新潮大学英语第一册第二单元Unit2

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Passport to the Universe
(1) The town where I grew up was so small and safe that from a very early age children were allowed to rove by themselves from one end to the other. Free to explore, I would go to the lumberyard in search of scraps for basement carpentry projects, to the telephone company to watch the operators at work and to the office-supply store where I had my eye on a fake alligator book bag. Green with red trim, it was so fine it made me ache. But I seemed to be the only one in the family who thought it worth $3.98.
elude pedal cushion inscribe fountain
v. v. n. vt. n.
规避，躲避 踩自行车的踏板 垫子，软垫 题，刻 喷泉
fountain pen
eternity Zigzag hitch
n.
n. vi. n.
自来水笔
永恒 Z字形前行；曲折行进 （暂时的）问题或障碍
I. Lead-in
II. Pre-reading
New Words & Expressions
III. While-reading IV. Post-reading
Exercises
Text study Text organization & Comprehension
Have you ever watched this movie?
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(3)A lady at a desk asked if I would like some help. When I asked what kind of store this was, she said it wasn’t a store, it was a library. Nothing was for sale, but everything could be borrowed. All I needed was a l i b ra ry ca rd . Wo u l d I l i ke o n e?
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(6)The librarian pointed out the children’s section. I browsed for less time than it had taken the ink on the card to dry, checked out a book, and left before she could change her mind about granting me this astonishing privilege.
New words & Expressions
rove explore lumberyard
vi. v. n.
漫游，无目的地转来转去 勘探，探测 木材堆置场，木场 木工手艺；木匠业 假的
scrap
carpentry fake
n.
n. a.
alligator
ache
n.
vi.
短吻鳄（见于美洲和中国的江河湖 泊中） 渴望
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(9) At home I began to talk about how handy it would be to have a book bag, and by the end of the summer my parents caved in. There was another conquest too — the bicycle. It happened shortly after I figured out how easily a pile of books could be carried in the basket.
Can you remember what he has lost in Thailand?
I need my passport!
Look at the picture on the right. This is a magical world, every child has a dream to get into this world. Can you describe your dream when you were a child ?
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(4) Would I? Who wouldn’t? (5) On a small orange card she inscribed my name and a number, 1221. She wrote with a fountain pen, and in the eternity it took for the ink to dry, my feelings zigzagged between amazement and fear. The very idea of library seemed to be too wonderful to be true — like free candy. There must be hitch. Maybe you could borrow books without money but had to pay when you brought them back. I didn’t dare ask.
browse privilege alphabetically colossal handy
voraciously
vi. n. ad. a. a. .
浏览信息；（在商店）随意看看 特权；特别的荣幸 按字母顺序排列地 巨大的 方便的；手巧的
ad. 求知欲极强地 indiscriminately ad. 任意地
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(10) Over the next few years I read voraciously and indiscriminately: detective stories, biographies, history and junk. I also read, over and over, certain fairy tales. In The Ugly Duckling was the comforting hope that someday I, too, might be graceful as a swan. The Emperor’s New Clothes confirmed my hunch that adults were not all-knowing and allpowerful, despite what some of them said.
Unit 2
Book 1
来自百度文库
Wonderland in Books
Text A
1. Skim for the main idea and scan for the key information of the text; 2. Appreciate the writing skills demonstrated in the text e.g. informality of expression, use of figarative language; 3. Grasp the language points and grammatical structures in the text; 4. Conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking and writing activities related to the theme of the unit.
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(8) In the first weeks after discovering the library, I went twice a day, always checking a single book, until the librarian mentioned that a person could borrow several ones. Think of it!
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(2) b. Through the windows I saw people sitting in armchairs with big cushions. Everyone was reading. I supposed they were waiting to be waited on, like diners in a restaurant. I went inside to look around. I had never seen so many books — shelf after shelf rising higher that I could reach. Were there hundreds? Thousands?
graceful confirm hunch
a. v. n.
（动作、形状）优雅的，雅致的 证实；确认 预感；直觉
all-knowing
marvel Judaism suffuse reel
a.
n. n. v. n.
无所不知的；全知的
奇迹；令人称奇的事物 犹太人的文化、社会、宗教信仰和 活动的总称 布满；弥漫于 卷轴；卷筒
in search of
on one’s own wait on for sale check out
寻找
独立地；独自地 伺候；服务 待售 办妥手续取去
cave in
an infinity of fish out
屈服
巨量的 掏出；摸出；寻找出
Text study Text organization & Comprehension
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(2) a. That summer, most of my friends had learned to ride bicycles, an art that still eluded me. While they pedaled around town together, I spent a lot of time on my own. One hot, quiet afternoon, as I walked along the main street, I stopped in front of a store I had never noticed before.
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(7)There are more astonishments to come. I discovered that children could borrow books from the adult section. Imagine! The librarian showed me how to find the way around: fiction was arranged alphabetically by author, nonfiction by the Dewey Decimal System. Years later, when I discovered the regular decimal system, it seemed a colossal bore compared with the magic of Mr. Dewey, who had invested every number with meaning.