综合教程 4unit 6

1、Unit Six Attitudes to LifeLead-in1New Words Study2Text Study3Consolidation & Exercises4Lead-inWhat is your motto in life?What is your motto in life? This moment if you will nap , you will have a dream , but you study, you will fulfill the dream. - Harvard University此刻打盹、你将做梦，而此刻学习此刻打盹、你将做梦，而此刻学习

2、 , 你将圆梦。你将圆梦。Lead-in Because there are setbacks, the beauty of life before they become full up . - University of Bologna 因为有因为有 挫折，人生的美好才变得充实起来。挫折，人生的美好才变得充实起来。Lead-in In my mundane world, I was not trivial. - Yale University 在我平凡的世界里，我就是不平凡。在我平凡的世界里，我就是不平凡。The real failure is not you do not get thi

3、ngs done , but you are willing to fail. - Stanford University真正的失败不是你没做成事，而是你甘心失败。真正的失败不是你没做成事，而是你甘心失败。Lead-inLead-in: What is your motto in life?Lead-in dreammaterialsjusticesanityfreedomidealperfectpeacedesirelovedustunhappinessinevitablenegativestressfreedomdestinygive upchoiceprusue clench hospi

4、talize intensive additional sunlight sparking relish grandeur preoccupied mean glean commonplace paradoxical awe command inevitability finite weaveNew Words timeless relentless dim perish enduring righteousness brick imperfection redeem New Words StudyNew Words Study intensive adj.酷热酷热精读精读集约农业集约农业激烈

5、的竞争激烈的竞争 intense heatintensive readingintensive agricultureintense competition加强的、集中的；加强的、集中的；彻底的；彻底的；集约的；集约的；十分强烈的；十分强烈的；激烈的，十分紧张的激烈的，十分紧张的New Words Study additional adj. 追加的、附加的追加的、附加的 v. add * Please add my name to the list. Add 5 to the total. I have something to add to my statement.New Words St

6、udyThe room charge has added in the tax.The bad weather only add to our difficulties.Everything we do adds up.1.Three and four adds up to seven.New Words Study relish vt. / n. 享受、喜欢享受、喜欢e.g. 我不我不喜欢喜欢听流行音乐。听流行音乐。 I dont relish listening to pop music. I dont relish pop music. I have no relish for pop

7、music. v. relish sth / doing sthn. have relish for sth with relishNew Words Study mean Jessie is always mean with money. Dont be so mean to your little sister. She is simply a baby. She is a mean basketball player. He grew up in this mean house. mean doing sth mean to do sthNew Words Study weave v.

8、1. 编成、编造（故事等）编成、编造（故事等） e.g. to weave a story* 2. 编织、编制编织、编制e.g. The hats are woven from straw. The straw are woven into hats.weave A from Bweave B into ANew Words Study perish v.1.老化、腐烂老化、腐烂 2. 死亡、暴亡死亡、暴亡 3. 毁灭毁灭我们现在别无选择我们现在别无选择,不成功便不成功便成仁成仁! We have no choice; we win, or we perish!请重新铺设已经请重新铺设已经老化

9、老化的电线。的电线。Please rewire the electronic lines which have been perished. adj. perishable perished perishingNew Words Study redeem vt. Jesus Chris redeemed man from sin. Linda are trying to redeem her early poor performance. to redeem a loan The voucher can be redeemed for a buffet lunch. to redeem a p

10、romise He redeemed his watch from the pawnshop. Two Truths to Live ByTwo Truths to Live ByPartParasMain IdeasI1-8II9-11III12-16 Life has two opposite poles: one is to hold fast to life and the other is to let go of it. The author draws on his personal experience and tells us that the gifts of life a

11、re precious, but most of us fail to hold fast to life and appreciate its beauty. To accept our losses and learn when to let go is the other side of life. Life will go on no matter what happens. We must look at it from a wider perspectives and learn to apply the two paradoxical truths to our everyday

12、 life. Text Study: Para.1 The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. An ancient man said long ago: “A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.”Language Points1. The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. 坚持、信守

13、（思想、原则等）坚持、信守（思想、原则等）放弃、摒弃放弃、摒弃e.g Let go what is wrong and hold fast to what is right. . 错的要错的要摒弃摒弃，对的要，对的要坚持坚持！Text Study: Para.2 Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wonderful, and full of a beauty. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward

14、 glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly realize that it is no more. veryText Study: Para.3 We remember a beauty that faded, a love that withered. But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was ten

15、dered. Language Points2. we failed to respond with love when it was tendered. 提供、提出提供、提出 e.g. Jessie has tendered the application to the company.2) 投标投标 e.g. The company successful tendered for the project.Language Points* What I need now is a tender hug.The meat is extremely tender.My leg is still

16、tender when I walk.1.The tender boy needs more care.Text Study: Para.4 A recent experience re-taught me this truth. I was hospitalized following a severe heart attack and had been in intensive care for several days. It was not a pleasant place. Text Study: Para.5 One morning, I had to have some addi

17、tional tests. The required machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital, so I had to be wheeled across the courtyard in a chair. As we emerged from our unit, the sunlight hit me. Thats all there was to my experience. Just the light of the sun. And yet how beautiful it was

18、how warming; how sparkling; how brilliant! Thats so ordinary, and nothing special to me. Language Points3. As we emerged from our unit, the sunlight hit me. 当我从病房出来，阳光正照在我的身上。当我从病房出来，阳光正照在我的身上。* hitThe tornado hit thousands of families.We hit the enemy when they least expected it.I will hit the city

19、 tomorrow. We seem to hit a problem.1)A solution suddenly hit me.（风暴、疾病等）袭击（风暴、疾病等）袭击击中，命中击中，命中（演出等）成功、（演出等）成功、 轰动轰动（偶然）碰上（偶然）碰上（突然）想到（突然）想到Text Study: Para.6 I looked to see whether anyone else relished the suns golden glow, but everyone was hurrying to and fro, most with eyes fixed on the ground.

20、Then I remembered how often I, too, had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the great beauty of it all.Language Points4. I looked to see whether anyone else relished the suns golden glow, but everyone was hurrying to

21、 and fro, most with eyes fixed on the ground.look to sb to do sth look to sb for sth look to sth期待、指望、依靠期待、指望、依靠注意、考虑注意、考虑T我想看看周围是否有人也沉醉在这金色的阳光中，我想看看周围是否有人也沉醉在这金色的阳光中，然而，人人都来去匆匆，大都双眼只盯着地面。然而，人人都来去匆匆，大都双眼只盯着地面。Language Points2) 来回地来回地Although her husbands name did not appeare on the list of people wh

22、o got/were killed in the traffic accident, she kept walking to and fro, anxious to see him back home sooner.expecting him back home soonerLanguage Points3) with eyes fixed on the ground I really have to fix my mind on the book. The exam is coming. They have fixed on Paris for their honeymoon.* 集中集中于

23、于选定、决定选定、决定 eyes were fixed on the groundLanguage Points5. Then I remembered how often I, too, had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the great beauty of it all.* 全神贯注全神贯注 这时我又想到了我平时何尝不是往往对身边的美这时我又想到了我平时何尝不是往往对身边的美景

24、视而不见而沉湎于日常细小的、有时甚至是低景视而不见而沉湎于日常细小的、有时甚至是低俗的事情之中的！俗的事情之中的！TLanguage PointsAll the way on the train I had been preoccupied with the result of the term exam until the conductor reminded me of the arrival of my destination.the final examreminded me that I had arrived.Text Study: Para.7&8 The insight

25、 gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itself: lifes gifts are precious but we are too careless of them. Here then is the first pole of lifes paradoxical demands on us: Never too busy for the wonder and the awe of life. Be respectful before each dawning day. Emb

26、race each hour. Seize each golden minute.Text Study: Para.9 Hold fast to life, but not so fast that you cannot let go. This is the second side of lifes coin, the opposite pole of its paradox: we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go. Text Study: Para. 10 This is not an easy lesson to learn

27、, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, that whatever we desire with the full force of our passion can, and will be ours. But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this second truth dawns upon us.confront sb with sthsb be confr

28、onted with sthsb be faced with sthsb face sthLanguage Points6. and slowly but surely this second truth dawns upon us* 使开始明白，使渐渐领悟使开始明白，使渐渐领悟 I was setting out to translate the contract into English when it dawned upon me that both parties involved were Chinese companies.Text Study: Para.11(a) At eve

29、ry stage of life we sustain losses and grow in the process. We begin our independent lives only when we come to this world. We enter schools, then we leave our mothers and fathers and our childhood homes. We get married and have children and then have to let them go. Text Study: Para.11(b)We confron

30、t the death of our parents and our spouses. We face the gradual or not so gradual weakening of our own strength. And ultimately, we must confront the inevitability of our own death, losing ourselves, as it were, all that we were or dreamed to be. 可以说可以说Text Study: Para.12 But why should we be reconc

31、iled to lifes contradictory demands? Why fashion things of beauty when beauty is short-lived? Why give our heart in love when those we love will ultimately be torn from our grasp? be reconciled to sthvs.be reconciled with sbText Study: Para.13 In order to resolve this paradox, we must seek a wider p

32、erspective, viewing our lives as through windows that open on eternity. Once we do that, we realize that though our lives are finite, our deeds on earth weave a timeless pattern.Text Study: Para.14 Life is never just being. It is a becoming, a relentless flowing on. Our parents live on through us, a

33、nd we will live on through our children. The institutions we build endure, and we will endure through them. The beauty we fashion cannot be dimmed by death. Our flesh may perish, our hands will wither, but the beauty and goodness and truth they create live on for all time to e into beingbring into b

34、eingText Study: Para.15 Dont spend and waste your lives accumulating objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. Pursue not so much the material as the ideal, for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth.Language Points7. for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of

35、 enduring worth * e.g. The new position invested her with a good deal of responsibilityThe ambassador to the U.N. was invested with full authority to deal with all the foreign affairs concerning his country on behalf of his government.Text Study: Para.16 Add love to a house and you have a home. Add

36、righteousness to a city and you have a community. Add truth to a pile of red brick and you have a school. Add justice to the far-flung round of human endeavor and you have civilization. Put them all together, elevate them above their present imperfections, add to them the vision of humankind redeeme

37、d, forever free of need and conflict and you have a future lighted with the radiant colors of hope. T把这一切都聚集起来，加以提升，使之超越现存把这一切都聚集起来，加以提升，使之超越现存的缺陷，再加上人类对得到拯救的憧憬，永远无的缺陷，再加上人类对得到拯救的憧憬，永远无求无争，那么你将会有一个闪耀着希望绚烂光彩求无争，那么你将会有一个闪耀着希望绚烂光彩的未来。的未来。Key to ExercisesExercise I on Page 178 (1) commonplace (2) enduri

38、ng(3) dim (4) command(5) imperfection(6) intensive (7) abandon(8) finite (9) mean(10) weavingExercise I on Page 187 (11) additional (12) aspirations(13) gratitude(14) endless(15) faithful16) committedExercise II on Page 179 1) live on2) dawned upon3) live by4) is invested with5) hold fast toExercise

39、 II on Page 179 6) All too7) step aside8) set out9) to and fro10) work at their teeth intoExercise: Cloze on Page 184 1) wither2) sense3) faithful4) commit5) aspirations6) gratitude7) dawns8) accumulated9) nourishment10) preoccupied11) flowers12) tendered13) weave14) elevateExercise: Translation p1841) The ambassador to the U.N. was invested with full authority to deal with all the foreign affairs concerning his country on behalf of his government.Exercise: Translation p184 2) All the way on the train I had been preoccupied with the result of the term examination