大學(xué)綜合英語第一冊unit1

1、大學(xué)綜合英語第一冊unit1第一頁，共56頁。 Learning Objectives By the end of this unit, you are supposed to grasp the authors purpose of writing and make clear the structure of the whole passage through an intensive reading of Text 1 Never Say Gprehend the topic sentences in Text 1 thoroughly and be able to paraphrase

2、 them.get a list of new words and structures and use them freely in conversation and writing.be aware of the cross-cultural differences in the social behavior of Giving Gifts. 第二頁，共56頁。Teaching ProceduresPre-reading QuestionsText I. Never Say Goodbye Passage Structure analysis Main idea of the passa

3、ge Language points sentence studies vocabulary studiesText II. The Dinner Party 第三頁，共56頁。 Have your family ever moved from one place to another? If you have, how did you feel when you were going to be away from the old house for good?Pre-reading questions第四頁，共56頁。Text 1: Never Say Goodbye第五頁，共56頁。Wh

4、en I was ten I was suddenly confronted with the anguish of moving from the only home I had ever known. My whole life, brief as it was, had been spent in that big old house, gracefully touched with the laughter and tears of four generations.When the final day came, I ran to the haven of the small bac

5、k porch and sat alone, shuddering, as tears welled up from my heart. Suddenly I felt a hand rest upon on my shoulder. I looked up to see my grandfather. “It isnt easy, is it，Billy?” he said softly, sitting down on the steps beside me.“Grandpa,” I replied through my tears, “how can I ever say goodbye

6、 to you and all my friends？”For a moment he just stared off into the apple trees. “Goodbye is such a sad word,” he said. “It seems too final, too cold, for friends to use. We seem to have so many ways of saying goodbye and they all have one thing in common: sadness.”I continued to look into his face

7、. He gently took my hand in his. “Come with me, my friend,” he whispered.We walked, hand in hand, to his favorite place in the front yard, where a huge red rosebush sat conspicuously alone.“What do you see here, Billy?” He askedI looked at the flower, not knowing what to say, and then answered, “I s

8、ee something soft and beautiful, Grandpa.”Kneeling, he pulled me close. “It isnt just the roses that are beautiful, Billy. It is that special place in your heart that makes them so.”His eyes met mine again. “Billy, I planted these roses a long, long time ago- before your mother was even a dream. I p

9、ut them into soil the day my first son was born. It was my way of saying thank-you to God. That boys name was Billy, just like yours. I used to watch him pick roses for his mother.”I saw my grandfathers tears. I had never seem him cry before. His voice became hoarse.第六頁，共56頁?！癘ne day a terrible war

10、came, and my son, like so many sons, went away to fight a great evil. He and I walked to the train station together Three months later a telegram came. My son had died in some tiny Village in Italy. All I could think of was that the last thing I said to him in this life was goodbye.”Grandpa slowly s

11、tood up. “Dont ever say goodbye, Billy. Dont ever give in to the sadness and the loneliness of that word. I want you to remember instead the joy and the happiness of those times when you first said hello to a friend. Take that special hello and lock it away within you - in that place in your heart w

12、here summer is an always time. When you and your friends must part, I want you to reach deep within you and bring back that first hello.” A year and half later, my grandfather became gravely ill. When he returned from several weeks in the hospital, he wanted his bed next to the window, where he coul

13、d see his beloved rosebush.Then the family was summoned and I returned to the old house. It was decided that the oldest children would be allowed to say their goodbyes.When it came to my turn, I noted how tired he looked. His eyes were closed and his breathing was slow and hard.I took his hand as ge

14、ntly as he had once taken mine.“Hello, Grandpa,” I whispered. His eyes slowly opened.“Hello, my friend,” he said, with a brief smile. His eyes closed again and I moved on.I was standing by his rosebush when an uncle came to tell me that my grandfather had died. Remembering Grandpas words, I reached

15、deep within me for those special feelings that had made up our friendship. Suddenly, and truly, I knew what he had meant about never saying goodbye - about refusing to give in to the sadness. 676 words第七頁，共56頁。 The passage can be divided into three parts. Part One: (Paragraphs 1-4) bringing up the p

16、roblem the author was confronted with: it is hard to overcome the sadness as the moment of parting drew near. So he turned to his grandpa for help. Para. 1: beginning of the story -introducing the backgroundPara. 2-4: the author learned from his grandfather the implication of GOODBYEStructure Analys

17、is 第八頁，共56頁。 Part Two: (Paragraphs 5-13) By narrating his sad experience of the loss of his eldest son during the war, the grandpa illustrates how one can overcome the sad feeling resulting from the loss of someone dear to him by recalling not the moment of parting but the happy times spent together

18、. Para. 5-9: the grandpas intention of saying “it isnt just the roses that are beautiful; it is that special place in your heart that makes them so.” Para 10-13: The telling of the story related to the rosebush. The message of the text is conveyed in Para. 13第九頁，共56頁。 Part Three: (Para. 14-20)By the

19、 way he behaved when confronted with another sad moment-the loss of his grandpa, the author shows us that he came to understand what his grandpa had taught him.第十頁，共56頁。Main Idea of the passage The text is the authors recall of his most important and unforgettable experiences that came about when he

20、 was between 10 and 12. He had learned from his grandfather the profound meaning of “ Never say goodbye” and became firm and strong-willed as a child. The author wants to tell us that we should never give in to sadness, that we should always be firm and strong-willed, and that we should always remem

21、ber the joyful and happy events of life as well as our cherished friendship. This message is conveyed through his grandfathers narration of his own life experience. 第十一頁，共56頁。LANGUAGE POINTSConfront1) be faced with and have to deal with E.g. The actress was confronted by a large group of reporters a

22、s she left the stage door. 2) force to deal with or accept the truth of; bring face to face with E.g. When the police confronted her with the evidence, she confessed she was guilty.第十二頁，共56頁。Touched with the laughter and tears of four generations touched with the happiness and bitterness of four gen

23、erations. The sentence implies that “the house which had seen and/witnessed the joys and sorrows of the four generations of my family.” touch: have an effect on ones feelings; to cause one to feel pity, sympathy, etc. E.g. His sad story so touched us that we nearly cried. * be touched with: have a c

24、ertain amount of quality E.g. Her hair is touched with gray.第十三頁，共56頁。 Well- (of liquid) flow or start to flow E.g. Blood welled (out) from the cut. She was so moved that tears welled (up, forth, out) in her eyes. - To rise or surge from an inner source E.g. Anger welled up in me. 第十四頁，共56頁。 rest on

25、/upon lean on; to be supported byE.g. The girls head rested on her hands. (esp. of a proof, argument, etc.) be based on; be grounded on; depend on E.g. Your argument rests on a statement than cannot be proved. through ones tears With tears in ones eyes; while shedding tears Through: among or between

26、 the parts or members of E.g. I searched through my papers for the missing documents.第十五頁，共56頁。 stare look steadily for a long time, esp. in great surprise or shock E.g. He sat staring into space, thinking deeply. be very plain to see; to be obvious E.g. The lies in the report stared out at us from

27、every paragraph. * stare off: stare away; to move ones eyes第十六頁，共56頁。whisper speak or say very quietly so that only a person cloze by can hear E.g. She whispered a warning to me and then disappeared. (of the wind, etc) make a soft sound E.g. The leaves of the trees were whispering in the wind. 第十七頁，

28、共56頁。Before your mother was even a dream before your mother was born / before we thought of having a daughter.pick 1) take what one likes or considers best, or more suitable from a group. E.g. He has been picked to head the planning committee. 2)gather; pull or break off (part of a plant) from a tre

29、e or a plant E.g. He picked some roses and gave them to his girlfriend. 3) take up or remove something separately or bit by bit using the fingers, a beak, a pointed instrument, etc. E.g. The dog picked the bone clean.Idioms: pick out, pick over, pick up pick out: to choose somebody/something from a

30、number of people/thingspick over: to look carefully at (vegetables, fruit, clothing, etc.) in order to select the best or throw away the bad onespick up: to become better, improve; to give somebody a lift in a car第十八頁，共56頁。 lock it away within you Fasten it firmly in your mind; imprint it on your mi

31、nd; bear it in your mind and never forget it. in that place in your heart where summer is an always time. In that place in your heart where there is always sunlight and warmth. / which is always filled with joy and happiness. Here SUMMER is a metaphor. “Always” here is used by the Grandpa as an adje

32、ctive, which revealed that he was not well-educated. *Sociolinguistic knowledge: Your accent betrays you.第十九頁，共56頁。TEXT 2: The Dinner PartyMona Gardner The country is India. A colonial official and his wife are giving a large dinner party. They are seated with their guests- army officers and governm

33、ent attaches and their wives, and a visiting American naturalist - in their spacious dining room, which has a bare marble floor, open rafters, and wide glass doors opening onto a veranda. A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who insists that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chai

34、r-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a colonel who says that they havent. “A womans unfailing reaction in any crisis,” the colonel says, “is to scream. And while a man may feel like it, he has that ounce more of nerve control than a woman has. And that last ounce is what counts.” The American does not

35、join in the argument but watches the other guests. As he looks, he sees a strange expression come over the face of the hostess. She is staring straight ahead her muscles contracting slightly. With a slight gesture she summons the servant standing behind her chair and whispers to him. The servants ey

36、es widen, and he quickly leaves the room. 第二十頁，共56頁。 The American comes to with a start. In India, milk in a bowl means only one thing - bait for a snake. He realizes there must be a cobra in the room. He looks up at the rafters - the likeliest place - but they are bare. Three corners of the room ar

37、e empty, and in the fourth the servants are waiting to serve the next course. There is only one place left - under the table. His first impulse is to jump back and warn others, but he knows the commotion would frighten the cobra into striking. He speaks quickly, the tone of his voice so arresting th

38、at it sobers everyone. “I want to know just what control everyone at this table has. I will count three hundred - thats five minutes - and not one of you is to move a muscle. Those who move will forfeit fifty rupees. Ready!” The twenty people sit there like stone images while he counts. He is saying

39、 “ two hundred and eighty ” when, out of the corner of his eye he sees the cobra emerge and make for the bowl of milk. Screams ring out as he jumps to slam the veranda doors safely shut. “You were right, Colonel!” the host exclaims. “ A man had just shown us an example of perfect control.” “ Just a

40、minute,” the American says, turning to his hostess. “Mrs. Wynnes, how did you know that cobra was in the room?” A faint smile lights up the womans face as she replies,”because it was crawling across my foot.”第二十一頁，共56頁。Comprehension questions1.On what topic did the colonel and the young girl disagre

41、e?2.What kind of expression did the American notice came over the face of the hostess?3.What did the American realize the bowl of milk meant?4.What did the American realize was happening?5.How did the American react to the crisis?6.What did the American say to make sure that everyone remained perfec

42、tly still?7.Why did the hostesss face light up with a faint smile?8.What qualities did both the American and the hostess display?第二十二頁，共56頁。Main IdeaThe Dinner Party, one of the best known short stories of Mona Gardner, takes place in India earlier last century, when India was still a colony ruled b

43、y Great Britain. At the very beginning, there is a disagreement between the colonel and a young girl as to whether women are still easy to be scared. Then a snake came into the room, the hostess, with the help of an American, escaped the danger of a possible attack by the cobra. In the story, both t

44、he man and the woman demonstrated the marvelous quality of self-control.第二十三頁，共56頁。 Notes to text IIMona Gardner (1990-1981) was born in Seatle, Washington. She lived in Hong Kong, South Africa, and California, among other places, and she also traveled widely. Many of her novels and stories are in I

45、ndia. The Dinner Party, her best known short story, take place in India earlier last century, when India was still a colony ruled by Great Britain.Colonial official: a British citizen appointed to a governmental position in India, a British colony for many, many years until 1947.Attaches: persons wi

46、th special duties on the staff of an embassy to another country. that woman have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse-era: that women have passed the time when they would jump on a chair at the sight of a mouse. Here the word, a typical example of journalistic style, “jumping-on-a

47、-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse” is a compound adjective formed from an attributive clause. Back to the text第二十四頁，共56頁。And while a man may feel like it he has that ounce more of nerve control than a woman has. And that last ounce is what counts. Even though a man is also likely to “jump on a chair at

48、 the sight of a mouse”, he has at least the last bit of self-control to refrain himself from jumping up. And it is the self-control that matters.The American comes to with a start. The American becomes aware of the potential danger with a sudden shock. This sentence is grammatically loose for the ph

49、rase “comes to”, being used to express that somebody begins to realize something is not followed by a necessary object, i.e., something happening etc.Rupees: Indian coins. Ten rupees was worth about one US dollar at the time of the story. Back to the text第二十五頁，共56頁。Confront: be faced with and have t

50、o deal withAnguish: very great pain and sufferingGracefully: politely and pleasantlyLaughter and tears: happiness and unhappinessHaven: a place of calm and safetyPorch: a roofed entrance built out from a houseShudder: shake uncontrollably for a moment ot of fear, coldor dislike; to make a strong sha

51、king movement Well up/ out: (of liquid) flow or start to flow Rest: to lean on; to be supported by ; (esp. of a proof, argument, etc.) be based on; to be grounded on; depend onThrough ones tears: when someone is cryingStare off into: stop watching sth. and look at sth. else steadily/ to stare away;

52、to move ones eyes from a point nearby to a farther place and fix them on it or look at it steadilyHave sth. in common: share the same quality or interestLook into: to try to find out about; to examine the meaning or cause of Gently: in a manner or way that is not rough, violent, or severe Back to th

53、e Text第二十六頁，共56頁。Whisper: speak or say very quietly, so that only a person close by can hear; (of the wind, leaves, etc.) make a soft sound Hand in hand: holding each others hand; happening together and closely connected Conspicuously: easily seen or noticedKneel: go down onto ones kneesHoarse: soun

54、ding rough and hard. e.g. have a hoarse voiceEvil: great wickedness or misfortune; morally bad; wickedTiny: extremely smallGive in: to allow oneself to be beaten; to agree to do something that you had at first opposedLock sth. away: keep sth. SecretPart: be no longer together (part from somebody; pa

55、rt with something; part company with somebody/something)Bring back: make sb. remember sth.; to cause to returnGravely: very seriouslyBeloved: deeply lovedSummon: to order officially to come Back to the text第二十七頁，共56頁。My whole life, brief as it was, had been spent in that big house, gracefully touche

56、d with the laughter and tears of four generations. I spent my whole life, although it was so brief, in that big house, in which four generations had lived harmoniously and experienced both happiness and sadness.Brief as it was: In a formal style, as can be used in a special word order to mean althou

57、gh. The construction suggests a very emphatic contrast.Cold as it was, they went out. (Although it was so cold, they went out.)Bravely as they fought, they had no chance of winning. (Although they fought so bravely they no chance of winning.)I felt a hand rest on my shoulder. The word feel can be fo

58、llowed by the “object + infinitive without to” structure in an informal style. Did you feel the earth move? He felt her hand tense up in his. Back to the Text第二十八頁，共56頁。Rosebush: 玫瑰叢玫瑰叢I planted these roses a long, long time ago before your mother was even a dream: I planted these roses a long, long

59、 time ago before your mother was born.I used to watch him pick roses for his mother. The word watch can be followed by the “object + infinitive without to” or “object + -ing” structure. There is often a difference of meaning. We use infinitive after watch tro indicate the whole of an action or event

60、, and we use an ing form to suggest part of an action. I watched her cross the road. (from one side to the other) I watched her crossing the road. (in the middle of the road, on her way across)so many sons, went away to fight a great evil: Many sons left home to fight against the Fascist Nazi. Back