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高一英语下册unit-3说课课件

除非我们能起拔了我们灵魂里的大谎，我们就没有救度；我们要把祈祷的火焰把那鬼烧净了去，我们要把忏悔的眼泪把那鬼冲洗了去，我们要有勇敢来承当罪恶；有了勇敢来承当罪恶，方有胆量来决斗罪恶。再没有第二条路走。如其你们可以容恕我的厚颜，我想念我自己近作的一首诗给你们听，因为那首诗，正是我今天讲的话的更集中的入土的第二天。雨声滴滴答答，不急不缓，断断续续。雨，是期盼已久的雨，真下了，竟没有想象中的那么喜悦。不知为何会有如此感觉，只想好好睡一觉。许真是身累心累了，竟迷迷糊糊睡了快一天了。该死的疫情！远在外地的老公竟不能回来送婆婆最后一程。我知道，老公的心里很难受，老天也替他难受，也流泪了。有些泪是留在心里的。也好，在那远离家乡的地方，老公可以一个人去没人的地方释放心中的悲痛，无须顾忌，酣畅淋漓地哭一场，真得挺好的。二我和孩子是半夜时分去的老公老家。家从小山沟迁居至镇上，路途还算顺畅。因为夜深了，怕影响到街坊邻居，同去的亲人只是上了香都没有哭吊。本来就让人有种情感不能宣泄的憋屈感，到第二天偷丧时说不是正式过事又不哭，直到下午男孝子请灵时，女孝子需要去接灵，悲伤的情绪才得以宣泄。这让我不由得想起外爷去世时的情景。那时我还在上学，当我怀着悲痛的心情去祭奠外爷时，外爷的灵堂前已跪满几十号孝子，哭声鼎沸，哀乐声声。我都无法挤到灵堂前。那浩大的阵势让我有种被排挤在外的感觉。我想哭，感觉都没地宣泄自己悲伤的情绪。

高级英语下册3

Appreciation of Para. 1, 2
Questions: 1. What’ s the main idea of Para. 1, 2? 2. How do you understand the metaphor conveyed by the four verbs “meander, leap, sparkle and glow”?
3. What are some of the characteristics of conversation?
mixed metaphor
meander leap ---- river smooth, aimless, peaceful/ lively, animated 1. flow slowly turning here and there; flow placidly and aimlessly 2. jump over; flow swiftly and joyously onwards Sparkle glow ---- fire exciting/heated 1. small flashes; burn steadily without flame 2. bright light; burn brightly throwing off sparks
Do not do to others what you don't want to be done to you. Don't do unto others what you don't want others do unto you.
3. Conversation requires no winners. (Sen.5) 4. Every conversationist is willing to let the conversation go freely. (Sen. 6)

(完整word版)高级英语第三课ShipsintheDesert.docx

Lesson 3 Ships in the DesertAL Gore1. I was standing in the sun on the hot steel deck of a fishing ship capable of processing afifty -ton catch on a good day. But it wasn’ t a good day. We were anchored in what used to be th most productive fishing site in all of central Asia, but as I looked out over the bow, the prospects ofa good catch looked bleak. Where there should have been gentle blue-green waves lapping againstthe side of the ship, there was nothing but hot dry sand——as far as I could see in all direct The other ships of the fleet were also at rest in the sand, scattered in the dunes that stretched all theway to the horizon. Ten years ago the Aral was the fourth -largest inland sea in the world,comparable to the largest of North America ’Greats Lakes. Now it is disappearing because thewater that used to feed it has been diverted in an ill-considered irrigation scheme to grow cotton inthe desert. The new shoreline was almost forty kilometers across the sand from where the fishingfleet was now permanently docked. Meanwhile, in the nearby town of Muynak the people werestill canning fish——brought not from the Aral Sea but shipped by rail through Siberia from the Pacific Ocean, more than a thousand miles away.2. My search for the underlying causes of the environmental crisis has led me to travel aroundthe world to examine and study many of these images of destruction. At the very bottom of theearth, high in the Trans-Antarctic Mountains, with the sun glaring at midnight through a hole in thesky, I stood in the unbelievable coldness and talked with a scientist in the late tall of 1988 about thetunnel he was digging through time. Slipping his parka back to reveal a badly burned face that was cracked and peeling, he pointed to the annual layers of ice in a core sample dug from the glacier onwhich we were standing. He moved his finger back in time to the ice of two decades ago.where the U.S Congress passed the Clean Air Act, ”he said. At the bottom of the world, twocontinents away from Washington, D.C., even a small reduction in one country's emissions hadchanged the amount of pollution found in the remotest end least accessible place on earth.3. But the most significant change thus far in the earth’ s atmosphere is the one that be the industrial revolution early in the last century and has picked up speed ever since. Industrymeant coal, and later oil, and we began to burn lots of it —— bringing rising levels of carbondioxide (CO2) , with its ability to trap more heat in the atmosphere and slowly warm the earth.Fewer than a hundred yards from the South Pole, upwind from the ice runway where the ski planelands and keeps its engines running to prevent the metal parts from freeze-locking together,scientists monitor the air several times every day to chart the course of that inexorable change.During my visit, I watched one scientist draw the results of that day’ s measurements, end of a steep line still higher on the graph. He told me how easy it is——there at the earth —— to see that this enormous change in the global atmosphere is still picking up speed.4. Two and a half years later I slept under the midnight sun at the other end of our planet, in asmall tent pitched on a twelve-toot-thick slab of ice floating in the frigid Arctic Ocean. After ahearty breakfast, my companions and I traveled by snowmobiles a few miles farther north to arendezvous point where the ice was thinner——only three and a half feet thick——and submarine hovered in the water below. After it crashed through the ice, took on its new passengers,and resub merged, I talked with scientists who were trying to measure more accurately thethickness of the polar ice cap, which many believe is thinning as a result of global warming. I hadjust negotiated an agreement between ice scientists and the U.S. Navy to secure the release ofpreviously top secret data from submarine sonar tracks, data that could help them learn what ishappening to the north polar cap. Now, I wanted to see the pole it-self, and some eight hours afterwe met the submarine, we were crashing through that ice, surfacing, and then I was standing in aneerily beautiful snowscape, windswept and sparkling white, with the horizon defined by little hummocks, or“ pressure ridges” of ice that are pushed up like tiny mountain ranges when separate sheets collide. But here too, CO2 , levels are rising just as rapidly, and ultimately temperature willrise with them——indeed, global warming is expected to push temperatures up much more rapidlyin the polar regions than in the rest of the world. As the polar air warms, the ice here will thin; andsince the polar cap plays such a crucial role in the world’ s weather system, the consequ thinning cap could be disastrous.5.Considering such scenarios is not a purely speculative exercise. Six months after I returnedfrom the North Pole, a team of scientists reported dramatic changes in the pattern of ice distributionin the Arctic, and a second team reported a still controversial claim (which a variety of data now suggest) that, over all, the north polar cap has thinned by 2 percent in just the last decade.Moreover, scientists established several years ago that in many land areas north of the Arctic Circle,the spring snowmelt now comes earlier every year, and deep in the tundra below, the temperatureof the earth is steadily rising.*6. As it happens, some of the most disturbing images of environmental destruction can befound exactly halfway between the North and South poles —— precisely athe equator in Brazil ——where billowing clouds of smoke regularly blacken the sky above the immense but nowthreatened Amazon rain forest. Acre by acre, the rain forest is being burned to create fastpasture for fast-food beef; as I learned when I went there in early 1989, the fires are set earlierand earlier in the dry season now, with more than one Tennessee ’worths of rain forest beingslashed and burned each year. According to our guide, the biologist Tom Lovejoy, there are more different species of birds in each square mile of the Amazon than exist in all of North America*7. But one doesn't have to travel around the world to witness humankind’ s assault on Images that signal the distress of our global environment are now commonly seen almost anywhere.On some nights, in high northern latitudes, the sky itself offers another ghostly image that signalsthe loss of ecological balance now in progress. If the sky is clear after sunset——a watching from a place where pollution hasn't blotted out the night sky altogether——youcan sometimes see a strange kind of cloud high in the sky. This “ noctilucentcloud ”occasionallyappears when the earth is first cloaked in the evening darkness; shimmering above us with atranslucent whiteness, these clouds seem quite unnatural. And they should: noctilucent clouds havebegun to appear more often because of a huge buildup of methane gas in the atmosphere. (Alsocalled natural gas, methane is released from landfills, from coal mines and rice paddies, frombillions of termites that swarm through the freshly cut forestland, from the burning of biomass andfrom a variety of other human activities. ) Even though noctilucent clouds were sometimes seen inthe past, all this extra methane carries more water vapor into the upper atmosphere, where itcondenses at much higher altitudes to form more clouds that the sun’ s rays still strike lon sunset has brought the beginning of night to the surface far beneath them.8. What should we feel toward these ghosts in the sky? Simple wonder or the mix of emotionswe feel at the zoo? Perhaps we should feel awe for our own power: just as men tear tusks fromelephants ’ headsuchin quantity as to threaten the beast with extinction, we are ripping matterfrom its place in the earth in such volume as to upset the balance between daylight and darkness. Inthe process, we are once again adding to the threat of global warming, because methane has beenone of the fastest-growing green-house gases, and is third only to carbon dioxide and water vaporin total volume, changing the chemistry of the upper atmosphere. But, without even consideringglisten with a spectral light? Or have our eyes adjusted so completely to the bright lights ofcivilization that we can’seet these clouds for what they are —— aphysical manifestation of theviolent collision between human civilization and the earth?*9. Even though it is sometimes hard to see their meaning, we have by now all witnessedsurprising experiences that signal the damage from our assault on the environment——the new frequency of days when the temperature exceeds 100 degrees, the new speed with whichthe sun burns our skin, or the new constancy of public debate over what to do with growingmountains of waste. But our response to these signals is puzzling. Why haven’wet launched amassive effort to save our environment? To come at the question another way: Why do someimages startle us into immediate action and focus our attention or ways to respond effectively? Andwhy do other images, though sometimes equally dramatic, produce instead a Kin. of paralysis,focusing our attention not on ways to respond but rather on some convenient, less painfuldistraction?10.Still, there are so many distressing images of environmental destruction that sometimes itseems impossible to know how to absorb or comprehend them. Before considering the threats themselves, it may be helpful to classify them and thus begin to organize our thoughts and feelings so that we may be able to respond appropriately.11.A useful system comes from the military, which frequently places a conflict in one of threedifferent categories, according to the theater in which it takes place. There are“ l “ regional” battles, and“ strategic” conflicts. This third category is reserved for struggles thatthreaten a nation’ s survival and must be under stood in a global context.12.Environmental threats can be considered in the same way. For example, most instanceslike acid rain, the contamination of underground aquifers, and large oil spills are fundamentally regional. In both of these categories, there may be so many similar instances of particular local and regional problems occurring simultaneously all over the world that the patter n appears to be global,but the problems themselves are still not truly strategic because the operation of the global environment is not affected and the survival of civilization is not at stake.13.However, a new class of environmental problems does affect the global ecological system,and these threats are fundamentally strategic. The 600 percent increase in the amount of chlorinein the atmosphere during the last forty years has taken place not just in those countries producingthe chlorofluorocarbons responsible but in the air above every country, above Antarctica, above the North Pole and the Pacific Ocean —— all the way from the surface of the earth to the top of the sky. The increased levels of chlorine disrupt the global process by which the earth regulates the amountof ultraviolet radiation from the sun that is allowed through the atmosphere to the surface; and itwe let chlorine levels continue to increase, the radiation levels will also increasethat all animal and plant life will face a new threat to their survival.14.Global warming is also a strategic threat. The concentration of carbon dioxide and otherheat-absorbing molecules has increased by almost 25 per cent since World War II, posing aworldwide threat to the earth’ s ability to regulate the amount of heat from the sun retained in the atmosphere. This increase in heat seriously threatens the global climate equilibrium that determinesthe pattern of winds, rainfall, surface temperatures,ocean currents, and sea level. These in turn determine the distribution of vegetative and animal life on land and sea and have a great effect onthe location and pattern of human societies.15.In other words, the entire relationship between humankind and the earth has beentransformed because our civilization is suddenly capable of affecting the entire global environment,not just a particular area. All of us know that human civilization has usually had a large impact onthe environment; to mention just one example, there is evidence that even in prehistoric times, vastareas were sometimes intentionally burned by people in their search for food. And in our own timewe have reshaped a large part of the earth’ s surface with concrete in our cities and carefully ten rice paddies, pastures, wheat fields, and other croplands in the countryside. But these changes,while sometimes appearing to be pervasive, have, until recently, been relatively trivial factors inthe global ecological sys-tem. Indeed, until our lifetime, it was always safe to assume that nothingwe did or could do would have any lasting effect on the global environment. But it is precisely that assumption which must now be discarded so that we can think strategically about our newrelationship to the environment.16. Human civilization is now the dominant cause of change in the global environment. Yet weresist this truth and find it hard to imagine that our effect on the earth must now be measured bythe same yardstick used to calculate the strength of the moon’ s pull on the oceans or the f the wind against the mountains. And it we are now capable of changing something so basic as the relationship between the earth and the sun, surely we must acknowledge a new responsibility touse that power wisely and with appropriate restraint. So far, however, We seem oblivious of thefragility of the earth’ s natural systems.*17.This century has witnessed dramatic changes in two key factors that define the physicalreality of our relationship to the earth: a sudden and startling surge in human population, with theaddition of one China ’ s worth of people every ten years, and a sudden acceleration of the scientific and technological revolution, which has allowed an almost unimaginable magnification of ourpower to affect the world around us by burning, cutting, digging, moving,and transforming the18.The surge in population is both a cause of the changed relationship and one of the clearest illustrations of how startling the change has been, especially when viewed in a historical context.From the emergence of modern humans 200,000 years ago until Julius Caesar’ s time, fewe 250 million people walked on the face of the earth. When Christopher Columbus set sail for theNew World 1,500 years later, there were approximately 500 million people on earth. By the timeThomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the number had doubled again,to 1 billion. By midway through this century, at the end of World War II, the number had risen tojust above 2 billion people.19. In other words, from the beginning of humanity’ s appearance on earth to 1945, it took m than ten thousand generations to reach a world population of 2 billion people. Now, in the courseof one human lifetime——mine——theworld population will increase from 2 to more than 9billion, and it is already more than halfway there.20.Like the population explosion, the scientific and technological revolution began to pick upspeed slowly during the eighteenth century. And this ongoing revolution has also suddenly accelerated exponentially. For example, it is now an axiom in many fields of science that more newand important discoveries have taken place in the last ten years that. in the entire previous historyof science. While no single discovery has had the kind of effect on our relationship to the earth thatunclear weapons have had on our relationship to warfare, it is nevertheless true that taken together,they have completely transformed our cumulative ability to exploit the earth for sustenancemaking the consequences of unrestrained exploitation every bit as unthinkable as the consequencesof unrestrained nuclear war.21.Now that our relationship to the earth has changed so utterly, we have to see that changeand understand its implications. Our challenge is to recognize that the startling images ofenvironmental destruction now occurring all over the world have much more in common than their ability to shock and awaken us. They are symptoms of an underlying problem broader in scope and more serious than any we have ever faced. Global warming, ozone depletion, the loss of living species, deforestation——theyall have a common cause: the new relationship between human civilization and the earth’ s natural balance.22.There are actually two aspects to this challenge. The first is to realize that our power to harm the earth can indeed have global and even permanent effects. The second is to realize that the only way to understand our new role as a co-architect of nature is to see ourselves as part of a complex system that does not operate according to the same simple rules of cause and effect we are used to. The problem is not our effect on the environment so much as our relationship with the environment. As a result, any solution to the problem will require a careful assessmentof thatrelationship as well as the complex interrelationship among factors within civilization and between them and the major natural components of the earth’ s ecological system.23.There is only one precedent for this kind of challenge to our thinking, and again it is military. The invention of nuclear weapons and the subsequent development by the United States and the Soviet Union of many thousands of strategic nuclear weapons forced a slow and painfulrecognition that the new power thus acquired forever changed not only the relationship betweenthe two superpowers but also the relationship of humankind to the institution at war-fare itself. The consequences of all-out war between nations armed with nuclear weapons suddenly included the possibility of the destruction of both nations —— completelyand simultaneously. That sobering realization led to a careful reassessment of every aspect of our mutual relationship to the prospectof such a war. As early as 1946 one strategist concluded that strategic bombing with missileswell tear away the veil of illusion that has so long obscured the reality of the change inwarfare —— from a fight to a process of destruction.”24.Nevertheless, during the earlier stages of the nuclear arms race, each of the superpower s assumed that its actions would have a simple and direct effect on the thinking of the other. For decades, each new advance in weaponry was deployed by one side for the purpose of inspiring fear in the other. But each such deployment led to an effort by the other to leapfrog the first one with a more advanced deployment of its own. Slowly, it has become apparent that the problem of the nuclear arms race is not primarily caused by technology. It is complicated by technology, true; but it arises out of the relationship between the superpowers and is based on an obsolete understanding of what war is all about.25.The eventual solution to the arms race will be found, not in a new deployment by one sideor the other of some ultimate weapon or in a decision by either side to disarm unilaterally , but ratter in new understandings and in a mutual transformation of the relationship itself. This transformation will involve changes in the technology of weaponry and the denial of nuclear technology to rogue states. But the key changes will be in the way we think about the institution of warfare and about the relationship between states.26. The strategic nature of the threat now posed by human civilization to the global environment and the strategic nature of the threat to human civilization now posed by changes in the global environment present us with a similar set of challenges and false hopes. Some argue that a new ultimate technology, whether nuclear power or genetic engineering, will solve the problem. Others hold that only a drastic reduction of our reliance on technology can improve the conditionsof life——a simplistic notion at best. But the real solution will be found in reinventing and finally healing the relationship between civilization and the earth. This can only be accomplished by undertaking a careful reassessmentof all the factors that led to the relatively recent dramaticchange in the relationship. The transformation of the way we relate to the earth will of course involve new technologies, but the key changes will involve new ways of thinking about the relationship itself.( from Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, 1992 )11。

高级英语第三课 Blackmail 课件

Background information
– Peter McDermott, the assistant general manager, has to tackle several other knotty problems: handling an attempted rape which has occurred in one of the hotel’s rooms; catching a professional thief operating in the hotel; pacifying a whole convention of several hundred dentists to putting up a member of the convention--a black doctor. Then there is the Duke of Croydon.
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About the novel Hotel
– The St. Gregory Hotel is the largest in New Orleans, Louisiana. For 4 days from Monday evening to Friday, the hotel goes through a succession of dramatic events. With the hotel’s mortgage due by the weekend and with no chance of getting further renewal, the owner, Warren Trent, reluctantly makes up his mind to sell his hotel to a chain hotel owner, Curtis O’Keefe.

(自考专升本资料)《高级英语》复习笔记3

高级英语复习笔记及讲解3Lesson Four1.dodge ： avoid , evade or elude 逃避.如；He was accused of dodging his taxes .他被指控逃税.You shouldn 't dodge your responsibilities. 你不能回避责认.move aside suddenly 突然闪开.如：I dodged out of the way when he threw a chair at me . 他将椅子向我扔来的时候,我急忙闪开.2.condemn： express an unfavorable judgement or opinion of 谴责.如：We condemned empty talk instead of hard work.我们谴责只说空话不务实的行为.3.to come to light ： to be discovered or revealed 暴露.如；On investigation some new facts came to light . 一经调查，一些新的事实就被暴露了.It has now come to light that he was financially backed by some interest group.人们刚刚得知，他受到了某个利益集团的经济支持.nguish ：1) become feeble ;droop ; lose liveliness orthe will to do things 凋萎，有气无力.如；languish from the heat /in prison/ in his dull job 由于天气炎热/坐牢/工作乏味而萎靡不振.2)suffer from a feeling of longing 苦思.如；languish for some kind words/her love 苦苦期盼一些抚慰的话语/ 她的爱.5.moral ： the moral teaching or practical lesson continued ina fable , tale , experience,etc.寓意.如；There is a moral to the story .这个故事有个寓意.arre ： unusual in appearance, style , or characters 夕卜貌,风格或性格怪异.如；a bizarre coincidence——次奇，怪的巧合;his bizrre behavior 他，怪异的行为.7.at her own request根据她本人的要求.另如：He wrote this book at the request of his 写了他根据……的要求那本书._vote on ：就进行表决.如：Let 's vote on this issue , since we can' t agree . 既然我们不能达成一致意见,就来投票表决吧.8.inprivate ： not publicly , secretly 私下.如：Such a thing is best discussed in private . 这种事情最好私卜讨论.He can be very rube in private, though he is usually polite in public .他私下可能很粗鲁，但在群众面前通常彬彬有礼.9.taboo adj.忌讳的，禁止的.如：This topic is taboo on the campus .校园里忌讳讨论这个话题.10.A. prolong ： cause sth. to continue longer 延长.如：I have to prolong my stay here for another three days . 我必须继续在这里呆三天时间.You should not have prolonged the ceremony . 你本不该延长仪式的时间.B. throes ： agony 痛苦.如；in death throes处于临终痛苦.11.h old out ： continue to last 坚持，挺住.如：Can you hold out much longer ?你能再坚持一段时间吗?12.a dminister to apple as a remedy 施用.如：administer laws执彳亍法律.The doctor administered some me medicine to the girl . 医生给女孩施用了一些药.ply with ： act in accordance with wishes , requirements or conditions 遵守（意愿，要求或条件等）.如；You ought to comply with the rules /the demands/ the 1aw/ the requests.你应该遵守规章/命令/法律/要求.14.p ose danger 造成危险.pose ： cause sth. to exist 导致产生.另如：pose problems 引起问题.15.b y contrast 相比之下.By contrast , his brother is quite easygoing . 相比之下，他的兄弟比拟好相处.16.u sher in ： herald 预报，宣告.如；usher in a new age of prosperity宣告新的繁荣时期的到来.The rising sun ushered in a new day . 太阳的升起宣告新的——天开始了.The cuckoo ushered in Spring.布谷鸟宣布春天到来.。

高一英语下册unit-3说课课件

我的心瞬间激荡起来奇峰突兀，苍松翠柏隐约可见，云雾深处的人家如居缥缈的仙境。想到那里的曾祖母以及姑婆一家，我对魏家山有了一种神往，希冀能去那里一游，但碍于时间关系，我只好将念头压在了心底。大发云有多少个平台
数不尽的沟沟坎坎，说不完的曲曲折折，曾经整天的路途，如今车程半小时就到了魏家山。一路上，新房星罗棋布，车辆穿梭不停，男人和善客气，女人闲散自在，或三三两两踱步徘徊，或集中休闲取乐，脸上都洋溢着幸福的微笑；一个老农更是靠近我滔滔不绝地讲述魏家山的过往今世，对我这个陌生的来客表示了极大的热情。问询中得知，魏家山山势巨大，幅员辽阔，如今已经分为几大片区，有青松林、天兴寨、花椒园、核桃园、新农村等，其中青松林和天兴寨开发的是旅游项目，花椒园、核桃园是产业园区，新农村是新建的居民生活区。
一场剧烈的寒潮让今年的清明节变得寒冷异常，和着举世的悲哀，我的心也被紧揪成了一团，突然想起曾祖母和她在武汉打工的儿孙们来，不知她的儿孙们在这场巨大的灾难面前命运如何？左右无事，我便决定驱车前往魏家山。
正是春意正闹的季节，鲜花盛开，绿叶争翠；水田里，秧苗嫩叶初绽，旱地里，玉米花生崭露头角，昂扬的生机正刺破悲戚的气氛，带给人们新的希望。

高级英语教案Unit3 13页PPT文档

谢谢
Paraphrase the sentence.
When those people in the room saw me get to my feet, they suddenly started shouting and great happiness filled the place.
Unit 3 Salvation
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What impression does the writer try to give by describing the old women and men?
Unit 3 Salvation
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And the whole building rocked with prayer and song.
Paraphrase this sentence. The whole building shook with all the praying and singing.
In what sense was the child saved? According to the writer, he was saved, but not really saved. He was saved from sin in an ironic sense. He was compelled to commit a sin in order to be saved from sin.

高级英语第三课

高级英语第三课Lesson 3: The Use of ForceThey were new patients to me, all I had was the name, Olson. "Please come down as soon as you can, my daughter is very sick."When I arrived I was met by the mother, a big startled looking woman, very clean and apologetic who merely said, Is this the doctor? And let me in. In the back, she added. You must excuse us, doctor, we have her in the kitchen where it is warm. It is very damp here sometimes.The child was fully dressed and sitting on here father's lap near the kitchen table. He tried to get up, but I motioned for him not to bother, took off my overcoat and started to look things over. I could see that they were all very nervous, eyeing me up and down distrustfully. As often, in such cases, they weren't telling me more than they had to, it was up to me to tell them; that's why they were spending three dollars on me.The child was fairly eating me up with her cold, steady eyes, and no expression on her face whatever. She did not move and seemed, inwardly, quiet; an unusually attractive little thing, and as strong as a heiferin appearance. But her face was flushed, she was breathing rapidly, and I realized that she had a high fever. She had magnificent blonde hair, in profusion. One of those picture children often reproduced in advertising leaflet s and the photogravure sections of the Sunday papers.She's had a fever for three days, began the father and we don't know what it comes from. My wife has given her things, you know, like people do, but it don't do no good. And there's been a lot of sickness around. So we tho't you'd better look her overand tell us what is the matter.As doctors often do I took a trial shot at it as a point of departure. Has she had a sore throat?Both parents answered me together, No...No, she says her throat don't hurt her.Does your throat hurt you? Added the mother to the child. But the little girl's expression didn't change nor did she move her eyes from my face.Have you looked?I tried to, said the mother but I couldn't see.As it happens we had been having a number of cases of diphtheria in the school to which this child went during that month and we were all, quite apparently, thinking of that, though no one had as yet spoken of the thing.Well, I said, suppose we take a look at the throat first. I smiled in my best professional manner and asking for the child's first name I said, come on, Mathilda, open your mouth and let's take a look at your throat.Nothing doing.Aw, come on, I coaxed, just open your mouth wide and let me take a look. Look, I said opening both hands wide, I haven't anything in my hands. Just open up and let me see.Such a nice man, put in the mother. Look how kind he is to you. Come on, do what he tells you to. He won't hurt you.As that I ground my teeth in disgust. If only they wouldn't use the word "hurt" I might be able to get somewhere. But I did not allow myself to be hurried or disturbed but speaking quietly and slowly I approached the child again.As I moved my chair a little nearer suddenly with one catlike movement both her hands clawed instinctively for my eyes andshe almost reached them too. In fact she knocked my glasses flying and they fell, though unbroken, several feet away from me on the kitchen floor.Both the mother and father almost turned themselves inside out in embarrassment and apology. You bad girl, said the mother, taking her and shaking her by one arm. Look what you've done. The nice man...For heaven's sake, I broke in. Don't call me a nice man to her. I'm here to look at her throat on the chance that she might have diphtheria and possibly die of it. But that's nothing to her. Look here, I said to the child, we're going to look at your throat. You're old enough to understand what I'm saying. Will you open it now by yourself or shall we have to open it for you?Not a move. Even her expression hadn't changed. Her breaths, however, were coming faster and faster. Then the battle began. I had to do it. I had to have a throat culture for her own protection. But first I told the parents that it was entirely up to them. I explained the danger but said that I would not insist on a throat examination so long as they would take the responsibility.If you don't do what the doctor says you'll have to go to the hospital, the mother admonished her severely.Oh yeah? I had to smile to myself. After all, I had already fallen in love with the savage brat, the parents were contemptible to me. In the ensuing struggle they grew more and more abject, crushed, exhausted while she surely rose to magnificent heights of insane fury of effort bred of her terror of me.The father tried his best, and he was a big man but the fact that she was his daughter, his shame at her behavior and his dread of hurting her made him release her just at the critical times when I had almost achieved success, till I wanted to kill him.But his dread also that she might have diphtheria made him tell me to go on, go on though he himself was almost fainting, while the mother moved back and forth behind us raising and lowering her hands in an agony of apprehension.Put her in front of you on your lap, I ordered, and hold both her wrists.But as soon as he did the child let out a scream. Don't, you're hurting me. Let go of my hands. Let them go I tell you. Then she shrieked terrifyingly, hysterically. Stop it! Stop it! You're killing me!Do you think she can stand it, doctor! Said the mother.You get out, said the husband to his wife. Do you want her to die of diphtheria?Come on now, hold her, I said.Then I grasped the child's head with my left hand and tried to get the wooden tongue depressor between her teeth. She fought, with clenched teeth, desperately! But now I also had grown furious-at a child. I tried to hold myself down but I couldn't.I know how to expose a throat for inspection. And I did my best. When finally I got the wooden spatula behind the last teeth and just the point of it into the mouth cavity, she opened up for an instant but before I could see anything she came down again and gripped the wooden blade between her molar s. She reduces it to splinters before I could get it out again.Aren't you ashamed, the mother yelled at her. Aren't you ashamed to act like that in front of the doctor?Get me a smooth-handled spoon of some sort, I told the mother. We're going through with this. The child's mouth was already bleeding. Her tongue wascut and she was screaming in wild hysterical shrieks. Perhaps I should have desist ed and come back in an hour or more. Nodoubt it would have been better. But I have seen at least two children lying dead in bed of neglect in such cases, and feeling that I must get a diagnosis now or never I went at it again. But the worst of it was that I too had got beyond reason.I could have torn the child apart in my own fury and enjoyed it. It wasa pleasure to attack her, my face was burning with it.The damned little brat must be protected against her own idiocy, one says to one's self at such times. Others must be protected against her. It is a social necessity. And all these things are true. But a blind fury, a feeling of adult shame, bred of a longing for muscular release are the operatives. One goes on to the end.In the final unreasoning assault I overpowered the child's neck any jaws.I forced the heavy silver spoon back of her teeth and down her throat till she gag ged. And there it was - both tonsil s covered with membrane. She had fought valiantly to keep me from knowing her secret. She had been hiding that sore throat for three days at least and lying to her parents in order to escape just such an outcome as this.Now truly she was furious. She had been on the defensive before but now she attacked, Tried to get off her father's lap and fly at me while tears of defeat blinded her eye.。

高级英语 unit 3 Blackmail ppt课件

Birth: Born in Luton (卢顿), Bedfordshire (贝德福德郡), England, (Map) on April 5, 1920
Parents: Son of George Wellington Hailey (a factory shopkeeper) and Elsie Mary (Wright) Hailey
• Ask students to get information about the author – Arthur Hailey from the internet or printed materials:
• Nationality (birth place, home, etc.)
• Life (education, career, etc.)
use of specific words) of the characters (2) using the languages which suit the backgrounds of
characters • To familiarize and appreciate slangy and ungrammatical
(2) using animal image; (3) through contrast.
Arthur Hailey
• Life in England (1920-1947) • Life in Canada (1947-1965) • Life in America (1965-1969) • Life in Bahamas (1969-2004) • Writing Career
• Writing Career (works, characteristics, subject matter, awards, etc.)

高一英语下册unit-3说课课件

在沟野里，我认识了更多的鸟儿，很多鸟儿我是叫不上名字的。每当我躺在寂静的荒草丛里，鸟儿就会坐在附近的柿子树上为我唱歌。风从坡上扬起时，鸟儿唱得就更欢了，干硬的冷风中，牧羊人瑟缩着身子，把羊群往回赶。风把荒草吹得呜呜响，哭着把那些小动物往地里吸呢，发怒着的沟野让人感到恐惧。但鸟儿的歌声却让整片沟野活泛起来，牧羊人不再感到孤寂，躲在洞里的小动物也都感到温暖。那时候，我就坐在沟边，吸溜着嘴，学鸟儿唱。
有时当我还在屋里睡觉的时候，它们就已飞到庭院的竹丛中，叽叽喳喳地叫我起床了。渐渐地，我成了鸟儿中的鸟王，每当我走到门前的沟野里，成群的鸟儿就会跟着我，在我的头顶上飞来飞去。它们在沟野上空飞翔时，我就躺在荒草里睡大觉。有它们和它们的歌声在，我便不再感到孤单。鸟儿是能认得人的，尤其是那群常常飞到我家庭院上空的鸟儿，跟我亲近得很。bbin集团注册
一群鸟儿就是一堆神秘的故事，每一只鸟儿，都是沟野里独一无二的音符。躺在屋顶的青瓦上，听着鸟儿那悠扬婉转的啁啾，我感到昏昏欲睡。现在我想说的是，在这个偏远的北方小镇上，我就是一只从沟野里飞来的鸟儿，我把欢乐唱了出来，也把心我一块唱开了，我们唱啊唱啊，唱得月亮都在一旁鼓掌呢。

lessonthree自考高英

+ Resist : 抵抗抗拒忍耐 -resistance
+ Hysterical : 歇斯底里的，发狂般的 + Hysteria n. 狂躁症。癔症
+ crazy + Mad + insane + Lunatic + Out of one’s mind
+ Instinctively 本能 + Instinct n. 本能，天性 + By instinct 出于本能 + Have an instinct for 有……的天分生来就 + On instinct 本能凭直觉 + Maternal instinct 母性本能
+ In + inside + Inward向内的 + Internal + Introverted内向
的
+ Out + outside + Outward向外的 + External + Extr的 + Overpower 制服压服 + Overeat + Overdrink + Overstay + Overstay one’s welcome
throat? + Did the girl’s physical beauty have
anything to do with the outcome of the incident? Explain. + Can you find any fault with the doctor’s behavior?
的警告，告诫
+ Coax: persuade gently or gradually 哄劝

高级英语 unit 3 Blackmail ppt课件

Life in Canada
Marriage: • married Joan Fishwick, 1944 (divorced, 1950, three sons) • married Sheila Dunlop (who wrote I Married a Bestseller in 1978) , July 28, 1951 (until his death, two daughters, one son)
HOME--Lyford Cay, P.O. Box N-7776, Nassau, Bahamas
OFFICE--Seaway Authors, Ltd., One Place Ville Marie, Suite 1609, Montreal, PQ, Canada H3B 2B6
Life in England
Arthur Hailey began his writing career while an RAF pilot.
After War
Life in Canada
After the war in 1947 Hailey emigrated to Canada, becoming a Canadian citizen as well as British;
BACK
Beginning
Life in Canada Writing Career
freelance writer (since 1956 ) After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a full-time writer in 1956, encouraged by the success of the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 加拿大广播公司) television drama/movie, Flight into Danger (《危险之旅》1956 with John Castle) (a movie Zero Hour! 《紧急关头》1957) (in print as Runway Zero-Eight《零八跑道》(1958)).

高一英语下册unit-3说课课件

是的，人生若只如初见该是多么美好，每一个最初和自己相遇的人儿，那时候，有的全是美好，纯纯的砰然心动，羞涩似欲语的明眸那美好的感觉，美好的犹如雨打过的新荷混浑然散耀着出淤泥而典雅、高贵气息。那种温柔、那种自然、那种甜美、疏不知就给人清水出芙蓉，天然去雕饰惊人美好。初见的那回忆，总是会别样的深刻，似乎那美丽的相越画面已生根弥漫在生命里，孤单时会勾起冗长的记忆。优游席幕蓉的《初相遇》里说道：美丽的梦和美丽的诗一样，都是可欲不可求，常常在最没能料到的时刻里出现。的确，正如人生，美丽的人生，善良的人们，来来往往的，可是一些人一辈子都擦肩而过却换不来一次回眸；有些人明明是生活在同栋公寓里，相隔只是一墙之距，意外的相遇、意外的大雨、匆忙的分离，一个喜欢向左走，一个喜欢向右走，彼此日夜思念幻想能像电影里一样再次相遇，可结局，一个方向之差谁也再也没有遇见过谁。这都能算什么，我只能说是生活，是命运，是缘分。初见，如梦般。喜欢那样梦，在梦里：一下都可以重新开始，一切都可以被理解，一切都可以被包容，一切都可以坦诚相待，一切都可以没有杂质的付出，一切都可以被牢牢抓住，一切的一切，你想要的都可以不顾一切的可以誓言执子之手，与子偕老，甚至可以感觉到欣喜与激动，梦里可以肆意的洋溢着幸福，简单的只是因为你就在眼前，默默不语的对着微笑，一如某年某月某日的那刻依然有相忘于江湖，不如相濡以沫，今非昔比，多情总被无情恼，我却认为，对于自己曾经相遇过的人、或是一厢情愿的人，遭遇时过境迁、逝世流年后，还不如是相濡以沫，不如相忘于江湖。或许这样才不至于受伤，这样才可以不用在一个个凄风冷雨的夜里沉受着断断的思念、不用再泪痕点点话凄凉、不用再沦陷于剪不断，理还乱，是离愁，别是一翻滋味在心头的苦恼。人生，到不如放宽胸襟，任庭前花开花落，看外云卷云舒，那些自己眷恋的人儿，一去不复返的人儿，就让自己祝福他们真诚愿好，把他们珍藏于记忆吧，一如初见

自考高级英语下册第三课PPT

• 1.Phrases • 1.one side of the issues（十二行） • one aspect of an issue（第二段的第四行） • 问题的一个方面 • You have talked about one side of the issue but there is still another
• 但总的说来，哥伦比业广播公司、全国广播公司及美国播公司的新闻报道和时事评论总是尽其所能给观众提供更多的观点，而不是一面之辞。
• either by letting opposing spokesmen have their say , or by outlining the positions held by both major parties on the subject involved .
9.Virtues ['vɝtʃʊ] 第一段倒数第四行 a particular moral excellence n. 优点，贞操；美德
But they have virtues, too. 但是它们也有优点。
• 10.Superficial [,supɚ'fɪʃl] 第二段第一行 • relating to a surface • adj. 表面的；肤浅的 • n. 表面文章；外表；浅薄的人
Lesson 3 What's wrong with our press?
卢清萍、欧洁莹、林颖斯、江坤玲。
• Douglass Cater , in his book The Fourth Branch of Government , confines himself to only one pungent(尖銳) footnote on this subject . “ I have deliberately (故意回避)avoided , “ he writes , “ getting into the predominantly (有影響力的)one-party nature of newspaper wonership . it is a fact of life .

自考高级英语课后习题及答案-上下全

Lesson one Rock Superstars: What Do They Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society ?ExercisesA.Answer the following questions on the text:1.what is the function of the two quotations ? Are they appropriate ?2.What does the author attempt to illustrate with the three examples at the beginning of the article?3.According to Irving Horowitz , what is the sociological significance of rock music ?4.In what sense did Elvis Presley prove what Horowitz and Rundgren believed ?5.How did Bob Dylan , the Beatles , and the Rolling Stones differ from each other politically ?6.What other major subjects did rock music deal with apart from politics ?7.What rewards did rock superstars get ?8.Has the author given a complete answer to question he raises in the title? Why do you think the author ends the article the way he does ?Key A1.The author uses the two quotations to introduce his ideas . Yes , they are .2.The author uses the three examples to show that the young people worship the rock superstars very much , but the adults find they are sick , The examples show that young people and adults have a totally different attitudes towards rock music .3.Rock music can express its times . He sees it as a debating forum where American society struggles to define and redefine its feeling and beliefs .4.When he appeared on the Ed . Sullivan Sunday night variety show , a debate took place . The old people frowned while the young viewers applauded.5.Bob Dylan touched a nerve of disaffection. The Beatles urged peace and piety . The Rolling Stones demanded revolution .6.Apart from politics , the rock music dealt with feelings and emotions.7.The rock superstars got applause , praise and money .8.No , he hasn’t . He want s to leave the question to the re aders and let them think .B Translate the following into Chinese :1.“Jagger,” he said , “grabs a half –gallon jug of water and runs along the front platform , sprinkling its contents over the first few rows of sweltering listeners .2.How do you feel about all this adulation and hero worship ?3.Or are you drawn somehow to this strange clown , perhaps because he acts out your wildest fantasies ?4.Some sociologists say that your answers to them could explain a lot about what you are thinking and about what your society is thinking –in other words , where you and your society are .5.It’s just that Elvis managed to embody the frustrated teenage spirit of the1950s .6.Feelings always a part of any musical statement were a major subject .7.This country element , Horowitz feels , helped its audience express an urge to “get away from it all , “ to “go back to the old days .”8.In one 1972 national opinion poll , more than 10 percent of the high school boys and 20 percent of the girls said their hero was a rock superstar.KeyBKeyB1他描述道:”贾格尔拿着半加仑水, 顺着舞台前沿,边跑边把水洒向前排汗流浃背的歌迷身上.”2. 你如何看待这种赞美和英雄崇拜?3. 还是由于他把你狂热的幻想用行动表现出来,你神不知鬼不觉地被这个不可思议的小丑所吸引?4. 一些社会学家认为你对这些问题的回答,很能说明你在想什么,社会在想什么..换句话说, 可以说明你和社会的态度.5. 只不过艾尔维斯的演唱表现了50年代青少年那种沮丧的精神状态.6. 感情总是任何音乐表达的必要成分,也是一个重要议题.7. 霍罗威茨认为这种结合表达了听众欲”摆脱现实一切”/”重归昔日”的强烈愿望.9.在1972年的一次全国民意测验中, 10%以上的高中男生,20%的女生表示他们心目中的英雄是超摇滚歌星.C.Fill in the blank in each sentence with the best word or expression from the box below,changing its form when necessary :Sprinkle swelter in other words lazy rather than reject act out idle worship reverence drive embody9.His paintings embody the spirit of the modern era .10.How do you act out your frustrations , by throwing glasses or something ?11.The peddler sprinkled some water over his vegetables to make them fresher and heavier.12.In such heated air ,the sweltering students could hardly keep their minds on their lessons .13.That’s idle gossip . Don’t listen to it .14.She sent in her application for the job , but was rejected as unqualified .15.The salesman considered it safe to go along with the boss rather than to contradict him .8. Everybody should have a sincere reverence /worship for the laws of his country .D.Choose the right word or expression in the brackets to complete each of the following sentences :1.The whole nation watched the two candidates (arguing , debating ) the issue of raising taxes on TV .2.It was a (proud , arrogant ) moment for my cousin when she shook hands with the President .3.Even if you (mix , blend ) oil and water , they will not (mix , blend ).4.Some people watch television so much that they cannot (conceive , imagine ) of living without it .5.As it was an informal dinner , most people (wore ,were dressed ) in their comfortable clothes .6.Do you think those young people are (idealistic ,ideal ) or pragmatic ?7.Filled with great (adulation , admiration ) for their integrity and courage , he was determined to be a man like them .8.Deep at night , they could still hear gun-fire (rambling , rumbling ) in the distance .E.Explain the underlined words in English :1.“They think he is sick , sick , sick , “ Mike said .2.Newspaper editorialized against him .3.He poke of change and of the bewilderment of an older generation .4.The Beatles … urged peace and piety …5.His most notable songs …while the lyrics celebrate the simple joy …6.… these rock musicians mirror feelings and benefits ….7.Horowitz sees the rock music arena as …a place where ideas clash and crash .8.What does he ---or any other current rock success ---tell us about his fans ?Key E1.disgusting2.Editors ‘ articles attacked and criticized him3.the confusions of the old people4.had a strong desire for peace and piety5.The words of the song praise the natural happiness of the old days .6.reflect emotions and outlooks7.a place where ideas come into opposition and contradict to each other8.other successful rock stars at presentF . Translate the following into English :摇滚乐于20世纪50年代末举起于美国. 它不仅是一种新型的音乐形式,更是美国的青年人表达他们对世界和人生看法的论坛. 在这个论坛上, 歌星们唱出了青年人对民权/战争与和平的态度, 唱出了他们对社会的不满,也唱出了爱与恨之间的各种情感. 总之, 在这个论坛上, 青年人把他们对美国社会的信仰及情感给以全新的解释. 早期的摇滚乐的主要代表人物有艾尔维斯.普雷斯利,歌星加诗人鲍勃.狄伦/甲壳虫乐队以及滚石乐队等等.他们都是青年人崇拜的文化英雄.Key FRock music began in America in the late 1950’s . It was not only a new musical form , but a forum for the American youth to express their ideas of the world and life . In this forum , the stars sang out the attitudes of the youth towards civil rights , war and peace ,the disaffection of their society , and a range of emotions between love and hate . Allin all , in this forum , the American youth redefined the beliefs and feelings of their society . The typical representatives of the early rock music were Elvis Presley , singer and poet Bob Dylan , the Bealtles , the rolling Stones and so on . They were the culture heroes whom the young people worshipped .G. Write a short passage of 150—200words in English on the topic “Do you Agree that Rock Is the Music of Teenage Rebellion ?:”You should cover the following points :1A general statement of your position ;2Two or three arguments with a supporting example for each .Key GDo You Agree that Rock Is the Music of Teenage Rebellion ?Rock music began in America in the late 1950’s . It was not on ly a new musical form , but a forum for the American youth to express their ideas of the world and life .Music expressed its times . Rock music was a sociological expression rather than a musical force . It embodied the frustrated teenage spirit of the 1950s. At that time young people might be dissatisfied with the society or they had some hatred toward the adult world , but they could not protest it openly . So they would use music as an outlet . Then they could get some balance in their minds .Another aspect is that the young people could make their ideas and beliefs known to the world through music . By music , they could show their felling and dreams . So all in all , young people combined invention and exaggeration ,reason and motion , word and sound , music and politics as a whole .Lesson Two Four Choices for Young PeopleA.Answer the following questions on the text :1.How do American young people look at the adult world in general ?2.What does “drop out “ mean ? Why does the author say that the dropouts lead a parasitic way of life ?3.In What way are those who flee different from the dropouts ?4.Why is this solution no longer practical on a large scale ?5.What kind of young people tend to follow the strategy of armed revolution ?6.Why does the author say that the most unfortunate are those whose revolutions have succeeded ?7.What are some of the new problems faced by the young people ?8.What is the fourth alternative ? Why does the author favor this alternative ?Key A1.They view the adult world with great skeptism .They think their world is in pretty much of a mess , full of injustice ,poverty and war .2.“Drop out “means its practioners escape the traditional way of life , refuse to take any responsibility and live a parasitic life . Because its practioners batten on the society which they scorn and in which they refuse to take any responsibility .3.Those who flee are not parasites.They are willing to support themselves and to contribute something to the general community .4.Because our planet is running out of noble savages and unsullied landscapes , except for the polar regions , the frontiers are gone .5.The young people who have no patience with the tedious workings of the democratic process or who believe that basic institutions can only be changed by force tend to follow this strategy .6.Because they live in bitter disillusionment to see the establishment they have overthrown replaced by a new one , just as hard –faced and stuffy .7.The unprecedent problems of an affluent society , of racial justice , of keeping our cities from becoming uninhabitable, of coping with war in unfamiliar guises , and of population explosion .8.The fourth alternative is to try to change the world gradually .Because it offers a better chance for remedying some of the world ‘s outrages than any other available strategy ..B. Translate the following into Chinese :1.Apparently he speaks for a lot of his contemporaries .2.During the last few years , I have listened to scores of young people ,in college and out , who were just as nervous about the grown –up world .3.They are willing to support themselves and to contribute something to the general community , but they simply don’t like the environment of civilization ;that is ,the city , with all its ugliness and tension .4.A few gentleman farmers with plenty of money can still escape to the bucolic life .5.To them it offers a romantic appeal ,usually symbolized by some dashing and charismatic figure.6.For at best their victory never dawns on the shining new world they had dreamed of , cleansed of all human meanness .7.The revolutionary state , under whatever political label , has to be run –not by violent romantics –but by experts in marketing , sanitary engineering , and the management of bureaucracies.8.About all that can be said for it is that it sometimes works – that in this particular time and place it offers a better chance for remedying some of the world ‘s outrages than any other available strategy .Key B1.很显然他所说的代表了许多同龄人的想法.2.在过去的几年中, 我听到过许多大学内外的年轻人的谈话, 对于成人世界,他们也有同感.3.他们愿意自食其力,并对社会大众做些贡献.他们不喜欢文明的环境,也就是说, 不喜欢那种丑恶/紧张的城市生活.4.一些极富有的乡绅可以回到农村的田园生活.5.对他们来说,这有一种浪漫/传奇的色彩,通常是以某个有闯劲/魅力超凡的人物为代表的.6.即使革命成功,胜利的曙光也不会照在光灿灿的/梦想的/消除了人类一切自私的新世界上.7.革命的机器,无论贴上什么样的政治标签,还得由市场销售/卫生工程/官僚机构的行家们来操作,而不是由那些极端的浪漫主义者们去操作.8.这种方法的惟一优点是, 它有时真的有效,--在一个特定的时间和地点, 与其它可选的方法相比,它可以更好地改善世界上的倒行逆施行为.C. Fill in the blank in each sentence with the best word or expression from the box below , changing its form when necessary :Strike run out of cleanse disappoint insoluble unprecedent satisfy virtual contribute available symbolize vehement1.For many Americans , it is their lifelong dream to buy a satisfying /satisfactory two-storied house with a garden .2. To make Beijing our worthy capital , we must get it cleansed of polluted air , among other things .3.In a lot of cultures , red roses are used to symbolize love .4.Unfortunately , their car ran out of fuel , just ten miles short of Chicago .5. An unprecedented event in history took place in 1969 , when two American astronauts landed for the first time on the Moon .6. The detective finally gave up , declaring the mystery insoluble .7. Though high-sounding , his speech struck everyone at the meeting as totally irrelevant to what was discussed .9.If you travel by plane , Beijing and Guangzhou are virtually neighboring cities .D. Choose the right word or expression in the brackets to complete each of the following sentences :1.The professor looked over our papers with a hasty (sight , glance ).2.Before ordering their dinner , they considered the (relevant , relative ) merits of chicken and roast beef .3.The little boy’s constant noise (exhilarated , exasperated ) his father , who was busy writing a paper for a symposium .4.Isn’t it (wholesome, noisome )to live in a city with so many vehicles passing day and night ?5.He was born in a small town (lived , inhabited ) by about 500 people .6.Her desk was all (jumbled , cluttered ) with old papers , strings , and other odds and ends .7.He thinks they are extremely (idealistic , ideal ) , for all their pragmatism .8.She made one last (attraction , appeal ) to her father for permission to go to the party .E. Explain the underlined words in English :1….who were just as nervous about the grown-up world .2.Unlike the dropouts , they are not parasites .3.This strategy also has ancient antecedents .4.…that is , the city , with all its ugliness and tension .5.For at best their victory never dawns on the shining new world they had dreamed of ….6.At first glance , this course is far from inviting .7.…it offers a better chance for remedying some of the world ‘s outrages than any other available strategy .8.…another one looms just ahead .Key E1.They are doubtful and critical about the way the older generation is running the world .2.They don’t batten on the society . They support themselves .3.This strategy is not new . We had similar ones in the old times .4.The city is ugly and full of pressures .5.Their success doesn’t bring about a new world .6.This strategy is not attractive .pared with other strategies , it can change the world for the better . It can stop some of the world ‘s violence or crulty .8.Another problem appears before them .F. Translate the following into English :60年代的美国青年是反叛的一代. 他们看到美国这个富裕社会充满了贫困/不平等和虚伪.他们不再相信这个不属于他们的成人社会, 拒绝信奉它的信仰和价值观. 很多青年人积极投入到反对贫困/反对种族歧视和反对越南战争的斗争中去,有些青年人甚至试图以武装革命的方式推翻这个社会. 还有很多青年人以消极的方式表示他们的不满. 他们吸毒,过着不承担任何社会责任的寄生生活,或者跑到未开垦的乡村去, 过着原始公社式的生活.Key FThe American young people in 1960’s were a generation of rebellion . They found that the affluent American society was filled with poverty , injustice and gypocrisy . They didn’t trust the adult world that didn’t belong to them and refuse d to take their beliefs and values . Many young people took active part in the struggle which protested against poverty , racial discrimination and Vietnam War . Some young people even tried to overthrow this world by armed revolution. Many other young took passive ways to show their disaffections . They took drugs , refused to take any responsibilities and lived a parasitic way of life . Or they escaped to the frontiers and lived a primitive way of life .G. Write a short passage of 150-200 words in Engli sh on the topic “My Comment on the Fourth Choice .”You should cover the following points :!.what the fourth choice is ;2.What you agree on with the author and reasons for your agreement ;3.What you disagree on with the author , if any , and your explanation .My Comment on the Fourth ChoiceThe fourth comment is to change the world gradually , one clod at a time . Maybe at the first glance it is not inviting . It lacks glamour . It has no quick result . Itdemands patience . It depends on the exasperating and uncertain instruments of persuasion and democratic decision making .I think the author is right . Reforming the world is a little like fighting a military campaign in the Apennines , as soon as you capture one mountain range, another one looms just ahead . The problems are the same , too. Once some problems are brought under some kind of rough control , new problems take place . So we can’t solve all the problems at a time . We have to deal with one problem each time and change the world gradually and steadily . So problems can be handled in the same way that hard problems have been coped with before –piecemeal , pragmatically ,by the dogged efforts of many people . so I think in this particular time and place the fourth choice offers a better cha nce for remedying some of the world ‘s outrages than any other available starategy .Lesson Three The Use of ForceBy William Carlos WilliamsA.Answer the following questions on the text :1.why wasn’t the sick child in bed ?2.why were the girl’s parents eyeing the doctor up and down distrustfully ?3.What made the girl refuse to open her mouth to the doctor ?4.Why did the doctor insist on examining her throat ?5.Why was the doctor not able to see her throat since he already had the wooden tongue depressor into her mouth ?6.How did the doctor finally get see the girl’s throat ?7.Did the girl’s physical beauty have anything to do with the outcome of the incident ?Explain .8.Can you find any fault with the doctor’s behavior?Key A,1.Because it was damp there .2.Because they were the new patients to him and they were nervous .3.She didn’t want others to know that her tonsils were covered with membrane.4.Because the doctor took a trial shot that the girl might have diphtheria.5.Because she gripped the wooden blade between her molars and didn’t open her mouth to let the doctor have a look .6.The doctor overpowered the child’s neck and jaws , forced the heavy silver spoon back of her teeth and down her throat till she gagged .7.Yes , it did . Because she was very beautiful and didn’t want others to know her shortcomings . She thought tonsils covered with membrane were ugly .8.Yes . The doctor grasped the child’s head and tried to get the wooden tongue depressor between her teeth . He had grown furious at the child . He could have torn the child apart and enjoyed it .B. Translate the following into Chinese :1.When I arrived I was met by the mother , a big startled looking woman , very clean and apologetic who merely said , Is this the doctor?And let me in .2.He tried to get up , but I motioned for him not to bother , took off my overcoat and started to look things over .3.As often , in such cases , they weren’t telling me more than they had to , it was up to me to tell them .4.I smiled in my best professional manner and asking for the child’s first name I said , come on , Mathilda, …5.At that I ground my teeth in disgust . If only they wouldn’t use the word “hurt “I might be able to get somewhere .6.In the ensuing struggle they grew more and more abject , crushed , exhausted while she surely rose to magnificent heights of insane fury of effort bred of her terror of me .7.…she opened up for an instant but before I could see any thing she came down again and gripped the wooden blade between her molars she reduced it to splinters before I could get it out again .8.The damned little brat must be protected against her own idiocy , one says to one’s self at such times .Key B1.我到她家时先遇到她的母亲, 她一副惊讶/害怕的表情. 她穿着很干净, 只是礼貌地说, 您是医生吗?就让我进去了.2.他试图站起来, 我示意他不要麻烦,脱去外套, 开始检查.3.像往常一样, 在这种情况下, 他们不会告诉我更多的情况, 而是理应由我来告诉他们.4.我尽量露出我的职业微笑,询问小女孩的名字.我说,过来,玛蒂尔…5.此时我已厌恶地咬牙切齿,要不是他们使用”伤害”这个词,我可能早就采取行动了.6.在接下来的斗争中,他们变得越来越可怜,被制服,甚至精疲力竭,而小女孩由于害怕我而产生的狂怒却达到了顶点.7.她的嘴张开了一下, 我还没有来的及看清楚,她又闭上了嘴.,紧紧地用臼齿咬住木刃.我还没有来的及将它拔出,,她已把它咬成了碎片.8.那个可恶的小家伙很愚蠢,但我应当保护她, 此时我对自己这样说.B.Fill in the blank in each sentence with the best word or expression from the box below , changing its form when necessary :Apologetic motion apprehension distrustful profusion admonish terrifying coax contemptible ensue desist overpower1.They heard of the traffic accident and immediately rushed to the hospital , full of apprehensions about the safety of the passengers .2.The terrifying explosion occurred early in the morning .3.As he entered the newly decorated building , an overpowering smell of paint made him feel quite sick .4.The old man yelled over and over again “stop thief ,stop thief !” But nobody did anything . The indifference of the onlookers was really contemptible .5.The police motioned for the crowd to move on to the next street .6.In Kunming , flowers grow in great profusion all the year round .7.The fans shouted and clapped so loudly that in the ensuing confusion nobody could hear a thing .8.The boys were frightened , but the police managed to coax them into telling him what they had seen that night .A.Choose the right word or expression in the brackets to complete each of the following sentences :1.The girl looked at the doctor (terrifyingly, terrified ).2.“If you finish all the homework tonight , we’ll go for a picnic tomorrow , “ he (admonished ,coaxed).3.He thought their behavior was (contemptuous ,contemptible ),but he didn’t say anything in front of the host .4.Summoned by the boss , he approached his office full of(apprehension ,distrust ).5.He was sincerely sorry for what happened at the party , so people accepted his (excuse ,apology ).6.They were walking in the forest when they heard a (terrifying ,terrific )roar which made their blood freeze .7.Obviously they were getting nowhere with the meeting , so he decided to (desist ,resist ) from making a final decision that afternoon .8.“How can you say that you don’t want to see your grandmother ?”the father (admonished ,coaxed ).E. Explain the underlined words in English :1…very clean and apologetic…2…it was up to me to tell them ;…3.And there’s been a lot of sickness around .4.Nothing doing .5.I’m here to look at her throat on the chance that she mig ht have diphtheria …6.We’re going through with this .7…I too had got beyond reason.8.My face was burning with it .Key E1.polite2.It was my duty …3.There has been a lot of sick people near our home .4.She did nothing . There was no action .5.probably , possibly6.We’ll continue to the end .7.became unreasonable8.pleasure and enjoymentF.Translate the following into English :玛蒂尔达病了三天了,母亲给她吃了药也不见好, 只好请来了医生.由于玛蒂尔达的学校里有学生患白喉,而且已经有两个孩子死去,医生到奥尔逊家后首先要检查玛蒂尔达的喉咙.但是无论怎么劝,她就是不肯张开嘴,于是医生只得用压舌板伸进她的嘴里. 然而玛蒂尔达竟然把压舌板咬碎了.为了保护玛蒂尔达本人及其他的儿童,医生必须弄清玛蒂尔达是否患了白喉,以便给予及时的治疗.于是他让玛蒂尔达的父亲抓紧她的手腕,自己用力掰开了玛蒂尔达的嘴,发现她果然得了白喉.这个故事使我们想到这样一个问题,生活中有的事不能全靠自愿,在有的情况下, 一定的强迫似乎是必要的.Key F.Mathilda had been ill for three days . Her mother had given her some medicine, but it didn’t do any good . So they had to ask the doctor to come . There had been a number of cases of diphtheria in Mathilda’s school and two of them had been dead . When the doctor arrived at Olson’s home , he wanted to examine Mthilda’s throat first . But no matter how he coaxed ,,She wouldn’t open her mouth . So the doctor had to get the tongue depressor into her mouth . But Mathilda reduced it to splinters . In order to protect Mathilda herself and other children , the doctor had to make sure whether she had diphtheria or not , so that he could treat her in time . Letting Mathilda ‘s father hold her wrists he tried his best to open her mouth and found she really had diphtheria. This story made us can think such a question that something in life can’t only depend on self willingness . Under some circumstances , certain force seems necessary .G. Write a short passage of 150-200words in English on the topic “Comment on the Doctor’s Behavior . “You should covre the following points :1.Why he wanted to exa mine the girl’s throat ;2.how he tried to coax her to open her mouth ;3.what made him decide to use force to see her throat ;4.your opinion of the doctor’s behavior .Key G.Comment on the Doctor’s BehaviorAfter the doctor arrived at the girl’s home , he wanted to see her throat . As there had been a number of cases of diphtheria in the school to which the girl went during that month , the doctor also thought that of the girl . So he smiled to the girl and asked her to open her mouth and let him have a look at her throat . No matter how the doctor coaxed , the girl shut her mouth firmly .Thinking that the girl might have diphtheria and possibly die of it , the doctor decided to use force to open her mouth . He had seen at least two children lying dead in bed of neglect in such cases . He felt that he must get a diagnosis now . So he grasped the girl’s head with his left hand and tried to get the wooden tongue depressor between her teeth . But when the doctor got the wooden spatula behind her last teeth . She gripped the blade between her molars and reduced it to splinters . In the final unreasoning assault the doctor outerpowered the girl . He forced the heavy silver spoon back of her teeth and down her throat till she gagged . Her both tonsils were covered with membrane.From that the doctor had done , I thought he was a responsible person . In order to save the lives of the patients , especially those children who did not know how toco-operate with the doctor ,he had to take some measure . Otherwise a good or suitable time of treatment would be missed .Lesson Four Die as You ChooseA.Answer the following questions on the text :1.Is euthanasia openly practiced in Holland ?2.Why did the doctors in the U.S.sometimes secretly practice euthanasia without consulting the dying patients ?3.What is the difference between passive euthanasia and active euthanasia ?Do you think they make any difference ?4.What is a “living-will “?5.Did Hippocrates prohibit euthanasia ?Did most ancient Greek doctors and thinkers agree with his ban ?What did the author want to tell the reader by presenting this historical fact ?6.What is the danger involved if euthanasia is legalized ?7.Why did the author say that West Germany will not be able to legalize any form of euthanasia for a long time to come ?8.What is the author’s view on euthanasia ?Key A1.Yes, it is .2.Because they could rarely discuss euthanasia openly with patients and voluntary euthanasia was taboo , the doctor had to make the decision himself .3.Passive euthanasia means the doctor lets the patient die without giving him any treatment on his own request . Active euthanasia means the doctor kill the patient by giving him an injection or enough painkillers . No, I don’t think they make any difference.4.“Living will “is a will made by a person when he is living that he does not want life prolonged when he is dying .5.Yes , he did .No, they didn’t .The author wanted to explain that when in ancient Greece doctors and thinkers had the courage to disagree with Hippocrates , we should support euthanasia today .6.It may pose dangers for society by setting a precedent for killing .7.West Germany will not legalize any form of euthanasia for a long time because of the shadow of the past .8.The author has an appositive attitude towards euthanasia . He supports it .A.Translate the following into Chinese:1.The need for laws on euthanasia cannot be dodged for much longer .2.In Holland mercy-killing is accepted by the medical establishment and openly practiced a few thousand times each year .3.The debate on euthanasia will rumble on into the autumn, when Californians may vote on a proposed law legalizing euthanasia .4.Many people accept that it is sad , undignified and gruesome to prolong the throes of death with all the might of medical technology .5.How long can the distinction between killing and letting die hold out ?6.Is he then necessarily wrong if he administers enough painkillers to kill ?Does the fact that the doctor performed an action, rather than an omission , condemn him ?7.It is probably no coincidence that it was Dutch doctors who most heroically resisted pressure to join in the Nazi medical atrocities .8.Countries with an uninterrupted recent libertarian tradition have less to fear from setting some limited rules for voluntary euthanasia .Key B.1.现在迫切需要制定有关安乐死的法律.2.在荷兰,安乐死已经被医疗机构所接受,并于每年公开实施数千次.3.这场有关安乐死的辩论将持续到秋天,直到加利福尼亚人投票表决了一项提议,使安乐死合法化为止.4.许多人认为用所能使用的医疗科技来延长死亡前的痛苦是悲哀的/不高尚的/可怕的.5.这种主动实施与被动使用安乐死的区别还能维持多长时间呢?6.如果他使用足够数量的止痛片来为其实施安乐死就有错了吗?医生采取行动,就应受到遣责吗?。

高级英语第三课课件

Lesson 3⏹Ships in the DesertAl Gore1. Introduction about the authorAl Gore was born in 1948 in Washington D.C., U.S. He has been a Senator (1984-1992) representing the State of Tennessee, and U.S. Vice-President (1992-2000) under President Bill Clinton. He ran for the Presidency against George W. Bush jr. but the latter won the closely tied election and has become the 43rd American President. The text is taken from Al Gore’s book Earth in the Balance Al Gore's profound analysis of where humanity has gone wrong ranges across history, politics, science, economics, psychology, philosophy, and religion.Gore demonstrates that the quality of our air and water is urgently at risk. He clearly illustrates how problems that once were regional have now become global. Gore argues for a worldwide mobilization to save us from disaster.The introduction of the text:Para.1 typical example of environmental destructionthe prospects of a good catch looked bleak:⏹ a good catch did not look promising / hopeful.⏹an understatementthe Aral seaAmerica’s Great Lakesthe group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, between the United States and Canada, •largest body of fresh water in the world• From west to east, they are Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario •HOMES—H stands for Huron, O for Ontario, M for Michigan, E for Erie and S for Superior. comparable:something that is comparable to something else isa) as good as/ as big as/ as important as the other thing;b) similar to the other thinge.g. This dinner is comparable to the best French cooking.to feed it has been diverted in an ill-considered irrigation scheme to grow cotton in the dessert: to flow into the sea has been turned away to irrigate the land created in the desert to grow cotton.⏹The scheme was an ill-conceived one because it failed to take into consideration the ecologicaleffect.Para. 2 thesis statement:My search for the underlying causes of the environmental crisis has let me totravelaroundthe world to check and study cases in order to find out the basic causesbehind the environmental crisisI traveled around the world because I wanted to see, check and study cases of suchdestruction in order to find out the basic causes behind the environmentalcrisis.This sentence expresses the main idea and indicating the development of a causal essay. Trans-Antarctic Mountains⏹Antarctica is icy cold.⏹Trans-Antarctic Mountains divided it into the East Antarctic and West Antarctic subcontinents. China has set up two scientific research stations there: Zongshan Station in the East and Great Wall in the West.the sun glaring at midnight through a hole in the sky•the sun shining at midnight through the ozone depletion•a hole: ozone depletion 臭氧层空洞about the tunnel he was digging through time:•about the tunnel he was drilling for samples from the glacier, which estimates the time.The deeper he drilled, the farther the sample in time;•in other words, the surface of the glacier is an indication of recent time while thedeeper part of the glacier tells of situation of a much more remote period.He moved his finger back in time to the ice of two decades ago:⏹ Following the layers of ice in the core sample, his finger came to the place where the layerof ice was formed 20 years ago.Clean Air Act:⏹ American Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, which is one of the oldest environmentallaws of the U.S. as well as the most far-reaching, the costliest, and the most controversial. two continents⏹South America and Antarctica⏹least accessible place on earth: the place which is the most difficult to get to in the world Para. 3 the global warming seen in the AntarcticWhat’s the cause of the global warming?⏹Began with the industrial revolution,Industry meant coal:⏹the development of industry meant the use of large amount of coal as fuel to generate power. --bringing rising…with its ability …warm the earth:⏹adverbial of result:⏹making the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere grow;⏹heat cannot easily get through carbon dioxide and go into the high altitude so carbon dioxideplays the role of a cover, keeping the heat near the earth.upwind from the ice runaway…scientists monitor the air…to chart the course of that inexorable change:⏹upwind from the ice runaway where the ski plane lands and keeps its engines running so that themetal parts will not be frozen solid, scientists watch the air several times every day to mark the course of that unalterable change.upwind: in the direction from which the wind is blowing or usually blowsto chart the course: to show the onward movement on an outline mapgraph: usually a mathematical diagramPara. 4 a thinning cap as the result of Arctic air warmssnowmobilea kind of motor vehicle for traveling over snow, usually with steer able runners at the front andtractor treads at the rearrendezvous point: the place where a submarine was to pick them up⏹A rendezvous is a place where you have arranged to meet somebody often secretly.to secure the release of previously top secret data:⏹ to ensure the making public of data which was originally classified as top secret .sonar:⏹ [U] (an acronym for sound navigation ranging) an apparatus using sound waves for finding theposition of underwater objects, such as mines or submarines声纳（利用声波探测如水雷或潜艇等的水底目标的仪器）⏹Baiqi dolphins have sonar. Bats have sonar.I was standing …when separate sheets collide:⏹I was standing in the vast scene of snow which was fearfully beautiful, windswept and shiningwhite, with the stretch of ice field characterized by small ridges because of the force of the collision of the separate layers.eerily: mysteriously, especially in such a way as to frighten or disturbsnowscape: scene of snow.cf. landscape and seascape.the consequences of a thinning cap could be disastrous:the result of a thinning cap may indicate the possibilities of disasterscould: the word indicates “possibilities”And why could the thinning of the polar ice cap be disastrous to the world?⏹Because the polar cap plays an important role in the world’s weather system, the consequencesof a thinning cap could bring about dramatic changes in the ecological pattern. For example, it will bring large amount of water which will raise the ocean level and cause some floods. Para. 5 the rising temperature of the earththe pattern of ice distribution… controversial claim:the regular way ice is distributed…a statement which some scientists still do not completely acceptthe Arctic Circle⏹an imaginary line drawn round the world at a certain distance from the most northern point (theNorth Pole), north of which there is no darkness for six months of each year and almost no light for the other six months. cf. the Antarctic Circle⏹tundra: any of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the Arctic regionsPara. 6 the images of destruction at the equatorbillowing:large swelling mass ofbillow v. When smoke or cloud billows, it moves slowly upwards or across the skyAmazon rain forestThe Brazilian Amazon contains about a third of the Earth's remaining tropical forest and a very high portion of its biological diversity. One hectare (2.47 acres) of Amazonian moist forest contains more plant species than all of Europe. Yet still it is being destroyed just like other rainforests around the world.fast pasture for fast-food beef:⏹Bit by bit trees in the rain forest are felled and the land is cleared and turned into pasturewhere cattle can be raised quickly and slaughtered and the beef can be used in hamburgers. ⏹fast pasture for fast-food beef: alliteration⏹Pay attention to the connection of the two “fasts” in fast pasture and fast food. With thatcomes the “fast” disappearance of the rain forest.the dry season:ant. in the wet season—the rainy seasonsimilarly:the football season, the breeding season,the planting season, the holiday season,the harvest season, the cold season,the tourist season, the game season,a season of film⏹in season: Ant. be out of season⏹season v.e.g. season the food with saltwith more than one Tennessee’s worth of rain forestthe area of rain forest burned in one year is bigger than the state of Tennessee.⏹worth: equal in area or size⏹slash: cut with a sweeping strokewe are silencing thousands of songs we have never even heard:⏹ Since miles of forest are being destroyed and the habitat for these rare birds no longer exists,thousands of birds which we have not even had a chance to see will become extinct.How will the destruction of the Amazon rain forest affect the earth’s ecological balance?Fewer rainforests mean less rain, less oxygen for us to breathe, and an increased threat from global warming.Para. 7 images of destruction seen almost anywhereHow are they formed?On some nights … that signals the loss of ecological balance now in progress:⏹On some nights, in the area at a high northern latitude, the sky alone presents another exampleof ill omen showing. There is ecological imbalance and this kind of imbalance is developing.⏹in high northern latitude 在北纬高纬度地区⏹cf. longitude经度This “luminous cloud” occasionally appearswhen the earth is first hidden in the evening darkness; shining unsteadily above us with a partially transparent whiteness, these clouds don’t seem naturalnoctilucent cloud:⏹nocti- means night; lucent means shining, translucent⏹designating or of a luminous cloud visible at night⏹translucent: partially transparentlandfills: garbage disposalmethane is emitted from garbage disposal, from coal mines and rice fields, from billions of termites （白蚁）moving in large numbers through the freshly cut forestland, from the burning of amount of living organism in a particular area and from a variety of other human activities.Even though noctilucent clouds … to the surface far beneath them⏹The implication is that the night comes earlier than the upper part. The balance between day andnight is broken.⏹altitudes: a high area⏹e.g. At high altitudes it is difficult to breathe.Para. 8 human attitudes towards the images of destruction⏹What should we feel toward these ghosts in the sky:⏹What should our attitude be toward these noctilucent clouds in the sky?the mix of emotions we feel at the zoo:⏹the mix of emotions we feel at the zoo: on the one hand we feel excited about seeing those animals,but on the other hand, we feel sorry for them because they have been deprived of freedom.⏹Should it only be a feeling of surprise and admiration or a combination of different feelingswe experience in the zoo?feel awe for our own power:⏹feel amazed and frightened at our own power.upset the balance between daylight and darkness⏹Just as men are killing such large number of elephants for their tusks that the species will soonextinguish, we are using and destroying resources in such a big amount that we are disturbing the balance between daylight and darkness.greenhouse gases⏹gases that will trap heat at the surface of the earth like a greenhouse and ranks third only tocarbon dioxide and water vapor in total volume.⏹This means of all the gases, water vapor occupies the largest portion, carbon dioxide the second.Methane-natural gas, greenhouse gases- the thirdthe chemistry of the upper atmosphere:⏹the chemical composition of the upper atmosphereshouldn’t it startle us… with a spectral light?Or have our eyes … human civilization and the earth?⏹two rhetorical questions⏹it should startle us…;⏹our eyes should not haven adjusted so completely to the bright lights of civilization that wecan’t see….what they are⏹ Or have we been so accustomed to the bright electric lights that we fail to understand thethreatening implication of these clouds—a physical manifestation of the violent collision between human civilization and the earth?⏹we fail to understand that it is a glaring sign of the violent clash between human activity andnature?Para 9. human’s puzzling response⏹Even though it is sometimes hard to see their meaning, we have by now all witnessed surprisingexperiences:⏹to understand the threat of these cloudsWhat are the surprising experiences that signal the damage from our assault on the environment mentioned in the paragraph?⏹ more hot days, quicker sunburn, and more debate on garbage disposing matter.--whether it’s the frequency…with growing mountains of waste:⏹whether it is the fact that recently there are more hot days when the temperature is over 100degrees Fahrenheit (=38 degree Celsius), or the fact the sun burns our skin more quickly in recent times, or the fact that the debate over the way of disposing of the growing amount of waste matter comes up more frequently.But our response to these signals is puzzling:•But our reaction to these signals is so baffling that it is difficult to understand. To come at the question another way:•To approach the question in a different way; to put the question differentlyWhy haven’t we launched a massive effort to save our environment?Why haven’t we started a large-scale movement to save our environment?⏹ Why do some signs so alarm us that we immediately take action and concentrate on ways of dealingwith them effectively?e.g.white pollution, (immediate action: stop producing 。