阅读教程2 unit 1

Win-win Strategy

Paragraph 1 :

If you don’t know the meanings of “ream” and “resolve”, how do you deal with them respectively?

Paragraph 2:

Analyze the sentence structure and paraphrase the first sentence of paragraph 2.

Paragraph 3:

Try to summarize the strategies Fisher and Ury recommend in order to create a win-win environment.

Paragraph 4:

•Paraphrase the sentence “Sandwich your negative ideas in positive statements” and give an example to illustrate it.

•If you don’t know the meaning of “concession” and “collaboratively”, how do you deal with them respectively?

Don’t Call Me Names

Paragraph 1 :

If you don’t know the meaning of “poke” in the last sentence, how do you deal with it?

Paragraph 3 :

How do you get the meaning of the phrase “cut…out”?

Paragraph 5 :

If you don’t know the meanings of “dummy” and “grouchy”, how do you deal with them respectively?

Paragraph 7 :

How do you deal with the adverb “haltingly”?

For the whole passage:

Retell the strategies the teacher used to ease the conflicts in a few sentences. What would happen, if the teacher had blamed the ticket collector first?

How to Get Their Attention

Paragraph 2 :

If you don’t know the meanings of “irate” and “hysterical”, how do you deal with them respectively?

Paragraph 4 :

•Can you guess the me aning of “deposit” from the context?

•What did the author want to get from that big amount of money, the money itself or anything else?

For the whole passage:

Please retell the strategy the author used in a few sentences.

How Well Can We Listen?

Paragraph 2 :

What does the first “it” refer to in the sentence “though there might be room for hesitation in the adoption of it when generation is taken into account, it is far from wrong to borrow the rest in making an analysis.” And try to paraphrase the whole sentence

Paragraph 4 :

How do you deal with the word “physiological”?

For the whole passage:

•Try to find out the topic sentence in each paragraph. If there’s no topic sentence, please summarize the main idea yourself.

•How does the author develop his idea? Please tell out the outline of this piece of argumentative writing.

Post-reading

Write down the main idea of the whole passage.