1、School of Continuing Education,大学英语第一册网络课程,By School of Foreign Languages 2011,Unit 5A Miserable, Merry ChristmasEnter,Menu,Background information,Vocabulary Phrases Text,Exercises,1.ChristmasChristmas Day, December 25, is the most important festival in the Christian world, although it is almost cer
2、tainly not the day on which Jesus Christ was born. Today, Christmas is still observed as an anniversary of the birthday of Christ, but its religious aspect is almost lost to the lay world amidst all the commercialisation and human excitement of it. The celebration usually includes an exchange of car
3、ds and presents among relatives and friends, decking the sitting room out with a Christmas tree, and a feast featuring a turkey or a goose.BACK,2. Christmas and Santa ClausSanta Claus, or “Santa“, is a figure in North American culture with legendary, mythological and folkloric aspects who developed
4、from an amalgamation of Dutch Sinterklaas, English Father Christmas and other traditions of Christmas gift-bringers. Santa Claus is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.BACK,A miserable, merry Christmas,Misera
5、ble,Merry,Demand: wanted a pony as a Christmas gift,Emotion: hurt, wronged, ached and cried,Disappointment: no gifts in his stocking at all,Emotion: happy, thrilled,Happy surprise: a man riding a pony coming,Broken-hearted misery,Bursting happiness,1. miserable causing unhappiness; very unhappy悲惨的 e
6、.g. You have made my life so miserable that I can not put up with you any more. 补充： 同义词:unhappy, wretched 反义词:comfortable n. miseryadv. Miserably2. merry happy, cheerful; bright and gay愉快的 e.g. He is in a very merry mood today.他今天心情极为愉快。 补充: 同义词: happy, cheerful n. merriment adv. Merrily merry-go-ro
7、und 旋转木马 BACK,HOME,3. pony a small horse小马 e.g. The children rode their ponies all over the farm. 孩子们骑着小马在农场上到处跑 。4. boot 长筒靴 5. candy (AmE) sweets糖果 e.g. You eat too much candy. Its bad for your teeth. 你糖吃得太多了。这对你的牙齿不好。 BACK,HOME,6. Stocking 长筒袜 e.g. She has lost a pair of stockings. 她丢掉了一双长统袜。7. c
8、himney 烟囱8. eve 前夕 e.g. They held a party on New Years Eve. 他们在除夕举行了晚会。 BACK6 BACK7,8,HOME,9. fireplace 壁炉 e.g. There was a portrait of his wife over the marble fireplace. 大理石壁炉的上面有一幅他妻子的画像。10. mixed-up (different things ) put together混合的 补充： 类似的复合词:grown-up 成熟的,成人的turned-on 赶时髦的broken-down 坏的,损坏的,H
9、OME,11. limp soft; not stiff or firm软的；松沓的 e.g. The damaged ship limped back to port. 那艘遭到损坏的船艰难缓慢地驶回港口。 补充： Vi. 跛行 同义词: lame, cripple adv. Limply 柔软地,无生气地 adv. Limpingly 一瘸一拐地 n. limpness,HOME,12. kneel go down or remain on the knee (s)跪下 e.g. She knelt down to pray. 她跪下来祈祷。 补充： 同义词: get down on th
10、e knees 形近词: knee n. 膝盖 习惯用法: kneel down (on), 跪下(在)e.g. she went into the church, knelt down and began to pray.,HOME,13. indignant angry at sth. unfair气愤的 e.g. He is indignant at her words. 他对她的话感到气愤。 补充： 同义词: angry, furious 惯用法: be indignant at/about/over sth. 对某事感到愤慨 2. be indignant with sb.对某人感到
11、愤概BACK,HOME,14. stable building for keeping and feeding animals, esp. horses马厩 e.g. The horses were led into the stable and each put in a stall. 马被牵入马棚,每匹马都分放在各自的栏内。 15. weep cry哭泣 e.g. The girl wept over her sad fate. 那女孩为自己悲惨的命运而哭泣。 补充： 惯用法:weep for/over 为流泪,为哀伤e.g. She is always weeping over her
12、lost youth.BACK,HOME,16. rude not at all polite粗鲁的 e.g. I did not intend to be rude. 我并不想粗鲁无礼。 补充： 同义词: impolite, ill-mannered 扩展: adv. rudelyn. rudenessBACK,HOME,17. wrong treat unjustly 委屈 补充： 惯用搭配: 1.In the wrong: 错,理亏 e.g. which of the two drivers was in the wrong? 2.sth. Is wrong with 出毛病(故障) e
13、.g. whats wrong with your watch?18. curtain 窗帘 e.g. Please draw the curtains. 请把窗帘拉上。 BACK,HOME,19. lest For fear that唯恐 补充： 同义词: in case 例句:I wrote down the date of her birthday lest I (should) forget it. lest引导状语从句用虚拟语气(should)+ 动词原形BACK,HOME,20. anxiety fear caused by uncertainty about sth.焦虑 补充：
14、 adj. anxious n. anxiousness 习惯用法: anxiety to do sth. 急于想做某事的愿望e.g. Nells anxiety to succeed led her to work hard.BACK,HOME,21. impatience n. inability to wait calmly 补充：impatient patientimpatience patience 习惯用法:1.be impatient for sth. / to do sth急不可耐地做e.g. Im impatient to see our new boss.2.be impa
15、tient of 不能忍受的e.g. Mother was impatient of bad manners.BACK,HOME,22.patience 耐心 e.g. She has reached the limit of her patience. 她已到了忍无可忍的地步。 23. brand 商标,牌子 e.g. This brand of tea is my favorite. 这种茶我最爱喝。 补充: brandy n. 白兰地酒brand-new adj. 崭新的,全新的,HOME,24. brand-new entirely new and unused崭新的 e.g. He
16、had on a brand-new pair of shoes. 他穿着一双簇新的鞋子。25. saddle 马鞍 e.g. The boy saw a pony with a brand-new saddle over its back. 男孩看到背上有崭新鞍子的小马。 BACK,HOME,g,26. mane 马鬃 e.g. The horse tossed his mane. 马甩甩鬃毛。27. forehead the part of the face above the eyes and below the hair前额 28. kid child小孩 e.g. He is the
17、 only kid in his family. BACK,HOME,29. splutter speak quickly and confusedly (from excitement, etc.) 语无伦次地说e.g. she took too big a gulp of whisky and started to cough and splutter.她喝了一大口威士忌,开始咳嗽和语无伦次起来.30. scarcely hardly, almost not几乎不 补充： 固定句型: scarcelywhen/before 刚就 习惯用法: 否定词位于居首,句子倒装. e.g. Scarc
18、ely had the teacher finished speaking when the door opened.BACK29 BACK30,HOME,31. scarce 缺乏的 e.g. Food and fuel were scarce in this region. 这地区食物和燃料都很缺乏。32. thrill Excite greatly 使非常激动 补充：thriller: n. 使人毛骨悚然的人(物),恐怖小说thrilling: adj. 颤栗的 e.g. we thrilled to his tales of South adventure.BACK,HOME,33.
19、trot run or ride slowly, with short steps(马)小跑 e.g. We set off at a trot. 我们策马快步出发。 补充： 习惯用法:trot out: 使(马)跑步给人看;炫耀trot out ones knowledge:炫耀知识34. currycomb a special comb used to rub and clean a horse马梳BACK,HOME,pitchfork 干草叉hay dried grass 干草 e.g. She advised that he should make hay while the sun
20、shone. 她劝说他把握时机(趁太阳大时晒干草)。37. loft a room over a stable, where hay is kept草料棚 BACK,HOME,38. broken-hearted filled with grief心碎的39. misery the state of being very unhappy, poor, ill, lonely, etc.悲惨 补充： 同义词: suffering 扩展: miserable adj. Misery loves company. 同病相怜.BACK,HOME,40. happiness the state of b
21、eing happy快乐 e.g. Money does not always bring happiness. 金钱并不总是带来快乐。41. grown-up (of ) an adult person成人的 e.g. She has a grown-up daughter who lives abroad. 她有一个已经长大成人的女儿,在海外生活。 BACK,HOME,1. make sure act as so to make something certain 查明,弄清楚 e.g. 1: Father makes sure that all the lights are off be
22、fore he goes to bed. e.g. 2: Arrive early at the cinema to make sure of getting a seat.2. nothing but nothing other than; only 除了以外没有什么;仅仅,只不过 e.g. 1. She is concerned about nothing but money. e.g. 2. I could do nothing but stand there waiting.BACK,HOME,3. stick to refuse to give up or change 坚持,不放弃
23、 e.g. 1. The decided to stick to their previous plan. e.g. 2.If you stick to the truth, youve nothing to fear.4. hang up fix (sth.) at a high place so that it does not touch the ground 挂起 e.g. 1.There are some hangers in the closet on which to hang up your clothes. e.g. 2.Lets hang up a map of the w
24、orld in our study.BACK3 BACK4,HOME,5. or something (used when the speaker is not sure)诸如此类 e.g. 1.I think he left because he had lost his job or something. e.g. 2.Her name is Mary of Margaret or something.6. catch sight of see suddenly or for a moment看到,发现 e.g. 1. Suddenly Evens turned and caught si
25、ght of Andrew. e.g. 2. Just then I caught sight of him getting on a bus.BACK,HOME,7. draw near Move near 接近 e.g. 1. Winter is drawing near. e.g. 2. Night drew near. 补充： draw on 到来8. break into 1.suddenly start (to cry, laugh, etc.) 突然起来 e.g. The audience broke into applause. 2.enter by force; interr
26、upt 闯入;打断 e.g. 1. The thieves planned to break into a bank. e.g. 2. He broke rudely into our talk. BACK7 BACK8,HOME,9. in place In the right place 在适当的位置 e.g. 1. As soon as all the chairs are in place, we can let the audience in. e.g. 2. I think an expression of thanks to our host would be in place.
27、BACK,HOME,1.Santa Claus 圣诞老人 2. Christmas Eve 圣诞前夜 3. Lennie Steffens 伦尼斯蒂芬斯,HOME,BACK,HOME,While reading activity: Text,Text,Chinese Version,Effective Writing Skills,Unit Five TEXT A miserable and merry Christmas? How could it be? A Miserable, Merry Christmas Christmas was coming. I wanted a pony.
28、To make sure that my parents understood, I declared that I wanted noting else. “Nothing but a pony?“ my father asked. “Nothing,“ I said. “Not even a pair of high boots?“ That was hard. I did want boots, but I stuck to the pony. “No, not even boots.“ “Nor candy? There ought to be something to fill yo
29、ur stocking with, and Santa Claus cant put a pony into a stocking,“ BACK,HOME,That was true, and he couldnt lead a pony down the chimney either . But no. “All I want is a pony,“ I said. “If I cant have a pony, give me nothing, nothing.“ On Christmas Eve I hung up my stocking along with my sisters. B
30、ACK,HOME,The next morning my sisters and I woke up at six. Then we raced downstairs to the fireplace. And there they were, the gifts, all sorts of wonderful things, mixed-up piles of presents. Only my stocking was empty; it hung limp; not a thing in it; and under and around it - nothing. My sisters
31、had knelt down, each by her pile of gifts; they were crying with delight, till they looked up and saw me standing there looking so miserable. They came over to me and felt my stocking: nothing. BACK,HOME,I dont remember whether I cried at that moment, but my sisters did. They ran with me back to my
32、bed, and there we all cried till I became indignant. That helped some. I got up, dressed, and driving my sisters away, I went out alone into the stable, and there, all by myself, I wept. My mother came out to me and she tried to comfort me. But I wanted no comfort. She left me and went on into the h
33、ouse with sharp words for my father.BACK,HOME,My sisters came to me, and I was rude. I ran away from them. I went around to the front of the house, sat down on the steps, and, the crying over, I ached. I was wronged, I was hurt. And my father must have been hurt, too, a little. I saw him looking out
34、 of the window. He was watching me or something for an hour or two, drawing back the curtain so little lest I catch him, but I saw his face, and I think I can see now the anxiety upon on it, the worried impatience. BACK,HOME,After an hour or two, I caught sight of a man riding a pony down the street
35、, a pony and a brand-new saddle; the most beautiful saddle I ever saw, and it was a boys saddle. And the pony! As he drew near, I saw that the pony was really a small horse, with a black mane and tail, and one white foot and a white star on his forehead. For such a horse as that I would have given a
36、nything. BACK,HOME,But the man came along, reading the numbers on the houses, and, as my hopes - my impossible hopes - rose, he looked at our door and passed by, he and the pony, and the saddle. Too much, I fell upon the steps and broke into tears. Suddenly I heard a voice. “Say, kid,“ it said, “do
37、you know a boy named Lennie Steffens?“ BACK,HOME,I looked up. It was the man on the pony, back again. “Yes,“ I spluttered through my tears. “Thats me.“ “Well,“ he said, “then this is your horse. Ive been looking all over for you and your house. Why dont you put your number where it can be seen?“ “Ge
38、t down,“ I said, running out to him. I wanted to ride. He went on saying something about “ought to have got here at seven oclock, but-“ BACK,HOME,I hardly heard, I could scarcely wait. I was so happy, so thrilled. I rode off up the street. Such a beautiful pony. And mine! After a while I turned and
39、trotted back to the stable. There was the family, father, mother, sisters, all working for me, all happy. They had been putting in place the tools of my new business: currycomb, brush, pitchfork - everything, and there was hay in the loft. BACK,HOME,But that Christmas, which my father had planned so
40、 carefully, was it the best or the worst I ever knew? He often asked me that; I never could answer as a boy. I think now that it was both. It covered the whole distance from broken-hearted misery to bursting happiness - too fast, A grown-up could hardly have stood it. BACK,HOME,第五单元又喜又悲的圣诞节是怎么回事？ 又悲
41、又喜的圣诞节圣诞节快到了。我想要一匹小马。为了让爸爸妈妈切实了解这一点，我特意宣布，别的我什么也不想要。“除了小马什么也不要？”爸爸问。“什么也不要。”我说。“即使是一双高统靴也不要？”这倒让我为难了。我的确想要双靴子，但我还是坚持只要小马。“不要，即使靴子也不要。”“糖果也不想要？总该有些东西把你的长统袜子塞满吧，再说圣诞老人也没法把小马进袜子里去呀。” BACK,HOME,这话不假，而且圣诞老人也没法牵着小马从烟囱里下来。但是不行。“我只要一匹小马，”我说。“得不到小马，就什么也别给我，别给我。”圣诞节前夕，我把我的长统袜跟姐妹们的挂在一起。 BACK,HOME,第二天早晨，我和姐妹们六点
42、就醒了。接着我们就冲下楼，来到壁炉前。嘿，礼物全放在那儿，各种各样的奇妙玩意儿，一堆一堆的礼物，混合交杂在一起。只有我的长统袜是空的，软绵绵地挂在那儿，里面空无一物，袜子下方和四周什么也没有。我的姐妹们已经跪下，每个人都跪在自己那堆礼物旁边；她们高兴地叫呀嚷呀，直到抬起头见我站在那儿，一副可怜巴巴的样子才闭住口。她们走到我跟前，摸了摸我的袜子：什么也没有。BACK,HOME,当时我究竟哭没哭，我不记得了，但我的姐妹们确实是哭了。她们一起跟我跑回到我的床边，在那儿我们一块儿放声大哭，一直哭到我心里横生出一股怒气。这样一来，心里好受了些。我站起来，穿好衣服，把姐妹们统统从身边赶跑，独自走出屋子，来
43、到马厩里，就我一个人守在那儿低声抽泣。母亲来到我身边，竭力想安慰我。但我根本不需要什么安慰。她离开我，一边大声数落着父亲一边向屋里走去。BACK,HOME,姐妹们来到我跟前，但我对她们很粗鲁。我从她们身边跑开了。我绕到房子前面，坐在台阶上；哭过以后，我感到阵阵心酸。哭过以后，我感到阵阵心酸。我错了，我受伤了。父亲心里肯定也有点不好受。我看见他正从窗口朝外张望。有一两个钟头，他大概一直在留神我的动静；他只把窗帘掀开一点儿，生怕我发现他，但我还是看到他的脸。我觉得现在我还能看到他脸上的忧虑神情，那种担心而又焦急的神情。BACK,HOME,一两个钟头后，我突然看见有人骑着一匹小马打街那头过来了一匹小
44、马，马背上还配着一副崭新的马鞍子，一副我所看到过的最漂亮的马鞍子，而且是一副供小男孩使用的马鞍子。还有那匹小马！当那人走近里，我看到那可真是匹地地道道的小马，一身乌黑的鬃毛，一条乌黑的尾巴，有一只雪白的跗节，额上有一块白灿灿的星斑。要是能有这样一匹马，我愿意付出任何代价。BACK,HOME,那人一路骑过来，挨家看着门牌号码，可就在我的希望我的不可能实现的希望在心里升起时，他却看了看我们家的大门走过去了他，连同那匹小马和那副马鞍子。我再也受不了啦。我扑倒在台阶上，哇地失声痛哭起来。突然我听到一个说话的声音。“喂，小弟弟，”那声音说。“你认识一个叫伦尼.斯蒂芬斯的小男孩吗？ BACK,HOME,我
45、抬起头。原来就是那个骑着小马的人，他又回来了。“认识，”我流着眼泪，慌乱而兴奋地说。“就是我。”“噢，”他说。“这么说这是你的马了。我到处在找你，找你们家的房子。你们干吗不把门牌挂在显眼的地方呢？”“下来，”我一边说，一边向他奔去。我要骑马。他还在往下说，说什么“本该七点钟就到这里，但是”BACK,HOME,我差不多一句话也没听进去，我简直等不及了。我太高兴了，太激动了。我策马沿着大街往前跑。这么漂亮的一匹小马。而且是我的！过了一会儿，我掉转马头，催马小跑着返回马厩。全家人都在那儿了，爸爸、妈妈、姐妹们。他们都在为我张罗着，个个兴高采烈。他们把干我这一新行当所需要的用具马梳子、刷子、干草叉全部
46、养马用具安放得井井有条，而且草料棚里还堆有干草。BACK,HOME,可是，我父亲如此精心安排的那个圣诞节，是我一生中所经历的最好的一次还是最糟的一次圣诞节呢？他常常问我这个问题。小时候我始终回答不上来。现在，我觉得那个圣诞节既是最好的，又是最糟的。因为在这一天里，先是令人心碎的痛苦，继而是极度的喜悦，从一个极端跳到另一个极端变换得实在太快了。就是一个成年人，恐怕也难以承受得了吧。 BACK,HOME,The organization of the text Part 1(Line 1-34) The author was very unpleasant not to receive the d
47、reaming gift. Part 2(Line 35-59) Through a serial of things, the author finally got his dreaming gift-a pony, how happy he was! Part 3(Line 60-65) The author thought it was a Christmas with both happiness and sadness.,HOME,BACK,HOME,Vocabulary Ex. 4,Completion Ex. 6,Exercises,Cloze Ex. 14,Translatio
48、n Ex. 15,Word building Ex. 7,8,Structure Ex. 9-13,Fill in blanks Ex. 5,Find in the text the words or expressions which fit the following definitions: 1. Very unhappy miserable 2. The evening or day beforea special day eve 3. Angry at something unfair indignant 4. Cry weep 5. Impolite rude 6. Do some
49、thing unfair to wrong 7. Fear about something uncertain anxiety 8. Unwillingness to wait calmly impatience 9. See suddenly catch sight of 10. Hardly scarcely,HOME,BACK,HOME,BACK,1. Their dialogue was so funny that we all _ laughter.,break into,2. The children of the Smith family are known for the _ with which they often treat their parents.,
