Unit 1
Section A
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Pre-reading activities-1
BAABB ACC
Pre-reading activities-2
1. Reasoning skills deal with the process of getting from a problem to a solution or a conclusion. By improving your reasoning skills, you can improve your success in doing things. Specifically, strong reasoning skills can help you to:
? improve the quality and validity of your own arguments;
? improve your ability to assess the quality and validity of others' arguments;
? make more logical decisions;
? solve problems more efficiently and effectively.
To give a specific example, every day you have to make various decisions, and yet even some simple decisions like deciding what to wear when you're getting dressed in the morning require some reasoning skills. When you decide what to wear, you take many factors into consideration – the weather forecast, the current temperature, your plans for the day (where you are going, what you will do, and whom you will meet), your comfort level, and so on. In real life, you need to face decisions that are much more difficult than choosing what to wear. So, it is really important to have strong reasoning skills.
2. The factors below are usually important for a logical conclusion:
? critical thinking skills;
? facts;
? evidence;
? sound reasoning process, etc.
Reading comprehension-1
1. The deal between them is that the narrator gives Rob his leather jacket, and Rob, in exchange, gives the narrator his girlfriend. They make the deal because they want to get something from each other: Rob is crazy about fashion, and he wants to own the narrator's fashionable leather jacket; the narrator longs to have a beautiful girlfriend, and Rob's girlfriend is beautiful.
2. He thinks a beautiful and well-spoken girlfriend will assist him to land a job and achieve success in an elite law company.
3. The narrator feels this way because he can't stop thinking that his purpose of dating Polly is not for romance but for improving her intelligence, and he can't let Polly know his plan.
4. The narrator decides to teach Polly logic because he believes logic is essential to clear thinking. By teaching Polly logic, he can make her intelligent.
5. When the narrator teaches her logic, Polly responds either shortly with \blinking without saying anything. These responses give us an impression that Polly is a nice but rather simple-minded girl.
6. Yes. He is only too successful in teaching Polly logic because in the end when he asks Polly to be his girlfriend, Polly refuses his request by applying all the logical fallacies he has taught her.
7. Because he wants to make one more attempt to win Polly as his girlfriend by asking her to forget what he has taught her.
8. The end of the story is ironic because Polly turns out to be smarter than the narrator. First, she is able to refute all his arguments as logical fallacies. Then, she discloses that she and Rob have played a trick on him. The narrator has been too smart for his own good.
Reading comprehension-2
1. In my opinion, all the three characters are complex. The following are my descriptions about them.
The narrator:
? Smart: He is an excellent law student and knows a lot about logic.
? Sophisticated: He believes a beautiful and intelligent girlfriend will benefit him in his future career.
? Arrogant and self-conceited: He thinks highly of himself but badly of his roommate.
? Over-confident: He thinks the girl will surely choose him rather than Rob.
? Stupid and simple-minded: He knows nothing about what can happen in real life.
Rob:
? Fashionable and cool: He loves fashion and cares a lot about his appearance.
? Dishonest: He plays a trick on the narrator to get his leather jacket.
? Clever: He is able to get what he wants without losing anything.
Polly:
? Beautiful and nice: She is pretty and easy to be with.
? Shallow: She chooses Rob simply because he is fashionable.
? Smart: She learns quickly and is full of wit when refusing to be the narrator's girlfriend.
2. The story itself includes the fallacy \narrator assumes that all girls would be happy to date a boy whose future is somewhat guaranteed. Therefore, Polly, a beautiful and wealthy young girl, would certainly fall in love with him – \ingenious student\and \– \However, to the narrator's surprise and disappointment, Polly chooses Rob in the end because Rob is fashionable and cool.
3. ? Love is blind. It is ridiculous to use logic to deal with love.
? Smart people sometimes can make wrong judgments.
? Smart people are sometimes too arrogant and confident.
? Smart people may fall victims to their own smartness.
4. ? Yes. Because not only would teaching logic in school help minimize the overwhelming number of fallacious assertions, but also would serve as an excellent precursor to higher mathematics and help make other courses such as geometry and calculus less of a mystery to most students.
? No. Because logic can be learned through other subjects such as math, philosophy, reading, etc. It's not necessary to offer a special course about it.
5. Yes, certainly. Actually, logical fallacies are very common in our everyday life. I myself commit logical fallacies very often, too. For example, when I first met my roommate in college, I felt very surprised when he told me he didn't like noodles. I asked, \China like eating noodles. You are from the north, why don't you like noodles?\falsely asserted that all people in the north should like noodles, and there should be no exception to this premise.
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Words in use
1.crumbled
2.discern
3.surpass
4.shrewd
5.conversion
6.distort
7.radiant
8.ingenious
9.stumped 10.proposition
Word building: Practice-1 1.delicacy 2.bankruptcy 3.accountancy 4.secrecy 5.vacancy 6.urgency 7.atmospheric 8.magnet 9.metallic 10.gloom 11.guilt 12.mastery
Word building: Practice-2 1.bankruptcies 2.atmospheric 3.delicacies 4.urgency 5.Accountancy 6.gloom
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