新编英语教程Book 4 Unit 9

1、Unit 9Unit NineLead-in1. Movie Clip2. Quotes1. Movie ClipWatch the movie clip and answer the following questions.1. How will the students be graded in the course?The grading includes 40 percent procedure, 50 percent lab work and 10 percent attendance.2. What did Eddies permanent lab partner tell him

2、 after class?She told Eddie that the class was very important to her because she needed the teacher to get her into med school. She also said that she didnt want to be stuck with Eddie since she couldnt afford to have him screw things up for her.Discussion:What do you think of team work? What are th

3、e critical elements of successful team work?(This is an open question.)Script （From Prince and Me）-Science is a never-ending quest. For anyone planning a future in science, an open mind is a must. Grading is as follows: Forty percent, procedure. Fifty percent, lab work. And ten. May I help you? -Yes

4、. I believe Im signed up for this class. -Fine, Mr. Williams. Next time be here by 8:20, or youll be locked out. And what about you? Im talking to you, sir. - Im auditing. - Not this class, too small. -Take a seat, Mr. Williams. As I was saying, forty percent, procedure. Fifty percent, lab work.- Yo

5、u can wait outside. - Youll be all right, sir? - And ten percent. - Yes, just wait outside. - You know, if this is a “lovers thing”, could you please take it in the hall? - Soren, just go. Go. My sincerest apologies. Oh, please proceed. - And ten percent, attendance. You will find a list in front of

6、 you of your supplies and the experiment you will be conducting. Now, I want you to turn to the person next to you and introduce yourself. Congratulations, folks, youve just said hello to your permanent lab partner. -Hey. Hey. You forgot your supply list. -Oh, right, thank you. -Listen, whats your n

7、ame again? -Eddie. -Eddie. Right. This class is really important to me because I need this teacher to get me into med school. And if Im stuck with you as my lab partner, I really cant afford to have you screw things up for me, OK? -Its very important to me, as well. I love organic chemistry. For ins

8、tance, Ive just recently discovered that large amounts of alcohol mixed with a carbon-based life form causes the life form to blurt out stupid things. So apologies to the other night. I was just having some fun. -Great, of course you were. And I love being made to feel like a brainless slut by some

9、sloppy lush. Thanks. -I have learned me to repent the sin of disobedient opposition to you and your behest, I am enjoined and beg your pardon.-Is he drunk now? -Its a play. Romeo and Juliet? Shakespeare? -This is gonna be a fun semester. Dont forget your half of the supplies next time.2. QuotesRead

10、the following quotes and tell your classmates which one is your favorite. State your reasons.The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid wor

11、ld of our imagination.Richard HofstadterA universitys essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticisma thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.Richard HofstadterOf course theres a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors dont take

12、 much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.Abbott Lawrence LowellIn the university they dont tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. Doris LessingOur universities are so determined to impose tolerance that theyll expel you for saying what you think and never notice

13、 the irony. John Perry BarlowThe university is not engaged in making ideas safe for students. It is engaged in making students safe for ideas.Clark KerrA university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.Benjamin DisraeliUniversity is a wonderful opportunity to find out not just muc

14、h more about the world, but much more about yourself, too.Robert GoheenStandardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.Martin H. FischerThere are few earthly things more beautiful than a university, a place where those who hate i

15、gnorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.John MasefieldNo university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library. When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end. Lawrence Clark PowellTe

16、xtI. Text I1. Pre-Reading Questions2. The Main Idea3. Background Note4. Text5. Comments on the Text6. ExercisesII. Text II1. Text2. ComprehensionText I1. Pre-Reading QuestionsYou are yourself a student at an institute of higher learning. What do you think this text might be about?For your referenceT

17、his is an open question. Exercise your imagination and discuss with your classmates.2. The Main IdeaRead the text rapidly once and decide how many main episodes there are.For your referenceThere are two main episodes. Each episode may be summed up in one or two sentences, as follows:1. The writer di

18、sliked the botany laboratory classes in which he could not see any flower cells under a microscope; and, for that reason, he was given a deferred pass for botany.2. In the economics class, there was a student who was very slow at his studies. In spite of the prompting from the professor and his fell

19、ow students, he could not even give “train” as an example of a means of transportation.3. Background NotemicroscopeA microscope is an instrument used to see objects that are too small for the naked eye. There are many types of microscopes, the most common and first to be invented is t

20、he optical microscope which uses light to image the sample. Other major types of microscopes are the electron microscope (both the transmission electron microscope and the scanning electron microscope) and the various types of scanning probe microscope.4.

21、 TextUniversity DaysI passed all the other courses that I took at my University, but I could never pass botany. This was because all botany students had to spend several hours a week in a laboratory looking through a microscope at plant cells, and I could never see through a microscope. I never once

22、 saw a cell through a microscope. This used to (1)enrage my instructor. He would wander around the laboratory pleased with the progress all the students were making in drawing the involved and, so I am told, interesting structure of flower cells, until he came to me. I would just be standing there.

23、“I cant see anything,” I would say. He would begin patiently enough, explaining how anybody can see through a microscope, but he would always end up in a (2)fury, (1)claiming that I could too see through a microscope but just pretended that I couldnt. “It takes away from the beauty of flowers anyway

24、,” I used to tell him.1 “(2)We are not concerned with beauty in this course,” he would say. “We are concerned solely with what I may call (3)the mechanics of flars.”“Well,” Id say, “I cant see anything.”“Try it just once again,” hed say, and I would put my eye to the microscope and see nothing at al

25、l, except now and again a (3)nebulous milky substance13 a phenomenon of (4)maladjustment. You were supposed to see a vivid, restless clockwork of sharply defined plant cells. “I see what looks like a lot of milk,” I would tell him.(4)This, he claimed, was the result of my not having adjusted the mic

26、roscope properly, so he would read just it for me, or rather, for himself. And I would look again and see milk.I finally took (5)a (5)deferred pass, as they called it, and waited a year and tried again. (You had to pass one of the biological sciences or you couldnt graduate.) The professor had come

27、back from vacation (6)brown as a berry, bright-eyed, and eager to explain cell-structure again to his classes. “Well,” he said to me, cheerily, when we met in the first laboratory hour of the semester, “were going to see cells this time, arent we?”“Yes, sir,” I said. Students to right of me and to l

28、eft of me and in front of me were seeing cells; whats more, they were quietly drawing pictures of them in their notebooks. Of course, I didnt see anything.“Well try it,” the professor said to me, (6)grimly, with every adjustment of the microscope known to man. “(7)As God is my witness, Ill arrange t

29、his glass so that you see cells through it or Ill give up teaching. In twenty-two years of botany, I ” He (8)cut off abruptly for he was beginning to quiver all over, like Lionel Barrymore, (9)and he genuinely wished to hold onto his temper,(10)his scenes with me had taken a great deal out of him.So

30、 we tried it with every adjustment of the microscope known to man. With only one of them did I see anything but blackness or the familiar (7)lacteal (8)opacity, and that time I saw, to my pleasure and amazement, a (9)variegated (10)constellation of (11)flecks,(12)specks, and dots. These I hastily dr

31、ew. The instructor, noting my activity, came back from an (13)adjoining desk, a smile on his lips and his eyebrows high in hope. He looked at my cell drawing. “Whats that?” he demanded, with a hint of a (14)squeal in his voice.“Thats what I saw,” I said. “You didnt, you didnt, you didnt!” he screame

32、d, (11)losing control of his temper instantly, and he bent over and (15)squinted into the microscope. His head (16)snapped up. “Thats your eye!” he shouted. “Youve fixed the lens so that it reflects! Youve drawn your eye!”Another course that I didnt like, but somehow managed to pass, was economics.

33、I went to that class straight from the botany class, (12)which didnt help me any in understanding either subject. I used to get them mixed up. But not as mixed up as another student in my economics class who came there direct from a physics laboratory. He was Bolenciecwcz. Most of his professors wer

34、e lenient and helped him along. None gave him more hints, in answering questions, or asked him simpler ones than the economics professor, a thin, timid man named Bassum. One day when we were on the subject of transportation and distribution, it came Bolenciecwczs turn to answer a question. “Name one

35、 means of transportation,” the professor said to him. No light came into his eyes. “Just any means of transportation,” said the professor. Bolenciecwcz sat staring at him. “That is,” pursued the professor, “any medium, agency, or method of going from one place to another.”Bolenciecwcz had the look o

36、f a man who is being led into a trap. “You may choose among steam, horse-drawn, or electrically-propelled vehicles,” said the instructor. “I might suggest the one which we commonly take in making long journeys across land.” There was a profound silence in which everybody stirred uneasily, including

37、Bolenciecwcz and Mr. Bassum. Mr. Bassum abruptly broke this silence in an amazing manner. “Choochoo-choo16,” he said, in a low voice, and turned instantly (17)scarlet. He glanced appealingly around the room. “Toot, toot, too-tooooooot!” some student with a deep voice moaned, and we all looked encour

38、agingly at Bolenciecwcz. Somebody else gave a fine imitation of a (18)locomotive letting off steam. Mr. Bassum himself (13)rounded off the little show. “Ding, dong, ding, dong,” he said, hopefully. Bolenciecwcz was staring at the floor now, trying to think, (14)his great brow (19)furrowed, his huge

39、hands rubbing together, his face red.“How did you come to college this year, Mr. Bolenciecwcz?” asked the professor. “Chuffa, chuffa, chuffa chuffa.”“Mfather sent me,” came the reply.“What on?” asked Bassum.“(15)I git an lowance,” said his student, in a low, (20)husky voice, obviously embarrassed.“N

40、o, no,” said Bassum. “Name a means of transportation. What did you ride here on?”“Train,” said Bolenciecwcz.“Quite right,” said the professor. “Now, Mr. Nugent, will you tell us .”By James ThurberWords 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. enrage: v. make someone very angrye.g. M

41、any readers were enraged by his article.Perhaps youre aware that your words can crush, frighten, enrage or annoy people but what do they do to you?2. fury: n. singular a feeling of extreme angere.g. Public unease has given way to increasing fury over giving millions of pounds in aid to an

42、increasingly prosperous neighboring country.As the protests grew in fury, the film-makers were left to explain away the modifications.3. nebulous: a. (a shape) unclear and having no definite edges; (an idea) not at all clear or exact, vaguee.g. The sides we see are rounded blobs, usually gray, alway

43、s nebulous and truly not worth worrying about.Until then we really do not know what we believe, for usually our assumptions are nebulous and vague.4. maladjustment: n. the condition of being unable to adapt properly to ones environment with resulting emotional instabilitye.g. In addition to these da

44、ta, he lists other symptoms manifest in the society as indications of maladjustment prevalent there.Previous studies have found an association between early age experiences and subsequent psychosocial maladjustment.5. deferred: a. be delayed until a later datee.g. Further discussion on the prop

45、osal will be deferred until next month. As a result, there has been shift toward more deferred compensation and higher base salaries.6. grimly: ad. (looking or sounding) seriously, (feeling) worriedly or unhappilye.g. He might be dead after tonight if he didnt 

46、;stop all this crap, Michael thought grimly.Fate had dealt grimly with him through the last twenty-four hours.7. lacteal: a. of, relating to, or resembling milke.g. The diet is low in fat and sugar, and includes essentially green vegetables and lacteal products.Sheep milk is

47、 the normal lacteal secretion practically free of colostrums.8. opacity: n. the quality that something has when it is difficult to see through or understande.g. Despite more public reporting, levels of opacity on such lending remain high.Context, style and modifiers all 

48、;perform restrictive functions on semantic opacity.9. variegated: a. having different coloured markse.g. Its rich colorred or rose, often variegated with yellowmakes the hardwood a particularly attractive material for furniture and flooring.In some plants, entire branches or

49、 stems including the leaves may be variegated.10. constellation: n. a group of people or things that are similare.g. The operation was successful, but afterward he began experiencing a constellation of strange sensations.A new and diverse constellation of threats has arisen in its place.11. fle

50、ck: n. small marks on a surface, or objects that look like small markse.g. For the last 2 days, my babys diapers have been full of strange little black flecks.After I got the meat out of the shell, I found black flecks on it.12. speck: n. a very small mark, spot, or piece of something

51、e.g. Einstein taught the greatest humility of all that we are but a speck in an unfathomably large universe.Hes only a tiny speck within the massive expanse of the entire world.13. adjoining: a. next to each othere.g. To tell you the truth, he snores so loudly that people in adjoining rooms have com

52、plained in the past.Indeed, he is so married to his job that he has an apartment adjoining his office.14. squeal: n. a long loud high sound or crye.g. Her answer hadnt been a yes or a no, but a squeal.In the growing darkness a van pulled alongside her, stoppin

53、g with a squeal of brakes.15. squint: v. look at something with eyes partly closed in order to see bettere.g. He also seems to be slightly blinded by the sun, causing him to squint.Shortsighted people usually squint at things.16. snap: v. move into a particula

54、r position suddenly, making a short sharp noise, or make something move like thise.g. Be careful, the wire might snap back and hurt you.Pull the receiver back and let it snap forward.17. scarlet: a. (face) becoming red,

55、usually because one is embarrassed or angrye.g. He blushed scarlet at the joke.At this point, her face suddenly flamed scarlet, and she flew back into the room.18. locomotive: n. a railway enginee.g. I am awaked almost every night by t

56、he panting of the locomotive.The invention of the steam engine created many changes and additions to the technology of the time, including steam-powered locomotives.19. furrow: v. make the skin on ones face form deep lines or folds, especially because he or she is worried or thinking harde.g. H

57、er face was furrowed with worry.Jack was staring at the floor now, trying to think, his great brow furrowed, his huge hands rubbing together, his face red.20. husky: a. (voice) deep, quiet, and attractivee.g. Having a curiously husky voice, hes behaving rather peculiarly.He spoke with a soft husky v

58、oice in a melodic accent.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. claiming that I could too see through a microscopesaying that it was true that I could also see through a microscopeclaim say that it is true or that it is a fact, though there is no proofFor example:He claimed that it was he who had fo

59、und a solution to the problem. (Although others may not believe him.)Wang claimed that he was from Jiangxi, though he spoke with a distinct Anhui accent.2. We are not concerned with beautyWe are not interested in beautybe concerned with be involved or interested; be aboutFor example:The Brown sisters dont seem to be concerned with womens liberation.His new book is concerned with romanticism in English literature.Cf.: be conc