第七單元
Unit 7?? Making a Living
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Text A? Life of a Salesman
Part II Text A
Content Questions
1．??? A surgeon’s scar cuts across his lower back. The fingers on his right hand are so twisted that he can’t tie his shoes. His mother’s challenges and the voices of those who believed him stupid, incapable of living independently keep him going on.
2．??? He is a door-to-door salesman. His weapons are: dark slacks, blue shirt and matching jacket, brown tie, tan raincoat, hat and a briefcase.
3．??? He is afraid that someone will steal his briefcase. He was different in that cerebral palsy affected his speech, hands and walk.
4．??? First a school for the disabled and thenLincolnHigh School, where he was placed in a class for slow kids.
5．??? She was certain that he could rise above his limitations.
6．??? He applied for a salesman’s job.
7．??? With his mother setting up a meeting with a Watkins representative, as well as by his own persistence.
8．??? He lacked confidence. It took him quite a while to have the courage to ring the first doorbell.
9．??? He keeps coming back until the customer buys. He tells himself not to worry if hid day has not turned out to be profitable.
10．Because he was laid up for five months after band surgery and couldn’t work.
11．Like a home of the past era. He leads a solitary life.
12．No, he doesn’t. Because he lives a life of dignity.
Text Organization?1.
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Parts | Paragraphs | Time of the Day | Bill's Activities |
1 | Paras 1-7 | early morning | preparation for the ? day's work |
2 | Paras 8-25 | mid-morning | on his way to work |
3 | Paras 26-62 | Last morning and ? afternoon | door-to-door selling |
4 | Paras 63-84 | evening | eating a frozen dinner ? and doing some paper work |
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Paragraphs | What is written about ? Bill's past |
Paras 11-20 | his disability, his ? schooling, and his hard struggle to make a living for himself |
Para71 | his back surgery and ? the selling of his house |
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Vocabulary:
1) disabled???????? 2) impatient ???????3) solitary???? 4) crushed
5) feel like????????? 6) lashed????????? 7) echoing??? 8) paused
9) betrayed????????? 10) laundry??????? 11) section????? 12) tilted
2.??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
1) cared for ???????????????????????????????????????? 2) hang on
3) was laid up with?????????????????????????????? 4) are gaining on
5) kicked up????????????????????????????????????????? 6) went off
7) drop ... off???????????????????????????????????????? 8)straighten out
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1) … sometimes didn't register with her.
2)???? … in disorder, drawers pulled out, shoes and boots scattered.
3)???? … was transferred from Father's account to my account.
4)? … a pledge to contribute 1000,000dollars to the Children in Needed charity ????campaign.
5)???? … the most profitable business in that province.
4.? 1) gaining on;?? off balance;?? ?was laid up in; ??scar on
2) a cripple\ crippled ; ?surgery , ??limitations, ?in literature.
3) commission ; ?on the phone ; ?his territory ; never registers with
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II. Usage
1.????????I never did go over these books, although I probably should have.
2.??????I know this is a personal question. You don't have to answer me if you don't want to.
3.??????I think this topic should have attracted far more attention from philosophers than it has.
4.??????"I think you're right." — "I'm sure I am."
5.??????"He thought that the condition was hereditary in his case." —"Well, it might be."
6.??????"Sugar?" ---- "No. Maybe next time."
1.??????The house is only a building. It is a place to live, nothing more.
1.??????DIANE: You didn't! Tell me you didn't! FATHER: Oh, yes. Anything for my children.
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III. Word Family | |||
1.1) bored | 2) boredom | ||
3) bored | 4) boringly | ||
5) boring | |||
2.?? 1) ? encouraged | 2) encouragingly | ||
3) encouraging | 4) encouragement | ||
3.?? 1) ? frozen | 2) freeze | ||
3) freezing | 4) freezer | ||
5) freeze |
Comprehensive Exercises
I?Cloze
1. Text-related
1) off … feet?? ??2) signature??? 3) commission?? 4) on the phone
5) laid up??????? 6) surgery????? 7) territory????? 8) disorder
9) applying for??? 10) dignity
2. Theme-related
1）didn’t??????? ??2) read??? ???3) come????? 4) money
5)? because??????? 6) earning? ???7) doing ????8) own
9) ?obviously????? 10) value
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II. Translation
I. ?I grew terribly scared when I heard sound of footsteps echoing round the hallway at midnight yesterday.
2. ?The name-brand sports shoes are guaranteed for 12months.
3.? Snowstorms threw communications and transportation into disorder.
1.????????I’ve been suffering a lot of stress from work lately, I feel like taking a vacation at the seaside.
5. Living in an apartment is all right, but it has its limitations--- for example, you don’t have your own gardens.
6. Tom was born a cripple, with one of his lower limbs useless. Early in his childhood, he learned that unless he so exerted himself as to rise above his limitations, he could not earn a living, and unless he succeeded in making a living on his own, he could not win/gain the respect of others. That was the price he had to pay for his dignity as a human being.
Tom applied for numerous jobs, only to be turned down, before he finally got one as a delivery boy for a Pizza Hut. He then worked as a sales representative for a sportswear company in a territory no one else would want. Today he owns a fairly profitable retail shop in his hometown, and hires several people to work for him.
Part III TextB
2. d 4. d 6. b |
Comprehension Check
1. c
3. a
5. d
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Translation
1.????????1.??????當(dāng)時(shí)我倆并未意識(shí)到這一點(diǎn)，但那就是我們之間開始拉開距離的日子，是開始在家庭內(nèi)部重新界定勞動(dòng)者的意義的日子。
2.??????2.??????他沒有想到的是，他的大兒子打破了藍(lán)領(lǐng)規(guī)則的第一條：賺盡可能多的錢，過(guò)盡可能好的生活。
3.??????3.??????爸爸就像家人期望的那樣，學(xué)了一門手藝，過(guò)上了一鐘預(yù)先設(shè)計(jì)的單調(diào)生活。
4.??????4.??????與此同時(shí)，他繼續(xù)他的藍(lán)領(lǐng)生活，一塊一塊地砌磚。
Language practice
1.? 1) h?? 2) c ?3) e??? 4)f ??5) b?? 6) d??? 7) a?? 8) g
2. 1) institutions ???2) campus? ???3) myth??? ??4) advertise? ?5) criticized ???????????
6) took on ?????7) putting…through ???8) settled into ???9) come down to ?
10) lucrative?? ?11) loaded ????12) scratch
