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1、Unit 5 : Work to live or live to work,College English: Integrated Course 1,next,NCE-B1,Text A: The Company Man,index,previous,next,back,break,over,Unit 5: part I,Here is a humorous story about a clerk and his boss. Listen carefully and see what is reveals.,Unit 5: part I,NCE-B1,Part I Listening Task

2、,index,back,break,over,The following words in the recording may be new to you:,on the dot,sensation,mutter,scratch,bruise,Unit 5: part I,NCE-B1,After Listening,index,back,break,over,Complete the following statements according to what you have heard.,Q1:Johnson had arrived at work at _ A.M. on the do

3、t for _ years.,9,thirty,Unit 5: part I,NCE-B1,index,back,break,over,Q2:One day everyone was _ to find Johnson didnt arrive at work at the usual time.,amazed / greatly surprised,Q3:Johnson was late for work because he rolled down the stairs in the subway and nearly _.,killed himself,Q4:Instead of exp

4、ressing concern for his employee the boss doubted whether to roll down tow flights of stairs took him _.,A whole hour,Ellen Goodman presents the story of a man who works himself to death attempting to be the perfect company man.,Unit 5: Part II,NCE-B1,Part II Text A,index,back,break,over,previous,ne

5、xt,In doing so she reveals the dangers that can lurk in a addiction to work to the exclusion of everything else, including the damage it does to family life.,1 He worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning. 2 The obituary didnt say that, of course. It said that he di

6、ed of a coronary thrombosis I think that was it but everyone among his friends and acquaintances knew it instantly. He was a perfect Type A, a workaholic, a classic, they said to each other and shook their heads and thought for five or ten minutes about the way they lived.,Ellen Goodman,The company

7、man,NCE-B1,Unit 5: Part II,Chinese,index,back,break,over,previous,next,3 This man who worked himself to death finally and precisely at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning on his day off was fifty-one years old and a vice-president. He was, however, one of six vice-presidents, and one of three who might conceiv

8、ably if the president died or retired soon enough have moved to the top spot. Phil knew that. 4 He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night, during a time when his own company,NCE-B1,Unit 5: Part II,Chinese,index,back,break,over,previous,next,had begun the four-day week for

9、everyone but the executives. He worked like the Important People. He had no outside “extracurricular interests,” unless, of course, you think about a monthly golf game that way. To Phil, it was work. He always ate egg salad sandwiches at his desk. He was, of course, overweight, by 20 or 25 pounds. H

10、e thought it was okay, though, because he didnt smoke.,NCE-B1,Unit 5: Part II,Chinese,index,back,break,over,previous,next,5 On Saturdays, Phil wore a sports jacket to the office instead of a suit, because it was the weekend. 6 He had a lot of people working for him, maybe sixty, and most of them lik

11、ed him most of the time. Three of them will be seriously considered for his job. The obituary didnt mention that. 7 But it did list his “survivors” quite accurately. He is survived by his wife, Helen, forty-eight years old, a good,NCE-B1,Unit 5: Part II,Chinese,index,back,break,over,previous,next,wo

12、man 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 friend said, “I know how much you will miss him.” And she answered, “I alread

13、y have.” 8 “Missing him all these years,” she must have given up part of herself which had cared too much for the man. She would be “well taken care of.”,NCE-B1,Unit 5: Part II,Chinese,index,back,break,over,previous,next,9 His “dearly beloved” eldest of the “dearly beloved” children is a hard-workin

14、g executive in a manufacturing firm down South. In the day and a half before the funeral, he went around the neighborhood researching his father, asking the neighbors what he was like. They were embarrassed. 10 His second child is a girl, who is twenty-four and newly married. She lives near her moth

15、er and they are close, but whenever she was alone with her father, in a,NCE-B1,Unit 5: Part II,Chinese,index,back,break,over,previous,next,car driving somewhere, they had nothing to say to each other. 11 The youngest is twenty, a boy, a high-school graduate who has spent the last couple of years, li

16、ke a lot of his friends, doing enough odd jobs to stay in grass and food. He was the one who tried to grab at 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. 12 The boy once said,

17、 “My father and I only board here.” 13 At the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president,NCE-B1,Unit 5: Part II,Chinese,index,back,break,over,previous,next,told the forty-eight-year-old widow that the fifty-one-year-old deceased had meant much to the company and would be missed and would be hard

18、to replace. The widow didnt look him in the eye. She was afraid he would read her bitterness and, after all, she would need him to straighten out the finances the stock options and all that. 14 Phil was overweight and nervous and worked too hard. If he wasnt at the office he was worried about it. Ph

19、il was a Type A, a heart-attack natural. You could have picked him out in a minute from a lineup.,NCE-B1,Unit 5: Part II,Chinese,index,back,break,over,previous,next,15 So when he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, no one was really surprised. 16 By 5:00 p.m. the

20、afternoon of the funeral, the company president had begun, discreetly of course, with care and taste, to make inquiries about his replacement. One of three the men. He asked around: “Whos been working the hardest?”,NCE-B1,Unit 5: Part II,Chinese,index,back,break,over,previous,next,Text Organization,

21、1. The text the author tries to define a typical workaholic in the American corporate world with the story of Phil, a perfect company man. She tells us first abut Phils position in the company and the cause of his death, next about his work, then about his family, and finally about his boss. Accordi

22、ngly, the text can be roughly divided into four parts. Now write down the main idea of each part.,NCE-B1,Unit 5: Part II,break,over,index,previous,back,more,Parts,Part One,Main Ideas,1-3,Phil completely tied up himself in work regardless of his health.,NCE-B1,Unit 5: Part II,break,over,index,next,pr

23、evious,more,Para.,Part Two,Part Three,4-6,7-12,A typical workaholic, Phil totally neglected those closest to him his wife and three children.,Phil completely tied up himself in work regardless of his health.,Part Four,13-16,Phils boss said one thing at the funeral and did quite another soon afterwards.,Break Time,back,Class is over,See you Next Time,exit,

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