Unit 8

Pair work

1.       She was amazed at the author’s ability to do mental calculation.

2.       Children can’t spell correctly; their knowledge of word history and geography is non-existent

3.       He didn’t want to compete with the hard-working Asians at U.C.L.A. He preferred a less intellectually challenging life.

4.       A modern industrial state cannot function with an idle, ignorant labor force.

5.       To use the media to dramatize and drive home the message to today’s teenagers.

6.       He is fed up with the book he is forced to red.

7.       They can’t read or write. They place their hopes on their children.

8.       He works as a cleaner in a factory owned by the Japanese.

9.       Because he has no education, no useful skill, and no discipline.

10.   Americans stop demanding good education foe children. Machines do all the complex work and there is little manual work to be done. America is poorer than Japan and European countries.

11.   Hard work education, saving and discipline help a nation rise from the ashes.

12.   He finally comes to realize the importance of study.

Work on your own

1.

Part one    paras.1-10

  Teenagers’ idleness and ignorance will produce serious effects on all concerned and society as a whole.

Part two    paras.11-24

  Kevin 1990 comes to realize in his dream how greatly lack of education costs his forebears, himself, his children and the society they live in, and how important it is to study hard.

2.

Part one

Teenagers’ intellectual laziness and ignorance

Part two

Kevin 1990, his forebears(with the exception of his intellectual father),and his children lead a poor, miserable life.

America is on the decline.

There is no law and order in the country.

America children have no chance to receive a good education.

Businesses in America are owned by wealthy Europeans and Asians.

Language sense enhancement

Indifference   (1)

Summed up   (2)

Preferred     (3)

Financial    （4）

Accumulated （5）

Intellectual   （6）

Affect       （7）

Industrial    （8）

Idle         （9）

Break down  （10）

I  Vocabulary

1.

1.     industrial

2.     idle

3.     is functioning

4.     intellectual

5.     scared

6.     handful

7.     luxury

8.     private

9.     work up

10.  slice

11.  miracle

12.  was jammed

2.

1.  to be seriously affected by the rise in gas prices。

2.  is a matter of total indifference to me.

3.  drove home the point that they needed extra people

4.  was found after they searched for it for a long time

5.  had run out of water by the time they got to the camp

3.

1. manual    and complex     its financial

2. was very upset     make a living by     swore    was/became much better off

3. handful   ignorant of       paintings/ works summed up

II

1.     The young man made $5 an hour in his summer job.

2.     What made you change your mind?

3.     I’m sure Jason will make a good lawyer.

4.     The vet put something down the dog’s throat to make it vomit.

5.     The story makes interesting reading.

6.     Five and five make ten.

7.     On foot they can only make about 20 miles a day.

8.     I don’t think she’ll ever really make it to the top

III

1 

(1) developing

(2) develop

(3) development

(4) develop

(5) developing  developed

2

(1) amazed

(2) amazes

(3) amazingly

(4) amazing

(5) amazement

Comprehensive exercise

I.                  CLOZE

1. TEXT-RELATED

(1) complex

(2) idle

(3) make a living by

(4) accumulated

(5) affect

(6) function

(7) faculties

(8) ignorant

(9) wake up

2. THEME-RELATED

(1) dormitory

(2) passing

(3) leaping

(4) department

(5) burned

(6) destroyed

(7) seriously

(8) marriages

(9) report

(10) perspective

II TRANSLATION

1)    Without his personal file, an applicant can hardly expect to get/ be employed as a teacher.

2)    With enough ice, we would be able to chill the drinks.

3)    In my humble opinion, reading us the most pleasant way to spend one’s leisure.

4)    Some people said it was simply a miracle that the American athlete Michael Phelps won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

5)    The washing machine has broken down, so we have to wash our clothes by hand.

This morning I heard an interesting piece of news over my portable radio: a man of 36 and his son of 10 attend the same class competing with each other for high marks. The story goes/ It’s like this:

The man, Li Wei by name, was too idle to learn anything when young. With little education, with no useful skills, he could hardly earn an adequate living wage. His life experiences drove home to him the point that he had to acquire knowledge before he was able to accumulate wealth. So Li Wei swore that he would go to school with his son, determined to learn.