Amid the atmosphere of Thanksgiving, rather than joining his friends in celebration of the holiday, George was immersed in the diary left to him by his father, who died at sea after he completed two successive trips around the world. The diary brought back every moment George had spent with his father and many of the specific things his father did on his behalf. George's father used to impress on him the need to undergo all kinds of hardship in quest of excellence. He also taught him that nothing in the world could be taken for granted. Even today, George still remembers how his father would quote Aesop's famous saying \him to accord the greatest importance to it.
Unit 6 The Pace of Life Text Organization 1
Part One Paras. 1-11
The author gives three reasons why we feel so time-pressed today.
Part Two Paras. 12-18
Not everyone is time-stressed, and in the case of Americans they have actually gained more free time in the past decade.
Part Three Paras. 19-23
The perception of time famine has triggered a variety of reactions.
Part Four Paras. 24-28
The author pins down the crux(症结) of the problem and puts forward a remedy for the stress we feel.
Text Organization 2
2) The aircraft creates a high demand for time-consuming journeys that we never dreamed of.
3) The washing machine, contrary to our expectations, multiplies the hours spent on washing and ironing.
4) Instead of making our lives easier, technology goes so far as to cram extra work into our leisure time.
5) Technology produces the new burden of dealing with faxes, e-mails and voicemails. 6) Technology eats further into our time by forcing us to handle software glitches on computers and filling our heads with useless information from the Internet.
Vocabulary 1
1) appliances 2) comparative 3) multiply
4) distribution 5) prosperity 6) decorate 7) famine 8) large quantities of/ a large quantity of 9) streamline 10) fax 11) pointed the way to 12) bewildered
Vocabulary 2
1) eat into 2) cling to 3) stand out/ stood out 4) wears away 5) set about 6) switch off 7) will be turned loose 8) poured in
Vocabulary 3
1) is forecast to be below average next year, which at the moment is 4 percent. 2) to enter the building and find the baby girl proved futile as rescuers were driven
out by the heat and flames.
3) was urged to divert some of its attention from expanding production and get more
involved with issues of market demand.
4) can really eat heavily into your profits when you are selling suits at ￡900
and dresses at ￡2,000.
5) has toiled endlessly over the exercise machine for the last twenty years in order
to keep her body in shape.
Vocabulary 4
1) reaction to; discontent; provoked 2) Convention; evading tax; the confines of
3) a burden; are always on the go/ seem forever on the go; to cope
II. Confusable Words
1. 1) nervousness 2) tension 3) stress; stress 4) tension
2. 1) honorary 2) Honorable 3) honorable 4) honorary 5) honorable 6) Honorary
III. Usage
1) Dealing with the extinction crisis is no simple matter. Is it sensible, we may
ask, to spend large sums of money to save some species – be it an elephant or an orchid – in a nation in which a large proportion of the population is living below the poverty line
2) This new technology could be used anywhere large numbers of people need to be
quickly screened --- at airports, train stations, bus terminals or border crossings. However, experts suspect, there is also the risk that people will learn to fool the machine the same way they try to fool polygraph readings by controlling their breath or taking drugs to relax themselves.
3) With a high percentage of marriages ending in divorce, often due to financial
difficulties, you would say that money is a big factor in making a good marriage. But, believe it or not, it isn’t money that ensures you a happy marriage; it is your philosophy of life that does.
4) Not all the risks on the Internet are sexual, you know. Sites promoting violence
are just a click away, and may include instructions for making bombs and other destructive devices.
Cloze (Text-related)
1) switch off 2) obliged 3) on the go 4) cope
5) shortage 6) large quantity of 7) pouring in 8) by nature 9) fraction 10) futile
Cloze (Theme-related)
1) advantage 2) wisely 3)faithfully 4)waking 5) includes 6) schedule 7) sticking 8)priorities 9) set 10) respect
Translation
1) They are exploring the new frontiers of medical science in an attempt to find
remedies for incurable diseases/ cures for diseases that are beyond remedy so far.
2) Her unique teaching methods apart, Ms Wilson, my math teacher, never tried to
cram knowledge into my head.
3) The regular weather forecast by the Central TV Station keeps us up with the
changes of weather wherever we go on a trip.
4) The appalling explosion started a big fire and caused the partial collapse of
the building.
5) In the modern world, there are more ways than ever to waste away time, and all
kinds of distractions are eating into our precious time. 2.
Today we are under constant pressure to work longer hours, to produce more, and to possess more. Lots of people hold the wrong perception that happiness lies in working hard and earning well/ good money.
Many women today feel the same stress to work and get ahead and, at the same time, to nurture their offspring and shoulder the burden of domestic responsibilities.
Research shows that workaholism tends to distance us from our immediate families. It forces us to toil longer and longer hours, leaving a minute fraction of our time to be physically and emotionally available to our loved ones. Intimacy among family members is doomed to die in the process.
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