现代大学英语4 unit 6 the telephone
《综合英语》课程《现代大学英语》说课Thetelephone
Role plays, simulations, and listening exercises can be used to practice telephone based communication
Practical communication skills and strategy sharing
Clear and decide speaking skills: Speaking slowly and clearly, using simple language, and avoiding jargon can help ensure effective communication
Handling differential or unexpected situations on the phone: This could include dealing with angle calls, handling sensitive information, or transferring calls to the appropriate person
Grouping students strategically
Forming groups based on students' language proficiency, learning styles, and interests to promote peer learning and support
This could include language barriers, background noise, and limited visual cues
unit 6 the telephone 现代大学英语 第四册
The Telephone
Theme
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Text Analysis
Structure
Detailed Analysis
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Text Analysis
Theme
• What would be the key words if you want to discuss its theme?
free sb from a situation
n. The track of a person or animal by which it can be followed
• (p.22)…or to deliver a message to his wife, such as…
take sth to a place
… time didn’t mean much to anybody, except maybe to those who were dying.
The villagers didn’t think time was important until perhaps when they were dying.
• Short fiction "The Camera" in Homeworks (1996)
Background
Social Background
Location:
Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between
Israel and Syria
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Warming up
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【精品】the telephone大英
【精品】the telephone大英
电话是一种通讯工具，它能够在不同地点的人们之间建立起联系。
我们现在所用的电话是由美国的亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔于1876年发明的。
尽管人们已经使用电话很长时间了，但它的本质并没有改变。
电话以其方便的通讯方式而为人们所接受。
在电话出现之前，人们只能通过书信或面对面的交谈来建立联系，这需要时间、空间和物质资源。
然而，电话打破了这些限制，使得人们能够更快、更便捷地沟通。
同时，电话的普及也为商业和社会带来了巨大的影响。
它使得商业运作更加高效，也使得人们在日常生活中更加紧密地联系在一起。
尽管现在有很多其他的通讯方式，例如电子邮件、短信、社交媒体等等，但电话依然是一种很重要的通讯工具。
它具有即时沟通、语音表达、即时解决问题等优点，同时也可以避免因文字误解而产生的歧义。
此外，电话也能够提供更加个性化和真实的交流体验。
然而，电话的使用也面临着一些挑战。
例如，电话骚扰已经成为了一种常见的问题。
此外，在电话中，人们面对着分神、尴尬等问题。
另外，在一些情况下，电话可能不方便或不可行，例如在工作会议或面对面谈话时。
总之，电话已经成为人类生活中不可或缺的一部分。
尽管它面临着一些挑战，但人们依然需要电话来建立联系、解决问题、保持联系和进行沟通。
因此，我们需要更好地利用电话的优点，并找到合适的解决方案来解决其挑战。
精读4unit6thetelephone作者对村庄变化的态度
精读4unit6thetelephone作者对村庄变化的态度
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目录
1.文章概述
2.作者对村庄变化的态度
3.村庄变化的具体体现
4.作者对电话的看法
5.总结
正文
1.文章概述
《精读 4unit6thetelephone》这篇文章主要描述了作者对于一个村庄在引入电话之后所发生的变化的观察和思考。
作者以一种批判的眼光看待这些变化，认为这些改变并非都是积极的。
2.作者对村庄变化的态度
作者对于村庄的变化持一种消极的态度。
他认为，虽然电话带来了便利，但同时也破坏了村庄原有的宁静和生活节奏。
电话的引入使得村庄变得喧闹，人们的生活受到了干扰。
3.村庄变化的具体体现
在文章中，作者详细描绘了村庄在引入电话之后的种种变化。
他描述道，电话的铃声打破了村庄的宁静，人们不再像以前那样互相拜访，而是选择打电话。
这样的改变使得村庄失去了原有的人情味，变得冷漠。
4.作者对电话的看法
作者认为，电话并非完全的坏事，它也为人们带来了便利。
但作者同时指出，电话的使用需要适度，过度依赖电话会使人们的生活失去真实感，
也会破坏人与人之间的亲密关系。
5.总结
总的来说，作者对于电话在村庄中的作用持一种批判的态度。
他认为，虽然电话带来了便利，但也带来了许多负面影响。
Unit 6 The Telephone教案(综英二)
Unit 6一、授课时间：第13—14周二．授课类型：课文分析10课时；习题讲解2课时三．授课题目：The Telephone四．授课时数：12五．教学目的和要求：通过讲授课文使学生了解作者以一个儿童的眼光和心理，通过大量事实描述了电话这一现代通讯工具给一个地处黎巴嫩山区小村庄的生活方式带来的影响，学会用英语解释句子以达到学以致用的目的。
要求学生主动地预习课文，课前准备练习，学会分析文章体裁和进行段落划分。
六．教学重点和难点：1）背景知识的传授：Chickenpox; Whooping Cough; Communion2）文章的体裁分析及段落划分；3）语言点的理解：Word study: amid; bustling; chime; congregate; crank; curse; deli; desolate; devout; divine; drill; escalate; shun; wriggle; wringGrammar Focus: the patterns of concessive clauses七．教学基本内容和纲要Part One Warm – upWarm-up Questions1. How would you sum up this piece of writing in one sentence What is it about2. Why do you think the author gives the title “The Telephone” What is the significance of the telephone in this narration3. What was the author’s village like originally What specific aspects did the author touch upon to give a vivid picture of this traditional societyPart Two Background InformationAuthorKacula, Seffen-ub, and BebsiPart Three Text AppreciationText Analysis3.1.1 Theme of the text3.1.2 Structure of the textWriting Devices3.2.1 contrast3.2.2 metaphor3.2.3 parallelism3.2.4 paradoxSentence ParaphrasePart Four Language StudyPhrases and Expressions4.1.1 Word list:4.1.2 Phrases and expressions list:4.1.3 Word BuildingGrammar4.2.1 ObjectPart Five ExtensionGroup discussionDebating八、教学方法和措施本单元将运用黑板、粉笔、多媒体网络辅助教学设备等教学手段，主要采用以学生为主体、教师为主导的任务型、合作型等教学模式，具体运用教师讲授法、师生讨论、生生讨论等方法进行教学。
现代大学英语精读4第六单元课后习题答案
四册六单元课后习题答案Key to the exercisesVocabulary1. Translate.2) into Chinese.(1)非理性因素(2)过去的好日子(3)思想模式(4)陈旧的故事(5)思路(6)鲜明的对比(7)强烈的满足感(8)感情上的联想(9)一场恶吵(10)酸葡萄(11)—毫无根据的意见(12)社会地位(13)重要而有说服力的因素(14)怀疑的余地(15)一种教条的观点(16)大学者们／大才子们(17)不可避免的结果(18)长期的斗争(19)互相矛盾冲突的观点(20)鲜明的例子(21)根深蒂固的信仰(22)仅仅是断言2) into English.(1) to classify propositions (2) to hold an opinion(3) to establish convictions (4) to reverse the process(5) to question the truth (6) to adopt a new belief ,(7) to demonstrate the contrary (8) to credit the fact(9) to entertain an opinion (10) to acquire wealth(11) to extend the term (12) to abandon belief(13)to value their respect (14) to belittle their opinions(15) to make an allowance (16) to alter our thought patterns(17) to take the same course (18) to parrot others' ideas2. Put appropriate prepositions or adverbs in the blanks.1) out/:over 2) on/upon 3) at; about 4) off 5) on; off 6) out; as 7) as; out 8) off 9) as; out 10) on; as 11) off; as 12) at; as 13) as; out 14) out; out3. Replace the words and expressions italicized with suitable words and ex pressions from the text.1) meet with; proposition; bare assertion 2) accept a view uncritically; rests up on; mere3) deeply-rooted propositions; established 4) hold opposite views; conflicting int erests5) parroting; tend to; such ideas as fit in with 6) conceive of; consistent with 7) is also true of; make allowance for 8) stock subjects; going to the dogs9) in fashion; a strong argument in its favor 10) bear grudge against; or as the case may be11) belittle; are jealous of 12) attribute to13) As a rule; would be the last person to 14) consists in; shaking off15) In light of; on our guard 16) left us with no doubt4. Translate.1) We’ll achieve this result at any cost.2) Our economy began to grow by leaps and bounds as a result of the reformand opening- up policy.3) His repressive policies only resulted in his quick fall.4) Many of our present problems in a way result from our large population.5) The fact that you like somebody may dispose you to like his ideas also.6) So far we still have not found a safe way to dispose of nuclear waste.7) These shoes fit me perfectly. I'll take them.8) This set of furniture fits into our sitting room.9) The innkeeper found that the man fit the description of the wanted murder suspect.10) To keep fit, you should avoid eating too much salt, sugar and fat.11) The water was no longer even fit to swim in, let alone to drink.12) He was suddenly seized by a fit of laughter.13) She has had fits every now and then since she was a child.14) This subway will be extended to Cover the whole city.15) I would tike to take this opportunity to extend my heartfelt thanks to you.I6) The effect of the economic reform will naturally extend to other fields.17) Many people prefer government bonds to stocks.18) This kind of jacket is out of stock.19) This is one of his stock jokes. I have heard it many times.5. Complete the following sentences.1) were brought up in a different country; think and behave like a native of t hat country.2) will produce ten million kilowatts of power annually3) that she did not care for office work 4) the boy stabbing his own father 5) postpone my retirement for another year 6) pursue her studies overseas7) go to my brother 8) why we should accept it9) give us the excuse for doing wrong things10) he had been unusually lucky to have the best learning and working conditi ons11) she had very poor health 12) school education is useless13) as 14) as 15) share my basic value16) say no 17) take money18) the rewards hey cannot get 19) good food and drink(s), sex, etc.20) of which; in which/on which/under which21) she was very angry22) we must not allow others blindly 23) teachers are also inspired by good st udents6. Give brief comments on the following, using some of the expressions list ed below.1) Not always true. If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it will still bea foolish thing.Truth always has to be discovered by one individual first.2) Then why do we need to recruit workers? Why do we ask people to give us a hand?3) And how many is "too many"? Isn't this statement only one side of the sto ry?4) Are we sure it will not lead to poor efficiency?5) Time is money. What about many other things? There was a time when we believed that money was dirty and an evil monster, and now we hear that m oney is everything. Isn't it just like a fashion that comes and goes?6) To change things in what way? Can't they choose just to destroy? Isn't it p ossible that they will replace the old order with an order just as bad? Won't t hey upset social stability when stability is necessary for the whole nation?7) A popular saying during the "Cultural Revolution". But isn't it the other wa y around? Isn’t it true that the wat er of the mighty river comes from the smal l tributaries in the first place?8) But who are the people? Do the voters really have equal power and influen ce? In a country where wealth is concentrated, how can power avoid being co ncentrated too?9) This sounds pleasant in the ear, but it is not exactly true. Our arable land i s only 7% of the world’s total; pur per-capita water only one-third of the worl d’s average; timer, one-sixteenth; oil, 2% of the world's total; natural gas, 1. 2% of the world's total.10) This old saying is based on a false analogy. It is popular in a male-domin ant society.Men cling to this view not because it is true, but because it is useful to t hem.11) Not necessarily true. Good deeds should be their own reward. This old sa ying is meant to encourage people to do good, but because it is based on the concept of investment for future profits, many people refuse to make this un wise investment.7. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets.(1) awful (2) story (3) likely (4) fulfilling (5) supposed(6) from (7) gain (8) done (9) when (10) about(11) in particular (12) such as (13) interpreted (14) alone (15) context Grammar2. Grammar in context.1) Study the italicized abbreviated adverbial clauses, put in the omitted pa rts, and discuss the rules used in cutting short adverbial clauses.(1) when they (the staunchest Roman Catholic and the staunchest Presbyterian) were infants(2) when they (such "obvious truths") are examined(3) when it (the assumed or dogmatic proposition) was challenged(4) if he was/were told (5) while we are doing(6) while he (this young man) was attending(7) as if he (this beanpole with hair on top) wanted to say(8) as if he did all this to check (9) as if he was remembering(10) when it is measured against the lower crime rates(11) While you are in Rome (12) Though they are poor3. Shorten the following adverbial clauses where possible.1）If elected, he will turn out to be an excellent chairman.2) The adverbial clause cannot be cut short because its subject isn’t one and t he same with that of the main clause.3) If cooked too long, much of the vitamin C in vegetables will be destroyed.4) The conditional clause cannot be shortened for the same reason as stated in 2.5) The conditional cannot be shortened for the same reason as stated in 2.6) Though a foreigner, Dr. Bethune regarded the cause of the Chinese people as his own.7) If given every attention possible, the dying man still has a chance of recov ery,8) When questioned closely and severely by the teacher, the boy admitted chea ting in the exam.9) Even though still operating, the committee won’t play as an important a role as it used to.10) The teller turned to the next customer with a smile, as though deliberately snubbing the girl.11) Beijing looks more beautiful than ever (before).12) Unless invited, don't go to those meetings.13) Albert Einstein's hair looked wild as if electrified.14) When living in the Northeast, did you ever learn to ski?15) The conditional clause cannot be shortened for the same reason ass stated in 2.16) The conditional clause cannot be shortened for the same reason ass stated in 2.4. Complete the following sentences by translating the Chinese in brackets.1) When young 5) When urged2) unless it is forbidden 6) When ripe3) If cooked in tomato sauce 7) If not restricted4) Once out of trouble 8) Though well over seventy9) … as if turning over some important matter in his mind10) If detected sleeping on the job/at his post/on duty5. Translate these sentences that imply a condition.1) With better medical care my grandfather could have pulled through.2) They wouldn't have been able to do better under present conditions.Or: They couldn’t have been done better under present conditions.3）Even at gunpoint I would say, “He is guilty.”4) Further delay would cause us even greater losses.5) But for the seat belt, she would have been severely injured in the acciden t.6) A man without a strong sense of justice wouldn't have brought the matter up.7) With a smaller population there might be less unemployment in the country.8) Without an experienced guide like her, we might have been trapped in the jungle.9) She is not after name and money; otherwise she wouldn't have come back.10) But for the correct policy, many Chinese peasants wouldn't have become well-off so soon.11) I wonder how many of us would have done the same in his position.12) With a more sophisticated computer we would have completed the job mu ch sooner.13) This is something you should never do. It would mean the end of your jo urnalist career.14) Without a strong will even a healthy man wouldn't have reached the top of the mountainin two hours.15) A less resourceful person wouldn’t have been able to complete the project under such unfavorable conditions.6. Complete each of the following sentences with the most likely answer. 1-5 AACCB 6-10 DAADC 11-16 CDABDA。
现代大学英语4 unit 6 the telephone
Author—Anwar F. Accawi
• Before the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), the country enjoyed a period of relative calm and prosperity, driven by the tourism, agriculture, and banking sectors of the economy. It is considered the banking capital of the Levant (累 范特) and was widely known as the "Switzerland of the East" due to its financial power and diversity. Lebanon also attracted large numbers of tourists to the point that the capital Beirut became widely referred to as the "Paris of Western Asia".
… time didn’t mean much to anybody, except maybe to those who were dying. (para. 1)
The villagers didn’t think time was important until perhaps when they were dying.
(完整版)现代大学英语精读Book4Unit6课文
Book 4-Unit 5Text AThe TelephoneAnwar F. Accawi1.When I was growing up in Magdaluna, a small Lebanese village in theterraced, rocky mountains east of Sidon, time didn't mean much toanybody, except maybe to those whowere dying. In those days, there was no real need for a calendar or awatch to keep track of the hours, days, months, and years. We knewwhat to do and when to do it, just as the Iraqi geese knew when to flynorth, driven by the hot wind that blew in from the desert. The onlytimepiece we had need of then was the sun. It rose and set, and theseasons rolled by and we sowed seed and harvested and ate and playedand married our cousins and had babies who got whooping cough andchickenpox—and those children who survived grew up and marriedtheir cousins and had babies who got whooping cough and chickenpox.We lived and loved and toiled and died without ever needing to knowwhat year it was, or even the timeof day.2.It wasn't that we had no system for keeping track of time and of the importantevents in ourlives. But ours was a natural or, rather, a divine — calendar, because itwas framed by acts of God: earthquakes and droughts and floods andlocusts and pestilences. Simple as our calendar was, it worked just finefor us.3.Take, for example, the birth date of Teta Im Khalil, the oldestwoman in Magdaluna and all the surrounding villages. When Iasked Grandma, "How old is Teta Im Khalil?"4.Grandma had to think for a moment; then she said, "I've been toldthat Teta was born shortly after the big snow that caused the roof onthe mayor's house to cave in."5."And when was that?" I asked.6."Oh, about the time we had the big earthquake that cracked the wall in the eastroom."7.Well, that was enough for me. You couldn't be more accurate than that, now,could you?8.And that's the way it was in our little village for as far back as anybodycould remember. One of the most unusual of the dates was when awhirlwind struck during which fish and oranges fell from the sky.Incredible as it may sound, the story of the fish and oranges was true,because men who would not lie even to save their own souls told andretold that story untilit was incorporated into Magdaluna's calendar.9.The year of the fish-bearing whirlpool was not the last remarkable year.Many others followed in which strange and wonderful things happened.There was, for instance, the yearof the drought, when the heavens were shut for months and the springfrom which the entire village got its drinking water slowed to a trickle.The spring was about a mile from the village, in a ravine that opened atone end into a small, flat clearing covered with fine gray dust and hard,marble-sized goat droppings. In the year of the drought, that littleclearingwas always packed full of noisy kids with big brown eyes and stickyhands, and their mothers —sinewy, overworked young women withcracked, brown heels. The children ran around playing tag or hide-and-seek while the women talked, shooed flies, and awaited their turns to fillup their jars with drinking water to bring home to their napping menand wet babies. There were days when we had to wait from sunup untillate afternoon just to fill a small clay jar with precious, cool water.10.S ometimes, amid the long wait and the heat and the flies and the smellof goat dung, tempers flared, and the younger women, anxious abouttheir babies, argued over whose turnit was to fill up her jar. And sometimes the arguments escalated intofull-blown, knockdown-dragout fights; the women would grab eachother by the hair and curse and scream and spit and call each othernames that made my ears tingle. We little brown boys who went withour mothers to fetch water loved these fights, because we got to see thewomen's legs and their colored panties as they grappled and rolledaround in the dust. Oncein a while, we got lucky and saw much more, because some of thewomen wore nothing at all under their long dresses. God, how I usedto look forward to those fights. I remember the rush, the excitement,the sun dancing on the dust clouds as a dress ripped and a youngwhite breast was revealed, then quickly hidden. In my calendar, thatyear of drought will always be one of the best years of my childhood.11.B ut, in another way, the year of the drought was also one of the worstof my life, because that was the year that Abu Raja, the retired cook,decided it was time Magdaluna got its own telephone. Every civilizedvillage needed a telephone, he said, and Magdaluna was not going toget anywhere until it had one. A telephone would link us with theoutside world. A fewmen—like the retired Turkish-army drill sergeant, and the vineyard keeper —did all they couldto talk Abu Raja out of having a telephone brought to the village. But they were outshoutedand ignored and finally shunned by the other villagers for resisting progress and trying tokeep a good thing from coming to Magdaluna.12. O ne warm day in early fall, many of the villagers were out in theirfields repairing walls or gathering wood for the winter when the shoutwent out that the telephone-company truckhad arrived at Abu Raja's dikkan, or country store. When the truckcame into view, everybody dropped what they were doing and ran toAbu Raja's house to see what was happening.13.I t did not take long for the whole village to assemble at Abu Raja'sdikkan. Some of the rich villagers walked right into the store andstood at the elbows of the two important-lookingmen from the telephone company, who proceeded with utmost gravity, like priests atCommunion, to wire up the telephone. The poorer villagers stoodoutside and listened carefully to the details relayed to them by the not-so-poor people who stood in the doorway and could see inside.14."The bald man is cutting the blue wire," someone said.15."He is sticking the wire into the hole in the bottom of the black box," someoneelse added.16."The telephone man with the mustache is connecting two pieces ofwire. Now he is twisting the ends together," a third voice chimed in.17.B ecause I was small, I wriggled my way through the dense forest oflegs to get a firsthand look at the action. Breathless, I watched asthe men in blue put together a black machinethat supposedly would make it possible to talk with uncles, aunts, andcousins who lived more than two days' ride away.18.I t was shortly after sunset when the man with the mustache announced thatthe telephonewas ready to use. He explained that all Abu Raja had to do was lift thereceiver, turn the crank on the black box a few times, and wait for anoperator to take his call. Abu Raja grabbed the receiver and turned thecrank forcefully. Within moments, he was talking withhis brother in Beirut. He didn't even have to raise his voice or shout to be heard.19.A nd the telephone, as it turned out, was bad news. With its coming, the face ofthe villagebegan to change. One of the fast effects was the shifting of the village'scenter. Before the telephone's arrival, the men of the village used togather regularly at the house of Im Kaleem, a short, middle-aged widowwith jet-black hair and a raspy voice that could be heard all over thevillage, even when she was only whispering. She was a devout Catholicand also the village whore. The men met at her house to argue aboutpolitics and drink coffee and play cards or backgammon. Im Kaleemwas not a true prostitute, however, because she did not charge for herservices —not even for the coffee and tea that she served the men. Shedid not need the money; her son, who was overseas in Africa, sent hermoney regularly. Im Kaleem loved all the men she entertained, and theyloved her, every one of them. In a way, she was married to all the menin the village. Everybody knew it but nobody objected. Actually I suspect the women did not mind their husbands'visits to Im Kaleem. Oh, theywrung their hands and complained to one another about their men'sunfaithfulness, but secretly they were relieved, because Im Kaleem tooksome of the pressure off them and kept the men outof their hair while they attended to their endless chores. Im Kaleem wasalso a kind of confessor and troubleshooter, talking sense to those menwho were having family problems, especially the younger ones.20.B efore the telephone came to Magdaluna, Im Kaleem's house was bustling atjust about anytime of day, especially at night, when the loud voices of the men talking, laughing, and arguing could be heard in the street below —a reassuring, homey sound. Her house was an island of comfort, an oasis for theweary village men, exhausted from having so little to do.21.B ut it wasn't long before many of those men —the younger onesespecially—started spending more of their days and evenings at AbuRaja's dikkan. There, they would eat and drink and talk and playcheckers and backgammon, and then lean their chairs back against thewall —the signal that they were ready to toss back and forth, like a ball,the latest rumors going around the village. And they were alwayslooking up from their games and drinks and talk to glance at the phonein the corner, as if expecting it to ring any minute and bring news thatwould change their lives and deliver them from their aimless existence.In the meantime,they smoked cheap, hand-rolled cigarettes, dug dirt out from undertheir fingernails with big pocketknives, and drank lukewarm sodasthat they called Kacula, Seffen-Ub, and Bebsi.22. T he telephone was also bad news for me personally. It took away mylucrative business —a source of much-needed income. Before, I used tohang around Im Kaleem's courtyard and play marbles with the otherkids, waiting for some man to call down from a window and askme to run to the store for cigarettes or liquor, or to deliver a message to his wife, such aswhat he wanted for supper. There was always something in it for me: aten or even a twenty-five-piaster piece. On a good day, I ran nine or tenof those errands, which assured a steady supply of marbles that Iusually lost to other boys. But as the days went by fewer and fewer mencame to Im Kaleem's, and more and more congregated at Abu Raja's towait bythe telephone. In the evenings, the laughter and noise of the mentrailed off and finally stopped.23.A t Abu Raja's dikkan, the calls did eventually come, as expected, andmen and women started leaving the village the way a hailstorm begins:first one, then two, then bunches.24.T he army took them. Jobs in the cities lured them. And ships andairplanes carried them to such faraway places as Australia and Braziland New Zealand. My friend Kameel, his cousin Habeeb, and theircousins and my cousins all went away to become ditch diggers andmechanics and butcher-shop boys and deli owners who wore dirtyaprons sixteen hours a day, all looking for a better life than the onethey had left behind. Within a year, only the sick, the old, and themaimed were left in the village. Magdaluna became a skeleton of itsformer self, desolate and forsaken, like the tombs, a place to get away from.25.F inally, the telephone took my family away, too. My father got a callfrom an old army buddy who told him that an oil company in southern Lebanon was hiring interpreters and instructors. My father applied for a job and got it, and we moved to Sidon, where I went to aPresbyterian missionary school and graduated in 1962. Three yearslater, having won a scholarship, I left Lebanon for the United States.Like the others who left Magdaluna before me, I am still looking for that better life. (2121 words)。
现代大学英语精读第二版第四册unit6讲稿
现代大学英语精读第二版第四册unit6讲稿Cultural Note:Communion(p.153 note 3)Pre-class discussion:1. can you find out whether there is anything about traditional societies that people living in modern societies miss very much?2. talk about how technological inventions have brought about great changes in their life. They can use such examples as the invention of wheel, gunpowder or compass, the discovery of the fire, the construction of the first railway, etc. They might also be interested to predict the possible consequences of such new inventions of e-mail, iPhone, etc.Background:The United States is known to be a country of immigrants. Wave upon wave, people come to this land from practically all parts of the world in the course of history, to escape religious or political persecution or to seek better living conditions. This is the reason for the popular appeal of immigrant literature in the United States. It satisfies people’s nostalgia about thei r past and their descendants’ desire to seek their roots. It also interests people of other ethnic origins in the country to find out how their country came to be such a “melting pot”.Teaching tips: (after class)From the point of view of language and style, this story deserves our close attention particularly on the following points.1. the author’s careful and clever choice of examples for bringing out his key ideas.2. the clever way of hiding significant messages in aseemingly childish narration.3. the clever humorous touches4. the skillful uses of figures of speech5. the clever use of words that give a strong local color6. the skillful way of repeating words and sentence patterns to achieve the effect of describing a traditional society and life where things happen without any change.Analysis of the text:1. Magdaluna: a village that lies in the Lebanon Mountains running parallel to the Mediterranean coastlineEast(west, etc) of: at a distance to the east (west, etc.),Eg. He was born in a small town about 100 kilometers southwest of Hangzhou.The Browns live 150 miles west of London.Sidon: a city on Lebanon’s southern coast, approximately 25 miles south of Beirut. It is one of the country’s largest ports and one of the oldest cities in the Middle East.2. according to this sentence, we can see that the villagers didn’t think time was important until perhaps when they were dying.3. keep track (of): to keep oneself informed about a person, situation, etc.,Eg. They try hard to keep track of all the new developments in the IT industry.The boy has kept track of his favorite sports stars.Compare:Lose track (of): to fail to remain informed,Eg. He loses track of time whenever he surfs the Net.During World War Two, the Chinese couple lost track of their son who was studying in Britain.4. the sentence means: the sun was the only clock or watch we needed at that time.Need: a strong feeling that you want sb/sth or must have sth, Eg. There was a time in the country when you’d be considered a jerk if you passed by somebody in need. (para. 1, unit 8, book 1)Have no need of: to not need,Eg. We have no need of this old desktop now that we’ve bought an up-to-date one.When he found they had no more need of him, he quit.Compare:Need: a situation when sth is necessary or must be done,Eg. As the helicopter arrived, Katie knew that her desperate need to direct her own rescue was over.There’s no need to apologize.5. in the remaining part of the paragraph, the writer summarizes what life was like in his home village when he was a child. The villagers followed the life pattern generation after generation. He uses a series of action verbs to emphasize the unchanging cycle of birth, marriage, toil and death in the small Lebanese village. The paragraph ends with the conclusion that with life as it was, there was no need to keep track of time.The seasons rolled by: the seasons came and went in steady successionRoll by: (of time) to pass, esp. quickly,Eg. The years rolled by, and still they got no news of their son.Those children who survived: this implies that infant mortality rate was highTo understand this sentence, we should know about some cultural note: Intermarriage among cousins is very common insome countries. The practice has come down from ancient times, when people there were mostly nomadic herdsmen who had no permanent settlements and moved with the animals from place to place. There were very few options open to young people in the choice of spouse. Today, this intermarriage is still common because of economic considerations. For poor families, marriage within an extended family saves the trouble of exchanging dowries. When rich people marry their cousins, they don’t worry about that someday their money and property will pass to another family.6. this does not meant that we had no way of knowing what year, or season, or day, or hour it was and of remembering when such important events as births, weddings, death, disasters happened.7. meaning of the sentence: we used natural disasters to keep track of time and of the important events in our lives. This was a natural calendar though it is more accurate to say a diving calendar, for sunrise and sunset, the change of seasons, and earthquakes and droughts and floods and locusts and pestilences were all works of God.8. the sentence means: … this way of keeping track of time and of the important events in our lives served or purpose well enough.Fine: adv. (infml) in a way that is acceptable and good enough,Eg. Don’t worry. He’s doing fine.Things are fine at school this year.9. cave in: (of roof or wall) to fall down or inward; to collapse10. meaning of the sentence: that’s the most accurate answer I could get.Now: (spoken) used for giving emphasis to a request, order or comment,Eg. Be careful, now! (order)Now, what’s going on there? (request)It’s marvelous, now, isn’t it? (comment)11. meaning of the sentence: and that’s how we kept track of the important events in our little village for as long as even the oldest people could remember.Note: here, “as far back as anybody could remember” serves as the object of “for”. 12. meaning of the sentence: … because men who would not lie for any reason or purpose, not even to save their souls …Save their own souls: to save their own livesUntil it was incor porated into Magdaluna’s calendar: until the event became one of the things by which we kept track of the important events in our lives.Incorporate sth (into): to add or include sth as part of sth else, Eg. The company decided to incorporate the new feature into their microcomputer.A number of courses in public relations have been incorporated into our curriculum.13. meaning of the sentence: this is a transitional sentence that begins another part of the essay, which extends to para. 10: the year of the drought, one of the best years in the writer’s childhood.14. the heavens were shut for months: it didn’t rain for months as if the sky were shut tightHeavens: (literary) the skySlowed to a trickle: (the spring) gradually became a slow and thin flow of waterTo: used for stating what condition or state sb or sth is after a change,Eg. The ancient temple has been restored to its former glory.The disease has reduced the patient to a bag of bones.15. *What can you infer from these attributive modifiers about these women?Obviously, because they shouldered much of the household chores, and probably worked in the fields, they were lean and muscular. And they were made to work hard, and because they were barefoot, their heels were cracked and brown.16. meaning of the sentence: their husbands who were takinga nap and their babies who needed to change their nappies because they were all wet with urine.Cultural note:Men in Arab countries, especially in the countryside, usually don’t do any housework.As we read on, we find the men in the village spent the evening somewhere drinking, chatting, and playing games.17. *what did the women sometimes argue about? What made them so irritable?These women hated to be away from home the whole morning and afternoon. They worried about their babies and the household chores waiting for them at home, so they got impatient and argue about who should get her water first. Or course the heat, the flies and the bad smell made them all the more irritable.18. meaning of the sentence: and sometimes the arguments became so fierce that they developed into long and violent fights.Full-blown: in the most complete and developed form,Eg. A full-blown economic crisis19. meaning of the sentence: … the words they used when they were quarreling were such that we little boys felt uncomfortable…Call sb names: to abuse sb by insulting words.20. in the remaining part of the paragraph, the writer, as an adult, recalls and describes humorously the excitement the little boys felt at the chance of seeing the usually unexposed parts of the female body. We smile, as we read this part, at the little boy’s innocent curiosity about what they normally couldn’t see and we find nothing repulsive in the description.To understand the sentence, we should know sth about culture.The traditional robe Arab women wear outdoors is a three-piece garment: a long-sleeved black dress reaching to the heels, a large black shawl to hide the hair and to wear over the shoulders and a black, nontransparent veil to cover the face showing only the eyes. In a few Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia and Yemen, women must wear such a garment when they go out.21. meaning of the sentence: this scene has never been erased from my memory. Some women were fighting so furiously that dust clouds were created. The sun (meaning sunlight) was moving quickly on the dust when a young woman’s dress was torn open and her breast exposed. We little boys would rush to steal a glance before it was hidden again. I still remember the excitement I felt at such moments.22. this is another transitional sentence that begins the main part of the essay: How the telephone changed the way of life of the villagers and marked a turning point in the writer’s life. All the first ten paragraphs serve as an introduction: what life waslike before the telephone came along. Note how the writer opens this section. After concluding that the year of the drought will always be one of the best years of his childhood, he goes on to describe the year as one of the worst in his life, of course, from a child’s point of view, or in the short run. Surely in the long run, the year of the drought would be one of the most important in his life.Decide in this sentence means to conclude.23. meaing of the sentence: … and Magdaluna wouldn’t achieve any success withouta telephone.Get anywhere/somewhere/nowhere: to make some/no progress or have some/no successEg. Have you got anywhere in your project?You’ll surely get somewhere if you persist in it.Compare:Not to get sb anywhere: will not help sb to succeed,Eg. Losing your temper won’t get you anywhere with them.24. meaning of the sentence: a few men… tried hard to persuade Abu Raja to give up the idea of having a telephone installed in the village.Talk sb into/out of (doing) sth: to persuade sb to do/not to do sth,Eg. Finally he talked Xiao Chen into accepting the job.If she wants to do something, no one can talk her out of it.25. outshout: a word made up by the writer, combining the prefix “out” with the verb “shout”, meaning “those for the telephone spoke louder (or more strongly) than the others in their arguments”.Meaning of the sentence: but the majority of the villagerswere for the telephone, and they wouldn’t listen to those few people and finally avoided them for resisting progress.26. meaning of the sentence: … the sound of sb shouting informed people that …The usual idiom is “the word went out”, but here, obviously, the news was shouted across the fields.Go out: to be told to people.27. at sb’s elbow: very close to or beside sbMeaning of the sentence: the paragraph tells us how the whole village gathered at the store to watch the installation of the telephone: the rich stood right beside the men from the telephone company, the not-so-poor people stood in the doorway, the poorer villagers stood outside. This shows that the people in the village were status-conscious.28. when the telephone first came to the village, the boy was curious about it and marveled at the wonderful machine through which people could talk to relatives far away. But later it proved to be a misfortune for the village and for the boy personally. (this is what the boy thought at that time.)29. Para. 19 centers around Im Kaleem, the village whore: her appearance, her character and the role she played in the village. Elicit from the students what they can learn or infer about her from the paragraph.Her appearance: short, middle-aged, black-haired, and speaking in a loud voice which was not very pleasant.*And when we read about her appearance, we may answer the questions: What kind of woman was she? Did she depend on her looks to attract the men in the village? Wherein did her attraction lie? Why doesn’t the writer think, now in retrospect, that the women objected to their men going to Im Kaleem’shouse?Her character: generous, understanding, and sensibleHer role: a kind of confessor, a good listener, a pressure-reliever, and a troubleshooter 黎巴嫩人口主要由阿拉伯人构成（95%），大部分信仰穆斯林，其余为基督徒。
精读4unit6thetelephone作者对村庄变化的态度
精读4unit6thetelephone作者对村庄变化的态度
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目录
1.精读 4unit6thetelephone 的内容概述
2.作者对村庄变化的态度分析
3.对文章主题的深入理解和思考
正文
【精读 4unit6thetelephone 的内容概述】
《精读 4unit6thetelephone》是一篇描述作者对于现代化进程中村
庄变化的观察和思考的文章。
文章以电话的普及为引子，讲述了作者的故乡——一个中国北方的小村庄，在现代化的冲击下，人们的生活方式、价值观和传统习俗所发生的巨大变化。
【作者对村庄变化的态度分析】
作者对于村庄的变化持有复杂的态度。
一方面，他看到了现代化带给村庄的便利和进步，比如通讯工具的普及、信息的获取速度的提升等。
但另一方面，他也对于村庄传统的消失、人际关系的疏离、价值观的混乱等现象感到忧虑。
作者在文中通过描述村庄的变化，对现代化的冲击进行了深刻的反思。
他认为，虽然现代化带来了很多好的改变，但是也带来了一些不可忽视的
问题。
他呼吁人们应该在追求现代化的同时，保护好传统的文化和价值观，保持人与自然的和谐关系。
【对文章主题的深入理解和思考】
通过对《精读 4unit6thetelephone》的阅读，我们可以深入理解到，在现代化的冲击下，村庄所经历的种种变化，以及作者对于这些变化的复
杂态度。
这不仅让我们看到了中国农村的现代化进程，也让我们思考了现
代化所带来的种种问题。
unit6Thetelephone(精读第二版)答案教学文案
un i t 6Thet el ephone（精读第二版）答案Unit 6Text AThe Teleph oneAn war F. AccawiIV Key to ExercisesPreview2. Do the follow ing exercises.1 Tran slate, pay ing atte nti on to the use of the bold type.1. 这辆二手车买得很便宜。
2. 他的讲话被打断/缩短了。
3. 在这里建造铁路之前，先要把这里的水抽干。
4. 这花瓶擦干净以后看起来就会和新的一样。
5. 这房子被刷成了淡绿色。
6. 就在此时，门被突然踢开。
7. 恐怖分子被枪杀，人质都被释放。
8. 在日本，鱼往往是生吃的。
9. 这可怜的孩子生下来的时候就是聋的，不久又失明了。
10. 据说在皇陵完工的时候，那些建造皇陵的工人都被活活埋在里面。
2 Give the corresp onding adjectives of the followi ng n ames of coun tries.1. Iraqi2. Pakista ni3. Yeme ni4. Lebanese5. Dan ish6. Hun garian7. Belgia n8. Arge ntine9. Swedish10. Swiss11. Norwegian12. Polish3 Review how these words are formed.These are compo und adjectives con sisti ng of a noun plus an adjective with the noun serving as a modifier of the adjective. Jet-black for example means as black as jet (a hard black material).4 Point out the word or phrase that does n1. crush2. crack3. crunch4. valueless5. click 5 Complete the verb phrases by putting in prepositions or adverbs listed below.1. for 18. up 35. down/up2. up 19. up 36. into3. for20. in 37. for 4. for 21. up 38. into 5. for 22. for 39. for 6. for23. up 40. into 7. dow n/up 24. into 41. i nto 8. up25. in 42. for9. in to/i n/dow n/up 26. for/up 43. down/up 10. up 27. up 44. up 11. up 28. up 45. up12. for 29. up 46. down/up 13. up 30. in 47. for 14. in 31. for 48. in 15. into 32. in 49. up 16. into 33. in 50. up 17.up34. up51. forVocabulary1.Tran slate the followi ng expressi ons. Into En glish1. to crack the walls2. to save souls3. to play hide-a nd-seek4. to slow to a trickle5. to grab sb by the hair6. to call sb n ames7. to rip her shirt8. to reveal the secret9. to resist progress 10. to come into view 11. to gather firewood12. to talk sb out of doing sth'bel ong in each line. 6. enthroned 7. breeze8. commitment 9. career 10. obliterate13. to wriggle one ' s way out of14. to run errands15. to deliver sb from sufferi ng16. to assure a steady supply17. to take the pressure off sb18. to keep him out of one ' s hairInto Chin ese1. 梯田2. 多岩石的山脉3. 百日咳4. 周围的村庄5. 林中的一块空地6. 细粉尘7. 羊粪8. 粘乎乎的双手9. 强壮有力的的妇女10. 旌旗如林11. 第一手的资料12. 漆黑的头发13. 一位虔诚的天主教徒14. 家务事15. 种让人感到在家般自在的声音16. 手卷香烟17. 有利可图/十分挣钱的生意18. 一家肉铺19. 它往日风采的空架子20. 一所教会学校2. Replace the parts in bold type with appropriate words and expressi ons from the text.1. gave way: caved in buried: trapped2. asked for: charged profitable: lucrative3. persuade him not to: talk him out of it obstruct: resist4. a quarrel: a argument developing: escalati ng5. sent to: relayed to / delivered to gather: assemble/c on gregateshow their stro ng disagreeme nt with: protest aga in{t6. become all skin and bones: been reduced to mere skeletons rescue: save/deliver7. started to: began to/proceeded tovery seriously and carefully: with utmost gravity8. destroyed: ruined/devastated/wrecke|dtore: cracked/split9. preve nt unwan ted visitors from botheri ng you: keep unwan ted visitors offyour hair10. heavily crowded: packed with peoplesqueeze: wriggle3. Tran slate the followi ng senten ces into En glish.1. In credible as it may soun d, I hear that they charge 40 yua n for a bowl of simple no odles.2. Sun Quan fin ally talked everybody into agree ing to put Lu Xun, a young scholar, i n charge of (commanding) this decisive battle.3. He was arrested on the charge of (charged with) smuggli ng, but in accorda nee with the law, no citize n canbe arrested without evide nee.4. She dropped the plate on the ground, but it miraculously did not break, la ndingwithout so much as a crack. OR …not break. It didn ' t have so much as a crack5. I can assure you that if we dig a well deep eno ugh here, we will strike water. So ifyou guys have no object ion, let ' s get started/proceed.6. She takes delight in shifti ng the tables and chairs in this room so as to give the room a new look.7. The focus of our econo mic developme nt has shifted from the coastal areas in the east to the cen tral andwestern areas.8. He shifted/cha nged to the highest gear, thus leavi ng all the other cars far beh ind.9. I maintained that smok ing should be forbidde n, but he disagreed because he said that the tobacco in dustrywas an importa nt source of gover nment revenue.10. The local people raised a stro ng objection to in stalli ng the cable car over that beautiful mountain.4. Choose the right words in their proper forms.11. assure2. assured3. reassuri ng4. in sured; en sured5. en sure; reassured6. reassuri ngly21. twisted/tur ned2. twisted3. wring4. distorted/twisted5. twisted6. twisted7. wrin gi ng3 1. gathered/assembled2. assembli ng3. gather; gathered OR collect; collected4. gatheri ng; assembled/gathered; collectors5. collect/gather6. collect; collect ing; collecti on4 1. crack; break2. cracked; tear3. tore4. split; broke5. break; Split6. tore/ripped7. torn51. abandoned2. aba ndon ed/deserted/forsake n; aba ndoned3. aba ndon /desert/forsake4. desert5. forsake n; deserted6. abandoned61. ignore2. n eglect3. overlook4. n eglected5. ignore6. n eglect ing5. Point out which of the followi ng sen ten ces contain paradox and which oxym oron. 1. paradox 9. oxymoron 2. paradox 10. paradox 3. oxym oron 11. paradox 4. oxym oron 12. paradox 5.oxym orons 13. paradox 6. paradox 14. paradox 7. paradox 15.oxymoron 8. paradox 16. paradoxGrammar1. Learn to use as and though as concessive conjunction.1 Group the patter ns of con cessive clauses in the followi ng sentences into the categories listed below.2 Complete the sentences by tran slat ing the Chin ese in brackets using the patter ns of con cessive clauses listed inthe previous exercise.1. Simple as it is2. Much as he loves his childre n3. Try as he might4. Trash as it really is5. Happy and conten ted as they are in retireme nt6. Hard taskmaster though he appeared to be in the lab7. Tempt ing though it was8. Perfect talk show host though he is 9.Much as I respect him10. Proud as they are of their father 2.Lear n to use "It is/was (high) time that sb did sth1 Decide on the precise meaning of the structure. Note:approximately the right time ” the other being “ pas t hes time you went to bed mean either that1,2, 3, 6; 4, 9; 5, 8;7, 10 The structure “ it is/was (high) time (that) is used to convey two mea nin gs. One is appropriate time ” For“ You should have gone to bedexample, Itmuch earlier (Often stated with emphasis on the word time), or that now is the appropriate time for you to go to bed. The precise meaning of this term depe nds on the tone of voice an d/or the con text.1,3, 6, 7, ? 2, 4, 5, &2 Tran slate the senten ces into Chin ese using the “ it is/was time ” patter n.1. we ve been training for the whole morning. It ' s time we took a break and had lunch.2. The Joh nsons decided that it was high time their 40-year-old son moved out of their house.3. 20 years have passed, and it ' s time we buried the past misunderstandings of our two families.4. It ' s time we protestedlpicly and said no to such gen der discrim in ati on in this departme nt.5. It ' s time unions and management sat down and worked out a real solution to the problem.6. It is time n ati on al leaders took stock of their n ati on ' s resources and worked out realistic plar1 Study the grammatical structure of these invo Ived senten ces.1. This is a complex sentence.Main clause: story of the fish and oranges was trueSubord in at ing clauses: Adverbial clauses:1. of con cessi on: In credible as it may sound2. of reason: because men who would not lie even to save their own souls told and retold that story until it wasincorporated into Magdalene ' s calendar.Both adverbial clauses modify the predicate verb of the main clause “was true ”.Embedded in the sec ond are two subord in ati ng clauses.The first is a relative clause “ who would not lie eve n to save their own soulsmodifying the subject of the reason clause “ meS ; the second, “ until it wasin corporated in to Magdale ne' s cale ndar ” is a time clause modifyi ng its main verb “ told and retold ”.2. It is also a complex senten ce.Main clause: I watchedSubordi nati ng clauses:Time clause: the rest of the sentence except for the opening word “ breathless.Within the time clause there are two relative clauses.The first of which, “ that suppwoeldymake it possible to talk with un cles,aunts, and cousins ”modifies “ dolack machine ” the second, “wholived more than two days ' ride away ” , modifies “ uncles, aunts, and cousins ”.2 Tran slate the select ion into Chin ese.然而这个问题仍然没有得到答复。
现代大学英语精读4第二版课后翻译答案(unit4unit6,中英双语)
Unit41.我看见一叶扁舟顺河漂流。
我不想像这小舟一样没有目标，随波逐流地了此一生。
I saw a boat drifting along the river. I do not intend to be like this boat, drifting through life aimlessly.2. 山谷里的桃花全都盛开了，让她留恋忘返。
在前面不远处，她看见一家农舍，从窗户内传来了美妙的乡村音乐。
The peach trees in the valley were in full blossom, making it difficult to tear herself away from them. Some distanceapart from her, she saw alittle hut with sweet country music drifting out of its window.3. 结婚以后，我和朋友的来往慢慢变少了。
而我夹在那些一起共事的商界人士当中十分不自在。
他们说的生意经我厌烦透了。
After my marriage, my friends and I drifted apart a little , and I was completely out of my element among those business people I had to workwith. Their businessdiscussions bored me stiff .4.他们之间已经具有发生内战的所有要素。
国际社会已向双方呼吁，希望他们和平解决争端。
They already had all the necessary elements for a civil war. The international community has appealed to both sides for a peaceful settlement of their disputes.5. 很多人认为教会正在失去他的吸引力。
现代大学英语精读4 第二版 Unit 6 The Telephone讲课讲稿
• (p.22)…or to deliver a message to his wife, such as…
take sth to a place
Warming up Check-on Preview
Translate the following paragraph into English by yourself and then compare with the original.
Did the title tell you much? What did you expect to read?
WB TR
Warming up Check-on Preview
Please define the underlined words in each context: • (p.22) In the evening, the laughter and noise of the
men trailed off and finally stopped
v. (voice ~off), it becomes gradually quieter and then stops
• (p.22)“I’ll give him a trail to follow,” muttered Rainsford. (L. 8)
Left for the U.S. when the civil war brokeout in Lebanon
Has been teaching English at the English Language Institute of the Uni. of Tennessee
Anwar F. Accawi
精读4unit6thetelephone作者对村庄变化的态度
精读4unit6thetelephone作者对村庄变化的态度
在精读第4单元《电话》中，作者对村庄变化的态度是充满了疑虑和担忧。
在文章开头，作者提到自己长大的村庄已经变了样，有新的铁路和公路，手机信号也覆盖到了村庄。
作者提到这些改变让他感到困惑，不知道这些变化是否会对村庄的生活产生积极或消极的影响。
作者进一步描述了村庄的变化对他的个人生活的影响。
他提到他曾经喜欢在村庄的铁路附近散步，但现在因为人们的增多和汽车的增加，他无法再享受到安静的环境。
他还提到新的公路给他带来了更多的噪音和污染。
作者的担忧在于，这些变化可能会破坏村庄原本宁静的氛围，对居民的生活质量产生消极影响。
此外，作者还提到手机信号的覆盖对村民的生活产生了一些好处，比如方便了沟通和交流。
然而，作者也担心这种智能手机变得不可或缺的现象会对人们的生活产生负面的影响，让人们更加依赖于技术，并失去了与自然和社区的连接。
综上所述，作者对村庄变化持有一种谨慎和担忧的态度。
尽管他也提到了一些变化的好处，但他更关注变化可能带来的消极影响，以及可能破坏原有的生活习惯和社区关系。
最新现代大学英语精读Book-4-Unit-6课文
Book 4-Unit 5Text AThe TelephoneAnwar F. Accawi1.When I was growing up in Magdaluna, a small Lebanese village in the terraced, rockymountains east of Sidon, time didn't mean much to anybody, except maybe to those who were dying. In those days, there was no real need for a calendar or a watch to keep track of the hours, days, months, and years. We knew what to do and when to do it, just as the Iraqi geese knew when to fly north, driven by the hot wind that blew in from the desert. The only timepiece we had need of then was the sun. It rose and set, and the seasons rolled by and we sowed seed and harvested and ate and played and married our cousins and had babies who got whooping cough and chickenpox—and those children who survived grew up and married their cousins and had babies who got whooping cough and chickenpox. We lived and loved and toiled and died without ever needing to know what year it was, or even the time of day.2.It wasn't that we had no system for keeping track of time and of the important events in ourlives. But ours was a natural or, rather, a divine—calendar, because it was framed by acts of God: earthquakes and droughts and floods and locusts and pestilences. Simple as our calendar was, it worked just fine for us.3.4.Take, for example, the birth date of Teta Im Khalil, the oldest woman in Magdaluna and allthe surrounding villages. When I asked Grandma, "How old is Teta Im Khalil?"5.Grandma had to think for a moment; then she said, "I've been told that Teta was born shortlyafter the big snow that caused the roof on the mayor's house to cave in."6."And when was that?" I asked.7.8."Oh, about the time we had the big earthquake that cracked the wall in the east room."9.10.Well, that was enough for me. You couldn't be more accurate than that, now, could you?11.12.And that's the way it was in our little village for as far back as anybody could remember. Oneof the most unusual of the dates was when a whirlwind struck during which fish and oranges fell from the sky. Incredible as it may sound, the story of the fish and oranges was true, because men who would not lie even to save their own souls told and retold that story until it was incorporated into Magdaluna's calendar.13.14.The year of the fish-bearing whirlpool was not the last remarkable year. Many othersfollowed in which strange and wonderful things happened. There was, for instance, the year of the drought, when the heavens were shut for months and the spring from which the entire village got its drinking water slowed to a trickle. The spring was about a mile from the village, in a ravine that opened at one end into a small, flat clearing covered with fine gray dust and hard, marble-sized goat droppings. In the year of the drought, that little clearing was always packed full of noisy kids with big brown eyes and sticky hands, and theirmothers—sinewy, overworked young women with cracked, brown heels. The children ran around playing tag or hide-and-seek while the women talked, shooed flies, and awaited their turns to fill up their jars with drinking water to bring home to their napping men and wet babies. There were days when we had to wait from sunup until late afternoon just to fill a small clay jar with precious, cool water.15.16.Sometimes, amid the long wait and the heat and the flies and the smell of goat dung,tempers flared, and the younger women, anxious about their babies, argued over whose turn it was to fill up her jar. And sometimes the arguments escalated into full-blown, knockdown-dragout fights; the women would grab each other by the hair and curse and scream and spit and call each other names that made my ears tingle. We little brown boys who went with our mothers to fetch water loved these fights, because we got to see the women's legs and their colored panties as they grappled and rolled around in the dust. Once in a while, we got lucky and saw much more, because some of the women wore nothing at all under their long dresses. God, how I used to look forward to those fights. I remember the rush, the excitement, the sun dancing on the dust clouds as a dress ripped and a young white breast was revealed, then quickly hidden. In my calendar, that year of drought will always be one of the best years of my childhood.17.But, in another way, the year of the drought was also one of the worst of my life, becausethat was the year that Abu Raja, the retired cook, decided it was time Magdaluna got its own telephone. Every civilized village needed a telephone, he said, and Magdaluna was not going to get anywhere until it had one. A telephone would link us with the outside world. A few men—like the retired Turkish-army drill sergeant, and the vineyard keeper—did all they could to talk Abu Raja out of having a telephone brought to the village. But they were outshouted and ignored and finally shunned by the other villagers for resisting progress and trying to keep a good thing from coming to Magdaluna.18.One warm day in early fall, many of the villagers were out in their fields repairing walls orgathering wood for the winter when the shout went out that the telephone-company truck had arrived at Abu Raja's dikkan, or country store. When the truck came into view, everybody dropped what they were doing and ran to Abu Raja's house to see what was happening. 19.It did not take long for the whole village to assemble at Abu Raja's dikkan. Some of the richvillagers walked right into the store and stood at the elbows of the two important-looking men from the telephone company, who proceeded with utmost gravity, like priests at Communion, to wire up the telephone. The poorer villagers stood outside and listened carefully to the details relayed to them by the not-so-poor people who stood in the doorway and could see inside.20."The bald man is cutting the blue wire," someone said.21."He is sticking the wire into the hole in the bottom of the black box," someone else added.22.23."The telephone man with the mustache is connecting two pieces of wire. Now he is twistingthe ends together," a third voice chimed in.24.Because I was small, I wriggled my way through the dense forest of legs to get a firsthandlook at the action. Breathless, I watched as the men in blue put together a black machine that supposedly would make it possible to talk with uncles, aunts, and cousins who livedmore than two days' ride away.25.26.It was shortly after sunset when the man with the mustache announced that the telephonewas ready to use. He explained that all Abu Raja had to do was lift the receiver, turn the crank on the black box a few times, and wait for an operator to take his call. Abu Raja grabbed the receiver and turned the crank forcefully. Within moments, he was talking with his brother in Beirut. He didn't even have to raise his voice or shout to be heard.27.28.And the telephone, as it turned out, was bad news. With its coming, the face of the villagebegan to change. One of the fast effects was the shifting of the village's center. Before the telephone's arrival, the men of the village used to gather regularly at the house of Im Kaleem,a short, middle-aged widow with jet-black hair and a raspy voice that could be heard all overthe village, even when she was only whispering. She was a devout Catholic and also the village whore. The men met at her house to argue about politics and drink coffee and play cards or backgammon. Im Kaleem was not a true prostitute, however, because she did not charge for her services—not even for the coffee and tea that she served the men. She did not need the money; her son, who was overseas in Africa, sent her money regularly. Im Kaleem loved all the men she entertained, and they loved her, every one of them. In a way, she was married to all the men in the village. Everybody knew it but nobody objected. Actually I suspect the women did not mind their husbands'visits to Im Kaleem. Oh, they wrung their hands and complained to one another about their men's unfaithfulness, but secretly they were relieved, because Im Kaleem took some of the pressure off them and kept the men out of their hair while they attended to their endless chores. Im Kaleem was also a kind of confessor and troubleshooter, talking sense to those men who were having family problems, especially the younger ones.29.Before the telephone came to Magdaluna, Im Kaleem's house was bustling at just about anytime of day, especially at night, when the loud voices of the men talking, laughing, and arguing could be heard in the street below—a reassuring, homey sound. Her house was an island of comfort, an oasis for the weary village men, exhausted from having so little to do.30.31.But it wasn't long before many of those men—the younger ones especially—startedspending more of their days and evenings at Abu Raja's dikkan. There, they would eat and drink and talk and play checkers and backgammon, and then lean their chairs back against the wall—the signal that they were ready to toss back and forth, like a ball, the latest rumors going around the village. And they were always looking up from their games and drinks and talk to glance at the phone in the corner, as if expecting it to ring any minute and bring news that would change their lives and deliver them from their aimless existence. In the meantime, they smoked cheap, hand-rolled cigarettes, dug dirt out from under their fingernails with big pocketknives, and drank lukewarm sodas that they called Kacula, Seffen-Ub, and Bebsi.32.The telephone was also bad news for me personally. It took away my lucrative business—asource of much-needed income. Before, I used to hang around Im Kaleem's courtyard and play marbles with the other kids, waiting for some man to call down from a window and ask me to run to the store for cigarettes or liquor, or to deliver a message to his wife, such as what he wanted for supper. There was always something in it for me: a ten or even atwenty-five-piaster piece. On a good day, I ran nine or ten of those errands, which assured a steady supply of marbles that I usually lost to other boys. But as the days went by fewer and fewer men came to Im Kaleem's, and more and more congregated at Abu Raja's to wait by the telephone. In the evenings, the laughter and noise of the men trailed off and finally stopped.33.At Abu Raja's dikkan, the calls did eventually come, as expected, and men and womenstarted leaving the village the way a hailstorm begins: first one, then two, then bunches. 34.The army took them. Jobs in the cities lured them. And ships and airplanes carried them tosuch faraway places as Australia and Brazil and New Zealand. My friend Kameel, his cousin Habeeb, and their cousins and my cousins all went away to become ditch diggers and mechanics and butcher-shop boys and deli owners who wore dirty aprons sixteen hours a day, all looking for a better life than the one they had left behind. Within a year, only the sick, the old, and the maimed were left in the village. Magdaluna became a skeleton of its former self, desolate and forsaken, like the tombs, a place to get away from.35.Finally, the telephone took my family away, too. My father got a call from an old army buddywho told him that an oil company in southern Lebanon was hiring interpreters and instructors. My father applied for a job and got it, and we moved to Sidon, where I went to a Presbyterian missionary school and graduated in 1962. Three years later, having won a scholarship, I left Lebanon for the United States. Like the others who left Magdaluna before me, I am still looking for that better life. (2121 words)36.。
现代大学英语4-unit-6-the-telephone
A modern mobile phone, also called a cell phone
An iPhone, a mobile smartphone that is able to access the Internet.
粉色苹果iPhone6曝光：全球限量200台
Discussion:
Wooden wall telephone with a hand-cranked magneto generator磁发电机
1896 Telephone (Sweden)
A German rotary telephone, the W48
A hardware-based IP phone, with touchtone dialing （按模音调拨号）
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.
Author—Anwar F. Accawi
• When the civil war broke out in Lebanon, they were forced to leave the country and settle in the United States.
• Anwar F. Accawi became a teacher of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (诺克斯维尔,当地华人一般简称之为 “诺城”），是美国田纳西州东部的一个城市).
（完整版）现代大学英语精读Book4Unit6课文
（完整版）现代⼤学英语精读Book4Unit6课⽂Book 4-Unit 5Text AThe TelephoneAnwar F. Accawi1.When I was growing up in Magdaluna, a small Lebanese village in theterraced, rocky mountains east of Sidon, time didn't mean much toanybody, except maybe to those whowere dying. In those days, there was no real need for a calendar or awatch to keep track of the hours, days, months, and years. We knewwhat to do and when to do it, just as the Iraqi geese knew when to flynorth, driven by the hot wind that blew in from the desert. The onlytimepiece we had need of then was the sun. It rose and set, and theseasons rolled by and we sowed seed and harvested and ate and playedand married our cousins and had babies who got whooping cough andchickenpox—and those children who survived grew up and marriedtheir cousins and had babies who got whooping cough and chickenpox.We lived and loved and toiled and died without ever needing to knowwhat year it was, or even the timeof day.2.It wasn't that we had no system for keeping track of time and of the importantevents in ourlives. But ours was a natural or, rather, a divine — calendar, because itwas framed by acts of God: earthquakes and droughts and floods andlocusts and pestilences. Simple as our calendar was, it worked just finefor us.3.Take, for example, the birth date of Teta Im Khalil, the oldestwoman in Magdaluna and all the surrounding villages. When Iasked Grandma, "How old is Teta Im Khalil?"4.Grandma had to think for a moment; then she said, "I've been toldthat Teta was born shortly after the big snow that caused the roof onthe mayor's house to cave in."5."And when was that?" I asked.6."Oh, about the time we had the big earthquake that cracked the wall in the eastroom."7.Well, that was enough for me. You couldn't be more accurate than that, now, could you?8.And that's the way it was in our little village for as far back as anybody could remember. One of the most unusual of the dates was when a whirlwind struck during which fish and oranges fell from the sky.Incredible as it may sound, the story of the fish and oranges was true, because men who would not lie even to save their own souls told andretold that story untilit was incorporated into Magdaluna's calendar.9.The year of the fish-bearing whirlpool was not the last remarkable year. Many others followed in which strange and wonderful things happened. There was, for instance, the yearof the drought, when the heavens were shut for months and the springfrom which the entire village got its drinking water slowed to a trickle.The spring was about a mile from the village, in a ravine that opened atone end into a small, flat clearing covered with fine gray dust and hard, marble-sized goat droppings. In the year of the drought, that littleclearingwas always packed full of noisy kids with big brown eyes and sticky hands, and their mothers —sinewy, overworked young women with cracked, brown heels. The children ran around playing tag or hide-and-seek while the women talked, shooed flies, and awaited their turns to fillup their jars with drinking water to bring home to their napping menand wet babies. There were days when we had to wait from sunup untillate afternoon just to fill a small clay jar with precious, cool water.10.S ometimes, amid the long wait and the heat and the flies and the smellof goat dung, tempers flared, and the younger women, anxious abouttheir babies, argued over whose turnit was to fill up her jar. And sometimes the arguments escalated intofull-blown, knockdown-dragout fights; the women would grab eachother by the hair and curse and scream and spit and call each othernames that made my ears tingle. We little brown boys who went withour mothers to fetch water loved these fights, because we got to see the women's legs and their colored panties as they grappled and rolledaround in the dust. Oncein a while, we got lucky and saw much more, because some of thewomen wore nothing at all under their long dresses. God, how I usedto look forward to those fights. I remember the rush, the excitement,the sun dancing on the dust clouds as a dress ripped and a youngwhite breast was revealed, then quickly hidden. In my calendar, thatyear of drought will always be one of the best years of my childhood.11.B ut, in another way, the year of the drought was also one of the worstof my life, because that was the year that Abu Raja, the retired cook,decided it was time Magdaluna got its own telephone. Every civilizedvillage needed a telephone, he said, and Magdaluna was not going toget anywhere until it had one. A telephone would link us with theoutside world. A fewmen—like the retired Turkish-army drill sergeant, and the vineyard keeper —did all they could to talk Abu Raja out of having a telephone brought to the village. But they were outshouted and ignored and finally shunned by the other villagers for resisting progress and trying to keep a good thing from coming to Magdaluna.12. O ne warm day in early fall, many of the villagers were out in theirfields repairing walls or gathering wood for the winter when the shoutwent out that the telephone-company truckhad arrived at Abu Raja's dikkan, or country store. When the truckcame into view, everybody dropped what they were doing and ran toAbu Raja's house to see what was happening.13.I t did not take long for the whole village to assemble at Abu Raja'sdikkan. Some of the rich villagers walked right into the store andstood at the elbows of the two important-lookingmen from the telephone company, who proceeded with utmost gravity, like priests at Communion, to wire up the telephone. The poorer villagers stoodoutside and listened carefully to the details relayed to them by the not-so-poor people who stood in the doorway and could see inside.14."The bald man is cutting the blue wire," someone said.15."He is sticking the wire into the hole in the bottom of the black box," someoneelse added.16."The telephone man with the mustache is connecting two pieces ofwire. Now he is twisting the ends together," a third voice chimed in.17.B ecause I was small, I wriggled my way through the dense forest oflegs to get a firsthand look at the action. Breathless, I watched asthe men in blue put together a black machinethat supposedly would make it possible to talk with uncles, aunts, andcousins who lived more than two days' ride away.18.I t was shortly after sunset when the man with the mustache announced thatthe telephonewas ready to use. He explained that all Abu Raja had to do was lift thereceiver, turn the crank on the black box a few times, and wait for anoperator to take his call. Abu Raja grabbed the receiver and turned thecrank forcefully. Within moments, he was talking withhis brother in Beirut. He didn't even have to raise his voice or shout to be heard.19.A nd the telephone, as it turned out, was bad news. With its coming, the face ofthe villagebegan to change. One of the fast effects was the shifting of the village'scenter. Before the telephone's arrival, the men of the village used togather regularly at the house of Im Kaleem, a short, middle-aged widowwith jet-black hair and a raspy voice that could be heard all over thevillage, even when she was only whispering. She was a devout Catholicand also the village whore. The men met at her house to argue aboutpolitics and drink coffee and play cards or backgammon. Im Kaleemwas not a true prostitute, however, because she did not charge for herservices —not even for the coffee and tea that she served the men. Shedid not need the money; her son, who was overseas in Africa, sent hermoney regularly. Im Kaleem loved all the men she entertained, and theyloved her, every one of them. In a way, she was married to all the menin the village. Everybody knew it but nobody objected. Actually I suspect the women did not mind their husbands'visits to Im Kaleem. Oh, theywrung their hands and complained to one another about their men'sunfaithfulness, but secretly they were relieved, because Im Kaleem tooksome of the pressure off them and kept the men outof their hair while they attended to their endless chores. Im Kaleem wasalso a kind of confessor and troubleshooter, talking sense to those menwho were having family problems, especially the younger ones.20.B efore the telephone came to Magdaluna, Im Kaleem's house was bustling atjust about anytime of day, especially at night, when the loud voices of the men talking, laughing, and arguing could be heard in the streetbelow —a reassuring, homey sound. Her house was an island of comfort, an oasis for the weary village men, exhausted from having so little to do.21.B ut it wasn't long before many of those men —the younger ones especially—started spending more of their days and evenings at AbuRaja's dikkan. There, they would eat and drink and talk and playcheckers and backgammon, and then lean their chairs back against thewall —the signal that they were ready to toss back and forth, like a ball,the latest rumors going around the village. And they were alwayslooking up from their games and drinks and talk to glance at the phonein the corner, as if expecting it to ring any minute and bring news thatwould change their lives and deliver them from their aimless existence.In the meantime,they smoked cheap, hand-rolled cigarettes, dug dirt out from undertheir fingernails with big pocketknives, and drank lukewarm sodasthat they called Kacula, Seffen-Ub, and Bebsi.22. T he telephone was also bad news for me personally. It took away mylucrative business —a source of much-needed income. Before, I used tohang around Im Kaleem's courtyard and play marbles with the otherkids, waiting for some man to call down from a window and askme to run to the store for cigarettes or liquor, or to deliver a message to his wife, such as what he wanted for supper. There was always something in it for me: aten or even a twenty-five-piaster piece. On a good day, I ran nine or tenof those errands, which assured a steady supply of marbles that Iusually lost to other boys. But as the days went by fewer and fewer mencame to Im Kaleem's, and more and more congregated at Abu Raja's towait bythe telephone. In the evenings, the laughter and noise of the mentrailed off and finally stopped.23.A t Abu Raja's dikkan, the calls did eventually come, as expected, andmen and women started leaving the village the way a hailstorm begins:first one, then two, then bunches.24.T he army took them. Jobs in the cities lured them. And ships andairplanes carried them to such faraway places as Australia and Braziland New Zealand. My friend Kameel, his cousin Habeeb, and theircousins and my cousins all went away to become ditch diggers andmechanics and butcher-shop boys and deli owners who wore dirtyaprons sixteen hours a day, all looking for a better life than the onethey had left behind. Within a year, only the sick, the old, and themaimed were left in the village. Magdaluna became a skeleton of itsformer self, desolate and forsaken, like the tombs, a place to get away from.25.F inally, the telephone took my family away, too. My father got a callfrom an old army buddy who told him that an oil company in southern Lebanon was hiring interpreters and instructors. My father applied for a job and got it, and we moved to Sidon, where I went to aPresbyterian missionary school and graduated in 1962. Three yearslater, having won a scholarship, I left Lebanon for the United States.Like the others who left Magdaluna before me, I am still looking for that better life. (2121 words)。
精读4unit6thetelephone作者对村庄变化的态度
精读4unit6thetelephone作者对村庄变化的态度摘要：一、引言：描述作者对村庄的初始印象二、电话对村庄的改变：通信方式的变革三、电话对村庄生活的影响：信息传播、社交互动四、作者对村庄变化的认识：积极态度与期望五、结论：强调电话在乡村发展中的重要作用正文：【引言】在很久以前，作者曾来到一个偏远的乡村，这里的景象与城市的繁华形成了鲜明的对比。
那时，这里的居民还过着传统的生活方式，与外界的联系极为有限。
在这里，作者注意到了一个显著的特点，那就是这个村庄几乎没有电话，人们之间的沟通主要依靠面对面的交流。
【电话对村庄的改变】随着时间的推移，这个村庄逐渐发生了变化。
首当其冲的就是通信方式的变革。
电话线的接入，让村庄与外界的联系变得更加便捷。
村民们可以通过电话与亲朋好友分享生活的点滴，也可以获取各种有用信息。
这使得村庄逐渐摆脱了封闭的状态，变得更加开放。
【电话对村庄生活的影响】电话的普及给村庄生活带来了诸多积极影响。
首先，信息传播的速度得到了极大的提高。
村民们可以第一时间了解到国家政策、市场动态等信息，这有利于他们调整生产和生活方式。
其次，电话为村民们提供了一个便捷的社交互动平台。
通过电话，村民们可以随时与亲友保持联系，分享生活中的喜怒哀乐。
【作者对村庄变化的认识】目睹了村庄的这些变化，作者逐渐认识到电话在这个小世界中所发挥的重要作用。
作者对村庄的未来充满信心，期望这里的居民能够借助电话这个工具，走向更加美好的生活。
电话不仅改变了村庄的生活方式，还带来了新的思维方式和价值观。
【结论】总之，电话在乡村发展中的重要作用不容忽视。
它为村民们带来了便利，拓宽了他们的视野，也为乡村的振兴注入了活力。
The Telephone 现代大学英语课件
• 100,000 residents.
2. In those days, there was no real need for a calendar or a watch to keep track of the hours, days, months, and years. to keep track (of): to keep oneself informed about a person, situation, etc, e.g. They try hard to keep track of all the new developments in the IT industry. The boy has kept track of his favorite sports stars. Cf. to lose track (of): to fail to remain informed: He loses track of time whenever he surfs the Net. During WWII, the Chinese couple lost track of their son who was studying in Britain.
The Map of Lebanon
The Site of an Old Castle
• National Emblem
National Flag
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Beirut at Night
Fishing Along the Coast of Beirut
Lebanese Old Man
Lebanese Lady
• …they were ready to toss back and forth, like a ball, the latest rumors going around the village.
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• When I was growing up in Magdaluna, a small Lebanese village in the terraced, rocky mountains east of Sidon (西顿, 黎巴嫩西南部港
市) … (para. 1) • east (west, etc.) of: at a distance to the east (west, etc.) • He was born in a small town about 100 kilometers southwest of Hangzhou. • The Browns live 150 miles west of London.
How do the products of modern technology, say, the telephone, the computer, the Internet, iPad, or iPhone, etc. affect our life?
Author—Anwar F. Accawi
Unit 6 The Telephone
Anwar F. Accawi
• First patented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell and further developed by many others, the telephone was the first device in history that enabled people to talk directly with each other across large distances. Telephones became rapidly indispensable to businesses, government, and households, and are today some of the most widely used small appliances.
• Before the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), the country enjoyed a period of relative calm and prosperity, driven by the tourism, agriculture, and banking sectors of the economy. It is considered the banking capital of the Levant (累 范特) and was widely known as the "Switzerland of the East" due to its financial power and diversity. Lebanon also attracted large numbers of tourists to the point that the capital Beirut became widely referred to as the "Paris of Western Asia".
Author—Anwar F. Accawi
• When the civil war broke out in Lebanon, they were forced to leave the country and settle in the United States. • Anwar F. Accawi became a teacher of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (诺克斯维尔,当地华人一般简称之为 “诺城”），是美国田纳西州东部的一个城市).
… time didn’t mean much to anybody, except maybe to those who were dying. (para. 1)
The villagers didn’t think time was important until perhaps when they were dying.
A modern mobile phone, also called a cell phone
An iPhone, a mobile smartphone that is able to access the Internet.
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Discussion:
• Born in Lebanon in a family whose ancestors are believed to have gone to Jerusalem in the Crusades.
• While he was teaching English at the University of Beirut (贝鲁特， 黎巴嫩首都) , he married an American from Tennessee.
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.
In those days, there was no real need for a calendar or a watch…(para.1) need: a situation when sth is necessary or must be done, e.g. There’s a growing need for new housing in this area. There’s no need to apologize.
• It rose and set, and the seasons rolled by… (para. 1) • roll by: (of time) to pass, esp. quickly The years rolled by, and still they got no news of their son. • the seasons rolled by: the seasons came and went in steady succession
…to keep track of the hours, days, months, and years. (para. 1) keep track of: to keep oneself informed about a person, situation, etc. The boy has kept track of his favorite sports stars. They try hard to keep track of all the new developments in the IT industry. lose track of: to fail to remain informed He loses track of time whenever he surfs the Net. During WWII, the Chinese couple lost track of their son who was studying in Britain.
About Lebanon
•A country of southwest Asia on the Mediterranean Sea. The site of ancient Phoenicia (腓尼基), the region was gradually absorbed by the Persian Empire and later conquered by Alexander the Great. Eventually it came under Roman control and was Christianized before the Arab conquest of the 7th century. Part of the Ottoman Empire from the early 16th century, Lebanon became a French League of Nations mandate (委任统治地) after World War I and proclaimed its independence in 1941, although full self-government was not achieved until 1945.
Bell placing the first New York to Chicago telephone call in 1892
A 19th century acoustic 'tin can', or 'lover's' telephone
Actor portraying Alexander Graham Bell in a 1926 silent film. The singleport design required the user to alternately speak into and then listen through the same hole.
structure
I. Life in the village before it had a telephone (paras. 1-10) II. The installation of the first telephone in the village (paras. 11-18) III. Effects of the telephone on the life of the villagers (paras. 19-25)