報刊選讀課件(The Decline of Neatness)

1、13.The Decline of NeatnessBackground knowledgeNew WordDifficult sentenceLanguage featuresStructure of the essayQuestions on the article共三十一頁BackgroundTime magazineThe American DressThe Beverly Hills HotelForbidden fruitback共三十一頁The Beverly Hills Hotel is a hotel in Beverly Hills, CA, at 9641 Sunset

2、Boulevard. It was opened on May 12, 1912 and started by Margaret J. Anderson and her son, Stanley S. Anderson, who had been managing the Hollywood Hotel. The original main building of the Beverly Hills Hotel was designed by Pasadena architect Elmer Grey. The extensive gardens of the grounds were des

3、igned by landscape architect Wilbur David Cook. Since the citys inception, the hotel has been a central meeting place for residents and business people, especially from Los Angeless movie and television industries. back共三十一頁Time was created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, making it the firs

4、t weekly news magazine in the United States. The two had previously worked together as chairman and managing editor of the Yale Daily News. Hadden was a rather carefree figure, who liked to tease Luce and saw Time as something important but also fun. That accounts for its tone, which many people sti

5、ll criticize as too light for serious news and more suited to its heavy coverage of celebrities (including politicians), the entertainment industry, and pop culture. It set out to tell the news through people, and for many decades the magazines cover was of a single person. The first issue of Time w

6、as published on March 3, 1923, featuring on its cover Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. People was originally inspired by Times People page.back共三十一頁The only official editorial that Time has ever published was in 1974, calling for the resignation of

7、 Richard Nixon.back共三十一頁Americans dont have distinctive folk attire with a long tradition.American dress is distinctive because of its casualness.The idea of “casual Friday”.共三十一頁No item of clothing is more American than the blue jeans invented in 1873 by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss. These two visi

8、onary immigrants, turned denim, thread and a little metal into the most popular clothing product in the world. Waist overalls, was the traditional name for work pants, which is what these first jeans were called. The word jeans became more popular around 1960 when the baby-boom generation adopted th

9、e term for its favorite type of pants, blue jeans. 共三十一頁1921年2007年back共三十一頁 Cultural background:Jeans are trousers traditionally made from denim, but may also be made from a variety of fabrics 共三十一頁眾議院議長(y chn)back共三十一頁back共三十一頁Initially, blue jeans were simply sturdy trousers worn by workers, espec

10、ially in the factories during World War II. During this period, mens jeans had the zipper down the front, whereas womens jeans had the zipper down the right side. By the 1960s, both mens and womens jeans had the zipper down the front. In the United States during the 1950s, wearing of blue jeans by t

11、eenagers and young adults became symbolic of mild protest against conformity. 共三十一頁New words. crisply adv freshlyspanking adv very, completelydiscard v. to throw sth out or awaydisheveled adj. (of hair or cloth) untidyphony adj.(指某人(mu rn)假裝的，冒充的deprivation n. povertydesensitization n. less strong r

12、eaction to sth共三十一頁shun v. to keep away fromdevoid adj. completely lacking in somethingincentive n. stimulus, encouragementgory adj. bloodyglamorization n. 美化(mihu)atrophy v. to become weak共三十一頁transfix v. to make sb unable to movemutilate v. 使喪失四肢(szh)，使傷殘saturate v. to fill sb./sth. completely wit

13、h sth.unkempt adj. dirty & messyback共三十一頁Analysis of difficult sentences1. an apt tag for our time is the Unkempt Generation:我們這個時代的合適標簽是“邋遢的一代”。2. The sloppiness virus has spread to all sectors of society:邋遢這種病毒已經蔓延到社會各個部分3.People go to all sorts of trouble and expense to look uncombed, unshaved, u

14、npressed.人們不惜代價(b x di ji)，不厭其煩，呈現(xiàn)一副邊幅不修、衣衫不整、十分邋遢的形象。共三十一頁4.Disheveled is in fashion; neatness is obsolete.時下流行的是衣冠不整，服飾整潔以不合時宜。5.No generation has strained harder than ours to affect a casual, relaxed, cool look.沒有哪一代人像我們這一代這樣努力裝出一副隨便(su bin)、輕松、酷的樣子。共三十一頁6.None has succeeded more spectacularly in

15、 looking as though it had been stamped out by cookie cutters.沒有拿一代人如此出奇成功地塑造出看上去猶如餅干模子壓出來一樣(yyng)的形象。共三十一頁7. The attempt to avoid any appearance of being-groomed or even neatdeprivation.這種避免服飾考究、衣著整潔形象的努力真是煞費苦心，顯出故意(gy)裝出的虛假窮酸相。8. slovenly speech comes off the same spool.言語雜亂如出一轍。共三十一頁9. swank Polo

16、Lounge：fashionable Polo Lounge10. Spew and sprawl are taking over: filthy language in fashion11. People are not as uncomfortable as they ought to be about the glamorization of human hurt.對于人類遭殘害的渲染鏡頭(jngtu)，人們并沒有表現(xiàn)出應有的不安。共三十一頁12. If you saturate young minds with materialsshowingrevulsion or resistan

17、ce.如果你讓年輕人所看的大量內容顯示人類毫無價值，人類可以任人凌辱、任人宰割的話，其結果(ji gu)將是他們對一切本應表示反感和抵制的事物，采取麻木不仁的態(tài)度。back共三十一頁Language featureChange of pace editorial1. sarcasm: The attempt to avoid any appearance of being well groomed or even neat has a quality of desperation about it and suggests a calculated and phony deprivation.

18、 2. allusionMotion-picture exhibitors have a strong preference for the R-rating, forbidden fruit共三十一頁3.overstatementManufacturers compete with one another to offer jeans that are made to look as though theyve just been discarded by clumsy house painters after ten years of wear 4. alliteration and en

19、d rhyme But spew and sprawl are taking over. People communicate in chopped-up phrases, relying on grunts and chants .共三十一頁5. Repetition of the initial elementNothing is more essential in education than respect for the frailty of human beings; nothing is more characteristic of the age than mindless v

20、iolence.6. HumorThe danger is not that that it may spawn eunuchs. People who have the habit of seeing everything and doing anything run the risk of feeling nothing.Back共三十一頁Structure of the essayPart I (Paras. 1-3): Sloppy appearancePart II (Paras. 4): Slovenly speechPart III (Paras. 5-7): Callous a

21、ttitudes towards brutalityPart IV (Paras. 8):Bad human relationshipPart V (Paras. 9-10): Authors wishes1. calculated sloppiness will run its course 共三十一頁Schools will encourage genuine creativity.Back共三十一頁Questions on the article1. What is the apt tag for the present generation in America according t

22、o the author?2. What kind of dress is the symbol for the present era?3. How do manufacturers meet customers demand for this kind of dress?4. According to the author, how do American people communicate today?共三十一頁5. Why are screenwriters careful not to turn in scripts that are devoid of foul language?6. What consequences would TV violence and sex scenes lead to?People will become desensitized 7. Whats the authors hope c