新世纪英语专业综合教程(第二版)第3册Unit2

nullUnit2Unit2Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 1Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 1Watch the video clip and answer the following questions.Why does Samantha refuse to read Ally’s resume? 2. Why does Samantha need help?Audiovisual SupplementCultural InformationBecause she says, “References are much more important in this line of work. Tony vouched for you. That’s all I care about.”Her husband has been back East for the last two months opening their New York office. Meanwhile she is here desperately trying to balance — being a mother, being a father, and running an entire advertising agency. So she has come to the inevitable conclusion that she needs help.Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 2Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 2Audiovisual SupplementCultural InformationVideo Script1Video Script1Ally: Hi! Ally Leeds. I have a 9:00 with Samantha Ryland. Secretary: Yeah. Have a seat right over there and she should be right with you. Can I get you anything? A raspberry scone? Ally: No, thank you. I’m allergic to raspberries. Secretary: Okay. Justin: Oh, oh. Oh my, I’m so sorry. Ally: It’s okay. You’ve got a little something on … Justin: I have insurance if you want to exchange information. Ally: You’ve got — you’ve got a little something on your chin. Uh, let me.Audiovisual SupplementCultural InformationVideo Script2Video Script2Secretary: Justin, Dolan’s waiting for you in the conference room. Justin: I’ll be right there. Good? Ally: Yeah. Justin: I gotta go. Secretary: Okay, these are your messages. And that’s Ally Leeds. Your 9:00. Samantha: Oh. Mm, 10 minutes early. Promptness is a virtue today. How do you do? Samantha Ryland. Ally: Ally Leeds. Samantha: Perfect. Follow me. Hold my calls … unless it’s Donner. I just wanted to say what an incredible honour it is to finally meet you. I mean, what you did with the Fiora Perfume line was genius.Audiovisual SupplementCultural InformationVideo Script3Video Script3Audiovisual SupplementCultural InformationAlly: Yeah, it smelled like wet dog. Well, Edwin land used to say that marketing is what you do when your product’s no good. Samantha: Mmm, you did your homework. Have a seat. Ally: Is that the original Pumpkin Patch Doll? Samantha: Sure is. Put the Ryland Agency on the map. But that was a long time ago. When men were men and ads were ads. Let’s talk — what’s your name? Ally: Ally. Samantha: Ally Leeds. Ally: Let me give you a copy of my resume.Video Script4Video Script4Audiovisual SupplementCultural InformationSamantha: Ah, keep it. References are much more important in this line of work. Tony vouched for you. That’s all I care about. So how do you feel about personal fitness? Ally: I jog three miles a day. Samantha: And Shakespeare? Ally: Well, actually I played the Courtezan in a college production of “A Comedy of Errors.” I believe in incorporating a little dramatic flair — Samantha: What about homework? Ally: I’m a big believer of always being prepared.Video Script5Video Script5Audiovisual SupplementCultural InformationSamantha: Terrific. Can you be available at a moment’s notice? Ally: I’m very dedicated. Samantha: Also I’m looking for a disciplinarian. Ally: I ran my division for two weeks when Johnson went on vacation. Samantha: Hmm. Good. I believe in being honest so I’m gonna be straight with you. My husband has been back East for the last two months opening our New York office. Meanwhile I am here desperately trying to balance — being a mother, being a father, and running an entire advertising agency. I have come to the inevitable conclusion that I need help. Excuse me.Cultural information 1Cultural information 11. A recent global survey by the Centre for Work-Life Policy, a New York-based nonprofit group, found that 45% of executives were “extreme” workers, putting in more than 60 hours a week. Some 65% of men said their work stopped them from having a strong relationship with their children. The same was true for 33% of women.Audiovisual SupplementCultural InformationCultural information 2Cultural information 23. A person who is addicted to work may experience depression, anxiety, anger, high blood pressure, and a weakened immune system as a result of the high stress. 4. Spouses and children can also be affected, with workaholics having a higher divorce rate than others. Audiovisual SupplementCultural Information2. Workaholism has not been extensively researched and does not have a clear, clinical definition, but it can be a serious problem. Global Reading - Text AnalysisGlobal Reading - Text AnalysisIn a colloquial style, the author paints an ironic picture of the life of a company man and his family. The man was a workaholic who died of a heart attack, which surprised no one. He devoted all his thoughts and energy to work and everything else was secondary to that and the end might be considered tragically heroic: he worked himself to death.Structural AnalysisText AnalysisStructural analysisStructural analysisStructural AnalysisText AnalysisThe introductory part.This part reports how devoted the man was to his work.This part describes Phil’s role in his family.This is the end of the essay. After the cause of Phil’s death being restated, the author goes on to report the company president’s inquiry for his successor.14-16Detailed reading1-2Detailed reading1-2Detailed ReadingThe Company Man Ellen Goodman 1 He worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning. 2 The obituary didn’t say that, of course. It said that he died of a coronary thrombosis — I think that was it — but everyone among his friends and acquaintances knew it instantly. He was a perfect Type A, a workaholic, a classic, they said to each other and shook their heads — and thought for five or ten minutes about the way they lived. Detailed reading3-4Detailed reading3-43 This man who worked himself to death finally and precisely at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning — on his day off — was fifty-one years old and a vice-president. He was, however, one of six vice-presidents, and one of three who might conceivably — if the president died or retired soon enough — have moved to the top spot. Phil knew that. 4 He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night, during a time when his own company had begun the four-day week for everyone but the executives. He worked like the Important People. He had no outside “extracurricular interests,” unless, of course, you think about a monthly golf game that way. To Phil, it was work. He always ate egg salad sandwiches at his desk. He was, of course, overweight, by 20 or 25 pounds. He thought it was okay, though, because he didn’t smoke. Detailed ReadingDetailed reading5-7Detailed reading5-75 On Saturdays, Phil wore a sports jacket to the office instead of a suit, because it was the weekend. 6 He had a lot of people working for him, maybe sixty, and most of them liked him most of the time. Three of them will be seriously considered for his job. The obituary didn’t mention that. 7 But it did list his “survivors” quite accurately. He is survived by his wife, Helen, forty-eight years old, a good woman of no particular marketable skills, who worked in an office before marrying and mothering. She had, according to her daughter, given up trying to compete with his work years ago, when the children were small. A company friend said, “I know how much you will miss him.” And she answered, “I already have.” Detailed ReadingDetailed reading8-10Detailed reading8-108 “Missing him all these years,” she must have given up part of herself which had cared too much for the man. She would be “well taken care of.” 9 His “dearly beloved” eldest of the “dearly beloved” children is a hard-working executive in a manufacturing firm down South. In the day and a half before the funeral, he went around the neighborhood researching his father, asking the neighbors what he was like. They were embarrassed. 10 His second child is a girl, who is twenty-four and newly married. She lives near her mother and they are close, but whenever she was alone with her father, in a car driving somewhere, they had nothing to say to each other. Detailed ReadingDetailed reading11-13Detailed reading11-1311 The youngest is twenty, a boy, a high-school graduate who has spent the last couple of years, like a lot of his friends, doing enough odd jobs to stay in grass and food. He was the one who tried to grab at his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home. He was his father’s favorite. Over the last two years, Phil stayed up nights worrying about the boy. 12 The boy once said, “My father and I only board here.” 13 At the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president told the forty-eight-year-old widow that the fifty-one-year-old deceased had meant much to the company and would be missed and would be hard to replace. The widow didn’t look him in the eye. She was afraid he would read her bitterness and, after all, she would need him to straighten out the finances — the stock options and all that. Detailed ReadingDetailed reading14-16Detailed reading14-1614 Phil was overweight and nervous and worked too hard. If he wasn’t at the office he was worried about it. Phil was a Type A, a heart-attack natural. You could have picked him out in a minute from a lineup. 15 So when he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, no one was really surprised. 16 By 5:00 p.m. the afternoon of the funeral, the company president had begun, discreetly of course, with care and taste, to make inquiries about his replacement. One of three the men. He asked around: “Who’s been working the hardest?”Detailed ReadingDetailed reading1--QuesionDetailed reading1--Quesion1. What is the general tone of this article? What is the author’s attitude toward Phil?The general tone of this article is sarcastic. In describing in a mockingly serious manner different people’s responses to Phil’s death, the author wants to make the readers see the absurdity of a society that produces such a tragic figure as Phil. He is, in the deep sense, sympathetic with Phil, whose ignorance of the cause of his own tragedy renders him more tragic.Detailed ReadingDetailed reading2--QuesionDetailed reading2--Quesion2. Why does the author frequently mention the time “3.00 a.m. Sunday morning”?The time is revealing, from which readers can be easily attracted to give a deep thinking about the cause of Phil’s tragedy for 3.00 a.m. is within the small hours which might indicate that Phil had frequently worked well into the night when alive. Detailed ReadingDetailed reading3-5--QuesionDetailed reading3-5--QuesionDetailed ReadingWhy does the author mention the company president’s inquiries about Phil’s replacement at the end of the article?From this detail we can get the idea that the company, as well as other parts of the society, operates like a lifeless and ruthless machine and all people working in it have been dehumanized and transformed into parts of this machine. Therefore, we can draw the lesson that Phil’s tragedy is not merely a tragedy of himself, but rather of all the people who are not aware of their miserable existence or do not have the insight and power to change matters.Detailed reading1– ActivityDetailed reading1– ActivityClass Activity Group discussion: Why isn’t the name of the deceased mentioned at the very beginning? Unlike most essays which usually make it clear who the character is at the very beginning, this essay begins with the pronoun “He.” At the end of the third paragraph where the name was finally mentioned, readers only get to know the first name of the deceased, not his full name. This, on the one hand, is meant to get the readers involved in finding out who is being discussed, and on the other, suggests the fact that workaholism has become a common phenomenon. The deceased was only one of the many workaholics who bury themselves in their work and forget all about their individuality.Detailed ReadingDetailed reading1– to deathDetailed reading1– to deathto death used after an adjective or a verb to emphasize the action, state, or feeling mentioned e.g.worried to death; frightened to death; bored to death; starve to death; put to deathDetailed ReadingDetailed reading1– obituaryDetailed reading1– obituaryDetailed Readingobituary (infml obit) n. printed notice (e.g. in a newspaper) of a person’s death, often with a short account of his life and achievementsDetailed reading2– coronary thrombosis Detailed reading2– coronary thrombosis coronary thrombosis obstruction of a coronary artery by a thrombus, often leading to destruction of heart muscle （心脏的）冠状动脉血栓症Detailed ReadingDetailed reading2-- overweight 1Detailed reading2-- overweight 1overweight adj. (of people) too heavy and fatDetailed ReadingCollocations:a bit / a little / slightly overweighte.g.He was tall and slightly overweight. He’s a bit overweight, not too much.seriously / heavily overweight (=very overweight) e.g.Being seriously overweight doubles the risk of heart disease.grossly overweight (=extremely overweight) e.g.The vet said the dog was grossly overweight and that it was affecting his heart.be 5 kilos / 20 pounds, etc. overweighte.g.I’m about 15 pounds overweight right now.Detailed reading2– overweight 2Detailed reading2– overweight 2Comparison:fat: having too much flesh on your body. It is rude to tell someone directly that they are fat. Detailed Readinge.g.She thinks she’s fat. He looks the same, just a little fatter.overweight: weighing more than you should. Many diseases are caused by being overweight.She was several kilos overweight.large: used when saying that someone is tall and often fat. “Large” is more common than “big” in written English.My father was a large man. two large ladiese.g.e.g.Detailed reading2– overweight 3Detailed reading2– overweight 3Detailed ReadingComparison:obese: extremely fat in a way that is unhealthye.g.He went to a summer camp for obese teenagers.chubby: slightly fat in a nice-looking way (used especially about babies and children)A chubby little baby was playing on the rug.plump: a woman or child who is plump is slightly fat, especially in a pleasant wayHer mother was a plump cheerful woman.e.g.e.g.flabby: having soft loose flesh rather than strong musclesa flabby stomach Her body was getting old and flabby.e.g.Detailed reading2– overweight 4Detailed reading2– overweight 4Detailed ReadingComparison:portly: (literary) fat and round — used especially about an old mane.g.The bishop was a portly middle-aged gentleman.Detailed reading7-- surviveDetailed reading7-- survivesurvive v. live longer than sb. else, usually sb. closely related to youDetailed ReadingPractice那老太太的子女都先她而去世了。The old lady has survived all her children. Detailed reading3-- lineup Detailed reading3-- lineup lineup n. a line of people that is formed for inspection or identificationDetailed ReadingDetailed reading4– He had no outside …Detailed reading4– He had no outside …He had no outside “extracurricular interests,” unless, of course, you think about a monthly golf game that way. (Paragraph 4)Paraphrase:He had dedicated all his time to his work and had no hobby at all, except that he played a golf game every month, which cannot be taken as a hobby anyway.Detailed ReadingDetailed reading7– She had…Detailed reading7– She had…She had, according to her daughter, given up trying to compete with his work years ago, when the children were small. (Paragraph 7) Paraphrase:Their daughter said that, when the children were still small, her father had become a company man and her mother had given up any attempt to keep him at home.Detailed ReadingConsolidation Activities- Vocabulary mainConsolidation Activities- Vocabulary mainPhrase Practice Word DerivationSynonym / AntonymVocabularyTranslation Integrated SkillsOral ActivitiesWritingGrammarConsolidation Activities-Phrase practice 1Consolidation Activities-Phrase practice 14) I doubt that they are able to get the problems before the deadline. 1) The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a fatal disease. Thousands of people in Asia have it in the past two years.VocabularyTranslation Integrated SkillsOral ActivitiesWritingGrammardied of________2) Chinese fans often have to to watch the live transmission of European football matches. stay up________3) Sometimes I don’t understand Jeremy; he seems to have hurt the feelings of everyone who him including his wife. cares for__________straightened out__________________Fill in the blank in each sentence with an appropriate phrasal verb or collocation from the text.Consolidation Activities-Phrase practice 2Consolidation Activities-Phrase practice 2VocabularyTranslation Integrated SkillsOral ActivitiesWritingGrammar5) It was curious that the children should have their grandparents easily from the old photographs. picked out___________Consolidation Activities- die ofConsolidation Activities- die ofVocabularyTranslation Integrated SkillsOral ActivitiesWritingGrammare.g.现在有很多人死于癌症。Nowadays many people die of cancer. die of: stop living or come to the end of one’s life because of some diseaseConsolidation Activities- stay upConsolidation Activities- stay upVocabularyTranslation Integrated SkillsOral ActivitiesWritingGrammare.g.她答应孩子们可以晚点儿睡，看他们最喜爱的电视节目。She promised the children they could stay up for their favourite TV programme.stay up: remain awake; not go to bedConsolidation Activities- care forConsolidation Activities- care forVocabularyTranslation Integrated SkillsOral ActivitiesWritingGrammare.g.他深深地爱着她。He cares for her deeply.care for: like or loveConsolidation Activities- straighten outConsolidation Activities- straighten outVocabularyTranslation Integrated SkillsOral ActivitiesWritingGrammare.g.我们会把情况弄清的。 We’ll get the case straightened out. straighten out: deal with a problem or a confused situation and make it better, especially by organizing thingsConsolidation Activities- pick outConsolidation Activities- pick outVocabularyTranslation Integrated SkillsOral ActivitiesWritingGrammare.g.很容易从人群中辨认出他，因为他个子很高。It’s easy to pick him out in a crowd because he is very tall. pick out: recognize sb. or sth. in a group of people or thingsConsolidation Activities- Word derivation 1.1Consolidation Activities- Word derivation 1.1VocabularyTranslation Integrated SkillsOral ActivitiesWritingGrammar1) widow n.→ widowed a. e.g.她守寡十年了。 一个寡母要抚养四个孩子长大成人确实不易。She has been a widow for ten years. It’s really not easy for a widowed mother to rear up four children. Consolidation Activities- Word derivation 1.2Consolidation Activities- Word derivation 1.2VocabularyTranslation Integrated SkillsOral ActivitiesWritingGrammar2) nerve n. → nervous a. → nerveless a.e.g.当赛车手要有胆量。 她胆怯地一笑。 刀子从她那无力的手中落下。It takes nerve to be a racing driver.She gave a nervous laugh.The knife fell from her nerveless fingers.Consolidation Activities- Word derivation 1.3Consolidation Activities- Word derivation 1.3VocabularyTranslation Integrated SkillsOral ActivitiesWritingGrammar3) precise a. →precision n. → precisely adv.e.g.那东西正好在她遗落的那个地点找到了。 你的 报告 软件系统测试报告下载sgs报告如何下载关于路面塌陷情况报告535n,sgs报告怎么下载竣工报告下载 不够准确。 那正是我的意思。I