大學(xué)綜合英語(yǔ)Unit10 The Idiocy of Urban Life

1、Text StudyQuestions for discussion from paragraphs 121. What is urban life like at night?2. What does the author think of the human urban life? Text Study Language Points from paragraphs 1-2civil a. polite and formal His manner was civil, though not particularly friendly. more often: civil engineeri

2、ng civil war civil official civil case civil law 土木工程 內(nèi)戰(zhàn) 文官 民事案件 民法 Words and Expressionsreign v. It is the rats that reign urban life according to the author. n. in the reign of William IIcongregate v.Why do people like to congregate in large cities? congregation n. Touched by her singing, the cong

3、regation applauded in delight. Text Study 1. All work that has to be done at those hours is useful in bakeries, for example. Even the newspaper presses stop turning forests into lies. (Translate) What do the sentences imply?A metaphoric and cynical way of saying things, meaning:”doing propaganda wor

4、k on paper”Text Study2. With their pink ears and paws, sleek, well- groomed, their whiskers combed, rats are true city dwellers. with + n/pron + adj. He left the room with the door open . Dont talk with your mouth full .with + n/pron + done The fellow stood there with his hands crossed. Text Study w

5、ith + n/pron + adv. With the radio on, grandma slept deeply in the chair. with + n/pron + to doWith so many problems to settle, the new manager was too worried to eat anything. with + n/pron + prep.phraseThe woman with a diamond necklace around the neck must be wealthy . 3. Unban life, during the ho

6、urs they rein, is urbane. Rats make city life orderly and courteous when they dominate the city at night.5. But after 6 a.m., the two-legged, daytime creatures of the city begin to stir; and it is they, not the rats, who bring the rat race. 在強(qiáng)調(diào)句型中，能夠被強(qiáng)調(diào)的句子成分通在強(qiáng)調(diào)句型中，能夠被強(qiáng)調(diào)的句子成分通常為主語(yǔ)、賓語(yǔ)、狀語(yǔ)等。當(dāng)被強(qiáng)調(diào)部分常為主語(yǔ)、

7、賓語(yǔ)、狀語(yǔ)等。當(dāng)被強(qiáng)調(diào)部分為為sb.sb.，且在句中作主語(yǔ)時(shí)，可用，且在句中作主語(yǔ)時(shí)，可用whowho，也，也可用可用thatthat，其它情況一律用，其它情況一律用thatthat。強(qiáng)調(diào)主。強(qiáng)調(diào)主語(yǔ)時(shí)，語(yǔ)時(shí)，thatthat后的謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞必須與被強(qiáng)調(diào)的后的謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞必須與被強(qiáng)調(diào)的主語(yǔ)人稱與數(shù)保持一致。主語(yǔ)人稱與數(shù)保持一致。 e.g. I am going to meet my friend at the airport tomorrow.It is I who am going to meet my friend at the airport tomorrow.(強(qiáng)調(diào)主語(yǔ)) It is my f

8、riend that Im going to meet at the airport tomorrow.(強(qiáng)調(diào)賓語(yǔ)) It is at the airport that Im going to meet my friend tomorrow.(強(qiáng)調(diào)地點(diǎn)狀語(yǔ))It is tomorrow that Im going to meet my friend at the airport.(強(qiáng)調(diào)時(shí)間狀語(yǔ)) Text Study 6. rat race: fierce competition 爭(zhēng)斗，商業(yè)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)爭(zhēng)斗，商業(yè)競(jìng)爭(zhēng) He got out of the rat race because he want

9、ed to take a look at the real world. He was one of the few people who survived the rat race. Text Study7. Urban life today is aggressively individualistic and atomized. How do you understand the sentence? precondition n. Can you tell as many words with the prefix “pre” as you can? preview, prelude,

10、prepare, preschool, preposition, prehistoric, prefaceexertion n. He was painting the house with exertion. physical exertion exert v. exert all ones strength exert ones influence on sb.Text StudyQuestions for discussion from paragraphs 39The author provides the evidences for the idiocy of unban life,

11、 such as the pretense of city dwellers when they try to live outside the city boundaries, insignificant city work, an unreal environment in which the city dwellers live, and the damage done by the office work to the physical conditions of the workers. Text Study1. What is the authors evidence that c

12、ity dwellers try to simulate rural life?2. What is it that attracts city dwellers to the country? Can their dream come true? Why or why not?3. What characteristics does the author think city work has?Text Study4. What is the most symbolic lunacy of all urban life? Why?5. Why cannot city dwellers hav

13、e any true sense of season changes?6. What causes Americans to be the most round-shouldered in the world?Text Study1.Disdaining rural life, they try to create simulations of it. (Paraphrase)Although they dislike and scorn rural life, they attempt to imitate it.2.No effort is spared to (Translate) sp

14、are no effort: try every meansWe must spare no effort to maintain social stability. 政府不遺余力地支持我們的環(huán)保項(xiàng)目。 The government spared no effort to support our environmental protection project. Text Study3. head v. head for the library, head west head to Beijing4. the Hamptons Long Island Text Study 5. City dw

15、ellers take the city with them to the country, for they will not live without its pamperings. People in the city create all kinds of city vogues when they go to the country, for they cannot live without the fashionable things of city life.Text Study6. Soon the countryside will be just as nourishing

16、to them, as the city dwellers take their filth with them. as: adv. equally My sister sang as sweetly as a nightingale. conj. becauseHe went to bed early, as he was exhausted. Text Study7. At the same time they maintain the pointless frenzy of their work hours in their hours off. (Paraphrase and tran

17、slate) they extend their purposeless wild behaviors in their work to their leisure time. 8. It merely means that to the rush-hour traffic into the city there is now added a rush-hour traffic out to the suburbs in the morning and back around and across the city in the evening. there is now a rush-hou

18、r traffic out to the suburbs in the morning and back around and across the city in the evening added to the rush-hour traffic into the city. This is a partly inverted sentence Text Study9. As the farmer walks down to his farm in the morning, the city dwellers is dressing for the first idiocy of his

19、day, which he not only accepts but even seeks the journey to work. as: while, at the same time that which: the first idiocy of his day10. The windows are a scandal The windows are disgraceful Their affair created a scandal in the office. 11. Thus it is not surprising that the urban worker has no kno

20、wledge of the season. 很多美國(guó)人對(duì)中國(guó)的歷史、地理和文化一無(wú)所知。 Many Americans have no knowledge of Chinese history, geography and culture.Text Study12. but no true sense of the rhythms of the seasons is to be had from a lawn in the backyard and a few spindly trees struggling to survive. (Paraphrase) but from a lawn i

21、n the backyard and a few long and thin trees that struggle for life the city dwellers do not have the true sense of season changes. Text Study13. The city dweller reels from unreality to unreality through each day, always trying to recover the rural life that has been surrendered for the city lights

22、. always trying to get back the rural life that has given way to city lights.Text Study14. Electric typewriters cut down the amount of physical exertion needed to hit the keys; the buttons of a word processor need even less effort, as you can tell from the posture of those who use them. (Translate)

23、cut down: reduce as: becauseText Study Question for discussion in paragraph 10: 1. What is the example of a Douglas fir used to illustrate? It is used to illustrate that city dwellers ridiculously simulate rural life and have no true communications with nature. Text Study1. compensate for: make up f

24、or Nothing can compensate for the loss of time. (Translate) 光陰一去不復(fù)返。2. It is from this day-to-day existence who support them. (Analyze) 1. The government promises that is will spare no effort to support our environmental protection projects. 2.She had no knowledge of Chinese history, geography and c

25、ulture before she came to China. 3. The fire that broke out in the kindergarten endangered 23 childrens lives. 4. We tried our best to head Henry off the topic, because we knew he would reveal confidential information. 5. The sonorous voice of the speaker is echoing round the hall. 6. Industry and loyalty sometimes compensate for the lack of ability. 7. As far as I know, he was one of the few people who got out of the rat race. 8. He left a few men behind to clean up the last of the enemy positions. 為什么那么多人十分急切地希望離開(kāi)自己從小長(zhǎng)大的小城為什么那么多人十分急切地希望離開(kāi)自己從小長(zhǎng)大