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Unit4
PartⅠ Warm-up A. Look and listen
Look at the pictures. Listen to the statements and fill in the blanks with the words in the list.
trap covered final
pressure trip merit
suicide morals
discovered terrible
wronged corrupt
worship desirable
1. The world-famous photo taken by a South African photographer brought him so much criticism and (pressure ) that he ended up committing (suicide).
2. The (morals ) of the photographer of this picture were questioned by the public, as he seemed to have anticipated the accident caused by the hole in the street (covered ) by
rainwater.
3. The 2006 World Cup (final ) will be remembered more for a headbutt (用头撞人) by the French soccer star, Zidane, than the fact that Italy won the world's most (desirable )
sporting prize for the fourth time.
4. It is a shame that an innocent driver would fall into a (trap ) set by a hitchhiker pretending to be sick, and be (wronged ) and fined for his kindness.
5. Some (corrupt ) officials (worship ) money to such an extent that, in their eyes, money is everything while shame means nothing. No wonder their motto is no longer to serve the
people but to serve the RMB.
B. Ask and answer the questions
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Ask and answer the following questions with a partner.
1. Do you think it is justified to succeed by making a victim of someone else? Your answer：
Reference answer： No, no one has the right to sacrifice others for their own purposes. 2. Do you know anyone who often defames others? How do you deal with such people? Your answer：
Reference answer： Yes, one of my classmates seems to enjoy defaming anyone that displeases him. I always stay away from such people.
Part Ⅱ Listen and watch
Section One Listen for skills
A. Listen and practice
Listen to the expressions of time and put them down in the blanks. 1. in (the 3rd century) 4. in (the late 1590s) 7. (378 B.C.) 9. (year) (1998)
2. in (the '90s)
5. in (the 18th century) 8. (year) (1609) 10. (789 A.D.)
3. in (the early 1770s) 6. (year) (2010)
Section Two Special English programs
Item 1
1) Listen to the report and choose the best answer to the following question. Which parts of the woman's face were severely injured by her dog? (b)
a. Her eyes, cheeks, and lips. b. Her lips, chin, and nose. c. Her ears, nose, and forehead. d. Her nose, mouth, and ears.
2) Now listen to the report again and choose the best answer to the following question. Why won't some doctors perform a face transplant? (d)
a. They might lose their job if they did. b. It's cruel to cut tissue off another person.
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c. A face is an important part of a person's identity. d. There are medical and moral issues.
Notes
1. brain-dead: The brain of a person who is brain-dead has completely ceased functioning, as evidenced by absence of brain activity on an electroencephalogram for a specific length of time. Brain death is sometimes used as a legal definition of death. The significant point is that the brain is no longer capable of sustaining the rest of the body's systems without artificial life support.
2. Le Parisien: 《巴黎人》。A French daily newspaper covering both international and national news, and local news of Paris and its suburbs. It is the best-selling national newspaper in France.
Transcript
Doctors in France have carried out the first partial face transplant. They took the nose, lips, and chin from a woman who was declared brain-dead and used them to repair the face of another woman. The thirty-eight-year-old French woman who received the tissue had been severely injured in the face by her dog.
Last week the newspaper Le Parisien published a few comments that it said she made by telephone from her hospital bed. The woman, identified only as Isabelle D., said she was \very well.\
There were still questions, however, about how the woman came to be injured by her dog earlier this year. Some news reports have said she tried to kill herself with sleeping pills. There
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上海交大应用型大学英语视听说3Unit4
