综英五课文理解

Unit 4 The Girl in the Fifth Row

The text is to argue for the urgent need of education on love in general. 1.I entered the classroom with a great deal of anxiety because it was the

first time that I gave lessons to students.

2.No one seemed to be listening to me as I fussed with过分讲究my

notes stammering.结巴

3.My confidence and enthusiasm returned as I began to speak directly to

her.

4.All my students came to visit my office during the semester. Liani

never came to his office for she had committed suicide near downtown Los Angeles.

5.Liani had not felt loved though her parents had been caring for her

tenderly all along.

6.Almost all the books on love found in the library dealt with sex or

romantic love. There was virtually nothing on love in general.

7.The most important reason for the popularity of the course was that

the students and teacher liked to share their reading, ideas, and experience on love in class to assure themselves that love could be learned at any moment of their lives.

8.Liani had passed away before they worked on hot lines.

9.The football player?s father told the author by phone that he had

experienced one of the happiest moments of his life the night before,

when his son hugged him and said “I love you, Dad.”

10.A nother secret of love is your awareness that you are yourself unique,

that there is only one of you in the world.

Questions

1.What made the author regain confidence after moments of panic in his

first class?

Liani?s animated生气勃勃，激励, attentive专心，注意的expression and warm smile made the author regain confidence.

2.Why did the author feel he was pulled through by the stunning给人印

象深刻的，富有魅力的young woman?

He felt so because she was radiating流露，显示to the whole class her comforting令人欣慰的，安慰的feeling, which facilitated his lecture.

3.How did the author assess Liani?s papers and personality?

She wrote her papers with creativity, sensitivity and a delicate sense of humor, and acted with such fine qualities as caring, tenderness温和，亲切, and awareness.

4.What did the author decide to teach a course on love? How did he

conduct the class?

The statement “we are all so much together and yet we are all dying of loneliness”was quoted because it aptly describes the situation the students were in: They sat in the same class but showed no concern for each other, i.e. they were all lonely individuals.

5.Why did the author decide to teach a course on love? How did he

conduct 引导，进行the class?

The author thought he ought to teach students how to live in joy, how to feel loved, and how to have a sense of personal worth and dignity.

So he decided to initiate开始，着手a course on love. The course was named Love Class, in which the author serve as a facilitator,促进者，帮助者and the students and teacher taught one another and learned together sharing their reading, their ideas, and their experience.

6.To what extent was Love Class welcomed?

Love Class was so warmly welcomed that the students brought their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, friends, husbands, wives, and even grandparents to the class, which started at 7 p.m. and often continued until well midnight.

7.What was practiced in the author?s class so as to learn to love and to

feel loved?

In order to learn to love and to feel loved, they were performing such practices as physical touching—hugging and handshaking, giving love greetings to parents, helping disabled children, visiting the aged in nursing homes, volunteering to work on suicide hot lines, and so on.

8.What did Joel do after taking Love Class?

Joel, one of the students in Love Class, would go to visit a dying old woman in the nursing home every week. The day of his visit was

called Joel?s Day by the ward-mates, when she and others in the ward were well dressed up to show their courage of life and desire for love.

9.In what way did Love Class affect the varsity football player?

At first he felt especially uncomfortable with the assignment of thanking his parents, and had difficulty expressing his love. It took a great deal of courage and determination for him walk into the living room, raise his dad from the chair and hag him warmly, saying “I love you, Dad.”

10.W hy did the author cite the pork chops case?

By citing the example, the author attempts to illustrate the point that sharing joy with people is one of the things love is.

11.W hat has the author learned from Liani?

Without Liani, the author would have probably remained an indifferent man with little concern about the vulnerable human beings behind the masks. But now that Linai presented him with the challenge, she had given him the impetus to learn about and teach love,

a must for everyone.

Sentences

1.Her animated expression and warm smile were an invitation for me to

go on. = Her vivid expression and tender smile encouraged me to continue my lecture.

2.We are all so much together and yet we are all dying of loneliness. =

Although we seem to be living and studying so closely, we are virtually behaving like strange.

3.If we find no models of love, then we grow up love—starved and

unloving. = If we have no models of love to follow, we will be growing up lacking in love and not knowing how to love others.

4.If you are afraid of being misunderstood, verbalize描述your feelings

to the person you?re hugging. = If you are afraid of being understood, explain your feelings in words to the person you?re embracing.

5.His father?s eyes welled up with tears as he muttered. = tears rolled

down his father?s cheeks as he spoke in a quiet voice.

6.While attempting to open doors to love for others, I found that the

doors were opening for me. = As I am trying to ask others to offer love and feel loved, I am actually experiencing the same.

7.The pursuit of love has made a wonder of my life. = The continual

efforts I have made to seek love have made my life richer and more meaningful.

My love sentences:

We are all so much together and yet we are all ding of lineliness.

We need to know: how to live in joy, how to have a sense of personal worth and dignity?

Another secret of love is knowing that you are yourself special, that in all the world there is only one of you. If I had a magic wand and a single

wish, I would wave the wand over everybody and have each individual say, and believe, “I like me, right this minute. Just as I am, and what I can become. I …m great.”

Unit 5 Force of Nature

The text is to unfold Marie Curie?s complex life as glorious and tragic. 1.At first I only knew that Marie Curie, a brilliant woman scientist, was

the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.

2.Marie Cures was obsessively engaged in her research before her

daughters were born.

3.As governess to a wealthy family, Marie Curie fell in love with

Casimir Zorawski, the young master. As his father threatened to disinherit him, she left Warsaw with courage for Paris, where her new life began.

4.Marie Cure left Warsaw for Pairs at the age of 22.

5.The place where the Curies were working was dark, damp, shabby ,

and sad, more like stable than a lab.

6.The Curies became world famous, especially after they won a Nobel

Prize in physics in 1903 for the discovery of radioactivity.

7.Eve Curie was scarcely a year old when her father died.

8.After her husband?s funeral, Madame Cure went into the lab

immediately though she should have stayed with her family and friends.

9.A second Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Marie alone.

10.A ccording to the author, Madame Curie conquered colossal obstacles

in science, but paid an enormous personal price. Her life was so complex that her glory was mingled with tragedy.

Questions

1.In what way did the author idolize Madame Curie?

In the author?s mind, Madame Curie was the strongest and most capable woman in the world.

2.Why does the author view Marie Curie as a super-competent

multi-tasker?

In science, she revolutionized the study of atomic energy and radioactivity and succeeded in isolating the elements radium and polonium, for which she became the first person in the world to have won two Noble Prizes. In life she was a woman driven by passion, fighting battles much of her life with severe极为恶劣的depression.

In the end, she suffered form and eventually died of a disease which was caused by her own discovery.

3.What can you infer about Marie Curie from the way she reacted to her

mother?s death when she was only ten?

Marie Curie did not appear to be affected by her mother?s death at all and carried on with her schoolwork as if nothing had happened. But when she left alone, she cried her eyes out for months releasing her

bitter grief.

4.Why does the author consider Marie Curie?s leaving for Paris a

remarkable act of courage?

First, she was then 22 years old, too young to confront the world all by herself. Second, survival in big city like Paris would be difficult for a poor, common, and inexperienced girl like her.

5.Why does the author describe the scene of the discovery of radium

form the film Madame Curie in Paragraph 6?

The scene in the film might have led to the misconception that the process of discovering radium was exciting, easy and romantic. What the author intends to do is emphasize, by contrasting the firm scene with reality, the fact that the actual discovery of radium was much harder than it appeared.

6.Why does the author hold such an argument that the Curie?s triumph

巨大成就contained the seeds of their tragedy?

Their tragedy was attributable to the fact that they worked around radioactivity nearly every day. Before winning the Nobel Prize, Pierre was severely ill from exposure to this fierce energy. He had increasing difficulty walking, until 1906, when he fell into the path of a wagon, and a wheel ran over his head. He died instantly. Although Madame Curie won a brilliant success in science, she suffered an appalling骇人听闻的loss in life.

7.What was likely the cause of Madame Curie?s Death?

Her death was caused by pernicious anemia which probably resulted from her long, devastating exposure to radium and other radioactive elements.

8.How do you understand the title of the article?

The unraveling of the mysteries of nature presents a big challenge to natural scientists. The exploration of nature and the discovery of its mysteries call for painstaking and enduring effort on their part. Yet for many of them, this is a mission that has great magnetic power, and they are so much drawn to it that they are ready to devote their whole life to it. And Madame Curie is undoubtedly one of them. Sentences

1.I was just a girl with little direction, more drawn to words and

made-up stories than to formulas and lab experiments. = I was then a young girl without a clear idea of what to do in the future; but I was keener on literature than on natural science.

2.I think I admired that photo so much, not because of Marie Curie and

what she stood for but because she seemed so exotic. = I think the reason why I enjoyed looking at the photo was not because Marie Curie herself was in the photo, nor because she represented a great woman, but because her image appealed to me.

3.Marie Curie?s own daughters grew into accomplished women in their

own right. = Marie Curie?s own daughters distinguished themselves in their respective field due to their own efforts and competence.

4.She wound up falling in love with Casimir Zorawski. = Finally she fell

in love with Casimir Zorawski.

5.She was beneath his station, poor, a common nursemaid. = She, a poor,

common nursemaid, was much lower in social status than her young master.

6.The reality was a lot grittier—and a lot less romantic. = The reality

was much harder, not as romantic as shown in the 1943 film Madame Curie.

7.They were the toast of the European scientific community, feted

lavishly and visited at home in Paris by acolytes to pay homage. = They were highly respected in the European scientific community, entertained exuberantly and visited by acolytes to show their reverence to the Curies at home in Paris.

8.The metamorphosis was less simple, more serious. A cape of solitude

and secrecy fell upon her shoulders forever. = The changes in Madame Curie brought about by the loss of her husband were much more profound than the simple change from a happy young wife to an inconsolable widow. The shadow of loneliness and introversion hung over her for the rest of her life.

9.The Marie Curie that I discovered was no icon but a flesh-and-blood

woman.