精读4unit9配套课件
大学英语精读修订版第四册课件
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▪ 4. delivery n. 1)投递，送交；2)投递的邮件，发送的 货物；3)分娩；4)讲话的方式，演讲风格
▪ ----- Please pay on delivery.
▪ Phr. cash on delivery 货到付现金
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take delivery (of sth.) 收到某物
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delivery note 货单
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▪ 8. echo n.回音，回声，共鸣 vi.发出回声，产生回响 vt. 模仿，重复，附和
▪ ----- They echoed their leader’s every word.
▪ ----- He has no original opinion; he is just his brother’s echo.
▪ Phr. echo sth. (back) (指地方)传回回声
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echo to/ with sth. (指地方)产生回声
▪ ----- The valley echoed (back) his song.
▪ ----- The hills echoed to the sound of their laughter.
----- He always wears a sour expression.
▪ acid表示讽刺、刻薄或严厉的批评。 ----- an acid remark ----- I read an acid comment on the political situation.
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Book4 Unit One By Miranda
▪ Phr. the company one keeps 经常与之为伍的人；伙伴
大学英语精读Unit9 What is happiness课件
明天将是你的第一天
.if you'd like to work here as a broker. 如果你想在这里做经纪人的 话 Would you like that,Chris? 你愿意吗，克里斯？
Chris:Yes,sir. 是的，先生 。
Mr.Frohm:Good. We couldn't be happier. 好极了，我们太高兴了
?面朝大海春暖花开?从明天起做一个幸福的人?喂马劈柴周游世界?从明天起关心粮食和蔬菜?我有一所房子面朝大海春暖花开?从明天起和每一个亲人通信?告诉他们我的幸福?那幸福的闪电告诉我的面朝大海春暖花开?我将告诉每一个人?给每一条河每一座山?取一个温暖的名字?陌生人我也为你祝福?愿你有一个灿烂的前程?愿你有情人终成眷属?愿你在尘世获得幸福?我只愿面朝大海春暖花开definitionsofhappinesswhatshappiness
This definition is a good starting point and we can dig deeper from it. The best way to do that is to consult some of the greatest minds in history. So we researched what these people say about Happiness and found 10 essential definitions. Each of them has deep meaning. Take your time to absorb it.
with spring blossoms.
May you have a brilliant future!
May you lovers eventually become spouse!
Inside_view 视听说 Book 4 Unit 9 Words of wisdom 教学课件
9 Shakespeare only published one of his
works while he was alive. That was
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Henry VI.
7 Watch Conversation 2 again and complete the sentences.
Joe So one more week and you’ll be going back to Oxford.
up to?
Answers
The expressions that are used are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
Now explain the meaning of the expressions.
1 Hello, mate, what are you up to?
Quite well.
I hope to meet you again in the pub.
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6 I was completely lost. I could not understand at all.
7 I haven’t a clue what he said.
I have no idea what he meant.
He explains what Jack said to Janet.
4 Watch Conversation 1 again and check (✓) the expressions that are used in Conversation 1.
Hello, mate, what are you
I almost fell asleep during the test after an all-nighter. studying all night
Listening_in 视听说 Book 4 Unit 9 Words of wisdom 教学课件
Listening in
Example answers
1 The answer is important in finding the evolutionary origins of human language. It may help with research into the brain and language. Humans are interested in knowing how they are different from other species.
• Yes, they are part of the treasury of human culture and history. It would be nice if everyone had two languages – one of the big ones and a small local one to give a sense of identity.
➢ The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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Listening in
➢ Beware of bottles labeled "Gift" in Germany. In German, Gift means poison.
Listening in
3 Can the bees’ dance be described as a language in the human sense?
No.
4 Why might dolphins have a type of language?
Because they have large brains and appear to respond to one another’s communications.
现代大学英语精读4lesson9知识点
现代大学英语精读4lesson9知识点Language points lesson 9Paragraph 21. The general raised his eyebrows. He seemed hurt.raise one’s eyebrows: to move one?s eyebrows upwards in order to show surprise or disapproval e.g.: 'Really?' she said, raising her eyebrows.This decision caused a few raised eyebrows→be up to your eyebrows in sth: spoken to have more of sth than you can deal with I'm absolutely up to my eyebrows in work.[→be up to your n eck in sth: infml1) to be very busy with sth e.g.: She's up to her neck in work.2) to be in a difficult situation that is hard to escape from e.g.: Jim's up to his neck in debt.]Paragraph 32. He saw the dead black eyes of the general on him, studying h im. General Zaroff’s face suddenly brightened.Meaning: Rainsford sees the general staring at him with his cold, severe, expressionless eyes. The general was surprised at Rainsford?s responses.brighten (up): to become happier or more excitede.g.: She brightened up a bit when she saw us.我们开始谈到钱时，他的眼睛为之一亮。
精读4unit9配套课件
Warming up
Objectives
• Understand the structure of the essay • Understand what the author really intends to say • Appreciate Mark Twain’s writing style • Reflect on the so-called “human nature”
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Warming up
Warming up
Questions / Activities
Which of the following words can best describe this essay? Serious and matter-of-fact? Scientifically detached and objective? Hilariously humorous? Bitterly satirical? What is the main idea of this essay? What is the Darwinian theory? How does the author come to doubt this? Is that the result of scientific experiment? Is Mark Twain serious when he says that he has done many months of painstaking and fatiguing work in the London Zoological Garden? What effect do you think he hopes to achieve with this mock seriousness? How does the author contrast human beings wit
大学英语精读第四册 Unit9 The Education of a Physicist
Idly watching fish swimming in a pond and allowing the mind to wander can lead to some surprising result.Unit 9 The Education of a PhysicistTwo incidents from my childhood greatly enriched my understanding of the world and sent me on a course to become a theoretical physicist.I remember that my parents would sometimes take me to visit the famous Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco. One of my happiest childhood memories is of crouching next to the pond, fascinated by the brilliantly colored carp swimming slowly beneath the water lilies In these quiet moments, I felt free to let my imagination wander; I would ask myself silly questions that only a child might ask, such as how the crap in that pond would view the world around them. I thought, What a strange world theirs must be!Living their entire lives in the shallow pond, the carp would believe that their “universe”consisted of the dark water and the lilies. Spending most of their time moving around for food on the bottom of the pond, they would be only dimly aware that an alien world could exist above the surface. The nature of my world was beyond their comprehension I was intrigued that I could sit only a few inches from the carp, yet be separated from them by a very huge gap. The carp and I spent our lives in two distinct universes, never entering each other’s world, yet were separated by only the thinnest barrier, the water’s surface.I once imagined that there may be carp “scientists” living among the fish. They would, I thought laugh at any fish who proposed that a parallel world could exist just above the lilies. To a carp “scientist”, the only things that were real were what the fish could see or touch. The pond was everything. An unseen world beyond the pond made no scientific sense.Once I was caught in a rainstorm. I notice that the pond’s surface was bombarded by thousands of tiny raindrops. The pond’s surface became turbulent, and the water lilies were being pushed in all directions by water waves. Taking shelter from the wind and the rain, I wondered how all this appeared to the carp. To them, the water lilies would appear to be moving around by themselves, without anything pushing them. Sine the water they lived in would be appear invisible, much like the air and space around us, they would be baffled that the water lilies could move around by themselves.Their scientists,” I imagined, would make up a clever invention called a “force” in order to hide their ignorance. Unable to comprehend that there could be waves on the unseen surface, they would conclude that lilies could move without being touch because a mysterious invisible entity called a force acted between them. The might give this illusion impressive, lofty names (such as action – at-a-distance, or the ability of the lilies to move without anything touching them).Once I imagined what would happen if I reached down and lifted one of the carp “scientists” out of the pond. Before I threw him back into the water ,he might struggle furiously as I examined him. I wondered how this would appear to the rest of carp. To them, it would be a truly unsettling event. They would first notice that one of their “scientists” had disappeared from their universe. Simply vanished, without leaving a trace. Wherever they would look, there would be no evidence of the missing carp in their universe. Then, seconds later, when I thew him back into pond, the “scientist” would abruptly reappear out of nowhere. To the other carp, it would appear that a miracle had happened.After col lecting his wits, the “scientist” would tell a truly amazing story. “Without warning,” he would see, “I was somehow lifted out of the universe (the pond) and hurled into a mysteriousworld, with blinding lights and strangely shaped objects that I had never seen before . The strangest of all was the creature who held me prisoner, who did not resemble a fish in the slightest.I was shocked to see that it had no fins whatsoever, but nevertheless could move without them. It struck me that the familiar laws of nature no longer applied in this other world. Then, just as suddenly, I found myself thrown back into our universe.”(This story of course, of a journey beyond the universe would be so fantastic that most of the carp would dismiss it as utter nonsense.)I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own “ pond ” confident that our universe consist of only those things we can see or touch. Like the carp, our universe consist of only the familiar and the visible. We smugly refuse to admit that parallel universes or dimensions can exist next to ours, just beyond our grasp. If our scientists invent concepts like forces, it is only because they cannot visualize the invisible vibrations that fill the empty space around us.A second incident from my childhood also made a deep, lasting impression on me. When I was 8 years old, I heard a story that would stay with me for the rest of my life. I remember my schoolteachers telling the class about a great scientist who had just died. They talked about him with great reverence, calling him one of the greatest scientists in all history. They said that very few people could understand his ideas, but that his discoveries changed the entire world and everything around us. I didn’t understand much of what they were trying to tell us, but what most intrigued me about this man was that he died before he could complete his greatest discovery. They said he spent years on this theory, but died with his unfinished papers still sitting on his desk.I was fascinated by the story. To a child, this was a great mystery. What was his unfinished work? What was in those papers on his desk? What problem could possible be so difficult and so important that such a great scientist would dedicate years of his life to its pursuit? Curious, I decide to learn all I could about Albert Einstein and his unfinished theory.I still have warm memories of spending many quite hours reading every book I could find about this great man and his theories. When I exhausted the books in our local library, I began to visit libraries and bookstores across the city, eagerly searching for more clues. I soon learned that the unfinished papers on Einstein’s desk were attempt to construct what he called the unified theory, a theory that could explain all the laws of nature, from the tiniest atom to the largest galaxy. However, being a child, I didn’t understand that perhaps there was a link between the carp swimming in the tea Garden and the unfinished paper lying on Einstein’s desk. I didn’t understand that higher dimensions might be the key to solving the unified field theory.Nevertheless I could see that this story was far more exciting than any murder mystery and more important than anything I could ever imagine. I decided that that I would try to get to the root of this mystery, even if I had to become a theoretical physicist to do it.。
精读4 paraphrase unit9
paraphrase1，I have been studying the traits and……the result humiliating to me.Paraphrase : I have been studying the characteristics of the so-called “ lower-animals “ in comparison with those of man. The result of this study makes me, as a man, feel terribly ashamed.2，For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance……from the Higher Animals.Paraphrase : Because the result of my study forces me to give up / to abandon my loyalty to / firm belief in Darwin’s theory of evolution and to change the theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals to the theory of the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.3，In proceeding toward this unpleasant conclusion……the scientific method.Paraphrase : In coming to this unhappy conclusion I have not just guessed, but have used the so-called scientific method.4，That is to say, I have subjected every postulate……test of actual experiment……. Paraphrase : In other words, I have put every theory or hypothesis I can think of to the decisive test of actual experiment…5，It also seemed to suggest that ……a good deal in the transition.Paraphrase : It also seemed to show that the earl came from the anaconda and had lost a lot of anaconda ‘s good qualities in the process of changing from the anaconda to the earl.6，I was aware that many men who have accumulated……appease that appetite. Paraphrase : I knew that many men who have more money than they can ever use have shown a mad desire to get more, and they have not hesitated to cheat poor people and steal their few savings in order to satisfy that desire.7，…among the animals man is the only one……unknown to the higher animals. Paraphrase : …among the animals man is the only one that remembers insu lts and injuries, thinks about them for a long time, waits until a chance comes up and then takes revenge.8，In this matter man occupies a far lower place than the rooter.Paraphrase : As far as ethics or morality is concerned ,man is inferior to or worse than the cock.9，Cats are loose in their morals,……the saving grace which excuses the cat.Paraphrase : Cats are immoral, but they do not know it. They just can’t hel p it. Man has inherited cats’ looseness , but not their innocence, which excuses the cat for its low morals.10，these are strictly confined to man : he invented them.Paraphrase : These are only man’s problems. They are limited to man. They only happen to man.11，Man is “The Animal that laughs.”……that is called the laughing jackass.Paraphrase : People say that man is the animal that laughs. So what ? The monkey can laugh too according to Darwin. So can an Australian bird.12，No--- Man is the Animal that Blushes. ……---or has occasion to.Paraphrase : No, man is not the only animal that laughs, but it is true that man is the animal that blushes. He is the only animal that does it or has the need to.13，Man --- when he is King John , with a nephew……he uses a red-hot iron.Paraphrase : In the case of King John who wanted to get rid of his nephew he used a red-hot iron to torture him….14，He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.Paraphrase : He is the only one that enjoys causing pain / Only man can be sadistic.15，The higher animals engage in individual fights,……the atrocity of atrocities, War. Paraphrase : The higher animals fight as individuals, but unlike man, they never fight wars16，There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner…Paraphrase : Not a single piece of land is in the hands of its original owner. Every piece of land has been stolen.17，…and in the intervals between campaigns ……”the universal brotherhood of man”--- with his mouth.Paraphrase : … and when they are not fighting each other, they will start talking about peace and universal brotherhood, but without any sincerity. Man, according to MarkTwain , is not only cruel and warlike, but also hypocritical.18，He is the only animal that loves his neighbor……if his theology is not straight. Paraphrase : He is the only animal that talks about loving his neighbors, but only when they have the same religion. Otherwise he will kill them.19，He has made a graveyard of the globe……his brother’s path to happiness and heaven. Paraphrase : In trying to make it easy for his brother to find happiness and to go to Heaven, he has turned the world into a graveyard20，And we are told that they are going……It seems questionable taste.Paraphrase : And we are told that they will not be allowed to go to the next world (Heaven ). I wonder why ？It seems to show poor taste to leave out the higher animals and allow only human beings to go to Heaven.21，Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.Paraphrase : Human beings say that they are the only animals who have reasoning power / who can think. But I think this rather doubtful22，It seems plain to me that whatever he is he is not a reasoning animal.Paraphrase : It seems clear to me that he is anything but a reasoning animal.23，When I came back to note results,……--- not a specimen left alive.Paraphrase : When I came back to check the results, the cage of animals was all right, but in the other cage it was a terrible mess. No one was left alive. There was only bloody odds and ends of turbans and plaids and bones and flesh.24，These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on……carried the matter to a Higher Court. Paraphrase : These so-called reasoning animals had a quarrel over a minor point in theology and had decided to go to Heaven ( to kill each other ) to ask God to settle the matter.25，the long highway of perfect innocence :Paraphrase : the long process of our change from one insect into another, one animal into another and one reptile into another, all completely innocent, until we become human beings and lose all our innocence.。
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Warming up
Warming up
Questions / Activities
Which of the following words can best describe this essay? Serious and matter-of-fact? Scientifically detached and objective? Hilariously humorous? Bitterly satirical? What is the main idea of this essay? What is the Darwinian theory? How does the author come to doubt this? Is that the result of scientific experiment? Is Mark Twain serious when he says that he has done many months of painstaking and fatiguing work in the London Zoological Garden? What effect do you think he hopes to achieve with this mock seriousness? How does the author contrast human beings with other animals?
(paras. 3–17) III. Conclusion (paras. 18)
Text Analysis
Detailed Analysis
I. Thesis statement (paras. 1–2) II. “research process” (paras. 3–17) III. Conclusion (paras. 18)
Check-on Preview
• Paraphrase the following sentences
• 1. Man, in his descent from the cat, has brought the cat’s looseness with him, but had left the unconsciousness behind– the saving grace which excuses the cat. • 2. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.
Unit 9 The Damned Human Race
Mark Twain
The Damned Human Race
Unit 9
W arming up
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ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้he Damned Human Race
Unit 9
Questions / Activities Check-on Preview Objectives
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I. Thesis statement (paras. 1~2) • Why does the author mimicking a scientific experiment? • What is the author’s research topic/purpose? • What is the hypothesis? • What theory does he check? • What is his research method? • Where does the research take place?
The Damned Human Race
Theme
Unit 9
Text Analysis
Structure
Detailed Analysis
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Text Analysis
Theme
Within his essay of The Damned Human Race, author Mark Twain powerfully declares that the human race is both flawed and corrupt, and that people actually should be classified as "lower animals" rather than the formerly known "higher animals.”
Warming up
Objectives
• Understand the structure of the essay • Understand what the author really intends to say • Appreciate Mark Twain’s writing style • Reflect on the so-called “human nature”
Warming up
Check-on Preview
• Define the following words
• • • • • • • • renounce scruple inflict atrocity odds and ends brood over furnish conjecture
Warming up
Text Analysis
Detailed Analysis
• Vocabulary • Please find synonyms of the following words.
• • • • • • • • • Characteristics and temperament Shameful Force someone to… Abandon or give up Loyalty Guess Assumption, hypothesis Happen or exist In the process of…/on the way to …
Text Analysis
Detailed Analysis
Vocabulary
• Present itself: happen, appear, exist Eg. When a favorable opportunity presented itself he would submit his proposition.
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The Damned Human Race
Author
Unit 9
Background
Social Background
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The author
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel.“Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. His wit and satire earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Twain was born during a visit by Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age,"[ and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."
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Warming up
Questions / Activities
• Please list the specific human traits and dispositions that he condemns in this essay.
• Why does he say that man is the cruel animal? What examples does he give to illustrate the point? What arguments does the author give to support his views? • Do you think we should take Mark Twain’s views seriously? Do you agree with him? Are we really that bad? Isn’t there some saving grace in the human race? • What devices does the author use to make the article interesting?