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新视野大学英语读写教程第二册课文unit3
Section A
Pre-reading Activities
First Listening
Please listen to a short passage carefully and
prepare to answer some
questions.
Second
Listening
Listen to the tape again. Then
answer the following questions with your
own
experiences.
1) For what two reasons did Gail
and Mark live together?
2) How did Gail's
father and mother react to the news about the
wedding
plans?
3) In what ways are Gail's
and her father's views different?
Marriage
Across the Nations
Gail and I imagined a quiet
wedding. During our two years together we
had
experienced the usual ups and downs of a couple
learning to know,
understand, and respect each
other. But through it all we had honestly
confronted the weaknesses and strengths of
each other's characters.
Our racial and
cultural differences enhanced our relationship and
taught
us a great deal about tolerance,
compromise, and being open with each
other.
Gail sometimes wondered why I and other blacks
were so involved
with the racial issue, and I
was surprised that she seemed to forget the
subtler forms of racial hatred in American
society.
Gail and I had no illusions about
what the future held for us as a married,
mixed couple in America. The continual source
of our strength was our
mutual trust and
respect.
We wanted to avoid the mistake made
by many couples of marrying for
the wrong
reasons, and only finding out ten, twenty, or
thirty years later
that they were
incompatible, that they hardly took the time to
know each
other, that they overlooked serious
personality conflicts in the
expectation that
marriage was an automatic way to make everything
work out right. That point was emphasized by
the fact that Gail's parents,
after thirty-
five years of marriage, were going through a
bitter and
painful divorce, which had
destroyed Gail and for a time had a negative
effect on our budding relationship.
When
Gail spread the news of our wedding plans to her
family she met
with some resistance. Her
mother, Deborah, all along had been
supportive
of our relationship, and even joked about when we
were
going to get married so she could have
grandchildren. Instead of
congratulations upon hearing our news,
Deborah counseled Gail to be
really sure she
was doing the right thing.
Is his color
the problem, Mom?
asked her mother.
mixed marriage, prejudices you might even
call them. But when I met
Mark I found him a
charming and intelligent young guy. Any mother
would be proud to have him for a son-in-law.
So, color has nothing to do
with it. Yes, my
friends talk. Some even express shock at what
you're
doing. But they live in a different
world. So you see, Mark's color is not
the
problem. My biggest worry is that you may be
marrying Mark for the
same wrong reasons that
I married your father. When we met I saw him
as my beloved, intelligent, charming, and
caring. It was all so new, all so
exciting,
and we both thought, on the surface at least, that
ours was an
ideal marriage with every
indication that it would last forever. I realized
only later that I didn't know my beloved, your
father, very well when we
married.
worst many times.
I'm sure that time will only confirm what we feel
deeply about each other.
twenty-
five.
Gail's father, David, whom I had not yet
met personally, approached our
decision with a
father-knows-best attitude. He basically asked the
same
questions as Gail's mother:
citizenship status?
Citizenship department,
he immediately suspected that I was marrying
his daughter in order to remain in the United
States.
care of them
himself,
we were discussing marriage that if I
had any doubts about anything, I
should not
hesitate to cancel our plans.
Her father
proceeded to quote statistics showing that mixed
couples had
higher divorce rates than couples
of the same race and gave examples of
mixed
couples he had counseled who were having marital
difficulties.
through?
But one
thing they'll always have: our love and
devotion.
marriages.
all doubt
before we acted, very little would ever get
done.
新视野大学英语读写教程第二册课文unit4
Section A
Pre-reading Activities
First Listening
Please listen to a short passage carefully and
prepare to answer some
questions.
Second
Listening
Listen to the tape again.
Then answer the following questions with your
own experiences.
1) How many foreign high
school students travel to study in America
each year?
2) What are their reasons for
studying in America?
3) What are the problems
the foreign students must cope with when
they
study in America?
Studying Abroad
Flight
830. Departure 10:45 p.m.
At first glance,
this is just another routine flight to Los
Angeles, California.
Yet for 38 young
passengers between fifteen and eighteen years of
age,
it is the start of a new experience: they
will spend 10 months of their lives
studying
abroad, far from their families.
Every year
the United States is host to an average of 78,000
foreign high
school level students, of which
3,000 are Brazilian. All of them go for the
same reasons — to become fluent in English,
complete high school, and
understand
everything they can about the American way of
life. At the
end of each semester, as long as
the students pass final exams, American
authorities grant a certificate, which is
recognized in Brazil.
For the majority,
the decision to study abroad is taken only after a
period
of at least six months of careful
planning.
- old Gloria Marcato,
to live
through this experience than it is to receive a
certificate from the
American
government.
want to be a conductor, and I've
already chosen the best American music
school,
Things, as they say, are not always
so easy. Even young students who
plan on
staying in the United States just long enough to
finish two
semesters of high school have
difficulty finding a host family. Very few
arrive in the country with all the details
worked out. Gloria Marcato is
one of the lucky
ones. Before leaving, she had received two letters
and
some photos of her new
in Brazil.
For example, I didn't economize on words. I even
wrote about
my four dogs, and said I went to
church every Sunday.
Americans are quite
religious (the majority being Christian) and have
a
special place in their hearts for pets.
American families, which host
foreign
students, are not paid, though they are allowed a
small income
tax deduction.
Each
teenager is expected to cover his or her own
expenses for articles
for personal use,
entertainment, long-distance telephone calls and
clothing. Towards this, they should budget
between $$200 to $$300 a
month. In the event of
illness, each student has a medical assistance
card.
Health insurance does not cover AIDS,
abortion and suicide, nor dental
and eyesight
bills.
Basically, most students leave knowing
they will have to do without their
accustomed
parental protection and learn to take care of
themselves.
However, no one packs his or her
bags alone. Parents always give
suggestions,
or even take on the task themselves. The
youngsters
frequently show their lack of
practice at such things. They take along
unnecessary items. One student from the
Brazilian South succeeded in
stuffing two
enormous suitcases to their capacity, and had to
cope with
her cabin luggage as well. As a
result, she couldn't pull them around by
herself.
For many, the departure at the
airport is the worst time. Even though
friends
and family support the idea of going, it is
difficult to say
good-bye at this moment.
love, especially a boyfriend. I cried at the
departure and I cried on the
plane
too,
Another moment of tension descends
while students await the domestic
flight that
will take them to their temporary home in America.
From then
on it's everyone for himself. No one
really knows how shehe will adapt
to such new
customs. Though most foreign students remain in
California,
some are sent to Texas, Arizona,
Idaho, Oklahoma or Virginia.
After a few days,
the general complaint is about the food.
adapted easily, I really miss rice and beans.
The food here doesn't look
too
nourishing,
encountered by most youngsters is
how sick they feel about being away
from home.
One important regulation of the foreign study
program has to do with
the time, established
by the host
arrive home on weekend nights.
Martini, who just finished her first semester.
p.m., and if you do not obey, you get
punished.
A few teenagers arrive in the United
States with little command of
English. In such
cases the sole solution is private language study.
This in
turn pushes up the program cost,
estimated at about $$3,800, including
air fare.
新视野大学英语读写教程第二册课文unit5
Section A
Pre-reading Activities
First Listening
Please listen to a short passage carefully and
prepare to answer some
questions.
Second
Listening
Listen to the tape again. Then
answer the following questions with your
own
experiences.
1) Who are the characters in this
story and what is their relationship to
each
other?
2) What are the effects of smoking?
3) What does “victory” mean in this story?
Weeping for My Smoking Daughter
My
daughter smokes. While she is doing her homework,
her feet on the
bench in front of her and her
calculator clicking out answers to her
geometry problems, I am looking at the half-
empty package of Camels
tossed carelessly
close at hand. I pick them up, take them into the
kitchen, where the light is better, and study
them — they're filtered, for
which I am
grateful. My heart feels terrible. I want to weep.
In fact, I do
weep a little, standing
there by the stove holding one of the instruments,
so white, so precisely rolled, that could
cause my daughter's death.
When she smoked
Marlboros and Players I hardened myself against
feeling so bad; nobody I knew ever smoked
these brands.
She doesn't know this, but it
was Camels that my father, her grandfather,
smoked. But before he smoked cigarettes made
by manufacturers —
when he was very young and
very poor, with glowing eyes — he
smoked
Prince Albert tobacco in cigarettes he rolled
himself. I remember
the bright-red tobacco
tin, with a picture of Queen Victoria's partner,
Prince Albert, dressed in a black dress coat
and carrying a cane.
By the late forties and
early fifties no one rolled his own anymore (and
few women smoked) in my hometown of Eatonton,
Georgia. The tobacco
industry, coupled with
Hollywood movies in which both male and female
heroes smoked like chimneys, completely won
over people like my father,
who were
hopelessly hooked by cigarettes. He never looked
as
fashionable as Prince Albert, though; he
continued to look like a poor,
overweight,
hard working colored man with too large a family,
black,
with a very white cigarette stuck in
his mouth.
I do not remember when he started
to cough. Perhaps it was
unnoticeable at
first, a little coughing in the morning as he lit
his first
cigarette upon getting out of bed.
By the time I was sixteen, my
daughter's age, his breath was a
wheeze, embarrassing to hear; he could
not
climb stairs without resting every third or fourth
step. It was not
unusual for him to cough for
an hour.
My father died from
winter when
his lung illnesses had left him low. I doubt he
had much
lung left at all, after coughing for
so many years. He had so little breath
that,
during his last years, he was always leaning on
something. I
remembered once, at a family
reunion, when my daughter was two, that
my
father picked her up for a minute — long enough
for me to
photograph them — but the effort was
obvious. Near the very end of
his life, and
largely because he had no more lungs, he quit
smoking. He
gained a couple of pounds, but by
then he was so slim that no one
noticed.
When I travel to Third World countries I see
many people like my father
and daughter. There
are large advertisement signs directed at them
both:
the tough, confident or fashionable
older man, the beautiful,
young woman, both
dragging away. In these poor countries, as in
American inner cities and on reservations,
money that should be spent
for food goes
instead to the tobacco companies; over time,
people
starve themselves of both food and air,
effectively weakening and
hooking their
children, eventually killing themselves. I read in
the
newspaper and in my gardening
magazine that the ends of cigarettes are
so
poisonous that if a baby swallows one, it is
likely to die, and that the
boiled water from
a bunch of them makes an effective insecticide.
There is a deep hurt that I feel as a mother.
Some days it is a feeling of
uselessness. I
remember how carefully I ate when I was pregnant,
how
patiently I taught my daughter how to
cross a street safely. For what, I
sometimes
wonder; so that she can struggle to breathe
through most of
her life feeling half her
strength, and then die of self-poisoning, as her
grandfather did?
There is a quotation from
a battered women's shelter that I especially
like:
of a quotation for people trying to
stop smoking:
smoking zone.
those who must
sit by, occasionally joke or complain, and
helplessly
watch. I realize now that as a
child I sat by, through the years, and literally
watched my father kill himself: surely one
such victory in my family, for
the prosperous
leaders who own the tobacco companies, is enough.
新视野大学英语读写教程第二册课文unit6
Section A
Pre-
reading Activities
First Listening
Please listen to a short passage carefully and
prepare to answer some
questions.
Second
Listening
Listen to the tape again. Then
answer the following questions with your
own
experiences.
1) What are some of the ways
names can make a difference?
2) In what way
can teachers be guilty of name prejudice?
3)
What does the writer suggest you do if your name
does not suit you?
As His Name Is, So Is He!
For her first twenty-four years, she'd been
known as Debbie — a name
that didn't suit her
good looks and elegant manner.
always made me
think I should be a cook,
feel like a
Debbie.
One day, while filling out an
application form for a publishing job, the
young woman impulsively substituted her middle
name, Lynne, for her
first name Debbie.
myself... and other people started to take
me more seriously.
after her successful
job interview, the former waitress is now a
successful
magazine editor. Friends and
associates call her Lynne.
Naturally, the name
change didn't cause DebbieLynne's professional
achievement — but it surely helped if only by
adding a bit of
self-confidence to her
talents. Social scientists say that what you're
called
can affect your life. Throughout
history, names have not merely
identified
people but also described them. … As his name is,
so is he...
says the Bible, and Webster's
Dictionary includes the following definition
of name:
characteristic or descriptive of
a person or a thing, often expressing
approval
or disapproval.
or worse, qualities such as
friendliness or reserve, plainness or charm
may be suggested by your name and conveyed to
other people before
they even meet you.
Names become attached to specific images, as
anyone who's been called
particularly
bothers me since my name is Joe, which some think
makes
me more qualified to be a baseball
player than, say, an art critic. Yet,
despite
this disadvantage, I did manage to become an art
critic for a time.
Even so, one prominent
magazine consistently refused to print
my by-line, using my first initials,
J.S., instead. I suspect that if I were a
more
refined Arthur or Adrian, the name would have
appeared complete.
Of course, names with a
positive sense can work for you, even encourage
new acquaintances. A recent survey showed that
American men thought
Susan to be the most
attractive female name, while women believed
Richard and David were the most attractive for
men. One woman I know
turned down a blind date
with a man named Harry because
dull
an
introduction to a very impressive man; they'd been
exchanging
glances all evening.
Though
most of us would like to think ourselves free from
such
prejudiced notions, we're all guilty of
name stereotyping to some extent.
Confess:
Wouldn't you be surprised to meet a carpenter
named Nigel? A
physicist called Bertha? A Pope
Mel? Often, we project name-based
stereotypes
on people, as one woman friend discovered while
taking
charge of a nursery - school's group of
four-year olds.
trying to get a little active
boy named Julian to sit quietly and read a
book — and pushing a thoughtful creature named
Rory to play ball. I
had their personalities
confused because of their names!
Apparently,
such prejudices can affect classroom achievement
as well. In
a study conducted by Herbert
Harari of San Diego State University, and
John McDavid of Georgia State
University, teachers gave consistently
lower
grades on essays apparently written by boys named
Elmer and
Hubert than they awarded to the same
papers when the writer's names
were given as
Michael and David. However, teacher prejudice
isn't the
only source of classroom difference.
Dr. Thomas V. Busse and Louisa
Seraydarian of
Temple University found those girls with names
such as
Linda, Diane, Barbara, Carol, and
Cindy performed better on objectively
graded
IQ and achievement tests than did girls with less
appealing
names. (A companion study showed
girls' popularity with their peers was
also
related to the popularity of their names —
although the connection
was less clear for
boys.)
Though your parents probably meant your
name to last a lifetime,
remember that when
they picked it they'd hardly met you, and the
hopes
and dreams they valued when they chose
it may not match yours. If your
name no longer
seems to fit you, don't despair; you aren't stuck
with the
label. Movie stars regularly change
their names, and with some
determination, you
can, too.