UNIT 3 TEXT A
ANSWER TO QUESTION (1)
a pop star/ born blind/ a black / a poor
family/ love music
learn to play instruments very quickly/
has been a recording artist since the age of
ten
being an adult,encounter a serious car
accident /fight back from the shadow of
death
begin to pay more attention to the world
outside/bring sunshine to the shadow of
many other people
ANSWER TO QUESTION (2)
sunshine,On the one hand,it refers to
Stevie’s life was full of happiness
although he was a blind,for example,he
loved music,his musical gift was
found,he became a top recording artist,he
fought back from death in a car accident
successfully,etc.On the other hand,it
refers to Stevie’s music brought happiness
to many other people’s life
shadow,On the one hand,it refers to
Stevie’s blindness and the car accident; on
the other hand,it refers to the catastrophe
one meets in daily life,such as war,
hunger,disease,disability.
I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU
1,No New Year’s Day to celebrate; No choc’late covered candy
hearts to give away,
In fact here’s just another ordinary day,
2,No April rain,no flowers bloom; No wedding Saturday within
the month of June.But what it is,something true,
3.No summer’s high,no warm July;
No Autumn breeze,no falling leaves,Not even time for birds to fly
to southern skies,
4,No Libra sun,no Halloween;
But what it is,though old and new,To fill your heart like no three
words could ever do,
5.I just called to say I love you,I just called to say how much I
care,I just called to say I love you,
1.No first of spring ; no song to sing.
2.Made up of these three words that
I must say to you.
3,No harvest moon to light one
tender August night.
4.No giving thanks to all the
Christmas joy you bring.
5.And I mean it from the bottom of
my heart,of my heart,of my heart,
Libra,here refers to the astrological sign of
those born in the period of time between
September 23 and October 23,
On Halloween,the night of October31,
children play tricks while wearing masks
and costumes
NEW WORDS
1.root
A,audi----listen
e.g,audible,inaudible,audibility
audience,auditor,auditorium,audition
auditory
2.suffix
A.----ician e.g,musician,academician
beautician,electrician,technician,politician,
optician,physician,magician,logician.
cycs:
B,---hood e.g,manhood,brotherhood,
fatherhood,motherhood,adulthood,
knighthood,childhood,widowhood,
girlhood,neighborhood,
C.-----ent e.g,fluent,confident,current,
apparent,emergent,innocent,frequent,
different,dependent.
D,-ent e.g,student,agent,president,parent,
resident,regent,patient,antecedent,correspondent
E -ate e.g,congratulate,indicate.,anticipate,
liberate,evaluate,locate,accurate participate,
concentrate,communicate
F,-ment e.g,apartment,pavement,instrument,
basement,equipment
New Words
1,faintly,
----It is ~ possible for us to finish the work
before dark,
---- She turned and smiled ~,
---Her hands smell ~ of fish.
2.resemble/ look like:
Resemble is often formal and used especially
of persons while look like is informal and
used either person or things,
----She ~s her sister in appearance but not in
character.
---This coat just looks like that one,but it
isn’t the same material.
3.amaze,fill with great surprise,cause
wonder in
amaze/surprise
Amaze stresses wonder while surprise
suggests unexpectedness,
--- It’s amazing that no one has applied for
the job,
----You’ve done all your home work in an
hour,your amaze me,
-----The taste surprised him; it was not as he’d
imagine it,
---- I didn’t expect the meal to be so cheap,it
really surprised me.
4.promptly/immediately
Promptly carries a suggestion of readiness for
quick response when the occasion demands it;
while immediately suggests directness or the
absence of anything in between,
-------When you receive orders,you must obey
them ~ without questions,
------- All the bills for the house were ~ paid,
5.anymore,It written as one word is
commonly used in American English to mean
any more.
6.talent,
----His ~ (ability ) for music showed at an
early age,
-----Promising ~(person) is hard to find,
---He is a new swimming ~.
7.decade,----Microwave ovens were not so
popular a ~ or so ago.
X
8.congratulate sb,on sth.
-----Friends and relatives came to ~ him on his achievement,
-- I was just ~ing Mary on winning the race
9.adulthood,
---- People in China reach ~ at 18,
---- Adulthood,I suppose,means responsibility,
10..dart:
----- The boy ~ed forward and kissed his mother.
11..instrument:
e.g,a musical ~,an optical( 光學的) ~,a surgical ~,an
~of torture(刑具 )
12,ease,(with ease),
----- He won the 400m race with ease,
----- She lives a life of ease,
---- The injection brought him immediate ease.
13,smash/hit/a smash hit
-------The show was a smash hit in London and New
York.
14,aspect:
----- Have you thought about the problem from every ~,
-----You should consider all ~s of your decision,
negative as well as positive.
15.formula:
----,The ~ for converting kilometers to miles is very simple.
-----There is no magic ~ that can be applied to every
situation.
16,explore:
--------Every part of this island has been ~d.
-----The conference ~d the possibility of trade links.
17.rhythm:
---- The soldiers were marching to the ~ of the drums,
18.honor:
----- We~ him,he is a great man who helped us all.
career,Someone’s career is the series of
jobs they have in their life for which they
have been trained,especially in the same
area of work,and in which they usually
progress so that they have more money and
responsibility,
----He’s hoping for a ~ as a police office,
---Math is no longer a prime requirement for
a ~ in accounting,
---When he retires he will be able to look
back at over brilliant ~.
tragedy:
---- Hilter’s invasion of Poland led to the ~ of
the Second World War,
---- Shakespeare’s tragedies include
“Hamlet”,”King Lear”,and,Othello”.
NEW PHRASES
1,break into,
~ warm applause / ~ a run/ ~ a cold sweat
2.bring up:
----- His parents brought him up to be an artist.
3.as far as
---- He isn’t coming today as far as I know,
------As far as they could see,the room was empty.
4.get tired of
---- She get tired of quarrelling with her husband,
----I am tired of you telling me what to do all the
time.
5.wear out:
----- Cheap shoes soon wear out,
----- Heavy traffic can wear out the surface of a road,
-----The kids wore me out with their screaming and crying.
6.grow into:
--- She is growing into a beautiful young woman.
7.turn out:
------ My new teacher turned out to be a friend of my father,
------The job turned out to be harder than we thought.
8.be involved in:
-----,The boy was involved in the group fighting.
9.fight back,
----- Though surprised by the German attack the Allied
Forces fought back bravely.
GRAMMAR POINTS
1.go on to sth./go on doing sth.
-----He finished his post- graduate studies and
then went to get his degree.
----The marriage is a disaster I don’t know
why they go on living together.
2.Do not do sth,until……../Do sth,
until…..
----- She waited until he had gone.
-----Don’t turn the gas on until the gas man
tells you it’s safe to do so,
3.as ……as
------ She’s as bad-tempered as her
mother,
------ I haven’t got as much money as I
thought,
------ We need as many records as
possible,
----Chinese is as difficult a language
as Japanese,
--- She is diligent as her younger sister
(is diligent).
Key to Exercises
X,
(1.) work as fast as a skilled worker
(2.) couldn’t perform as well as his
parents had expected
(3.) He promised that he would go and see
his grandparents as often as he could
(4.) that after finishing his studies abroad
he would come back as soon as possible
KEY TO TRANSLATION(1)
1,As far as I know,all they have to do is
come and see the child they want to bring
up and fill up a form,
2.As he learn morn and more about the
world,he finally got tired of going after
fame and wealth.
3.The little girl’s songs brought sunshine to
the old man and helped him bear the
hardship of life.
4.People came one after another to
congratulate them on the successful
building of another big bridge over
the Huangpu River.
5,All the people present were
amazed that the 10-year- old boy
was playing the violin so skillfully.
6,After the car accident,Stevie
reevaluated his goals in life and decided
to pay more attention to the world
outside,
7.Even in her wildest dreams,Mother
could never have imagined that her son
would become a world- famous pianist,
8,The students broke into loud cheers
when they heard that their teacher had
fought back from the shadow of death.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr,Martin Luther King,Jr,was the
black leader who led direct
nonviolent actions for civil rights in
the 1960’s in the United States.In
1964 he was awarded the Noble
Peace Prize,He was assassinated on
April 4,1968,By vote of Congress,
the third Monday of every January,
beginning in 1986 is a federal
holiday in Dr,King’s honor.
Nelson Mandela
South African nationalist and
statesman,joined the African National
Congress in 1944 and become
president of the party in July,1991,
He was jailed in 1962 and sentenced
to life imprisonment in 1964.
He retained wide support among South
African’s black population,and the
South African government under
President F,W.de Klerk released him
from prison on Feb.11,1990,
In 1993,Mandela and de Klerk
were awarded the Noble Peace
Prize for their efforts to end
apartheid and bring about a
peaceful transition to nonracial
democracy in South Africa.
Mandela was elected president
of South Africa in April 1994,
He introduced housing,
education and economic
development initiatives of the
country’s black population.
WE ARE WHAT WE THINK WE ARE
INFORMATION:
self-image,the various beliefs
individuals have about what they are like
such as how clever they themselves to be,
or how they think these appear in the eyes
of others,Individuals differ in how
realistic they are in their assessments of
self.
TEXT B
Difficult Sentences and Phrases
1.We are what we think our
selves to be---We are the kind
of people that we believe
ourselves to be
2.accept as true the wrong
image of self-- accept the
wrong images of self as being
true and accurate
3.This has been done-- The
same practice has been carried
out
4 living the unrealistic,inferior image we
may have-- living our life based in the
unrealistic,inferior self -image we may have
5.to bring our mental images of ourselves
in line with our true potential--- to develop
our mental images of ourselves so that it
accurately reflects our true potential
6.most of us fail to do justice to ourselves-
most of us fail to treat ourselves fairly (usually by
underestimating ourselves)
7.Don’t let failures do harm,---Don’t let
failures affect our self-images negatively.
8,It is all right to make mistakes.----
Making mistakes is a natural and even positive
part of life.
9.we are doomed--- it is certain that we will
fail
Marathon,marathon
It is a long-distance foot race of
26 miles 385 yards,or42.195
kilometers,an event in the
modern Olympics.
It was introduced with the
revival of the Olympic Games in
1896 in memory of the
messenger who ran from
Marathon to Athens with the
news that the Athenians had
defeated the Persians in the
battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
Marathon is a plain
in Greece about 26
miles northeast of
Athens.
The best athletes
cover the distance
in slightly over two
hours.
Difficult Sentences and Phrases Text C
1,Given her physical limitations----
Considering the problems she had with
her body
2.no runners in view--- no runners
could be seen
3.offer them a ride in---tell them that I
would like to give them a ride to finish
line
4.Watching for one or all of them to fall-
--watching in case one or all of them might
fall
5.but my words and my breath
failed--- but I didn’t know what to
say,and I was out of breath from running
6,and she would not be denied---and
she was determined to earn the pleasure of
finishing the successfully on her own
STRUCTURED WRITING
My friend David is a very talented basketball player,David doesn’t
look like much of an athlete,He’s no taller than normal and is
somewhat skinny,When we play basketball on the college courts,
players who don’t know David are often surprised when he steals the
ball from them,or when he hits three shits in a row.However,I play
with him all the time and I know that it is not luck.David knows what
his strengths and weaknesses are.If he can go around a defender,he
will,but if not he’ll shoot from the outside or pass to a teammate.He
practices so much that he is skilled at all the elements of basketball,
dribbling,shooting,and passing,He’s also good because he carefully
watches his opponent and then decides on the best way to beat him.