Unit 1 Changes in the Way We Live
Text A
Content Questions ( P10 )
1. Write and live on a farm.
2. Because they grow nearly all of their fruits and vegetables. They have enough eggs, honey and wood. They are very close to nature and can enjoy the beautiful scenery. Besides, they can go skiing and skating in winter.
3. No. Sometimes the good life can get pretty tough.
4. They were buried under five feet of snow from December through March.
5. When the first spring came, it brought two floods. The second flood refers to the good harvest in the growing season.
6. He decided to quit his job and start to freelance.
7. He has to crawl into black bear dens for “Sports Illustrated”, hitch up dogsled racing teams for “Smithsonian” magazine, check out the Lake Champlain “monster” for “Science Digest”, and canoe through the Boundary Waters Wilderness area of Minnesota for “Destinations”.
8. As for insurance, they have only bought a poor man’s major-medical policy and the policy on their two cars.
9. They cut back their expenses without appreciably lowering their standard of living. For example, they patronize local restaurants instead of more expensive places in the city. They still attend the opera and ballet but only a few times a year. They eat less meat, drink cheaper wine and see fewer movies.
10. A tolerance for solitude and lots of energy.
11. They will leave with a feeling of sorrow but also with a sense of pride at what they have been able to accomplish.
12. They chose to live in the country because they want to improve the quality of their lives. Yes, they have finally realized their dreams.
Text Organization ( P11 )
Part One (paragraphs 1—3) The writer views his life in the country as a self-reliant and satisfying one.
Part Two (paragraphs 4—7 ) Life in the country is good yet sometimes very hard.
Part Three (paragraphs 8—11) After quitting his job, the writer’s income was reduced, but he and his family were able to manage to get by.
Part Four (paragraphs 12—15 ) A tolerance for solitude and a lot of energy have made it possible for the family to enjoy their life in the country.
Happy Moments and Events
1) growing nearly all their fruits and vegetables
2) canoeing, picnicking, long bicycle rides, etc.
3) keeping warm inside the house in winter
4) writing freelance articles
5) earning enough money while maintaining a happy family life
Hardships
1) working hard both in winter and in summer
2) harsh environment and weather condition
3) anxious moments after the writer quit his job
4) cutting back on daily expenses
5) solitude
Unit 2 Civil-Rights Heroes
TEXT A
TEXT ORGANIZATION
1.
Part One Paras 1-5 It is high time to honor the heroes who helped liberate slaves by forging the Underground Railroad in the early civil-rights struggles in America.
Part Two Paras 6-23 By citing examples the author praises the exploits of civil-rights heroes who helped slaves travel the Underground Railroad to freedom.
2.
Story 1 (Paras 6-10): After winning his own freedom from slavery, John Parker helped other
slaves to escape north to Canada to get freedom.
Story 2 (Paras 11-15): Supported by a strong religious conviction, the white man Levi Coffin helped black slaves to escape at huge risk to himself.
Story 3 (Paras 16-23): By traveling the Underground Railroad, Josiah Henson reached his destination and became free at last.
Unit 3 Security
Text A
Content Questions
1. No.
2. No.
3. It has been replaced by an era when people employ various secuirty devices at home.
4. Small notices announcing that the premises are under surveillance by this security force or that guard company.
5. The insurance company tries to impress the public that it will ensure your safety by paying for your losses.
6. An atmosphere of fear and distrust.
7. Because they feel threatened and want to keep outsides away.
8. No. They are by now the most sophisticated of security sites.
9. It is a way to hold the terrorists, real and imagined, at bay.
10. To tell whether their friend or client is telling lies.
11. All is done in the name of “security”. But according to the author, America, with all this “security”, is perhaps the most insecure nation in the history of civilization.
12. We may have locked the evils out, but in so doing we have locked ourselves in.
Text Organization
1.
Parts
Paragraphs
Main Ideas
Part One
Paras 1-3
In America, the era of leaving the front door on the latch has drawn to a close.
Part Two
Paras 4-15
A new atmosphere of fear and distrust has crept into every aspect of daily life. As a result, security de vices, in varied forms, are put to use.
Part Three
Paras 16-19
By locking our fears out, we become prisoners of our own making.
2.
1) Doors are not left unlocked either in cities or in rural areas.
2) Dead-bolt locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and trip wires are widely in use.
3) Suburban families have steel bars built in sliding glass doors.
4) Small notices warning against burglary are commonly seen pasted on the windows of the most pleasant of homes.
5) Access cards are required of those who work with medium to large-size companies.
6) Airport security uses electronic X-ray equipment to guard against terrorism.
7) Businessmen employ new machines linked up to their telephone to help determine whether the caller is telling lies or not.
Suburban housewives wear rape whistles on their key chains.
Unit 4 Was Einstein a Space Alien?
Text A
Content Questions (P.99)
13. He worked as a “Technical Expert, Third Class”. He needed the job to support his young family.
14. He published five of the most important papers in the history of science. This is because they proved that atoms and molecules existed, laid the foundation for quantum mechanics, describe the theory of special relativity, and advanced the famous equation: E=mc2
15. He developed the Theory of Universal Gravitation then.
16. Because his ideas were far ahead of other scientists of his time.
17. He meant that like other scientists Einstein was a man of his time. If he hadn’t been born, his 1905 papers would eventually have been written in some form by others.
18. What was remarkable about 1905 is that year a single person authored five of the most improtant papers in science. Einstein proposed in 1905 that light is particulate and for this he won the Nobel Prize in 1921.
19. Because if you did so you would find yourself disagreeing with phisicist James Clerk Maxwell, an Authority Figure who had proved that light was an electomagnetic wave.
20. He was not at all concerned about authority. He hated being told what was true.
21. Science was dinner-table conversation in the Einstein household when he was young. His interest in science came naturally.
22. He credited his discoveries to imagination and endless questioning more so that otthodox intelligence.
23. He struggled to produce a unified field theory, combinging gravity with other forces of nature, but he failed.
24. He found Einstein’s brain looked much like any other.
Text Organization (P.100)
1. (P.100)
Parts
Paragraphs
Main Ideas
Part One
Paras. 1-3
A young husband and father, Albert Einstein had to work hard to support his family.
Part Two
Paras. 4-12
Einstein made astonishing achievements in physics and thus revolutionized the field.
Part Three
Paras. 13-21
Einstein’s discoveries were attributable to his imagination, questioning, disregard for authority, powers of concentration, and interest in science.
Part Four
Paras. 22-23
Einstein was not space alien.
2. (P.100)
1). He felt all the pressure and responsibility of any young husband and father.
2). Galison: If Einstein hadn’t been born, his 1905 papers would have been written in some form by others.
3). Other physicists like Max Planck, more senior and experienced than Einstein, were closing in on the answer, but he got there first.
4). Einstein himself credited his discoveries to imagination and questioning more so than orthodox intelligence.
5). He failed in producing a unified field theory.
6). His brain looked much like any other.
Unit 5 Giving Thanks
Text A
Content Questions
25. He wrote them on a ship on the way to the island of Tulagi in the South Pacific on Thanksgiving Day, 1943.
26. Preparing a traditional Thanksgiving dinner featuring roast turkey made the writer extremely busy.
27. The writer was thinking about Thanksgiving.
28. He decided to write letters to show gratitude to those who had helped him in his life.
29. He had always accepted what they had done for him, but never expressed to any of them a simple “Thank you.”
30. He decided to write to his father, his grandmother, and the Rev. Lonual Nelson, his grammar school principal.
31. His father had impressed upon him from boyhood a love of books and reading.
32. He remembered that each morning Nelson would open the school with a prayer over his assembled students.
33. He recalled how his grandmother had taught him to tell the truth, to share, and to be forgiving and considerate of others. And he thanked her for her delicious food and for all the wonderful things she had done for him.
34. His reading of their letters left him not only astonished but also more humbled than before, because they all thanked him rather than saying they would forgive him for not having previously thanked them.
35. The writer learned that one should learn to express appreciation for others’ efforts.
36. The writer wished for all people the common sense to achieve world peace, and find the good and praise it.
Text Organization
1.
Parts
Paragraphs
Main Ideas
Part One
Paras. 1-9
On Thanksgiving Day 1943, as a young coastguardsman at sea, the writer came up with the idea of expressing his gratitude to people who had helped him before.
Part Two
Paras. 10-16
The writer wrote three thank-you letters to his father, the Rev. Nelson and his grandmother.
Part Three
Paras.17-23
The writer got three letters in reply.
Part Four
Paras. 24-26
The writer wishes everyone to find the good and praise it.
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Correspondents
Letters Sent
Letters Received
Father
Thanks him for teaching the writer from boyhood to love books and reading.
Tells the writer how he, as a teacher and a father as well, felt content with his own son.
The Rev. Nelson
Thanks him for his morning
school prayers.
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Tells the writer about his retirement coupled with self-doubt, and the reassurance brought to him by the writer's letter.
Grandmother
Thanks her for teaching the writer how to tell the truth, to share and to be forgiving, and for her good cooking and her sprinkling the writer's life with stardust.
Expresses her loving gratefulness to her grandson.
Language Sense Enhancement
I. 1)
decades 2) undergoing
3)
had done wrong 4) welcome reassurance
5)
appreciated 6) brought back
7)
relatives 8) accomplish
9)
consume
10) representing
Unit 6 The Human Touch
Text A
Content Questions(P.172)
37. They found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so much in tune that they set up a joint studio.
38. Johnsy would be able to recover from pneumonia if she wanted to live.
39. She wanted to paint the Bay of Naples some day.
40. She could see a bare yard, and an old ivy vine climbing half way up the brick wall.
41. Because she thought that she would die when the last leaf fell.
42. No. Because in the text the author mentions that Behrman was a failure in art. For forty years he had been always about to paint a masterpiece, without ever actually starting one.
43. He was upset that Johnsy should have such a silly idea.
44. Because they were afraid that Johnsy would die if the leaves on it were all gone.
45. She saw the last leaf on the vine.
46. It rekindled her will to live. And she realized that it was a sin to want to die.
47. He caught pneumonia because he painted the last leaf on a rainy and cold night in the yard and was wet through.
48. Yes, he finished his masterpiece eventually. It was his fine painting of the last leaf, the painting that saved Johnsy.
Text Organization (P.173)
1. (P.173)
1). She made up her mind to die when the last leaf fell.
2). She decided not to give up her life.
3). Behrman, a kind neighbor, who was aware of Johnsy's state of mind, risked death to paint the last leaf and save her.
4). Because it was so perfect the girls both mistook it for the real thing.
2. (P.173)
Scenes
Paragraphs
Characters
Events
1
Paras 1-2
Sue, Johnsy
Sue's roommate Johnsy caught pneumonia.
2
Paras 3-8
the doctor, Sue
The doctor told Sue that Johnsy needed a strong will to live on.
3
Paras 9-17
Johnsy, Sue
Johnsy decided that she would die when the 1 last ivy leaf fell.
4
Paras 18-2.1
Behrman, Sue
Sue told Behrman about Johnsy's fancy.
5
Paras 22-33
Sue, Johnsy
As Johnsy was encouraged by the last leaf that wouldn't give in to the weather, her
will to live returned.
6
Paras 34-37
the doctor, Sue
■
The doctor told Sue that Johnsy would recover, but Behrman caught pneumonia himself and his case was hopeless.
7
Paras 38-39
Sue, Johnsy
Sue told Johnsy that Behrman had performed a kind deed without any thought of self.
Language Sense Enhancement (P.174)
I. 1)
curling 2) looking the part
3)
masterpiece 4) to excess
5)
For the rest 6) smelling strongly of
7)
fancy 8) light and fragile
9)
slight hold upon the world
10) streaming