Unit6
Lead-in
1.The second sentence is an elaboration of the first one.In other words,the second sentence explains what the first sentence exactly means.
2.Political,religious,and cultural factors can also influence the way people乌校look at life.
3.This is an open question.Ask students to air their own views and give an explanation.
Text comprehension
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1.Refer to Paragraph 1.No,he doesn't.Instead,he finds the activity justifiable.For one thing,he thinks the activity is well-meant,i.e.he wants to collect more pathological evidence in order to give the patients more effective treatment.For another,his activity is not spying in the true sense,for the act is far from furtive.
2.Refer to Paragraph 4.The fact that there are no get-well cards,no small,private caches of food and no day-old flowers shows that he has been abandoned by his family and friends.
3.Refer.to Paragraph 7,As a blind man,he is restrained in activity.Now without legs he is completely confined to bed.Like a caged bird,he long or
freedom and dreams of going back to his career.Thus it is understand able why he repeatedly asks for shoes.
4.Refer to Paragraphs 9-10.This is the way he expresses his wrath with the u~fate.He is deprived of sight and now his legs.Deserted by society,he is left公with very little.Indignant as he is,he can avenge himself upon nobody.What he can do is only to crash his plate against the wall to vent his anger and despair.Moreover,he would rather die in a stroke like the plate than linger in agony.
5.Refer to Paragraph 11.The laughter is unique as is indicated in Paragraph
11.It comes both from the pleasure after revenge by crashing the plate and the hope to extricate himself from his agony by means of an abrupt death like the plate.Since freedom in this material world is impossible to him,he wishes to have it in the other world.
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1."Yes,I am going down,·he says,meaning literally that he is going down with the bed but metaphorically that his physical condition is going from bad to worse.
2.The wild,relaxed laughter is a totally new sound in the world that nobody has ever heard.The joyful laughter could even give a promising future to cancer patients.
3.The aide looks across at me,shaking her head to express her frustration and pursing her lips to signal her annoyance.
Structural analysis of the text
This text can be divided into three parts.Part 1,i.e,Paragraph 1,serves as an introduction to the background of the story.Part 2,i.e,Paragraph 2-13describes the strange behavior of a particular patient dubbed 'the discus thrower and his conflict with the health workers.Part 3,i.e,Paragraph 14-15,”tells readers about the death of the patient.Here are the suggested headlines for the three parts.Part 1;Spying on Patients:a Habit of Mine;Part 2:Encounters with a Particular Patient;Part 3:The Death of the Patient.
Rhetorical features of the text
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The questions he asks himself:
"Ought not a doctor to observe his patients by any means and from any stance,that he might the more fully as百度竞价推广ble evidence?"
"Is he mute as w as blind?"
"What is he thinking behind those lids that do not blink?Is he remembering a time when he was whole?Does he dream of feet?Or when his body was not a rotting log?"
These questions call for no answer but they reveal the inner thoughts of the narrator.He seems to be trying to place himself in the position of the patient fora batter understanding of the patient`s psychology.
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The questions he asks in his dialogue with the patient."How are you?""How do you feel?""Anything more I can do for you?"
These questions help to show that the narrator is very patient with and responsible for his patient.
Vocabulary
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1.reddish brown
2.low-growing
3.almost unbearable degree
4.brings the spoon into light contact with
5.visit the patients
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1.accomplice
2.probing
3.furtive
4.solid
5.pruned
6.acknowledging
7.hefted
8.unwrapped
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1.peculiar
2.impression
3.dwellings
4.delivery
5.disinfectants
6.as百度竞价推广bly
7:probings
8.awkwardly
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B A A C D C A A
V
1.stare
2.live
3.sway
4.satire
5.tense
6.remarkable
7.desirable
8.stretch
VI
1.location
2.praises
3.much
4.supporting
5.usually
6.bring together
Grammar
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1.you have enjoyed it
2.she needs a good rest
3.you have had a good time
4.someone has smoked in here
5.I had run a marathon
6.Susan isn't coming
7.he were an old man
8.the world were coming to an end
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1.I were a child
2.it happened only yesterday
3.she knew everything.
4.to let the painful memories pass
5.awakened from some dream
6.searching for something
7.she were the Queen
8.he were a patient
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J D B A G H E F I C
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1.e.g.When she came in from the rainstorm,she looked as though she had just taken a shower with her clothes on.
2.e.g.Diana stood motionless at the end of the diving board,hands at her sides,heels slightly raised,every muscle anticipating action.
Translation
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1.这让他看起来像一盘盆景，树根和树枝都被修剪掉了，仿佛一棵微缩版的大树
2.他两腿的残肢失去了腿和脚的负荷，翘在半空，露出双腿的病况高校卖河3.他双手端起盘子，放到右手上，移到手心里，然后把它稳住
4.传来盘子在他床脚处的墙上撞碎的声音与湿诡淀的炒蛋轻轻地掉到地板上的声音
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1.Searchlights fingered across the black water.
2.Since a robbery happened in this building,the night watchman has become more careful and makes his rounds once every hour.
3.With nothing left to prop him up,he nevertheless stuck to his plan.
4.He is paid by the police to spy on the activities of the terrorists.
5.That man's behavior looks very suspicious.He is pretending to sleep,but now and then he steals a furtive glance at the passers-by.
6.The social and economic changes that have taken place in this country are so sweeping that it has dwarfed all its neighbors:
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爸爸那些浆得发硬的衬衣是个问题。他穿衬衣时，把它套住头往下拉，两只手左右乱伸，探寻袖子。新衬衣很结实，经得起如此拉扯，不会撕裂，但经爸爸穿过后，非常快就不那样结实了。第一他了解，他会听到它开始撕裂的声音，这使他感到讨厌。他憎恨任何改卖脆弱的表现，无论是人还是物。他愤怒时探索袖子会比以前愈加用力，接着会传来衬衣撕裂时刺耳的僻啪声和妈妈大声的抱怨。
Exercises for integrated skills
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The longer I live,/the more I realize the impact of attitude on life./Attitude to me is more important than facts./It is more important than the past,/than education,than money,/than circumstances,than failures,than successes,/than what other people think or say or do./It is more important than appearance,gifted ability,or skill It will make or break a company,a church,a home./The remarkable thing is /we have a choice every day /regarding the attitude we will embrace from that day./We cannot change our past./We cannot change the fact /that people will act in certain ways./We cannot change the inevitable./The only thing that we can do/is play on the one string that we have /and this string is Attitude./1 am convinced /life is 10 percent what happens to me/and 90 percent how I react to it./And so it is with you.
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H G A N O L E F C M
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