新編英語教程Book4Unit11

1、Unit 11Unit ElevenLead-in1. Movie Clip2. Quotes1. Movie Clip1. Why did Mary call Tami?Because she wanted to tell her that she couldnt go to the ball since Dominique asked her to finish cleaning her bedroom by midnight.2. What did Tami do?She asked her sisters boyfriends cousins to help Mary to clean

2、 Dominiques bedroom.Discussion:If you were Mary, would you go to the ball or clean Dominiques bedroom? Why?(This is an open question.)Script （From Another Cinderalla）-Mary? The twins are turning 16 next week.- Didnt they turn 16 last year?-Yes, and theyll keep turning 16 until I tell them to stop. W

3、ere having a big party and I need this house to be spotless.-But Tami and I are going to the ball tonight. Plus Ive cleaned every room in this house.-Not.my bedroom.-Youre kidding me, right?-Im clubbing with Paris tonight. Its my turn to throw the after-party. Dont step on my hair. When I get home a

4、t midnight, this room will be pristine.-Dominique, Id need heavy equipment. For example, a flamethrower.-Dont you sass me, smarty pants. Ill revoke your school privileges. You could say goodbye to those trendy friends. Or shall I say friend, Little Miss Not-So-Popular? Oh, and clean up these fish st

5、icks. Theyve been there since Lent.-Tami, I cant go to the ball. “Domifreaks” making me clean her bedroom.-Youre in her lair?-There are species of bugs in here still unknown to science. Theres no way Ill finish in time.-Wait, what if.? -Who are you talking to? When I said no phone privileges, that i

6、ncluded the landline.-Im sorry. I have to go.-Ugh.-Manson, weve been looking for you since Christmas, boy. Youre free, boy. Go. Go, go. Go, Manson, go. Youre free. Oh, hey. Gosh, look, I just found Manson. And please tell me those arent our dresses.-I cant. Because they are. Were going to the ball.-

7、Tami, what part of “Domifreaks making me clean her bedroom” did you not understand?-What would you say if I told you I could clean up the mess for you.and Dominique would never know?-Id say youre my hero, but theres no way, and you have to go to the ball. Plus, you cant clean this mess up alone. - W

8、ell, who said I was alone?- Hi, Mary. - Hey.-You did this for me?-Mary, meet my sisters boyfriends cousins. Cousins, this is Mary.-Hello, hello. You go to dance? Very nice. House clean by midnight? No problem. Like van say, “No mess too messy.”-Okay.-This mess is too messy.- Lee-Ha, you promised. -

9、Is there a problem?-Im on it. Get started and hide the van.2. QuotesRead the following quotes and tell your classmates which one is your favorite. State your reasons.The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.  Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotics Notebook, 1960What is the

10、most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.  Susan SontagYou never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.  Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plym

11、outh Pulpit, 1887If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.  Francois duc de la RochefoucauldYou can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.  PlatoBe yourself; everyone else is already taken. 

12、Oscar WildeIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.Oscar WildeThere are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.C.S. LewisThere are some people who live

13、 in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.Douglas H. EverettGod must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.Abraham LincolnText1. Text I (1) Pre-Reading Questions(2) General Reading(3) Background(4) Text(5) Comments on

14、the Text(6) Exercises2. Text II(1) Text(2) ComprehensionText I1. Pre-Reading QuestionsLooking at the title of the text, you may well predict that the writer is going to compare and contrast two classes of people, the neat and the sloppy. In your opinion, what is the difference between neat people an

15、d sloppy people? Whats your opinion of neat people and sloppy people? For your referenceThis is an open question. Discuss with your classmates.2. The Main IdeaRead the text rapidly to find out the writers opinion of sloppy people and neat people.For your referenceAnswers:According to the writer, slo

16、ppy people value objects and correspondence, are careful and take the long view, while neat people are callous, wasteful and selfish.3. Background NoteNever-Never LandNever-Never Land (also Never Never Land, Neverland or Never Land) is a fictional place featured in the works of J. M. Barri

17、e and those based on them. It is the dwelling place of Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys and others. Although not all people in Never-Never Land cease to age, its best known residents famously refused to grow up, and it is often used as a metaphor for eternal childhood&#

18、160;(and childishness), immortality, and escapism. It was first introduced as “the Never Never Land” in the theatre play Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldnt Grow Up by Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, first staged in 1904.4. TextNeat People vs. Sloppy PeopleIve finally figured out

19、 the difference between neat people and sloppy people. The distinction is, as always, moral. Neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people.Sloppy people, you see, are not really sloppy. Their sloppiness is merely the unfortunate consequence of their extreme moral (1)rectitude. Sloppy people (

20、1)carry in their minds eye a heavenly vision, a precise plan, that is so (2)stupendous, so perfect, it cant be achieved in this world or the next.Sloppy people live in Never-Never Land. Someday is their (2)métier. Someday they are planning to alphabetize all their books and set up home catalogs

21、. Someday they will go through their wardrobes and mark certain items for (3)tentative mending and certain items for passing on to relatives of similar shape and size. Someday sloppy people will make family scrapbooks into which they will put newspaper clippings, postcards, locks of hair, and the dr

22、ied corsage from their senior (3)prom. Someday they will file everything on the surface of their desks, including the cash receipts from coffee purchases at the snack shop. Someday they will sit down and read all the (4)back issues of The New Yorker.For all these (4)noble reasons and more, sloppy pe

23、ople never get neat. They aim too high and wide. They save everything, planning someday to file, order, and (5)straighten out the world. But while these ambitious plans take clearer and clearer shape in their heads, the books spill from the shelves onto the floor, the clothes pile up in the hamper a

24、nd closet, the family (5)mementos accumulate in every drawer, the surface of the desk is buried under (6)mounds of paper and the unread magazines threaten to reach the ceiling.Sloppy people cant bear to part with anything. They give loving attention to every detail. When sloppy people say theyre goi

25、ng to tackle the surface of a desk, they really mean it. Not a paper will go unturned; not a rubber band will go unboxed. Four hours or two weeks into the excavation, the desk looks exactly the same, primarily because the sloppy person is (7)meticulously creating new piles of papers with new heading

26、s and (8)scrupulously stopping to read all the old book catalogs before he throws them away. A neat person would just (9)bulldoze the desk. Neat people are (6)bums and clods at heart. They have (7)cavalier attitudes toward possessions, including family (10)heirlooms. Everything is just another dust-

27、catcher to them. If anything collects dust, its got to go and thats that. Neat people will (8)toy with the idea of throwing the children out of the house just to cut down on the clutter.Neat people dont care about process. They like results. What they want to do is (9)get the whole thing over with s

28、o they can sit down and watch the rasslin on TV. Neat people operate on two (11)unvarying principles: Never handle any item twice, and throw everything away.The only thing messy in a neat persons house is the trash can. The minute something comes to a neat persons hand, he will look at it, try to de

29、cide if it has immediate use and, finding none, throw it in the (10)trash.Neat people are especially (12)vicious with mail. They never go through their mail unless they are (11)standing directly over a trash can. If the trash can is beside the mailbox, even better. All ads, catalogs, pleas for chari

30、table contributions, church bulletins and money-saving coupons go straight into the trash can without being opened. All letters from home, postcards from Europe, bills and paychecks are opened, immediately responded to, then dropped in the trash can. Neat people keep their receipts only for tax purp

31、oses. (12)Thats it. (13)No sentimental salvaging of birthday cards or the last letter a dying relative ever wrote. Into the trash it goes.(14)Neat people place neatness above everything, even economics. They are incredibly wasteful. Neat people throw away several toys every time they walk through th

32、e den. I knew a neat person once who threw away a perfectly good dish drainer because it had mold on it. The drainer was too much trouble to wash. And neat people sell their furniture when they move. They will sell a La-ZBoy recliner while you are reclining in it.(15)Neat people are no good to borro

33、w from. Neat people (16)buy everything in expensive little single portions. They get their flour and sugar in two-pound bags. They wouldnt consider clipping a coupon, saving a leftover, reusing (17)plastic nondairy whipped cream containers or rinsing off tin foil and draping it over the unmoldy dish

34、 drainer. You can never borrow a neat persons newspaper to see whats playing at the movies. Neat people have the paper all (13)wadded up and in the trash by 7:05 a.m.Neat people (18)cut a clean (14)swath through the organic as well as the inorganic world. People, animals, and the things are all one

35、to them. They are so insensitive. After theyve finished with the (15)pantry, the medicine cabinet, and the attic, they will throw out the red geranium (too many leaves), sell the dog (too many fleas), and send the children off to boarding school (too many scuff-marks on the hard-wood floors).By Suza

36、nne BrittWords and phrases: (點(diǎn)擊文中紅色單詞或詞組，出現(xiàn)該紅色部分及e.g.字樣，再單擊e.g. ，出現(xiàn)例句)1. rectitude: n. behaviour that is honest and morally correcte.g. It was a rare victory for fiscal rectitude.I recognize it will be hard to overcome decades of mistrust, but we will proceed with courage, rectitude and resolve.2. s

37、tupendous: a. surprisingly large or impressivee.g. The stupendous rise of its economy in the first decade of the 21st century would inevitably have hardened Bush administration attitudes.The online dictionary has stupendous information from The Oxford Pocket Dictionary.3. tentative: a. not

38、 definite or certain, and may be changed latere.g. To sum up, we are able to make some tentative plans about the future.By contrasting US and Chinese data, economists have come to the tentative conclusion that Beijing has greatly slowed the pace of its investment in US government debt this year.4. n

39、oble: a. morally good or generous in a way that is admirede.g. We should not forget the cost of translating that noble aspiration into practical policy. To achieve this noble goal, all nations must keep their promises to deliver this urgent aid.5. memento: n. a small thing that one keeps to remind h

40、im/her of someone or somethinge.g. I retrieved a small piece from the ruins as a memento an undistinguished chunk of cast concrete decoration.Consequently, the dish has no sales value and is “priceless” only as a memento of a friend whom I will always cherish.6. mounds of: a large pile of somethinge

41、.g. He has still got mounds of letters to answer during the holiday.Making sense of the ever-increasing mounds of data is one of the great challenges facing researchers today.7. meticulously: ad. in a manner of being very careful about small details, and always making sure that everyt

42、hing is done correctlye.g. I watched him as he carefully laid his map flat on the floor, his earnest face puckered in thought, meticulously studying every hill and valley, mentally preparing for the next military campaign. He meticulously reviews his messages, editing if necessary to make sure recip

43、ients will understand what hes saying and the tone in which he says it.8. scrupulously: ad. with extreme conscientiousnesse.g. It has to be kept scrupulously clean patients here are especially vulnerable to infections.As the elections approach, the United States must be scrupulously neutral on the p

44、residential candidates while reiterating its call for free, fair, and credible elections.9. bulldoze: v. push objects such as earth and rocks out of the way with a bulldozera powerful vehicle with a broad metal bladee.g. The Victorian Government will pass laws to allow it to bulldoze abandoned

45、fruit trees in the Goulburn Valley.When a greedy businessman wants to bulldoze the trees in order to mine for gold, Finn and Jack combine their practical and spooky powers to save the land and the animals that live there.10. heirloom: n. a valuable object that has been owned by a family for many yea

46、rs and that is passed from the older members to the younger memberse.g. If you have heirloom pieces you only wear on occasion, consider storing them in a bank safe deposit box. The ball will be an heirloom of your family to be handed down if you keep it.11. unvarying: a. always the same; showing a s

47、ingle form or character in all occurrencese.g. An unvarying human nature can still generate very different behavior.Deciding with finality she proceeded towards them with firm steps and unvarying thoughts.12. vicious: a. very unkind in a way that is intended to hurt someones feelings or ma

48、ke their character seem bade.g. Cats are warm and affectionate creatures to us, but viewed through the eyes of birds and mice they are vicious predators. There is a difference between constructive criticism and vicious criticism.13. wad up: press something such as a piece of paper or cloth into a sm

49、all tight balle.g.  She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash. I waded up the papers and had them in my coat pocket.14. swath: n. a long thin area of grass or plants that has been cut downe.g. The storm left a solid swath of snow from New Mexico to New England.At 

50、;your feet is a swath of ants bearing triangular bits of green leaf.15. pantry: n. a very small room in a house where food is kepte.g. She raids my pantry and hauls away all the canned goods to throw into the big box in her school hallway.I

51、n the meantime, astronauts are probably better off leaving their liquid salt packets in the pantry.Notes （點(diǎn)擊文中藍(lán)色字體，出現(xiàn)該內(nèi)容，再點(diǎn)擊，出現(xiàn)下面的注釋內(nèi)容）1. carry in their minds eye a heavenly visionhave wonderful mental image of what the future will bein ones minds eye in ones imagination or mental view. For example:

52、In her minds eye, she could see just what her life after marriage was going to be like. 她能想象出婚后的生活會(huì)是什么樣的。2.métiera French word which means “a persons specialty”3. proma formal dance, especially one held by a class in high school or college at the end of a year4. back issuea magazine or a newspa

53、per that was published some time ago and is not the most recent 過期刊物5. straighten out the worldput in order things in the room6. bums and clodslazy and dull people7. cavaliershowing an arrogant or offhand disregard; dismissiveFor example:She was annoyed by her husbands cavalier attitudes. 她被她丈夫漫不經(jīng)心的

54、態(tài)度惹惱了。Born into a wealthy family, he has cavalier attitudes toward money. 生在有錢人家，他對錢毫不在乎。8. toy withconsider (an idea or proposal) casually rather than seriouslyFor example:He toyed with the idea of quitting school and travelling round the world. 他曾經(jīng)想過要輟學(xué)去周游世界，但那只是隨便想想而已。Dont toy with great issues.

55、不要把重大問題當(dāng)兒戲。9. get the whole thing over withcomplete all the tasks promptlyget over with complete an unpleasant or tedious but necessary task quickly. For example:He looked upon the marriage ceremony as a mere formality something to get over with as quickly as possible.10. trashtrash can11. standing

56、directly over a trash canstanding directly in front of a trash can12. Thats it.Thats the main purpose. 就這樣；僅此而已13. No sentimental salvaging of birthday cardsNeat people will not be so sentimental as to keep the birthday cards14. Neat people place neatness above everything, even economics.Neat people

57、 think neatness is more important than anything else without even considering the financial factors.placeabove attach greater importance to For example:He is a family man and always places his family above all other concerns. 他是一個(gè)顧家的男人，總是將家庭置于一切考慮之上。In a society valuing collectivism, people tend to

58、place the group interest above their own interest. 在一個(gè)崇尚集體主義的社會(huì)，人們往往將集體利益置于個(gè)人利益之上。15. Neat people are no good to borrow from.It is futile to borrow things from neat people.be no good (any good, etc.) futile (of any use)For example:It is no good my arguing with you.Come back on Monday week; its no good coming before that.Do you think it would be any good to try and see her tomorrow?But what good was it to talk to him?16. buy everything in expensive little single portionsbuy one pa