Transcript Unit Six

Unit Six
Objectives:
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1. grasp the main idea and structure of the text;
2. appreciate the use of interior monologue in
portraying a character’s inner world;
3. master the key language points and usages;
4. conduct a series of reading, listening,
speaking and writing activities related to the
theme of the unit.
Time allotment:
1st & 2nd
periods
3rd & 4th
periods
5th & 6th
periods
7th & 8th
periods
Pre-reading:
questions, class
activity
While-reading:
structure, main
idea, writing
techniques
While-reading:
language points,
understanding of
the text, FastReading (Unit6A1)
Post-reading:
guiding through
Ss’ after-text
exercises
Checking on Ss’
home reading
(Text B)
Theme-Related
Language
Learning Tasks
FastReading(Unit6B1); PracticalExercise Book
(Unit5)
Questions to Answer
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Have you attended someone’s wedding?
(describe)
What do you think marriage is? Why?
What kind of marriage do you think is a
good one ? Why?
Why did some people fail their marriage?
Class Activity
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1) Ss divide into groups of 4-5.
2) Each group will think of one of wedding
ceremonies to describe. It could be a
wedding tour, a western wedding
ceremony in a church, etc.
3) Ss give brief reports to the class.
Structures and Main ideas
Part One (Para 1-11):
Gilbert meets Sissy Miller and
gives her the gift his wife Angela left for her.
Part Two (Para 12):
In Angela’s diary Gilbert reads
about how she felt, proud of him at first as a
promising politician, and then a bit lonely at
home.
Part Three (Para 13):
Angela’s diary reveals how she went to work
with the poor in the East End and developed an
affection for B.M.
Part Four (Para 14-24):
Gilbert finally comes to realize
that Angela committed suicide in order to
escape from him and rejoin her lover.
The stream of consciousness and
interior monologue
By depicting people’s inner consciousness,
the author can bring up the complexity and
colorfulness of the inner world of the
character, and thus explore deeply what
really underlies external occurrences—
people’s interior, or mental, lives.
Some examples from the story by using
interior monologues to reveal Gilbrt’s
mental responses to the development of
the entire event
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It was like Angela to remembered …
Yes, he went on, …
To himself, he thought, as he pushed …
A rather incongruous gift it seemed…
She had, he supposed, other …
Her words and the look … It was almost as if …
It was as if she had answered …
Who was B.M.? He could fill in …
That was just the kind of the thing B.M. …
He could see her …
L4…
L12 …
L 30 …
L 49 …
L55 …
L 72 …
L 82 …
L 124 …
L 138 …
L 183 …
Cultural Notes:
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): an English novelist. She is
well known for the experimental style of many of her
books. She was one of the first writers to use the
"stream of consciousness", a way of describing a
person's thoughts and feelings as a flow of ideas as the
person would have experienced them, without using the
usual methods of description. She was a member of the
Bloomsbury Group and is considered an important early
writer about feminism (the idea that women should have
the same fights and opportunities as men). Her bestknown novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the
Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928).
House of Commons
The lower house of the
British Parliament, in
which elected Members
of Parliament meet to
discuss current political
issues and vote on Acts
of Parliament.
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Tower of London
One of the oldest and
most famous buildings in
London, England. It is an
ancient fortress on the
north bank of the fiver
Thames to the east of the
city, and is a popular
tourist attraction. It was
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Language Study:
1. Outlive : live longer than
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Some practices and rules have outlived their
usefulness and require updating.
2. The world has outlived much,and will outlive a great
deal more.
2. discretion: good judgment
 While the Senate closed its three buildings, it
allowed senators to enter offices at their own
discretion.
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You must show proper discretion in carrying out
the plan. You must show proper discretion in
carrying out the plan.
3. dab: touch lightly and quickly
 She dabbed her eyes with a handkerchief.
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Fingerprints, which literally leave the artist's unique
print behind, are also fundamental to the overall
effect, particularly when dabbing on the rich colours
of blossoms.
4. incongruous: inappropriate; out of place
 His private opinions were incongruous with his
public statements.
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The outcome is an incongruous spectacle of faux
antique temples made with new bricks and
cement, housing brown-painted plaster Buddha
statues.
5. intrude: put ( oneself) into a situation where one
is unwelcome; enter unwanted or unasked
(followed by on/ into/ upon
 I don't want to intrude my opinion upon you.
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I am afraid that I intrude upon you.
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"When the wind blew in the desert in the past, we
couldn't even eat because sand would intrude into
rooms and make our food gritty."
6. threshold: a doorway forming an entrance to a building
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He is on the threshold of adulthood.
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They are at the threshold of a discussion.
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While the new measures will not raise the threshold to
market access, they will require real and adequate cash
deposits from investors.
7. random: without any plan, aim, or pattern
At random: in a random way; aimlessly
 During a random check at four major intersections
and four trunk roads connecting the city to other
provinces, 1,574 overloaded vehicles were found.
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"Stopping treasure hunters' random looting is not
only the duty of Chinese, but the duty of the world.
To investigate whether iron replenishment might be
helpful, the researchers conducted a study in which
11 patients at random were given daily treatment
with iron dextran.
8. terrific: very great in size or degree; very good
and enjoyable
 The action of Shaolin kung fu is loud, colourful
and exciting and it's done at terrific speed.
 "Having spent some time in Brazil, I can tell you
there's some pretty big boys up there who could
probably be turned into terrific football players.
 As the man shuffled into the camera's frame to
shake hands with Kurdish official Bakir Jola,
Mameh heard a terrific explosion and "my
camera lens went red with blood."
9. grief: great sorrow or feeling of suffering
 Some of the bodies have been sent away in
purple hearses, while some family members just
arrived there to look for their beloved with grief.
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After her initial grief, Xu was happy to resume
her old routine of doing exercises in the morning
sunshine with her neighbors, tending to her plants,
and watching TV in the evening.
10. insignificant: of no value or importance
 The other interesting factor that has been
highlighted by the report is that the contribution
of IT to employment generation in India is
insignificant.
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Officials said some documents were handwritten
and others typed. Some are insignificant such as
poems or verses from the Koran, while others are
interesting, officials said.
11. slacken: become less active, intense,etc.; loosen; relax
 Relevant experts note that in the future the number of
brands will gradually drop due to market competition, but
on the whole the competition pressure posed by the
domestic brands to their foreign rivals will not slacken in
the short term.
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All sectors of society, including the civil service, must not
allow their vigilance to slacken under the improving
economic conditions.
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The pace of private investment is expected to slacken and
private spending will remain sluggish, they said.
12. paradise: heaven; a place of perfect happiness
 This is almost a paradise on earth.
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He remembers that when he was a child the lake
was a paradise for fish and birds.
13. candour: the quality of being sincerely honest
and faithful
 Because of his candour and honesty, Han gained
the trust of both the local authorities and the
farmers.
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“We really don’t know what to do about it,” she
said with surprising candour.
14. inexplicable: too strange to be explained or
understood
 'We find it inexplicable that the government
enters into agreements on improved pay and
conditions of service, then sets up a tranche of
schools that can opt out of those very
agreements,' she said.
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Ellie Nycholat says she would go to work feeling
healthy and leave with inexplicable symptoms.
15. stride: walk with long steps
 The farmer strode across his fields.
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Their living standards have taken a big stride
forward particularly in the past 20 years since
China launched the reform and opening drive.
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The child could not keep up with his father's
stride.
Student Presentation
Directions: You are required to look up the following words
and expressions in the dictionary and give a brief
presentation in the class.
Inscription
Distinguishable
Trustworthy
Prominent
In mourning
Parliament
jolly
Scrappy
Speculate
Pluck
Stubby
Obliterate
Impertinence
char
Engagement
Wait up
Hastily
Scoundrel
Mistress
Implore
mantelpiece
Additional Exercises
1.
There would be no mercy, only bitter revenge. When Brigge asked who it was
they would revenge themselves on, the people rounded on him and threatened
him with blows for the rudeness of his question and asked who he was.
A. imperative
B. indictment
C. impertinence D. intervention C
2. In the long run, pirated products may have a negative impact on customers because
those lawful producers' creativity and enthusiasm may be deeply hurt by the
fact that some customers are more interested in the pirated products for the sake
of small gains.
A
A.legitimate
B. inherent
C. ingenious
D. invalid
3. During the meal he summoned up the courage to ask her on a date. To her surprise,
he invited her to the Oscars the following month.
D
A. piled up
B. picked up
C. set up
D. plucked up
4.
The incident, which occurred on Aug. 1 in the Ycua Bolanos supermarket,
left 417 dead and 55 scorched human remains, plus 49 missing.
A. coarsened
B. codified
C. conferred
D. charred D
5. It is the duty of me to thank the committee for their continued support of the
group.
A. falls to
B. feels to
C. runs to
D. climbs to A
6. In love, you'll be met with petty disputes and slight quarrels that will escalate
into massive arguments.
C
A. topsoils
B. swans
C. tiffs
D. tows
7. Teenagers clicked away with their camera-phones. Television crews battled for
prime filming position. And in one bizarre incident, a mother placed her infant
before Mason, imploring him to sign his forehead.
A. beseeching
B. baffling
C. bisecting
D. bestiring A
8. From an architectural point of view, the 1990s may come to be seen as "the age
of the air terminal," as other eras were seen as the age of the railway station
or the age of the minster.
B
A. pasture
B. cathedral
C. mansion
D. paradise
9. The details about rescuing efforts would be unveiled at a proper time in view
of security reasons.
A. in regard to
B. at the thought of
C
C. in consideration of
D. in line with
10. Relics guardians said about 40 per cent of the old city area had undergone
nearly wholesale destruction by 2002. They worried that urban renovation
would break up the traditional frame of the city, making it difficult for
younger generations to understand the life of old city.
C
A. layout
B. format
C. fabric
D. sketch
11. At our begging, some girls even sang songs. As time went on, their songs
were punctuated by _____ as the hiking became more demanding, and
thrilling.
A
A. exclamations B. exhortations C. extraction
D. exhaustion
12. Arriving in the elegant city in baggy combat trousers, fedora hat pulled low
and a ______ cigar lodged in the side of his mouth, the shaggy-haired Depp
said he was sorry he hadn't come sooner.
D
A. sticky
B. stiff
C. sinewy
D. stubby
13. Every fear we overcome, no matter how _________, helps prepare us for the
next big thing that comes along.
A
A. Insignificant B. indispensable C. inevitable
D. influential
14. The attack failed because the missiles were old and inaccurate, and not
because an on-board system of decoy flares deflected them as had been
__________ at the time.
B
A. projected B. speculated
C. predicted
D. assessed
15. Under the electoral law, half of the parliamentary seats are shared on a
proportional basis by parties winning at least 5 percent of the popular vote,
while the rest 225 seats are up for grab in individual _________ across the
country.
B
A. chivalries
B. constituencies C. cholesterols
D. conventions
16. However, according to the Blood Centre, less than 20 per cent of the children
were proved to be illegitimate as a result of the tests meaning that at least 80
per cent of the children's mothers were wrongly suspected of _________.
A. iniquity
B. infidelity
C. sin
D. offence
B
17. What is remarkable about the picture is that the faces of the elves are all
________ with vermilion, and the lines of their features are drawn in a
highly exaggerated way.
D
A. dashed
B. dammed
C. deceited
D. dabbed
18. Among the conditions were jaundice, low blood sugar, respiratory _________,
the need for intravenous feeding and difficulty maintaining body temperature.
A. distress
B. disgust
C. disorder
D. discourse
A
19. Bubbling on the fire are a pair of black pots containing Tibetan tea--an oily
______laced with salt and butter--and tsampa, a porridge made from barley.
A. blur
B. fare
C. aliment
D. concoction
D
20. resemble the cuneiform writing of the ancient Near East and hieroglyphic
writing of ancient Egypt.
B
A. Inflations
B. Inscriptions C. inspirations D. isolations
21. Parent Jane Dennis from Leeds became suspicious of her 13-year-old son
David when change went missing from her __________.
C
A. marble
B. missionary
C. mantelpiece D. maneuver
22. It just appears that he may have caught a ________ at the top of the sand bowl,
which caused his bike to hit hard on the front wheel, which sent him over the
handlebars and, unfortunately, it appears that he hit his head on the slope.
A. ruby
B. rut
C. relish
D. reverse
B
23. Last August, her condition worsened and she knew she would succumb
________ the cancer soon.
A
A. to
B. for
C. with
D. on
24. One man, 89-year-old Richard Macaulay, died from the disease last Friday.
Results from the ________ into his death are expected this week.
A
A. inquest
B. insight
C. inspection
D. detect
25. After she heard Kang shout, she ran over to him and saw the bears a hundred
meters away, clearly __________ but without any sign of hostility.
D
A. impressionable
B. isolable
C. indisputable D. distinguishable
26. The gown of the suit, made of tiger, leopard and otter fur and equipped with
gold waistband and pearl _________, takes the owner two hours to wear it.
A. napkin
B. nil
C. necklace
D. novelty
C
27. The lady had only one regret that she had been stripped of everything she
owned by her ex-husband, a heartless __________.
A. scoundrel
B. bandit
C. hijacker
D. highwayman A
28. The three men also alleged that they were repeatedly beaten, _______ in
painful positions during interrogations and subjected to sleep deprivation.
A. seceded
B. snorted
C. squinted
D. shackled
D
29. From my seat I watched the scenes of _________, the toots of cars and buses
competing with the sounds of thunder and lightning.
A
A. chaos
B. complexions C. clowns
D. collisions
30. with the rapid advances of technology and the increasing globalization of the
world, products are now becoming _________ at a faster rate, and the time
from concept to market has to be shortened considerably.
D
A. offhand
B. ominous
C. ornamental D. obsolete
31. The suicide rate has been increasing in the country, with the main reasons
including mental diseases, drug and alcohol dependence, population migration,
family and _______ problems, and life pressure.
B
A. metallic
B. marital
C. monstrous
D. muscular
32. Their narratives, simple and unpretentious yet rich with the realities of life,
give the readers a real feeling of _________and warmth.
C
A. infinity
B. ingenuity
C. intimacy
D. imagery
33. In every case of ________ there is a 50% chance that the source of the
problem lies with the male partner.
D
A. infection
B. inference
C. ingenuity
D. infertility
34. The natural environment for power facilities is deteriorating. Bad weather,
such as lightening, _________ and ice, raises the probability of grid accidents.
A. hypothesis
B. hilarities
C. hurricanes
D. husbandry
C
35. Even though the ferry sank close to shore, the river is ________ here and it is
hampering the rescue work.
A. placid
B. turbulent
C. pacific
D. exalted
B
36. The train, traveling from New York to Miami, was going 79 mph when it hit
the rear quarter of the truck, separating the bed from the cab and pushing the
mangled wreckage and _______ logs down the tracks.
B
A. signified
B. splintered
C. slaughtered D. smuggled
37. Extended periods of time without communication with parents _______ a
child's social skills, making them less willing to talk with others; they become
withdrawn.
A. devours
B. seizures
C. despoils
D. erodes
D
38. Suffering is as essential to a good life, and as inextricable, as ________.
A. bliss
B. blotch
C. boutique
D. breach
A
39. After three hours of rescue work, all the ________ dolphins were helped into
the sea with the rising tide.
A. slithered
B. streaked
C. stranded
D. stifled
C
40.
Although locust plagues ________ from time to time are unavoidable,
mankind can still keep them under control if effective measures are adopted in
time.
B
A. embedding
B. erupting
C. migrating
D. flaming
41. Firefighters were preparing to flood the mine shaft with a gaseous compound
to ________ the blaze.
A. suffocate
B. subdue
C. appease
D. alleviate
A
42. Such a weapon, it was stated, has ten times the power of _________ as that of
the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
C
A. deprivation B. commission C. devastation D. inflation
43. The plane then landed safely. As relieved passengers disembarked the 14 men
were _______ over to one side where they were taken away for questioning by
airport authorities and the police.
A. lamed
B. shuffled
C. fleed
D. coasted
B
44. Human activities in recent years have __________ environmental degradation
and resulted in rapid reduction in biodiversity.
B
A. infuriated
B. aggravated
C. maddened
D. irked
45. For those blacklisted husbands, including men often beating their wives,
drinking alcohol and gambling, staff from the police station will be watchful of
them and help them _______ their way of violence.
C
A. perfect
B. deviate
C. amend
D. diversified
46. The panda gestation period lasts 83 to 181 days. Several days before it gives
birth, the mother panda eats much less than usual and then refuses to eat. Many
start to build _______.
A. dents
B. craters
C. dens
D. pits
C
47. Established on June 12th, 1952, the theatre has ________ audiences all over
the country with its distinctive performances.
A. allured
B. enthralled
C. infatuated
D. enticed
B
48. Knowing that the slightest mistake meant losing his job, the waiter served the
customers _________ all the time.
A. recklessly
B. judiciously
C. gingerly
D. rationally
C
49. This ancient city is changing so fast that once familiar places disappear while
new ones emerge. Thankfully the great historic buildings remain for
__________.
D
A. populace
B. preoccupation
C. primacy
D. posterity
50. More and more people crowded around him including the Germany lady, her
mother, her husband, a group of Belgian tourists and ________ admiring
French children.
A. a heap of
B. a morsel of
D
C. a brood of
D. a bevy of
The End