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Unit3 The Generation Gap
Pair Work
1. How many characters are there in this play Who are they
There are seven characters---Father, Mother, Heidi, Diane, Sean, Restaurant Manager, and Mrs. Higgins.
2. Are the children grateful for what their father does for them Why or
why not
No. Because what he does usually ends up embarrassing them.
3. What did Sean plan to do with the money he earned from his first job
To buy a guitar.
4. （ 5. Why did Father make a point of coming to the restaurant
To check if Sean was going to embarrass him.
6. Why did Sean try to hide himself when he saw his father in the
resraurant
He knew his father was going to embarrass him.
7. What did Sean think of his father’s unexpected visit
It was unnecessary and embarrassing.
8. Why did Father invite Dan Lucas to lunch
He wanted Dan to pressure his son into asking Diane to the senior prom.
9. $ 10. What did Dan Lucas promise to do
He would speak to his son and insist that the latter give Diane a call.
11. How did Diane react to the surprise Father had for her
She felt humiliated.
12. Why did Heidi change school
Because the Thompson had just moved.
13. What did Father try to impress on Mrs. Higgins
He tried to let her know how exceptionally talented a young woman Heidi was.
14. 【 15. Why was Heidi so eager to go to class
Because she couldn’t bear being embarrassed by her father.
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Vocabulary
1、 The view that you should never spend more than you earn is fairly typical of
people of their generation.
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你不应该花比你挣的钱这个观点是他们这一代人普遍认为的观点。
2、 The artists stood before the paintings almost dumb with astonishment at their
beauty.
艺术家几乎被这幅画的美所震惊了，目瞪口呆地站在这幅画前面。
3、 In 1963, after his junior year in high school, Clinton was elected into a
government study program for young people in Washington, D.C.
在 1963 年，在高中的三年级是，克林顿被选入在华盛顿特区为年轻人设的政府研究计划。
4、William Byrd composed many pieces of music, but his Latin church music is considered his most glorious work.
威廉 · 伯德创作了无数种类的音乐，但他的拉丁教堂音乐是被认为最荣耀音乐作品。
5、Governments establish welfare systems to provide a safety net to prevent people from suffering the effects of poverty.
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政府建立福利系统，以提供一个安全网，防止人们遭受贫穷之苦。
6、You quit that respectable, well-paid job for this unpromising one What came over you
你放弃了那份受人尊敬，高薪的工作，而从事这份不被期待的工作是什么突然改变了你呢
7、Many animals face extinction as the result of human interference .
许多动物由于人类干扰而面临灭绝。
8、Her hope of her husband’s return is fading as years go by.
随着时间的流逝，她对她丈夫回家的期望渐渐地淡了。
9、Having worked for three years, Roger decided to enroll on an MBA program and narrowed down his choice to three famous universities on the East Coast.
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工作了3年后，Roger决定去申请MBA课程，他将选择缩小到了东部沿海地区的最有名的3所学校。
10、A frank reply is much more appreciated than beating about the bush.
坦率的回答比拐弯抹角更值得赞赏。
11、Harold is always coming up with these dumb schemes for making money that just get us into trouble.
Harold总是用这些愚蠢的阴谋赚钱，每次都让我们陷入麻烦。
12、Call me, write to me, email me; at any rate , let’s keep in touch.
给我打电话，或者写信，或者发电子邮件；无论如何，让我们保持联系。
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Cloze
Our dad is typical of the older generation. You can certainly say he gives our welfare his constant attention. Sometimes, however, we wish he wouldn’t try quite so hard. To be frank , he seems to have a talent for embarrassing us by making dumb remarks. He should know better than that ,but he never seems to learn and just goes on making the same old mistakes repeatedly . The result is that we live in constant dread of his well-intentioned interference
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