Unit 5
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Part I Pre-Reading Task
Script for the recording:
To begin with, let's listen to a song called There 's No Place Like Home for the Holidays.
There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays
Perry Como
On, there's no place like home for the holidays 'Cause no matter how far away your roam If you long lor the sunshine and a friendly gaze For the holidays you can't heat home sweet home
I met a man who lived in Tennessee
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And he was looking for
Pennsylvania and some homemade pumpkin pie Now in Pennsylvania folks are traveling Down to Dixie's sunny shore The Atlantic to Pacific
Ok, the season is terrific
Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays For the holidays you can't heat home sweet home
Perry Como has a very fine, silky voice. Just the sort of voice one needs for a sentimental song full of familiar phrases such as \he is singing about Thanksgiving, as he sings of \Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving for Americans is much like the Spring Festival for us, a time when families try to get back together. In America people often travel many miles to get back to their
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hometown, whether it's from north to south, \for the American South) or from east to west, \
Part II Text A
Text Organization
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Parte Part One Paragraphs Paras 1-9 Main Ideas On Thanksgiving Day 1943, as a young coastguardsman at sea, the writer came up with the idea of expressing his gratitude to people who had helped him before. The writer wrote three thank-you letters to his father, the Rev. Nelson and his grandmother. The writer got three letters in reply. The writer wishes everyone to find the good and praise it. Part Two Part Three Part Four Paras 10-16 Paras 17-23 Paras 24-26 Correspondents Father Letters Sent Thanks him for teaching the writer from boyhood to love books and reading. , Thanks him for his morning school prayers. I Letters Received Tells the writer how he, as a teacher and a father as well, felt content with his own son. Tells the writer about his retirement coupled with self-doubt, and the re-assurance brought to him by the writer's letter. Expresses her loving gratefulness to her grandson. The Rev. Nelson Grandmother Thanks her for teaching the writer how to tell the truth, to share and to be forgiving, and for her good cooking and her sprinkling the writer's life with Stardust. - It6 - Appendix I
Vocabulary
I. 1. 1) sprinkled 2) in turn
3) reversed 4) repay ? 5) at sea 6) on your behalf 7) statement 8) specific 9) got to 10) in secret 11) unloaded 12) accord 13) weep 14) quote 15) under way 2. 1) came across 2) make out 3) hope for 4) turns (it) over 5) put away 6) brings back 7) got to 8) go about
3. 1) As supplies of traditional fuels diminish, people are working to increase the use of solar
energy.
2) Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
3) While it is true that children of today are exposed to more information than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated.
4) Since she borrowed those books from the library she has been immersed in British history and culture.
5) Everything changed in a flash on June 1, 2000 when he lost both legs in a serious traffic accident.
4. 1) I'd like to express my sincere thanks to everyone who has been so considerate of my well-
being. My heart is filled with gratitude that words cannot express.
2) After everyone assembled on the playground amid the noise and excitement of the specta-tors, our coach again impressed on us the need to do our best in quest of excellence. 3) Everything I saw in my hometown was marvelous. I could hardly believe that it had undergone such swift changes through cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers and the rest in the past few years. II. Collocation
1, fond of
3. thoughtful of
2. sick of
4. confident of
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5. conscious of 7. guilty of
6. critical of 8. uncertain of
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II. Usage
1. To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. 2. It is cooperation, rather than conflict, that will enable you to achieve your success. 3. Ann made students think for themselves rather than telling them what to think. 4. I think I'll stay at home this evening rather than go / going out.
5. Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than plan / planning for them. Structure
1.1) Fifty years ago it was taken for granted that marriage was the goal of every young woman's inmost thought, and the aim for her of her father and mother.
2) Most young people take tap water for granted because they've never lived without it. 3) I'd always seen them together and just took it for granted that they were married. 4) It is a very common phenomenon among people that the first gift is regarded with affection and the second is taken for granted. 2. 1) The 1980s saw the start of the development of some special economic zones in China. 2) The past decade has seen the release of many films, some of them good, some of them bad, and a few of them very brilliant.
3) The last 100 years have seen the material wealth of humankind explode beyond all previous imagining.
4) We have been at your service for five years. The future will see us developing new ideas and plans to suit more of your needs.
Comprehensive Exercises
I. Cloze (A)
1) at sea 3) reverse 5) repay
7) appreciated
2) Turning over 4) got to 6) gratitude 8) assembled
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9) immersed in 10) unloading
11) swift (B)
1) all 2) reason 3) better 4) for
5) year 6) together 7) because 8) by 9) brings 10) that 11) for 12) the 13) harvest 14) from 15) if 16) reward 17) itself
18) food
II. Translation Amid the atmosphere of Thanksgiving, rather than joining his friends in celebration of the holiday, George was immersed in the diary left to him by his father, who died at sea after he completed two successive trips around the world. The diary brought back every moment George had spent with his father and many of the specific things his father did on his behalf. George's father used to impress on him the need to undergo all kinds of hardship in quest of excellence. He also taught him that nothing in the world could be taken for granted. Even today, George still remembers how his father would quote Aesop's famous saying \souls\ Part III TextB
Comprehension Check l.c 2. b 3. d 4. a
5. c Translation
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大学英语综合教程3Unit 5答案
