新概念英语补充练习2

Unit 3 Book 2

I.重点难句

1.(para.2)For every writer kissed by fortune, there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded.

“For each/every” is used to say that each of one kind of thing has or will have something of another kind. More examples:

For every five people who agree, you will find five who won’t.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. For every plus there is a minus.

For every complex problem, there is a solution simple and wrong.

翻译：极少数作家被幸运之神眷顾，然而数以千计的人心中的渴望从未被满足。

2. (para.4) This is the Shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there

The rhetoric device (修辞手法) used in “Shadowland of hope” is metaphor (隐喻). More examples: the devil of anger

翻译：这是希望的阴影地带，每个有梦的人必须学会在那里安居。

3. (para.5) It was the opposite, a kind of siren call tempting me to give up my dream. “siren”原指海上的女妖，以美妙的歌声诱惑水手丧命。 翻译：这个电话像海妖的歌声，诱使我放弃梦想。

4. (para.5）He had once lent me a few bucks and liked to egg me about it. “Buck” is an informal expression. Its formal counterpart is “dollar.” 翻译：他借过一点钱给我，时不时拿出来说一下这事。

5.(para.10)There Alex, I said to myself. There’s everything you’ve made of yourself so far. I’m not sure I ever felt so low.

翻译：我对自己说，看吧，亚历克斯，这就是你的全部家当了。我觉得前所未有的沮丧。

6.(para16)These were stories that black Americans had tended to avoid before, and so I mostly kept them to myself.

翻译：以前，美国黑人对这些问题避而不谈，所以我也很少向人谈起。

7. (para.18) For the first time I had money and open doors everywhere The rhetoric device used here is metaphor (隐喻)

翻译：平生第一次，我有钱了，机会之门处处向我敞开。

II. Useful expressions.

Directions: use the expressions in Chinese as a checkpoint to see if you have a good command of the texts in Unit 3.

1. 有……的希望 2. 在多数情况下

3. 满足某人心中的渴望 4. 长期无人问津 5. 假如

6. 诱使某人做某事 7. 还清债务 8. 作为兼职 9. 上涌；涌出

10. 提出，拿出；想出（计划、答复等） 11. 把……塞进 12. 到目前为止 13. 马上

14. 开一家生意清淡的餐馆 15. 楷模 16. 做出牺牲 17. 吸取教训 18. 公民权利 19. 保守秘密

20. 追溯某事至…… 21. 收拾行李

22. 在某种意义上；在一定程度上 23. 遇见，碰上 24. （大量）涌来 25. 处境艰难 26. 坚持到底

Keys:

1. stand a chance of 2. in most cases

3. reward one’s longing 4. long periods of neglect 5. what if

6. temptsb to do 7. pay off debts 8. on the side 9.well up

10. come up with 11. jam… into… 12. so far 13. right away

14. run a struggling restaurant 15. role model 16. make sacrifices

17. absorb the lesson 18. civil rights 19. keep to oneself 20.trace.. to… 21. pack up

22. in a /one sense 23. come across 24. flood in

25. be (hard) pressed to do sth. 26. stay the course

III. Compound dictation.

Directions: You will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 1 to 7 with the exact words you have just heard. For the blanks numbered from 8 to 10, you are required to fill in the missing information. You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

Rootsattracted public attention on one of the most 1_____chapters of American history, and yet it was read — and in its television 2_____, watched --- by millions of Americans, both black and white. In addition to treating the obvious subjects of3______, black identity, and the power of 4_____history, Roots celebrates resiliency, the triumph of human spirit over 5 ____, and the strength of family connections, both within and across 6 _____. .

Families work together to protect their members. Children are taught that principles are worthy of 7 ____. Ancestral memories are preserved and passed on through the telling of stories to children, 8 __________________________________________________________. These themes cross racial and ethnic boundaries and help account for the book’s immense popularity. At the time of its publication, Roots was called “9 __________________________________________ ” by Vernon Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League.

10______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Keys: 1.painful 2. series 3. slavery 4. oral 5. cruelty 6. generations 7. risk

8. and humankind’s universal search for its identity is given a personal face

9. the single most spectacular educational experience in race relations in America”

10.Thecreative revelation of one family’s story opened doors that had long been locked, in individual families and in American culture as a whole.

IV. Cloze.

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the appropriate words

In one way of thinking, failure is part of life. In another way, failure may be a way towards 1 _______.The “spider story”is often told. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scotland in the 13th-14th centuries was once hiding himself in a cave 2________the enemy. He watched a spider 3 ______ a web. The spider tries to cross a place in the rock. She tried six times, six times she 4______. On the seventh time, however, she made it and went to weave her web. Bruce was said to have been 5 ______to defeat the enemy.

So what? First, think about your 6 ______.What caused it? What can be changed so that things may go right next time?

Second, is the 7______ you are trying to reach the right one? Try to find out what your real dreams may be. Think about this question, “If I do succeed, where will it bring me?” This may help you prevent failure in what you needn’t do anyway.

The third thing to 8_______in mind about failure is that it’s part of life. Learn to “live with yourself” even if you fail. Remember “You can’t win all the time.”

Keys:

1. success 2. from 3. weaving 4. failed

5. encouraged 6. failure 7. goal 8. bear

V. Writing.

Direction: choose either topic to write a little piece of writing of 60 words.

1 Time management skills are a valuable tool for success at school Plan your week and write down one of your weekly schedules.

2 Discover your preferred learning style. Summarize the study methods that work best for you. Do support your point with arguments.

3Do you have a role modle?Summarize the characteristics that lead to the person’s success.

VI. 谚语名言

1. Self-trust is the first secret of success. 自信是成功的第一秘诀。

2. Success belongs to the persevering. 成功属于有恒心的人。

3.Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success. 自信是走向成功的第一步。

4. The most glorious moment in your life are not the so called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. — Gustave Flaubert, French writer

你的一生中，最为辉煌的时刻并不是功成名就的那些天，而是从悲叹与绝望中产生对人生的挑战和对未来辉煌的期盼的那些日子。 —— 法国作家 G?福楼拜

VII．About the author

Directions: Listen to the recording about the author.

Haley, Alex Palmer (1921~1992), was an American biographer, scriptwriter and novelist. Hewas born in 1921 in Ithaca, New York. As a young boy, Alex Haley first learned of his African ancestor, KuntaKinte, by listening to the family stories of his maternal grandparents while spending his summers in Henning, Tennessee. Haley’s writing career began after he entered the U.S. Coast Guard in 1939. He retired from the military after 20 years of service, and then continued writing. Out of the service, he tried his hand at journalism in the private sector. Around 1965, his thoughts turned back to the family story of the African slave that he heard as a child. The completed version of Roots was placed on bookshelves in 1976. Roots won in 1977 the National Book Award and a special Pulitzer Prize. Other Haley publications include A Different Kind of Christmas, Mama Flora’s Family, etc. Haley died of heart attack in 1992in Seattle.