新视角研究生英语读说写1及课后答案
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certain time or date) ▪ The shuttle bus is due in 15 minutes.
▪ If you want to improve our dishwashers, give us one that senses when people leave dirty dishes on the kitchen counter…(Para. 4)
agreed to accept his resignation. 2) (of payment) required at a certain time ▪ The wage due to them will be paid no later
than tomorrow. 3) (to be) expected; appointed or agreed (for a
▪ Bearing my respect for the appliance manufacturers in Baidu Nhomakorabeay mind, I frankly want to know if they are crazy.
due: adj
1) suitable, right, proper ▪ After due consideration, the committee
▪ Dave has also written a total of 25 books, although virtually none of them contain useful information.
▪ In his spare time, Dave is a candidate for president of the United States. If elected, his highest priority will be to seek the death penalty for whoever is responsible for making Americans install low-flow toilets.
hometown. We are all so controlled, and this is insane.
▪ …you could have a home where the dishwasher “can be turned on from the office” … “transmits your weight to the gym.” (Para. 2)
transmit
V. pass or hand on; send on ▪ The survivors of the shipwreck transmitted a
distress signal every hour.
▪ I frankly wonder whether the appliance manufacturers, with all due respect, have been smoking crack. (Para. 3)
▪ If you want to make dishwashers more advanced, give us a dishwasher which will automatically realize that there are some dirty dishes left by the owner on the kitchen counter, and then give some signal.
Language Points
▪ How the appliance manufacturers plan to drive consumers insane. (Para. 1)
▪ How the appliance makers are making us mad.
insane
adj. mad, senseless. ▪ We never do anything like this in our
▪ You could live in a home in which you can turn on the dishwasher when you are working, and the fridge will tell you when there is no milk inside, and your weight will be sent to the gym when you weigh yourself on the bathroom scale.
Unit Five
Remote Control
Background Information
▪ About the author and the text ▪ The Washington Post
About the author and the text
▪ This classic Dave Barry Column was originally published on Feb. 27, 2000 in the Miami Herald. For 25 years Dave Barry has been a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad. In 1988, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
The Washington Post
▪ The newspaper is one of the city’s oldest papers, first published in 1877.
▪ Perhaps the most notable incident in the Post’s history was when, in the early 1970s, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein began the media’s investigation of Watergate. This played a major role in the undoing of the Nixon presidency.
▪ If you want to improve our dishwashers, give us one that senses when people leave dirty dishes on the kitchen counter…(Para. 4)
agreed to accept his resignation. 2) (of payment) required at a certain time ▪ The wage due to them will be paid no later
than tomorrow. 3) (to be) expected; appointed or agreed (for a
▪ Bearing my respect for the appliance manufacturers in Baidu Nhomakorabeay mind, I frankly want to know if they are crazy.
due: adj
1) suitable, right, proper ▪ After due consideration, the committee
▪ Dave has also written a total of 25 books, although virtually none of them contain useful information.
▪ In his spare time, Dave is a candidate for president of the United States. If elected, his highest priority will be to seek the death penalty for whoever is responsible for making Americans install low-flow toilets.
hometown. We are all so controlled, and this is insane.
▪ …you could have a home where the dishwasher “can be turned on from the office” … “transmits your weight to the gym.” (Para. 2)
transmit
V. pass or hand on; send on ▪ The survivors of the shipwreck transmitted a
distress signal every hour.
▪ I frankly wonder whether the appliance manufacturers, with all due respect, have been smoking crack. (Para. 3)
▪ If you want to make dishwashers more advanced, give us a dishwasher which will automatically realize that there are some dirty dishes left by the owner on the kitchen counter, and then give some signal.
Language Points
▪ How the appliance manufacturers plan to drive consumers insane. (Para. 1)
▪ How the appliance makers are making us mad.
insane
adj. mad, senseless. ▪ We never do anything like this in our
▪ You could live in a home in which you can turn on the dishwasher when you are working, and the fridge will tell you when there is no milk inside, and your weight will be sent to the gym when you weigh yourself on the bathroom scale.
Unit Five
Remote Control
Background Information
▪ About the author and the text ▪ The Washington Post
About the author and the text
▪ This classic Dave Barry Column was originally published on Feb. 27, 2000 in the Miami Herald. For 25 years Dave Barry has been a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad. In 1988, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
The Washington Post
▪ The newspaper is one of the city’s oldest papers, first published in 1877.
▪ Perhaps the most notable incident in the Post’s history was when, in the early 1970s, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein began the media’s investigation of Watergate. This played a major role in the undoing of the Nixon presidency.