. And he would have destroyed it had it not been for the courage of a minor chieftain, Gala.When he was still only twenty-nine, Shaka seized the throne of the Zulus. It took him very little time to turn the Zulu people into a first-class fighting race because he was absolutely ruthless, never moving without an escort of "slayers", whose job it was to kill anyone who displeased him in any way. If his warriors could not run 50 miles a day, they died; if they were unable to dance barefoot on a carpet of jungle thorns, they died; if they showed anything less than suicidal courage in battle, they would be unhesitatingly murdered by the slayers. Shaka was inhuman, perhaps, but he built up a formidable army in a very short time. Shaka had already increased his kingdom from 100 square miles to 100,000 when personal tragedy struck: his mother, Nandi, died. Nandi was the one person for whom Shaka felt deep affection, and on her death something seemed to snap in his mind. What followed was unbelievable, but it was recorded by an Englishman named Flynn who was in the area at the time. Nandi was buried, and 12,000 warriors were ordered to guard her grave for a year. Then Shaka sent his impis or regiments to scour the countryside and punish all those who had failed to be present at the funeral. Only after this had been done did he announce his orders for mourning: no crops were to be planted the following year; no milk was to be used — it was to be drawn from the cow and poured on to the earth and all women who were found with child during the following year were to be put to death with their husbands. As the staple diet of the Zulus consisted of grain and milk products, this order was little less than a sentence of national starvation.Shaka now developed a brooding and bitter spirit: "I have conquered the world but lost my mother," he would cry, "and all taste has gone out of my life."After two months of intensive mourning over Nandi's death, the country was in a desperate state. The fields were overgrown with weeds and oneof the staple diets, namely milk, was no longer on the food list. Total ruin now faced the Zulu nation, and it was obvious that those who had not been killed by Shaka would certainly starve to death.Finally, one of Shaka's warriors, Gala, determined to end the tyranny. "It is enough," he told his family. "Someone must tell the Great Elephant.I shall do it. " Gala's family stared at him in horror: to challenge the King's wishes at such a moment was to ask for instant death. But Gala took his warrior's stick and went to Bulawayo to see Shaka. When he reached the right distance from the royal enclosure he shouted: "O King, you have destroyed your country. What will you reign over? Will you create a new race? Shall we all die because your mother died? You have destroyed the country. Your country will be inhabited by other kings, for your people will die of hunger. As for me, O King, I say you are dead yourself through this mother of yours. Stuff a stone into your stomach. This is not the first time anyone has died in Zululand!"Stuff a stone into your stomach! This was the Zulu way of saying: "pull yourself together". There was a gasp of horror from the onlookers, and the slayers took a grip on their clubs. That a man should dare to speak to the King in such a way was unthinkable, and Gala's life seemed to be measured in seconds. But Shaka turned to his Councillors and said: "What use are you to me? You never dared, like Gala, to tell me to stuff a stone in my stomach. Now let all men know that crops are to be planted as usual and that milk may be drunk again. And as for you," said Shaka, turning to Gala, "you shall have a mighty gift of many cattle."From an article in Look and LearnTEXT IIThe Stamping of the ThornsShaka's particular genius lay in his great personal attention to detail and in his capacity for hard work. If at all possible, he always insisted on inspecting everything himself, and he invariably checked all reports by getting evidence from as many sources as possible. He was a firm believer in the saying: "It is the master's eye which makes the cow grow fat."Two months after becoming king, Shaka called all his "regiments" together. His combined fighting forces totalled only about 500 men. He told them of the virtues of the short, heavy stabbing spear or assegai which he himself had designed to replace the light throwing one used in the past by the Zulu fighters. As he expected, the younger soldiers took up the new assegai with enthusiasm, soon to be followed by the older men. Next Shaka ordered all his regiments to throw away their sandals. There was considerable protest at this, especially from the older groups, buthe pointed to his own bare feet and even ran a race to prove that he was faster than any of his men wearing sandals.A month later, Shaka noticed that there was still a lot of dissatisfaction and grumbling about his order that sandals should no longer be worn. So, he told one of his regiments to collect many basketfuls of the sharp "devil thorns". These thorns have three spikes, one of which always points upwards when they lie on the ground.When enough of these thorns had been collected, Shaka ordered them to be spread over the parade ground. All his regiments were then ordered to parade a little to the side of the ground covered with thorns. Shaka then addressed them: "It has come to my ears," he said, "that some of you have soft feet, and this has made me very sad. So I have decided to help you harden them!"Shaka then ordered his men to stamp the thorns into the ground with their bare feet. Anyone who hesitated or did not stamp hard enough was to be killed at once by his "slayers".The regiments gritted their teeth and, led by Shaka himself, spread over the parade ground. Shaka turned to face them and the stamping began. Shaka's feet, however, were horny and impervious. He felt nothing; but his eagle eye at once picked out those who were hesitant. These men were told to stand forward and were then clubbed to death by the slayers. And so he went on, searching up and down the lines, but after half a dozen examples had been made all the soldiers stamped as hard as they could. When Shaka was satisfied that the thorns had been stamped out of sight he told his men they could go. That evening they were given a great feast at which they could eat and drink as much as they liked.From Shaka Zulu by E. A. Ritter。
unit 1 Mr. Doherty Builds His Dream LifeIn America many people have a romantic idea of life in the countryside. Many living in towns dream of starting up their own farm, of living off the land. Few get round to putting their dreams into practice. This is perhaps just as well, as the life of a farmer is far from easy, as Jim Doherty discovered when he set out to combine being a writer with running a farm. Nevertheless, as he explains, he has no regrets and remains enthusiastic about his decision to change his way of life.在美国，不少人对乡村生活怀有浪漫的情感。
许多居住在城镇的人梦想着自己办个农场，梦想着靠土地为生。
很少有人真去把梦想变为现实。
或许这也没有什么不好，因为，正如吉姆·多尔蒂当初开始其写作和农场经营双重生涯时所体验到的那样，农耕生活远非轻松自在。
但他写道，自己并不后悔，对自己作出的改变生活方式的决定仍热情不减。
Mr. Doherty Builds His Dream LifeJim Doherty1 There are two things I have always wanted to do -- write and live on a farm. Today I'm doing both. I am not in E. B. White's class as a writer or in my neighbors' league as a farmer, but I'm getting by. And after years of frustration with city and suburban living, my wife Sandy and I have finally found contentment here in the country.多尔蒂先生创建自己的理想生活吉姆·多尔蒂有两件事是我一直想做的――写作与务农。
