21st Century College English: Book 3
Unit 1: Part C
Unit 1: Part C
• Assignment Checkup
• Text B
• Listening Practice
• Oral Practice
• Assignment
Coming of Age
Assignment Checkup
•
Word Building
 Ex. VI
 Ex. VII
Word Building
《读写教程 III》: Ex. VI, p. 13
Word Building
Suffix
-ess
to be added to:
nouns
to form:
nouns
to mean:
females and female animals
Example:
prince + -ess  princess
tiger + -ess  tigress
Word Building
VI. Give the noun form of the following words and then choose the
correct word for each of the sentences below.
actor
waiter
emperor
lion
god
priest
master
heir
1. Guanyin is sometimes called “The Iron ___________ of Mercy”.
 Goddess
2. Most of the ___________ you meet in Hollywood restaurants
came there in hopes of becoming ___________.
 waitresses, actresses
Word Building
VI. Give the noun form of the following words and then choose the
correct word for each of the sentences below.
actor
waiter
emperor
lion
god
priest
master
heir
3. ___________ do most of the hunting while their mates look after
their offspring.
 Lionesses
4.
Do you think the Western press goes too far in publishing
stories about politicians’ love affairs, ___________ and so on?
 mistresses
Word Building
《读写教程 III》: Ex. VII, p. 13
Word Building
Suffix
-ee
to be added to:
verbs
to form:
nouns
to mean:
a person to whom the
stated action is done
e.g. employee
= a person who is employed
to mean:
a person who acts in
the stated way
e.g. devotee
= a person who is devoted
to sth. or sb.
Word Building
VII. Give the noun form of the following words and then choose the
correct word for each of the sentences below.
examinee referee appointee refugee payee
addressee trainee escapee absentee
1. In an oral English test, the ___________ is expected to speak
fluently on various topics.
 examinee
2. As a ___________ you’ll be paid only half of the usual salary,
but it’s excellent preparation for your future career.
 trainee
Word Building
VII. Give the noun form of the following words and then choose the
correct word for each of the sentences below.
examinee referee appointee refugee payee
addressee trainee escapee absentee
3. Almost all the students took part in the ceremony. The only
___________ was Sally Maxim.
 absentee
4. The war drove these people out of their homeland and they
became ___________ in lands where they weren’t welcome.
 refugees
Word Building
VII. Give the noun form of the following words and then choose the
correct word for each of the sentences below.
examinee referee appointee refugee payee
addressee trainee escapee absentee
5. Years ago, Owen dreamed writing a message at his desk and
having it immediately transmitted to any ___________ on Earth.
 addressee
6. The ___________ was recaptured after five days on the run.
 escapee
Listening Practice
• Conversation 2
• Passage 2
Listening Practice
《听说教程 III》
Part 4.3, p. 12
Listening Practice
Conversation 2
Questions
Listening Practice
6. A. She is tired.
B. She doesn’t like standing.
C. She thinks women look terrible standing at the
bar.
D. The waiter asks her to sit down instead of
standing.
Listening Practice
7. A. It’s bad for her health.
B. She doesn’t enjoy smoking.
C. It’s a nasty habit.
D. All of above.
Listening Practice
8. A. The man’s mother keeps asking him to give up
smoking.
B. The woman persuades the man to give up
smoking.
C. The man’s mother asked the woman to
persuade him to give up smoking.
D. The man thinks it easy to give up smoking.
Listening Practice
9. A. It’s unnecessary.
B. It’s the easiest thing in the world.
C. It’s nonsense.
D. It’s hard.
Listening Practice
10. A. The man has never tried to give up smoking.
B. The woman has talked the man into giving up
smoking.
C. The man has given up smoking.
D. It’s hard for the man to give up smoking.
Check-up
Listening Practice
6. Why does the woman want to sit down somewhere?
A. She is tired.
B. She doesn’t
doesn’t like standing.
C. She thinks women look terrible standing at the
bar.
D. The waiter asks her to sit down instead of
standing.
Listening Practice
7. Why has the woman decided to give up smoking?
A. It’s bad for her health.
B. She doesn’t enjoy smoking.
C. It’s a nasty habit.
D. All of above.
Listening Practice
8. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. The man’s
man’s mother keeps asking him to give up
smoking.
B. The woman persuades the man to give up
smoking.
C. The man’s
man’s mother asked the woman to
persuade him to give up smoking.
D. The man thinks it easy to give up smoking.
Listening Practice
9. What does the man think of giving up smoking?
A. It’s unnecessary.
B. It’s the easiest thing in the world.
C. It’s nonsense.
D. It’s hard.
Listening Practice
10. What can we learn from this conversation?
A. The man has never tried to give up smoking.
B. The woman has talked the man into giving up
smoking.
C. The man has given up smoking.
D. It’s
It’s hard for the man to give up smoking.
Script
Listening Practice
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sit down
somewhere,
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I don’tshe
likekeeps
standing
here.
Stopwe
talking
like my
mother. That’s
saying.
All right. Look! There’s a table over there. Come on.
But it’s true. It’s a nasty habit. I can’t think why I ever started.
(sitting
This is much
more
I think women look
Anyway,down)
it’s obviously
got you
in comfortable.
its grip.
terrible standing at the bar.
What
doI you
are youcheers!
talking about?
Really?
don’tmean?
think What
so. Anyway,
Cheers!
I mean you couldn’t give it up.
Would
you like
a cigarette?
Who? Me?
Couldn’t
give up smoking? Nonsense! Of course I
No,
thanks.
I’ve
decided to give up smoking.
could!
I know
I could!
Really? Why?
How do you know?
Well…it’s just that I think if you don’t enjoy doing something any
more youI’ve
Because
should
already
stopproved
doing it. Smoking’s the easiest thing in the
world
to give
up.you
I’vedon’t
doneenjoy
it hundreds
of times!
I see. You
mean
smoking
any more?
That’s right. You should give it up, too. It’s bad for your health.
Listening Practice
《听说教程 III》
Part 4.3, p. 14
Listening Practice
Passage 2
Questions
Listening Practice
6. A. The problem has become less serious these
years.
B. The deficits were covered by government
subsidies.
C. People considered this problem inevitable.
D. It had nothing to do with them.
Listening Practice
7. A. To take action to reduce the deficits.
B. To reform the National Railways.
C. To set up a commission to solve the problem.
D. To cancel the subsidies.
Listening Practice
8. A. Local lines carried few passengers.
B. The National Railways had too few local lines.
C. The National Railways had far too few
employees.
D. The National Railways paid the employees too
much.
Listening Practice
9. A. To close the unprofitable lines.
B. To increase the local lines.
C. To lower the employees’ wages.
D. To hire more qualified workers.
Listening Practice
10. A. No new workers will be hired for seven years.
B. New workers will be hired for seven years.
C. Over forty lines will be opened.
D. Over forty lines will be closed.
Check-up
Listening Practice
6. Why did people pay little attention to the National
Railways’ problem?
A. The problem has become less serious these
years.
B. The deficits were covered by government
subsidies.
C. People considered this problem inevitable.
D. It had nothing to do with them.
Listening Practice
7. What did Opposition leaders want the Government
to do?
A. To take action to reduce the deficits.
B. To reform the National Railways.
C. To set up a commission to solve the problem.
D. To cancel the subsidies.
Listening Practice
8. Which of the following was one of the reasons for
the deficit?
A. Local lines carried few passengers.
B. The National Railways had too few local lines.
C. The National Railways had far too few
employees.
D. The National Railways paid the employees too
much.
Listening Practice
9. What did the Commission advise the Government
to do?
A. To close the unprofitable lines.
B. To increase the local lines.
C. To lower the employees’ wages.
D. To hire more qualified workers.
Listening Practice
10. What will it probably do to make the railways
more efficient?
A. No new workers will be hired for seven years.
B. New workers will be hired for seven years.
C. Over forty lines will be opened.
D. Over forty lines will be closed.
Script
Listening Practice
The Commission’s
report,
which
published
days
National Railways
have
beenwas
losing
money three
for years,
ago,
showed
that most
of paid
the losses
madeto on
lines
but until
recently
nobody
much were
attention
thelocal
problem.
with few passengers. It also indicated that the National Railways
The deficits were covered by government subsidies which were
had far too many employees. The Commission recommended
financed
out of general
that unprofitable
lines taxation.
be closed and that the work force be
reduced.
This year, however, the railways made a record loss and
The of the
Government
has already
leaders
Opposition demanded
that theaccepted
Governmentthese
take
recommendations
in deficit.
principle
is now
considering
which
action to reduce the
Theand
Prime
Minister,
anticipating
an
lines to close and how to trim the work force. Although there
angry reaction from taxpayers, ordered that a commission be set
have been no official announcements yet, it is believed that over
up to find ways of making the railways more efficient.
forty lines will be closed and that no new worker will be hired for
several years.
Text B
Text B: Coming of Age
 Pre-reading Task
 Language Points
 Comprehension
Pre-reading Task
Reading Comprehension Skill:
Appreciating Figurative Language
In Unit 6, Book 2, we worked with figures of speech:
language that uses images or mental pictures to appeal to
readers’ imaginations, and to allow writers to create
complex associations that go beyond the power of literal
language. Effective readers know how to recognize and
interpret figures of speech in order to understand the
author’s meaning more deeply and think about ideas in new
ways.
Pre-reading Task
Examine the colored words and phrases in the sentences below.
What comparisons are being made? What mental pictures do they
bring to your mind? What ideas is the author trying to convey?
Try to figure out what they mean in the sentences.
1. A young man’s first car is less a means of transportation than
a monument to his discovery of youthful freedom.
 A young man’s first car is compared to a monument —
something that is _____________.
 fairly permanent, admirable, noble, significant, etc.
Pre-reading Task
2. Before long, that car and I had become the best of friends.
 The mental picture the best of friends brings is that the car
and the writer are _______________.
 emotionally linked, inseparable, enjoying one another and
willing to do a lot for each other
Pre-reading Task
3. I piled ten friends into the car.
 The writer pushed his friends into the car in a ______________
way, perhaps as if they were ______________.
 disorderly / careless / thoughtless;
 objects
Pre-reading Task
4. The car was far from a beauty, but she was mine.
 The word she is used to convey the writer’s ______________ for
his car, as if it was a ______________ being.
 affection;
 delicate, sensitive emotional
Pre-reading Task
5. I’ve never questioned my youthful emotions that day when the
mechanic delivered his sad verdict.
 The word verdict conveys a feeling of ______________.
 inescapable doom — a life-changing statement
Pre-reading Task
6. In that old car of mine, we had stockpiled memories like
firewood, knowing that someday, somewhere, we would gather
as gray-haired men to relight the blaze of our friendship.
 Something that is stockpiled is gathered with ______________,
ready to use someday when it would be needed.
 care
Our friendship is compared to the blaze which gives us
______________.
 warmth, light and comfort
Language Points
Text B
Coming of Age
Sam Walker
Language Points
Coming of Age
Sam Walker
1
Okay, I’ll admit it. Sitting behind the wheel of my first car before
it was towed off to the junkyard, I cried. You can tell me a car is only
so much glass and steel, but I’ll never apologize for losing my cool
that day. A young man’s first car is less a means of transportation
than a monument to his discovery of youthful freedom. At least mine
was.
Language Points
2
It had all started two years earlier: Soon after my 16th birthday,
my parents retired the old red family car and passed it on to me.
Before long, that car and I had become the best of friends. We gave
rides to just about anyone who asked, anytime, anywhere, and had
all sorts of adventures.
Language Points
3
Some of those adventures were pretty hair-raising. One famous
afternoon after school, I piled ten friends into the car, including Eric,
who opted to ride in the trunk rather than be left behind. We were
just driving around, feeling good, talking about everything and
nothing. And although I had been going only about 20 miles an hour,
the collision with a school bus full of seven-year-olds crumpled the
front of my car. My first thought was of Eric in the trunk. I rushed
over and opened it to find him lying there motionless. I gasped. He
opened his eyes and laughed: “You’re the worst driver on the planet.”
Language Points
4 Bystanders stared as, one by one, ten dazed high-school
sophomores crawled out of my car. No one on the bus was hurt,
though one little girl was crying because she had to go to the
bathroom. As far as the little boys were concerned, I was a hero.
They crowded around me in admiration. Even the police officers
managed to smile.
5 My parents — furious, of course — settled on my punishment: I
would use my upcoming summer wages to pay for the repairs. To
lessen the financial blow, I insisted that the mechanic fix the car with
used parts. So when the work was completed, the old red car had a
green hood, a yellow fender and a blue door. I didn’t care. The car
was far from a beauty, but she was mine.
Language Points
6
That summer, once school was out, I found my freedom
expanded hugely. On days when my friends and I would once have
ridden bikes to the public pool, we drove my car along the river
road to explore an old abandoned train station. Instead of riding to
baseball games in the coach’s van like little kids, we now rode in
my car as sophisticated adults. We wore sunglasses, and spit
sunflower seeds out the window, and felt as good as if we’d already
won the game.
Language Points
7 One night while I was washing dishes at the restaurant where I
worked, my friends removed the wheels from my car and left it
standing disabled and awkward on concrete blocks in the parking
lot. Deciding the best reaction to their trick was to ignore it, I
walked home. The next morning I found the car in front of my
house, covered with a two-inch layer of shaving cream.
8 One by one, my friends got driver’s licenses and brought
different automotive options to our fold. But after a few days trying
out whoever was the newest, we always wound up back in my old
car. Even then, I wondered why. It wasn’t flashy — except for those
multi-colored parts, it looked just like the sensible family car it had
once been. It wasn’t fast — 55 miles an hour was a stretch. And it
certainly wasn’t comfortable — there was no air conditioning, and
on hot days our bare legs stuck to the seats.
Language Points
9
Not until its engine died did I realize what had made the car so
special. While most of my friends invested in car stereos that
could rattle windows a block away, I stuck with the old original
radio that barely picked up two stations on a good night. Mostly,
we just left it turned off. There were no bored silences or
demands that I buy a better radio, though. We filled the musical
void by arguing about girls, making up silly songs about one
another, or telling stories.
Language Points
10 But the moments that truly stand out were more sober. I’ll
never forget the silence as we drove home from the playoff game
in which our team was eliminated. Nor the nights when Charlie
talked about his parents’ financial troubles, Tom spoke sadly of
his father’s absence, and Eric told us of his dream of playing
professional hockey.
Language Points
11 Since we graduated from high school, my friends and I have
spread out across the country and grown into adults. Yet I’ve
never forgotten my youthful emotions that day when the
mechanic delivered his sad verdict. In that old car of mine, we had
stockpiled memories like firewood, knowing that someday,
somewhere, we would gather as gray-haired men to relight the
blaze of our friendship.
sit behind the wheel
— take the driver’s seat
wheel = steering wheel
Translation
Paraphrase:

Do
you feel
think
you
could
take the
wheel
for a couple of
I never
safe
with
Richard
at the
wheel.
hours?
I never feel safe when Richard drives.
你认为你能连续开几个小时的车吗？
be towed off to the junkjard
— (of a car, etc.) be thrown away; be dispose of as useless
junkjard = a place to which people take things that they
no longer want
tow off
— remove a vehicle usu. by a towing truck
Example:
 The road was closed while the vehicles that had been
involved in the accident were towed off.
You can tell me a car is only so much glass and steel, but
I’ll never apologize for losing my cool that day.
apology for doing sth.
— to tell someone that you are sorry for having done
something
Paraphrase:
Example:
I?agree
She that
apologizes
havingbut
to glass
leave and
at 3:30
p.m.
a car isfor
nothing
steel,
but I had
good reason for getting excited that day.
A young man’s first car is less a means of transportation
than a monument to his discovery of youthful freedom.
Paraphrase:
A young man’s first car is not mainly a vehicle used for
?
traveling from one place to another ; rather it is a
lasting evidence of the beginning of the life of a young
man free from parental control .
my parents retired that old red family car
— my parents gave up using that old red family car
retire vt.
— withdraw from usual use or service
Example:
 Since she retired from the company, she has begun to
work as a volunteer for a charity.
One famous afternoon after school, I piled ten friends
into the car, ...
pile vt.
— put … one top of another
Paraphrase:
Example:
On As
soon afternoon
as the rainafter
stopped,
the Ichildren
into
a nice
school,
had tenpiled
friends
? the car excitedly.
crowded
into the car…
opt vt.
— choose; decide (to do sth.)
Example:
 When he left school, he opted to go to college and
study for a degree, rather than getting a job straight
away.
crumple vt.
— to (cause to ) become full of irregular folds
Example:
 Mary crumpled up the letter and threw it in the bin.
daze vt.
— to make confused or unable to think clearly
Example:
 The collision dazed me for a while, but I soon
recovered.

Everyone was dazed by the news of her sudden death.
Even the police officers managed to smile.
Paraphrase:
Even the police officers (who normally look very serious
?on such occasions) couldn’t help feeling amused.
My parents — furious, of course — settled on my
punishment: …
settled on/upon
— decide on, agree on
Example:
Paraphrase:
 Have you settled on a name for the baby?
My
? parents who are very angry decided on how I should
be punished.
That summer, once school was out, I found my freedom
expanded hugely.
Paraphrase:
That
summer, as soon as school was over, I found myself
?
even more free from my parents’ control.
One by one, my friends got driver’s licenses and brought
different automotive options to our fold.
Paraphrase:
One
? after another, my friends got driver’s licenses and
brought cars of different makes to our group.
wind up
1)
end(someone)
(something)
3) to tell
2)
come
to be in an
something
unexpected
thatand
is not
usually
true as
unpleasant
a joke or
in order to annoy him/someone
situation
Example:
 I think it’s about time we wound this meeting up.
Example:
 If
I’m
heable
carries
to just
on like
ignore
thishim
he’swhen
goinghe’s
to wind
beingup
annoying
in prison!
but he gets Mary really wound up.
… it looked just like the sensible family car…
Paraphrase:
? it looked just like the type of car that is practical and
…
strong for home use …
… 55 miles an hour was a stretch.
— …55 miles an hour was to the maximum
Byfull
at
nostretch:
stretch / No by any stretch of the imagination
using all your
describing
things
available
that skill,
are impossible
energy and to
ability
believe,
to doeven
it
with a lot of effort
Example:
Example:
 It is impossible to increase output – we’re already
 By
no stretch
the imagination could he be seriously
working
at fullofstretch.
described as an artist.
… car stereos that could rattle windows a block away …
Paraphrase:
? car stereos from which the sound was so loud as to
…
shake the windows some distance away …
There were no bored silences or demands that I buy a
better radio, though.
Paraphrase:
?It never happened, however, that we felt bored and in
no mood for talking or anyone of us demanded that buy
a better radio.
But the moments that truly stand out were more sober.
Paraphrase:
But
? the truly special moments were those when we were
more serious.
the mechanic delivered his sad verdict
— the mechanic concluded that the car was beyond repair
verdict n.
— an opinion or decision made after judging the facts that
are given
Example:
 The judge directed the jury to deliver a verdict of
unlawful killing.
stockpile n.
— a large amount of food, goods or weapons which are
kept ready for future use
Example:
 They have a stockpile of weapons that will last several
months.
Comprehension
《读写教程 III》: Ex. VIII, p. 28
Comprehension
XVIII. Mark the following statements true or false?
F 1. The author is now sorry that he lost control over his
emotions when his first car was towed off to the
junkyard.
T 2. The author views his feelings for his first car as typical
for many teenagers.
F 3. Eric chose to ride in the trunk in order to be more
comfortable.
F 4. The collision with the school bus occurred because the
author was driving too fast.
F 5. The author’s parents had the car fixed with multicolored parts to punish the author.
Comprehension
T 6. The author’s friends preferred to ride to games in the
author’s car instead of the coaches van because of the
sense of freedom it gave them.
T 7. After his friends got their own cars, they still preferred
to ride in the author’s car even though it was ugly and
uncomfortable.
T 8. The bad radio was one of the main reasons why the
author’s old car was special.
F 9. The mechanic’s “sad verdict” (paragraph 11) refers to
the repairs made with multi-colored parts.
F 10. The author regrets stockpiling memories in the old car.
Oral Practice
• Activity 1
• Activity 2
Oral Practice
Function
We already know many ways of prefacing a simple
opinion: in my view, as I see it, in my opinion, etc. There
are some other strategies we often use to further express
our disagreement as a discussion continues. Here are
more expressions.
Oral Practice
Function
Contradicting Bluntly
Dismissing a Point
That’s absurd!
That makes no difference!
That’s ridiculous!
That’s irrelevant!
Nonsense!
That’s beside the point!
Rubbish!
But that just doesn’t make
sense!
Come off it!
That’s not true!
Come on!
That has nothing to do
with it!
Discussion
Oral Practice
Topic
1
Topic
2
Topic
3
Topic
4
Oral Practice
Topic
1
1
What do you think of “falling in love” in
college?
For:
Topic
2
Topic
3
Topic
4
Against:
favorable to study
personal right
enrich college life
…
distraction from study
time-consuming
too early
…
Oral Practice
Topic
1
Topic
2
Topic
3
Topic
4
2
Do you agree that “love is blind” or “love
me, love my dog”?
Oral Practice
Topic
1
Topic
2
Topic
3
Topic
4
3
Do you think that romantic love provides
a good foundation for marriage?
Oral Practice
Topic
1
Topic
2
Topic
3
Topic
4
4
Should people get married because they
love each other or should they get
married first and then begin to love each
other afterwards?
Oral Practice
1
What do you think of “falling in love” in
college?
2
Do you agree that “love is blind” or “love me,
love my dog”?
3
Do you think that romantic love provides a
good foundation for marriage?
4
Should people get married because they love
each other or should they get married first
and then begin to love each other afterwards?
Oral Practice
Argument
Topic for Argument
In what order of importance would you rate the following
factors in choosing a marriage partner? Give brief reasons for
your first and last choices.
a. Romantic feeling
f. Genetic factors
b. Similar cultural
background
g. Sense of humor
c. Physical attraction
i.
Wealth
d. Similar goals for the
future
j.
Strength of character
e. Shared interests
h. Intelligence
k. sincerity
Assignment
1. Read Text C and do the exercises.
2. Learn all the new words in Unit 2.
3. Think about the following questions:
1) Is “ladies first” a principle that applies anywhere?
2) If men and women are equal now, should men offer
to help women or just let women help themselves?