913有练习册答案新编英语教程_5_unit_1.pptVIP

Unit OneTEXT I Hit the Nail on the Head(恰到好处；一语中的） I. Pre-reading Questions 1. Suggested Answer (SA): It means exactly right in words or action. 2. SA: The author advises that the English students should try to get the words, phrases and sentences completely right for their purposes in their writing. III. Library Work 1. 1) Gustave Flaubert (1821 – 1880), French novelist, was associated with, though not representative of, the movement of naturalism and known as one of the greatest realists of 19th-century France. He devoted his life to long hours spent in heavy toil over his work. His writing is marked by exactness and accuracy of observation, extreme impersonality and objectivity of treatment, and precision and expressiveness in style, or the principle of the mot juste. 1. 2) Mrs. Malaprop is a famous character in Sheridan’s comedy The Rivals (1775). She is noted for her blunders in the use of words. “As headstrong（不受管束的） as an allegory（比方；寓言） (alligator) on the banks of the Nile” is one of her grotesque（荒唐的）misapplications. She also requests that no delusions（欺骗;迷惑）(allusions) to the past be made. She has given us the word malapropism（用词错误，尤指误用发音相似而意义全非的词）as a name for such mistakes. 2. Hindi（印地语）is a literary and official language of northern India. Swahili（斯瓦希里语）is a Bantu（班图) language that is a trade and governmental language over much of East Africa and in the Congo region. Bantus are people belonging to a group of tribes found in equatorial and southern Africa. IV. Organization of the Text 1. An analogy between the unskilled use of the hammer and the improper choice of words (Paragraph 1) 2. The significance of finding the right words (Paragraphs 2 3) 3. Semantic differences between words having the same root (Paragraphs 4 7) (1). Example 1 (human vs. humane) (Paragraph 4) (2). Example 2 (anxiety vs. eagerness) (Paragraph 5) (3). Example 3 (singularity vs. singleness) (Paragraphs 6 – 7) 4. Wrong choice of words caused by failure to recognize