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Unit 10
TEXT I
STRAIGHT-A ILLITERACY
James P. Degnan
Objectives: to understand what straight-A illiteracy means and define it;
to make a comparison between ordinary illiteracy and straight-A illiteracy and comments on it;
to discuss the appropriate diction in writing.
Pre-reading Questions
1. What does ‘straight-A illiteracy’ mean?
A straight-A student is one who gets A’s for all the courses he takes. He is generally admired for his excellent scholarship.
It seems paradoxi cal to call someone a ‘straight-A illiterate’. What does the author mean by it? Read the article and try to understand and define what straight-A illiteracy means.
In-reading Comprehension
Para. 1
1. as often as not: at least half the time; frequently
2. How many kinds of illiterate according to D.?
Two kinds: ordinary illiterates who are unable to read or write. There are quite a lot of this kind of illiterates in schools.
straight-A illiterate who is typically a Ph.D., a successful professor and textbook author, and who is more influential.
3. Why does D say that a straight-A illiterate is more influential? (comp. 3-2)
He is usu. one who occupies a position at the top of the academic hierarchy; the way he writes is considered exemplary, and his judgment of what is appropriate is directive.
4. What do people do with these two kinds of illiterate?
More concern has been shown for the ordinary illiterates. People even make fuss about this kind of illiteracy. However, little attention is aroused to straight-A illiterates. So, the purpose of this article is to give them as much attention as has been paid to ordinary illiterates. (ll. 6-7)
Para. 2
1. What is this para. about?
D’s treatment with a disease of straight-A illiteracy in his office.
2. Do you think D’s comparison of straight-A illiteracy to a disease is appropriate? Explain. (comp. 3-3)
Yes. Like a disease, it victimizes healthy persons; it has its symptoms, and its agents.
3. Who is the straight-A illiterate?
a college senior ... outstanding graduate schools.
He is extremely clever and highly talented in language. He has done an excellent job in his studies, so he has been awarded an opportunity to further his study in one of the nation’s best graduate schools.
4. How does the treatment go?
They have been going over the student’s paper sentence by sentence, word by word for an hour, prying and probing for its meaning.
‘Prying and probing’, the repetition of the same structure, is to emphasize the extreme difficulty of the task.
5. Are there any other words to highlight the extreme difficulty in understanding Mr. Bright’s paper? (comp. 3-4)
interrogating, cross-examining, pause to catch my breath, on earth, his brow furrowed, tries mightily, finally ... finally, another hour, decode ....
6. Try to explain why the following pairs of sentences are the same in meaning: ll. 15-17, ll. 23 (comp. 3-8)
As intended by the student, ‘The choice ... multi-colinearity’ corresponds to ‘demand’ while ‘... the derivations ... coefficients’ corresponds to ‘supply’.
This is a very abstruse sentence to unravel.
7. Why does D insert the word ‘allegorically’ in ‘... whom I call, allegorically,
Mr. Bright’? (comp. 3-5)
‘allegory’ in Lib. Work.
When the author calls his student Mr. Bright allegorically, he does not mean to refer to this particular straight-A student only. He is using the term to cover all those students, college seniors, and Ph.D.’s who may seem bright when judged by their academic records, but who nevertheless fail to detect gibberish in their own writings or in those of others.
The student given the name Mr. Bright thus becomes a symbol.
Is he really bright? No, here in an ironical sense.
Para. 3
1. It attacks best minds, ... in that of others.
It does harm to the most intelligent individual and, by and by, wears away his ability to judge, eventually reducing him to being unable t Para. 3
o detect nonsense either in his own writing or in that of others.
This is the harm that straight-A illiteracy does to people.
2. Reword the following sentences so that they are more easily understood: ll. 34-35, ll. 37-41 (comp. 3-9)
ll. 34-35: The shop assistants had better have in stock what our customers need, or we won’t be in business long (=
This is said or written by an ordinary illiterate, who is poor at spelling (them), pronunciation, punctuation, grammar (had + better, stock -up on, ain’t gonna be). So he makes many mistakes, and so he is kept out of institutions of higher learning. (l. 33)
ll. 37-41: You must focus your attention on what your customers need so that you are able to tell what is necessary from what is unnecessary when you replenish your stock.
This is written by a straight-A illiterate, who would never make spelling, grammar, punctuation mistakes, but who is incapable of making his ideas simple and clear in his writing. However, it is for writing this gibberish that he can be awarded straight As on his papers and the opportunity to continue his study, receiving higher and higher education until he has successfully got the Ph.D.
The higher education one receives, the more serious his disease of straight-A illiteracy becomes. (ll. 27-28)
3. Make complete the elliptical sentence ‘Not our man’. What is the function? (comp. 3-6)
‘This is not what our man would say’. This ellipsis contrasts the two types of illiteracy, and with it D turns back from one type to the other.
Para. 4
1. What is the major cause of straight-A illiteracy?
the stuff - the textbooks and professional journals that the straight-A illiterate is forced to read during his years of higher education.
He reads gibberish, and gradually he forms a habit of writing gibberish himself, which he has been instructed to learn an exemplary writing of sophisticated taste. (ll. 46-47)
2. Give the examples of gibberish D quotes from professional journals.
jargons as ‘ego-integrative action orientation’ and ‘orientation toward improvement of the graficational-deprivation balance of the actor’
‘homologous’ or ‘isomorphic’, meaning ‘alike’
‘allotropic’, meaning ‘different’
‘dichotomize’ or ‘bifurcate’, meaning ‘divide anything
3. D concludes his article by using quite a number of unintelligible words and expressions in place of clear and simple English. Is it effective? Why?
This usual arrangement has undoubtedly enabled the reader once again to feel even more the absurdity of the practice to express simple ideas in an almost incomprehensible way, adding more weight to the point he intends to make. (Analysis)
Post-reading Discussion
1. Makeａdefinition of ‘straight-A illiteracy’. (comp. 1-A)
2. What is the purpose of D’s writing? (comp. 3-1)
to find the cause of straight-A illiteracy.
to give straight-A illiterate equal time with his widely publicized
counterpart. (para. 1)
to expose and condemn the use of professional jargon, which fills the reading materials that highly educated people are forced to read as they pursue their education. (Analysis)
3. Comp. 2
4. Group work: Compare briefly the two types of illiteracy. Which type in your opinion presents a graver problem to society? (comp. 3-10)
TEXT II
THE QUALITIES OF GOOD WRITING
Jacqueline Berke
1. This is an excerpt from Twenty Questions for the Writer, a widely used writing textbook, the kind of which we need to read to further our learning by ourselves. What do you usu. do when you read this kind of book by yourselves? Underline or highlight the important words or sentences, or make notes of your own so as to get the gist of it. Suppose you have borrowed this book from the library and come to read this part. What will you do with it? Study the text individually before class and do what you usu. do to catch the gist.
2. Have group work for about 20 mins., exchanging what you have learned after reading it, and preparing for a presentation of this text. Your presentation can be based on Questions 1, 2, & 4 on p165.
3. Presentation: Ask 4 groups to present the three qualities and human nature of writing respectively.
4. As college seniors, we need to choose those more specific, exact, meaningful words in our writing rather than those common words as ‘good’, ‘nice’, etc. Do you consider using those more specific, exact, meaningful words as a kind of straight-A illiteracy? Give your opinions.
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Unit 1 Language Structures Main Teaching Points: The Passive Sentence involving the moral auxiliary have to . The pupils should be told that their homework has to be checked before they hand it in. 2. converted from the active sentence with a direct and indirect object . She isn’t paid anything for overtime. 3. involving the verb phrase/ phrasal verb . I don’t think anybody should be made fun of because of his physical handicap. 4. from by the They say/It is said …patterns . They say/ It is said that three parks will be expanded. Language Points: scratch: (at sth.) to rub your skin with your nails, usually because it is itching;挠，搔（痒处）; to make or remove a mark刮出（或刮去）痕迹；（sb./sth.）(from sth.)to decide that sth. cannot happen or sb./sth. cannot take part in sth., before it starts.取消，撤销，退出 . 1) The dog scratched itself behind the ear. 2)I’d scratched my leg and it was bleeding. 3)Be careful not to scratch the furniture. 4)His pen scratched away on the paper. 5)to scratch a rocket launch取消火箭发射计划 6)She has scratched because of a knee injury. 2. turn sb./sth. down: to reject or refuse to consider an offer, a proposal, etc. or the person who makes it.拒绝，顶回（提议、建议或提议人）；to reduce the noise, heat, etc. produced by a piece of equipment by moving its controls 把…调低；关小 has been turned down for ten jobs so far. 2)He asked her to marry him but she turned him down. 3)Please turn the volume down.音量调低。 3. look down on sb./sth.: to think that you are better than sb./ sth.蔑视，轻视，瞧不起 . She looks down on people who haven’t been to college. look sb. up and down: to look at sb. in a careful or critical way上下仔细打量，挑剔地审视某人 (not) look yourself :to not have your normal healthy appearance气色不像往常那样好 . You’re not looking yourself today.=You look tired or ill/sick.
新编英语教程第3册(李观仪主编)第五单元课后练习答案_
第五单元练习册答案 TEX TⅠ Comprehension A. Give an exact reference as evidence that each of the following statements is wrong. (P63) 1. The 2nd paragraph is totally devoted to explaining why the author has not got a home phone. He also explains why he doesn’t like to use a public telephone box. 2. When the writer writes that he does not like the telephone, he means only home and office phones. He doesn’t like public telephones, either. He thinks that using a public phone box is a horrible thing to do. 3. In the 3rd paragraph the writer seems to indicate that usually people don’t answer the telephone when they are busy with something else. He says no matter how busy anyone is or what he is doing, he will try to answer the telephone because he thinks there may be some important news or message for him. 4. In the 5th paragraph the writer claims that it is convenient to have one’s number listed in the telephone directory. He thinks it unwise for anyone to have his name and telephone number printed in the telephone directory. 5. In the 5th paragraph the writer implies that Shakespeare, the Bible and the telephone directory can be found anywhere. He indicates that a telephone directory can be found in more places than Shakespeare or the Bible. 6. In the 6th paragraph the writer suggests that one needs a telephone in case of emergency. He says that even in case of emergency it is not necessary to have a telephone, because in England one is seldom far from a telephone. B. Explain the following in your own words. (P64) 1. ... or pose as unusual. ... or pretend to be uncommon / out of the ordinary. 2. ... flavored with cheap face-powder and chain-smoking ... ... filled with the odour of women’s low quality face-powder and the smell left behind by the ceaseless smoking of cigarettes ... 3. Are you strong-minded enough to …? Do you have enough strong will power to ...? 4. …, only to be told that …? ..., then you are just told that ...? 5. “The truth will out.” No matter how hard you try to hide it, people will learn the facts sooner or later. 6. a book more in evidence than Shakespeare or the Bible … a book which can be seen in more places than Shakespeare or the Bible ... 7. … to escape from some idle or inquisitive chatterbox, or somebody who wants something for nothing …