unit3大学英语精读1课件.ppt

*13. round the corner: very near in distance and time. There’s a supermarket round the corner. 附近有一个超市。 2. The mid-term examination is round the corner. 期中考试快要到了。 * * come in: a)come as expected or arranged (into the house) Every day the servant comes in and does the cooking and cleaning. b) (product, fashion) become available or fashionable Strawberries are not coming in. An absurd habit of wearing long hair has come in. * 13. After all eighty was a special birthday, another decade lived or endured just as you chose to look at it. 毕竟八十大寿非同一般——你又活了十年，或者说你又熬过了十年，是活是熬，全在于你怎么看了。 An eightieth birthday is special because not everyone can live so long. It marks the end of a ten-year period you have lived through or endured, depending on your point of view. * Life is usually a mixture of happiness and sadness; few people are always happy. You live your life and you’re happy sometimes and sad sometimes. On the other hand, life can also be long periods of unhappiness or suffering. Such a life isn’t lived as an enjoyable experience. Rather it is endured. Here the author is contrasting these two ways of looking at life. * * choose to : decided to ; prefer to You may do just as you choose to. You can improve your listening comprehension if you chose to. I chose not to go to the movies yesterday evening. * Find the three inversions in the text Two years ago that was …( Line 20) Folded in the card was a piece of paper ( Line 53) Written on the card was a message … ( Line 54) * 14. Use of figure of speech 1) Simile: She was excited like a child. ( Line 26) The cheque fluttered to the floor like a bird with a broken wing. ( Line 58) 2) Irony: Her present, her lovely present. ( Line 59) 3) Innuendo (暗讽) Myra herself had got a medal for her work for the aged. (Line 8) * After reading * 1. Why did the old lady feel so hurt when she got the check from her daughter? A check is impersonal. It symbolizes obligation but with no sincere feelings. Myra rega