全新版大学英语综合教程2TextAUnit6

1、,B R _ main,An English Song See Who I am,G. I. Joes,Barbie and Ken Dolls,Wiffle-ball,Hybrid Electric Vehicle,B R _ main _ Barbie and Ken Dolls,Barbie and Ken Dolls,A Brief Introduction,Celebration of Barbies 50th Birthday,A Song Barbie Girl,B R _ A brief introduction 1,A brief introduction,Barbie is

2、 a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy-company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959. Ken (also known as Ken Carson) is a Mattel toy doll introduced in 1961 as the fictional boyfriend of toy doll Barbie. Similar to his female counterpart, Ken had a fashionable line of clothing and access

3、ories. Barbie was one of the first toys to,Click the here!,B R _ A brief introduction 1,have a marketing strategy based extensively on television advertising, which has been copied widely by other toys. It is estimated that over a billion Barbie dolls have been sold worldwide in over 150 countries.,

4、Click the here!,Barbie, the blond bombshell with the minuscule waist and long plastic legs, turned 50 on Monday. Barbie fans around the world celebrated their idols birthday with various activities. The city of Hamburg in northern Germany marked Barbies big day in style. The birthday cake came in Ba

5、rbies favorite color, and a Barbie doll looking like German chancellor Angela Merkel was unveiled at the event.,B R _ Celebration of Barbies 50th Birthday 1,Celebration of Barbies 50th Birthday,In Tokyo, Mattel Inc, the worlds No. 1 toy company and maker of Barbie, threw a birthday bash for the 50-y

6、ear-old icon as part of the companys extensive worldwide campaign to promote Barbie. Candles were lit on Barbies birthday cake and Japanese girls dressed up in Barbie-inspired outfits formed another highlight of the celebrations. The famed F.A.O. Schwartz toy store in Manhattan also marked Barbies 5

7、0th birthday. “Growing up she was anything you wanted to be. Growing up, that was so neat to see her in so many different things. She wasnt just pretty. She is so smart that it makes me think I can do anything too, just like Barbie did.”,B R _ Celebration of Barbies 50th Birthday 2,“I just think she

8、s fun. Shes a good toy for kids. There are so many different kinds of Barbies. Every type of girl you were, you could always find the Barbie that matched you.” Barbie hit toy stores in 1959 as a miniature teenage fashion model, wedged into a zebra-striped bathing suit, with her strawberry blond hair

9、 tied up in a pony tail and her eyes painted with sapphire blue shadow. Over the years, Barbie has tried to ditch the blond model stereotype. Shes been reinvented as a modern career woman, and has held more than 75 jobs in addition to being an Olympic athlete, an astronaut and a U.S. presidential ca

10、ndidate.,B R _ Celebration of Barbies 50th Birthday 3,B R _ Celebration of Barbies 50th Birthday _ video,B R _ A Song-Barbie Girl 1,A Song Barbie Girl,Hi? BarbieHi Ken!do you wanna go for a ride?Sure ken.Jump in.Im a Barbie girl, in a Barbie worldLife in plastic, its fantastic.You can brush my hair,

11、 undress me everywhere.Imagination, life is your creation.Come on Barbie, lets go party!,B R _ A Song-Barbie Girl 2,Im a blond bimbo girl, in a fantasy world,Dress me up, make it tight, Im your dolly.Youre my doll, rocknd roll, feel the glamour in pink,Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky panty.You c

12、an touch, you can play, if you say: “ Im always yours” Im a Barbie girl, in a Barbie worldLife in plastic, its fantastic.You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere.Imagination, life is your creation.Come on Barbie, lets go party!,B R _ A Song-Barbie Girl 3,Make me walk, make me talk, do whatever y

13、ou please,I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees.Come jump in, bimbo friend, let us do it again.Hit the town, fool around, lets go partyyou can touch, you can play, if you say:“ Im always yours”you can touch, you can play, if you say:“ Im always yours”Come on Barbie, lets go party!,B R _ A Son

14、g-Barbie Girl 4,Im a Barbie girl, in a Barbie worldLife in plastic, its fantastic.You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere.Imagination, life is your creation.Come on Barbie, lets go party! Oh, Im having so much fun!Well Barbie, we are just getting started.Oh, I love you Ken.,Wiffle-ball is a var

15、iation of the sport of baseball designed for indoor or outdoor play in confined areas. The game is played using a perforated, light-weight, rubbery plastic ball and a long, plastic bat. The Wiffle ball was invented by David N. Mullany of Fairfield, Connecticut in 1953 when he designed a ball that cu

16、rved easily for his 12-year-old son.,Wiffle-ball,S R _ Wiffle-ball,S R _ Wiffle-ball _ picture 1,S R _ Wiffle-ball _ picture 2,S R _ Wiffle-ball _ picture 3,S R _ Wiffle-ball _ picture 4,G.I.JOE中的G.I.是Government Issued的缩写，Government是政府的意思，Issued是Issue的被动形态，意思是政府官方注册登记过的。G.I.两个单词连在一起就是“经政府注册登记过的”，代表这

17、样的人可以使用政府提供的军事装备执行军事命令。而JOE则是一个人名，一个二战时征兵漫画中的美国士兵。因此G.I.Joe就是一个对美国大兵的昵称。后来这一叫法被孩之宝公司制作的兵人玩具所采用，成为了孩之宝旗下的著名品牌，推出了大量的玩具和动画作品。我国在引进G.I.JOE玩具和动画时将其译为“特种部队”,A hybrid vehicle combines a conventional propulsion system with a rechargeable energy storage system (RESS) to achieve better fuel economy than a co

18、nventional vehicle. Ferdinand Porsche in 1900 developed the first hybrid automobile in the world. The hybrid-electric vehicle did not become widely available until the release of the Toyota Prius in Japan in 1997, followed by the Honda Insight in 1999. While initially perceived as unnecessary due to

19、 the low cost of gasoline, worldwide increases in the price of petroleum caused many automakers to release hybrids in the late 2000s; they are now perceived as a core segment of the automotive market of the future.,Hybrid Electric Vehicle,S R _ Hybrid electric vehicle,S R _ Hybrid electric vehicle _

20、 picture 1,S R _ Hybrid electric vehicle _ picture 2,When I was a kid, everything in my bedroom was pink. I have two sisters and we had a complete miniature kitchen, a herd of My Little Ponies and several Barbie and Ken dolls. We didnt have any toy trucks, G. I. Joes or basketballs.,A Woman Can Lear

21、n Anything a Man Can,D R _ Text 1,Carolyn Turk,Carolyn Turk works in a profession that has traditionally been a career for men. Here she talks about how she came to do so and how her success just goes to show that a woman can learn anything a man can.,lot of math and science classes. I also had to w

22、ork with a team of students as part of a national competition to convert a gas-guzzling SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle thats where I learned how to fix cars.,So some people may find it ironic that I grew up to be a mechanical engineer. In fact, I am the only female engineer at my company. In ord

23、er to get my college degree, I had to take a,D R _ Text 2,We did have a Wiffle-ball set, but you would have been hard-pressed to find it in our playroom. Tomboys we werent.,D R _ Text 3,Im proud to say that I got As in all my classes, including multivariable calculus and differential equations. Ive

24、always been pretty good at math and design, but I didnt understand where that could take me. I was expected to go to college, but no one ever told me Id make a good engineer someday. When I was in high school, I didnt know the first thing about engineering. I couldnt have distinguished a transmissio

25、n from an alternator. The car I drove needed some work but I was afraid to take it to the mechanic. Because honestly, the mechanic could have shown me an electric can opener and said, “This is part of your car and its broken pay me to fix it,” and I wouldnt have known any better.,I applied to the pr

26、ogram, not because I wanted to be an engineer, but because I was craving independence and wanted to get out of my parents house for six weeks. I was accepted to the program and I earned six engineering credits. The next year I entered the university as an engineering major. Five years later I had a

27、degree and three decent job offers.,D R _ Text 4,At the end of my junior year of high school, I heard about a summer program designed to interest girls in engineering. The six-week program was free, and students were given college credit and a dorm room at the University of Maryland.,I cant help shu

28、ddering when I hear about studies that show that women are at a disadvantage when it comes to math. They imply that I am somehow abnormal. Im not, but I do know that if I hadnt stumbled into that summer program, I wouldnt be an engineer. When I was growing up I was told, as many students are, to do

29、what I am best at. But I didnt know what that was. Most people think that when you are good at something, it comes easily to you. But this is what I discovered: just because a subject is difficult to learn, it does not mean you are not good at it. You just have to grit your teeth and work harder to

30、get good at it. Once you do, theres a strong chance you will enjoy it more than anything else.,D R _ Text 5,In eighth grade I took algebra. On one test I got only 36 percent of the answers correct. I failed the next one, too. I started to think, Maybe Im just no good at this. I was lucky enough to h

31、ave a teacher who didnt take my bad grades as a judgment of my abilities, but simply as an indication that I should study more. He pulled me aside and told me he knew I could do better. He let me retake the,D R _ Text 6,the tests, and I pulled my grade up to an A.,I studied a lot in college, too. I

32、had moments of panic while sitting underneath the buzzing fluorescent lights in the engineering library on Saturday afternoons, when I worried that the estrogen in my body was preventing me from understanding thermodynamics.,But the guys in my classes had to work just as hard, and I knew that I coul

33、dnt afford to lose confidence in myself. I didnt want to choose between my femininity and a good career.,D R _ Text 7,Why are we so quick to limit ourselves? Im not denying that most little girls love dolls and most little boys love videogames, and it may be true that some people favor the right sid

34、e,side of their brain, and others the left. But how relevant is that to me, or to anyone, as an individual?,So I reminded myself that those studies, the ones that say that math comes more naturally to men, are based on a faulty premise: that you can judge a persons abilities separate from the cultur

35、al cues that she has received since she was an infant. No man is an island. No woman is, either.,D R _ Text 8,Instead of translating our differences into hard and fast conclusions about the human brain, why cant we focus instead on how incredibly flexible we are? Instead of using what we know as a r

36、eason why women cant learn physics, maybe we should consider the possibility that our brains are more powerful than we imagine. Heres a secret: math and science dont come easily to most people. No one was ever born knowing calculus. A woman can learn anything a man can, but first she needs to know t

37、hat she can do it, and that takes a leap of faith. It also helps to have selective hearing.,D R _ Text 9,D R _ Sentence 1,1. Translate this sentence into Chinese.,我们确实有一套空心棒球，但是很难在我们的游戏室找到。,We did have a Wiffle-ball set, but you would have been hard-pressed to find it in our playroom.,2. Analyze the

38、 sentence pattern.,This sentence is a concessive clause with an emphatic “did”. For example: 1) We did surf the Internet for necessary information, but we didnt find anything significant. 2) Contemporary women do enjoy lots of rights, but complete gender equality is still a dream to be realized.,D R

39、 _ Sentence 2,1. Paraphrase the sentence.,We werent boyish girls.,Tomboys we werent.,2. Analyze the sentence pattern.,这个句子是个倒装句，起到的是强调“tomboys”这个宾语的作用。倒装句有很多用法。 例如：Little did he say at the meeting. Out rushed the girl. So happy did he feel. Playboys they werent.,D R _ Sentence 3,1. What does “work”

40、here refer to?,It refers to necessary repair or maintenance the car needed.,The car I drove needed some work but I was afraid to take it to the mechanic.,2. Why was the author afraid to do so?,Because she didnt know anything about engineering, not to mention how to fix a car.,I cant help shuddering

41、when I hear about studies that show that women are at a disadvantage when it comes to math.,D R _ Sentence 4,1. Translate this sentence into Chinese.,听到有研究表明女性学数学处于劣势，我不禁不寒而栗。,2. Why did the author shudder?,Because the studies clearly indicate that a normal woman cant beat a man in the aspect of mat

42、h, only abnormal ones could do well in math, but the author is really good at math.,D R _ Sentence 5 _ 1,1. Analyze this sentence.,once “一旦”, 表示时间和条件。例如： Once you understand this rule, you will have no further difficulty. Once you decide to take action, there is nothing you will be afraid of.,Once y

43、ou do, theres a strong chance you will enjoy it more than anything else.,2. Translate this sentence into Chinese.,一旦你学好了，你就很可能喜欢上它，从中得到无与伦比的乐趣。,D R _ Sentence 5 _ 2,3. In your opinion, what kind of enjoyment could the author gain from this process?,Open-ended. Tips: a sense of accomplishments a stro

44、ng sense of self-confidence,D R _ Sentence 6 _1,1. What does the part “the estrogen in my body was preventing me from understanding thermodynamics” refer to?,This part means being a woman may prevent the author from understanding a subject which is usually regarded as a male subject.,I had moments o

45、f panic while sitting underneath the buzzing fluorescent lights in the engineering library on Saturday afternoons, when I worried that the estrogen in my body was preventing me from understanding thermodynamics.,D R _ Sentence 6_ 2,2. Translate this sentence into Chinese.,星期六下午坐在工程图书馆吱吱作响的荧光灯下学习时，我也

46、有过恐惧的时候，担心我体内的雌激素妨碍我理解热动力学。,D R _ Sentence 7 _ 1,1. What does “No man is an island” refer to?,This statement was said by an English poet named John Donne, which means no one can live an isolated life without being affected by others.,No man is an island. No woman is, either.,2. What does “No woman i

47、s, either” mean?,In this sentence, by changing the famous quotation, the author consciously ignores the fact that “man” refers to all the human beings, the author focuses on “woman”.,D R _ Sentence 7 _ 2,3. Can you make an example by using this technique?,Open-ended. For example: There is no perfect

48、 man in the world, not to mention a perfect woman.,D R _ Sentence 8 _1,1. What does “cultural cues” refer to?,Cultural cues refer to indirect suggestions as to how to behave appropriately picked up through observing others, in short, exterior atmosphere or nurture.,So I reminded myself that those st

49、udies, that she has received since she was an infant.,2. What do the studies indicate?,They indicate that a womans ability is dependent on her nature, not on her nurture or her efforts.,D R _ Sentence 8 _2,3. Translate the sentence into Chinese.,因此我提醒自己，宣称男性天生更能学好数学的研究是基于一个错误的前提，那就是认为人们可以脱离一个人从孩提时代就

50、受到的社会的文化熏陶而径直判断她的能力。,Im not denying that but 这个句型意思是“不能否认但是”例如： Im not denying that Internet provides us with a virtual free access to countless information, but its obvious disadvantages should not be neglected. 与此类同的句型还有： There is no denying that but No one can deny the fact that but ,D R _ Senten

51、ce 9,Analyze the sentence structure.,Im not denying that most little girls love dolls and most little boys love videogames, and it may be true that some people favor the right side of their brain, and others the left. But how relevant is that to me, or to anyone, as an individual?,D R _ Sentence 10,

52、1. What does “takes a leap of faith” mean?,It refers to “taking the risk of being wrong”.,A woman can learn anything a man can, but first she needs to know that she can do it, and that takes a leap of faith. It also helps to have selective hearing.,2. What does “selective hearing” mean?,It means tha

53、t when people give your advice, you should decide by yourself on which one you would follow or ignore.,3. Translate the sentence into Chinese.,但是女人首先需要知道她能学会，而这需要有敢冒风险而为的精神，同时听别人的话也得有所选择才行。,D R _ word _ ironic 1,ironic: adj. humorously sarcastic or mocking,It is sadly ironic that in these modern tim

54、es it still takes weapons to prevent war.,我如此拼命要守住的这个秘密，却被他们这么漫不经心的对待。,How ironic is it to have something I tried so desperately to keep secret treated so casually.,D R _ word _ ironic 2,CF:,这三个词都是形容词, 都有“讽刺的”之意。,sarcastic, satiric approval; recognition,1),recognition by a college or university that

55、 a course of studies has been successfully completed,2),Our music teacher will give us extra credit if we write a report on the performance.,She was given the credit for what I had done.,D R _ word _ credit 2,该商店改变了人们对网上购物的看法，赢得了大家的信任。,We believe our good credit and products with high quality would

56、win your trust.,belief or confidence in the truth of sth.,3),The store has received credit for changing peoples opinions about buying over the Internet.,Collocation:,为增光,be a credit to sb.,对表示肯定,give sb. credit,值得表扬,deserve credit,We should not only know the theory but also be aware of how to apply

57、it in practice.,D R _ word _ apply,apply:,If you do have difficulty in finance, you can apply for student loans.,1) vi. make a formal request,2) vt. put to or adapt for a special use,他以极大的热情投入到新的工作中去。,He applied himself to his new duties with great energy.,Whoever has interest in it can apply for me

58、mbership.,D R _ word _ crave,crave: v. have a strong desire for sth.,The tired old man craved for rest.,All the men present are not hesitant to give her the admirations she craves.,We must provide decent housing for the poor.,D R _ word _ decent 1,decent: adj.,The hospital has no decent equipment.,第

59、一次见面时得体的衣着会给人留下好印象。,proper; acceptable,1),not likely to shock or embarrass others; modest,2),A decent dressing at first meeting will leave a good impression.,That one isnt decent. You should wear an evening dress, not a pair of jeans.,D R _ word _ decent 2,在那家公司工作挺不错。,Theyre a decent firm to work for.,satisfactory; quite good,3),A decent job, an affectionate wife and several lovely kids are all that a man dreams of and strives for.,D R _ word _ disadvantage,disadvantage: n. the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position,His lack of educat