现代大学英语unit2SectionA

1、how reading changed my lifestructureoutlinediscussauthorstructure sentencewordsdiscussdiscuss 1.has your life ever been significiantly changed by any particular book?2.what does reading mean to you?anna quindlen anna quindlen brief introduction about the author and the text anna quindlen is a us jou

2、rnalist.and she has also written many novels,short stories and poems.and she is born in philadelphia,pennsylvania(美国宾夕法尼亚州费城) in 1953. in addition,she is the third woman that write editorials(社论) for new york times.and she has won the pulitzer prize. the present text is an abridged (删节的)version of t

3、he original.details about the author joind in and started her career in news industry when she was 18 years old. 1977-1985,worked in 1985,left to bore her two babies. 1988, she bore a daughter. 1989,back to work in to write editorials for the famous column. anna quindlen anna quindlen and in 1993,he

4、r articles are published in a book,then, this book won a great success in the later three months. 18th,may,2009,she quit her job in some famous works of her novals: object lessons（主题课程） one true thing（亲情无价）(has once been adopted into a film) black and blue（黑与蓝） others: how reading changed my life（阅读

5、如何改变了我的生活），the tree that came to stay（大树留下来）, happy ever after（永远幸福快乐）text structurepara 1: a brief introduction of the quiet and lovely place where i spent my childhood.para 215:i developed a good habit of reading in childhood and still keep the habit in adultod.para 16para18：despite the decline of

6、 reading,there are still bookworms like me.text structurekey sentences1.the neighborhood where i grew up was the sort of place in which people dream of raising children-a small but satisfying spread of center-hall colonials,old roses,and quiet roads.本句为复合句，句子主干为the neighborhood was the sort of place

7、。句中，where引导的是定语从句。句中的spread为名词，意为区域，一大片。key sentences2.we walked to school,wandered wild in the summer.wild在句子中为形容词，作主语补足语，说明主语的状态。wander v.漫游；游荡；闲逛；徘徊 key sentences3.later，over a stiff and awkward lunch of tuna-fish salad ,some of the other girls at my table were perplexed by the source of the sour

8、ce of the quotation and what it meant,and i was certain,at that moment,that the scholarship was mine. 本句为由and连接的并列复合句，句子主干为some of the other girls were perplexed and i was certain that the scholarship was mine。句中，over a stiff and awkward lunch of tuna-fish salad 作状语；that 引导的从句作was certain的宾语。perplex

9、ed a.困惑的；困惑不解的；key sentences4.how many times had i gone up the steps to the guillotine with sydney carton as he went to that far,far tetter rest at the end of a tale of two cities.本句是一个感叹句。另外，为了强调“我”读双城记 已经有很多次，本句使用了倒装的形式，旨在加强语气，起强调作用。key sentences5.one poem committed to memory in grade school survi

10、ves in my mind.本句为简单句，句中主干为one poem survives in my mind.句中，committed to memory in grade school为过去分词短语作后置定语，修饰one poem 。grade school指小学。committed to memory 把学好记牢。para:i still remember one poem which i read in grade school so far.key sentences6.it is by english dickinson:there is no frigate like a boo

11、k/to take us lands away/nor any coursers like a page /of prancing poetry艾米莉的这首诗告诉我们，一本书可以带我们遨游世界各地，一首诗可以让我们情绪激昂，这都是在告诉我们读书的好处。句中， lands指国家或地区，courser指骏马。 prancing v.1（马）腾跃，腾跳。2阔步行走；神气地快速走动key sentences7.in my mind i am always sprawled on it,reading with my skinny legs slung over one of its arms.本句为简

12、单句，句子主干为i am always sprawled on it。句中，it,reading with my skinny legs slung over one of its arms.作伴随状语。sling的过去式过去分词均为slung.key sentences8.sometimes i went out with them, coaxed into the street,out into the fileds,down by the creek,by the lure of what i knew instinctively was nomal childhood.本句为复合句，句

13、中，过去分词短语coaxed into the street,out into the fileds,down by the creek,作伴随状语；what引导的名词性从句作介词of的宾语。coax sb into doing sth 哄劝某人做某事coax sth out of/from sb 哄劝；哄诱得到key sentences9.but the best part of me was always at home,within some book that had been laid flat on the table to mark my place , its imaginar

14、y people waiting for me to return and bring them to life.（独立主格结构）that 引导一个定语从句，修饰some book.bring sb back to life 使复活；使起死回生；key sentences10.i would discover(句子主干） that（that 引导宾语从句） while（时间状语从句） i was sprawled,legs akimbo(独立结构作伴随状语）,in that chair with a book,jamacia kincaid was sitting in the glare o

15、f the caribbcan sun in antigua reading in that same way that i did（定语从句）,as though she was starving and book was bread. as though 使用了暗喻，把书籍比作面包。 with legs akimbo(两腿叉开) with arms akimbo(双手叉腰)key sentences11.while （让步状语从句）we play lip service to the virtues of reading,the truth is that（表语从句）there is st

16、ill in our culture something that suspects those who read too much ,whatever reading too much means,of being lazy,aimless dreamers,people who need to grow up and come outside to where life is,who think themselves superior.pay service to 口头上赞成by/in virtue of sth 凭借；依靠；由于；因为key sentences12.and sort of

17、 turning away from human contact is suspect,especially one that interferes with the go-out-and-get-going (走出去，干起来）ethos that seems to be at the heart of our national character（民族性格；国民性）.interfere with sth 妨碍；干扰；eg.the traffic noise interfered with my word.at the heart of 关键；重点；核心eg.what he said was

18、at the heart of the problem.key sentences13.there also arose, as i was growing up, a kind of careerism in the united states that sanctioned reading only if there was some point to it.sanction: (1) v. to officially approve of something. and allow it to be done.准许，许可e.g. the government refused to sanc

19、tion a further cut in interest rates.(2) n. official permission, approval or acceptance (正式）批准；许可e.g. we got sanction of the local government to mine coal in this place.key sentences(3) official orders or laws stopping trade. communication .with another country ,in order to make it do something 制裁e.

20、g. economic sanctions were imposed against that country.14.as though intellectual for their own sake had had their day, and lost in the press of ellectual pursuits 对知识的追求in the press of business 在商业界的压力之下have had one s day 风光不再；日渐衰败e.g. shes had her day as a superstar.key sentences15.and

21、 a kind of dogged self-improvement: whereas an executive might learn far more from moby-dickdogged a. showing determination to do sth, never giving up 坚强的，坚持不懈地 dogged determination/persistence顽强的决心/毅力doggedly ad 顽固地，固执地whereas conj. used to compare or contrast two facts然而，但是，尽管some of the children

22、behaved politely; whereas others do not.key sentences16. reading for pleasure, spurred on by some interior compulsion, became as suspect as getting on the subway to ride aimlessly from place to place.spur sb. sth. on鞭策；激励our team has been spurred on by the recent success.compulsion n. (1). a strong

23、desire to do sth.强烈欲望，冲动e.g. she felt a great compulsion to tell him the truth. (2). strong pressure that makes sb.do sth. that they are unwilling to do强迫，强制e.g. the students are under no compulsion to attend class on sundays.key sentences17. for many journalists, reading in the latter half of the t

24、wentieth century was most often couched as a series of problems to be addressedcouch v. to be expressed in a particular way 表达，措辞e.g. his criticism was couched in a tactful way.n.长沙发address v. to think about a problem or a situation and decide how to deal with it设法，解决，处理key sentences18. was the prin

25、ted word giving way to the spoken one ? had television and the movies supplanted books？give way to 被取代e.g. the grasslands have given way to many high buildings.give way 断裂，倒塌supplant v.to take the place of 代替，取代e.g. by the 1930s the wristwatch had most completely supplanted the pocket watch.key sent

26、ences19. and in circles devoted to literary criticism, among the professors of the literature, the editors and authors of fiction, there was sometimes a kind of horrible exclusivity surrounding discussions of reading. exclusivity n. the quality of being exclusive排他性，专有权，独特性e.g. the clothes he design

27、ed have not lost their exclusivity.exclusive a.专有的，独有的，排他的exclusion n.排斥，排除在外key sentences20. when i began to read their work, i was disheartened to discover that many of them felt that the quality of poetry and prose, novels and history and biography, was plummeting into some intellectual bargain b

28、asement.dishearten v.to make sb. lose hope or confidence 使沮丧，使失去信心，使灰心disheartened a.沮丧的，灰心的 disheartening a.使人沮丧的，使人灰心的plummet v. to fall suddenly and quickly from a high level or place 暴跌，速降.主干：i was disheartened to discover that 两个that 引导的宾语从句 when 引导时间状语从句key sentences21.we are the people who on

29、ce waited for the newest installment of dickens latest novel. we are the people who saw it that pride and prejudice never went out of point.installment (1).n.（报纸连载小说的）一节；（电视连续剧的）一集)（2）.a.分期付款，分期交付 see to it that确保，务使 see to sth 办理，照管，. out of print书本绝版；不在印行 in print 继续印行，已刊印，已出版key sentencespara:we

30、are the fans of dikens and once looked forward to the newly published serial of his new novel .we are the people who would make sure that pride and prejudice would always be avaiable.22.there was certainly no talk of comfort and joy,of the lovely subculture of those of us,who comprise the real clan

31、of book,who read not to judge the reading of others but to take the maesure of ourselves.主干：there was certainly no talk of comfort and joy,of the lovely subculture of those of us who引导的定语从句修饰those of uskey sentences23. it was still in the equivalent of the club chairs that we found one anotherequiva

32、lent (1).a. equal in value, amount, meaning, etc. (价值，数量，意义等) 相等的； 相同的e.g. silence is sometimes equivalent to permission.缄默有时等于允许。(2).n. a thing, an amount or a word that is equal to sth. else对等物；等量；对应词e.g. breathing such polluted air is the equivalent of smoking ten cigarettes a day.be equivalent t

33、o 相当于;与等效equivalent n.相等；等效para: we still found each other like we did when we were youngkey sentences24. reading is like so much else in our culture: the truth of it is found in its people and not in its pundits and professionals.pundit n. a person who knows a lot about a subject and often talks ab

34、out it publicly 专家；行家；权威同义：expert n.专家，行家，能手para: it is not the professionals but the ordinary people who understand the true significance of reading like many other things in our culture.key sentenceskey words1.wander v释义：to walk slowly around or to a place, often without a clear direction or purpo

35、se 游荡；闲逛例句：several children wander aimlessly around the street.2.perplexed a 释义：confused and worried by something that one does not understand 迷惑的例句：the students looked at him, perplexed.key words3.prance v释义1：to move with high steps 腾跳例句1:those horses pranced.释义2：to move quickly with exaggerated(夸张

36、的）steps，often in a confident way 阔步行走例句2：the little was prancing about in her new clothes.4.seduce v释义：to persuade somebody to do something by making it seem very attractive.例句：clever advertising would seduce more people into smoking.key words5.literacy n释义：the ability to read and write 读写能力例句：the w

37、orkers are required to have the basic literacy skills.6.sprawl v释义1：to sit or lie with ones arms and legs stretched in a relaxed or awkward(尴尬的；不合适的） way 伸开四肢的坐或躺例句1: the tired little girl sprawled on her bed.释义2: to spread out over a wide area in an untidy way 杂乱无序的拓展例句2：the small town sprawls for

38、miles in each direction.key words7.sling v释义1：to throw or put something somewhere in a careless way 随意乱扔或乱放例句1：he slung his suitcase onto his bed.释义2：to hang something loosely 吊；挂例句2：she slung her coat over her desk chair.8.lure n & v释义1： something that attracts people, or the quality of being a

39、ttractive 诱惑力 例句1: life in big cities is a lure to many countrymen.释义2:to persuade somebody to do something wrong or dangerous by promising them a reward 诱骗例句2:the little girl was lured into a car but managed to escape.key words9.abate v释义:to gradually become or make something become less strong 减弱；

40、使减弱例句：nothing could abate her rage(愤怒）.10.ethos n释义:the set of moral ideas and attitudes typical of a certain group or society 道德观例句:the whole ethos of the hotel is offer excellent service.key words11.solitary a释义1：done alone with other people 单独的；独自的例句1：i like long solitary walks after supper.释义2:

41、a kind of state without other things or people 孤独的;孤零零的例句2：her parents live a solitary farm.释义3：enjoying being alone or spending a lot of time alone 喜欢独处的例句3：he is a solitary person who dislikes to talk too much.key words12.interior n & a释义1：the inner pare or inside of something 内部例句1：the interi

42、or of the car is very grand.释义2：inside or indoors 内部的例句2：the interior walls were all painted blue.13.snobbery n释义：the attitudes and behavior of people who are snobs. 势力行为例句：the mans snobbery towards those who have much money makes his girlfriend upset. key words14.plummet v释义1：to fall suddenly and q

43、uickly from a high level or place 暴跌；速降例句1：their export earnings plummeted in the fist quarter of this year. 15.installment n释义1：one of the parts of a story or a tv play 一节；一集例句1：we are looking forward to the next installment of his novel.释义2：a payment of the parts of a debt at regular intervals分期付款

44、例句2：we paid for the house in installments.key words16.equivalent a & n释义1：equal in value, amount, meaning and so on 相等的例句1：silence is sometimes equivalent to permission.释义2：something that is equal to something else 对等物例句2：breathing such polluted air is the equivalent of smoking ten cigarettes a

45、day.17.couch v 释义： to be expressed in a particular way 表达；措辞例句： his criticism is couched in a tactful(圆滑的） way.key words18.address v释义：to think about s problem or situation and decide to how to deal with it 设法解决；处理 例句：we must address ourselves to the problem of the environment pollution.key wordskey pmit sth. to memory把学好记牢例句：we must commit the second bachelor in relation to english to memory.2.bring sb. or sth. to life 使更有趣