欢迎访问甘肃省省级重点课程即精品课程---大学英语网站。Exercises in Unit 5
1. Exercise of vocabulary.
1) A statement is a general term for a personalized financial record that regularly informs a recipient about the status of his or her account.
Answer: monthly
2) Over a hundred children came to the annual Christmas Party which was a good opportunity for them to gather and renew .
Answer: acquaintance
3) My parents’ marriage was a of this time – those years of so-called cultural revolution, with no wedding ceremony and no honeymoon.
Answer: classic
4) Having failed in the examination, Owen didn’t dare his father .
Answer: look…in the eyes
5) Britain still has a bicycle industry; frames and complete bicycles are here, though most of the components are imported.
Answer: manufactured
6) The employees of the company are treated right with handsome paychecks and stock .
Answer: options
7) San Francisco is one of the largest cities in California and a leading center of the culture,
, and industry in the United States.
Answer: finance
8) Steve announced just now that he was leaving, but the coach had already started looking around for a weeks before.
Answer: replacement
9) Shortly after he learned of the earthquake, the man hurried back to his hometown, searching high and low to find out whether his parents had the calamity.
Answer: survived
10) I was listening for Grace’s voice, but it wasn’t easy to _____ it among all others.
Answer: pick…out
11) The survey reveals that an increasing number of young people claim they enjoy life.
Answer: married
12) Someone the letter I was reading. Looking up, I was delightfully surprised to find that it was my former classmate.
Answer: grabbed at
2. Exercise of translation. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words or phrases in brackets.
1) 我不太清楚哪你能找到好木匠 (carpenter) --你最好四处打听打听。(ask around)
Answer: I was not sure where you can find a good carpenter—you’d better ask around.
2）他有点尴尬，赶紧清了清喉咙，抬头看着墙上的画。(embarrass)
Answer: Feeling a little embarrassed, he quickly cleared his throat and looked up at the painting on the wall.
3）迈克尔去世了，留下三个儿子、两个女儿和妻子伊莉莎白。(survive)
Answer: Michael was survived by three sons, two daughters and his wife Elizabeth.
4）作为金融专家，威廉建议我们投资股票市场。(stock)
Answer: As a financial expert, William advised us to invest our money in the stock market.
5）我们这些小零售商 (retailer) 无法和超市在价格和销售等方面竞争。(compete)
Answer: we small retailers can’t compete with supermarkets in pricing and sales.
Lecture Notes
Unit 5 Work to Live or Live to Work
Before Reading
English Poem – The Wasted Tears 6
Global Reading
After Reading
Supplementary Reading
Before Reading About the Author
Ellen Goodman (1941~ ) was born in Massachusetts and graduated from Radcliffe College. She worked for Newsweek and the Detroit Free Press before joining The Boston Globe in 1967. Her column “At Large” has been widely syndicated since 1976. As an essayist and television commentator, Goodman has discussed feminism, changes in family life, sexual harassment, and male and female relationships. Her essays have been collected in several books, including Close to Home (1979), Turning Points (1979) and At Large (1981).
In 1980, Goodman received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary. Among other awards she has won are the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award and the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award. The National Women’s Political Caucus gave her the President’s Award, and the Women’s Research and Education Institute presented her with their American Woman Award.
Before Reading English Poem – The Wasted Tears
I. Enjoy a Poem The Wasted Tears
The Wasted Tears
by Rajaram Ramachandran
They were newly married couple,
A few days went on with no trouble.
As days passed on, he never turned,
While for his love, her heart yearned.
She wore daily the best of robes,
Diamonds sparkled in her ear lobes,
But he had his mind on his work.
And wasn’t keen to have a look.
Her heart, one day, nearly broke,
But it was saved from a stroke.
With tears she stood before him,
He saw her face-glow gone dim.
Deeply engrossed in his work,
He was stuck up to his desk.
Elsewhere was his mind
The reason for tears to find.
Suddenly, his mind woke up.
He collected, drop by drop,
In a test tube all her tears,
And mixed some powders.
Oh, I found out, my dear,
It is nothing but saline water.
So said the scientist husband,
Still tied up, work bound.
II. Questions and Answers
1. Why did the newly married wife feel very sad?
(Her husband was so engrossed in his work that she felt neglected and lonely.)
2. What is her husband’s job?
(A scientist.)
3. What did the husband do with her tears?
(He collected all her tears drop by drop in a test tube, mixed some powders and finally found out it was nothing but saline water.)
4. Is the husband a workaholic?
(Yes, of course.)
Before Reading Origin of Workaholic
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Time |
Development |
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In 1891 |
Alcoholic was first attested. |
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In the 1960s |
A whole new category of taking “-holic” as a suffix meaning “addict” followed. |
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In 1968 |
“Workaholic” was first announced. |
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In 1971 |
The use of workaholic prompted many writers to start using the suffixes “-aholic”, “-holic”, or “-oholic” to describe “all-consuming obsessions”. |
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In the 1970s |
More “–holic” words appeared. |
Script:
Origin of Workaholic
Alcoholic, the parent of all addictive words, has been with us for over a century. It was first attested in 1891.
In the 1960s, someone had the idea of taking “-holic” as a suffix meaning “addict”, and a whole new category of addictions followed. One of the first and most important is “workaholic”, which was announced in the 1968. The appearance of “workaholic” in a book named Confessions of a Workaholic in 1971 propelled that term and prompted many writers to start using the suffixes “-aholic”, “-holic”, or “-oholic” to describe “all-consuming obsessions,” not all of them so serious.
In the 1970s, if not obsessed with work, we could be addicted to play, as in golfaholic, footballaholic, basketball-oholic, or just plain leisureholic; to foods, as in beefaholic, or ice