新编英语教程第四册Text II Unit I Book 4

1. What rattled the hero? Why?
2. What made the manager take the hero for a
detective?
3. How did the manager react when he learned that the
hero only deposit such a small sum of money?
• Threshold is a piece of wood or stone placed beneath a door; a doorsill; An entrance or a doorway.
• cross sb.'s threshold
• cross the threshold
• At/on the threshold of
• More examples of ‘rattle’:
• His wife rattled the dishes in the kitchen. • A train rattled along the track. • The accident rattled me. • They rattled on about this and that
irresistible, irreversible. • More examples: • irresponsible behavior • irresponsible servant • be irresponsible for what one has said • irresponsible accusations.
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II. Words Study.
1. When I go into a band I get rattled. The clerks rattle me; the wickets rattle me; the sight of money rattles me; everything rattles me. (paragraph 1)
6. What does the last paragraph suggest?
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1. What rattled the hero? Why?
‘Get rattled’ means ‘get confused and/or anxious’. When the hero went into a bank, he was rattled: he was rattled by the clerks; he was rattled by the wickets; he was rattled by the sight of money; and he was almost rattled by everything. Because this was the first time that he had ever been in a bank. For him, anything in a bank was unfamiliar and thus confusing. We can safely guess that the hero was a man of the lower class and he had never earned enough money to deposit it in a bank.
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• “Is it deposited?” I asked in a hollow and vibrating voice. (line 52)
• Reckless with misery, I made a plunge. (line 62) ( I withdrew all the fifty-six dollars immediately after I deposited it.)
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4. Please locate in the text the words or expression depicting the hero’s eccentric/odd behavior?
• I shambled in and looked timidly at the clerks. (line 5)
• I gather that a decision has not been reached. • ‘Gather’ used in some other senses: • Dark clouds are gathering.
• The parade gathered a large crowd.
• The manager was unkind and cold, and asked the hero to leave. (line 38,39,43)
• He called in sarcasm to a clerk in a big way that he hero had “fifty-six” dollars to deposit. (line 39)
throughout the afternoon.
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2. The moment I cross the threshold of a bank and attempt to transact business there, I become an irresponsible idiot. (paragraph 2)
• I rushed out of the bank. (line 79)
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5. What did the hero do with his money after this experience?
• Since then he never went to a bank. He kept all his money in his pocket and sock. (the last paragraph)
• My voice was sepulchral. (line 10)
• I was solemn and asked to see the manager for depositing only fifty-six dollars. (line 11)
• I poked the ball of money at the clerk with a quick convulsive movement as if I was doing a conjuring trick. (line 46)
• On hearing that hero would deposit only fiftysix dollars, the manager immediately got up and opened the door, without saying anything to the hero. (line 37)
• In the text the author purposely uses big words to create a humorous effect.
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• ‘irresponsible’ derives from ‘responsible’. • Words with the same construction: • irregular, irrelevance, irremovable,
awful secret to reveal. (line 20) • The hero had a mysterious manner (line
26)
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3. How did the manager react when he learned that the hero only deposit such a small sum of money?
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• ‘Transact’ means to do, carry on, or conduct.
• Examples: • To transact business over the phone; • To transact trade agreements. • Transacting with foreign leaders.
• That the hero banked no more and that he kept his money in cash in his trouser pocket and his savings in coins in a sock imply that he always suffered from impoverishment. As a matter of fact he did need to bank at all because he never had any money to spare. And this also implies that he was leading a miserable life.
• The young boy gathered up his courage.
• The tour guide gathered the visitors in the hotel lobby.
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4.The bank swam before my eyes. (line 51)
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2. What made the manager take the hero for a detective?
• ‘My voice was sepulchral’ (line 10) • The hero was ‘solemn’ and asked to see
the manger ‘alone’ (line 11) • The manager thought the hero had some
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6. What does the last paragraph suggest?
• As the hero rushed out the bank, the big door was swung and the clerks there roared with laughter. They must took him as a poor idiot. The writer implies that the poor were always looked down upon and seemed to be considered foolish by the people outside of the lower class.
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3. He had gathered from my mysterious manner that I was a detective. (line 26)
• ‘gather’ in this context means ‘to conclude; infer’. One more examples:
A New English Course
Level 4 Text II Unit I
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Text II My Financial Career
I. Questions. II. Words Study.
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Text II My Financial Career
I. Read the Text and answer the following questions:
4. Please locate in the text the words or expressions
depicting the hero’s eccentric/odd behavior?
5. What did the hero do with his money after this
experience?