新编英语教程4 Unit 5(课件PPT)

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全新版大学英语综合教程unit5ppt课件

Before Reading
Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading
About the Author
English Poem – The Wasted Tears
Origin of Workaholic
Gap Filling
Table Completion
Listening Comprehension
Before Reading
Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading
English Poem – The Wasted Tears Enjoy a Poem The Wasted Tears Questions and Answers
Before Reading
Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading
Before Reading
Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading
Before Reading
Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading
The Wasted Tears by Rajaram Ramachandran
They were newly married couple, A few days went on with no _t_ro__u_b_le_. As days passed on, he never turned, While for his love, her heart _y_e_a_rn_e_d_ .

《新视野英语教程(第三版)》教学资源book4Unit5-Section-A

处于一个任何东西都可用完就扔掉的时代一本被珍藏并反复阅读的书最终不过是旧时代的古物在高速运转的时代几无立足之处了
Are Books an Endangered Species?
CONTENTS
Preparation Reading Through Exercises
Merry Learning
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marketplace
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reverence
fiction
inspection
instance
primitive
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Phrases and Expressions come of age hand down close by carry around so far sit through time and again on the go
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Getting the Message
1. There were hundreds of books in that room. 2. The book is a symbol of the permanence of thought and the handing
down from one generation to the next. 3. Of those same college freshman, many had ranked in the top half of
their high school classes. 4. Commercial book sales are sliding quickly. 5. Because a cultural consumer prefers those passive activities－listening

新编英语教程(第三版)第一册第五课课件

新编英语教程（第三版）第一册
A New English Course (Third Edition)
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Unit 9
Unit 10
Unit 11
Unit 12
Unit 13
Unit 14
Unit 15
Unit 5 Save Our Heritage
新编英语教程（第三版）第一册
Unit 5 Save Our Heritage
Lead-In
LSP
Dialogue
Role Play
Reading
Exercises
Language Structures Preparatory Questions Practice I
Practice II Practice III
新编英语教程（第三版）第一册
Unit 5 Save Our Heritage
Lead-In
LSP
Dialogue
Role Play
Reading
Exercises
docent: (AmE) someone who guides visitors through a museum, church, etc.
新编英语教程（第三版）第一册
Unit 5 Save Our Heritage
Lead-In
LSP
Dialogue
Role Play
Reading
Exercises
riffraff: an insulting word for people who are noisy, badlybehaved, or of low social class e.g.: Don’t bring any riffraff into my house! 别把不三不四的人领到我家来!

新编大学英语(第四版)综合教程3教学课件B3U5 Reading 2

1. Colin Siyuan Chinnery says that “there is a special relationship between sounds and memories.” Do you think so? Why or why not?
2. The Museum of Sounds aims to conserve vanishing or soonto-be-forgotten sounds. If you were asked to add one item to this museum, which particular sound would you choose to preserve and why?
新编大学英语（第四版）综合教程 Unit 5
Reading 2
目录 contents
Get ready to read Text exploration Read and think Read and practice Read and translate
新编大学英语（第四版）综合教程 Unit 5
新编大学英语（第四版）综合教程 Unit 5
Reading 2 Get ready to read
1. In which field is Colin Siyuan Chinnery pursuing his career? _I_n_c_o_n_t_e_m_p_o_r_a_ry__a_rt_.________________________________
_A__s_o_u_n_d_c_o_l_le_c_to_r_.____________________________________
新编大学英语（第四版）综合教程 Unit 5

新世纪大学英语综合教程4第四册unit5 Fame and Success(课堂PPT)

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Fame is but a vapor, and the only thing that endures is one’s character or virtue • Fame can assure one of a high social status, high regard, great admiration, etc. Fame can also bring one wealth as a celebrity has more chances to earn big money. Besides, the applauses and flowers from the fans may boost one’s self-confidence and increase one’s sense of fulfillment.
Success is, waking up in the morning, so excited about what you have to do,
that you literally fly out the door. It's getting to work with people you love. Success is connecting with the world and making people feel.
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2) to gain the admiration and love of many others;
3) to be the one everyone talks about;
4) to show family and friends you are more than they
thought you were.

全新版大学英语(第二版)综合教程4_Unit_5_课件

Unit 5 Never Judge by Appearances
Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementarydo. There was a fellow here last year, oddly enough a namesake of mine, who was the best bridge player I ever met. I suppose you never came across him in London. Lenny Burton he called himself. I believe he‟d belonged to some very good clubs.‟ „No, I don‟t believe I remember the name.‟ „He was quite a remarkable player. He seemed to have an instinct about the cards. It was uncanny. I used to play with him a lot. He was in Kobe for some time.‟ Burton sipped his gin fizz.
Unit 5 Never Judge by Appearances
Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading
staying at the Grand Hotel and next day he asked me to dine with him. I met his wife, fat, elderly, and smiling, and his two daughters. It was evidently a united and affectionate family. I think the chief thing that struck me about Burton was his kindliness. There was something very pleasing in his mild blue eyes. His voice was gentle; you could not imagine that he could possibly raise it in anger; his smile was benign. Here was a man who attracted you because you felt in him a real love for his fellows. At the same time he liked his game of cards and his

新编英语教程2(第三版)第4单元课件

Questions:
1. What are the students doing in the reading room?
They are playing a fantasy board game. 2. What does Lyle want after the game is over? He is tired of his ordinary life and wants to live in the world of fantasy.
新编英语教程（第三版）第二册
Unit 4 Dream Lead-In LSP Dialogue Role-Play L &S Reading Writing Exercises
mortal: You can describe someone as a mortal when you want to say that they are an ordinary person. e.g. Tickets seem unobtainable to the ordinary mortal.
新编英语教程（第三版）第二册
Unit 4 Dream Lead-In LSP Dialogue Role-Play L &S Reading Writing Exercises
Wizards and Warbeasts: name of a fantasy game《巫师与魔兽》
新编英语教程（第三版）第二册
新编英语教程（第三版）第二册
Unit 4 Dream Lead-In LSP Dialogue Role-Play L &S Reading Writing Exercises
Proteus the Invincible: a Greek sea god capable of assuming different forms. Here Lyle used this name to refer to himself.

应用型大学英语综合教程四 unit 5ppt课件

Abilities
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Table of Contents
Part 1 Language Skills Development
ØHighlights ØStarter ØText: Big Bang
ØWorking with words and phrases
ØDiscussion
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Application-oriented College English Course
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Unit Five
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全新版大学英语综合教程第四册课件Unit5.ppt

Part III
1. Language study 2. Ask questions to check their understanding of the text. 3. Text organization
1. Language study
2. Ask questions to check their understanding of the text.
<Examples>
1. The woman was forty, but looked fifty. Her cheeks were sunken and her skin was wrinkled and yellow.
Part II Para 2-3
Kind and gentle, Edward Burton, a wealthy merchant, appeared as if he could not bear to hurt a fly.
Part III Para 4-51
As it turned out, Burton was cold-blooded enough to send a friend to certain death.
Unit 5 Cruelty Text A A Friend in Need
➢ Pre-reading tasks ➢While-reading activities ➢Post-reading activities ➢Lesson Summary
Warm-up questions Reading for the gist Fast reading
Language Study
for sb.’s (own) part/ the part of : as far as sb. is concerned

新编英语教程第三版第五单元课件

Lead-In Listening In and Speaking Out Text Oral Work Guided Writing Comprehensive Exercises
Movie Clip Quotes
新编英语教程（第三版）第三册
Unit 5 On Not Answering the Telephone
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新编英语教程（第三版）第三册
Unit 5 On Not Answering the Telephone
Lead-In Listening In and Speaking Out Text Oral Work Guided Writing Comprehensive Exercises
- You OK? - Yeah. - ... and pairs auditions for our two leads. - Pfft. - Mr. Danforth, this is a place of learning, not a hockey arena. There is also a final sign-up for next week’s scholastic decathlon competition. Chem Club president Taylor McHessey can answer all of your questions about that. Ah, the cell phone menace has returned to our crucible of learning. - Is it your phone?

新标准大学英语综合教程4Unit5Gossip

新标准大学英语综合教程4Unit5GossipSex differences in English gossip rules1 Contrary to popular belief, researchers have found that men gossip just as much as women. In one English study, both sexes devoted the same amount of conversation time (about 65 per cent) to social topics such as personal relationships; in another, the difference was found to be quite small, with gossip accounting for 55 per cent of male conversation time and 67 per cent of female time. As sport and leisure have been shown to occupy about ten per cent of conversation time, discussion of football could well account for the difference.2 Men were certainly found to be no more likely than women to discuss “important” or “highbrow” subjects such as politics, work, art and cultural matters – except (and this was a striking difference) when women were present. On their own, men gossip, with no more than five per cent of conversation time devoted to non-social subjects such as work or politics. It is only in mixed-sex groups, where there are women to impress, that the proportion of male conversation time devoted to these more “highbrow” subjects increases dramatically, to between 15 and 20 per cent.3 In fact, recent research has revealed only one significant difference, in terms of content, between male and female gossip: Men spend much more time talking about themselves. Of the total time devoted to conversation about social relationships, men spend two thirds talking about their own relationships, while women only talk about themselves one third of the time.4 Despite these findings, the myth is still widely believed, particularly among males, that men spend their conversations“solving the world’s problems”, while the womenfolk gossip in the kitchen. In my focus groups and interviews, most English males initially claimed that they did not gossip, while most of the females readily admitted that they did. On further questioning, however, the difference turned out to be more a matter of semantics than practice: What the women were happy to call “gossip”, the me n defined as “exchanging information”.5 Clearly, there is a stigma attached to gossip among English males, an unwritten rule to the effect that, even if what one is doing is gossiping, it should be called something else. Perhaps even more important: It should sound like something else. In my gossip research, I found that the main difference between male and female gossip is that female gossip actually sounds like gossip. There seem to be three principal factors involved: the tone rule, the detail rule and the feedback rule.The tone rule6 The Englishwomen I interviewed all agreed that a particular tone of voice was considered appropriate for gossip. The gossip-tone should be high and quick, or sometimes a stage whisper, but always highly animated. “Gossip’s gotto start with something like [quick, high-pitched, excited tone] ‘Oooh –Guess what? Guess what?’” explained one woman, “or ‘Hey, listen, listen [quick, urgent stage whi sper] –you know what I heard?’” Another told me: “You have to make it so und surprising or scandalous, even when it isn’t really. You’ll go, ‘Well, don’t tell anyone, but …’ even when it’s not really that big of a secret.”7 Many of the women complained that men failed to adopt the correct tone of voice, recounting items of gossip in the same flat, unemotional manner as any other piece of information, suchthat, as one woman sniffed, “You can’t even tell it’s gossip.” Which, of course, is exactly the impression the males wish to give.The detail rule8 Females also stressed the importance of detail in the telling of gossip, and again bemoaned the shortcomings of males in this matter, claiming that men “never know the details”. “Men just don’t do the he-said-she-said thing,” one informant told me, “and it’s no good unless you actually know what people said.” Another said: “Women tend to speculate more … They’ll talk about why someone did something, give a history to the situation.” For women, this detailed spe culation about possible motives and causes, requiring an exhaustive raking over “history”, is a crucial element of gossip, as is detailed speculation about possible outcomes. English males find all this detail boring, irrelevant and, of course, unmanly.The feedback rule9 Among Englishwomen, it is understood that to be a “good gossip” requires more than a lively tone and attention to detail: You also need a good audience, by which they mean appreciative listeners who give plenty of appropriate feedback. The feedback rule of female gossip requires that listeners be at least as animated and enthusiastic as speakers. The reasoning seems to be that this is only polite; the speaker has gone to the trouble of making the information sound surprising and scandalous, so the least one can do is to reciprocate by sounding suitably shocked. Englishmen, according to my female informant, just don’t seem to have grasped this rule. They do not understand that “You are supposed to say ‘NO! Really?’ and ‘Oh my GOD!’”10 My female informants agreed, however, that a man who did respond in the approved female manner would soundinappropriately girly, or even disturbingly effeminate. Even the gay males I interviewed felt that the “NO! Really?” kind of response would be regarded as decidedly “camp”. The unwritten rules of English gossip etiquette do allow men to express shock or surprise when they hear a particularly juicy bit of gossip, but it is understood that a suitable expletive conveys such surprise in a more acceptably masculine fashion.。

新编英语教程(基础英语)第三版4 unit5课文详解及练习答案

Unit Five1.Movie ClipWatch the movie clip and answer the following questions.1.What does Jerry think of Dr. McClaren’s plan to get to Mt. Melbourne to search for hismeteorite at first?He is surprised and a little unhappy because nobody said anything to him about it before.What’s more, he thinks it’s too far away, and he hasn’t been to Mt. Melbourne since the beginning of the season.2.When knowing there is a major storm coming in, does Dr. McClaren want to give up and goback? Why or why not?No, he doesn’t because he wants to discover the first meteorite from the planet Mercury, which is important and meaningful to him.Discussion:If you were Dr. McClaren, would you go back to the field base when the major storm comes in? State your reasons.(This is an open question.)Script（From Eight Below）-OK. Lady Luck, in my corner.-What are we playing?-She is pretty.-Quarter in.-Quarter.-You’re going down, by the way.-You’re going down.-Crazy Katie, you’re going down.-Hey, doc, you want in?-No, thanks. I gave up gambling a long time ago.-Hey, you flew in with Katie, didn’t you?-Remind me how you’re getting home.-Say, Old Jack, you in or out, buddy?-Translation?-That’d be out.-So, Coop, how’s your new girlfriend?-How’s my new girl? I don’t know. How about hot?-Wow.-Huh?-Wow.-She’s a scientist too. At the Italian base.-Pretty and smart.-Smarts.-Yeah. Notice something missing in that picture?-OK, OK. I think ... I know you mean me. You’re talk ... The picture’s coming, of two of us, she’s sending one of the two of us, OK? Patience, Jerry.-Uh-huh. How many?-Two.-So doc, you’re looking forward to your first trip to Dry Valleys? It’s a pretty cool spot this time of year.-Actually, Dr. McClaren needs to get to Mt. Melbourne to search for his meteorite.-Melbourne, huh? Nobody said anything to me about Melbourne.-Yeah. Meteorite hunting is a pretty small world, and, uh, I didn’t want anybody to know where I was really going, ’cause I’m looking for something special at Melbourne, and the NSF let us keep it off the paperwork. Is there a problem?-Look, doc, let me show you something. I’ll show you on the map. This is where we are, right? OK.-Yeah.-Here we are at Dry Valleys. All the way over here, we are at Mt. Melbourne. Twice as far and the opposite direction. I’ve been over our route twice in the last week checking conditions, but I haven’t been to Mt. Melbourne since the beginning of the season.-Well, that may be so. But Dr. McClaren has traveled a long way. And if we can accommodate him, I think we should.-Andy, it’s the end of January. The ice is too thin and take snowmobiles would be too dangerous. There’s only one way to make that trip, that’s with the dogs.-The dogs?-OK. Will they be able to carry all my gear?-The dogs’ll be fine.-It’s really late in the season.-Jerry, last year we had the dogs out right up until the day we left.-All right, Andy. You’re the boss. I’ll get things ready.-Hey, you need some help?-No, I’m fine. Coop, say good night to Buck.-Uh, I’m to take a rain check, Jer.-Ah... Kids, come on! Let’s go! Everyone outside. Let’s get you tucked into bed. Come on.-Victoria, this is McMurdo Weather. Come in. Victoria? This is McMurdo Weather.-This is Victoria. We copy you, Mactown.-Hi, Andy. Steve. Checking status on your team.-We’ve got four at the base and two in the field. Over.-Suggest you bring them in. We have two massive low pressure systems moving south. Control wants you in early just to be safe. Over.-Copy that, Mactown. Over and out.-Get Jerry on the radio.-Everything points to the spot that we’re on. The next couple days are gonna tell us a lot.-Field base to Melbourne. Come in. Base to Melbourne. Come in.-Jerry? Jerry, do you read me? Over.-Yeah, go for Melbourne. That you, Katie?-Jerry, we got a call from Mactown. ... major storm coming in. Over.-Hey Katie, you’ll have to go again. We’re in a bad spot here.-Jerry... back to field base. Do you copy? We got a major storm coming in. Mactown wants you in right away. Over.-All right. Copy that. We’ll be back. When do we expect this storm? Katie?-Sorry, doc. Looks like we’re gonna have to pack up.-Well, when do we have to leave?-We leave first thing, tomorrow.-Listen, Jerry ...-You heard what she said.-Jerry, look. I cannot go back without at least trying.-Yeah, well, that’s not your call.-No. It’s not.-There’s a major storm coming in, all right? Not a minor one, but a major. Just you know down here there’s a big difference between the two.-My job as your guide is to get you back home in one piece, and that’s exactly what I’m gonna do. -Jerry, we’re talking about a rock from another world. This ice floe might give us the first meteorite from the planet Mercury. That could lead us to discoveries we can’t imagine. Now it’s like when you climb a mountain, you go up a river, the exciting part isn’t what you know is there. It’s what you don’t know. You know it’s what you might find, and it’s the same here. Look, I came halfway around the world to look for something that’s important to me. Jerry, please, you ... You gotta take chances for the things you care about.-Half the day on the east slope. But I want to be back on that sled tomorrow by noon.-I’ll take that. I’ll take that.2.QuotesRead the following quotes and tell your classmates which one is your favorite. State your reasons.The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man.—Friedrich Nietzsche We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.—David Brower If there can be such a thing as instinctual memory, the consciousness of land and water must lie deeper in the core of us than any knowledge of our fellow beings. We were bred ofthe earth before we were born of our mothers. Once born, we can live without our mothers or our fathers or any other kin or friend, or even human love. We cannot live without the earth or apart from it, and something is shriveled in man’s heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men.—Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.—Phillip Brook The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.—Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy It’s always nice to be around kindred spirits who care about the earth.—Carol Nelson Nothing lasts for ever but the Earth and sky.—Kansas Life is fairly easy to create, but I think planets like Earth are going to be rare.—Don Brownlee Human activity equals a decline of the rest of life on earth.—Edward O. Wilson I don’t know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.—George Bernard ShawText I1.Pre-Reading QuestionsYou probably have read about the adventures of China’s Antarctic expeditions. So how much do you know about this land mass?For your referenceSome Antarctic facts:1.Antarctica is the southernmost continent on Earth.2.The South Pole is found in Antarctica.3.Antarctica is surrounded by the Southern Ocean.4.Antarctica is bigger than Europe and almost double the size of Australia.5.Most of Antarctica is covered in ice over 1.6 kilometres thick (1 mile).6.Because it experiences such little rain, Antarctica is considered a desert.7.The coldest recorded temperature on Earth occurred in 1983 at Vostok Station,Antarctica, measuring a rather chilly −89.2°C (−128.6 °F).8.While humans don’t permanently reside in Antarctica, several thousand people liveand work at various research facilities found on the continent.9.While Antarctica features harsh living conditions, a number of plants and animalshave adapted to survive and call the icy continent home.10.Well known animals that live in Antarctica include penguins and seals.11.The name “Antarctica” comes from a Greek word meaning “opposite to the north”.12.Around 90% of the ice on Earth is found in Antarctica.13.Sea levels would rise around 60m (200ft) if all the ice in Antarctica were to melt.2.The Main IdeaRead the text once rapidly to get the main idea.For your reference（以下部分，按照序号经点击后依次出现）1. great isolation from other land 5. very little rain2. not inhabited by humans 6. intense cold3. hardly any plant or animal life 7. howling wind4. no human child ever born there 8. the most tempestuous seas around it3.Background Notes(1) AntarcticaAntarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, containing the geographic South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.0 million km2, it is the fifth-largest continent in area after Asia, Africa, North America, and South America. For comparison, Antarctica is nearly twice the size of Australia. About 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that averages at least 1.6 km in thickness. Antarctica, on average, is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. Antarctica is considered a desert, with annual precipitation of only 200 mm along the coast and far less inland. The temperature in Antarctica has reached −89 °C. There are no permanent human residents, but anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 people reside throughout the year at the research stations scatteredacross the continent. Only cold-adapted organisms survive there, including many types of algae, animals.(2) Adelie LandAdélie Land lies between 136° E and 142° E , with a shore length of about 350 kilometres and with its inland part extending as a sector about 2,600 kilometres toward the South Pole. Adélie Land has border with the Australian Antarctic Territory both on the east and on the west, namely on Clarie Land in the west, and George V Land in the east. Its total land area, mostly covered with glaciers, is estimated to be 432,000 square kilometres. Adélie Land is a claimed territory on the continent of Antarctica. It stretches from a coastline area along the Great Southern Ocean inland all the way to the South Pole. This territory is claimed by France as one of five districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, although most countries have not given this their diplomatic recognition.4.TextAntarctica(1)Seen from space, the astronauts tell us, the most (1)distinctive feature of our planet is the ice sheet of Antarctica which “(2)radiates light like a great white lantern across the bottom of the world”. This ice sheet covers 5,500,000 square miles (an area greater than the United States and Central America combined); (2)it averages more than 7,000 feet in thickness; it contains more than 90 per cent of the world’s ice and snow, and if suddenly it melted the oceans would rise to such a height that (3)every other person on earth would be drowned. Antarctica is in fact our planet’s largest and most (3)spectacular natural phenomenon.(4)Yet 160 years ago no one had ever set eyes on this vast continent, let alone set foot on it; and even today man’s (4)tenure of it is unsure and his knowledge comparatively slight. Tounderstand why, (5)we need to appreciate the sort of place Antarctica is.(6)People used to regard the Arctic and the Antarctic as much alike. (7)In fact their differences outweigh their similarities. The Arctic is closely (5)hemmed in by the populated (6)landmasses of Europe, America and Asia; the Antarctic in contrast is in splendid isolation, divided from the nearest land by (8)vast reaches of the most (7)tempestuous seas on earth. Another big difference is the climate. We are so inclined to think of both the Arctic and Antarctic as cold, that we tend to forget how much colder the latter is. North of the Arctic Circle tens of thousands of families live in comfort all the year round; thousands of plants and animals are able to survive; hundreds of children are born every year. South of the Antarctic Circle, in contrast, there is no (8)habitation that a man can describe as home; the only plants are a handful of mosses and lichens; the only landlife simple one-celled creatures and wingless flies; no human child has ever been born there.It is not hard to see why. The basic essentials to life are rainfall, warmth and a degree of stillness. The Arctic, at times, provides all three; the Antarctic seldom provides any — witness the descriptions of those who have been there:As regards (9)precipitation the Southern Continent is a desert with an annual fall no greater than the outback of Australia. The exact accumulation is difficult to measure because of the common occurrence of blown snow, but the central area certainly receives less than five centimetres per year; and there may well be places close to the Pole where snow has never fallen. (U.S. Weather Bureau)Antarctica is by far the coldest place on earth; weather stations have reported temperatures of –88ºC, more than 20ºC below those recorded anywhere else. In this sort of cold if you try to burn a candle (9)the flame becomes (10)obscured by a (11)hood of wax, if you drop a steel bar it is likely to (12)shatter like glass, tin (13)disintegrates into loose granules, mercury freezes into a solid metal, and if you (14)haul up a fish through a hole in the ice within five seconds it is frozen so solid that it has to be cut with a saw. (John Bechervaise)All those who have set foot in Antarctica agree that its main and most cruel characteristic is wind. (10)When we wintered in Adelie Land the wind on 5th July blew nonstop for eight hours at an average speed of 107 mph; (15)gusts were recorded of over 150 mph, and the average wind speed for the month was 63.3. In these conditions it was possible to stand for no more than a few seconds, and then only by leaning forward at an angle of 45º! (Douglas Mawson) It is worth remembering that wind is as (16)injurious to human health as cold; for (11)by disrupting the cushion of warmth which is trapped by pores and hairs of the skin, each knot of wind has an effect on life equal to a drop of one degree in temperature. So whereas a man can live quite happily at –20ºC in the still air, when the temperature is –20ºC and the wind speed 60 knots he will very quickly die. Small wonder that whereas in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries man swiftly explored and occupied the rest of his planet, the southernmost continent remained (17)inviolate.Yet climate by itself was not the main (18)drawback to the unveiling of Antarctica; an even greater drawback, at least in the early stages, was the nature of the sea — the Southern Ocean —which surrounds it.By Ian Cameron Words and phrases: (点击文中红色单词或词组，出现该红色部分及e.g.字样，再单击e.g. ，出现例句)(1) distinctive: a. having a special quality, character, or appearance that is different and easy torecognizee.g. I smelt the distinctive odour of tulips.During the festival and celebration, you can appreciate the music and dance withdistinctive features.(2) radiate: v. if something radiates light or heat, or if light or heat radiates from something, thelight or heat is sent out in all directionse.g. The log fire radiated a warm cozy glow.Imagine your thoughts as energy waves that radiate out into the cosmos and then reflectback to you.(3) spectacular: a. very impressive or dramatice.g. This is a mountainous area with spectacular scenery.You wander off to one side, into the nave, and suddenly you come across thisspectacular altar, or a beautiful painting that was totally unexpected.(4) tenure: n. the legal right to live in a house or use a piece of land for a period of timee.g. Lack of security of tenure was a reason for many families becoming homeless.Land tenure is a leading political issue in many countries.(5) hem: v. surround closelye.g. The canyon is hemmed in by towering walls of rock.The space that the buildings hem in is enclosed by glass, a handy way to connect the setwhile preserving their individual identities and creating a handsome weatherproofcourtyard.(6) landmass: n. a large area of land such as a continente.g. The visitors to the snow-covered landmass are endangering not just the Antarctic regionby their actions, but also the rest of the world.However, the main landmass that we know as China has always been affected, andcontinues to be so today, by Chinese societies well beyond its own borders.(7) tempestuous: a. very rough and violent sea or winde.g. But the sea in those old times, heaved, swelled, and foamed, very much at its own will,or subject only to the tempestuous wind, with hardly any attempts at regulation byhuman law.But it will calm the swell and heaving of thy passion, like oil thrown on the waves of atempestuous sea.(8) habitation: n. the native habitat or home of an animal or plante.g. Excavation work on the bypass also revealed signs of human habitation in the area from6, 000 years ago.It’s a surface craft above water that’s a temporary step to human underwater habitation.(9) precipitation: n. rain, snow etc. that falls on the ground, or the amount of rain, snow etc. thatfallse.g. More contamination entered the sea through fallout from the air, and throughprecipitation runoff.It plays an increasingly important part in meteorology for cloud, precipitation, hail andthunderstorm detection as well as the navigation of aircraft and ships.(10) obscure: v. prevent something from being seen or heard clearlye.g. But nothing could obscure the fact that the crowds here have witnessed some superbplay.Trees obscured her vision; she couldn’t see much of the square’s northern half.(11) hood: n. a part of a coat, jacket etc. that one can pull up to cover his or her heade.g. Why don’t you put your hood up if you’re cold?There in the center, stood a figure, covered with thick fur cloak, the face hidden deeplyin the shadow of the hood.(12) shatter: v. break suddenly into very small pieces, or make something break in this waye.g. When he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as thenorth wind lays waste the garden.Dropping the phone will guarantee that the screen will shatter unless it lands on its back.(13) disintegrate: v. break up, make something break up, into very small piecese.g. At that speed the plane began to disintegrate.We have this really globalized labor market now, and as the local economies disintegrate, more and more young people are having to go and look for work elsewhere.(14) haul: v. pull something heavy with a continuous steady movemente.g. The train is hauled by a steam locomotive.That was the job of the space shuttles — to haul up the big building blocks as well asloads of smaller items — and now they’re retiring.(15) gust: n. a sudden strong movement of wind, air, rain etc.e.g. The U.S. Coast Guard station at Hatteras reported a gust of 67 mph just before midnight.The destructive and deadly wind gust on Saturday evening in Indianapolis was nochance occurrence.(16) injurious: a. causing injury, harm, or damagee.g. We demand the ruthless prosecution of those whose activities are injurious to thecommon interest.Darwin was convinced that the loss of these tastes was not only a loss of happiness, butmight possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character.(17) inviolate: a. something that cannot be attacked, changed, or destroyede.g. Hitherto, Tigerland has existed as a world unto itself, protected by its inscrutability —impenetrable, secretive, inviolate.(18) drawback: n. a disadvantage of a situation, plan, product etc.e.g. In spite of this drawback, it is used extensively due to its maturity, ubiquity, andperformance.The drawback of the Internet is that you have to be literate to use it.Corruption is also a huge drawback, prompting widespread worries that future oilrevenue will be squandered.Notes （点击文中蓝色字体，出现该内容，再点击，出现下面的注释内容）1. Seen from space ... the most distinctive feature of our planet is the ice sheet ofAntarctica ...Seen from space — When our planet is seen from space. This is an –ed participle phrase used as an adverbial of time.More examples:Seen from the plane, the vast stretches of fertile fields and prosperous farms look likechessboards.Placed in a freezer, water quickly becomes ice.The –ed participle can be used as an adverbial to denote cause, condition or attending circumstances, and can be put at the beginning, at the end, or in the middle of a sentence.2. it averages more than 7,000 feet in thicknessaverage (v.) — have an average ofFor example:During their walking trip round the province, they averaged twenty kilometres a day.In building the Outer-Ring Highway around Tianjin, five million cubic metres of soil were dug out in 20 days by volunteers, averaging 250,000 cubic metres a day.Average can be used as an adjective.For example:When we wintered in Adelie Land the wind on 5th July blew nonstop for eight hours at an average speed of 107 mph.What is the average annual rainfall in the Arctic?Average can also be used as a noun.For example:The average of the students’ marks for the mid-term examination is 76.The ice sheet is more than 7,000 feet thick on average.3. every other personhalf the people in the world (i.e., those who live on relatively low terrain)every other — every second, one in every twoFor example:We have singing practice every other week.We are asked to write on every other line for our composition.4. Yet 160 years ago no one had ever set eyes on this vast continent, let alone set foot on it.The first person to sail in the Antarctic Ocean was James Cook (1728–1779), English navigator and explorer, in 1774. Antarctica was not discovered until the early 19th century.set eyes on — lay eyes on, see (usually used in conjunction with a negative orout-of-the-ordinary idea).For example:It was the most extraordinary thing I had ever set eyes on.I had never set eyes on a book with such magnificent binding.let alone — even less, certainly not, not to mention. This is a conjunction often used after a negative clause.For examples:My brother can’t do fractions, let alone work out this complicated geometry problem.He’s so busy with his work that he can’t even afford the time to have a relaxed meal, letalone go for a weekend outing to the country with us.set foot (on / in, etc.) — go, visitFor example:Peter got measles so his mother doesn’t let him set foot out of the house.The invention of spacecraft has made it possible for man to set foot on the moon.5. we need to appreciate the sort of place Antarctica iswe must understand fully what kind of place Antarctica isAppreciate in this context means “understand fully”. Often the word is used to mean “bethankful or grateful for”.For example:I’d appreciate it if you could turn on the air-conditioner.Your consent to our request will be appreciated.6. People used to regard the Arctic and the Antarctic as much alike.People used to think that the Arctic and the Antarctic are almost the same.regard as — consider (someone or something) to beFor example:Do you regard marking up a book as a good reading habit?Clive regards the furniture as shoddy and vulgar.7. In fact their differences outweigh their similarities.In fact there are more differences than similarities between them.outweigh — be greater in importance thanFor example:We’ll accept the proposal if the advantages outweigh disadvantages.8. vast reaches of the most tempestuous seas on earththe broad expanse of water of the roughest seas in this worldThe reaches of a section of a river are the large areas of water in that particular section 河段For example:the upper (middle, lower) reaches of the Yellow River 黄河的上(中、下)游9. the flame becomes obscured by a hood of waxthe flame cannot be seen clearly as the wax of the candle almost covers it upobscure — make something difficult to be seen.For example:Heavy black clouds obscured the moon at last year’s Mid-autumn Festival.10. When we wintered in Adelie Land the wind on 5th July blew nonstop for eight hours atan average speed of 107 mphWhen we wintered in ... — When we spent the winter in ... Winter is used as a verb here.nonstop — without stopping, without interruptionWhen applied to transportation, nonstop means without making a single stop on the way.For example:We flew from Shanghai to Paris nonstop.mph —the abbreviation for “miles per hour”11. by disrupting the cushion of warmth which is trapped by pores and hairs of the skin,each knot of wind has an effect on life equal to a drop of one degree in temperatureby doing away with the warmth which is like a padding held back by small openings and hairs of the skin, each knot of wind will literally cause the temperature to drop one degree The meaning of the sentence is that if the temperature remains the same, the stronger the wind, the colder one feels.knot — a measure of the speed of a ship or windOne knot is equivalent to about 1,852 metres per hour.ments on the TextThis text is a well-written expository piece of writing about Antarctica — why it has not been conquered by man so far and how our tenure of it is questionable even today.The writer’s intention is to inform and explain for a general audience, so the vocabulary is not very specialized.There are some striking features which are worthy of notice and imitation.1. The writer uses the technique of stating the central theme at the beginning of the text toarouse the reader’s interest and presents a striking description of Antarctica — the subject under discussion.2. He supports his views with a great deal of concrete data, statistics and facts to make hiswriting more convincing.3. He throws new light upon two things by showing how they are alike and yet verydifferent.4. The writer directly quotes those who have been to the Antarctic to give more authority tohis explanation of the reasons why the differences between the Arctic and the Antarcticoutweigh their similarities.5. The writer provides us with a striking conclusion.6. He also uses parallel structures as an effective way of describing what life in theAntarctic is like.6.ExercisesA. Answer the following questions.(先单击出现黑色问题, 后单击出现蓝色答案)1. According to the writer, will the ice sheet of Antarctica one day melt?The writer does not indicate that the ice sheet will one day melt. As a matter of fact, he uses the past tense to express the unreal condition contrary to present facts. He only claims what would happen if it melted now.2. Why does the writer say that Antarctica is in fact our planet’s largest and most spectacular natural phenomenon?Antarctica is actually a vast ice sheet with an area of 5,500,000 square miles, which has an average thickness of 7,000 feet. It “radiates light like a great white lantern across the bottom of the world”. Its size and appearance suggest to the writer that it is not only the largest but also the most spectacular natural phenomenon on earth.3. What does the writer mean by “a degree of stillness”?He means “sometimes there is no wind”.4. What are the similarities and differences between the Arctic and the Antarctic?The similarities:1) Both are at the ends of the earth’s axis, one in the north and the other in the south.2) Both occupy a vast area of the earth and are covered with a thick layer of ice and snow.3) Both are cold all the year round.4) At both for nearly half a year the sun never sets and for the other half of the year there is utterdarkness.The differences:1) Geographical position:The Arctic is closely surrounded by the populated continents of Europe, America and Asia; while the Antarctic is isolated, separated from the nearest land by vast stretches of rough seas.2) Climate:The Arctic region has a cold winter and a warm period of sunshine lasting up to two months. The temperature falls below freezing for the winter months, but it is above freezing for at least one month of the year. In Antarctica, however, winter is almost continuous and the ice sheet which covers the continent is 7,000 feet thick. There is no month which is free from frost, and even the summer mean temperature is below freezing point. Winter temperature can be as low。