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Unit6
Women, Half the Sky
Part II Reading Task
Comprehension
Content
Question
Pair Work
1.
They liked girly toys such as a miniature kitchen, and Barbies.
2.
To convert a gas-guzzling SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle.
3.
Because she didn’t know anythin
g about cars and was afraid of being cheated
by the mechanic.
4.
She was craving independence and wanted to live away from home for some time.
5.
It
helped her earn six engineering credits,
which of course made it
easier
for
her to
become an engineering major.
6.
Five years.
7.
In
her
view,
if
you
find
a
subject
is
difficult
to
learn,
it
does
not
mean
you’re
not good at it. It just means you have
to set your mind and work harder to get good
at it.
8.
Because
he
had
confidence
in
her
abilities
believing
she
could
have
done
better
if she had studied more.
9.
No, she wasn’t always confident. She had moments of panic, worried that as a
woman she would be unable to
understand thermodynamics.
10.
She considers it wrong because it is based on a faulty premise.
11.
It is flexible and more powerful than we imagine.
12.
What she means is not to accept others’ opinions blindly but to use one’s
own judgment.
Text
Organization
Working On Your Own
1.
Part One: The
author describes how she stumbled into
engineering.
Part
Two:
The
author
writes
about
how
she
has
overcome
obstacles,
including
the
bias
against women,
on her way to success.
Part Three: The
author draws the conclusion that women can do
anything men can so
long as they
believe in their own abilities.
2.
1)
she was not a tomboy.
not to an engineering department.
she didn’t know the first thing about
engineering.
because she craved
independence from her parents.
already
earned her six credits in engineering.
2)
math and design.
she
participated
in
a
national
competition
to
convert
an
SUV
into
a
hybrid
electric
vehicle.
work harder at it.
that she should study more.
had
to
work
hard
at
courses
she
found
difficult,
which
encouraged
her
to
keep
going.
Language Sense Enhancement
1.
(1)
limit
(2)
denying
(3)
favor
(4)
others
(5)
relevant
(6)
translating
(7)
hard and fast conclusions
(8)
focus
(9)
incredibly flexible
(10)
consider the possibility
Vocabulary
I
1.
1)
cultural/culture
2)
indication
3)
miniature
4)
ironic
5)
stumbled into
6)
decent
7)
buzzing
8)
abnormal
9)
mechanical
10)
Shuddering
11)
implied
12)
leap
2.
1)
convert RMB into US dollars in the foreign exchange office at the airport.
2)
didn’t know the first thing about cooking as she looked puzzled as to how to
cook rice with the rice
cooker.
3)
their faulty equipment the team had accomplished some very useful work.
4)
allowing me to work flexible hours as long as I work eight hours a day.
5)
couldn’t help thinking the book must be quite fascinating.
3.
1)
will not panic/feel panic; ’ll be at a disa
dvantage
2)
hybrid; transmissions
3)
crave; One indication; to distinguish
II.
Synonyms in Context
1.
also
2.
as well/too
3.
too
4.
also
5.
as well/too
6.
too
7.
also
8.
Also
III.
Usage
1.
I’ve had enough
2.
When I was old enough to work and earn money
3.
can’t got enough sleep at night
4.
has so far collected enough of them
5.
have strong enough arms
6.
have just enough money to live on
Comprehensive
Exercises
I.
cloze
1.
(1)
stumbled into
(2)
not know the first thing about
(3)
mechanical
(4)
when it comes to
(5)
hybrid
(6)
gritted her teeth
(7)
premise
(8)
at a disadvantage
(9)
panic
(10)
cultural
(11)
flexible
(12)
imply
2.
(1)
chair
(2)
force
(3)
secrets
(4)
painstaking
(5)
recognized
(6)
steered
(7)
essentially
(8)
observations
(9)
women
(10)
tutor
(11)
inspired
(12)
unless
II.
Translation
1.
1)
He is a man of few words, but when it comes to playing computer games, he is
far too clever for his classmates.
2)
Children
who
don’t
know
any
better
may
think
these
animals
are
pretty
cute
and
start playing
with them.
3)
There is no way to obtain a loan, so to buy the new equipment, I’ll just have
to grit my teeth and sell my
hybrid car.
4)
The
hunter
would
not
have
fired
the
shots
if
he
had
not
seen
a
herd
of
elephants
coming towards his campsite.
5)
I
find
it
ironic
that
Tom
has
a
selective
memory---he
does
not
seem
to
remember
painful experiences in
the past, particularly those of his own doing.
2.
Nancy Hopkins is
a biology professor at MIT. She craves knowledge
and works hard.
However, as a
scientist, she could not help noticing all kinds
of indications of
gender inequality on
campus. Men and women professors did the same
work, but when
it came to promotion the
administrators were rather selective. It was
ironic that
after
so
much
cultural
progress,
women
were
still
at
a
disadvantage
in
institution
of higher education. When her request
for more lab space was refused, she knew she
had to fight. So she gritted her teeth
and complained to the President. The fight
ended in victory and Nancy was
converted into a gender-equity advocate.
Unit7
Learning about English
Part II Reading Task
Comprehension
Content
Question
Pair Work
1.
It has borrowed and is still borrowing massively from other languages. Today
it has an estimated vocabulary of over
one million words.
2.
They don
’
t like borrowing foreign words. They try to ban words from English.
3.
Old English or Anglo-Saxon English.
4.
The Germanic tribes brought it to the British Isles in the 5th century.
5.
They are usually short and direct.
6.
They use words derived from Old English.
7.
An English judge in India noticed that several words in Sanskrit closely
resembled some
words in Greek and Latin. A systematic study later
revealed the
Indo-European parent
language.
8.
Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, English, etc.
9.
There were three languages competing for use in England.
10.
Words from Greek and Roman classics came into the English language.
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