同济大学a-同济大学a
Unit 1
Language in mission
Text A
An impressive English lesson
Understanding the text
1
、
Because he is tired of listening to his father and he is not interested in grammar rules.
2
、
The civilization of Greece and the glory of Roman architecture are so marvelous and
remarkable that they should be
described at least in a brief account; however,
what the student
could do was only one
single utterance
:
“
whoa!
”
without any any specific comment.
3
、
Because the schools fail to set high standards of language proficiency. They only teach a little
grammar and less advanced vocabulary.
And the younger teachers themselves have little
knowledge of the vital structures of
language.
4
、
Because teaching grammar is not an easy job and most of the students will easily get bored if
it
’
s not properly dealt with.
5
、
He familiarized his son with different parts of speech in a sentence and discussed their specific
grammatical
functions including how to use adverbs to describe
verbs.
6
、
Because the son had never heard about the various names and functions of words in an
English sentence before.
7
、
The author uses
“
road map
”
and
“
car
”
to describe grammar and vocabulary. Here,
“
road
map
”
is considered as grammar and
“
car
”
as vocabulary.
8
、
Since the subjunctive mood his son used is a fairly advanced grammar structure, the
interjection
“
whoa!
”
reflects the tremendous pride the father had toward his son; it also reflects
the author
’
s humor in using the word because it was once used by his student, though in two
different
situations and with two different feelings.
Words in use
Word building
-al/-ial:
managerial/editorial/substance/surv ival/tradition/margin -cy
:
consistency/accuracy/efficient
-y
:
recovery/ministry/assembly
Word building
Banked cloze
1-5:
L C J A I
6-10:
O N E H F
Expressions in use
obliged to
serious about
into
between
upon
allergic to
lost
attracted
to
sense
upon as
C-E Translation
Chinese calligraphy is a unique art and
the unique art treasure in the world. The
formation and
development of the
Chinese calligraphy is closely related to the
emergence and evolution of
Chinese
characters. In this long evolutionary process,
Chinese characters have not only played an
important role in exchanging ideas and
transmitting culture but also developed into a
unique art
form. Calligraphic works
well reflect calligraphers’ personal feelings,
knowledge, self
-cultivation,
personality, and so fort
h, thus there is an expression that “seeing the calligrapher’s handwriting is
like
seeing the person”. As one of the treasures of
Chinese culture, Chinese calligraphy shines
splendidly in the world’s treasure
house of culture and art.
Unit 2
College-The ladder to success
Text
A
The humanities:Out of date
Reading Comprehension
1. because English or
history majors are considered less competitive
when the job market is
shrinking, and
they have to study something that can help them
more easily locate their future
jobs.
2. because as the
tuition is climbing higher and higher, many
students have run away from
studying
the humanities and toward “hard” skills that they
think will lead to employment.
3. since more students are now taking
job-oriented courses, libraries, where students of
liberal
arts used to study, are getting
less popular than before; in contrast, labs are
getting more
eye-catching because
students of science and engineering do experiments
and research there.
4.
because this inner drive that can be either
constructive or destructive is so mysterious and
powerful that it has attracted many
people to speculate on it. From ancient times,
these men and
women developed artistic
“languages” in the form of story, music, myth,
painting, ar
chitecture,
sculpture, landscape and traditions,
which from the very foundation of civilization.
5. Studying the
humanities improves your ability to read and
write, makes you familiar with the
language of emotion and the creative
process, and, more importantly, provides you with
a wide
scope of possibilities that are
open to you.
6. Because in
modern life, an ideal capacity for establishing
one’s career is to have both technical
knowledge and inner insight, not just
one without the other.
7.
“Well
-round
ed human beings” are those who have insight and understand the passions, hopes
and dreams common to
all humanity.
8. Since
many people who once studied the humanities became
famous in their career, the
author
implies that if students spend more time studying
the humanities, they could surely
become successful in the future as
well.
Language
focus 3
1. promotes
2. accelerate
3. mystery
4. insight
5. boost
6. analysis 7.
calculate
8. barriers
9. destruction
10. prospect
4
Promising
Bearing
Housing
Objective Offend
Exclude
Excess
Execute
Intensify
Identity
5
1.
excess
2. bearing
3. objective
4. intensify
5. execute
6.
promising
7. exclude
8. identity
9 offend
10. housing
6.
1-5 CHDJB
6-10
LMGFA
7
1. are liable to
2. in favor of
3. is bound to
4.
speculate about
5. invested…with
6. stand up for 7. in the
form
of
8. prepared for
9. in the company of
10 in succession
10
In recent
years, with the development of Internet
technology, the construction of digital
education resources of our country has
made great achievements. Many universities have
set up
their own digital learning
platforms, and digital teaching is playing an
increasingly important role
in
education. Compared with the traditional way of
teaching, the digital way has a lot of
advantages. On one hand, digital
teaching makes global sharing of teaching
resources possible;
on the other hand,
it expands the learner’s study time and space to
learn, allowing people to get
access to
the digital virtual schools through the Internet
anytime and anywhere. These
advantages
make it possible for people to shift from one-time
learning to lifelong learning.
Unit 3 Discovery of a new life stage
Text A The
humanities:Out of date
1. Because people in
different life stages are confronted with
different problems and setbacks
and
each group of people in a particular time period
have their particular worries and pains.
norm refers to the general consensus that as soon as students graduated from college, they
would
enter adulthood and be able to find an ideal job
leading to their career.
3. They are recognized as a new life
stage that comes after high school graduation,
continues
through college and leads to
starting a family and having a career.
4. Because nowadays so many
young people are following this new lifestyle that
it has become a
trend. As long as the
economic situation continues its long slide, this
new stage is unavoidable.
5. Unlike their parents, a large number
of young people are now delaying marriage, child
bearing,
and even employment during
their odyssey years.
6.
They often resent the pressure they’re feeling and
keep a distance from their parents or even
run away from home. Many also resort to
computer games, iPods, iPhones, or iPads.
7. Their parents feel more
anxious and upset seeing their children’s
o
dyssey years continue to
stretch without a clear direction.
8. The author thinks as
people are getting to know the odyssey years
better, both parents and
their children
can tackle this phase better. For parents, they
can understand their children more;
for
children, they can explore and discover themselves
with a positive attitude.
1. peculiar
2. radical
3. phase
4. sensible
5. predict
6. labeled
7. resent
8. witnessed
9. equivalent
10. parallels
-ic
Chaotic
dramatic
academy -ion
Depression
detection
erosion
Classification
confuse
cooperate
dictate -ist
Rightist
journal
1. journal
2. chaotic
3. cooperate
4. erosion
5. dramatic
6. confuse
7.
academy
8. rightists
9. depression
10. dictate
11. detection
12.
classification
Ex. 6
K E A C L
I G N H O
1. saddled with
2. back off
3. gives way to
4. resorted to
5.
make allowances for
6. wonder at
7. prior to
8. based upon/on
Ex. 10
Filial
piety is the basic code of ethics in the ancient
Chinese society. Chinese people consider filial
piety as the essence of a person’s
integrity, family harmony, and the nation’s
well
-being. With
filial piety
being the core of Confucian ethics, it has been
the moral standard for the Chinese
society to maintain the family
relationship for thousand
s of years. It’s undoubtedly a traditional
Chinese
virtue. The culture of filial piety is a complex
concept, rich in content and wide in range.
It concludes not only cultural ideas
but also institutional etiquettes. Generally
speaking, it refers
to the obligation
of children to their parents required by the
society, including respect, care,
support for the elderly and so forth.
Filial piety is fundamental to the ancient
“Oriental
civilization”.
Unit 4 Dance
with love
Text A
College sweethearts
Ex. 1
1. The
author uses this sentence to tell her own love
story. She didn’t expect that she would end
up marrying Butch. He became her
boyfriend just because of her wish to find a cute
boyfriend.
She didn’t really want to
marry him at the beginning.
2. Because when she met up with
Butch the first time, he kept staring at her all
night long. He
flattered her and fell
in love with her at first sight. He looked really
wild or maybe even
dangerous.
3. Because Butch had a “bad boy
image” which was very tempti
ng to a lot of girls, and his wild,
dynamic
personality was a little frightening. She didn’t
know whether she could be getting along
with him.
4. Though she always had an excellent
reputation in respect to her schoolwork, she
thought that
her college life was dull,
with no fun. In her opinion, college was supposed
to be a time of great
learning and also
of some fun.
5. Because
she was becoming more interested in him and she
wanted to find out if she was the
“right” date in the eyes of Butch,
thinking o
f herself as a traditional girl.
6. It means that Butch
didn’t want to do anything to change his bad
situation. The word fate here
refers to
the fact that Butch was going to be expelled from
the university.
7.
Though Butch was wild and would sometimes display
directly his love in front of her friends, he
was always a perfect gentleman at his
core. And they had a pure and responsible
relationship for
seven years.
8. The author and her husband’s
faithful journey of love that started with a
causal attrac
tion but
bloomed
into a mature love proves that romantic love can
last long through the ups and downs in
life.
Ex. 3
1. confess
2. tempting
3. commence
4. coordinating
5. granted
6.
deserved
7. displayed
8. consequently
9. lodged
10. proceed
Ex.
4
-ed
Contented
compress
complicate
-ion
Identification
justification
qualification Illustration
exhibit
extension
Interpretation
plantation
perception
Ex. 5
1.
qualifications
2. perception
3. plantations
4. compressed
5. exhibit
6. contented
7. interpretation
8. complicate
9. illustration
10. extension
11. identification
12. justification
Ex. 6
N B G I H
L E M K C
Ex. 7
1. on her behalf
2. took the liberty of
3. immune to
4. were filled with
5.
fall in love with
6. Expelled from
7. been pessimistic about
8. go along with
Ex. 10
July
7th on the Chinese calendar is Chinese Qixi
Festival, the most romantic of all the traditional
Chinese holidays. Every year, some big
businesses organize various activities, and young
people
send gifts to their lovers. As a
result, the Qixi Fest
ival is considered to be Chinese “Valentine’s
Day”. The Qixi
Festival is derived from the legend of Cowherd and
Weaving Maid. The legend
holds that on
this particular night every year the Weaving Maid
in heaven meets with Cowherd.
So,
people can see Cowherd and Weaving Maid meeting in
the Milky Way on the night of Qixi. On
this night, girls would also beg
Weaving Maid for some wisdom for a happy marriage.
But, with
the changing of times, these
activities are diminishing. All that remains is
the legend of Cowherd
and Weaving Maid,
a sign of faithful love, continuously circulated
among the folk.
Unit5 The money game
Text A Spend or save-
The student’s dilemma