全新版大学英语（第二版）

1、BR-main,1. An English Song - Dear Diary,2. Questionnaire,3. Warm-up Questions,Before Reading,Listen to the Song,Questions and Answers,4. Background Information,Richard Tomkins,Technology,Stress in the Workplace,BR1.1_Listen to the Song,Listen to the Song,II,BR1.2_Questions and Answers,Questions and

2、Answers,1. How does the singer treat his diary? Why? 2. What does the singer think about how other people spend their time? 3. Can we infer what attitude the singer takes towards the pace of life today?,He treats it as a friend, to whom he can pour out his inmost feelings.,He thinks they spend their

3、 days in a rush, so much so that they have no time for each other or for themselves.,It is unwise for people to spend days in a rush.,BR2.1,Questionnaire,Purpose:,Directions:,Scoring and Interpretation:,Number of Yes Answers Stress Category:,BR2.11,Questionnaire,Purpose:,Directions:,Scoring and Inte

4、rpretation:,Number of Yes Answers Stress Category:,The purpose of this questionnaire is to increase your awareness of stress in your life.,BR2.12,If you answer “yes” to any of the following stress index questions, just click the sentence.,1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.,I have frequent arguments.,I often

5、 get upset at work.,I often have neck and/or shoulder pains due to anxiety/stress.,I often get upset when I stand in long lines.,I often get angry when I listen to the local, national, or world news or read the newspaper.,I do not have a sufficient amount of money for my needs.,I often get upset whe

6、n driving.,At the end of a workday, I often feel stress-related fatigue.,I have at least one constant source of stress/anxiety in my life (e.g., conflict with boss, neighbor, mother-in-law, etc.).,I often have stress-related headaches.,10.,BR2.13,If you answer “yes” to any of the following stress in

7、dex questions, just click the sentence.,11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.,I rarely get 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night.,I do not practice stress management techniques.,I rarely take time for myself.,I have difficulty in keeping my feelings of anger and hostility under control.,I have difficult

8、y in managing time wisely.,I often have difficulty sleeping.,I am generally in a hurry.,I usually feel that there is not enough time in the day to accomplish what I need to do.,I often feel that I am being mistreated by friends or associates.,I do not regularly perform physical activity.,BR2.14,Purp

9、ose:,Directions:,Scoring and Interpretation:,Number of Yes Answers Stress Category:,Answering yes to any of the questions means that you need to use some form of stress management techniques. Add your yes answers and use the following scale to evaluate the level of stress in your life.,Questionnaire

10、,BR2.15,Purpose:,Directions:,Scoring and Interpretation:,Number of Yes Answers Stress Category:,6 - 20 High stress 3 - 5 Average stress 0 - 2 Low stress,Questionnaire,BR3.1,Warm-up Questions,Read the following short passage and discuss the questions.,II,BR3.2,What do you think keep people in some co

11、untries so busy? 2. What might be the acute / major problems facing people today?,3. Compared with peoples life in ancient times, what have new technology, the information explosion and rising economy really brought to us?,1. Tension Physical, mental, emotional 2. Health problems Physical, mental an

12、d emotional diseases 3. Ecological pollution / Rupture in ozone layer 4. Disturbed family relations 5. Violence and cruelty 6. Corruption / Dishonesty / Immorality 7. Drug-addiction 8. Neglect of law damage or destroy,Acid eats into the metal, damaging its surface.,Collocation:,eat out of,吃光,His ext

13、ravagances ate into his inheritances.,The aircraft promised new horizons, too. The trouble is, it delivered them. Its very existence created a demand for time-consuming journeys that we would never previously have dreamed of undertaking - the transatlantic shopping expedition, for example, or the tr

14、ip to a convention on the other side of the world.,Article2_S_popwin_The trouble,The motorcar, for example, promised unimaginable levels of personal mobility. But now, traffic in cities moves more slowly than it did in the days of the horse-drawn carriage, and we waste our lives stuck in traffic jam

15、s.,What do “deliver” and “them” here refer to? What does “trouble” imply?,“Deliver” means to provide or to bring, “them” here refers to “horizons”.,It implies the unfavorable effect of the invention of aircraft, that is, people, driven on by new horizons, would like to spend more time on time-consum

16、ing journeys.,Article3_W,In most cases, technology has not saved time, but enabled us to do more things. In the home, washing machines promised to free women from having to toil over the laundry. In reality, they encouraged us to change our clothes daily instead of weekly, creating seven times as mu

17、ch washing and ironing. Similarly, the weekly bath has been replaced by the daily shower, multiplying the hours spent on personal grooming. Meanwhile, technology has not only allowed work to spread into our leisure time - the laptop-on-the-beach syndrome - but added the new burden of dealing with fa

18、xes, e-mails and voicemails. It has also provided us with the opportunity to spend hours fixing software glitches on our personal computers or filling our heads with useless information from the Internet.,Article3_W_popwin_in reality,In most cases, technology has not saved time, but enabled us to do

19、 more things. In the home, washing machines promised to free women from having to toil over the laundry. In reality, they encouraged us to change our clothes daily instead of weekly, creating seven times as much washing and ironing. Similarly, the weekly bath has been replaced by the daily shower, m

20、ultiplying the hours spent on personal grooming. Meanwhile, technology has not only allowed work to spread into our leisure time - the laptop-on-the-beach syndrome - but added the new burden of dealing with faxes, e-mails and voicemails. It has also provided us with the opportunity to spend hours fi

21、xing software glitches on our personal computers or filling our heads with useless information from the Internet.,He became that countrys ruler both in name and reality.,in reality: in actual fact; really,Some famous private schools are theoretically open to the public, but in reality are attended b

22、y those who can afford the fees.,Collocation:,accept reality,承认事实,deny reality,否认事实,face reality,面对事实,In most cases, technology has not saved time, but enabled us to do more things. In the home, washing machines promised to free women from having to toil over the laundry. In reality, they encouraged

23、 us to change our clothes daily instead of weekly, creating seven times as much washing and ironing. Similarly, the weekly bath has been replaced by the daily shower, multiplying the hours spent on personal grooming. Meanwhile, technology has not only allowed work to spread into our leisure time - t

24、he laptop-on-the-beach syndrome - but added the new burden of dealing with faxes, e-mails and voicemails. It has also provided us with the opportunity to spend hours fixing software glitches on our personal computers or filling our heads with useless information from the Internet.,Article3_W_popwin_

25、multiply1,Fear multiplies the difficulties of life.,In a few minutes people in the square multiplied into thousands.,multiply: v.,2),add a number to itself a particular number of times,Multiplying large quantities in ones head has become a lost art since the arrival of the calculator.,我们可以将高乘以宽以求出面积

26、。,We could multiply the height by the width to determine the area.,1),increase in number or quantity,In most cases, technology has not saved time, but enabled us to do more things. In the home, washing machines promised to free women from having to toil over the laundry. In reality, they encouraged

27、us to change our clothes daily instead of weekly, creating seven times as much washing and ironing. Similarly, the weekly bath has been replaced by the daily shower, multiplying the hours spent on personal grooming. Meanwhile, technology has not only allowed work to spread into our leisure time - th

28、e laptop-on-the-beach syndrome - but added the new burden of dealing with faxes, e-mails and voicemails. It has also provided us with the opportunity to spend hours fixing software glitches on our personal computers or filling our heads with useless information from the Internet.,Article3_W_popwin_m

29、ultiply2,multiply, increase add up to,In 1959 the combined value of U.S. imports and exports amounted to less than 9 percent of the countrys gross domestic products.,这就等于要把整件事重做一遍。,This amounts to doing the whole thing over again.,News, facts and opinions pour in from every corner of the world. The

30、television set offers 150 channels. There are millions of Internet sites. Magazines, books and CD-ROMs proliferate. “In the whole world of scholarship, there were only a handful of scientific journals in the 18th century, and the publication of a book was an event,” says Edward Wilson, honorary cura

31、tor in entomology at Harvard Universitys museum of comparative zoology. “Now, I find myself subscribing to 60 or 70 journals or magazines just to keep me up with what amounts to a minute proportion of the expanding frontiers of scholarship.”,Article5_W_popwin_minute1,minute: adj. very small in size

32、or amount,A minute examination revealed small flecks (斑点) of blood on the coat.,The kitchen is minute, with barely room for two people to turn around.,minute, small state of being successful or rich,There is another reason for our increased time stress levels, too: rising prosperity. As ever-larger

33、quantities of goods and services are produced, they have to be consumed. Driven on by advertising, we do our best to oblige: we buy more, travel more and play more, but we struggle to keep up. So we suffer from what Wilson calls discontent with super abundance - the confusion of endless choice. Of c

34、ourse, not everyone is overstressed. “Its a convenient shorthand to say were all time-starved, but we have to remember that it only applies to, say, half the population,” says Michael Willmott, director of the Future Foundation, a London research company.,Article6_W_popwin_oblige1,Please oblige me b

35、y leaving me alone.,请给我一根火柴，好吗？,oblige:,2),force (someone to do something) (usu. used in the passive voice),1.,vt. 1) do (someone) a favor,Could you oblige me with a match?,In certain countries the law obliges parents to send their children to school.,He felt obliged to leave after such an unpleasan

36、t argument.,There is another reason for our increased time stress levels, too: rising prosperity. As ever-larger quantities of goods and services are produced, they have to be consumed. Driven on by advertising, we do our best to oblige: we buy more, travel more and play more, but we struggle to kee

37、p up. So we suffer from what Wilson calls discontent with super abundance - the confusion of endless choice. Of course, not everyone is overstressed. “Its a convenient shorthand to say were all time-starved, but we have to remember that it only applies to, say, half the population,” says Michael Wil

38、lmott, director of the Future Foundation, a London research company.,Article6_W_popwin_oblige2,2.,vi. polite to do (someone) a favor,Collocation:,oblige by,答应做使满足,oblige with,以使满足,We are happy to oblige.,请唱支歌，好吗？,Will you oblige with a song?,There is another reason for our increased time stress leve

39、ls, too: rising prosperity. As ever-larger quantities of goods and services are produced, they have to be consumed. Driven on by advertising, we do our best to oblige: we buy more, travel more and play more, but we struggle to keep up. So we suffer from what Wilson calls discontent with super abunda

40、nce - the confusion of endless choice. Of course, not everyone is overstressed. “Its a convenient shorthand to say were all time-starved, but we have to remember that it only applies to, say, half the population,” says Michael Willmott, director of the Future Foundation, a London research company.,A

41、rticle6_W_popwin_abundance1,Most milk consists of an abundance of the major nutrients needed by the body for good health.,abundance: n. quantity that is more than enough; plenty,She had an abundance of very black hair.,Collocation:,an abundance of,大量的,in abundance,富有,of abundance,富裕的,By the mid-15th

42、 century paper was available in abundance.,a life of abundance 富裕的生活,abundance, plenty predict,The newspapers forecast that the senator (议员) would be elected again was right.,Did you listen to the weather forecast on the radio?,May it turn out as I forecasted?,forecast, foretell ability to notice an

43、d understand things,His perception is very good.,Article9_S_popwin_The gains,In the U.S., John Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, and Geoffrey Godbey, professor of leisure studies at Penn State University found that, since the mid-1960s, the average American had gained f

44、ive hours a week in free time - that is, time left after working, sleeping, commuting, caring for children and doing the chores. The gains, however, were unevenly distributed. The people who benefited the most were singles and empty-nesters. Those who gained the least - less than an hour -were worki

45、ng couples with pre-school children, perhaps reflecting the trend for parents to spend more time nurturing their offspring.,1. What does “the gains” refer to? 2. Translate the sentence into Chinese.,但增加的时间分配得并不均匀。,“The gains” refers to the five hours a week Americans had gained as their free time.,A

46、rticle9_W,In the U.S., John Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, and Geoffrey Godbey, professor of leisure studies at Penn State University found that, since the mid-1960s, the average American had gained five hours a week in free time - that is, time left after working, s

47、leeping, commuting, caring for children and doing the chores. The gains, however, were unevenly distributed. The people who benefited the most were singles and empty-nesters. Those who gained the least - less than an hour -were working couples with pre-school children, perhaps reflecting the trend f

48、or parents to spend more time nurturing their offspring.,Article9_W_popwin_nurturing1,In the U.S., John Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, and Geoffrey Godbey, professor of leisure studies at Penn State University found that, since the mid-1960s, the average American had

49、 gained five hours a week in free time - that is, time left after working, sleeping, commuting, caring for children and doing the chores. The gains, however, were unevenly distributed. The people who benefited the most were singles and empty-nesters. Those who gained the least - less than an hour -w

50、ere working couples with pre-school children, perhaps reflecting the trend for parents to spend more time nurturing their offspring.,Parents want to know the best way to nurture and raise their child to adulthood.,nurture: vt. care for and educate (a child); encourage the growth of (sth.); nourish,T

51、he local government has taken measures to nurture the state-run factories.,nurture, feed become evident,His illness arose from malnutrition.,Article13_W_popwin_shortage,The trouble with all these reactions is that liberating time -whether by making better use of it, buying it from others or reducing

52、 the amount spent at work - is futile if the hours gained are immediately diverted to other purposes.,As Godbey points out, the stress we feel arises not from a shortage of time, but from the surfeit of things we try to cram into it. “Its the kid in the candy store,” he says. “Theres just so many go

53、od things to do. The array of choices is stunning. Our free time is increasing, but not as fast as our sense of the necessary.”,There is a world shortage of fuel.,shortage: n. lack of sth. needed; deficiency,The world is facing the prospect of water shortages caused by population growth, uneven (不平均) supplies of water, pollution, and other factors.,Article14_W,A more successful remedy may lie in understanding the problem rather than evading it. Before the industria