当代研究英语读写教程课件Unit6TextA.ppt

Unit 6 Content 1)??How did you meet your match? Or in what romantic scene would you like to meet her/him? 2)Have you experienced some situations when it is unable to tell the truth for some practical reason? Would you resort to “white lie”? How did you solve the problem? Main Idea and Structure First reading: Scan the text and try to catch the main idea. The following words are for your reference to organize the idea: encounter， Jake, cheats, flirtatious, Mariana, good-naturedly, suspicious, irony Text Study Para. 1 1 Jake slouched in a clot of near motionless traffic, in the peculiar gray of concrete, smog, and early morning beneath the overpass of the Hollywood Freeway on Alvarado Street. He didnt really mind because he knew how much worse it could be trying to make a left onto the onramp. He certainly didnt do that every day of his life, and he’d assure anyone who’d ask that he never would either. A steady occupation had its advantages and he couldnt deny thinking about that too. He needed an FM radio in something better than this ‘58 Buick he drove. It would have velvet interior with electric controls for the L.A. summer, a nice warm heater and defroster for the winter drives at the beach, a cruise control for those longer trips, mellow speakers front and rear of course, windows that hum closed, snuffing out that nasty exterior noise of freeways. The fact was that he’d probably have to change his whole style. Exotic colognes, plush, dark nightclubs, daiquiris, necklaced ladies in satin gowns, misty and sexy like in a tequila ad. Jake could imagine lots of possibilities when he let himself. Para. 2-3 2 Jake was thinking about this freedom of his so much that when he glimpsed the green light he just went ahead and stared bye-bye to the steadily employed. When he turned his head the same direction his windshield faced, it was maybe one second too late. He pounced on the brake pedal and steered the front wheels