21世纪大学英语第一册UNIT7课件

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10) she shot back.
Paraphrase-----she quickly asked me another question.
shoot: send forth like a shot or an arrow, send right away and swiftly
eg. The reporters shot question after question at the mayor.
Part 3: Experiences in Dorothy Bean’s class and her approaches to establishing me as a smart and confident person who stood an equal chance with the white students. (Para. 4-14)
A teacher who knows his/her subject well is a successful teacher?
2. MAIN idea of the Text
The author recalled his favorite teacher, Dorothy Bean, with deep emotions. The story concerned how Miss. Bean helped the author, an black boy, built his confidence and did away with loneliness in schools. And the author was accepted by his white students. Miss. Bean’s justness and love changed a lonely child’s life who lacked confidence.
5)...but nothing much came of it
---...but nothing serious happened as a result of the angry talk.
come of: be the result of, result from
eg. You're always fooling around. No good will come of it. I assure you.
Paraphrase-----a question that required me to set right the girl's wrong answer and that (when I answered it smartly) clearly demonstrated that I was a smart person.
A) (of persons) knowing little or nothing; not aware
B) showing ignorance; resulting form ignorance
eg. He’s not stupid, merely ~. What his plans are I am quite ~ of. ignorance n. the state of being ignorant; want of knowledge
Nothing much will come of their ideas.
6) Miss Bean went right at me.
Paraphrase----Miss Bean attacked me at once.
go at: rush at, make an attack at
3. Outline of the Text
Part 1: Background information on my first experience in the new neighborhood and the school (Para. 1-2)
Part 2: Introduction my teacher: Dorothy Bean (Para. 3)
4. Language Points
1) battling their way across France
Paraphrase-----making their way across France by fighting a series of battles.
Similarly: elbow one's way through a crowd
4) The prevailing wisdom in the neighborhood was that we were spoiling it and we ought to go back where we belonged.
Paraphrase----The most common opinion of people living in that area was that our presence was ruining the area. Thus, they felt we ought to move back to the area (for blacks) from which we had come.
I Became Her Target
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1. Topics for Discussion
Have you ever were considered “different” from everyone else? What happened? How did you feel?
8) human dimensions
-----qualities of a human being (such as, among other things, confidence, dignity and self-respect.)
9) a dark presence
Paraphrase-----a nobody; an unknown black person or thing that nobody really cared about or considered carefully

push one's way to the front
2) a school that was otherwise all white
Paraphrase-----a school in which all pupils would have been white if I had not entered it.
E.g. The food arrived and he went at it as if he had never eaten before.
The two boxers went at each other furiously.
7)a question that required me to clean up the girl's mess and established me as a smart person.
otherwise: under other circumstances; in other respects
E.g . The window panes are gone, but otherwise the house is in good condition.
3) ignorant adj. ~ (of)