1、Contents,Reading Skills,Text B,Test Yourself,Reading Skills,自测,课文,Like the other skills for your use, the skill introduced in this unit does render you better ability in reading.,This practice is designed to help you get a deeper insight into the skill for this unit.,Understanding Idiomatic Expressi
2、ons,The meaning of idiomatic expressions can be very hardeven impossibleto guess. Word structure doesnt always help, and can even fool us entirely! But good readers dont give up on the first try. They keep reading, in search of contextual cluesexamples, explanations, opposites, or similar phrasestha
3、t can help them figure out the meaning of idiomatic expressions.,随 笔,Practice,To be continued,Here are some examples from Passage A:,Who are you to say what goes? (Para. 9),Example 1,Practice,随 笔,From what goes before and after the sentence, we can get the meaning of the sentence: Do you think that
4、you have the right or power to tell others what should be done and what should not be done? Or, you are not entitled to teach anyone what is right or what is wrong.,To be continued,Practice,随 笔,He might have gone a step further and called for respect for both our economists and our trashmen. (Para.
5、14),Example 2,From the context, we might find that “have gone a step further” means to add or explain a bit more.,To be continued,Example 3,Nowadays, some people like burning the candle at both ends. A case in point is that of my brother. In addition to his regular job, my brother is also serving as
6、 a consultant to several government agencies and helping to set up his friends in business. I just dont know how long his health will permit him to go on like this.,Practice,随 笔,The example below the idiom gives us clues as to the meaning of “burn the candle at both ends”.,Directions: Try to figure
7、out the meaning of the underlined idiomatic expressions in the following sentences. Then scan the article for contextual clues to check your guesses.,Practice,Introduction,随 笔,1. He did not divide his time with outside interests, unless, of course, you consider his monthly game of golf.,Introduction
8、,随 笔,Key: spend part of his time on,2. The youngest child is twenty, a boy, a high-school graduate and like a lot of his friends, is content to do enough odd jobs to stay in grass and food.,Key: continue to support himself with drugs and food,To be continued,Introduction,随 笔,3. She was afraid he wou
9、ld read her bitterness and, after all, she would need him to straighten out their financesthe stock options and all that.,Key: settle their accounts with the company or any money owed to them,To be continued,Introduction,随 笔,4. Phil was overweight, always wound up and worked too hard.,Key: nervous a
10、nd worried,5. He was a natural choice for a heart attack.,Key: a person who is likely to suffer a heart attack,Text B,Questions,Text Study,Choice Making,随 笔,Questions,Text Study,Choice Making,随 笔,Questions,Text Study,Choice Making,随 笔,Questions,Text Study,Choice Making,随 笔,Questions,Text Study,Choic
11、e Making,随 笔,到处打听,海伦,菲尔,ask around,Helen,等等,诸如此类,and all that,认出,pick out,Phil,New Words,Text Study,Choice Making,For you to be better conditioned for reading as fast as 100 words per minute, as required in the new type of examination “Speed Reading”, Text B can serve to be your fast-reading materia
12、l. But, for this purpose, the best course of action is to know what to scan for in your skimming. Thus, the trick is to keep in your mind the key words of each question before you start off. That is where the “Questions Previewing” comes in.,随 笔,Q1. Phil was anything but _.,Q2. Phil could have been
13、promoted to the top position _.,Q3. Very often Phil had his meals _.,Q4. From Helens response to a company friend who said “I know how much you will miss him”, we know that _.,New Words,Text Study,Choice Making,随 笔,New Words,Text Study,Choice Making,随 笔,1. He worked himself to death, finally and pre
14、cisely, at 3:00 A.M. Sunday morning. 2. The article about his death didnt say that, of course. It said he died of a heart attack, but every one of his friends and acquaintances knew it instantly. He was a perfect Type A, addicted to working, they said to each other and shook their headsand thought f
15、or five or ten minutes about the way they lived.,New Words,Questions,The Company Man,Chinese,Choice Making,随 笔,Question 1,Question 8,3. This man, Phil, who worked himself to death finally and precisely at 3:00 A. M. Sunday morningon his day offwas at work. He had devoted the last eighteen years of h
16、is life to that work. He was fifty-one years old and a vice-president. More precisely, he was one of six vice-presidents, and one of three that might conceivablyif the president died or retired soon enoughhave been promoted to the top spot. Phil could not afford a rest.,Chinese,New Words,Questions,C
17、hoice Making,Question 2,随 笔,Question 7,4. He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night, during a time when his own company had begun the four-day week for everyone but the executives. He did not divide his time with outside interests, unless, of course, you consider his month
18、ly game of golf. To Phil, it was work. He always ate egg salad sandwiches at his desk. He was, of course, overweight and had high blood pressure. On Saturdays, Phil wore a sports jacket to the office instead of a suit because it was the weekend.,Chinese,Question 3,New Words,Questions,Choice Making,随
19、 笔,5. He had a lot of people working under him, maybe sixty, and most of them liked and admired him most of the time. Three of them will be seriously considered for his job. The article ignored this information.,Chinese,New Words,Questions,Choice Making,随 笔,6. But it did list his “survivors” quite a
20、ccurately. He is survived by his wife, Helen, forty-eight years old, a good woman of no particular marketable skills, who worked in an office before marrying and mothering. She had, according to her daughter, given up trying to compete with his work years ago when the children were small. A company
21、friend said, “I know how much you will miss him.” And she answered, “I already have.”,Chinese,New Words,Questions,Choice Making,随 笔,Question 4,7. “Missing him all these years,” she had given up a part of herself, which had cared too much for the man. She would be “well taken care of”.,Chinese,New Wo
22、rds,Questions,Choice Making,随 笔,Question 1,8. His “dearly beloved” eldest of the “dearly beloved” children is a hard-working executive in a manufacturing firm down South. The day before the funeral, he went around the neighborhood talking to people and trying to get to know his father better. The ne
23、ighbors were embarrassed, and pretended to know him better than they did.,Chinese,New Words,Questions,Choice Making,随 笔,Question 5,9. His second child is a girl, who is twenty-four and newly married. She lives near her mother and they are close, but whenever she was alone with her father, in a car d
24、riving somewhere, they had very little to say to each other.,Chinese,New Words,Questions,Choice Making,随 笔,10. The youngest child is twenty, a boy, a high-school graduate and like a lot of his friends, he is content to do enough odd jobs to stay in grass and food. His fathers work did not suit him.
25、Still, he was the one who tried to reach his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home. He was his fathers favorite. Over the last two years, Phil stayed up nights worrying about the boy.,Chinese,New Words,Questions,Choice Making,Question 6,随 笔,11. The boy once said, “My father
26、 and I only board here.” 12. At the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president told the forty-eight-year-old widow that the fifty-one-year-old deceased had meant so much to the company and would be missed and hard to replace. The widow couldnt bear to look him in the eye. She was afraid he would
27、read her bitterness and, after all, she would need him to straighten out their finances the stock options and all that.,Chinese,New Words,Questions,Choice Making,随 笔,Question 7,13. Phil was overweight, always wound up and worked too hard. If he wasnt at the office, he was worried about it. He was a
28、natural choice for a heart attack. You could have picked him out in a minute from a line-up. 14. So when he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 A.M. Sunday morning, no one was really surprised.,Chinese,New Words,Questions,Choice Making,随 笔,15. By 5:00 P.M. the afternoon of the funeral
29、, the company president had begun, discreetly of course, with care and taste, to make inquiries about his replacementone of three men. He asked around, “Whos been working the hardest?”,Chinese,Question 8,New Words,Questions,Choice Making,随 笔,Q1. Phil was anything but _.A. a company man B. a perfect
30、Type AC. a devoted executive D. a devoted husband,Refer to Para. 1-7,New Words,Questions,Text Study,随 笔,返回Para. 7,Q2. Phil could have been promoted to the top position _. A. if he could afford a rest B. if he had worked hard enough C. if he had a friendly relation with the president D. if the presid
31、ent died or retired soon enough,Refer to Para. 3,New Words,Questions,Text Study,随 笔,Q3. Very often Phil had his meals _. A. at home B. in a restaurant C. in his office D. in the dining room,Refer to Para. 4,New Words,Questions,Text Study,随 笔,Q4. From Helens response to a company friend who said “I k
32、now how much you will miss him”, we know that _. A. Helen had no particular marketable skills B. Helen loved to be a housewife C. Helen praised her husbands devotion to work D. Helen complained that her husband had neglected her,Refer to Para. 6,New Words,Questions,Text Study,随 笔,Q5. Who seems to be
33、 following Phils steps working as a company man? A. Phils eldest child. B. Phils youngest child. C. Phils daughter. D. A vice-president.,Refer to Para. 8,New Words,Questions,Text Study,随 笔,Q6. Which of the following might tell us that the youngest child was Phils favorite? A. He was doing enough odd
34、 jobs. B. He was the one who tried to reach Phil. C. He was the one Phil worried about most. D. He was a high-school graduate.,Refer to Para. 10,New Words,Questions,Text Study,随 笔,Q7. Which of the following statements taken from the text does not sound ironic (讽刺的)? A. This man, Phil, who worked him
35、self to death finally and precisely at 3:00 A. M. Sunday morningon his day offwas at work. B. She was afraid he would read her bitterness and, after all, she would need him to straighten out their financesthe stock options and all that. C. She would be “well taken care of”. D. He asked around, “Whos
36、 been working the hardest?”,Refer to Para. 3, 7, 12, 15,New Words,Questions,Text Study,随 笔,返回Para. 12,Q8. Which of the following inferences (推断) is not supported by this passage? A. Being a company man is not a good idea. B. A company man may get more than he loses. C. A company man is generally pre
37、ferred by his companys president. D. A company man has more chances of being promoted.,Refer to Para. 1 - 15,New Words,Questions,Text Study,随 笔,返回Para. 15,Test Yourself,Listening Comprehension,Reading Comprehension,Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. After each questio
38、n there will be a pause. During the pause you must make your choice.,Reading,随 笔,A) Place another order. B) Call to check on it.C) Wait patiently. D) Go and find the furniture.,M: I havent received the furniture I ordered yet. Maybe I should call to check on it. W: Dont worry. It takes at least a we
39、ek to arrive. Q: What does the woman think the man should do?,Reading,1.,随 笔,A) She doesnt need the job. B) She hasnt got a job yet.C) She has got a good job.D) She is going to start work soon.,M: Congratulations! I understand youve got a job. When will you start to work? W: You must be thinking of
40、someone else. Im still waiting to hear the good news. Q: What does the woman mean?,Reading,2.,随 笔,3. A) She got home before 9 oclock. B) She had a bad cold.C) She had a car accident.D) She was delayed.,W: If it hadnt been snowing so hard, I might have been home by 9 oclock. M: Its too bad you didnt
41、make it. Jane was here and she wanted to see you. Q: What happened to the woman?,Reading,随 笔,4. A) She hasnt gone camping for several weeks.B) She likes to take long camping trips.C) She prefers not to go camping on weekends.D) She often spends a lot of time planning hercamping trips.,M: Janet is qu
42、ite interested in camping, isnt she? W: Yes, she often goes for weeks at a time. Q: What does the woman say about Janet?,Reading,随 笔,5. A) A writer. B) A teacher.C) A reporter. D) A student.,W: Good evening, Professor David. My name is Susan Gray. Im with the local newspaper. Do you mind if I ask yo
43、u a few questions? M: Not at all. Go ahead, please? Q: What is Susan Gray?,Reading,随 笔,6. A) She has not heard of Prof. Johnson. B) She has not heard of Prof. Johnsons brother. C) She is a good friend of Prof. Johnsons brother. D) She does not know Prof. Johnsons brother.,M: Do you know Professor Jo
44、hnsons brother? W: Ive never met him, but Ive heard that he is as well-known as Johnson herself. Q: What do we learn from the womans reply?,Reading,随 笔,7. A) Coming back for a later show. B) Waiting in a queue.C) Coming back in five minutes.D) Not going to the movie today.,W: The movie starts in 5 m
45、inutes and theres bound to be a long line. M: Why dont we come back for the next show? Im sure it would be less crowded. Q: What is the man suggesting?,Reading,随 笔,8. A) He has got a heart attack.B) He was unharmed. C) He was badly hurt. D) He has fully recovered from the shock.,W: Were you hurt in
46、the accident? M: I was shocked at the time, but wasnt hurt at all. My bike was totally damaged, though. Q: What do we know about the man?,Reading,随 笔,9. A) The man went to Australia during Christmas. B) The man visited Australia during the summer vacation. C) The man didnt have a good time because o
47、f the different weather. D) The man remained home while his parents went to see his uncle.,W: Where were you on Christmas David? I called you several times and nobody was home. M: My parents and I traveled to Australia to visit my uncle. It was quite an experience to spend Christmas in summer. Q: Wh
48、at do we learn from this conversation?,Reading,随 笔,10. A) To attend a party at a classmates home. B) To do homework with her classmate. C) To attend an evening class. D) To have supper out with her classmate.,M: Its seven oclock already. Mary should be home by now. W: Oh. I forgot to tell you that s
49、he called this afternoon and told me that she was going to a party at her classmates house and wouldnt be home until 10. Q: What did Mary say she was going to do?,Reading,随 笔,Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank above the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.,
