大学英语综合教程2第七单元课文Print still Kin

Unit7 Learning about EnglishPart II Reading TaskComprehensionContent QuestionPair Work1.It has borrowed and is still borrowing massively from other languages. Today it has anestimated vocabulary of over one million words.2.They don’t like borrowing fo reign words. They try to ban words from English.3.Old English or Anglo-Saxon English.4.The Germanic tribes brought it to the British Isles in the 5th century.5.They are usually short and direct.6.They use words derived from Old English.7.An English judge in India noticed that several words in Sanskrit closely resembled somewords in Greek and Latin. A systematic study later revealed the Indo-European parent language.8.Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, English, etc.9.There were three languages competing for use in England.10.Words from Greek and Roman classics came into the English language.11.The great principles of freedom and rights of man were born in England, then the Americanscarried them forward.12.No. English is and has always been the tongue of the common people. There should not beany fence around it to protect its so-called purity.Text OrganizationWorking On Your Own1.Part One: Massive borrowing from other languages is a major feature of the English language. Part Two: the history of the English language from the Indo-European parent language to modern English.Part Three: Tolerance, love of freedom, and respect for the rights of others---these qualities in the English-speaking people explain the richness of their language.2.Paras. 10-11: Germanic tribes came to settle in Britain and brought Anglo-Saxon words---Old English.Para. 12: The Christian religion enriched English with words from Greek and Latin.Para. 13: the Vikings from Scandinavia came with words from Old Norse.Para. 14: the Norman Conquest---French influence.Para. 15: The European renaissance and the printing pressbrought many new words from Latin and Greek.Para. 16: The American revolution---the emergence of a new variety---Amercan English. Language Sense Enhancement1.(1)judge(2)resembled(3)systematic (4)descended(5)lost to us(6)come up with(7)assume(8)established (9)drifted(10)became known asVocabulary I1.1)Strictly speaking2)drifted3)resembles4)invaded5)is conquered6)fascinating 7)snack8)put; into practice9)source10)climate11)surrendered12)were; aroused2.1)an absolute necessity rather than a luxury.2)is a valuable addition to the football team.3)will get out of control, if the firemen do not arrive within ten minutes.4)Alternative but to go via Vancouver to get to Seattle.5)Declared all beef imports will be banned for the next six months as an emergencymeasure to stop the spread of mad disease.3.1)systematic; have invented; to a very real extent; mysteries2)to establish; to be modified/modifying3)tolerance towards; strike out; enrichII.Synonyms1.a)wish b)wish c)want d)want/wish 2.a)skin b)hide/skin c)hide d)skin3.a)raise/rear b)raise c)rear/raise d)raise4.a)royalb)kingly/royal c)sovereignd)royal/kinglyage1.Indeed2.though3.Frankly4.Moreover5.To my knowledge6.however7.nevertheless8.Yet9.instead10.in other wordsComprehensive Exercises I.cloze1.(1)fascinating(2)tolerance(3)invented(4)addition (5)ban(6)corrupt(7)out of control(8)influenced(9)elite(10)came up with(11)establishing(12)Massive(13)sources (14)enrich 2.(1)early(2)similar(3)source(4)observation (5)examine(6)features(7)declared(8)stronger(9)accident(10)sprungII.Translation1.1)Many small businesses have sprung up in the city since the new policy went into effect.2)On hearing the news, she smiled briefly, and then returned to her habitual frown.3)He paused for effect, then said: “We can reach/enter these markets through newchannels.”4)The addition of a concert hall to the school will help it nourish young musical talents.5)We have no way to protect our personal liberties until we have established a sovereignstate. / We can’t protect our personal liberties unless we, first of all, establish a sovereignstate.2.Though how the English language came into existence remains a mystery to many people, linguists believe that English and most other European languages have descended from a common source: the Indo-European parent language. English was first spoken by the Anglo-Saxons who invaded England in the fifth century. They passed onto us the basic vocabulary of English. In over fifteen centuries of its development, English has enriched itself by massive borrowing. As British immigrants landed in America and established the United States as an independent nation, a new variety was added to the English language: American English. Though some people worry that the language is running out of control, many native speakers of English take pride in the tolerance of their language.。

第七单元TEXT英国乡间也许只是由于这个岛国的自然地势，绝大多数英国人感到生活在低地比生活在高地要舒适得多。

人们心中常有的英国乡村是在谷地里，从山上可以俯瞰它的全貌，房子簇拥在古老的教堂周围；同样，这个国家的人们对农场的普遍概念也是山谷地里宽敞的家园，绿树成荫。

广阔的田野延伸开去，就像张开的手掌接受普照的阳光，不远处还有潺潺的河流。

在英格兰，总有小河在不远处流淌；尽管说按照欧洲大陆的标准，我们的河流多半很小而且不重要，但也许正因为如此，人们对它们更感到亲切、热爱。

当然，它们不像莱茵河、多瑙河、伏尔加河那样，有许多民族的歌曲为之传唱，但至少它们能供男孩们洗澡，直至今天还能让农夫偶然在里面抓到鲑鱼，在这儿可以打捞水田芥，种柳枝编篮子。

虽说那些曾经靠他们而转动的磨坊水车轮如今已沉寂且塞满水草，人们仍旧在夏日的傍晚在拦河坝上探出身去观望燕子在桥下掠过清澈的河水。

这些河流不管是多么不重要，却在极不经意地而又令人心旷神怡地影响着周围居民的生活。

有一段时间我住在科茨沃尔兹西沿的一个农舍里。

我的花园前面的草场，春天就是一个长满黄花九轮草的花园，夏天则布满了对叶兰，而在青草被刈割之后兰花就也纷纷倒下。

草场一直向下延伸到塞文河谷。

站在家门口，越过低地的果园和牧场，我可以望一边延伸到莫尔文山，另一边到威尔士山脉的果园牧场。

远处那蓝色的山脊可能不时为云雾所遮盖，但很少有一天会看不清楚那小河流向宽阔、多泥的河口。

年复一年，塞文河已成为我驰目的景色的一部分，它甚至已成为我意识的一部分。

（吕睿中译, 胡一宁审校）READ MORE乡村生活人们会激动地说：“哦，你真有福气，住在巴斯，它是个美丽而又可爱的历史之地。

”然而你所能想起来的只有那糟糕的停车场，拥挤的旅游人，昂贵的商店，狭隘偏执的市议会，还有那糟糕的交通…幸运的是我并不住在巴斯，而是住在差不多10英里开外的埃文河谷里一个名叫林普利·斯托克的小村。

如今，在城里工作的专业人员宁愿选择住在乡村，人们认为这种现象很平常了。

Unit 7 Letter to a B StudentYour final grade for the course is B、A respectable grade、Far superior to the "Gentleman's C" that served as the norm a couple of generations ago、But in those days A's were rare: only two out of twenty-five, as I recall、Whatever our norm is, it has shifted upward, with the result that you are probably disappointed at not doing better、I'm certain that nothing I can say will remove that feeling of disappointment, particularly in a climate where grades determine eligibility for graduate school and special programs、Disappointment、It's the stuff bad dreams are made of: dreams of failure, inadequacy, loss of position and good repute、The essence of success is that there's never enough of it to go round in a zero-sum game where one person's winning must be offset by another's losing, one person's joy offset by another's disappointment、You've grown up in a society where winning is not the most important thing—it's the only thing、To lose, to fail, to go under, to go broke—these are deadly sins in a world where prosperity in the present is seen as a sure sign of salvation in the future、In a different society, your disappointment might be something you could shrug away、But not in ours、My purpose in writing you is to put your disappointment in perspective by considering exactly what your grade means and doesn't mean、I do not propose to argue here that grades are unimportant、Rather, I hope to show you that your grade, taken at face value, is apt to be dangerously misleading, both to you and to others、As a symbol on your college transcript, your grade simply means that you have successfully completed a specific course of study, doing so at a certain level of proficiency、The level of your proficiency has been determined by your performance of rather conventional tasks: taking tests, writing papers and reports, and so forth、Your performance is generally assumed to correspond to the knowledge you have acquired and will retain、But this assumption, as we both know, is questionable; it may well be that you've actually gotten much more out of the course than your grade indicates—or less、Lacking more precise measurement tools, we must interpret your B as a rather fuzzy symbol at best, representing a questionable judgment of your mastery of the subject、Your grade does not represent a judgment of your basic ability or of your character、Courage, kindness, wisdom, good humor—these are the important characteristics of our species、Unfortunately they are not part of our curriculum、But they are important: crucially so, because they are always in short supply、If you value these characteristics in yourself, you will be valued—and far more so than those whose identities are measured only by little marks on a piece of paper、Your B is a price tag on a garment that is quite separate from the living, breathing human being underneath、The student as performer; the student as human being、The distinction is one we should always keep in mind、I first learned it years ago when I got out of the service and went back to college、There were a lot of us then: older than the norm, in a hurry to get our degrees and move on, impatient with the tests and rituals of academic life、Not an easy group to handle、One instructor handled us very wisely, it seems to me、On Sunday evenings in particular, he would make a point of stopping in at a local bar frequented by many of the GI-Bill students、There he would sit and drink, joke, and s with men in his class, men who had but recently put away their uniforms and identities: former platoon sergeants, bomber pilots, corporals, captains, lieutenants, commanders, majors—even a lieutenant colonel, as I recall、They enjoyed his company greatly, as he theirs、The next morning he would walk into class and give these same men a test、A hard test、A test on which he usually flunked about half of them、Oddly enough, the men whom he flunked did not resent it、Nor did they resent him for shifting suddenly from a friendly gear to a coercive one、Rather, they loved him, worked harder and harder at his course as the semester moved along, and ended up with a good grasp of his subject—economics、The technique is still rather difficult for me to explain; but I believe it can be described as one in which a clear distinction was made between the student as classroom performer and the student as human being、A good distinction to make、A distinction that should put your B in perspective—and your disappointment、Perspective、It is important to recognize that human beings, despite differences in class and educational labeling, are fundamentally hewn from the same material and knit together by common bonds of fear and joy, suffering and achievement、Warfare, sickness, disasters, public and private—these are the larger coordinates of life、To recognize them is to recognize that social labels are basically irrelevant and misleading、It is true that these labels are necessary in the functioning of a complex society as a way of letting us know who should be trusted to do what, with the result that we need to make distinctions on the basis of grades, degrees, rank, and responsibility、But these distinctions should never be taken seriously in human terms, either in the way we look at others or in the way we look at ourselves、Even in achievement terms, your B label does not mean that you are permanently defined as a B achievement person、I'm well aware that B students tend to get B's in the courses they take later on, just as A students tend to get A's、But academic work is a narrow, neatly defined highway compared to the unmapped rolling country you willencounter after you leave school、What you have learned may help you find your way about at first; later on you will have to shift to yourself, locating goals and opportunities in the same fog that hampers us all as we move toward the future、写给中等生的一封信您的期末成绩就是一个B,一个过得去的等级。

大学体验英语二（综合教程）Unit 7Family TiesListen and TalkLead inA family begins with two people。

Love deepens and grows between a couple and soon a wedding1)____, the beginnings of a family. Children are born，growing and 2）___with every passing year。

When grown up, they，too，fall in love and marry. The 3)___of creating a family begins again, adding generations to the family。

A day in the life of a family is 4）___work and school, errands and chores。

At the end of a busy day we can find children 5)____sharing the events of their day with Mom and Dad。

It is a time 6）__—working together and playing together. Reading to the children, 7)____songs，doing homework together，and playing games are some 8)____that take place during family time。

A television 9）___may be what each family member needs to 10)____and enjoy some quiet time together。