新编英语教程Book4Unit11.doc

Unit 11Unit ElevenLead-in1. Movie Clip2. Quotes1. Movie Clip1. Why did Mary call Tami?Because she wanted to tell her that she couldnt go to the ball since Dominique asked her to finish cleaning her bedroom by midnight.2. What did Tami do?She asked her sisters boyfriends cousins to help Mary to clean Dominiques bedroom.Discussion:If you were Mary, would you go to the ball or clean Dominiques bedroom? Why?(This is an open question.)Script （From Another Cinderalla）-Mary? The twins are turning 16 next week.- Didnt they turn 16 last year?-Yes, and theyll keep turning 16 until I tell them to stop. Were having a big party and I need this house to be spotless.-But Tami and I are going to the ball tonight. Plus Ive cleaned every room in this house.-Not.my bedroom.-Youre kidding me, right?-Im clubbing with Paris tonight. Its my turn to throw the after-party. Dont step on my hair. When I get home at midnight, this room will be pristine.-Dominique, Id need heavy equipment. For example, a flamethrower.-Dont you sass me, smarty pants. Ill revoke your school privileges. You could say goodbye to those trendy friends. Or shall I say friend, Little Miss Not-So-Popular? Oh, and clean up these fish sticks. Theyve been there since Lent.-Tami, I cant go to the ball. “Domifreaks” making me clean her bedroom.-Youre in her lair?-There are species of bugs in here still unknown to science. Theres no way Ill finish in time.-Wait, what if.? -Who are you talking to? When I said no phone privileges, that included the landline.-Im sorry. I have to go.-Ugh.-Manson, weve been looking for you since Christmas, boy. Youre free, boy. Go. Go, go. Go, Manson, go. Youre free. Oh, hey. Gosh, look, I just found Manson. And please tell me those arent our dresses.-I cant. Because they are. Were going to the ball.-Tami, what part of “Domifreaks making me clean her bedroom” did you not understand?-What would you say if I told you I could clean up the mess for you.and Dominique would never know?-Id say youre my hero, but theres no way, and you have to go to the ball. Plus, you cant clean this mess up alone. - Well, who said I was alone?- Hi, Mary. - Hey.-You did this for me?-Mary, meet my sisters boyfriends cousins. Cousins, this is Mary.-Hello, hello. You go to dance? Very nice. House clean by midnight? No problem. Like van say, “No mess too messy.”-Okay.-This mess is too messy.- Lee-Ha, you promised. - Is there a problem?-Im on it. Get started and hide the van.2. QuotesRead the following quotes and tell your classmates which one is your favorite. State your reasons.The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone. Mignon McLaughlin,The Neurotics Notebook, 1960What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan SontagYou never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. Henry Ward Beecher,Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. Francois duc de la RochefoucauldYou can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. PlatoBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.Oscar WildeIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.Oscar WildeThere are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.C.S. LewisThere are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.Douglas H. EverettGod must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.Abraham LincolnText1. Text I (1) Pre-Reading Questions(2) General Reading(3) Background(4) Text(5) Comments on the Text(6) Exercises2. Text II(1) Text(2) ComprehensionText I1. Pre-Reading QuestionsLooking at the title of the text, you may well predict that the writer is going to compare and contrast two classes of people, the neat and the sloppy. In your opinion, what is the difference between neat people and sloppy people? Whats your opinion of neat people and sloppy people? For your referenceThis is an open question. Discuss with your classmates.2. The Main IdeaRead the text rapidly to find out the writers opinion of sloppy people and neat people.For your referenceAnswers:According to the writer, sloppy people value objects and correspondence, are careful and take the long view, while neat people are callous, wasteful and selfish.3. Background NoteNever-Never LandNever-Never Land(also Never Never Land, Neverland or Never Land) is a fictional place featured in the works ofJ. M. Barrieand those based on them. It is the dwelling place ofPeter Pan,Tinker Bell, the Lost Boysand others. Although not all people in Never-Never Land cease to age, its best known residents famously refused to grow up, and it is often used as a metaphor for eternalchildhood(and childishness), immortality, andescapism. It was first introduced as “the Never Never Land” in thetheatre playPeter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldnt Grow Upby Scottish writerJ. M. Barrie, first staged in 1904.4. TextNeat People vs. Sloppy PeopleIve finally figured out the difference between neat people and sloppy people. The distinction is, as always, moral. Neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people.Sloppy people, you see, are not really sloppy. Their sloppiness is merely the unfortunate consequence of their extreme moral (1)rectitude. Sloppy people (1)carry in their minds eye a heavenly vision, a precise plan, that is so (2)stupendous, so perfect, it cant be achieved in this world or the next.Sloppy people live in Never-Never Land. Someday is their (2)mtier. Someday they are planning to alphabetize all their books and set up home catalogs. Someday they will go through their wardrobes and mark certain items for (3)tentative mending and certain items for passing on to relatives of similar shape and size. Someday sloppy people will make family scrapbooks into which they will put newspaper clippings, postcards, locks of hair, and the dried corsage from their senior (3)prom. Someday they will file everything on the surface of their desks, including the cash receipts from coffee purchases at the snack shop. Someday they will sit down and read all the (4)back issues of The New Yorker.For all these (4)noble reasons and more, sloppy people never get neat. They aim too high and wide. They save everything, planning someday to file, order, and (5)straighten out the world. But while these ambitious plans take clearer and clearer shape in their heads, the books spill from the shelves onto the floor, the clothes pile up in the hamper and closet, the family (5)mementos accumulate in every drawer, the surface of the desk is buried under (6)mounds of paper and the unread magazines threaten to reach the ceiling.Sloppy people cant bear to part with anything. They give loving attention to every detail. When sloppy people say theyre going to tackle the surface of a desk, they really mean it. Not a paper will go unturned; not a rubber band will go unboxed. Four hours or two weeks into the excavation, the desk looks exactly the same, primarily because the sloppy person is (7)meticulously creating new piles of papers with new headings and (8)scrupulously stopping to read all the old book catalogs before he throws them away. A neat person would just (9)bulldoze the desk. Neat people are (6)bums and clods at heart. They have (7)cavalier attitudes toward possessions, including family (10)heirlooms. Everything is just another dust-catcher to them. If anything collects dust, its got to go and thats that. Neat people will (8)toy with the idea of throwing the children out of the house just to cut down on the clutter.Neat people dont care about process. They like results. What they want to do is (9)get the whole thing over with so they can sit down and watch the rasslin on TV. Neat people operate on two (11)unvarying principles: Never handle any item twice, and throw everything away.The only thing messy in a neat persons house is the trash can. The minute something comes to a neat persons hand, he will look at it, try to decide if it has immediate use and, finding none, throw it in the (10)trash.Neat people are especially (12)vicious with mail. They never go through their mail unless they are (11)standing directly over a trash can. If the trash can is beside the mailbox, even better. All ads, catalogs, pleas for charitable contributions, church bulletins and money-saving coupons go straight into the trash can without being opened. All letters from home, postcards from Europe, bills and paychecks are opened, immediately responded to, then dropped in the trash can. Neat people keep their receipts only for tax purposes. (12)Thats it. (13)No sentimental salvaging of birthday cards or the last letter a dying relative ever wrote. Into the trash it goes.(14)Neat people place neatness above everything, even economics. They are incredibly wasteful. Neat people throw away several toys every time they walk through the den. I knew a neat person once who threw away a perfectly good dish drainer because it had mold on it. The drainer was too much trouble to wash. And neat people sell their furniture when they move. They will sell a La-ZBoy recliner while you are reclining in it.(15)Neat people are no good to borrow from. Neat people (16)buy everything in expensive little single portions. They get their flour and sugar in two-pound bags. They wouldnt consider clipping a coupon, saving a leftover, reusing (17)plastic nondairy whipped cream containers or rinsing off tin foil and draping it over the unmoldy dish drainer. You can never borrow a neat persons newspaper to see whats playing at the movies. Neat people have the paper all (13)wadded up and in the trash by 7:05 a.m.Neat people (18)cut a clean (14)swath through the organic as well as the inorganic world. People, animals, and the things are all one to them. They are so insensitive. After theyve finished with the (15)pantry, the medicine cabinet, and the attic, they will throw out the red geranium (too many leaves), sell the dog (too many fleas), and send the children off to boarding school (too many scuff-marks on the hard-wood floors).By Suzanne BrittWords and phrases: (点击文中红色单词或词组，出现该红色部分及e.g.字样，再单击e.g. ，出现例句)1. rectitude: n. behaviour that is honest and morally correcte.g. It was a rare victory for fiscal rectitude.I recognize it will be hard to overcome decades of mistrust, but we will proceed with courage, rectitude and resolve.2. stupendous: a. surprisingly large or impressivee.g. The stupendous rise of its economy in the first decade of the 21st century would inevitably have hardened Bush administration attitudes.The online dictionary hasstupendousinformation from The Oxford Pocket Dictionary.3. tentative: a. not definite or certain, and may be changed latere.g. To sum up, we are able to make some tentative plans about the future.By contrasting US and Chinese data, economists have come to the tentative conclusion that Beijing has greatly slowed the pace of its investment in US government debt this year.4. noble: a. morally good or generous in a way that is admirede.g. We should not forget the cost of translating that noble aspiration into practical policy. To achieve this noble goal, all nations must keep their promises to deliver this urgent aid.5. memento: n. a small thing that one keeps to remind him/her of someone or somethinge.g. I retrieved a small piece from the ruins as a memento an undistinguished chunk of cast concrete decoration.Consequently, the dish has no sales value and is “priceless” only as a memento of a friend whom I will always cherish.6. mounds of: a large pile of somethinge.g. He has still got mounds ofletters to answer during the holiday.Making sense of the ever-increasingmounds of datais one of the great challenges facing researchers today.7. meticulously: ad. in a manner of being very careful about small details, and always making sure that everything is done correctlye.g. I watched him as he carefully laid his map flat on the floor, his earnest face puckered in thought, meticulously studying every hill and valley, mentally preparing for the next military campaign. He meticulously reviews his messages, editing if necessary to make sure recipients will understand what hes saying and the tone in which he says it.8. scrupulously: ad. with extreme conscientiousnesse.g. It has to be kept scrupulously clean patients here are especially vulnerable to infections.As the elections approach, the United States must be scrupulously neutral on the presidential candidates while reiterating its call for free, fair, and credible elections.9. bulldoze: v. push objects such as earth and rocks out of the way with a bulldozera powerful vehicle with a broad metal bladee.g. The Victorian Government will pass laws to allow it tobulldoze abandoned fruit trees in the Goulburn Valley.When a greedy businessman wants to bulldoze the trees in order to mine for gold, Finn and Jack combine their practical and spooky powers to save the land and the animals that live there.10. heirloom: n. a valuable object that has been owned by a family for many years and that is passed from the older members to the younger memberse.g. If you have heirloom pieces you only wear on occasion, consider storing them in a bank safe deposit box. The ball will be an heirloom of your family to be handed down if you keep it.11. unvarying: a. always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrencese.g. An unvarying human nature can still generate very different behavior.Deciding with finality she proceeded towards them with firm steps andunvaryingthoughts.12. vicious: a. very unkind in a way that is intended to hurt someones feelings or make their character seem bade.g. Cats are warm and affectionate creatures to us, but viewed through the eyes of birds and mice they are vicious predators. There is a difference between constructive criticism and vicious criticism.13. wad up: press something such as a piece of paper or cloth into a small tight balle.g. She waddedupthe scrap of paper and threw it in the trash. I waded up the papers and had them in my coat pocket.14. swath: n. a long thin area of grass or plants that has been cut downe.g. The storm left a solid swath of snow from New Mexico to New England.Atyourfeetisaswathofantsbearingtriangularbitsofgreenleaf.15. pantry: n. a very small room in a house where food is kepte.g. She raids my pantry and hauls away all the canned goods to throw into the big box in her school hallway.In the meantime, astronauts are probably better off leaving their liquid salt packets in the pantry.Notes （点击文中蓝色字体，出现该内容，再点击，出现下面的注释内容）1. carry in their minds eye a heavenly visionhave wonderful mental image of what the future will bein ones minds eye in ones imagination or mental view. For example:In her minds eye, she could see just what her life after marriage was going to be like. 她能想象出婚后的生活会是什么样的。2.mtiera French word which means “a persons specialty”3. proma formal dance, especially one held by a class in high school or college at the end of a year4. back issuea magazine or a newspaper that was published some time ago and is not the most recent 过期刊物5. straighten out the worldput in order things in the room6. bums and clodslazy and dull people7. cavaliershowing an arrogant or offhand disregard; dismissiveFor example:She was annoyed by her husbands cavalier attitudes. 她被她丈夫漫不经心的态度惹恼了。Born into a wealthy family, he has cavalier attitudes toward money. 生在有钱人家，他对钱毫不在乎。8. toy withconsider (an idea or proposal) casually rather than seriouslyFor example:He toyed with the idea of quitting school and travelling round the world. 他曾经想过要辍学去周游世界，但那只是随便想想而已。Dont toy with great issues. 不要把重大问题当儿戏。9. get the whole thing over withcomplete all the tasks promptlyget over with complete an unpleasant or tedious but necessary task quickly. For example:He looked upon the marriage ceremony as a mere formality something to get over with as quickly as possible.10. trashtrash can11. standing directly over a trash canstanding directly in front of a trash can12. Thats it.Thats the main purpose. 就这样；仅此而已13. No sentimental salvaging of birthday cardsNeat people will not be so sentimental as to keep the birthday cards14. Neat people place neatness above everything, even economics.Neat people think neatness is more important than anything else without even considering the financial factors.placeabove attach greater importance to For example:He is a family man and always places his family above all other concerns. 他是一个顾家的男人，总是将家庭置于一切考虑之上。In a society valuing collectivism, people tend to place the group interest above their own interest. 在一个崇尚集体主义的社会，人们往往将集体利益置于个人利益之上。15. Neat people are no good to borrow from.It is futile to borrow things from neat people.be no good (any good, etc.) futile (of any use)For example:It is no good my arguing with you.Come back on Monday week; its no good coming before that.Do you think it would be any good to try and see her tomorrow?But what good was it to talk to him?16. buy everything in expensive little single portionsbuy one package in small quantity which