unit 5 大学英语精读第六册

1、unit 4 how could anything that feels so bad be so good?,do you agree?,we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints, we spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy it less,before reading: lead-in,make a comparison between life in the past and at present

2、, such as economy, science, familywhat do you think of these changes?,ii.during reading: skimming,go over the first sentence of each paragraph, which sentence can summarize the meaning of the passage? what structure does it follow？underline the key words.,para. 1 strategy, difficult, what can be don

3、e(topic, problem, solution) para. 2 discontented, because better para. 3 marriage, high expectations (example) para. 4 complaints, divorce, (example) para.5 civil rights movement (example) para. 6 paradox, improvement, accelerating demands para.7 another problem temporary,para.8 troubled (problem),

4、because(reason) participative mood para.9 this participative phenomenon details para.10 the problem is that, redesign, accommodate the new demands para.11 it will have to adopt strategies solution para.12 raise the level of discontent (solution) para.13 make big changes para.14 new forms para.15 exp

5、loration of human potential, make it happen,structure,problem: life today is difficult cause (analysis): high expectations accelerating change participative mood solutions: 1. raise the level of discontent 2. make big changes,summary of the text,we all agree that many things today are changing for t

6、he better. however, we are never satisfied with these changes. on the contrary, we are more and more discontented. the problem is that, as things get better, our expectations rise higher, and this seems never to end. what can we do with this problem, then? in his essay the author argues that the ans

7、wer lies in developing approaches that are as new and paradoxical as the problems we face.,paradox: a seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true,more haste, less speed. the child is the father of man. the swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.(henry david thoreau, walden) some

8、day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.(c.s. lewis) war is peace.freedom is slavery.ignorance is strength.(george orwell, 1984),find out the paradox in the passage.,1. people are discontented not because things are worse than ever, but because things are better than ever. marr

9、iage: high expectations-high divorce rate functional- affectional survival and security needs- the family has become a physical and economic liability rather than an asset. (l20) to some extent it has been the success of marriage that has created the discontent. (l40) civil rights revolution: 2. soc

10、iety is enabled to feel that conditions are rotten, because they are actually so good. (l50),sentences,l56 l70 l94 l104 l114,vocabulary,adopt strategies paradoxical, discontented, statistics, collapse, desirable, appealing, scarcely, liability, asset, affectional, brutality, desertion, intimacy, ten

11、sion, accelerating, temporary, stability, consistency, incidence, clich, accommodate, engender, consultant, increment, mobilize, resistance, evoke, productivity, transcend, potential, fulfill, frontier,post-reading,do you agree with the author? why are todays people unhappy? how to live a happy life in modern life?/