大学英语综合教程第三册unit1.ppt

1、Mr.Doherty Builds His Dream Life,by Jim Doherty,Compared to the noisy city life, many Americans yearn for a free and unfettered life, every day is not very busy, very peaceful and joyful.This is their dream life.,Background Information,country life,pre-reading discussion,What do you think of country

2、 life? City life or country life ,which do you prefer?,Text Organization,The writer views his life in the country as a self-reliant and satisfying one,Life in the country side is good yet sometimes hard,After quiting his job, the writers income was reduced, but he and his family were able to get by.

3、,A tolerance for solitude and a lot of energy have made it possible for the family to enjoy their life in the country.,Mr.Doherty Builds His Dream Life,1 There are two things I have always wanted to do - write and live on a farm. Today Im doing both. I am not in E. B. Whites class as a writer or in

4、my neighbors league as a farmer, but Im getting by. And after years of frustration with city and suburban living, my wife Sandy and I have finally found contentment here in the country.,As a writer,I am not as famous as E.B.White.Not in his lever.,As a farmer,I m not quite the same as my neighbors.,

5、get by: be good enough but not very good; manage to live or do things in a satisfactory way.,Ex: 我父母亲靠很少的一些钱凑合着过下去,My parents managed to get by on a small amount of money.,2 Its a self-reliant sort of life. We grow nearly all of our fruits and vegetables. Our hens keep us in eggs, with several dozen

6、 left over to sell each week. Our bees provide us with honey, and we cut enough wood to just about make it through the heating season.,make it:succeed With the wood they cut, their family can succeed in getting through the cold winter.,Its a satisfying life too. In the summer we canoe on the river,

7、go picnicking in the woods and take long bicycle rides. In the winter we ski and skate. We get excited about sunsets. We love the smell of the earth warming and the sound of cattle lowing. We watch for hawks in the sky and deer in the cornfields.,3 Three mouths ago when it was 30 below,we spent two

8、miserable days hauling firewood up the river on a sled.Three months from now,it will be 95 above and we will be cultivating corn,weeding strawberries and killing chickens. Recently, Sandy and I had to retile the back roof.,along the river,Soon Jim, 16 and Emily, 13, the youngest of our four children

9、, will help me make some long-overdue improvements on the outdoor toilet that supplements our indoor plumbing when we are working outside. Later this month, well spray the orchard, paint the barn, plant the garden and clean the hen house before the new chicks arrive.,in apposition to “Jim, 16 and Em

10、ily, 13.”,an attributive clause modifyiny “the outdoor toilet.”,1) transport, as with a truck, cart, etc. The rescue team hauled medical supplies and food to the flooded villages.,2) pull or drag sth. with effort or force Rescue workers hauled passengers out of the crashed train.,vt. add to sth. in

11、order to improve it (followed by with) Petersupplements his ordinary income by writing books.,n. an additional amount of sth. She has been ill and must have supplements to her ordinary food.,spray sth. with sth,5 In between such chores, I manage to spend 50 to 60 hours a week at the typewriter or do

12、ing reporting for the freelance articles I sell to magazines and newspapers. Sandy, meanwhile, pursues her own demanding schedule. Besides the usual household routine, she oversees the garden and beehives, bakes bread, cans and freezes, drives the kids to their music lessons, practices with them, ta

13、kes organ lessons on her own, does research and typing for me, writes an article herself now and then, tends the flower beds, stacks a little wood and delivers the eggs. There is, as the old saying goes, no rest for the wicked on a place like this - and not much for the virtuous either.,The saying c

14、omes from the Bible, “ no peace, says my god, to the wicked.” It means that you must continue with your work or other activity that you should be doing, not rest.,正如老话说的那样，在这种情形之下，坏人不得闲 贤德之人也歇不了。,adj. evil, or bad,We are all born good, but can be taught to be wicked.,6 None of us will ever forget ou

15、r first winter. We were buried under five feet of snow from December through March. While one storm after another blasted huge drifts up against the house and barn, we kept warm inside burning our own wood, eating our own apples and loving every minute of it.,暴风雪肆虐，一场接着一场，厚厚的积雪覆盖着屋子和谷仓。,7 When sprin

16、g came, it brought two floods. First the river overflowed, covering much of our land for weeks. Then the growing season began, swamping us under wave after wave of produce.,The first flood refers to “great overflow of water” while the other refers to “agricultural products.”,paraphrase: Then the gro

17、wing season came and it brought us a lot of agricultural products.,The v-ing form is one of the non-finite verbs (非谓语动词). It serves as an adverbial in the sentence and it indicates another action by the subject of the sentence.,Our freezer filled up with cherries, raspberries,strawberries, asparagus

18、, peas, beans and corn. Then our canned-goods shelves and cupboards began to grow with preserves, tomato juice, grape juice, plums, jams and jellies. Eventually, the basement floor disappeared under piles of potatoes, squash and pumpkins, and the barn began to fill with apples and pears. It was amaz

19、ing.,what can we infer?,(1) The big harvest was beyond expectation. (2) The writers attitude toward his country life: he was very satisfied with it and enjoyed the harvest.,8 The next year we grew even more food and managed to get through the winter on firewood that was mostly from our own trees and

20、 only 100 gallons of heating oil. At that point I began thinking seriously about quitting my job and starting to freelance. The timing was terrible. By then, Shawn and Amy, our oldest girls were attending expensive Ivy League schools and we had only a few thousand dollars in the bank. Yet we kept co

21、ming back to the same question: Will there ever be a better time? The answer, decidedly, was no, and so - with my employers blessings and half a years pay in accumulated benefits in my pocket - off I went.,come successfully to the end,at that very moment; right then,9 There have been a few anxious m

22、oments since then, but on balance things have gone much better than we had any right to expect. For various stories of mine, Ive crawled into black-bear dens for Sports Illustrated, hitched up dogsled racing teams for Smithsonian magazine, checked out the Lake Champlain “monster” for Science Digest,

23、 and canoed through the Boundary Waters wilderness area of Minnesota for Destinations.,on balance: with all things considered keep ones balance 保持平衡 lose ones balance 失去平衡 strike a balance 力求折中 in the balance 不确定，成败或安危未定,10 Im not making anywhere near as much money as I did when I was employed full

24、time, but now we dont need as much either. I generate enough income to handle our $600-a-month mortgage payments plus the usual expenses for a family like ours. That includes everything from music lessons and dental bills to car repairs and college costs. When it comes to insurance, we have a poor m

25、ans major-medical policy. We have to pay the first $500 of any medical fees for each member of the family. It picks up 80% of the costs beyond that. Although we are stuck with paying minor expenses, our premium is low - only $560 a year -and we are covered against catastrophe. Aside from that and th

26、e policy on our two cars at $400 a year, we have no other insurance. But we are setting aside $2,000 a year in an IRA(Individual Retirement Account).,that refers to “the first $500 the family pays.” Ex:Suppose the medical fee is $1,000, the family has to paythe first $500 plus the last $100 while th

27、e insurance company will pay $400,that refers to “a poor mans major-medical policy”, which costs them $560 a year only.,cover.against.:为.投保.险 ex:cover the goods against All Risks为货物投保一切险,1) be ready to pay,2) take hold of and lift up,3) gain; get,4) improve,5) gather together; collect,6) collect som

28、eone or something from a place,Where did you pick up your excellent English?,(3),Ill pick you up at your hotel.,(6),Mary has been ill, but shes picking up now.,(4),She picked up a stone and threw it at the window.,(2),Please pick up all your toys when youve finished playing.,(5),apart from,11 Weve b

29、een able to make up the difference in income by cutting back without appreciably lowering our standard of living. We continue to dine out once or twice a month, but now we patronize local restaurants instead of more expensive places in the city. We still attend the opera and ballet in Milwaukee but

30、only a few times a year. We eat less meat, drink cheaper wine and see fewer movies. Extravagant Christmases are a memory, and we combine vacations with story assignments,the family used to spend much more money on Christmas,12 I suspect not everyone who loves the country would be happy living the way we do. It takes a couple of special qualitie