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1、Read and Explore Unit 6 Attitudes to Life Get Started Listen and Respond Optional Classroom Activities Enhance Your Language Awareness 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Unit 6Get Started 2 Watching and DiscussionDiscussionQuotes Work in pairs or groups and discuss the following questions. 1. Have you ever exper

2、ienced any difficult time in your life? Please say something about it. 2. What do you think is the right attitude towards problems in ones life? 3. What qualities do you think one should possess to survive tough times? 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Unit 6Get Started 3 DiscussionQuotes Watching and Discussio

3、n Study the following quotes about attitudes towards life and discuss in pairs what you can learn from them. 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Unit 6Get Started 4 DiscussionQuotes Watching and Discussion Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston Churchill Interpretation: By this quote, Chu

4、rchill stresses the importance of attitude towards life. We can choose to focus on negative thoughts that leave us feeling insecure, frightened and cynical, or we can choose to focus on positive thoughts that give us courage, strength, and hope. It is attitude that makes the difference. Click Pictur

5、e 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Unit 6Get Started 5 DiscussionQuotes Watching and Discussion Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. Lou Holtz Interpretation: We all have troubles and problems. Some people take a positive attitude towards adversities in life while o

6、thers respond to them negatively. Your happiness and success depend largely on how you respond to what happens to you. Click Picture 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Unit 6Get Started 6 DiscussionQuotes Watching and Discussion Interpretation: We can reshape our lives by changing our attitudes. Human beings, by

7、 changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. William James Click Picture 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Unit 6Get Started 7 DiscussionQuotes Watching and Discussion Interpretation: We tend to be bothered too much and for t o o l o n g b y o u r f a i l u r e s a

8、n d disappointments, so much so that we dont see in good time the new opportunity that has already opened its door to us. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller Click Picture

9、 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Unit 6Get Started 8 Watching and DiscussionDiscussionQuotes click here Forrest Gump is a 1994 American epic romantic comedy- drama film. The story depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump, a nave and slow-witted yet athletically prodigious native of Alabama who witn

10、esses, and in some cases influences, some of the defining events of the latter half of the 20th century in the United States; more specifically, the period between Forrests birth in 1944 and 1982. 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Unit 6Get Started 9 Watching and DiscussionDiscussionQuotes Watch the following v

11、ideo clip “Forrest Gump” and then complete the tasks that follow: click hereclick hereclick here 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Unit 6Get Started 10 Watching and DiscussionDiscussionQuotes video 1.Fill in the missing words according to what you hear from the video clip. Death is just a part of life. Somethin

12、g were all destined to do. I didnt know it, but I be your mama. I did the best I could. You did good, Mama. Well, I believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best with what . Whats my destiny, Mama? Youre going to have to for yourself. Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You what you a

13、re going to get. was destined to happen to God gave you figure that out never know _ _ _ _ _ click here click here 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Unit 6Get Started 11 Watching and DiscussionDiscussionQuotes 2. Discuss the topic with your group members: How do you view destiny and death in your life? (Open.)

14、click here Unit 6Listen and Respond 12 Word BankTask One Task Two 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 unpredictable a. that cannot be predicted 无法预言的，不可预测的 negativity n. fml a tendency to consider only the bad side of sth. / sb.正 式否定（性）；消极（性） up against having to face or deal with 面临 self-motivated a. being keen

15、to do sth. or achieve sth. without being told to do so 自我激励的，有工作激情的 Unit 6Listen and Respond 13 Task One Word Bank 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Task Two Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences according to the information contained in the listening passage. Unit 6Listen and Respo

16、nd 14 Task One Word Bank 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Task Two 1. What is the main idea of the passage? A) Being positive can increase the quality of our life. B) Being positive can help us control our moods. C) Being positive can help us look honestly at the reality. D) Being positive gives people more op

17、portunities. Unit 6Listen and Respond 15 Task One Word Bank 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Task Two 2. What can we control and change according to the speaker? A) We can control a whole cycle of negativity. B) We can control our moods and change our attitude. C) We can change our work project and be better o

18、ff. D) We can change the quality of our life. Unit 6Listen and Respond 16 Task One Word Bank 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Task Two 3. What do the two examples the speaker cites intend to illustrate? A)They intend to illustrate different ways to start each day. B) They intend to illustrate the importance of

19、 having an opportunity. C) They intend to illustrate different ways to answer the same question. D) They intend to illustrate the importance of having a positive attitude. Unit 6Listen and Respond 17 Task One Word Bank 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Task Two 4. What choice do people have to make every day ac

20、cording to the speaker? A) To see if the glass is empty or full. B) To finish the work project today or tomorrow. C) To finish the work project in the morning or in the afternoon. D) To see the positive or the negative side of a thing. Unit 6Listen and Respond 18 Task One Word Bank 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综

21、合教程4 Task Two 5. How do self-motivated people look at their work? A)They love their work and are eager to look for new opportunities. B) They make a choice every morning when they get out of bed. C) They love their work and are eager to get to work every day. D) They always try to finish their work

22、before the deadline. Unit 6Listen and Respond 19 Task TwoWord BankTask One 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Listen to the recording again and fill in each of the blanks according to what you have heard. Unit 6Listen and Respond 20 Task TwoWord BankTask One 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 left Heres another example. You

23、have a big work 1) due on the bosss desk tomorrow morning. You are up against a 2) . And you are half- done. Now there are two ways to look at the project. You can worry about all the work still 3) for you to do. Or you can tell yourself that half of it is already done, and you are certainly 4) than

24、 when you first started the project. deadline better off project _ _ _ _ Unit 6Listen and Respond 21 Task TwoWord BankTask One 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Thats your choice: is the glass 5) or half- full? Thats the 6) we have to make every morning when we get out of bed. Looking honestly at the reality of

25、 the 7) and seeing the 8) of it may indeed increase the quality of our life. 9) people look at each day as a new 10) . They love what they do. They cannot wait to get to work in the morning. choice situation half-empty positive _ _ _ _ Self-motivated_ opportunity _ Unit 6Read and Explore Text A Disc

26、overing the Main IdeasIn-Depth StudyVoicing Your Views 22 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 1. What is the insight the author gained from his experience in hospital? 2. What are the two truths to live by according to the author? 3. Can most people hold fast to the gifts of life according to the author? 4. How s

27、hould we look at the paradox of life according to the author? 5. What suggestions does the author make to resolve the paradox? Exercise 1: Answer the following questions with the information contained in Text A. Unit 6Read and Explore Text A Discovering the Main IdeasIn-Depth StudyVoicing Your Views

28、 23 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Exercise 2: Text A can be divided into three parts with the paragraph number(s) of each part provided as follows. Write down the main idea of each part. Unit 6Read and Explore Text A Discovering the Main IdeasIn-Depth StudyVoicing Your Views 24 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 PartPar

29、as.Main Ideas I1-8 II9-11 III12-16 Life has two opposite poles: one is to hold fast to life and the other is to let go of it. They seem to be contradictory to each other but they coexist well. The author draws on his personal experience and tells us that the gifts of life are precious, but most of u

30、s fail to hold fast to life and appreciate its beauty. Just as every coin has two sides, so does life. To accept our losses and learn when to let go is the other side of life. So we should not hold so fast to life that we cannot let it go. Life means more than mere existence. It is an ever- changing

31、 process. Life will go on no matter what happens. We must look at it from a wider perspectives and learn to apply the two paradoxical truths to our everyday life. Unit 6Read and Explore Text A Discovering the Main IdeasIn-Depth Study 25 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Voicing Your Views Life is a long journey

32、. Some walk with joy and fulfillment, others with bitterness and regret. If you could live by the two truths discussed in the following essay, your journey would be more meaningful and rewarding. Unit 6Read and Explore Text A Discovering the Main IdeasIn-Depth Study 26 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Voicing

33、Your Views 2 Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wonderful, and full of a beauty. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly realize that it is no more. 1 The art of living is to know when

34、to hold fast and when to let go. An ancient man said long ago: “A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.” Two Truths to Live By Alexander M. Schindler Unit 6Read and Explore Text A Discovering the Main IdeasIn-Depth Study 27 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Voicing

35、Your Views 4 A recent experience re-taught me this truth. I was hospitalized following a severe heart attack and had been in intensive care for several days. It was not a pleasant place. 3 We remember a beauty that faded, a love that withered. But we remember with far greater pain that we did not se

36、e that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered. Unit 6Read and Explore Text A Discovering the Main IdeasIn-Depth Study 28 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Voicing Your Views 6 I looked to see whether anyone else relished the suns golden glow, but everyone was hurrying

37、to and fro, most with eyes fixed on the ground. Then I remembered how often I, too, had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the great beauty of it all. 5 One morning, I had to have some additional tests. The required

38、 machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital, so I had to be wheeled across the courtyard in a chair. As we emerged from our unit, the sunlight hit me. Thats all there was to my experience. Just the light of the sun. And yet how beautiful it was how warming; how sparkling

39、; how brilliant! Unit 6Read and Explore Text A Discovering the Main IdeasIn-Depth Study 29 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Voicing Your Views 9 Hold fast to life, but not so fast that you cannot let go. This is the second side of lifes coin, the opposite pole of its paradox: we must accept our losses, and lea

40、rn how to let go. 8 Here then is the first pole of lifes paradoxical demands on us: Never too busy for the wonder and the awe of life. Be respectful before each dawning day. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute. 7 The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the ex

41、perience itself: lifes gifts are precious but we are too careless of them. Unit 6Read and Explore Text A Discovering the Main IdeasIn-Depth Study 30 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Voicing Your Views 10 This is not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to comma

42、nd, that whatever we desire with the full force of our passion can, and will be ours. But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this second truth dawns upon us. Unit 6Read and Explore Text A Discovering the Main IdeasIn-Depth Study 31 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Voicin

43、g Your Views 11 At every stage of life we sustain losses and grow in the process. We begin our independent lives only when we come to this world. We enter schools, then we leave our mothers and fathers and our childhood homes. We get married and have children and then have to let them go. We confron

44、t the death of our parents and our spouses. We face the gradual or not so gradual weakening of our own strength. And ultimately, we must confront the inevitability of our own death, losing ourselves, as it were, all that we were or dreamed to be. Unit 6Read and Explore Text A Discovering the Main Id

45、easIn-Depth Study 32 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Voicing Your Views 13 In order to resolve this paradox, we must seek a wider perspective, viewing our lives as through windows that open on eternity. Once we do that, we realize that though our lives are finite, our deeds on earth weave a timeless pattern.

46、12 But why should we be reconciled to lifes contradictory demands? Why fashion things of beauty when beauty is short-lived? Why give our heart in love when those we love will ultimately be torn from our grasp? Unit 6Read and Explore Text A Discovering the Main IdeasIn-Depth Study 33 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）

47、综合教程4 Voicing Your Views 15 Dont spend and waste your lives accumulating objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. Pursue not so much the material as the ideal, for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth. 14 Life is never just being. It is a becoming, a relentless flowi

48、ng on. Our parents live on through us, and we will live on through our children. The institutions we build endure, and we will endure through them. The beauty we fashion cannot be dimmed by death. Our flesh may perish, our hands will wither, but the beauty and goodness and truth they create live on

49、for all time to come. Unit 6Read and Explore Text A Discovering the Main IdeasIn-Depth Study 34 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Voicing Your Views 16 Add love to a house and you have a home. Add righteousness to a city and you have a community. Add truth to a pile of red brick and you have a school. Add justi

50、ce to the far-flung round of human endeavor and you have civilization. Put them all together, elevate them above their present imperfections, add to them the vision of humankind redeemed, forever free of need and conflict and you have a future lighted with the radiant colors of hope. Unit 6Read and

51、Explore Text A Voicing Your Views 35 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 In-Depth StudyDiscovering the Main Ideas In Text A, the author says that it is not easy to learn the second truth: we must accept our losses, and learn to let go. How do you understand the second truth? Work in pairs or groups and voice your

52、 views. The following questions may help you develop your ideas: 1. What do “losses” here refer to? 2. What can we learn from the second truth? 3. Do you think it is difficult to learn the second truth? 4. Could you give an example to illustrate the second truth? (Open.) Unit 6Read and Explore Text

53、B Key Words and ExpressionsDifficult Sentences Comprehension Questions 36 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Key Words for Text B skiabandonfaithfulintegrity exemplifydynamiccommitgrain gratitudeaspirationnourishmentheroic triumphvictoriousdry cleaningfulfillment barefoot Unit 6Read and Explore Text B Key Words

54、and ExpressionsDifficult Sentences Comprehension Questions 37 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Expressions for Text B keep ones word step aside live over set out to do work at Unit 6Read and Explore Text B Key Words and ExpressionsDifficult Sentences 38 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Comprehension Questions 1. Although

55、 I have no hopes of ever skiing that way, I do dream of living with abandon. (Para. 1) 2) Make a sentence with the italicized structure. Although Im not on good terms with him, I do hope he could recover from his illness. 1) Translate this sentence into Chinese. 虽然我从不幻想我能够像他那样滑雪，但我的确向往能尽情地 生活。 Unit

56、6Read and Explore Text B Key Words and ExpressionsDifficult Sentences 39 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Comprehension Questions 2. They say he should step aside and leave the running of the nation to more dynamic and capable men. (Para. 3) 2) Paraphrase the sentence. They say that Churchill should resign and

57、 leave the opportunity of leading the nation to those who are younger, more energetic and more capable. 1) Translate this sentence into Chinese. 他们说他应该让位，把掌管国家的大权交给更有朝气、更有能 力的人。 Unit 6Read and Explore Text B Key Words and ExpressionsDifficult Sentences 40 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Comprehension Question

58、s You will become inseparable in the lives of your family, friends and colleagues if you show your gratitude and encouragement to them and devote your time and energy to helping them fulfill their aspirations. 3. You can build into the lives of your family, friends and colleagues by providing nutrie

59、nts of gratitude and encouragement, and by investing your time and energy in their aspirations. (Para. 6) 2) Paraphrase the sentence. 1) Translate this sentence into Chinese. 如果你想融入自己的家人、朋友和同事的生活之中，你就该 给他们提供土壤，让他们学会感恩和鼓励别人。你还要投入 时间和精力帮助他们实现自己的愿望。 Unit 6Read and Explore Text B Key Words and Expressio

60、nsDifficult Sentences 41 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4 Comprehension Questions 4. The pages of history are filled with the heroic stories of brave men and women who triumphed over disabilities and adversities to demonstrate victorious spirits. (Para. 8) 2) Make a sentence with the italicized structure. 1) T