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As His Name Is, So Is He!
New Horizon College English
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As His Name Is, So Is He!
I. Background information
II. Watch and Discuss 
III. Culture differences 
IV. Fun Time 
V.
Text
VI. Compound Dictation 
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Background Information
Names
For this reading passage, we
have many proper names,
which contain cultural
background. The following
is a brief explanation of the
names that appeared in the
reading passage.
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English names and their implications
 Alan
 Charles
 David
 Edward
 John
 英俊的人
 普通一员
 被爱的人
 财富的守卫者
 上帝的礼物
Hi, I am Alan.
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Michael
Richard
Robert
Stephen
William
Victor
上帝的使者
勇敢的人
名声赫赫的人
王冠
强大的捍卫者
胜利者
Richard
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Alice
真理
Angela 天使
Anna
优雅、仁慈
Catherine 纯洁、真诚
Diana
月亮女神
Elizabeth 献身上帝的人
Diana
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•Helen
•Lily
•Mary
•Ruth
•Sarah
•Susanna
•光芒
•百合花
•海上明星
•美丽
•公主
•纯白、可爱
Lily
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Other information for reference
Etymological Elements in First Names
Behind the Name Most Popular Names for
Births in the United States in 2002
Middle Names
Names and Behavior
Names and Personal Identity
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Lead-in Questions
1. How to address your family members?
2. How to address your close friends and
other people?
3. What is the meaning of your Chinese name?
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How to Address People
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Relation
Family
members
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How to address people ?
Ways to address them
Grandfather/mother, mum, dad, uncle, aunt,
niece, nephew, cousin, etc.
1. Title + last name:
Mr./Mrs./Miss Smith
Those you 2. For the people having a job or a high status:
are not
e.g.: Doctor/Judge/Professor Lin
familiar with
3. An informal way:
call last name at work, on sports team or
when talking about sports.
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A Video Clip— The Most Attractive Name
Whose name is the
most attractive one
for you? Enjoy the
video clip and
exchange your
ideas.
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The Most Attractive Name
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Watch & Discuss
Directions:
Watch the video and then discuss the topics as follows:
1. What do names convey to us?
key
2. How do names influence us?
key
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As an important identity of a person in society, a name
carries no other social functions. However, when
choosing names for themselves or for their children,
people generally enrich the names with special implied
meanings, expecting that the names could reflect
something more favorable. Thus, throughout history,
every country has formed their own system of names. In
English-speaking countries, for example, people take
into account the following factors. First names must
sound pleasant and attractive. Second names carry
special implications. Besides, choosing names is also
affected by the concept of social values. For instance,
Americans tend to name people after heroes.
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In the traditional Chinese culture, people attached
great importance to names, as evidenced in the old
saying “It’s more important to teach children skills
than grant them a thousand pieces of gold, whereas
it’s even more important to bestow good names on
children than teach them skills”(赐子千金，不如教子
一艺；教子一艺，不如赐子好名). People believe a
name reveals one’s emotion, will and ambition, and
symbolizes one’s image, qualities and tastes. An
elegant name which fits a person can imply
psychological guidance, give him self-confidence,
contribute to his success and accompany him for
the whole life. As a result, people make painstaking
efforts to choose
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A distinctive and meaningful name is characteristic or
descriptive of a person. Although people choose names for
varying preferences, a good name may shape an image of
statesman of great ambition and impressive carriage, or
businessman of extraordinary intelligence and capability, or
scholar of great attainments and high moral characters.
Just as an Chinese saying goes “You hear the name as if
you meet the person.”(闻其名如见其人), a pleasing name
can leave good impression, promote interpersonal
relationship and guarantee successful communication.
However, an unsuitable name may result in bias
against the person, just as shown in the video.
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We all admit that names do influence us in different ways,
but any overestimation of their effects on us , as many
people put it, is just a fatalism(宿命论). No matter what
differences names make to our life and career, their
symbolic function can never be changed. As a matter of
fact, names themselves by no means lead to success or
professional achievements in one’s life. Therefore, if your
name fits you, keep it; if you don’t feel like your name,
change it for a better one.
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Culture differences
1. An English name consists of first / given name,
middle name and family name /surname;
William Jeremy Smith (full name)
William (first name/given name)
Mr. Smith (title+surname)
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My name is Diane Nora James.
What do people call me before
I get married ?


Nora

Diane

Miss James
I will adopt my
husband’s family
name.
How do they
address me after I
get married?
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Fun Time 
Loneliness knows me by name
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Fun Time 
Loneliness knows me by name by Westlife
Loneliness is always looking for a friend
It found me once and it has been around since then
Loneliness is never waiting by the door
It sweeps right through and it will never be ignored
Why, why was I chosen?
Why am I left without?
The love of my life, the love that I need
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The love that they say is in life for free
The love of my dreams, the love that I want
Loneliness knows me by name
Loneliness knows everything I keep inside
My endless thoughts in the silence of the night
Loneliness is the one who made me see
In nobody else who can make a change but me
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Why, why was I chosen?
Why am I left without?
The love of my life, the love that I need
The love that they say is in life for free
The love of dreams, the love that I want
Loneliness knows me by name
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Less is more and that would be the vacant space
The cried out tears and a never ending maze
I have found what only loneliness provides
A strength within knowing I will find
The love of my life, the love that I need
The love that they say is in life for free
The love of dreams, the love that I want
Loneliness knows me by name
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New Words
Text Learning
Paragraph Writing
Chinese Equivalents of English
Text Understanding
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1. elegant
2. application
3. impulsively
4. substitute
5. professional
6. talent
7. Bible
8. definition
9. characteristic
10. descriptive
a.
n.
ad.
vt./n.
a./n.
n.
n.
n.
a./n.
a.
优雅的；文雅的
[C,U]申请；应用；使用
冲动地
代替/[C]代替者；替代物
职业的；专业的/[C]专业人员
[C,U]天才，天赋；[U]天才
(the 〜)《圣经》
[C] 定义；释义
特有的；典型的/[C]特点
描写的；描述的
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11. approval
12. disapproval
13. reserve
14. plainness
15. convey
16. specific
17. latter
18. qualify
19. critic
n.
n.
n./vt.
n.
vt.
a.
a./n.
v.
n.
[U]赞成；同意；批准；认可
[U]反对；不赞成
[U]克制;[C]储备/储备；预定
[U]不好看；平常
传达；表达
特有的;特定的;具体的;明确的
(两者中)后者的/后者
(使)有资格；取得资格
[C] 评论家；批评家
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20. prominent
21. by-line
22. refine
refined
23. attractive
24. impressive
25. stereotype
a.
n.
vt.
a.
a.
a.
vt./n.
重要的；知名的
26. extent
27. confess
n.
v.
[sing., U] 程度
[C] 作者署名处
使变得文雅；提炼；精炼
有教养的；高雅的
动人的；有吸引力的
使人印象深刻的
对······有成见/[C] 模式化的想
法
承认；供认；招供
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28. carpenter
29. physicist
30. Pope
31. nursery
nursery school
32. thoughtful
33. creature
34. award
35. Dr.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
n.
vt./n.
abbr.
[C]
[C]
[C]
[C]
[C]
木匠，木工
物理学家
教皇
托儿所
幼儿园
深思的；思考的；体贴的；
[C] 生物；人
授予；给予/[C]奖金；奖品
博士；医生
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a./n.
客观的/ [C] 目标
ad.
客观地
37. appealing
a.
吸引人的；悦人的
38. popularity
n.
[U] 受欢迎；流行
39. despair
vi./n.
失望；绝望/ [U] 失望；绝望
40. label
n./vt.
fill out
[C]称号；绰号；标签/ 把······
归类；描述；给······加标签
填写
if only
就算······都行；哪怕······也好
36. objective
objectively
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for better or (for) worse
even so
turn down
come up to
press for
ill at ease
free from
take charge of
be stuck with
无论好坏；不管怎样
即使如此；尽管这样
拒绝
走近，靠近
催促；竭力争取
不自在
无······的；不涉及······的
负责；管理
被迫拥有或使用
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Debbie
Lynne
Webster
Joe
Arthur
Adrian
Susan
Harry
Nigel
戴比（人名）
林恩（人名）
韦伯斯特（人名）
乔（人名）
阿瑟（人名）
艾德里安（人名）
苏珊（人名）
哈里（人名）
奈杰尔（人名）
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Bertha
伯莎（人名）
Mel
梅尔（人名）
Julian
朱利安（人名）
Rory
罗里（人名）
Herbert Harari
赫伯特·哈拉里（人名）
San Diego
圣迭戈(美国加利福尼亚州港市)
John McDavid
约翰·麦克戴维（人名）
Elmer
埃尔默（人名）
Hubert
休伯特（人名）
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Michael
迈克尔（人名）
Thomas V. Busse
托马斯·V·布塞（人名）
Louisa Seraydarian 路易莎·瑟拉里达里安（人名）
Linda
琳达（人名）
Diane
黛安（人名）
Barbara
芭芭拉（人名）
Carol
卡罗尔（人名）
Cindy
辛迪（人名）
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句型
Para. 1 For her first twenty-four years, she’d been
known as Debbie—a name that didn’t suit her
good looks and elegant manner. “My name has
always made me think I should be a cook,” she
complained. “I just don’t feel like a Debbie.”
Para. 2a One day, while filling out an application
form for a publishing job, the young woman
impulsively substituted her middle name, Lynne,
for her first name Debbie. 句型
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Para. 2b “That was the smartest thing I ever
did,” she says now. “As soon as I stopped
calling myself Debbie, I felt more comfortable
with myself ... 句型 and other people started to
take me more seriously.” Two years after her
successful job interview, the former waitress
is now a successful magazine editor. Friends
and associates call her Lynne.
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Para. 3a Naturally, the name change didn’t
cause Debbie/Lynne’s professional
achievement—but it surely helped if only by
adding a bit of self-confidence to her talents.
Social scientists say that what you’re called
can affect your life. Throughout history,
names have not merely identified people but
also described them.
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Para. 3b “As his name is, so is he.” says the Bible,
and Webster’s Dictionary includes the following
definition of name: “a word or words expressing
some quality considered characteristic or
descriptive of a person or a thing, often expressing
approval or disapproval”. Note well “approval or
disapproval”. For better or worse, qualities such as
friendliness or reserve, plainness or charm may be
suggested by your name and conveyed to other
people before they even meet you.
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Para. 4a Names become attached to specific
images, as anyone who’s been called “a plain
Jane” or “just an average Joe” can show. The
latter name particularly bothers me since my
name is Joe, which some think makes me more
qualified to be a baseball player than, say, an
art critic. Yet, despite this disadvantage, I did
manage to become an art critic for a time.
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Para. 4b Even so, one prominent
magazine consistently refused
to print “Joe” in my by-line,
using my first initials, J. S.,
instead. 句型 I suspect that
if I were a more refined Arthur
or Adrian, the name would have
appeared complete.
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Para. 5a Of course, names with a positive
sense can work for you and even encourage
new acquaintances. A recent survey showed
that American men thought Susan to be the
most attractive female name, while women
believed Richard and David were the most
attractive for men. One woman I know turned
down a blind date with a man named Harry
because “he sounded dull”.
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Para. 5b Several evenings later, she
came up to me at a party, pressing for
an introduction to a very impressive
man; they’d been exchanging glances
all evening. “Oh,” I said. “You mean
Harry.” She was ill at ease.
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Para. 6a Though most of us would like
to think ourselves free from such
prejudiced notions, we’re all guilty of
name stereotyping to some extent.
句型
Confess: Wouldn’t you be surprised to
meet a carpenter named Nigel? A
physicist named Bertha? A Pope Mel?
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Para. 6b Often, we project name-based
stereotypes on people, as one woman
friend discovered while taking charge of
a nursery school’s group of four-year-olds.
“There I was, trying to get a little active
boy named Julian to sit quietly and read a
book—and pushing a thoughtful creature
named Rory to play ball. I had their
personalities confused because of their
names!”
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Para. 7a Apparently, such prejudices can affect
classroom achievement as well. In a study
conducted by Herbert Harari of San Diego State
University, and John McDavid of Georgia State
University, teachers gave consistently lower grades
on essays apparently written by boys named Elmer
and Hubert than they awarded to the same papers
when the writers’ names were given as Michael and
David. However, teacher prejudice isn’t the only
source of classroom difference.
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Para. 7b Dr. Thomas V. Busse and Louisa
Seraydarian of Temple University found those
girls with names such as Linda, Diane, Barbara,
Carol, and Cindy performed better on objectively
graded IQ and achievement tests than did girls
with less appealing names. (A companion study
showed girls’ popularity with their peers was
also related to the popularity of their names—
although the connection was less clear for boys.)
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Para. 8 Though your parents probably meant
your name to last a lifetime, remember that
when they picked it they’d hardly met you, and
the hopes and dreams they valued when they
chose it may not match yours. If your name no
longer seems to fit you, don’t despair; you
aren’t stuck with the label.句型 Movie stars
regularly change their names, and with some
determination, you can, too.
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2.
3.
4.
5.
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fill out an application form
take sb. seriously
identify people
more qualified to be a player
encourage new acquaintances
1. 填写申请表
2. 认真对待某人
3. 识别人
4. 更适合做运动员
5. 有助于结识新朋友
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Paragraph Writing
Writing
写作模式
写作实践
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Point of view: A general point of view is
stated at the beginning of the paragraph
Comparison: Next comes the specific
illustration through comparison
Result: At last comes the conclusion related
to the topic
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Example:
However, teacher prejudice isn’t the
only source of classroom difference.
(Point of view)
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Dr. Thomas V. Busse and Louisa
Seraydarian of Temple University
found those girls with names such as
Linda, Diane, Barbara, Carol, and
Cindy performed better on objectively
graded IQ and achievement tests than
did girls with less appealing names.
(Comparison 1) (Result)
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(A companion study showed girls’
popularity with their peers was also
related to the popularity of their
names—although the connection
was less clear for boys.)
(Comparison 2) (Result)
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写作实践
Directions: Have a look at the
following outline and the sample
paragraph which presents a point of
view followed by a comparison and a
result.
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Point of view: Speaking is imitation.
Comparison:
● Speaking native language: use the
same grammar, vocabulary, and
pronunciation as people around
● Speaking foreign language: imitate
grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation
of native speakers
Result: correct and natural way of
speaking
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[Sample Composition]
Speaking is imitation. (Point of view)
When you speak your native language,
you don’t make up your own grammar,
vocabulary, or pronunciation. You use
the same grammar, vocabulary, and
pronunciation as the people around
you.
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Similarly, when trying to speak a
foreign language, your goal is to
imitate the grammar, vocabulary, and
pronunciation of native speakers.
(Comparison) In this way, you can
speak in a correct and natural way,
either your native language or a
foreign language. (Result)
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Writing Assignment
Directions: Write a comparative paragraph
on one of the following topics. One topic
has been given a detailed outline that you
can follow.
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1. Detailed outline:
Point of view: My hometown is very
much like my college town.
Comparison:
My hometown: small town; located in
rural area; surrounded by farmland
My college town: small town; lies in
the center of farmland
Result: My college town makes me feel
at home.
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2. Detailed outline:
Point of view: Books is very much like
friends
Comparison:
Books: good friends, dear to us, give
us pleasure and advice, turn to them
for help when coming across
difficulties
Friends: dear to us, give us advice,
help us when we are in trouble
Result: Books are our good friends
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[参考范文]
My hometown and my college town
have several things in common. (Point
of view) First, my hometown is a small
town. It has a population of only about
10,000 people. Located in a rural area,
it is surrounded by many acres of
farmland which are devoted mainly to
growing corn and soybeans.
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As for my college town, it is small
too. Having a population of about
11,000 local residents, it lies in the
center of farmland which is used to
raise hogs and cattle. (Comparison)
Therefore living in my college town
makes me feel at home. I enjoy it.
(Result)
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人如其名
Para.1 在她人生最初的24年里，人们一直叫她戴
比——一个和她的漂亮容貌和优雅举止不相配的
名字。“我的名字总是使我觉得自己应该是一个
厨子，” 她抱怨道，“我真的不想要戴比这个名
字。”
Para.2a 一天，在填写一份出版工作职位的申请表
时，这位小姐一时冲动，用她的中名林恩替了她
的名字戴比。
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Para. 2b “这是我一生中干得最漂亮的一件
事，” 现在她对人这样说，“一旦我不再
称自己为戴比，我就感到好多了······ 而且
其他人也开始更认真地对待我了。” 顺利
地通过那次工作面试两年后，这位昔日的女
服务员现在成了一位成功的杂志编辑。朋友
和同事们都叫她林恩。
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Para. 3a 当然，戴比（或林恩）的职业成
就并不是改名带来的，但是这肯定给她带
来了好处，虽说改名仅使她对自己的才能
增加了一点点自信。社会科学家认为你叫
什么名字会影响你的生活。从古至今，名
字不仅被用来识别人，而且也被用来描述
人。
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Para. 3b《圣经》上说：人如其名。此外，《韦伯
斯特大词典》也对名字作了如下的定义：表达某种
特点的一个或几个字，这种特点被认为反映了某人
或某事的本质，或描述了某人某事，常表示嘉许或
不赞成的意思。请好好注意这几个词：“嘉许或不
赞成”。不管是好是坏，诸如友好或拘谨、相貌平
平或漂亮妩媚等特征已经在你的名字中有所暗示，
甚至他人在见到你本人之前就已经知道你的这些特
征了。
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Para. 4a 名字是与特定形象相关联的，任
何一个被称为“相貌平常的简”或“普普
通通的乔”的人都能证明这一点。后面的
那个名字特别使我烦恼，因为我也叫乔。
有些人认为这个名字使我更适合于做一名
棒球运动员而不是别的什么职业，比如说
艺术评论家。然而，尽管有此局限，我确
实曾一度设法成为了一名艺术评论家。
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Para. 4b 即便如此，一家
著名杂志一直拒绝把“乔”
作为我的文章署名，而是用
我名字的首字母 J. S. 来代
替。我怀疑，假如我的名字
是比较文雅的阿瑟或艾德里
安的话，我的名字早已完整
地出现在杂志上了。
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Para. 5a 当然，有积极含义的名字对你是
有好处的，甚至能促进你结交新朋友。最
新调查表明：美国男士认为苏珊是最有吸
引力的女性名字，而女士则认为理查德和
戴维是最有吸引力的男性名字。我认识一
位女士，她就拒绝了一次与一位叫哈里的
男人见面，因为“这人的名字听上去没
劲”。
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Para. 5b 可就在几天后
的一个晚间聚会上，她走
到我身边，催我把她介绍
给一位气度不凡的男人；
他们俩人整个晚上都在互
送秋波。“哦，” 我说：
“你指的是哈里呀。”
她听了后感到很尴尬。
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Para. 6a 虽然我们中大多数人会认为自
己没有这样的偏见，但在某种程度上，我
们都多多少少对名字产生过成见。说实话，
你碰到一个名叫奈杰儿的木匠会不会感到
惊讶呢? 或是一个叫伯莎的物理学家? 抑
或是一个叫梅尔的教皇?
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Para. 6b 正如我的一位女性朋友在照看托儿
所里四岁的儿童时所发现的那样，我们常常把
由名字引起的固有想法加到他人身上。“在托
儿所里，有一次我想让一个很活跃的名叫朱利
安的小男孩静静地坐下来看书，而把一个喜欢
沉思、名叫罗里的孩子推出去打球。因为他们
的名字，我把他们的性格给搞混了!”
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Para. 7a 很明显，这样的偏见也会影响课堂成绩。
在一项由圣迭戈州立大学的赫伯特·哈拉里及乔治
亚州立大学的约翰·麦克戴维主持的研究中发现，
教师总是给署名为埃尔默和休伯特的作文打较低
的分数，但当把这两篇作文的署名改为迈克尔和
戴维时，老师给的分数就要高些。但是教师的偏
见不是造成课堂成绩差别的唯一原因。
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Para. 7b 坦普尔大学的托马斯·V·布塞博士和
路易莎·瑟拉里达里安发现：那些名叫琳达、
黛安、芭芭拉、卡罗尔及辛迪之类的女孩们在
评分较客观的智力测验和学业成绩测验中的表
现比那些名字不太有吸引力的女孩要好。（一
个与之相关的研究表明：女孩受同伴欢迎的程
度也与她们的名字受欢迎的程度有关系，虽然
对男孩来说这种关系不太明显。）
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Para. 8 虽然你父母很可能想让你的名字
用一辈子，但记住，他们选这个名字的时
候几乎还没有见到你呢。而且，他们在选
名字时所看重的希望和梦想也许并不符合
你的希望和梦想。如果你的名字看上去已
不再适合你，不要苦恼；你不必一辈子用
这个名字。影星们就经常改名，下点决心，
你也可以这样做。
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给······增添······
to add sth. to
sth. else
一连串的小成功为他向更大的
成就奋斗增添了信心。
A succession of little successes adds
confidence to his striving for a greater
one.
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无论好坏/不管怎样
for better or (for)
worse
不论怎样，人们彼此真诚的牵挂会增进相
互间的友谊。
For better or worse, people’s sincere
concern for each other will add to their
friendship.
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给某人传递某事
to convey sth.
to sb.
他正是通过不停发短信向女孩传递着他深深的
眷恋之情。
It is through a constant flow of short
messages that he conveys to the girl his
strong attachment to her.
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附属于
to become attached
to
女人最悲惨的事,莫过于对男人的依附。
The saddest thing about women is that
they become attached to men.
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有助于
to work for
最有助于一个人成长的是逆耳忠言。
What most works for one’s growth is
honest advice unpleasant to the ear.
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催促/竭力争取
to press for
具有讽刺意味的是，你现在竭力争取的恰恰
是你未曾珍惜的。
It is ironic that what you press for now is
just what you once failed to cherish.
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不自在
to be ill at ease
换位思考有助于我们学会使局促不安的
人放松下来。
Standing in another’s shoes helps us
learn how to ease those ill at ease.
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把 ······附 加 在 某 人
身上
to project sth.
on sb.
问题的关键，是父母们把自己的一厢情愿附加
在孩子们身上。
What matters is that parents project their
one-sided wishes on their children.
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负责/管理
to take charge of
每个公民一旦懂得为自己的言行负责之时，则是诚
信回归社会之日。
Once every citizen knows to take charge
of his words and deeds, it will be the day
when honesty comes back into society.
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被······束缚/
被······所困
to be stuck with sth.
她由于受思维定式所困，无法从其痛苦中解脱出来。
Stuck with the fixed pattern of thinking,
she could not lift herself out of her pain.
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人如其名
As His Name Is, So Is He!
As sth. be / do, so be / do sth. else. 甲
事物如同乙事物。
用于强调“事物的相关性”。
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天道酬勤。
As ways of heaven are, so are rewards
for diligence.
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一天，在填写一份出版工作职位的申请表时，这
位小姐一时冲动，用她的中名林恩替换了她的名
字戴比。
One day, while filling out an application
form for a publishing job, the young
woman impulsively substituted her
middle name, Lynne, for her first name
Debbie.
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One day, while doing sth., sb.
impulsively did sth. else. 一天，在做某
事时，某人心血来潮做了另一事。
用于表述“事情发生的偶然性”。
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一天，在苹果树下休息时，牛顿心血
来潮自问道：为什么苹果往地上掉？
One day, while resting under an apple
tree, Newton impulsively asked himself
why the apples fell down to the earth.
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一旦我不再称自己为戴比，我就感到好多了······
As soon as I stopped calling myself
Debbie, I felt more comfortable with
myself…
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As soon as one stops doing sth. /
stops to do sth., one feels comfortable
/ uncomfortable with oneself. 一旦某人
不再做某事／停下来去做某事，某人就感
觉舒服／不舒服。
用于强调“某事对某人的影响作用”。
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一旦他停下手头的事，去玩
网络游戏，他就感到很舒服。
As soon as he stopped to play online
games, he felt very comfortable with
himself.
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······我确实曾一度设法成为了一名艺术评论家。即
便如此，一家著名杂志一直拒绝把“乔”作为我的
文章署名，而是用我名字的首字母 J. S. 来代替。
…I did manage to become an art critic for a
time. Even so, one prominent magazine
consistently refused to print “Joe” in my
by-line, using my first initials, J. S., instead.
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Sb. do sth. Even so, sb. else refuse to
do sth. else. 某人做了某事。即便如此，
另一人仍拒绝做另一事。
用于强调“人做事的不易”。
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他的确在公开场合为自己的做法表示了歉
意。即便如此，国家队仍不能原谅他。
He did express his apology in public for
his conduct. Even so, the national team
refused to forgive him.
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虽然我们中大多数人会认为自己没有这样的偏见，
但在某种程度上，我们都多多少少对名字产生过
成见。
Though most of us would like to think
ourselves free from such prejudiced
notions, we’re all guilty of name
stereotyping to some extent.
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Though sb. would like to think himself
free from …, sb. be …. 虽然某人认为自
己没有······，但是······(并非如此)
用于表述“人的愿望与现实的差异”。
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虽然我们都认为自己不受金钱
的诱惑，但我们常常为赚钱所
困, 而不能自拔。
Though we all like to think ourselves
free from the lure of money, we are
often stuck in money making.
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如果你的名字看上去已不再适合你，不要苦恼；
你不必一辈子用这个名字。
If your name no longer seems to fit
you, don’t despair; you aren’t stuck
with the label.
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If sth. no longer seem to do sth., there
is no need to do sth. else; …. (建议／
劝 导 ) 如 果 某 事 似 乎 不 再 ······ ， 不
必······；······
用于表述“建议或劝导”。
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如果你的人生目标似乎不再适合你，
不必勉强。你最好考虑换个目标。
If the target for your life no longer
seems to fit you, there is no need to
compel yourself. You’d better entertain
an alternative target.
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Text Understanding
Although names are generally used as signs
in social life to distinguish one person from
another, they can make a great difference to
a person. Life will be different because of
changing an appealing name.
The text shows us some examples. Now
make lists of the major points.
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Part I: The importance of names (Para. 1~3)
1. Who’s Debbie? Why didn’t she like this name?
• A former waitress.
• It didn’t suit her good looks and elegant
manner.
• It made her think she should be a cook.
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2. According to Debbie, what difference did it
make when she changed her name to Lynne?
• Felt more comfortable.
• Other people started to
take her more seriously.
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3. What did the writer think of Debbie’s name
change?
• No use for Debbie’s professional
achievement.
• Add a bit of self-confidence to her talents.
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Part II. The positive and negative effects of
names on life. (Para. 4~7)
4. Which name bothers the art critic a lot?
Jane, Joe, Arthur or Adrian? Why?
• Average Joe;
• Not qualified to be …
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5. What did the woman feel when she knew the
impressive man was Harry? Why?
• Ill at ease
• Turn down a blind date
with him because of his
name.
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6. What’s the personality of Julian?
What about Rory ?
• Julian
• Rory
active
quiet & thoughtful
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7. Why do some students do better than others
on the same essay?
• Boys with less appealing names will be given
lower grades.
• Name prejudices affect classroom achievement.
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Part III. The necessity of changing names. (Para.8)
8. According to the writer, what can you
do if your name doesn’t seem to fit you?
• With some determination, you can change
your name.
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Summary
This writer describes ways names can make a
difference. One woman didn’t like her former
_____
name because it didn’t suit her ___________
appearance or
elegant manner and made her think she should
be a cook. When she used her _______
middle name
for her first, she felt more comfortable with
herself, other people started to take her more
________
seriously and gave her added __________.
confidence So
some social scientists say that what you’re
called can affect your life. One __________
prominent
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magazine consistently refused to print the
writer’s name because his name made him more
qualified
________ to be a baseball player than an art
critic. Other names would have been printed
completely. At a party, another woman was ill
at ease because the man whom she wanted the
_______
writer to introduce her to was the same person
she had ___________
turned down for a blind date because
of his name.
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Compound Dictation
Directions: You will hear a
passage three times. When
the passage is read for the
second time, you are required
to fill in the blanks numbered
from S1 to S8 with the exact
words you have just heard. For
blanks numbered S9 to S11 you
are required to fill in missing
information. For these blanks,
you can either use the exact
words you have just heard or
write down the main points in
your own words. Now listen to
the passage.
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What’s the big question US presidential
candidates should be asking themselves? Is my
name short enough?
glance at the credits
You only have to [S01] ______
on a Hollywood [S02] movie
_____ to see the
polysyllabic, ethnic diversity of surnames in the
melting pot of the United States.
great [S03] _______
voting for a
But when it comes to [S04] ______
president, the gene pool shrinks rapidly, and
the [S05]preference
__________ is for monikers that are
blunt and Anglo-Saxon.
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So if you want to find a way of [S06] __________
forecasting
who is going to win the race for the presidency,
look at the lengths and [S07] ______
origins of their names.
The pattern since World War II has been for
candidates with increasingly [S08] _____
short , posterfriendly names. And preferably sounding like they
could be the leaders in a mini-series. In the last
the names couldn’t
electoral battle, in 2000, [S09] _________________
have got any shorter with a two-syllable play-off
__________________
between George Bush and AL Gore.
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Perhaps the Republicans have already
[S10]___________________________________
rumbled
this short-name advantage
_______________________________.
In the three decades since Richard Nixon was
turned out of office, Ronald Reagan [S11]_____
has
________________________________________
been
the only Republican candidate with a
_____________________________.
surname
longer than one syllable Coincidence?
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