新视野大学英语(第二版)第1册Unit6 SectionB 教师版

1、ContentsReading Skills1Text B23Test YourselfN H C EReading Skills自测课文IntroductionPracticeLike the other skills for your use, the skill introduced in this unit does render you better ability in reading.This practice is designed to help you get a deeper insight into the skill for this unit.N H C E Und

2、erstanding Idiomatic Expressions The meaning of idiomatic expressions can be very hardeven impossibleto guess. Word structure doesnt always help, and can even fool us entirely! But good readers dont give up on the first try. They keep reading, in search of contextual cluesexamples, explanations, opp

3、osites, or similar phrasesthat can help them figure out the meaning of idiomatic expressions. 自测课文随 笔 Practice N H C ETo be continued Here are some examples from Passage A: Who are you to say what goes? (Para. 9) Example 1Practice 自测课文N H C E随 笔 From what goes before and after the sentence, we can g

4、et the meaning of the sentence: Do you think that you have the right or power to tell others what should be done and what should not be done? Or, you are not entitled to teach anyone what is right or what is wrong. To be continued自测课文Practice N H C E随 笔 He might have gone a step further and called f

5、or respect for both our economists and our trashmen. (Para. 14) Example 2 From the context, we might find that “have gone a step further” means to add or explain a bit more. To be continued Example 3 Nowadays, some people like burning the candle at both ends. A case in point is that of my brother. I

6、n addition to his regular job, my brother is also serving as a consultant to several government agencies and helping to set up his friends in business. I just dont know how long his health will permit him to go on like this. Practice 自测课文N H C E随 笔 The example below the idiom gives us clues as to th

7、e meaning of “burn the candle at both ends”.Directions:Try to figure out the meaning of the underlined idiomatic expressions in the following sentences. Then scan the article for contextual clues to check your guesses.PracticeIntroduction 自测课文N H C E随 笔 1. He did not divide his time with outside int

8、erests, unless, of course, you consider his monthly game of golf.Introduction 自测课文N H C E随 笔 Key: spend part of his time on2. The youngest child is twenty, a boy, a high-school graduate and like a lot of his friends, is content to do enough odd jobs to stay in grass and food.Key: continue to support

9、 himself with drugs and foodTo be continuedIntroduction 自测课文N H C E随 笔 3. She was afraid he would read her bitterness and, after all, she would need him to straighten out their financesthe stock options and all that.Key: settle their accounts with the company or any money owed to themTo be continued

10、Introduction 自测课文N H C E随 笔 4. Phil was overweight, always wound up and worked too hard.Key: nervous and worried5. He was a natural choice for a heart attack. Key: a person who is likely to suffer a heart attackText BNew WordsQuestionsPreviewingChoice MakingPassageReading自测技巧N H C E自测技巧Questions Tex

11、t Study Choice Making N H C E随 笔 acquaintance addicteddevotevice-conceive conceivablyretirespotaffordexecutiven.a.vt.vt.ad.vi.n.vt.n./a.C相识的人;熟人上瘾的;入迷的致力于;献身于(used in compounds)副的构想出,设想可想象地;可以相信地退休 C地位;污渍,斑痕;地点有能力做;承担得起C行政领导;行政的Questions Text Study Choice Making 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 divide admireignoresur

12、vivoraccurate accuratelysurvivebelovedmanufactureneighborhoodvt.vt.vt.n.a.ad.v.a.vt.n.分配;分享;分用敬佩;钦佩忽视,不理睬C尚活着的人;幸存者准确的,精确的准确地,精确地比活得长;活下来,幸存所深爱的(大量)生产,制造C社区;街坊邻居Questions Text Study Choice Making 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 oddwidowdeceasedreplacebearstraightenfinancestockoptiona.n.n.vt.vt.v.n.n.n.临时的,不固定的;奇怪的C寡

13、妇(the ) 死者,已故者取代,代替;更换,替换(bore, borne)忍受;经受(使)变直(s)资金;财务状况;U金融C股份;股;C,U存货,库存C买卖某物的权利;选择Questions Text Study Choice Making 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 (up) 使紧张;上满发条C一排人谨慎的,慎重的谨慎地,慎重地C询问,打听C替换的人/物;U替代死于看护,照顾;喜欢熬夜解决(问题);理清(混乱情况)windline-up discreet discreetlyinquiryreplacementdie ofcare forstay upstraighten outvt.n

14、.a.ad.n.n.Questions Text Study Choice Making 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 到处打听 海伦 菲尔 ask aroundHelen等等,诸如此类and all that 认出pick outPhilNew Words Text Study Choice Making 自测技巧N H C EIntroductionFor you to be better conditioned for reading as fast as 100 words per minute, as required in the new type of examination “

15、Speed Reading”, Text B can serve to be your fast-reading material. But, for this purpose, the best course of action is to know what to scan for in your skimming. Thus, the trick is to keep in your mind the key words of each question before you start off. That is where the “Questions Previewing” come

16、s in. 随 笔 Q1. Phil was anything but _. Q2. Phil could have been promoted to the top position _.Q3. Very often Phil had his meals _.Q4. From Helens response to a company friend who said “I know how much you will miss him”, we know that _.New Words Text Study Choice Making 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 Q5. Who seems

17、 to be following Phils steps working as a company man? _Q6. Which of the following might tell us that the youngest child was Phils favorite? _Q7. Which of the following statements taken from the text does not sound ironic (讽刺的)? _Q8. We can see from the passage that _.New Words Text Study Choice Mak

18、ing 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 1. He worked himself to death, finally and precisely,at 3:00 A.M. Sunday morning.2. The article about his death didnt say that, ofcourse. It said he died of a heart attack, but every oneof his friends and acquaintances knew it instantly. Hewas a perfect Type A, addicted to working

19、, they saidto each other and shook their headsand thought forfive or ten minutes about the way they lived. New Words Questions The Company ManChineseChoice Making 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 Question 1Question 83. This man, Phil, who worked himself to death finally and precisely at 3:00 A. M. Sunday morningon hi

20、s day offwas at work. He had devoted the last eighteen years of his life to that work. He was fifty-one years old and a vice-president. More precisely, he was one of six vice-presidents, and one of three that might conceivablyif the president died or retired soon enoughhave been promoted to the top

21、spot. Phil could not afford a rest.ChineseNew Words Questions Choice Making 自测技巧N H C EQuestion 2随 笔 Question 7 4. He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night, during a time when his own company had begun the four-day week for everyone but the executives. He did not divide h

22、is time with outside interests, unless, of course, you consider his monthly game of golf. To Phil, it was work. He always ate egg salad sandwiches at his desk. He was, of course, overweight and had high blood pressure. On Saturdays, Phil wore a sports jacket to the office instead of a suit because i

23、t was the weekend.ChineseQuestion 3New Words Questions Choice Making 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 5. He had a lot of people working under him, maybe sixty, and most of them liked and admired him most of the time. Three of them will be seriously considered for his job. The article ignored this information. Chinese

24、New Words Questions Choice Making 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 6. But it did list his “survivors” quite accurately. He is survived by his wife, Helen, forty-eight years old, a good woman of no particular marketable skills, who worked in an office before marrying and mothering. She had, according to her daughter,

25、given up trying to compete with his work years ago when the children were small. A company friend said, “I know how much you will miss him.” And she answered, “I already have.”ChineseNew Words Questions Choice Making 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 Question 47. “Missing him all these years,” she had given up a part

26、of herself, which had cared too much for the man. She would be “well taken care of”.ChineseNew Words Questions Choice Making 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 Question 18. His “dearly beloved” eldest of the “dearly beloved” children is a hard-working executive in a manufacturing firm down South. The day before the fun

27、eral, he went around the neighborhood talking to people and trying to get to know his father better. The neighbors were embarrassed, and pretended to know him better than they did.ChineseNew Words Questions Choice Making 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 Question 59. His second child is a girl, who is twenty-four and

28、newly married. She lives near her mother and they are close, but whenever she was alone with her father, in a car driving somewhere, they had very little to say to each other.ChineseNew Words Questions Choice Making 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 10. The youngest child is twenty, a boy, a high-school graduate and l

29、ike a lot of his friends, he is content to do enough odd jobs to stay in grass and food. His fathers work did not suit him. Still, he was the one who tried to reach his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home. He was his fathers favorite. Over the last two years, Phil stayed

30、up nights worrying about the boy.ChineseNew Words Questions Choice Making 自测技巧N H C EQuestion 6随 笔 11. The boy once said, “My father and I only board here.” 12. At the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president told the forty-eight-year-old widow that the fifty-one-year-old deceased had meant so

31、much to the company and would be missed and hard to replace. The widow couldnt bear to look him in the eye. She was afraid he would read her bitterness and, after all, she would need him to straighten out their finances the stock options and all that.ChineseNew Words Questions Choice Making 自测技巧N H

32、C E随 笔 Question 713. Phil was overweight, always wound up and worked too hard. If he wasnt at the office, he was worried about it. He was a natural choice for a heart attack. You could have picked him out in a minute from a line-up. 14. So when he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 A

33、.M. Sunday morning, no one was really surprised.ChineseNew Words Questions Choice Making 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 15. By 5:00 P.M. the afternoon of the funeral, the company president had begun, discreetly of course, with care and taste, to make inquiries about his replacementone of three men. He asked around,

34、 “Whos been working the hardest?”ChineseQuestion 8New Words Questions Choice Making 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 Q1. Phil was anything but _. A. a company man B. a perfect Type A C. a devoted executive D. a devoted husbandRefer to Para. 1-7New Words Questions Text Study 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 返回Para. 7Q2. Phil could have

35、 been promoted to the top position _.A. if he could afford a restB. if he had worked hard enoughC. if he had a friendly relation with the presidentD. if the president died or retired soon enoughRefer to Para. 3New Words Questions Text Study 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 Q3. Very often Phil had his meals _.A. at ho

36、me B. in a restaurantC. in his officeD. in the dining room Refer to Para. 4New Words Questions Text Study 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 Q4. From Helens response to a company friend who said “I know how much you will miss him”, we know that _.A. Helen had no particular marketable skillsB. Helen loved to be a housew

37、ifeC. Helen praised her husbands devotion to workD. Helen complained that her husband had neglected her Refer to Para. 6New Words Questions Text Study 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 Q5. Who seems to be following Phils steps working as a company man?A. Phils eldest child.B. Phils youngest child.C. Phils daughter.D.

38、A vice-president.Refer to Para. 8New Words Questions Text Study 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 Q6. Which of the following might tell us that the youngest child was Phils favorite?A. He was doing enough odd jobs.B. He was the one who tried to reach Phil.C. He was the one Phil worried about most.D. He was a high-scho

39、ol graduate. Refer to Para. 10New Words Questions Text Study 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 Q7. Which of the following statements taken from the text does not sound ironic (讽刺的)? A. This man, Phil, who worked himself to death finally and precisely at 3:00 A. M. Sunday morningon his day offwas at work. B. She was af

40、raid he would read her bitterness and, after all, she would need him to straighten out their financesthe stock options and all that. C. She would be “well taken care of”. D. He asked around, “Whos been working the hardest?” Refer to Para. 3, 7, 12, 15New Words Questions Text Study 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 返回P

41、ara. 12Q8. Which of the following inferences (推断) is not supported by this passage?A. Being a company man is not a good idea. B. A company man may get more than he loses.C. A company man is generally preferred by his companys president.D. A company man has more chances of being promoted. Refer to Pa

42、ra. 1 - 15New Words Questions Text Study 自测技巧N H C E随 笔 返回Para. 15Test Yourself课文技巧N H C EListening ComprehensionTest YourselfReadingComprehensionShort ConversationsDirections: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause you must

43、 make your choice. 21345768910课文技巧 Reading N H C E随 笔 A) Place another order. B) Call to check on it. C) Wait patiently. D) Go and find the furniture. M: I havent received the furniture I ordered yet. Maybe I should call to check on it.W: Dont worry. It takes at least a week to arrive.Q: What does t

44、he woman think the man should do? Reading 课文技巧N H C E1.21345768910随 笔 A) She doesnt need the job. B) She hasnt got a job yet. C) She has got a good job.D) She is going to start work soon. M: Congratulations! I understand youve got a job. When will you start to work?W: You must be thinking of someone

45、 else. Im still waiting to hear the good news.Q: What does the woman mean? Reading 课文技巧N H C E2.21345768910随 笔 3.A) She got home before 9 oclock. B) She had a bad cold. C) She had a car accident.D) She was delayed. W: If it hadnt been snowing so hard, I might have been home by 9 oclock.M: Its too ba

46、d you didnt make it. Jane was here and she wanted to see you.Q: What happened to the woman? Reading 课文技巧N H C E21345768910随 笔 4.A) She hasnt gone camping for several weeks. B) She likes to take long camping trips. C) She prefers not to go camping on weekends. D) She often spends a lot of time planni

47、ng her camping trips. M: Janet is quite interested in camping, isnt she?W: Yes, she often goes for weeks at a time.Q: What does the woman say about Janet? Reading 课文技巧N H C E21345768910随 笔 5.A) A writer. B) A teacher. C) A reporter. D) A student. W: Good evening, Professor David. My name is Susan Gr

48、ay. Im with the local newspaper. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?M: Not at all. Go ahead, please?Q: What is Susan Gray? Reading 课文技巧N H C E21345768910随 笔 6.A) She has not heard of Prof. Johnson.B) She has not heard of Prof. Johnsons brother.C) She is a good friend of Prof. Johnsons brother.

49、D) She does not know Prof. Johnsons brother. M: Do you know Professor Johnsons brother?W: Ive never met him, but Ive heard that he is as well-known as Johnson herself.Q: What do we learn from the womans reply? Reading 课文技巧N H C E21345768910随 笔 7.A) Coming back for a later show. B) Waiting in a queue

50、. C) Coming back in five minutes. D) Not going to the movie today. W: The movie starts in 5 minutes and theres bound to be a long line.M: Why dont we come back for the next show? Im sure it would be less crowded.Q: What is the man suggesting? Reading 课文技巧N H C E21345768910随 笔 8. A) He has got a hear

51、t attack. B) He was unharmed.C) He was badly hurt. D) He has fully recovered from the shock. W: Were you hurt in the accident?M: I was shocked at the time, but wasnt hurt at all. My bike was totally damaged, though.Q: What do we know about the man? Reading 课文技巧N H C E21345768910随 笔 9.A) The man went

52、 to Australia during Christmas.B) The man visited Australia during the summer vacation.C) The man didnt have a good time because of the different weather.D) The man remained home while his parents went to see his uncle. W: Where were you on Christmas David? I called you several times and nobody was

53、home.M: My parents and I traveled to Australia to visit my uncle. It was quite an experience to spend Christmas in summer.Q: What do we learn from this conversation? Reading 课文技巧N H C E21345768910随 笔 10.A) To attend a party at a classmates home.B) To do homework with her classmate.C) To attend an ev

54、ening class.D) To have supper out with her classmate. M: Its seven oclock already. Mary should be home by now.W: Oh. I forgot to tell you that she called this afternoon and told me that she was going to a party at her classmates house and wouldnt be home until 10.Q: What did Mary say she was going t

55、o do? Reading 课文技巧N H C E21345768910随 笔 Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank above the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Reading in DepthLi

56、stening 课文技巧N H C E随 笔 function bother regardless afford critical typicallymistakenly confuse comfort financial admittedly poverty technological requirement intervention Workaholics live for their work, often spending many extra hours at work, and often taking work home to complete. Americanswhen co

57、mpared to many other countriesare 1 _ a work-hard culture, but when work becomes the sole reason for a persons existence above more important things, the issue becomes 2 _.typicallyListening 课文技巧N H C Ecritical 随 笔 function bother regardless afford critical typicallymistakenly confuse comfort financ

58、ial admittedly poverty technological requirement intervention Part of the matter is societal. Americans are working more hours per week than in years past, and with all the downsizings (减员) and lack of replacement hirings, more and more workers are putting in extra hours to complete the work previou

59、sly completed by others. Some studies show that as many as 40 percent of workers dont even 3 _ to take vacations, partly because of fears they may not have a job to come back to if they do.bother Listening 课文技巧N H C E随 笔 function bother regardless afford critical typicallymistakenly confuse comfort

60、financial admittedly poverty technological requirement intervention Part of the matter is 4_. We live and work in a connected environmente-mails, fax machines, cell phones, and digital assistantsmaking it hard for workers to truly get time away from their work. technological Listening 课文技巧N H C E随 笔