Teaching Plan
(U.1 of B.V.NCE)
Love Of Reading
I. Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. grasp the main idea and structure of the text;
2. understand the value of reading and learn from the
writer one of the best ways in reading;
3. learn a few useful writing techniques such as using
a mixture of long and short sentences, simple and
complex structures, various openers, as well as the
proper deployment of details;
4. master the key language points and grammatical
structures in the text;
5. conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking
and writing activities related to the theme of the unit.
Time Allotment
periods
content
1st & 2nd
Pre-reading (questions, recording listening;
while
reading:
title,
structure,
global
understanding of the main idea
3rd & 4th
While reading: writing techniques, understanding
and practice of language points
5th & 6th
Post reading: check on some of
exercises; practical exercise book V
7th & 8th
Theme-Related Language learning tasks; check on
Ss’home reading of Text B; fast reading( text A-2,
text B-1
after-text
I.Pre-reading tasks
A.topics for oral presentation (ppt)
* Reading Makes A Success
2
* The Value Of Reading
* The Book J Am Most Interested In.…
. B.Questions and Answers
1. Do you think reading is important in life?
why or why not?
. 2. Are you an ardent lover of reading? If so, how
did you develop a passion for reading?
. 3. What are favorite books? Why do they appeal to you?
. 4.Could you name a book or two that greatly
influenced your thinking ? Explain briefly.
I.
IV. While-reading tasks
Why does the writer choose the title One Writer’s
Beginnings , How about if the title were My Beginnings
or his Writer’s Beginnings
1.Q.
1.
Cultural Notes
1. Noah Webster (1758-1843): a US educator
and author, best known for his American
Dictionary of the English Language (1828).
He also helped to establish standard
American spelling of English with The
Elementary Spelling Book (1783). His name
is now used on many dictionaries published
by different US companies.
2. Charles Dickens (1812-1870): an English
writer of novels who combined great
writing with the ability to write popular
stories full of interesting characters. His
many books are mostly about life in
Victorian England and often describe the
harsh conditions in which poor people lived.
His early novels, which include Pickwick
Papers and Oliver Twist, were written in
parts for magazines. His later books include
David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and
Great Expectations
3. Walter Scott (1771-1832): a Scottish
author and poet. Most of his poetry and his
historical novels are based on the traditions
and history of Scotland, especially the
border region. His most famous poems
include The Lay of the Last Minstrel and
The Lady of the Lake, and his best known
novels include Waverley, Rob Roy and
Ivanhoe. All were extremely popular during
his life and influenced many writers in
Britain and Europe.
4. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894): a
Scottish writer of novels. He is best known
for his famous children's adventure stories
Treasure Island and Kidnapped, but he also
wrote poetry for children and the wellknown adult psychological novel The
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr.Hyde.
Because of poor health Stevenson went to
live on the island of Samoa in the Pacific
for the last few years of his life.
5. Jane Eyre: a novel (1847) by Charlotte
Brontě. Jane Eyre is a private teacher for
the daughter of Edward Rochester. Jane and
Mr Rochester fall in love and are about to
marry when she discovers that he already
has a wife, who is mentally ill. Years later
the lovers meet again and marry, although
Rochester has by this time been badly
injured in a fire. The novel is still popular,
mainly for the contrast in character between
Jane and Rochester.
6. Trilby: a novel written by George Louis
Palmella Busson Du Maurier (1834-1896),
English artist and writer, born in Paris. In 1858 he
began to work as a graphic artist. His caricatures
for Punch, Once a Week, and The Cornhill
Magazine, in which he satirized the middle and
upper classes, are of historical value in portraying
the fashionable social life of his time. He
illustrated works by the English novelists William
Makepeace Thackeray, George Meredith, etc.
7. The Woman in White: a novel written by
(William) Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), English
writer, often regarded as the originator of detective
fiction. He was born in London. Unsuccessful at
business and law, he preferred to write. In 1851 he
began a close association with Charles Dickens,
with whom he collaborated on the novel No
Thoroughfare (1867). Collins's mystery thriller
The Woman in White (1860) and the detective
story The Moonstone (1868), which first appeared
in periodicals edited by Dickens, are considered
masterpieces of their respective genres
8. Green Mansions: a novel written by
William Henry Hudson who was an
English novelist,naturalist, and ornithologist.
The novel's title refers to a forest where the
protagonist encounters a tiny girl of the
woods, a figure symbolic of the wilderness's
unsullied beauty. The book is forward-looking in its ecological warning against
civilization's impact on nature. Both his
fictionaland nonfictional writings reflect a
romantic regard for nature and its
inhabitants.
9. King Solomon's Mines: a book (1885) written by
Sir H(enry) Rider Haggard (1856-1925),English
novelist, colonial administrator, and agriculturist.
Haggard's hero, Allan Quatermain who narrates
the story in the first person, and two other
Europeans travel to the remote interior of Africa in
search of a lost friend. They find adventure,
mystery, terror, and the legendary diamond mines
of King Solomon. Haggard apparently drew
inspiration for his tale from the ancient ruins in
Zimbabwe.
10. Mark Twain (1835-1910): the leading US
humorous writer of the 19th century. His real
name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He is
best known for the novels The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer(1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn (1885), but he also wrote travel books and
essays, many of them based on his experiences of
life on the Mississippi River. His other books
include the historical novels The Prince and the
Pauper (1882) and A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court (1889), and Life on the Mississippi
(1889), an account of his early life.
11. Ring Lardner: full name Ringgold Wilmer
Lardner (1885-1933), American writer and
humorist, born in Niles, Michigan. From 1907 to
1919 he was a newspaper columnist and sports
reporter. He first attracted attention with a series
of humorous magazine stories about a young
baseball player, eventually published as You Know
Me, Al (1916). In Treat 'Era Rough (1918)
and The Big Town (1921), Lardner depicted the lives
of ordinary Americans with satirical humor.
12. Thomas Day (1748-1789): English
philanthropist and author, born in London.
Day devoted his inherited fortune to various
philanthropies,
but
he
is
chiefly
remembered for The History of Sanford and
Merton (1783-1789), a didactic story for
children exemplifying the educational
theories of French philosopher Jean Jacques
Rousseau.
13. Grimm: the Grimm Brothers, two 19thcentury German scholars, who were leaders in the
study of philology and folklore. Their names were
Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785-1863) and
Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859).
The Grimm brothers were attracted to old German
folktales, which they collected from many sources
and published as Household Tales (2 volumes,
1812-1815; trans. 1884). The
collection,
expanded in 1857, is known as Grimm's Fairy
Tales. The brothers collaborated on numerous
other works. In 1854 they published the first
volume of the standard German dictionary, which
was completed by other scholars in 1954.
14. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875): Danish
author, whose 150 stories for children such as The
Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, The
Snow Queen, The Red Shoes, and The Little
Mermaid established him as one of the great
figures of world literature and have been
translated into more than 80 languages and have
inspired plays, ballets, films, and works of
sculpture and painting. Born in Odense, he
suffered from poverty and neglect during his
childhood, and when he was 14 years of age he
ran away to Copenhagen. There he worked for
Jonas Collin, director of the Royal Theater, until
Collin raised money to provide him with an
education.
15. All Baba: in folktale, the hero of "Ali Baba and
the Forty Thieves" in the collection of stories
known in English as Arabian Nights. According to
the story, Ali Baba, a poor woodcutter, is gathering
wood in the forest when a band of thieves
approaches. He hides and watches them enter a
cave that opens when they say the words, "Open
Sesame." After they depart, Ali Baba stands before
the cave and gives the command; to his surprise,
the cave opens to reveal an enormous supply of
gold and treasures. Ali Baba packs some of the
gold on his donkeys and returns home. When his
brother Qasim, a rich but hard-hearted
merchant, discovers Ali Baba's new wealth, he
demands an explanation. The next day
Qasim visits the cave and greedily gathers
as much treasure as he can, but forgets the
formula for leaving the cave. He is found
and killed and the thieves soon trace him to
Ali Baba. They plan to kill him too, but Ali
Baba's slave Murganah, discovers and foils
their scheme. In gratitude, Ali Baba frees
Murganah and marriesher (in some variants
of the story, he marries her to his son).
16. Aesop (620?-560? B.C.)" ancient Greek
writer of fables, who is supposed to have
been a freed slave from Thrace. His name
became attached to a collection of beast
fables long transmitted through oral
tradition. The beast fables are part of the
common culture of the Indo-European
peoples and constitute perhaps the most
widely read collection of fables in world
literature.
17. Robin Hood: a character in traditional British
stories, who is said to have lived in Sherwood
Forest near Nottingham during the rule of King
Richard I (1189-1199). His companions (usually
called his Merry Men) included Friar Tuck, Little
John and Will Scarlet, and his lover was Maid
Marian. Together they robbed rich people and gave
money to poor people, and their enemy was the
Sheriff of Nottingham. There is no evidence that
Robin Hood ever existed but there are many
stories about him and many films have been made
about his adventures. In these he is often shown
wearing clothes made of a material called Lincoln
green, and holding a bow.
18. King Arthur (5th or 6th century): a king
of England who led the Britons in battles
against the Saxons. There are many stories
about King Arthur, e.g. that he pulled his
sword Excalibur from a stone, and that he
sat with his knights at a Round Table.
Nobody knows if the stories are true but
they are very popular and have been used in
poems, plays and films.
19. St. George: a national saint of England. Many
people believe he was a Christian martyr (=person
who is killed because of his or her religious beliefs)
in the third century. According to legend, he killed
a dragon to save a woman. He is often shown in
pictures fighting the dragon
20. Joan of Arc: Joan of Arc, Saint, in French,
Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), called the Maid
Orléans, national heroine and patron saint of
France, who united the nation at a critical hour and
decisively turned the Hundred Years' War in
France's favor. Although Joan had united the
French behind Charles and had put an end to
English dreams of hegemony over France,
Charles opposed any further campaigns against the
English. Therefore, it was without royal support
that Joan conducted (1430) a military operation
against the English at Compiègne, near Paris, She
was captured by Burgundian soldiers, who sold
her to their English allies. The English then turned
her over to an ecclesiastical court at Rouen to be
tried for heresy and sorcery. After 14 months of
interrogation, she was accused of wrongdoing in
wearing masculine dress and of heresy for
believing she was directly responsible to God
rather than to the Roman Catholic Church. The
court condemned her to death. On May 30, 1431,
Joan was burned at the stake in the Old Market
Square at Rouen.
21. The Pilgrim's Progress: a religious novel
written between 1678 and 1684 by John Bunyan.
It is an allegory (= a story in which the characters
and events are symbols representing other things,
such as truths, fears and human qualities) about a
man's journey through life to heaven, The man,
whose name is Christian, meets many symbolic
difficulties on the way, including the Slough of
Despond, Vanity Fair and Giant Despair. He
finally reaches heaven, and his wife and children
follow him.
22. Gulliver's Travels: a novel (1726) by
Jonathan Swift in which he attacked the
British attitude of his time towards religion,
science, the law, etc., using satire. Samuel
Gulliver, an English traveler, visits strange
lands, including Lilliput, where the people
are all tiny, Brobdingnag, where the people
are all giants, and the country of the
Houyhnlmms and the Yahoos, where the
horses are wise and the humans are stupid
and cruel.
23. Walter Crane (1845-1915): an English
artist and member of the Arts and Crafts
Movement. His colorful book illustrations
had a strong influence on the development
of children's books.
I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson
The book to read is not the one which
thinks for you, but the one which
makes you think.
James McCosh
Outside of a dog a book is man's
best. Inside of a dog it's too dark to
read.
Groucho Marx
A book is like a garden carried in the
pocket.
Chinese Proverb
Anyone who has a library and a garden
wants for nothing.
Cicero
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a
good life.
Mortimer J. Adler
He who destroys a good book kills
reason itself.
John Milton
Be as careful of the books you read, as
of the company you keep, for your
habits and character will be as much
influenced by the former as the
latter.
Paxton Hood
Except a living man, there is nothing
more wonderful than a book.
Charles Kingsley
To acquire the habit of reading
is to construct for yourself a refuge
from almost all of the miseries of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
Never read a book through merely
because you have begun it.
John Witherspoon
A good book is the best of friends, the
same today and forever.
Martin Tupper
Wherever they burn books they will
also, in the end, burn human beings.
Heinrich Heine
Books are the quietest and most
constant of friends: they are the
most accessible and wisest of
counsellors, and the most patient of
teachers.
Charles W. Eliot
A library is a hospital for the mind.
Anonymous
Books are not made for furniture, but there
is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes
a house.
Henry Ward Beecher
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to
the body.
Richard Steele
I divide all readers into two classes: Those
who read to remember and those who read
to forget.
William Phelps
If we encounter a man of rare
intellect, we should ask him what
books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a very real sense, people who have read
good literature have lived more than people
who cannot or will not read.
S. I. Hayakawa
The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
Readers may be divided into four classes:
1.) Sponges, who absorb all that they read
and return it in
nearly the same state, only a little dirtied.
2.) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and
are content to get through a book for the
sake of getting through the time.
3.) Strain-bags, who retain merely the
dregs of what they read.
4.) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and
valuable, who profit by what they read,
and enable others to profit by it also.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The best effect of any book is that it
excites the reader to self activity.
Thomas Carlyle
T'is the good reader that makes the
good book.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To acquire the habit of reading is to
construct for yourself a refuge from
almost all the miseries of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
To read without reflecting is like eating
without digesting.
Edmund Burke
We shouldn't teach great books; we should
teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner
The end of reading is not more books but
more life.
Holbrook Jackson
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is
transitory, the other perpetual.
Socrates
Some books are to be tasted, others to
be swallowed, and some few are to be
chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
We are drowning in information but
starved for knowledge.
John Naisbitt
Words are the voice of the heart.
Confucius
We read to know we are not alone.
C.S. Lewis
The books that help you the most are those
which make you think the most.
Theodore Parker
Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to
find out.
Alvin Toffler
An investment in knowledge always pays the
best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Learning is weightless, a treasure you can
always carry easily.
Chinese Proverb
The things I want to know are in books;
my best friend is the man who'll get
me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln
What a school thinks about its library
is a measure of what it thinks about
education.
Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of
2.The structure of the text:
Part One: Paras 1and 2
the main idea: Welty’s mother read to
her when she was very young and
developed in her a strong love for
books.
 presentation: Details are presented
first and then a result is
shown( The last 2 sentences of the
second para. tells us that she
developed a very strong passion for
reading books).
Part Two: Paras 3 to 11
 the main idea: Welty’s parents did all they could
 to help her start reading on her own, thus further
stimulating her interest in reading.
 Presentation: Pay attention to para 3 which carries
the main of this part, that is, the purpose of her
parents’effort.( Her poor parents tried their best or
as the writer says in line 70 “They must sacrificed
to…” to choose right books to make sure their
children could enjoy a good future.
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Mini-task
a).Q: What have your parents done to you to
make sure you will have a good future?
b) Q: Would you tell us a very good gift you
have ever got and why.
c).In this part, quite a few books and writers
are mentioned. T may ask Ss how many or how
much they have read or known them.
d), In this part, the writer, as a child,
divided the books in her family into 4
categories. Have Ss find out what they are.
( they are: books for the whole family;
father’s books; mother’s books and the writer’s
own books)
Part Three: Paras 12 and 13
 the main idea: Reading has enabled Welty to hear a
voice when reading or writing, which is very
helpful in her writing career.
 Presentation: In this part, the writer tells what
she thinks is the best way in reading. Can you get
it?( It is implied in the topic sentence{ 1st
sentence of para 12 }”Ever since I was first read
to, then started reading to myself, there has
never been a line read that I did not
hear.[ That’s why the writer says in line
 80 that while she read books she located herself
in these pages.])
V. Writing Technique
 Inversion or shift of part of a sentence for the
sake of emphasis. Exs:
 1. …that any room in my house,…… or to be read
to ( L.1)
2.Here to help us grow up arguing around the dining
room table were…( L.29)
3.In the “library” inside the bookcase were
books…(L.32)
 4.To both my parents I owe my early acquaintance
with a beloved Mark Twain ( L.40)
 5.
… but of him no mention is made on the title
page of this book; (L.47)
 6. Whether I am right to trust so far I don’t know.
( L.106)
 7.
My own words, when I am at work on a
story…that I hear when I read in books. ( L.109)
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V. Have Ss paraphrase some sentences:
 1.It was my ambition…before I brought her
butter. ( L.9)
 2. I was ready for them, committed to…. ( L20 )
 3.… But though it must have been something of
a strain on his salary. ( L.23 )
 4.… those were the volumes that in time united
us all, parents and children. ( L.42 )
 5. … anger and rescue allotted to the rich and
the poor respectively. ( L.51 )
 6.I live in gratitude to my parents for
initiating me …by way of the alphabet. ( L.92 )
 7.Whether I am right to trust so far I don’t
know. (106)
VI. Have Ss understand and practice some key and
active language points
A. presentation by teachers
1.tick: make light, regularly repeated sounds;
put a small mark against (names, figures, etc.)
to show that sth. is correct
Exs: While we
ticking away
waited
the
taxi's
meter
kept
Tick the sentence that best describes your
feelings.
n.
Exs: The ticks made us all dose off in such a
stuffy day.
Put a tick in a box next to your answer.
2.rhythm: regular successions of weak and strong stresses,
accents,sounds of movements (in speech, music, dancing,
etc.)
Exs: Sleeping pills upset the normal rhythms of sleep.
Children began to move together to the rhythm of the music.
in rhythm
Ex: The young mother was rocking the cradle in rhythm.
3.churn: move sth. energetically in different directions
Exs: The fish churned (up) the water when we threw into
food.
The village woman churned the milk until it turned into
butter.
4.sob: draw in breath sharply and irregularly from
sorrow or pain, esp. while crying; make a sound like that
of sobbing
Exs:I found her sobbing in the bedroom because she'd
broken her favorite doll.
“ What can be worse than this? She sobbed.
n. act or sound of sobbing
Exs: I could feel mother controlling her sobs from the
next room.
Her body shook with sobs.
5.read off finish reading ( off in this phrase means an
arranged event is stopped or given up in advance)
Exs: The football has been called off this afternoon
because of snow.
His hockey match was rained off (= stopped because of
rain )
6.carry off to deal successfully with sth. difficult; to win a prize
Ex
Exs: It’s a demanding role, but I’m sure she’ll be able to carry it off.
At last week’s Oscars, a small number of films carried off nearly all
the prizes.
7. illiterate: (sb.)unable to read or write; with little or no education
Exs
Exs: It is reported that a surprising percentage of the population in
the town are illiterate.
They know nothing and they need nothing –they are completely illiterate.
She has to teach a class of illiterates.
8.strain pressure caused by a difficult situation
Exs : This war will still put a great strain on the economy
I don’t think our relationship can stand the strain of another move.
All that lifting is putting his back under severe strain.
v. T
Exs
try hard to do sth.
Exs: I strained to hear what they were saying.
I could not keep up with him, without straining myself.
He strained his eyes (=tried very hard to see ) in the dim light.
9.order/send away for
write to a person or an organization asking them
to send sth. to you
Exs: I’ve sent away for details of their holiday packages.
Some are used to ordering away for what they need online.
10. sink into: indulge in, be absorbed into
Exs: As the months went by, he sank into a deep depression.
She was furious with her boss and sank into fantasies of revenge.
11
11.elope: (of a woman) run away from home with a lover, usually to
get married
Exs:
Asher parents didn't allow her to get married, she
decided to
elope with her lover.
It turned out that she eloped with her tutor.
12. discourse: communicate in speeches or writing
Exs: Civilized discourse between the two countries has become
impossible.
We rarely entered into discourse about anything more
interesting than the weather.
13.
respectively:
separately or in turn, and in the order
mentioned
Exs: In the 200 meters, Lily and Sarah came first and third
respectively (=Lily won the race and Sarah was third).
Their sons, Henry and Ben, were three and six respectively.
14. moral: that which a story, event or experience teaches
(followed by of/to) standards of behavior, principles of right
and wrong (used in plural)
Exs: The moral of / to the story is that honesty is always the
best policy.
Most of the Chinese fables carry some morals.
It is certainly not true that all young people have no morals.
adj. concerning principles of right and wrong; good and virtuous
Ex: Those who campaign against the death penalty believe they are
on a moral crusade.
15.engrave: cut or carve (lines, words, designs, etc.) on a
hard surface; impress deeply (on the memory or mind)
Exs: Terrible memory was engraved on her mind.
He engraved the silver plate with the date they married on.
Some tourists like to engrave their names on trees or
something in a new place
16. tatter in very bad condition because parts oe it have been torn
Exs: The broken photo is just a symbol of my torn and
tattered past.
n. The strong wind has blown our flags into tatters.
17. lay in obtain or store
Exs: We’d better lay in plenty of food in case we’re cut off
when it snows.
18. legend: old story handed down from the past, esp. one of
doubtful truth; famous person
:Exs: Have you read the legend of King Arthur and the Knights
of the Round Table?
Legend has it that he always wore his boots in bed.
She was a legend in her own lifetime.
19. flank: place at the side of or on either side of
Exs: The altar was flanked by two Christmas trees.
We could see him taking a walk in the prison grounds
sometimes, flanked by two guards.
n
Exs: A small group of houses clings to the eastern flank of the
mountain.
They decided to attack the enemy's exposed right flank.
20. go through fire and water: face great hardship and danger
Exs: Doctors and nurses went through fire and water
to save SARS patients
The police went through fire and water to secure the
local people.
21 measure a way of judging
Ex: Tests are not an accurate measure of performance.
22. initiate: give (sb.) elementary instruction (used in the
pattern:initiate sb. into); set (sth.) working
Exs: The teacher initiated his students into the study of
the traffic problem of the city.
The government has recently initiated a massive new housebuilding program.
23. via, through
Exs: He contacted me by way of email.
Why don't you travel to London by way of Paris?
24. inward: deep in mind or soul; situated within,
inner
Exs: He never revealed his inward feelings.
His latest CD gives us a thoughtful and inward
interpretation of the music.the inward organs of
the human body
25. reside: live be present
Exs: All full time students must reside in
university halls of residence.
The power to sack employees resides in the Board of
Directors.
B. presentation by students: find the definitions
of the following and demonstrate their correct
usages in class
1.
3.
5.
8.
9.
give sb. no peace; 2. ambition;
expressive;
4. all the while;
stay on; 6. allot; 7.illustration;
not hold a candle to;
in gratitude to; 10. by way of;
VII. Post- reading tasks
1. Have Ss do some after-text exercises;
2.Check on Ss’ home reading of Text B;
3.Guide Ss through Reading Strategy;
4.Have Ss role-play based on the following
story;
Directions: Read following story and have Ss
solve the puzzle
“Who Is The Most Intelligent Candidate?”
The story:
The residents of the village are going to make a very
important decision, which will affect their future greatly. The
head of their village, a wise old man, is to retire soon. In the past
50 years, his management has helped the residents enjoy an
above-the-average life. Their residence is like a garden and
every family has a 2-storied house. No one is worried about
food and clothing and every school-age child is having a merry
school life. Now they are anxious to get a person to take the
position
and this man should be, if not wiser, as intelligent as the old head.
Three young men are now under consideration, but who is the
best
? 3 days ago, the village council decided to assign each of the
three
$100, and asked them to bring back whatever they think the
most useful for the future development of the village. Today they
have come back with their ‘ best choice’. All the residents are
assembled
at the village hall. They will hear the three candidates’ reasons
for their
choices and make their final decision.
participants and tasks:
Three students are supposed to be candidates A,B, and C.
Other students, hearing their reasons .will decide on the best
candidate.
Cand. A: I’ve got a design of a new model…. I’m sure…….
Cand. B: I’ve bought some seeds of a new breed of …. I have
confidence that with them,…
Cand. C: I’ve brought back some newly published books on….
With the instructions and experiences we get from them, I firmly
believe that…….
Residents A,B,C,D,
5. Writing task
Directions: For this part, you are required to
write a composition of no less than 150
words on the topic “The Importance of
Literature Reading” It should be finished in
no more than 30 minutes. The composition
must be based on the following outline
given in Chinese.
1.有人认为文学阅读己不适合科技时代；
2.有人仍坚持文学阅读能提升人们的综合素质；
3.请谈谈你的看法。
1.
Have Ss to prepare for the next unit
a.
preview Text A of Unit 2
b. suggested topics (ppt) of Oral Presentation
for Text A of Unit 2
★ Eat For Good Health
★ The List Of Most Suitable Food For…
★ My Reasons (Not) To Go Veggie
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Section A
Directions: From the four choices given under each sentence,
choose the ONE that is closest in meaning to the underlined word
or expression.
1.
You’ll give your wife no peace until you tell her the truth.
A) Your wife will not live a quiet life
B)
You and your wife will not live in peace
C)
Your wife will be kept in dark
D)
Your wife will be kept anxious
2.
With her great voice and expressive features, she would
have made a good actress.
A) a face showing a lot of feeling,
B)
a face telling audience a lot of stories,
C)
eyes full of emotions,
D)
eyes full of affection,
3.
There was me thinking you were out and you were upstairs
asleep in bed all the while.
A) such a long time
B) all the time
C) so soon
D) all through
4. Being a politician can put an enormous amount of strain on
one’s family.
A) trouble B) stress C) preoccupation D) hysteria
5. My parents believe that I should go to a first-rate college
to study so they tried every means to work and save
money for the future.
A) to buy me into the best college.
B) to buy various books for my future.
C) so that in future I need not work hard.
D) so that I can have a good future
6.The system was introduced to save money. Consideration
was made secondarily for any benefit to the public.
A) Benefit to the public was to be considered later.
B) Second consideration would be made by public.
C) Any other benefit should come after that to public.
D)
Public interests were considered of minor importance.
The names of the 58000 American military personnel who
died in Vietnam are carved on the Vietnam Veteran
Memorial in Washington.
A) incised B) engraved
C) printed
D) penetrated
8 8. When I read novels, I always locate myself in the very
places, walking through streets or along rivers, talking
with people and experiencing their life, etc.
A) imagine B) illuminate C) believe
D)comprehend
9. The pop music of today can’t hold a candle to the great
songs of the 60s and 70s.
A) can’t exceed
B) can’t be appreciative to people of 60s and 70s
C) can’t be compared to
D) can’t enlighten us on
10. At the age of thirteen, Harry was initiated into the art of
golf by his father
A)started
B) informed C) lessoned
D) instructed
7.
11. He swore that, come what may, he would never let her
know what he was doing for her sake.
A) whether she came or not B) whatever he was offered
C) whoever comes D) whatever happens
12. She was furious with her boss and indulged in rapturous
fantasies of revenge.
A) drank in B) fell into C) downed in
D) sank into
13.They were waiting to strike at the flank of Napoleon’s
army.
A) side
B) back
C) front
D) rear
14. By the time they arrived at the house she’d worked
herself up into a real state.
A) excited herself
B) raised herself
C) triggered herself
D) passionated herself
15. The book is full of illuminating details on the causes of
the war.
A) enlightening B) lightening C) conspicuous D) obscure
Section B
Directions: For each of the following sentences there are four
choices marked
a, b, c and d. Choose the ONE answer
that best completes the sentence.
16. Hurry up and you might catch them in the ______ of their
tea.
A) time
B) middle
C) occasion D) event
17. The university has already ______ honorary degrees on
several successive politicians and businessmen.
A) conferred B) allocated C) rewarded
D) granted
18. This is the only newspaper that insistently ______ the
right of teenagers to have their say.
A) conflicted B) championed C) combated D) competed
19. As a teacher, you could expect to be paid ______ between
$50,000 to $80,000.
A) somewhere B) anywhere C) something D) anything
20. He ______ through four or five newspapers, trying to find
the article.
A) worked
B) went C) flipped D) riffled
21. They were so ______ with what they were doing that they
didn’t hear me come in.
A) engrossed B) fascinated C) willed D) intensified
22.The symptoms of the rare disease include a _____ for
sweet foods.
A) craze
B) craving
C) crawl
D) crane
23. Her talent might have lain ______ had it not been for her
aunt’s encouragement.
A) intact
B) lifeless D) inactive
D) dormant
24. She was lulled to sleep by the gentle ______ of the boat
in the water.
A) movement
B) rhythm, C) note D) rock
25. The wife was given specific instructions on how to cope
with conceivable problem that might ______ during his
absence.
A) come up
B) pick up
C) come out
D) pick out
26.. Although she had only rehearsed the part a few times,
she ______ it off beyond all expectations.
A) gave
B) presented C) carried
D) performed
27.The soldier found himself ______ a hero when he returned
to his village.
A) somehow like B) someway as
C) something of
D) somewhat of
28. It’s very important to play the game ______ and not make
trouble for anyone.
A) in the right spirit B) by great emotions
C) with a good heartD) on the correct principle
29.
The prisoners were kept on ______ allowance of food
and insufficient time for sheep.
A) few
B) little
C) short
D) thin
30. Those who campaign against the death penalty believe
they are on a ______ crusade.
A) secondary B) ambitious C) legendary D) moral
31. Voters in three states were given the opportunity to make
English the language of official ______ in those states.
A) interlocutor
B) discourse
C) encyclopedia
D) cricket
32.For many ______ people, television is the one means of
getting news.
A) illegible B) illiterate C) illegitimate
D) illegal
33. He ______ working in the office with long tours overseas.
A) alternated
B) ticked C) flanked D) flecked
34. David wasn’t able to finish the task within the ______ time.
A) donated
B) allotted
C) distributed
D) subscribed
35. I got a few ______ of paint on the window when I was
painting the frames.
A) flecks
B) freaks C) flasks D) freckles
36.
His success was in some ______ due to his being in the
right place at the right time.
A) degree B) extent C) measure D) scale
37. Over the 8 years, Chinese people went through ______ to
defeat the Japanese aggressors.
A) thick and thin
B) mountain and river
C) a thousand and one way
D) fire and water
38. He did everything he could to restore his ______
reputation but to little avail.
A) tattered B) tattooed
C) tethered D) terrace
39. He was the star at the party; he entertained us by reciting
his poems with beautiful ______.
A) cadences B) rhythms C) beats
D) tempos
40. The rugs are still produced, but they are a little too
______ for western tastes.
A) expressive B) garish C) innocuous
D) straight
41. Obviously you came here intending to _____ in America and you
will need a work visa.
A) reprimand
B) resettle
C) reprieve
D) reside
42. Low earners will pay only half the charge but high earners will
have to pay full ______.
A) mark
B) price
C) whack
D) cost
43. She came out with some ______story about not having enough
money to go and see her father who was seriously ill.
A) weeping
B) saddened
C) sobbing
D) tragic
44.The need for secrecy is ______ to the need to take immediate
action.
A) superior
B) secondary
C) superb
D) priority
45.In her speech she presented a(an) ______ argument for increasing
taxes.
A) authoritative
B) sedative
C) influential
D) potent
46. When animals have more food, they generally ______ faster.
A) multiply
B) intensity C) expand D) escalate
47. They showed great ______ for the cause of helping deprived
children.
A) ardent
B) ardor
C) arbiter D) arbor
48.
The Home Office must weed out ______ from such highly
sensitive jobs.
A) proponents B) guerillas
C) subversives D) rebels
49.
They ______ in (at/over) their victory after so many years of
hardships and difficulties.
A) overjoyed B) gloated
C) elated D) exulted
50. He had an actor’s typically ______ features, which enabled him
to act roles of
different backgrounds.
A) malleable
B) changeable C) conceivable D) manageable
key
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