unit 12 text why people work PPT课件
《英语 基础模块》下册 Unit 12 Dedicated People.xppt课件
8. Thanks to their hard work, many wounded soldiers survived.
由于他们的辛勤工作，许多伤员活了下来。
thanks to… 由于；多亏 e.g. Thanks to his help, we finished the work earlier than expected.
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1. How much do you know about nursing?
2. Have you ever heard of the story of “The Lady with the Lamp”?
Key: Because at that time nurses in England were looked down upon by people.
6. Why did Nightingale go to Turkey?
Reports of the sufferings of the wounded in the front created anger in Britain. In response, the government appointed Florence Nightingale to hire female nurses to work in the military hospitals in the front.
作为回报，她收到英国士兵的尊重。
in return 作为回报；作为报答 e.g. He was always ready to help others; in return, he was liked by others.
高教版大学英语泛读教程4(第三版)电子教案Unit 12
“clean”? Vocabulary
a. Neatly.
c. In tune.
b. Spick and span.
d. Ply their trade.
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c 4. Which of the following words or expressions does NOT refer to dead
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Reading Comprehension
Based on the reading text, choose the most appropriate answer to the following questions.
d 1. Which of the following statements is NOT true? Detail
d. Buddhists never touch dead bodies. a 2. What is meant by the phrasal verb “dig in”? Vocabulary
a. Eat.
c. Worship.
b. Pray.
d. Offer.
b 3. Which of the following words or expressions is used in the text to mean
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A Do You Get It?
Multiple Matching
There are three main passages in the reading text.
Which of them refers to … __c___ 1. washing rituals? __c___ 2. people who remove their clothes? __a___ 3. a place where people worship? __c___ 4. the burning of a body? __a___ 5. the possibility that the dead can influence our lives? __b___ 6. people who are paid for their services? __b___ 7. a historical period? __c___ 8. something that doesn’t last forever?
选择性必修第四册 UNIT 12 INNOVATION(二)
选择性必修第四册UNIT 12INNOVATION(二)Ⅰ.阅读理解A(★)With new advances in AI and autonomous driverless cars and trains，it makes sense that this mode of transportation could be expanded to buses，too.Now a full-sized autonomous bus service is up and running in Scotland.The buses began running in May,2023，and are carrying passengers between Ferrytoll Park and the Edinburgh Park train and tram exchange.This 14-mile route is the first of its kind in the UK.The autonomous buses are being operated by Stagecoach，the largest coach operator in the UK.While the buses are autonomous，fully self-driving vehicles are not currently permitted in the UK so a driver has to be onboard at all times.The vehicles are required to have a safety driver to monitor the technology and a bus captain that will help passengers board and purchase tickets.The driver can take control in case of an emergency situation.And the vehicles use sensors to travel on specific routes and can reach the top speed of 50 miles per hour.It took almost 10 years of research and development to reach this milestone，which is considered the first full-size use of autonomous buses in Europe.Scottish transport minister，Kevin Stewart，said in a press release，“It’s really exciting to see the innovative and ambitious CA VForth project take to the roads after all the hard work of the partner organizations involved in bringing this world first to Scotland.” This project was one of six to receive funding from a joint UK government and industries undertaking to speed up the commercialization of self-driving technology，reported The Guardian.The government hopes the autonomous buses will be faster and more reliable to use than conventional buses since 88% of road accidents are caused by drivers’errors.Other countries in Europe are exploring using driverless buses.There have already been short trials in several cities in Italy，Finland and France and there’re plans for driverless electric minibuses to be introduced in Switzerland，Germany and Norway.An autonomous bus may be just around the corner in a city near you.1．What does a driver do in an autonomous bus?A．To monitor the route. B．To deal with emergencies.C．To direct the bus. D．To help passengers buy tickets.2．What does the author indicate in paragraph 4?A．It is very easy to develop the driverless buses.B．The autonomous buses won’t cause accidents.C．Scotland becomes popular for the driverless buses.D．The UK government values the autonomous buses.3．Which of the following can best describe the future of autonomous buses? A．Promising. B．Hopeless. C．Worrying. D．Uncertain.4．What could be a suitable title for the text?A．Autonomous Buses Are Widely Used in the UKB．Self-driving Technology Has Been a HitC．Autonomous Buses Hit the Road in the UKD．Conventional Buses Are Much SaferB(★)The 2010s brought no shortage of miraculous technologies，from tablet computers to 4G mobile internet.But these had surprisingly little effect on the economy.During that decade productivity growth in the developed countries averaged a miserable(少得可怜的) 1% a year，holding down average wages.Innovative firms embraced new tech，but many less adventurous ones did not bother.The experience showed that technological breakthroughs and improvements in average living standards do not always go hand in hand.Generative AI，its developers say，will be different.Not since the invention of the internet has a new technology so captured the public imagination.The technology is consumer-friendly：within days of its release to the public，ChatGPT，the most famous AI chat bot，had millions of users.It is easy to see how this innovation could improve all types of work at all types of firms，from increasing the accuracy of doctors’ diagnoses to helping programmers write software code more efficiently.With that said，for AI to truly spread out in the economy，it needs to make its mark beyond the most innovative companies.And this will take time.Although the internet began to be used by some companies in the early 1990s，it was not until the late 2000s that two-thirds of American businesses had a website.About 70 world’s largest firms still show no interest in AI，according to our analysis.Some evidence even suggests that usage of ChatGPT and its competitors is falling—perhaps as people have tried it out，and then decided it is not for them.Indeed，even the most powerful technologies take time to be adopted，because companies tend to use a mix of software and services，some of which may be years or even decades old.Replacing outdated systems can be costly and complicated.Moreover，in the many industries either run or heavily regulated by the government，such as healthcare，education and construction，bosses and trade unions often resist the application of new technology，worried that it will lead to job losses.In time AI could well transform how people live their lives and do their jobs.But the road to widespread usage，and any resulting productivity boom，will be a long one.5．What is paragraph 1 mainly about?A．How productivity affects average wages.B．Why the 2010s is a productive decade.C．Whether economic growth follows new technologies.D．What innovative companies care for.6．What does the author want to indicate by mentioning ChatGPT in paragraph 2?A．AI’s public imagination. B．Consumers’ enthusiasm.C．AI’s healthy profits. D．AI’s huge potential.7．What can be inferred from paragraph 3?A．Big firms are less motivated to adopt new tech.B．More efforts are needed to advocate AI.C．ChatGPT is falling behind its competitors.D．Websites were uncommon in the early 2000s.8．Which word best describes the author’s attitude towards the future of AI? A．Hopeful. B．Worried. C．Cautious. D．Pessimistic.Ⅱ.完形填空(★)I was in the middle of the Amazon with my wife.We did not speak the local language，did not know the customs，and even did not entirely 1 the food.We could not have felt more 2 .Then one perfect Amazonian evening，we played soccer. 3 darkness came over the field and the match ended，the goalkeeper，Juan walked over to me and asked，“In your home，do you have a moon too？” I was surprised.After I 4 to Juan that yes I felt a sort of awe at the 5 that existed in his world，where the unknown and undiscovered was 6 and amazing.In our society，we know that Earth has only one moon.I can，from my computer，7 satellite images of Juan’s village.There are no more moons to search for，little 8 to discover.Yet，as an ant biologist，I knew that much in the world of insects remains unknown.How9 are we？The question of what we know and do not know 10 bother me.I began to 11 newspaper articles about new species，and on and on they 12 .In looking into the 13 of biological discovery，I also began to find a collection of scientists，who very often focused on common phenomena more to the point of exhaustion(筋疲力尽)，and even at the risk of the 14 of their peers.We used to think that nothing lived deeper than six hundred meters.Yet，when something new 15 ，more often than not，we do not even know its name.1．A.produce B．recognize C．attain D．prepare2．A.conservative B．familiar C．foreign D．natural3．A.As B．If C．Once D．Although4．A.announced B．committed C．complained D．responded5．A.differences B．possibilities C．definitions D．expressions6．A.suspicious B．similar C．absurd D．vast7．A.take up B．pull up C．pick up D．make up8．A.kept B．banned C．left D．bounded9．A.accessible B．elegant C．ignorant D．relevant10．A.instantly B．constantly C．occasionally D．absolutely11．A.evaluate B．seize C．polish D．collect12．A.appeared B．existed C．formed D．quitted13．A.fictions B．plots C．stories D．moments14．A.tease B．envy C．support D．admiration15．A.updates B．settles C．develops D．emergesⅢ.语法填空Beijing roast duck is one of Beijing’s unique and classical 1. (cuisine)．The duck has a long history of over 1,500 years.Legend has it 2. an emperor during the Yuan Dynasty occasionally hunted a wild duck and then roasted it.He used a simple and 3.__________(origin) method to roast the duck.In the Ming Dynasty，when the capital 4. (shift) from Nanjing to Beijing，Roast Duck became one of the famous official dishes.In this period，the method of cooking duck was to hang the duck from the ceiling of an oven and roast it over 5. (burn) wood.Quanjude Restaurant was established in 1864.Yang Quanren,6. founder of Quanjude，improved the method of roasting ducks.Quanjude Restaurant becomes well-known for its innovations and efficient 7. (manage) in China and aboard.8．(eat) roast duck has a variety of methods.The main method 9. (involve) the chef slicing the duck into more than 100 thin flakes with meat and a piece of crispy skin in each slice.Diners then take a small，thin pancake，and roll it up 10. a piece of meat and small slices of spring onions inside，and lastly dip it in a sweet sauce and take a bite.。
Unit12__Self__check__参考课件
Read the text again and do these question: T or F 1. ( T ) There are lovely beaches in Sanya. 2. ( F ) In Beijing, it is about –30 °c in winter. 3.( T ) The price of a hotel room is about 200yuan a night in winter in Beijing. 4. ( T ) It is warm in winter in Hainan. 5. ( F ) It doesn’t often snow or rain in winter in Harbin.
9.Town Cinema has ___________ friendlier (friendly) service than the others. 10. Jason’s is ______ ______ ______ the most popular (popular) of all the clothing stores. the best 11. Jason’s has _____ _____ and _______ _________ (good cheap) the cheapest quality clothes of all.
You have a try
The car is going fast.
The train is going faster
The plane is going the fastest
6. Screen City is _____best the ______(good) of all the theaters in town. the biggest 7. Screen City has ______ _____(big) screens and _____ _____ ______ the most comfortable (comfortable) seats. cheaper 8. Town Cinema is ________(cheap) than the other cinemas.
现代大学英语精读2第12课说课讲解
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
? In How to Win Friends and Influence People, Carnegie offers practical advice and techniques, in his exuberant and conversational style, for how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding. His advice has stood the test of time and will teach you how to: make friends quickly and easily; increase your popularity; win people to your way of thinking; enable you to win new clients and customers; become a better speaker and a more entertaining conversationalist; and, arouse enthusiasm among your colleagues. This book will turn around your relationships and improve your dealings with all the people in your life.
a. a feeling of anger andsth. that is unfair or unreasonable
b. to make a stupid or careless mistake
现代大学英语精读第二版Unit ppt课件
7. 大学教育应该设法保证我们的大学生有 进行批判性思维的能力。
College education should see to it that our
3.让我们同意对方可以有不同意见吧。我们 起码在一点上意见是一致的，我们同意不采 取暴力，我们同意我们的分歧必须和平解决。
Let’s agree to disagree.
We at least agree on one thing: We agree not to use force. We agree that we must settle
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The Green Banana
Theme
Structure
Detailed Analysis
Unit 6
Text Analysis
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Text Analysis
Theme
• We should respect all civilizations in the world. Wisdoms are to be discovered with an open mind to other cultures.
➢ Limited life experience:
People will never be able to experience every life situation of everyone around the world, so assumptions about life have to be based on existing limited experience. It is normal to assume things and interpret new experience and others’ behavior on the basis of one’s own experience.
Unit-10-Why-people-work知识讲解
I do not like work ---no man does --but I like what is in the work -----the chance to find yourself. (Conrad Joseph, British novelist) 我不喜欢工作——没有人会喜欢工作。但是我喜欢在所 从事的工作中——找到发现自己的机nd work do much more than most of us realize to provide happiness and contentment.
B. Work is more than a necessity for most human beings; it is the focus of their lives, the source of their identity than a punishment or a
burden, work is the opportunity to realize one’s potential.
D. For large numbers of people, the absence of work is harmful to their health.
The human must gives the best that he has to help his family or his friend and make him happy.
Yeah, live in this society is very tired and hard.
Sometimes ,I don’t want to work and find a secluded places to live until die .
英语高级视听 听力原文 Unit 12 Working 24 7
Unit 12 Working 24/7Americans work longer hours than nearly anyone in the developed world, even the Japanese. For many professionals and corporate managers, the 40-hour work week is history; 60- to 80-hour work weeks are now the norm.Signs of our addiction to work are everywhere. For one, rush hours are starting earlier and ending later. When 60 Minutes first broadcast this story a few months ago, the first train for commuters from the suburbs into New York had just been pushed back to 4:45 a.m., by popular demand.Why do Americans work so much? The simplest answer is because we can.The Digital Revolution means cell phones, wireless Internet and handheld computers like the BlackBerry allow us to work anywhere, anytime, 24/7. And we do, as correspondent Lesley Stahl reports.It's 7 a.m. Pacific time, and Joe Hurd is still in bed. But this 36-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur has already made two phone calls over the Internet to clients overseas. He has checked e-mails on his BlackBerry and sent a half-dozen instant messages from his laptop.For Joe and his wife, Christina Mireles, new technology means their work day isn't 9 to 5. It's 5 to 9."Because we have wireless access, you can work wherever," says Joe."We can be in the kitchen. We can be in our bedroom, we can be here in the living room," Christina points out.With a masters and a law degree each, they're not exactly underachievers. Joe logs 12- to 15-hour days as vice president of an Internet travel Web site. Sometimes, Joe admits he gets up at night to send e-mails. "Sometimes I can't sleep and I'll get up at 2 or 3 (a.m.), yeah, to do e-mails, definitely," he said, while his wife was shaking her head."Or you'll set your alarm, you know to wake up at one, two in the morning," she added."I do, I do," he replied.Christina, a vice president of a charter school company, works a few hours less than Joe. She says she is no match for her husband in terms of gadgets."Oh, I have the absolute bare minimum, I think. I have two cell phones, a personal and …," Christina explained."That's the bare minimum, America. Two cell phones," Joe interrupted.Not a minute is wasted, even before getting to the office. Christina juggles the two cell phones, returning business and personal calls. She usually eats behind the wheel.On his commute, Joe manages the consulting business he has on the side and even keeps track of new messages on his BlackBerry. But he says he's never tried anything as dangerous as typing out an e-mail while driving in rush hour traffic.Joe's work day is a blur of business meetings, incoming phone calls, and hundreds of e-mails."I can check e-mails and respond to e-mails. I can have a conversation on the telephone. I can have a conversation via IM. And I can keep exactly probably half an ear on a conversation with a person," he says."In the room with you?" Stahl asks."Half, yeah, exactly," Joe says.Asked if he is doing all of these things well when he does them at the same time, Joe says, "You know, this is not neurosurgery we're talking about here … but you can do a lot of that simultaneously."Joe may be able to pull that off, but many corporate executives say the volume of voicemail and e-mail they get has become unmanageable —eating up an average of three hours a day.Combine that with a corporate culture that values endless meetings and "face time" with the boss, and you can see why so many employees toil into the night just to get their "real work" done.60 Minutes visited the corporate headquarters of Best Buy, the electronics retailer, in Richfield, Minn. Employees Stacy Verstraight, Jason Dehne and Marissa Plume say that putting in 60- to 80-hour weeks got them pats onthe back."You know, you'd send an e-mail at nine o'clock at night. And the next thing your co-workers would say, 'Hey, wow, were you working that whole time? Wow. Great job,'" says Marissa.But if you weren't there at the crack of dawn, you were put down."You know, if I come in at nine o'clock or 10 o'clock, I was at a doctor's appointment, you know, people are saying, 'Oh gee. Glad you could show up today.' You know, so it felt [like] a little bit of a dig," says Stacy. "And people were just watching other people. So it felt like a lot of unnecessary pressure.""I canceled booked vacations. I mean I booked vacations, and I'd cancel 'em because I had to work," Jason recalls.In 2002, after a jump in people quitting and filing stress-related health claims, Best Buy launched an experiment: employees would be allowed to work wherever and whenever they wanted, as long as they got their jobs done.That means the unit that Chap Achen manages often looks like a ghost town."Some folks literally don't come in the office for weeks at a time," says Achen.If asked where a specific employee physically is, Achen says he doesn't know. "I couldn't tell you if he was in his basement or he was at a Starbucks with a wireless connection."Since the Best Buy experiment started, Jason's health has improved. Normally at his desk by 7:30 a.m., he now jogs to his local coffee shop and takes his 8 a.m. conference call by cell phone.Marissa, a night owl, now does her best work around midnight from her bedroom."I have to trust that my team is going to get the work done in this environment," says Achen. "And the ironic thing about it is that it's that trust factor that actually makes them work harder for you.""And just as long?" Stahl asked"And just as long," he replied.Or longer. Stacy, Jason and Marissa say they often work more hours than they did before. Not a bad deal for the company. Productivity among employees in the program has jumped a healthy 35 percent."We can spread out our work over seven days of the week," explains Stacy. Asked why that's a positive, Jason says, "It's the way I choose to work." "But if it takes 70 hours to do your job, why doesn't Best Buy go hire more people?" Stahl asked."You know, I am a happier employee, with the trust," says Stacy.Asked if she wants to work the 70 hours, Stacy replied, "I love what I do." The group all said they didn't think they were working too much when asked by Stahl."You're brainwashed," Stahl said, laughing."Maybe we're all crazy," Jason said. "Maybe we are," Stacy added, laughing. Maybe they are: They don't even make more money for the longer hours. But when you try to cut back on the hours, it's not that easy.Mike Moody and Jeff Ward left high stress, six-day-a-week jobs as big-city lawyers because they wanted to spend more time with their wives and children. They decided to do what more and more working mothers are doing — share a job."Well, for the first six months of the job, I was referred to as the new Joanne," says Jeff.The job of assistant in-house counsel at Timberland in Stratum, N.H. had been filled by two women for years."I have two weekends a week. Yeah," says Mike. "And I have a four-day weekend," Jeff adds.It is a pretty sweet deal. They each work three days a week, overlapping on Tuesdays.How do they keep the office from pulling them back in on their days off?"It's a constant struggle," Jeff admits. "We're always on call because of the BlackBerry.""The crackberry," Mike jokes.The BlackBerry is practically attached to Mike's body — even on his days off, when he's the house-husband in the kitchen and in the laundry room.The company pays them 75 percent of full-time pay, because, as it's turned out, they each end up working about 40 hours a week."That's a full-time job," Stahl remarked."It's not many people's full-time job though," Mike replied."But it's what we used to think of as a full-time job," Stahl said."Absolutely," Jeff agreed.With so many Americans working more than 40 hours a week, it may surprise you to learn that when it comes to productivity, the U.S. is not No.1. In fact, workers in four European countries, including France, are more productive per hour of work than Americans — that's the key: "per hour of work" — even though the Europeans work less and take more vacation. Joe Hurd thinks all these gadgets and technology are helping him be more productive. "If you want to measure productivity by, for me, for example, keeping the e-mails flowing, you know, multiple conversations going, then yes, the technology does facilitate that.""The downside, however, is that oftentimes we really don't have substantive conversations when we come home. We will be sitting on our couch, each doing work," his wife says.It turns out Joe and Christina e-mail and instant-message each other, even if they are at home."But what about your relationship? I'm not trying to get too personal here...," Stahl asked."Well, that's what I mean, that's the downside. It would be nice to have a conversation even once a week and not be, I mean, really be concentratingand listening to each other. But we've got one eye on our computers," Christina replied.Christina says she does tune out everything once she gets home from work, to play with their 8-month old daughter Amina. She even turns her cell phones off.But when Amina gets fussy, they both reach for her favorite toy: the BlackBerry."I can have her on the bed with a bunch of toys," Christina says. But her daughter will always pick the BlackBerry.Which means when Amina grows up, she may have a house like Greg Shenkman's.Shenkman is such a workaholic that he has wired his house with Internet, telephone and television in every single room. As CEO of the global high-tech firm Exigen in San Francisco, he feels he has to be available to his customers at all hours."Well, you lose something. You lose some days of your kids' lives. You lose — some of those tender moments with the family," Shenkman says. When he stops working, he says he aches."If you go on vacation, sometimes, in order to sort of relax, it takes a little bit of an effort," Shenkman says. But he always stays connected.He's so obsessed, he has wired his shower. When Greg soaps up, he doesn't daydream — he watches the business news, checks his e-mail, and answers the phone.60 Minutes arranged for the producer to call Shenkman, with his shower running. When the speaker phone picked up, the water was turned off automatically, and Stahl and Shenkman could talk to the producer from the shower.The electronics are waterproof — but not foolproof."Whoa, what happened!" Stahl said, laughing, as she got a little wet. "We forgot to turn it off," Shenkman said."Well, I usually don't have Lesley Stahl in the shower with me. That would be an unusual occurrence for me," Shenkman added, laughing.。