新世界大学英语读写教程4UNIT

1、Unit 2 Extreme Lifestyle,Paparazzi,READING AND SPEAKING,Cambodia,Cambodia has an area of 181,035 square kilometers and a population of over 14 million ethnic Khmer. Most Cambodians are Theravada Buddhists, but the country also has a minority number of Muslim Cham, as well as ethnic Chinese, Vietname

2、se and small animist hill tribes. Agriculture has long been the most important sector to the Cambodian economy, with around 59% of the population relying on agriculture for their livelihood (with rice being the principal crop). (/wiki/Personal_assistant),A. Read the article. Fi

3、nd the answer to the question below.,Skill Focus,Why did Sal Lou and his wife feel that the woman was their long-lost daughter?,Article,Because they saw a distinct scar on the womans right arm.,Key,X,New Words,Translation,A Unique Life,Translation,Then, in early January 2007, their neighbor, Chea Bu

4、nthoeun made a startling discovery. Neither Sal Lou nor the other villagers were prepared for it. Bunthoeun found a strange woman from the jungle. He spotted her in his field, hunched over and eating grains of rice from the ground. Bunthoeun called his neighbors, and they caught the woman. She didnt

5、 speak the local language, didnt walk upright, and didnt have any clothes. Women from the village gave her clothing. Who was this woman? Where was she from?,Translation,Translation,Neither the authorities nor the villagers are completely certain where the woman is from. A number of people hypothesiz

6、e that she isnt Cambodian because she cannot speak any local languages. Others speculate that she is simply a young woman with mental troubles who became lost in the jungle. Both Sal Lou and his wife feel that the woman is their long-lost daughter, Rochom. Through all the speculation, there is one c

7、ertaintythe woman is a unique addition to the village.,不同寻常的生活 柬埔寨的罗萨尔夫妇于上世纪八十年代末丢失了他们八岁大的女儿。小女孩叫罗宗，当时在丛林里放牛。这个活是她和其他村民每天都要干的。但那一天，罗宗没有回家。罗萨尔以为女儿肯定死了，不是被野兽吃了就是发生了意外。他和妻子也逐渐习惯了没有罗宗的生活。,Article,时间到了2007年的一月初，邻居谢邦索恩有了个惊人的发现，让罗萨尔和其他村民始料未及。邦索恩在丛林里发现了一个陌生女人，当时她正在他家的田里弓着腰吃地上的谷子。邦索恩赶紧喊来邻居抓住了她。陌生女人不会说当地话，不会直

8、立行走，也没穿任何衣物。村里的妇女拿来衣服给她穿上。这女人是谁？来自何方？,Article,罗萨尔也得知了丛林女这件事，刚开始，俩口子也没想太多，直到在她的右胳膊上看到一个醒目的伤疤，他们才开始怀疑她就是罗宗。但丛林女没有认出罗萨尔夫妇。事实上，罗萨尔和村民们都感觉到这个女人并不乐意和别人呆在一起。她以前的生活是什么样的？没有人能完全确定，但这个女人不用筷子，只用手抓了吃。她还拒绝穿衣服，这让村民们很头疼。,Article,官方和村民都无法弄清这个女人的来历。一些人认为她不是本国人，因为她不会说任何当地语言。还有人认为她不过是个在丛林中走失的精神有点问题的女人。而罗萨尔夫妇觉得她就是他们失踪多

9、年的女儿罗宗。通过种种推测，可以肯定一点对于这个村庄来说，这个女人是一位不寻常的来客。,Article,B. Read again and check Fact or Opinion for each sentence. Write a clue from the article that helped you decide.,Both Sal Lou and his wife suspected it was Rochom.,The jungle woman is Sal Lous daughter Rochom.,Fact Opinion,2. The jungle woman cant

10、communicate in the local languages of Cambodia.,She didnt speak the local language.,Fact Opinion,3. The jungle woman isnt Cambodian.,A number of people hypothesize that she isnt Cambodian because she cannot speak any local languages.,Fact Opinion,4. The jungle woman isnt comfortable around people.,S

11、al Lou and the villagers had the impression that the woman wasnt very comfortable being with other humans.,Fact Opinion,5. The jungle womans lifestyle is very different from that of the villagers.,There is one certaintythe woman is a unique addition to the village.,Fact Opinion,C. Discuss the follow

12、ing questions with your classmates.,1. Do you think the woman is the missing daughter? Why or why not? 2. Do you think the woman should be kept in the village or let go? Why? 3. Do you think the woman can adapt to the life in the village? Why?,READING AND SPEAKING,Irvine Lake,Irvine Lake is a reserv

13、oir in Orange County, California. It was originally called the Santiago Reservoir. The lake is formed by the Santiago Dam at its north end, which was built between 1929 and 1931. The dam was built by the Irvine Company and the Serrano Irrigation District; it is now administered jointly by the Serran

14、o Water District and the Irvine Ranch Water District. The lake fishery opened to the public in 1941. (/wiki/Lake_Irvine),In the Orange County wilderness, the vigilant keeper shares life with the wind, the rattlers, a road that floods and a tolerant wife.,在奥兰治县的荒野里，这位尽职尽责的守坝人与清风

15、、响尾蛇、被水淹没的小路，还有一位无怨无悔的老伴长相厮守。,A Hermits Life at the op of Santiago Dam By David Ferrel,1 No mail reaches Ron Staubs little cottage up in the canyonno bills, no postcards, nothing. The house has no street address and not even much of a street. It sits by itself on a rocky hillside populated by deer,

16、rattlesnakes and mountain lions, four miles from the nearest neighbor.,TRANSLATION,2 To buy milk, or rent a movie, Staub points his battered pickup across a rocky creek bed and down a private one-lane road, stopping twice to let himself through locked gates. Or he lets his wife, Virginia, go instead

17、. “You cant order a pizza,” the longtime dam keeper laments. “You cant have a newspaper delivered. When the lake fills up, you cant get in and out, except by boat.”,TRANSLATION,TRANSLATION,3 The silvery waters of Irvine Lake end just below Staubs long wooden porch. The mile-wide lake, shaped by the

18、rugged fingers of the canyons, is both a fishing spot for trout and catfish and one of Orange Countys primary reservoirs. It contains 8 billion gallons of water that exert a formidable pressure on Santiago Dam.,4 The dam is considered sound but it is old, built in 1931. An arc of earth and concrete,

19、 it extends a quarter-mile from the end of Staubs steep driveway. From his porch, Staub can look right along the top of it, to the sculpted hills on the opposite side. It is a tranquil, rustic scene, but tremendous natural forces are concealed within it.,TRANSLATION,5 A spillway at the dams far end

20、released a deluge of overflow during the storms of 1969. Two nearby homes and four bridges were washed away. Should this dam ever fail, the disaster would be great, destroying scores or even hundreds of homes in Villa Park, Orange and Santa Ana.,TRANSLATION,6 Although the prospects of that may be in

21、finitesimal, Staub is a conscientious man who hails from Youngstown, Ohio, and still bears a trace of the accent. He makes it a point to be here, just in case. He is on the job morning, noon and night, charting water levels, adjusting flow valves, taking readings from the strange, dipstick-like devi

22、ces that measure seepage deep in the dams base.,TRANSLATION,7 He watches the dam seven days a week, pretty much every holiday, every waking hour. He strolls the dirt path across the toe of the dam, where it slopes into a rocky wash, scanning for signs of leaks. He keeps cattle from grazing on the ea

23、rthen edge, lest they make hoof prints that hold the rain and loosen the soil. He chases away intruders.,TRANSLATION,8 On nights of the full moon, when fishing boats are allowed on the lake until 2 a.m., Staub watches from the dark of the cottage, making sure that they stay outside the buoys and tha

24、t no one fishes from the dam. Hes done all that for eight years. “I never go to town,” Staub says. “My wife gets madshe can never get me out of here. Im always afraid something will happen.”,TRANSLATION,9 The last time he went to a movie theater was three years ago, when he saw Saving Private Ryan.

25、Virginia is good-natured about the lifestyle, but she gets away, going to the store, meeting friends for lunch. “I can get him out of here every two months,” she says, laughing. “We have friends who have waited two years for us to go out again. They keep calling.”,TRANSLATION,TRANSLATION,10 “Its our

26、 turn to buy,” Staub quips. “Actually, its their turn. I dont want to say Im a hermit, but I guess I am.”,11 Staub is certainly a rare breed. There may be no more than 50 dam keepers in all of California, a state dappled with nearly 1,500 significant dams and reservoirs. Most dams are carefully moni

27、tored even without full-time keepers. Inspections are made, water levels tracked, and repairs done periodically. The success of the maintenance programs is reflected in the relatively small number of dam disasters in the past half-century, despite the fact that so many dams are getting old.,TRANSLAT

28、ION,12 Californias last fatal collapse happened 38 years ago in Baldwin Hills: four people were killed when the dam washed out. Homes and businesses were flooded. Ground subsidence caused by oil extraction was blamed for weakening the dam.,TRANSLATION,13 Dam keepers tend to work at places where insp

29、ecting and operating the dam can be combined with other duties. At Irvine Lake, where private ranch borders a busy regional park, Staub also serves as a security guard. Trespassers who start campfires at night are no real danger to the dam itself, but Staub chases them out to prevent brush fires.,TR

30、ANSLATION,14 The Irvine Ranch and Serrano water districts co-own and operate the dam, and Staub, a former water-quality inspector, works for both agencies. One or the other owns the two-bedroom house he is provided, or maybe both dohe isnt sure. He also gets a $20,000 salary, which doesnt sound like

31、 much, but he is a grandfather who could be retired if he wanted, and he savors the chance to live on one of the last slices of urban wilderness.,TRANSLATION,15 Right after he took over the job, in 1993, torrential rains caused the dam to overflow, wiping out the road below it. For two days, Staub h

32、ad to record the lake level every hour, a vigil that made it impossible to sleep. It was three in the morning, black, raining, and he was out on the dam when a detector for mountain lions began beeping.,TRANSLATION,16 “Im thinking, what else can go wrong?” he says. “Then the dam started vibrating. I

33、m thinking its an earthquake. I forgot about the horses.” Horses grazed on the property then. They stampeded and nearly trampled him in the dark.,TRANSLATION,17 During cooler months, fierce winds rake the canyons. Staub swears the gusts reach 80 mph. He has tried to clock them by rigging a gauge on

34、the roof. “It blew away,” he says.,TRANSLATION,18 Milder summer weather means he can reinstall the big screens that enclose the porchor he could, if not for the five pairs of birds that have used the porch for their nests. So the screens sit and the bugs invade every night, when the Staubs porch lig

35、ht is the only light for miles.,TRANSLATION,19 Snakes lurk under the cottage steps and slither in the brush outside. Virginia was washing a window not long ago and thought she heard the hose running. It was a rattlesnake, only feet from her ladder. A bloodstain on the deck marks where Staub shot it

36、to death.,TRANSLATION,20 Maybe he gripes, but its usually with a laugh. The truth is, he loves it herethey both doseeing the stars, listening to crickets, watching the dam. One tip-off is that Staub never bothers to fish. “I used to fish to get away from everything,” he says. “Now Im away from every

37、thing.”,TRANSLATION,Part Paragraph Main Idea,1. This amazing story depicts the everyday life of _.,A. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C, and D. For questions 8- 10, complete the sentences with the information from the text.,a hermit a security guard a dam

38、 keeper a trespasser,C,2. Objectively speaking, the dwelling environment of the Staubs is _.,tranquil and interesting sparsely populated and inconvenient harsh and adventurous boring and terrifying,B,3. Staubs wife gets mad at him because _.,Staub is so lazy as to leave the cottage Staub has been wo

39、rried about the average city life Staub is so afraid of the unexpected accident Staub doesnt like to hang out,C,4. The sentence “I dont want to say Im a hermit, but I guess I am” in paragraph 10 means that _.,A,A. Staub is a hermit based on the facts of his lifestyle B. Staub hates to be a hermit wh

40、o is misunderstood easily C. Staub is proud of being a hermit D. Staub feels embarrassed to admit he is a hermit,5. According to the text, Staubs primary task is _.,A. to stroll the path under the dam B. to chase the campers out C. to keep the fishing boats outside the dam D. to watch the dam,D,6. D

41、espite the fact that he could be retired if he wanted, Staub continues to work because _.,A. he wants to make more money B. he regards work as his life C. he is fearful of the dam collapse D. he loves and enjoys the beauty of nature,D,7. Paragraph 18 suggests that Staub is _.,A. too lazy to repair h

42、is porch screens B. too busy to build new porch screens C. a man of great benevolence D. reluctant to kill the bugs,C,8. Staub keeps cattle from grazing and _ _ that hold the rain and loosen the soil. 9. The success of the maintenance programs is confirmed by _ _ in the past half-century, despite th

43、e fact that so many dams are getting old. 10. As a grandfather, Staub could retire if he wanted, but he _ to live on one of the last slices of urban wilderness.,making hoof prints,the relatively samll number of dam,savors the chance,disasters,B. Answer the following questions according to the text.,

44、Why is the mail or paper unavailable for those living in the canyon?,The uncertain street address, remoteness and mostly the terrible transportation lead to the inaccessibility.,2. What responsibilities should Staub take as a dam keeper? 3. What was the reason for the last fatal dam collapse of Cali

45、fornia?,He watches the dam seven days a week, charting water levels, adjusting flow valves, taking readings, scanning for signs of leaks and trying to eliminate all potential hazards.,Oil extraction gave rise to ground subsidence which weakened the dam and led to the collapse.,C. Discuss the followi

46、ng questions with a partner.,Typical Lifestyle,Extreme Lifestyle,1. Which adjectives would come into your mind first once you have the lifestyles above?,Typical Lifestyle: Extreme Lifestyle:,comfortable, convenient, cozy,inconvenient, isolated, tough, quiet,Can you guess why people choose to live an

47、 extreme lifestyle?,Some people may be fed up with the ordinary everyday lifestyle and looking for something extraordinary, exciting or challenging to meet their inner demand. Some people live an extreme life because their jobs require that. To them, interest and persistence in job outweigh the conv

48、enience in ordinary life.,3. Imagine that you were leading a hermit life. What are the advantages of it?,I can be firmly dedicated to a life of silence and solitude. I can live a simple life on a very small amount of income. I can avoid suffering from social anxiety.,Study the words that can colloca

49、te with “deliver” and complete the following sentences with them.,Prof. Smith will deliver his _ to the students at the gathering hall this afternoon. Doctors said that the only way to save her life was to deliver the _ immediately.,speech,baby,3. Opinion polls suggested that it would be hard for th

50、e centre party to deliver the white-collar _ . 4. Im absolutely certain that if youve got the people and the contracts in place, the people employed will deliver a high quality _. 5. Some sea creatures such as stingrays can deliver electric _ to their preys and use electricity as a means of defense

51、as well.,vote,service,shocks,6. A postman is a man employed to deliver letters and _. 7. I picked up Mundi from the police station and delivered him _ his mother who was waiting at Heartbreak Hotel.,to,parcels,TEXT A,8. If the company cant deliver on these _, users will quickly become furious. 9. If

52、 you cant deliver a reasonable _ at the end of this week, youll be fired. 10. It is required that a bankrupt must deliver _ all his books, papers and records to the official,promises,solution,up,TEXT A,Paparazzi,Turkish towel,The Turkish towel is essentially a bath towel measuring approximately 90 c

53、m x 110 cm. The towels that we use all over the world actually were first woven in Bursa, Turkey, in the 18th century. The Turkish towel was a very important part of Turkish social life and continues to be so, but originally it was meant for the ceremonial bath for a bride before her wedding and for

54、 important occasions later in life.,Paparazzi,Hungarian goulash,Goulash is a typical food of Hungary. It is primarily a soup. It does not really need anything other than the meat, onions and garlic. A little tomato for the colour, fresh green pepper when in season, and wine for game, are always acce

55、ptable.,Under zero gravity, the most common daily routines become troublesome. Nevertheless, there is something more intractable than eating, washing, or sleeping.,在失重状态下，最平常的活动也变得麻烦重重，然而还有比吃饭、洗澡、睡觉等更难解决的事。,TRANSLATION,1 Never doze off without tying yourself down or youll crack your head on somethin

56、g. If you feel a sneeze coming, hang on to something or youll slam into the bulkhead. Dont try to pour from a bottle and dont smoke without turning up the air conditioner. This advice may well be given to a space traveler by an experienced hand. All of it refers to the little tricks men will have to

57、 learn if they want to survive a trip through space and be reasonably comfortable while doing so.,Life Aboard a Spaceship By Willy Ley,TRANSLATION,2 Lets begin with an activity as elementary as breathing. Under zero-g, meaning zero gravity or weightless, the air, of course, has no weight. Breathing

58、is not influenced by that fact. When you inhale you expand your chest so that the air pressure inside is lower than the air pressure outside. Naturally, the air will go into the lungs, whether it has weight or not. Likewise in exhaling it is muscle pressure that forces the air out.,TRANSLATION,But on the ground the exhaled air, being warmer than the surrounding air, will rise because it is lighter. Under zero-g, warmer air and colder air weigh precisely the same: nothing. Hence there is no reason for the exhaled air to rise. I