unit4themaninthewater

Unit Twelve The ugly duckling一、重点单词“四会〞单词：ugly, duck, river, baby, back, into“三会〞单词：duckling, later, quack, away, swan, open.二、重点句子：1.It is sunny and warm. Mother Duck is near the river.2.Mother Duck sits on the eggs.3.The big egg opens later. The duckling is big and grey.4.The three yellow ducklings sit on her back.The ugly duckling swims behind them.5.The ugly duckling is sad. He swims away.6.The ugly duckling has no home.7.It is spring again. The ugly duckling is in the grass.8.The ugly duckling looks into the water .9.I’m an ugly duckling. I’m a beautiful swan.三、重点知识讲解特殊的复数形式：baby—babies man—men child--childrenleaf—leaves sheep—sheep tooth—teethmouse—mice当主语为第三人称单数式，动词要发生变化：1、read—reads get—gets2、wash—washes brush—brushes go—goes3、fly—flies不规那么单词的三单形式：have—has do—does四、课文回忆It is _________ and warm. Mother Duck is _______ the river. She ______ three eggs. ______ are small. Look ! Now there_______ three small eggs and a big egg. Mother Duck______ on the eggs. Three eggs open. The ducklings are small and _______. The big egg _______ later. The duckling is big and _______. He is ______. Mother Duck ______. The three yellow ducklings _______sits on her back. The ugly duckling swims behind _______. The three yellow ducklings _______ together. They are happy. The ugly duckling is sad. He ______ away. ________ winter, it is cold. The ugly duckling has no home. It is spring again. The ugly duckling is _____ the grass. He ________ two big swans. The ugly duckling ________ into the water. He is______ beautiful swan.五、模块单词大考察星期：Sunday;___________________________________________________________月份：January ;表天气：根底练习一、请找出划线局部读音不同的单词。

新视野大学英语第三版读写教程第二册Unit 4 A Heroes among us课文翻译After the mass shooting in Tucson。

Arizona。

many hailed 20-year-old political associate Daniel Hernandez as a hero。

During the tragic event。

he fearlessly risked his life to save his boss and friend。

congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords。

Daniel held her head up so she could breathe and applied pressure to her wounds。

He comforted her with kind words。

assuring her that he would find her husband and parents and that everything would be alright。

He remained by her side throughout the ambulance ride to the hospital.Heroes come in all shapes and sizes。

They can be ordinary people who do extraordinary things。

like the firefighters and first responders who risk their lives to save others in emergencies。

They can also be everyday individuals who demonstrate acts of kindness and n。

译林牛津英语九年级下册Unit 4首字母填空随堂练习1The 91st Academy Awards were held on Feb 25. The film Green Book won Best Picture, the b__1__ award of the night. How did the film impress so many people? Part of the reason is that it speaks openly about the p__2__ of racial discrimination（种族歧视）.The film is set in the 1960s. In the movie, a white man named Tony is looking for part-timew__3__. Donald, a black jazz musician , needs a driver to take him on tour. Although Tony doesn’t like black people, he t__4__ the job. He drives Donald all over the southern United States. As Tony and Donald drive through the south, they come to understand each other more d__5__. Their own biases（偏见）toward each other’s races start to disappear as they learn m__6__ about each other. For example, in one scene, Donald helps Tony write a l__7__ letter to his wife Dolores. In another scene, they share their love of fried chicken. As time passes, they r__8__ how much they have in common.The 1960s were a h__9__ time for black people in the US. Discrimination was common, especially in the south. But Green Book s__10__ people how to fight discrimination by finding common ideas.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6.7. 8. 9. 10.2In winter, gloves can prevent our hands from getting cold, e__________ for people who ride bikes. Here is a new kind of gloves. They cost £1,000 a pair. People can talk into them as they make a call. The gloves are k__________ as Talk to the Hand.They come with a speaker into the thumb (拇指) and a microphone in to the little finger that can be c__________ to any mobile phone using Bluetooth. Mobile phone users will be abl e to keep their hands warm while they chat w__________ taking their phones out of their pockets or handbags.Designer Sean Miles combines (使结合) gloves with some p__________ of mobile phones, which are recycled through O2. He designed two pairs of the new gloves – one in pink and the other in brown and yellow. They will a__________ on a show and visitors will be able to win the gloves. If more people want to own them, they will then be produced in the near future.It is said that the n__________ of unused mobile phones in the UK is about 70 million. Bill Eyres, head of O2Recycle, asks people to recycle their phones. Mr. Miles hopes his work will make people c__________ recycling. The 41-year-old man said, “I hope that my Talk to the Hand project will get people to think again about the w__________ created by not recycling things. If a few more people pay attention to recycling rather than send them to rubbish, I think this project will have reached i__________ purpose.” Take action. Let’s enjoy a green life.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6 7. 8. 9. 10.3People in developed countries usually get their drinking water from a faucet(水龙头) or a bottle. But finding safe drinking water can be rather d __in developing countries. People in India, for example, often drink polluted water, which can lead to illness or even d ____. But one Indian company, Sarvajal, has i _____a great machine: the “water ATM”. Sarvajal’s water filtering(水过滤) network has already p ____ clean water in more than 130 places. Many of these places are small v ___. The water ATM is new and important part of Sarvajal’s business.How do these water A TMs w __? First, local workers filter water using Sarvajal’s equipment(设备). Then workers s ___ the clean water to the ATMS and sell prepaid(预付款) cards to local people. Then they can e ____ get water form the ATMs with the cards.Thanks to Sarvajal’s network and water A TMs, clean water is now a ___ to over 70,000 people in India. It makes sense that in one of the local l ______Sarvajal means “water for all”.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6 7. 8. 9. 10.4In the middle of Jiangsu pro vince, Yangzhou is an important city in the economic circle of the Yangtze River delta(三角洲). It is m 1 up of three cities of Baoying, Gaoyou, and Yizheng,three districts of Hanjiang, Guangling and Jiangdu. It has an area of 6,638 square kilometers and a population of 4.6 million, i 2 the central area of 1,100 square kilometers with a population of 1.31 million.Yangzhou is a cultural city with a long history and rich c 3 . It has a long history of about 2,500 years since King Fu Chai of Wu dug Hangou and built Hancheng. There were three g 4 times in the history of Yangzhou. It took shape in the Han Dynasty, developed in the Tang Dynasty and reached its top in the Qing Dynasty. A number of politicians, writers and a 5 such as Li Bai, Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty and Ouyang Xiu and Su Dongpo of the Song Dynasty all served as officials or went sightseeing there and l 6 many poems describing the beauty of Yangzhou. "Eight eccentrics of Yangzhou", Yangzhou school and Yangzhou opera all enjoy special qualities. In h 7 , Yangzhou was a famous and open city. In the Tang dynasty, it is the biggest city in Southeast China and one of the four ports(港口) that conducted economic and cultural exchanges with other c 8 . Over 10 thousand foreign businessmen lived in Yangzhou then. Master Jianzhen went eastward to Japan to s 9 China’s cultur e.Yangzhou is a friendly and beautiful city suitable for people to live in. Such famous well-known sayings as “In this flowery March journeyed south to Yangzhou”, “The green city is Yangzhou”, “Only Yangzhou is suitable for people to l10 in” give true expression to Yangzhou. In 2006, it was awarded the United Nations Habitat Award, the highest prize in the area of global habitat. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6. 7. 8. 9. 10.5Coco ChanelCOCO Chanel was an outstanding famous designer. Starting from a hat shop, Chanel finally made a famous brand named after h____1____. Many of her designs are still popular today. Chanel was born on August 19, 1883, in Saumur, France. Her mother p___2__ away when she was only six, leaving her father w_3___ five children. Later Channel was b__4__ up by nuts and they taught her how to sew.With the h____5___ of some friends, Coco Chanel went to Paris and opened her f___6___ store around 1910, selling women’s hats. Later she opened two m____7__ shops and began makingclothes.Chanel had great s____8____. Her fashion was totally different. She made it p___9__ tha t women could dress d__10___ and have a new look . Chanel changed the way women looked.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6. 7. 8. 9. 10.译林牛津英语九年级下册Unit 4首字母填空随堂练习答案1)1. biggest2. problem3. work4. takes5. deeply6. more7. love8. realize9. hard 10. shows2)1. especially2. known3. connected4. without5. parts6. appear7. number8. consider9. waste 10. its(3)1.difficult2.death3.invented4.provide/produced/prepared5.villages6.work7.send8.easilynguages(4)1. made2. including3. culture4. golden5. artists6. left7. history8. countries9. spread 10. live(5)1.herself2. passed3. with4. brought5. help6.first7. more8. success9. possible 10. differently。

UNIT 4 Exploring literature阅读Extended reading中的材料，选出最佳选项。

1．Where is the story set?A．On a river. B．On the sea.C．In the kitchen. D．On the land.2．Which adjective can be used to describe the old fisherman in the passage?A．Humorous. B．Stubborn.C．Strong. D．Tough.3．Why couldn't the old man reach for the water although his mouth was too dry to speak?A．Because his arms were not long enough.B．Because the water was on another boat.C．Because both of his hands were used to control the fish.D．Because there was no water left on the boat.4．Who did the old man say “Clear up，head” to?A．Himself. B．The fish.C．His fellow worker. D．His wife.[答案]1－4 BDCAWords and Phrases知识要点1particular adj.特别的，格外的；特指的；挑剔的(教材P48)Teachers in particular can provide suggestions for interesting reading materials.尤其是教师，能在有趣的阅读材料方面提出建议。

[例] I am not particular about my clothes while my wife minds what I wear.我不怎么讲究着装，我的妻子却很在乎我穿什么。

Unit 2:The cows are drinking water.（第二单元：奶牛正在喝水.）（教材17～19页）1．Look，listen and say．看一看，听一听并说一说。

（教材第17页）课文英汉互译What are you doing,Simon?西蒙，你正在干什么？I'm cleaning my room我正在打扫我的房间。

Oh,your cat is helping you!哦，你的猫正在帮你！重难点精析help的用法Oh．your cat is helping you!哦，你的猫正在帮你！【点拨】help的意思是“帮助”，在英语中是重要的动词，常用于“be动词+helping”结构，表示“正在帮助……”。

例如：My mother is helping me with my English.妈妈正在帮助我学习英语。

【知识拓展】help的用法介绍。

help sb to do sth帮助某人做某事。

例如：Can you help me to learn Chinese?你能帮助我学汉语吗？help oneself(to)自用（食物等）。

例如：Help yourself to the fish.请随便吃鱼。

help sb into/out of搀扶某人进入／走出。

例如：Can you help the patient into the hospital?你能搀扶病人进医院吗？with the help of在……的帮助下。

例如：With the help of her,he found his lost child.在她的帮助下，他找到了他失踪的小孩。

【即学即用】根据汉语意思完成句子你能帮我完成这项工作吗？you me with this work?答案速查Can，help2．Listen and read．听一听并读一读。

（教材第17页）课文英汉互译Dear Lingling,亲爱的玲玲：In this photo,we are in the mountains. The sun is shining and the wind is blowing①. The cows② are drinking water. The birds are singing. The ducks are swimming The rabbits③are jumping. Simon and I are playing hide-and-seek.We are having a lovely④ time!在这张照片里，我们在山上。

Unit 1 The four seasons Period:1 Page: 26一、教学目标1. 知识目标:Words: spring, summer, autumn, winter, cool, cold, hot, warm, sunny, windy, cloudySentences: I like spring. Spring is… It is… in spring.2. 能力目标:1.学习单词的正确读音2.运用It is… in spring.表达四个季节的气候变化情况。

通过学习儿歌，运用句子I like．．．表达对季节的喜爱。

3. 情感目标:唤起学生热爱大自然的情感。

二、教学重点、难点：四个季节的气候变化情况三、教学用具：简笔画、课件等四、教学过程Ⅰ. Pre-task preparation1. Read a rhyme: I like dogs…2. What’s your favourite animal?3. Talk about your favourite animal.They are .They have .They can .They like eating .Ⅱ. While-task procedure1. T: Animals are our friends. I like animals. And I like insects, too. I like bees. Look! The bees are flying in spring.1) Read: spring2) Let’s say: I like spring. I can… in spring.3) T: How is the weather in spring?It’s warm.4) Read a rhyme: Spring, spring,Nice and warm.Spring , spring,I like spring.2. T: Spring is warm. But now the sun is shining. ( Draw the sun.)It is summer now.1) Read: summer2) Let’s say: I like summer. I can… in summer.T: I don’t like summer. Because summer is.. S: Summer is hot.3) Ask and answer: How is the weather in summer?It’s hot./sunny.4) Replace the rhyme: ,Sunny and hot.,I (don’t) like .3. T: (Draw the wind.) Look !The wind blows and blows. Is it summer? No, it is autumn.1) Read: autumn2) Replace the rhyme: ,Windy and cool.,I (don’t) like .3) Let’s say: Autumn is windy and cool.I can in autumn.I like autumn.4. T: ( Draw a snowman) Oh, it’s a snowman. What season is it now? S: It’s winter.1) Read: winter2) Read a rhyme: Winter is cold.Put on the hat on my head.Cloudy and cold.Don’t be late for the bed.3) Let’s say: Winter is cloudy and cold.I can… in winter.I like winter.Ⅲ. Post-task activities1. Play a guessing game1) It is sunny and hot. What season is it?2) It is nice and warm. What season is it?3) It is windy and cool. What season is it?4) It is cloudy and cold. What season is it?2. Choose your favourite season and talk about it.It is .It’s and .I can see in .I can in .I like .•Ass ignment1. Copy the new words.2. Talk about your favourite season.•WritingM3U1 The four seasonsWeather Canspring nice and warm ride a bicyclesummer sunny and hot swimautumn windy and cool fly a kitewinter cloudy and cold skate2B Module 3 Things around usUnit 1 The four seasons Period: 2 Page:27,28一、教学目标1. 知识目标:Words: very, ice, ski, make a snowmanSentences: I like(doing) …in/on…2. 能力目标:1.学习单词的正确读音2.学会用I like(doing) …in/on…的句子表达自己在每个季节喜欢做的事情。

Unit 4 Stage and screenPeriod 3 Developing ideas and Presenting ideas知识点梳理I.词汇精讲·对接高考知识点1.【原句】As soon as the curtain rose，I was absorbed. 幕布刚一升起，我就被吸引住了。

absorb vt.吸收；吸引；使专心；理解，掌握；使并入，吞并【考点归纳】※absorb...into...把……吸入……absorb...from...从……吸收……※be/get absorbed in专心致志于【例句】Our good learning habits will make us absorb knowledge completely.我们良好的学习习惯会使我们把知识消化得更透彻。

【对接高考】·单句语法填空①The boy absorbed polluted air into his lungs.这个男孩把被污染的空气吸入肺中。

②This plant absorbed water from the earth around it.这株植物从周围的土壤中吸收水分。

③I don’t want to get too absorbed(absorb) in modeling.我不想太过专注于模特这一行业。

【高级表达】Tom was so absorbed in his work that he forgot to inform her of it.①So absorbed was Tom in his work that he forgot to inform her of it.(含so...that...的倒装句)②So absorbed in his work，Tom forgot to inform her of it.(用形容词短语作状语)知识点2.【原句】Leopards are such appealing creatures. 豹子是很具有吸引力的生物。

Unit 4 Everyday Use for Your GrandmamaEveryday Use for Your Grandmama 教学目的及重点难点Objectives of TeachingTo comprehend the whole storyTo lean and master the vocabulary and expressionsTo learn to paraphrase the difficult sentencesTo understand the structure of the textTo appreciate the style and rhetoric of the passage.Important and Difficult pointsThe comprehension of the whole storyThe understanding of certain expressionsThe appreciation of the writing techniqueColloquial, slangy or black EnglishCultural difference between nationalities in the USIV. Character AnalysisDee:She has held life always in the palm of one hand."No" is a word the world never learned to say to her.She would always look anyone in the eye. Hesitation was no part of her nature.She was determined to share down any disaster in her efforts.I. Rhetorical devices:Parallelism:chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffleMetaphor:She washed us in a river of...burned us... Pressed us ...to shove us away stare down any disaster in her efforts...Everyday Use for your grandmama -- by Alice WalkerEveryday Use for your grandmamaAlice WalkerI will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yester day afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that nevercome inside the house.Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her.You've no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has "made it" is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A Pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other's face. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs.Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a cark and soft-seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty manlike Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tear s in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks or chides are tacky flowers.In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open tire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill be-fore nightfall. But of course all this does not show on television. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pan-cake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Johnny Car –son has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.But that is a mistake. I know even before I wake up. Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? It seems to me I have talked to them always with one toot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them. Dee, though. She would always look anyone in the eye. Hesitation was no part of her nature."How do I look, Mama?" Maggie says, showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse for me to know she's there, almost hidden by the door."Come out into the yard," I say.Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car, sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind of him? That is the way my Maggie walks. She has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the other house to theground.Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure. She's a woman now, though sometimes I forget. How long ago was it that the other house burned? Ten, twelve years? Sometimes I can still hear the flames and feel Maggie's arms sticking to me, her hair smoking and her dress falling off her in little black paperyflakes. Her eyes seemed stretched open, blazed open by the flames reflect-ed in them. And Dee. I see her standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out of; a look at concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board of the house tall in toward the red-hot brick chimney. Why don't you do a dance around the ashes? I'd wanted to ask her. She had hated the house that much.I used to think she hated Maggie, too. But that was before we raised the money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school. She used to read to us without pity, forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know. Pressed us to her with the serious way she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand.Dee wanted nice things. A yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit she'd made from an old suit somebody gave me. She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts. Her eyelids would not flicker for minutes at a time. Often I fought off the temptation to shake her. At sixteen she had a style of her own' and knew what style was.I never had an education myself. After second grade the school was closed down. Don't ask me why. in 1927 colored asked fewer questions than they do now. Sometimes Maggie reads to me. She stumbles along good-naturedly but can't see well. She knows she is not bright. Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by. She will marry John Thomas (who has mossy teeth in an earnest face) and then I'll be free to sit here and I guess just sing church songs to myself. Although I never was a good singer. Never could carry a tune. I was always better at a man's job. 1 used to love to milk till I was hooked in the side in '49. Cows are soothing and slow and don't bother you, unless you try to milk them the wrong way.I have deliberately turned my back on the house. It is three rooms, just like the one that burned, except the roof is tin: they don't make shingle roofs any more. There are no real windows, just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in a ship, but not round and not square, with rawhide holding the shutter s up on the outside. This house is in a pasture, too, like the other one. No doubt when Dee sees it she will want to tear it down. She wrote me once that no matter where we "choose" to live, she will manage to come see us. But she will never bring her friends. Maggie and I thought about this and Maggie asked me, Mama, when did Dee ever have any friends?"She had a few. Furtive boys in pink shirts hanging about on washday after school. Nervous girls who never laughed. Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles inlye. She read to them.When she was courting Jimmy T she didn't have much time to pay to us, but turned all her faultfinding power on him. He flew to marry a cheap city girl from a family of ignorant flashy people. She hardly had time to recompose herself.When she comes I will meet -- but there they are!Maggie attempts to make a dash for the house, in her shuffling way, but I stay her with my hand. "Come back here," I say. And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe.It is hard to see them clearly through the strong sun. But even the first glimpse of leg out of the car tells me it is Dee. Her feet were always neat-looking, as it God himself had shaped them with a certain style. From the other side of the car comes a short, stocky man. Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. I hear Maggie suck in her breath. "Uhnnnh," is what it sounds like. Like when you see the wriggling end of a snake just in front of your toot on the road. "Uhnnnh."Dee next. A dress down to the ground, in this hot weather. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes. There are yel-lows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun. I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out. Earrings gold, too, and hanging down to her shoulders. Bracelets dangling and making noises when she moves her arm up to shake the folds of the dress out of her armpits. The dress is loose and flows, and as she walks closer, I like it. I hear Maggie go "Uhnnnh" again. It is her sister's hair. It stands straight up like the wool on a sheep. It is black as night and around the edges are two long pigtails that rope about like small lizards disappearing behind her ears."Wa-su-zo-Tean-o!" she says, coming on in that gliding way the dress makes her move. The short stocky fellow with the hair to his navel is all grinning and he follows up with "Asalamalakim, my mother and sister!" He moves to hug Maggie but she falls back, right up against the back of my chair. I feel her trembling there and when I look up I see the perspiration falling off her chin."Don't get up," says Dee. Since I am stout it takes something of a push. You can see me trying to move a second or two before I make it. She turns, showing white heels through her sandals, and goes back to the car. Out she peeks next with a Polaroid. She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting there in front of the house with Maggie cowering behind me. She never takes a shot without making sure the house is included. When a cow comes nibbling around the edge of the yard she snaps it and me and Maggie and the house. Then she puts the Polaroid in the back seat of the car, and comes up and kisses me on the forehead.Meanwhile Asalamalakim is going through motions with Maggie's hand.Maggie's hand is as limp as a fish, and probably as cold, despite the sweat, and she keeps trying to pull it back. It looks like Asalamalakim wants to shake hands but wants to do it fancy. Or maybe he don't know how people shake hands. Anyhow, he soon gives up on Maggie."Well," I say. "Dee.""No, Mama," she says. "Not 'Dee', Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo!""What happened to 'Dee'?" I wanted to know."She's dead," Wangero said. "I couldn't bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me.""You know as well as me you was named after your aunt Dicle," I said. Dicie ismy sister. She named Dee. We called her "Big Dee" after Dee was born."But who was she named after?" asked Wangero."I guess after Grandma Dee," I said."And who was she named after?" asked Wangero."Her mother," I said, and saw Wangero was getting tired. "That's about as far back as I can trace it," I said.Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches."Well," said Asalamalakim, "there you are.""Uhnnnh," I heard Maggie say."There I was not," I said, before 'Dicie' cropped up in our family, so why shouldI try to trace it that far back?"He just stood there grinning, looking down on me like somebody inspecting a Model A car. Every once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over my head."How do you pronounce this name?" I asked."You don't have to call me by it if you don't want to," said Wangero."Why shouldn't I?" I asked. "If that's what you want us to call you, we'll call you. ""I know it might sound awkward at first," said Wangero."I'll get used to it," I said. "Ream it out again."Well, soon we got the name out of the way. Asalamalakim had a name twice as long and three times as hard. After I tripped over it two or three times he told me tojust call him Hakim-a-barber. I wanted to ask him was he a barber, but I didn't really think he was, so I don't ask."You must belong to those beet-cattle peoples down the road," I said. They said "Asalamalakirn" when they met you too, but they didn't Shake hands. Always too busy feeding the cattle, fixing the fences, putting up salt-lick shelters, throwing down hay. When the white folks poisoned some of the herd the men stayed up all night with rifles in their hands. I walked a mile and a half just to see the sight.Hakim-a-barber said, "I accept some of their doctrines, but farming and raising cattle is not my style." (They didn't tell me, and I didn't ask, whether Wangero (Dee) had really gone and married him.)We sat down to eat and right away he said he didn't eat collards and pork was unclean. Wangero, though, went on through the chitlins and corn bread, the greens and every-thing else. She talked a blue streak over the sweet potatoes. Everything delighted her. Even the fact that we still used the benches her daddy made for the table when we couldn't afford to buy chairs."Oh, Mama!" she cried. Then turned to Hakim-a-barber. "I never knew how lovely these benches are. You can feel the rump prints," she said, running her handsunderneath her and along the bench. Then she gave a sigh and her hand closed over Grandma Dee's butter dish. "That's it!" she said. "I knew there was something I wanted to ask you if I could have." She jumped up from the table and went over in the corner where the churn stood, the milk in it clabber by now. She looked at the churn and looked at it."This churn top is what I need," she said. "Didn't Uncle Buddy whittle it out of a tree you all used to have?""Yes," I said."Uh huh, " she said happily. "And I want the dasher,too.""Uncle Buddy whittle that, too?" asked the barber.Dee (Wangero) looked up at me."Aunt Dee's first husband whittled the dash," said Maggie so low you almost couldn't hear her. "His name was Henry, but they called him Stash.""Maggie's brain is like an elephants," Wanglero said, laughing. "I can use the churn top as a center piece for the alcove table,”she said, sliding a plate over the churn, "and I'll think of something artistic to do with the dasher."When she finished wrapping the dasher the handle stuck out. I took it for a moment in my hands. You didn't even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood. In fact, there were a lot of small sinks; you could see where thumbs and fingers had sunk into the wood. It was beautiful light yellow wood, from a tree that grew in the yard where Big Dee and Stash had lived.After dinner Dee (Wangero) went to the trunk at the foot of my bed and started rifling through it. Maggie hung back in the kitchen over the dishpan. Out came Wangero with two quilts. They had been pieced by Grandma Dee and then Big Dee and me had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them. One was in the Lone Star pattern. The other was Walk Around the Mountain. In both of them were scraps of dresses Grandma Dee had worn fifty and more years ago. Bit sand pieces of Grandpa Jarrell's Paisley shirts. And one teeny faded blue piece, about the size of a penny matchbox, that was from Great Grandpa Ezra's uniform that he wore in the Civil War."Mama," Wangero said sweet as a bird. "Can I have these old quilts?"I heard something fall in the kitchen, and a minute later the kitchen door slammed."Why don't you take one or two of the others?” 1 asked. "These old things was just done by me and Big Dee from some tops your grandma pieced before she died.""No," said Wangero. "I don't want those. They are stitched around the borders by machine.""That'll make them last better," I said."That's not the point," said Wanglero. "These are all pieces of dresses Grandma used to wear. She did all this stitching by hand. Imagine!" She held the quilts securely in her arms, stroking them."Some of the pieces, like those lavender ones, come from old clothes her mother handed down to her,” I said, movi ng up to touch the quilts. Dee (Wangero)moved back just enough so that I couldn't reach the quilts. They already belonged to her. "Imagine!" she breathed again, clutching them closely to her bosom."The truth is," I said, "I promised to give them quilts to Maggie, for when she marries John Thomas."She gasped like a bee had stung her."Maggie can't appreciate these quilts!" she said. "She'd probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use."age ’em for long enough "I reckon she would," I said. "God knows I been savwith nobody using 'em. I hope she will! ” I didn't want to bring up how I had offered Dee (Wangero) a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had told me they were old-fashioned, out of style."But they're priceless!" she was saying now, furiously, for she has a temper. "Maggie would put them on the bed and in five years they'd be in rags. Less than that!" "She can always make some more,” I said. "Maggie knows how to quilt. "Dee (Wangero) looked at me with hatred. "You just will not understand. The point is these quilts, these quilts!""Well," I said,, stumped. "What would you do with them?""Hang them," she said. As it that was the only thing you could do with quilts.Maggie by now was standing in the door. I could almost hear the sound her feet made as they scraped over each other."She can have them, Mama,” she said like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her. "I can 'member Grandma Dee without the quilts."I looked at her hard. She had filled her bottom lip with checkerberry snuff and it gave her face a kind of dopey, hangdog look. It was Grandma Dee and Big Dee who taught her how to quilt herself. She stood there with her scarred hands hidden in the folds of her skirt. She looked at her sister with something like fear but she wasn't mad at her. This was Maggie's portion. This was the way she knew God to work.When I looked at her like that something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet. Just like when I'm in church and the spirit of God touches me and I get happy and shout. I did something I never had done before: hugged Maggie to me, then dragged her on into the room, snatched the quilts out of Miss Wangero's hands and dumped them into Maggie's lap. Maggie just sat there on my bed with her mouth open."Take one or two of the others," I said to Dee.But she turned without a word and went out to Hakim-a-barber."You just don't understand," she said, as Maggie and I came out to the car."What don't I under stand?" I wanted to know."Your heritage," she said. And then she turned to Maggie, kissed her, and said, "You ought to try to make some-thing of yourself, too, Maggie. It's really a new day for us. But from the way you and Mama still live you'd never know it."She put on some sunglasses that hid everything above the tip of her nose and her chin.Maggie smiled; maybe at the sunglasses. But a real mile, not scared. After we watched the car dust settle I asked Maggie to bring me a dip of snuff. And then the two of us sat there just enjoying, until it was time to go in the house and go to bed.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTES1) Alice Walker: born 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, America and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Her books include The Third Life of Grange Copeland( 1970 ), Meridian ( 1976 ), The Color Purple(1982), etc.2)"made it": to become a success, to succeed, either in specific endeavor or in general3) Johnny Carson: a man who runs a late night talk show4)hooked: injured by the horn of the cow being milked5) Jimmy T: 'T' is the initial of the surname of the boy Dee was courting.6)"Wa-su-zo-Tean-o!": phonetic rendering of an African dialect salutation7) "Asalamalakim": phonetic rendering of a Muslim greeting8) Polaroid: a camera that produces instant pictures9) the Civil War: the war between the North and the South in the U. S.(1861-1865)10) branches: branches or divisions of a family descending from a common ancestor11) Ream it out again: "Ream" is perhaps an African dialect word meaning: "unfold, display". Hence the phrase may mean "repeat" or "say it once again"12) pork was unclean: Muslims are forbidden by their religion to eat pork because it is considered to be unclean.13) Chitlins: also chitlings or chitterlings, the small intestines of pigs, used for food,a common dish in Afro-American households14) rump prints: depressions in the benches made by constant sitting15) sink: depressions in the wood of the handle left by the thumbs and fingersBackground informationThe author wrote quite a number of novels, among them were The Color Purple（普利策小说奖）and The American Book Award which won the Pulitzer Prize of Fiction（美国图书奖）. In 1985, the Color Purple was made into a movie which won great fame .Everyday Use for your grandmama 课文讲解/Detailed StudyEveryday Use for Your Grandmama--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Detailed Study of the Text1. wavy: having regular curvesA wavy line has a series of regular curves along it.The wavy lines are meant to represent water.Here in the text the word describes the marks in wavy patterns on the clay ground left by the broom.此处加一细曲线图)*image - 1* (此处加一细曲线图2. groove: a long narrow path or track made in a surface, esp. to guide the movement of sth.A groove is a wide, deep line cut into a surface.The cupboard door slides open along the groove it fits into.3. homely: simple, not grand, (of people, faces, etc.,) not good-looking, uglyIf someone is homely, they are not very attractive to look at; uased in Am.E.4. awe: Awe is the feeling of respect and amazement that you have when you are faced with sth. wonderful, frightening or completely unknown., wonderThe child stared at him in silent awe.5. confront: to face boldly or threateningly, encounterIf a problem, task, or difficulty confronts you, or you are confronted with it, it iss sth. that you cannot avoid and must deal withI was confronted with the task of designing and building the new system.6. totter: to move in an unsteady way from side to side as if about to fall, to walk with weak unsteady stepsThe old lady tottered down the stairs.7. limousine: A limousine is a large and very comfortable car, esp. one with a glass screen between the front and back seats. Limousines are usually driven by a chauffeur [ou]cf:sedan / saloon is a car with seats for four or more people, a fixed roof, and a boot (the space at the back of the car, covered by a lid, in which you carry things such luggage, shopping or tools) that is separate from the seating part of the car convertible: a car with a soft roof that can be folded down or removedsports car: a low usu. open car with room for only 2 people for traveling with high power and speedcoupe [‘ku:pei] a car with a fixed roof, a sloping back, two doors and seats for four peoplestation wagon (Am E) / estate car (Br.E) a car which has a long body with a door at the back end and space behind the back seats8. gray / grey: used to describe the colour of people’s hair when it changes from its original colour, usu. as they get old and before it becomes white9. tacky: (Am.E, slang) shabby10. overalls: are a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a jacket. Your wear overalls over your clothes in order to protect them from dirt, paint, etc. while you are working工装裤)The breast pocket of his overalls was filled with tools. (11. hog:a. a pig, esp. a fat one for eatingb. a male pig that has been castratedc. a dirty personswine: (old & tech) pigboar [o:]: male pig on a farm that is kept for breedingsow [au]: fully grown female pig12. sledge hammer: large, heavy hammer for swinging with both hands, a large heavy hammer with a long handle, used for smashing concrete大麦13. barley: 大麦糊状物) made of milk, flour and14. pancake: a thin, flat circle of cooked batter (eggs. usu. rolled up or folded and eaten hot with a sweet or savory filling inside15. sidle: walk as if ready to turn or go the other wayIf you sidle somewhere, you walk there uncertainly or cautiously, as if you do not want anyone to notice youA man sidled up to me and asked if I wanted a ticket for the match..16. shuffle: slow dragging walkIf you shuffle, you walk without lifting your feet properly off the groundHe slipped on his shoes and shuffled out of the room.If you shuffle, you move your feet about while standing or move your bottom about while sitting, often because you feel uncomfortable or embarrassed.I was shuffling in my seat.cf:totter (n.6), sidle(n. 15), shuffle17. blaze: to burn with a bright flameA wood fire was blazing, but there was no other light in the room.n. the sudden sharp shooting up of a flame, a very bright fireThe fire burned slowly at first, but soon burst into a blaze.榛子) family,18. sweet gum tree: a large North American tree of the witch hazel (with alternate maplelike leaves, spiny (多刺的) fruit balls, and flagrant juice美洲金缕梅, 落叶灌木或小乔木. 原产于北美和亚洲. 其分叉小枝从前用为魔杖, 这寻找地下水,故俗称魔杖.19. dingy: dirty and fadedA building or place that is dingy is rather dark and depressing and does not seem to have been well looked after,.This is the dingiest street of the town.Clothes, curtains, etc. that are dingy are dirty or faded.20. raise: to collect togetherraise an army / raise enough money for a holidayHis wife raised the money by selling her jewellery.We’re trying to raise funds to establish a scholarship.21. underneath: (so as to go) under (sth..)The letter was pushed underneath the door.Did you find very much growing underneath the snow?(Here it suggests a repressive and imposing quality in her voice.)22. make-believe: a state of pretending or the things which are pretendedShe lives in a make-believe world / a world of make-believe.the story’s only make-believe.Don’t be afraid of monster - - theThe little girl made believe she was a princess.23. shove: to push, esp. in a rough or careless wayThere was a lot of pushing and shoving to get on the bus.Help me to shove this furniture aside.If you shove sb. or sth., you push them with a quick, rather, violent movement. He dragged her out to the door and shoved her into the street.24. dimwit: (infml) an ignorant and stupid persondim: faint, not brightwit: intelligence, wisdomat one’s wit’s end: at the end of one’s tether麦斯林纱, 平纹细布)25. organdy: (Br. E organdie) very fine transparent muslin (with a stiff finish (最后一层涂饰), very fine rather stiff cotton material used esp. for women’s dresses(蝉翼纱, 玻璃纱)。

八年级上册英语Unit4基础知识（词汇+句型+语法）测试卷一、根据句意及首字母或汉语提示完成句子1.The young man won first p in the singing competition.2.Anna is from a p family and she had a hard life in the past.3.The old woman g the boy five dollars for help last night.4.Not e is good at music. Some can’t sing well or play the piano well.5.Nick often helps others, so he is a good (榜样) to all the students.6.English plays an important (作用) in our work.7.The artist showed great (天赋) in art when he was very young.8.As students, we must take our study (认真地).9. The (屏幕) of the television is the biggest there, and it costs much money.10. The singer sang two s in the program. I’m a singer this evening.11. Mary is (相当) friendly. All of us would like to make friends with her.12. He likes eating (新鲜的) fruit and vegetables.13. Do you know what movies are playing now at that (剧院).14. Li Y undi is a famous piano (演奏者).15. What do you think of the (服务)in the restaurant?16. My brother is (富有创造力的) and he always comes up with good ideas.17. The girl has a great (天资)for music.18. The roads are becoming more and more (拥挤的).19. Jim played the guitar the most (美好地) at Mary’s birthday party.20. (每个人)needs a friend.21. My brother sings the (最好的) of all my three friends.22. David gets many (奖品) in the piano competition.23. Can you get two t to the movie this evening tor us?24. He works as a r at the TV station.25. We usually have three m a day. We don't have afternoon tea.二、用括号内所给单词的适当形式完成句子1. I think Town Cinema is the worst, because its seats are very (comfort)．2. We can buy clothes the most (cheap) in Dream Clothes.3. They went to the (bad)restaurant in town last night.4. Jim writes the (careful) of all the students.5. Town Cinema has the worst service, but we can sit most (comfortable) there.6. Mike did (badly)than John in the bike riding.7. The water in the lake is becoming and (bad).8. I think Susan is the (careful) one of the three girls.9. Hangzhou is one of the (beautiful) cities in China.10. Which is the (far) city of all?11.Qingdao is the best city for (visit) because it's the most beautiful.12.On weekends, the zoo is (crowd) with people.13.He is joking. Don't take it (serious)．14.You can buy the (fresh) food in the supermarket on center street.15. Pan Changjiang is the (funny) person I know.16. This story is (interesting)one I have heard.17. They try to look for the (exciting) magicians.18. The school has (few) students in Kunming. There are only 43 students in the school.19. Anna plays the piano than Susan.And Sally plays it of them. (well)20. We know China has (many) people in the world.21. Who is the (win)in the English speaking competition?22. The old man is lying in the sun (comfortable).23. I don't want to go to Jasper’s Clothes Store. It has the (bad) clothes in town.24. Our hotel has the friendliest (serve).25. Who sings (beautiful) in your class?三、改为同义句。