新视野大学英语第三版第三册第四单元-Section-Bppt课件

Questions and Answers
Find the answers of the following question in the text.
1. What the type of disaster in this passage? Earthquake 2. How about the city after the disaster? The whole city was in ruins and the whole city was crashed at Wednesday night. 3. Why there was noone in the street at the midnight on Wednesday? The city has been wiped out and absolutely abandoned so that no one could do anything to fight against the disaster. 4. How did the author feel about the loss suffered by people after the earthquake? He did feel sympathetic.
Intensive Reading
Para. 1
On Wednesday morning, at a quarter past five, there was an earthquake. A minute later, fires broke out everywhere. There was no organization, no communication. This very modern city was all of a sudden in ruins, with the streets destroyed and forming great depressions in the earth, the telephone lines falling every way, and the water mains pouring out all over the place. The city seemed to have been wiped out by this random act of nature.

但1913至1938年间发行的野牛硬币，却是 为了纪念由美国拓居引起的两起相互关联 的悲剧。
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go against 违背
1.说谎有悖于我的原则。 Lying went against my principles.
2.我应当警告你，如果这案子对你不利，你就可能坐牢。 I should warn you that if the case goes against you, you may find yourself in prison.
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nickel
n.
[C] a coin of the US or Canada worth 5 cents
obverse
Reverse
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frontier n.
1. [C] the border between two countries, or (esp. in the past in the US) the border between cultivated land where people live and wild land 2. [C] (usu. Pl.) the border between what is known and what is not known
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2. But the Buffalo nickel, produced from 1913 to 1938, honored a pair of connected tragedies from the settlement of the American frontier — the destruction of the buffalo herds and the American Indians.

Why a picture with peasants as the theme of the picture can become the nation's cultural symbol? Interpretation for this painting has always been a mystery. At that time this picture cause of great controversy, some art critics accused which is "insulting ordinary people's cartoons of the country".
Former president
Some of the details
The 1913 Statue of Liberty nickel could be so expensive prices? Is it the mystery; it survived only 5 medals, two of which are in private collections, two medals were preserved Museum, another one's whereabouts is a mystery. But produced a mystery, which caused many American coin enthusiasts to see mentality and avid interest 。
Fashion magazine
Special Occasion
On the eve of her 50th birthday ,barbie still wasn't slowing down . Amid the economic crisis, she'd spent two months working at SeaWorld ,in hospital and schools, and as a gymnastics coach. She even landed an internship at a fashion magazine.

☐ 4 (He agrees that rich people should be taxed more to help the poor.)
☐√ 5
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Listening to the world
6 Work in pairs and discuss the questions. 1. What do you think is the relationship between money and happiness? In my opinion, money doesn’t necessarily bring happiness. There are lots of rich people in the world who live unhappy lives. Happiness is just a state of mind, and it mainly depends on how you look at people and things. However, having money sometimes does make us feel a little happier because it can help us to gain what we want more easily.
Additional Notes
2 Use related signal words or expressions to identify different types of supporting details ranging from reasons and examples to facts, quotes and statistics.
When we hear the underlined phrases above, we can know that the speaker is going to provide related supporting details.