新标准综合教程Unit1课文文字和单词

1、新标准综合教程第一册 Unit 1 课文文字和单词Active Reading (1)Diary of a fresherSunday 1     After a long drive from home, we arrive at my hall of residence, and I check in. The warden gives me a set of keys and a room number. It's five floors up, and the lift doesn't work. Finally, with my

2、 mother red in the face and short of breath, we find Room 8, I unlock the door, and we all walk in. 2     After one minute, my father climbs out. The room is barely big enough for one, and certainly not big enough for the whole family. I can lie on the bed and touch three walls w

3、ithout moving a muscle. 3     Lucky my brother and my dog didn't come too. 4     Later. My parents have just left. I'm here alone, surrounded by my books and a suitcase. What do I do next? Monday 5     There's a coffee morning f

4、or first year students. I meet my tutor, who is tall with round shoulders, and looks determined to be pleasant. 6     "Have you come far?" he asks me. As he speaks, he moves his head from side to side, which makes his coffee spill into the saucer. 7    &#

5、160;"I live not far from Edinburgh, about six hours away," I explain. 8     "Splendid!" he says, and moves on to the girl standing beside me. "Have you come far?" he asks, "splendid," he says, without waiting for the answer, and moves on. H

6、e takes a sip of coffee, and looks surprised to find the cup is empty. 9     My mother calls. She asks if I've met my tutor yet. Tuesday 10     Am feeling a little hungry, and I realize I haven't eaten for two days. I go downstairs and find that I can

7、have three meals a day in the dining hall. I go down and join a very long queue. 11     "What's for breakfast?" I ask the boy in front of me. 12     "Don't know. I was too late for breakfast. This is for lunch." 13    

8、; It's self-service and today's menu includes chicken, rice, potatoes, salad, vegetables, cheese, yoghurt and fruit. The boy in front puts it all on his plate, pays for it, and goes to sit down. 14     Not feeling very hungry any more. 15     My m

9、other calls. She asks if I'm eating proper meals. Wednesday 16     I have a lecture at 9 am. I wake up at 8.45. No one has woken me. Strange. 17     I get dressed, and rush over to the lecture hall. I sit down beside a girl who looks half asleep. She looks

10、 at me. "Just got up?" she asks. How can she tell? 18     The lecture takes an hour, and at the end I look at my notes. I can't read my handwriting. 19     The girl's name is Sophie and she's an English literature major, like me. She look

11、s very intelligent, and when we chat after the lecture, she tells me she read the whole of this term's reading list during her gap year. She impresses me, and I feel so ignorant that I shouldn't even breathe the same air as her. 20     Mum calls. She asks if I slept OK. T

12、hursday 21     It's the Freshers' Fair today, and Sophie and I go along to see how many clubs we can join. We both agree that we want to make a lot of friends, so I sign up for ballroom dancing, the Artificial Intelligence Society, bell ringing and the Extreme Sports Club

13、. Sophie signs up for Amateur Dramatics and the Mozart choir. 22     I wonder if Sophie and I are going to stay good friends. 23     Mum calls. My brother has tried to rent out my bedroom back home. Mum assures me that it's mine for as long as I need it, t

14、hat it's my home and that they miss me very much, especially the dog. I burst into tears. Friday 24     In the morning, I go to the library. But it seems I need an ID card which is used for identification. For some reason, I have to swear that I won't damage the books or

15、break the library rules, and if I do, I'll be sent to prison. (What!? For speaking too loudly?) It seems that it's a very old library, and the university is very proud of it. 25     There's a disco tonight, but I've run out of clean clothes. I'm not sure what

16、happens to my dirty clothes after putting them in the clothes basket and before finding them clean, ironed and folded in my wardrobe. Maybe Mum will call soon. New wordsfreshern.  C (AmE freshman) 大学一年级学生residencen.  C (fml) 住所；住宅The building is partly a museum and partly a private re

17、sidence.wardenn.  C 看守人；监管人；管理员unlockvt.  （通常用钥匙）打开（门或窗的锁）Which of these keys unlocks the safe?barelyad.  几乎不；几乎没有The roads were barely wide enough for two cars to pass.musclen.  C, U 肌肉spillv.  （使）溢出，（使）泼出，（使）洒出He slipped and the wine spilt all over the carpet.sipn.  C

18、 一小口If the food is too hot, take a sip of elligenta.  有智慧的；悟性高的；聪明的Surely an intelligent person like you can deal with this.gapn.  C 1. 间隔；间断2. 缺口；裂口；缝隙；裂缝1. The second volume in the series came out after a gap of seven years.2. Through the gaps between the trees I could see a riv

19、er in the distance.ignoranta.  ( of) 无知的；愚昧的；无学识的I was ignorant of the terms used in business.signv.  签字（于）；签名（于）You haven't signed Rory's birthday card yet.ballroomn.  C 大舞厅；舞场dramaticsn.  U 戏剧表演choirn.  C （学校的）合唱团；（教堂的）唱诗班assurevt.  1. (fml) 向（某人）保证；使确信2. 确保1.

20、 There's not much more I can say to assure you.2. We all worked hard to assure the mayor's re-election.discon.  C 迪斯科舞厅；迪斯科舞会wardroben.  C 衣柜；衣橱Phrases and expressionscheck in 1. 登记住宿；登记住院2.（在机场）办理登机手续1. He checked in at the Europa Hotel.2. You must check in at least one hour

21、before your flight.go along 1. 和（某人）一起去2. 继续；进展1. As everyone else was going to the pub, I decided to go along with them.2. Things seem to be going along nicely.sign up for 报名参加；同意从事She's decided to sign up for a music school.rent out 出租（房屋、办公室等）He rented out his spare flat for &#

22、163;1,000 a month.burst into tears / song / laughter 突然哭 / 唱/ 笑起来Terri keeps bursting into tears for no reason.run out of 用光；耗尽They ran out of money and had to abandon the project.Proper namesEdinburgh 爱丁堡（苏格兰首府）Artificial Intelligence Society 人工智能协会Extreme Sports Club 极限运动俱

23、乐部Mozart 莫扎特（17561791，奥地利作曲家、维也纳古典乐派主要代表）ID card (identity card) 身份证Active Reading (2)Tis: A memoir1     Since I'm not a high school graduate and work full-time, I'm allowed to take only two courses, Introduction to Literature and The History of Educat

24、ion in America. I don't know why I have to be introduced to literature but the woman in the admissions office says it's a requirement even though I've read Dostoyevsky andMelville and that's admirable for someone without a high school education. She

25、 says The History of Education in America course will provide me with the broad cultural background I need after my inadequate European education.2     I'm in heaven and the first thing to do is buy the required textbooks, cover them with the purple a

26、nd white NYU book jackets so that people in the subway will look at me admiringly.3     All I know of university classes is what I saw a long time ago in the movies in Limerick and here I am sitting in one, The History of Education in Ameri

27、ca, with Professor Maxine Green up there on the platform telling us how the Pilgrims educated their children. All around me are students scribbling away in their notebooks and I wish I knew what to scribble myself. How am I supposed to know what's importan

28、t out of all the things she's saying up there? Am I supposed to remember everything? Some students raise their hands to ask questions but I could never do that. The whole class would stare at me and wonder who's the one with the accent. I could try an American accent but that never work

29、s. When I try it people always smile and say, Do Idetect an Irish brogue?4     The professor is saying the Pilgrims left England to escape religious persecution and that puzzles me because the Pilgrims were English themselves and the English wer

30、e always the ones who persecuted everyone else, especially the Irish. I'd like to raise my hand and tell the professor how the Irish suffered for centuries under English rule but I'm sure everyone in this class has a high school diploma and if I open my mouth they

31、9;ll know I'm not one of them.5     Other students are easy about raising their hands and they always say, Well, I think.6     Some day I'll raise my hand and say, Well, I think, but I don't know what to think about Pilgrims and their edu

32、cation. Then the professor tells us ideas don't drop fully formed from the skies, that the Pilgrims were, in the long run, children of the Reformation with an accompanying world view and their attitudes to children were so informed.7     There is more note

33、book scribbling around the room, the women busier than the men. The women scribble as if every word out of Professor Green's mouth were important.8     Then I wonder why I have this fat textbook on American education which I carry in subways so that people can admir

34、e me for being a college student. I know there will be examinations, a mid-term and a final, but where will the questions come from? If the professor talks and talks and the textbook is seven hundred pages I'll surely be lost.9     There are good-looking g

35、irls in the class and I'd like to ask one if she knows what I should know before the mid-term exam in seven weeks. I'd like to go to the university cafeteria or aGreenwich Village coffee shop and chat with the girl about the Pilgrims and their Puritan ways and h

36、ow they frightened the life out of their children. I could tell the girl how I read Dostoyevsky and Melville and she'd be impressed and fall in love with me and we'd study The History of Education in America together. New wordsTis (literary) it ismemoirn.  1. (s) 见闻录；回忆录2

37、. C 传略；实录admirablea.  令人赞赏的；令人钦佩的It is an admirable book, the first to tell the whole truth about the war.culturala.  1. 文化（上）的2.（音乐、文学等）文化艺术的1. It is important to look at the political and cultural context in which the novel was written.2. London is still very much the cultural capital of

38、 the country.inadequatea.  不充分的；不够格的；不适当的We are trying to provide basic education with inadequate resources.subwayn.  C (BrE Underground) 地铁admiringlyad. 钦佩地；赞赏地；羡慕地Everybody looked at him admiringly.Pilgrimn.  C 1.（17世纪早期离开英国到了如今的美国的）清教徒移民2. 朝圣者；香客scribblev.  1. 潦草书写2.

39、 乱涂；涂写；乱画1. I scribbled the numbers down as they were read out.2. Someone had scribbled all over my picture.detectvt. 1. 察觉，发觉，发现（尤指不明显的事）2. 查出；测出1. I thought I detected a hint of irony in her words.2. The system is so sensitive that it can detect changes in temperature as small as 0.003 degree

40、s.Irisha.  1. 爱尔兰的；爱尔兰语的；爱尔兰文化的2. 爱尔兰人的broguen.  sing 土腔，地方腔（尤指爱尔兰腔或苏格兰腔）persecutionn.  C, U （尤指因种族、宗教或政治信仰而进行的）迫害，残害He may face persecution if he returns to his homeland.persecutevt. （尤指因种族、宗教或政治信仰而）迫害，残害The narrators have been persecuted for standing up for their principles.dip

41、loman.  C 毕业文凭；学位证书He has a diploma in marketing.surelyad. 1. 无疑；肯定2.（用于表明相信某事极有可能）想必，谅必1. That is surely the stupidest thing I have ever done.2. Surely she didn't mean it it was just a thoughtless remark.cafeterian.  C 自助食堂；自助餐馆Puritann.  C 清教徒Phrases and expressionsin the l

42、ong run 从长远来看；终究Moving to Spain will be better for you in the long run.frighten the life out of sb / frighten sb to death (infml) 把某人吓得没命/ 使某人紧张得要死Don't do that! You frightened the life out of me!Proper namesDostoyevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基（18211881，俄国作家）Melville 梅尔维尔（18191891 ，美国小说家）NYU&

43、#160;(New York University) 纽约大学Limerick 利默里克（爱尔兰西部城市）Maxine Green 玛克辛  格林（人名）the Reformation 宗教改革运动（欧洲 16 世纪的一次宗教运动，导致新教各教派的成立）Greenwich Village 格林尼治村Reading Across CulturesSettling down at college around the worldTanya Zarutskaya   Moscow, RussiaThi

44、s time last year I was nervous about my new life. I didn't have any friends, and it was my first time away from home. At first I worked all the time, going to lectures and studying late into the night.But then I realized I was missing out on so many other things at university. One

45、 day a girl in my hall of residence invited everyone in the dorm to a dinner party. I've no idea where she managed to buy the food, or how she had enough money.And she dressed like a model. I don't know why she was bothering with university! I've got to know lots of interesting people and I now enjoy myself as well as study hard.Miguel Fonseca   Guadalajara, MexicoWhen I first arrived at university, I tried to make notes about everything the professors said in their lectures. But I ended up being too