Transcript QUICK FIX SOCIETY

QUICK FIX SOCIETY
By Janet Mendell Goldstein
Fast roads in the U.S.
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Highways: connect cities
Superhighways: a road with six or more lanes
Interstate highways: connect cities in different states
Freeways: roads within a city
Expressways: fast roads in or near cities
Turnpike: pay money before you use it.
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location
• Lancaster County, PA,
the heart of the
Pennsylvania Dutch
Country, is located in
south central
Pennsylvania 1 1/2
hours west of
Philadelphia. Most of the
Amish Country
attractions are in
Lancaster County, and
almost all of the local
Amish people live here
as well.
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• Amish
People
The Amish are a
religious group who live
in settlements in 22
states and Ontario,
Canada. The oldest
group of Old Order
Amish, about 1618,000 people live in
Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania. The
Amish stress humility,
family and community,
and separation from
the world.
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Amish’s beliefs
• The Amish was part of the
early Anabaptist movement
in Europe, which took place
at the time of the
Reformation. The
Anabaptists believed that
only adults who had
confessed their faith should
be baptized（洗礼）, and
that they should remain
separate from the larger
society. They also believe
in non-resistance and
basic Bible doctrines.
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Amish’s life style
• These people as a whole
are not as materialistic as
modern society today.
They do not use electricity
or modern conveniences
• Amish men have beards,
but not mustaches
• Most Amish are
trilingual:dialect of
German, High German
and English
• Old Order children attend
one-room schools through
the eighth grade .
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• They are a private people who believe God has kept
them together. They are a strong example of a
community that supports and cares for its members.
They are a people apart; they are also a people
together.
Amish’s life style
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Antique shopping
“Sunday Antiques Capital
of the United States". Over
3000 antique dealers
gather here to display and
sell their merchandise.
Outlet shopping
•Here, you'll find over 240 factory
outlet stores featuring name brands
and quality merchandise prices at
reduced prices.
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• Scenery
Hand-made quilts
Armish oldest
meeting house
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Scenery
Covered bridge
They ride their horse
and buggy（轻便马车）
and have a slower-paced
lifestyle.
Cliff’s Notes
• Cliff’s notes is a series
of reference book written
to help undergraduate
students to understand
and appreciate
important literary works.
• With such notes,
students don’t have to
read the work itself and
be able to write papers
and take exams.
Iceberg Principle
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After the publication of his last major
work, The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest
Hemingway explained his "iceberg"
theory of fiction writing
"If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is
writing about he may omit things that he knows and
the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will
have a feeling of those things as strongly as though
the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement
of the iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being
above water. The writer who omits things because
he does not know them only makes hollow places in
his writing.
Structure
• Introduction
(para.1-3)
Her ride on fast roads
and her return trip of a
country road
• Body
(para.4-6)
Now instead of later
• Conclusion
(para.7-8)
Faster instead of slower
Superficially instead of
thoroughly
Slow down and rediscover life
Language point
• Contract, condense, compress
• To contract is to draw together, especially by an
internal force, with a resultant reduction in size, extent,
or volume:
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通过收紧使…尺寸缩小；收缩
• Condense refers to a reduction in volume and an
increase in compactness: 浓缩，凝缩；缩短，摘要
• Compress applies to increased compactness brought
about by pressing or squeezing; the term implies
reduction in volume and change of form or shape:
压缩（以便置于较小空间）
Language point
• Contract, condense, compress
• The pupil of the eye dilates and _______in
response to light
• She sat on the lid of the suitcase to
_______ the clothes.
• The chairman_______all the suggestions
put forward into a single plan of action.
Language point
• Contract, condense, compress
• The pupil of the eye dilates（扩大） and
contracts in response to light.
• She sat on the lid of the suitcase to compress
the clothes.
• The chairman condensed all the suggestions
put forward into a single plan of action.
Language point
defer postpone delay
• defer implies the an intentional delaying
I deferred paying the bills
• postpone implies an intentional deferring,
commonly until a definite time.
We postponed the match from March 5th to
March 19th.
• delay cause to be behind schedule.
The bus was delayed by a cloudburst.
Language point
defer postpone delay
• We would like to ______ your appointment
until Saturday.
• We will______ a discussion of the program
until more members are present.
• A criminal court jury ______ a verdict all
afternoon.
Language point
Guarantee (be guaranteed to)
• The government guaranteed to free the captives.
• The rain guarantees a good crop this year.
• I guarantee that you'll like this book.
• Many shopkeepers guarantee satisfaction to
customers.
• The new television had a guarantee with it.
Language point
Slide, slip, glide
• slide所表示的“滑动”含有这样几层意思：
光滑的面接触，通常为加速运动。用于比喻
时，表示不自主地陷入某种习惯等
• slip 所表示的“滑”与slide相比，接触面更滑，
但不象slide那样持续地滑动，而是突然的或
短暂的滑动，如滑倒。
• glide 可以像slide那样持续地滑，但不一定像
slide那样以面接触进行滑动。鸟在天空中翱
翔，小船在水面荡漾，都可以用glide表示, 运
动看似毫不费力
Language point
Slide, slip, glide
• The ship _____down into the water
• A submarine _____ silently through the
water。
• He _____ on a patch of ice and sprained
his ankle.
Language point
Can’t wait to do sth.
• When I arrived at the railway station, I
couldn't wait to see my parents.
Stuff…with
• His head is stuffed with silly notions
• stuff a bag with things
Language point
Put away
• We put a little of each paycheck away
“for a rainy day”.
• Put away all your books on the desk.
The guest might come any time.
• Please put all negative thoughts away.
• The boy put away the dinner in just a
few minutes.
Language point
to save up for
• They are saving up for a vacation.
to help out: help sb. in a difficult situation.
• Who is helping out in the garden this
afternoon?
• I’ve often helped Bob out when he has been a
bit short of money.
to save sb. the trouble of doing sth.
• Fast-food restaurant are popular because they
save people the trouble of cooking.
Language point
• off the rack/off the peg: ready made
• on the rack: under great press
• not agree with sb.: to be suitable, appropriate,
pleasing, or healthful:
Spicy food does not agree with me.
• More often than not
Nancy comes over on Saturday more often
than not.
Language point
to get over with一劳永逸地做完(不愉快但不得不做的
事), 把...做完了事
• He looked upon the marriage ceremony as a
mere formality---- something to be got over
with as quickly as possible.
• Let’s get the goodbyes over with and go!
to go back to
• Let’s go back to what the chairman said
before. (回过来谈）
• The valentines’day goes back to Roman times.
（可追溯到）
Language point
For four hours, our only real amusement consisted
of counting exit signs and wondering what it would
feel like to hold still again. (para.1)
The 4-hour drive on fast roads was tedious; the
only fun we had was to count the exit signs we
were passing and to figure out how we’d feel if
we stopped again.
Language point
• We toured a Civil War battle field and stood on
he little hill hat fifteen thousand Confederate
soldiers had tried to take on another hot July
afternoon, one hundred and twenty-five years ago,
not knowing that half of them would get killed in
the vain attempt.
• We visited a Civil War battlefild and stood on the
little hill. one hundred and twenty-five years ago,
on a hot July afternoon, 15,000 soldiers fighting
for slavery, while trying to occupy the hill, had
no idea that they would fail and that half of them
would be killed in the battle.
Language point
• If we wanted a new sofa or a week at a lakeside
cabin, we saved up for it, and the banks helped us
out by providing special Christmas Club and
Vacation Club accounts.
• If we wanted to buy some new furniture or spend
a week at a lakeside, we could open special
accounts at the banks to save money for it.
Language point
• And if we are in a hurry to lose weight, we try
the latest miracle diet, guaranteed to take away
ten pounds in ten days… unless we’re rich
enough to afford liposuction.
• If we want to lose weight quickly, we try the
most recent miracle diet which is said to be
effective and is sure to make us lose a pound per
day. If we are rich enough to pay for the
operation, we can have our unneeded fat removed
from our bodies.
Language point
• Even out personal relationships have become
compressed. Instead of devoting large parts of
our days to our loved ones, we replace them with
something called “quality time”, which, more
often than not, is no time at all.
• Even our personal relationships are affected.
Instead of spending much of our time with our
loved ones, we now talk about giving them full
attention in the limited time after work. But
usually we have no time to do that at all.
Language point
• As we ruches from book to music to news item to
relationship, we do not realize that we are living
our lives by the iceberg principle--- paying
attention only to the top and ignoring the 8/9
that lied just below the surface.
• When we rush through books, music, news and
relationship, we are paying attention to the
surface and will never get into the heart of
anything.
Writing skills
Writing skills
• Comparison-contrast
• Examples
• Rhetorical Questions
• Repetition of structure and words
Language style
• Informal essay
Discussion
• If you agree that people are getting too impatient
and too obsessed with he quick fix for everything,
what examples would you give to illustrate you point.
• If you disagree with the author and think that
people’s desire for speed is basically good, how
would you defend your position.
• What is your favorite life style?
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