新编英语教程第四册Unit12

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1、 Unit 12 University DaysBackground InformationExtended ReadingWarm-up QuestionsFree DiscussionDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 12 University DaysWarm-up Questions1.Have you had any memorable experiences since you entered university?Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Globa

2、l Reading After Reading2.What differences do you find university education has brought to you?3.Exercise your imagination and make some predictions about the text.Unit 12 University DaysBackground InformationDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading1.James Thurber(1894-1961)James T

3、hurber is considered the best American humorist since Mark Twain.He is known for the irony,satire,and whimsical humour of his stories about ordinary American life.Thurber lost one eye in a childhood accident,despite that he had a very successful writing career.His books include My Life and Hard Time

4、s(1933),from which this text is taken,and My World and Welcome to it(1943).Unit 12 University DaysJames Thurber was the author of nearly forty books,including collections of essays,short stories,fables,plays,and childrens stories.The majority of his works,drawings and prose pieces,were originally pu

5、blished in The New Yorker and then later collected into a series of books.The handiest one-volume collection is that selected by Garrison Keillor for the Library of America:Writings and Drawings,1996.The following are some of his famous works:Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Readi

6、ng2.Thurbers Major Works Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingIs Sex Necessary?(1929).Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingThe Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities(1931).Unit 12 University DaysDetailed Readi

7、ngBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingMy Life and Hard Times(1933).Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingThe Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze(1935).Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingLet Your Mind

8、Alone(1937).Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingThe Last Flower(1939).Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingFables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated(1940).Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore R

9、eading Global Reading After ReadingMy World and Welcome to It(1942).Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingMen,Women and Dogs(1943).Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingThe Beast in Me and Other Animals(1948).Uni

10、t 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingThe 13 Clocks(1950).Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingThurbers Dogs(1955).Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingAlarms and Divers

11、ions(1957).Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingThe Years with Ross(1958).Unit 12 University DaysExtended ReadingListen to the following story written by James Thurber to get some sense of his humor.While listening,please fill in the blanks with the infor

12、mation you hear.Directions:Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast looked up from his eggs to see a white unicorn(独角兽)with a golden horn quietly the roses in the garden.The man went up to the bed-room where his wife was still asleep and woke her.“Theres a unicorn in the garden,”he sai

13、d,“eating roses.”She opened one unfriendly eye and looked at him.“The unicorn is a beast,”she said,and turned her back on him.The man walked slowly downstairs and out into the garden.The unicorn was still there;he was now among the tulips.“Here,unicorn,”said the man and pulled up a lily and gave it

14、to him.nook_Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Readingscrambled_cropping_mythical_browsing_ Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingThe unicorn ate it gravely.With a high heart,because there was a unicorn in his garden,the man went upstairs

15、and his wife again.“The unicorn,”he said,“ate a lily.”His wife sat up in bed and looked at him,coldly.“You are a booby(疯子),”she said,“and I am going to have you put in a booby-hatch(疯人院).”The man,who never liked the words“booby”and“booby-hatch,”and who liked them even less on a shining morning when

16、there was a unicorn in the garden,thought for a moment.“Well see about that,”he said.He walked over to the door.“He has a golden horn in the middle of his forehead,”he told her.Then he went back to the garden to watch the unicorn;but the unicorn had gone away.The man sat among the roses and went to

17、sleep.roused_ Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading And as soon as the husband had gone out of the house,the wife got up and dressed as fast as she could.She was very excited and there was a in her eyes.She telephoned the police and she telephoned the psy

18、chiatrist;she told them to hurry to her house and bring a strait-jacket.When the police and the psychiatrist looked at her with great interest,“My husband,”she said,“saw a unicorn this morning.”The police looked at the psychiatrist and the psychiatrist looked at the police.“He told me it ate a lily,

19、”she said.The psychiatrist looked at the police and the police looked at the psychiatrist.“He told me it had a golden horn in the middle of its forehead,”she said.At a signal from the psychiatrist,the police leaped from their chairs and seized the wife.They had a hard time her,for she put up a terri

20、fic struggle,but they finally subdued her.Just as they got her into the strait-jacket,the husband came back into the house.gloat_solemn_subduing_ Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading“Did you tell your wife you saw a unicorn?”asked the police.“Of course n

21、ot,”said the husband.“The unicorn is a mythical beast.”“Thats all I wanted to know,”said the psychiatrist.“Take her away.Im sorry,sir,but your wife is as crazy as a jay bird.”So they took her away,cursing and screaming,and shut her up in an .The husband lived happily ever after.Moral:Dont count your

22、 boobies until they are hatched.institution_ Unit 12 University Days1.Are you interested in your major?Why or why not?2.What do you think is the chief goal of university education?Free DiscussionDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 12 University DaysPart Division of the T

23、extFurther UnderstandingScanningDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 12 University DaysScanning1.How many episodes are there in the text?Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingTwo.Unit 12 University DaysScanningDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Rea

24、ding After Reading 2.What is the main idea of each episode?Sum up in one or two sentences.The first episode:The writer disliked the botany laboratory classes in which he could not see any flower cells under a microscope;and,for that reason,he was given a deferred pass for botany.The second episode:I

25、n the economics class,there was a student who was very slow at his studies.In spite of the prompting from the professor and his fellow students,he could not even give“train”as an example of a means of transportation.Unit 12 University DaysScanning3.What is the general feature of the text?Detailed Re

26、adingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingBoth stories are vivid and credible accounts of university life with a touch of light humour and great interest.Unit 12 University DaysDirections:Please divide the text into 4 parts and summarize the main idea of each part.Part Division of the TextDeta

27、iled ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingPart 1 (Para.1)The author passed all the other courses at his university except botany because he could not see plant cells through a microscope.Part 2 (Para.3 Para.4)The author finally took a deferred pass.Unit 12 University DaysDetailed Readin

28、gBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingPart 3 (Para.5 Para.12)Another course that the author didnt like was economics,but his classmate Bolenciecwcz got more mixed up than him.Unit 12 University Days1.One of the reasons why the writer couldnt pass botany was that he could not see flower cells t

29、hrough a microscope.Further UnderstandingT()Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingDirections:Read the following sentences carefully,and decide whether they are true(T)or false(F).Unit 12 University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading2.The writer could

30、 not see flower cells through a microscope because he did not want to have the beauty of the flowers taken away.F()The reason why the writer could not see flower cells through a microscope was that he could not adjust the lens of the microscope correctly.Besides,as some people do have difficulty see

31、ing things with one eye,perhaps the writer,who could see with only one eye,which was very weak,had the same difficulty.Unit 12 University Days3.The writer often enraged the instructor on purpose because he did not like botany.The writer enraged the instructor because everyone else except him could s

32、ee through a microscope and was making progress.He did not enrage the instructor on purpose.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingF()4.The writer pretended that he could not see through a micro-scope.The writer wanted to see flower cells through the microscope so that he could h

33、ave something to draw in his notebook and pass the course,but he genuinely could not see through the microscope.F()Unit 12 University Days5.The botany professor was patient in helping the writer and it was justifiable for him to lose his temper.FThe instructor had tried hard to explain to the writer

34、 how to adjust a microscope patiently,but when the student continued to have trouble he lost his temper.This was hardly justifiable since there was a good,genuine reason for the students inability,i.e.his problem with his eyesight.()Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading6.Both t

35、he professor and the writer were eager for the latter to see the flower cells through the microscope.T()Unit 12 University DaysFThere is no evidence that he liked economics better than botanyand certainly he disliked it.After each botany class,the writer must have felt discouraged and depressed and

36、in no mood for studying another course.This would probably have had a bad effect on the writers attention span,comprehension,concentration and interest in the economics classand we know for a fact that he got the two courses mixed up.()Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading7.The

37、 writer liked economics a little better than botany.Unit 12 University Days8.The professors of the university were lenient and helped Bolen-ciecwcz a lot,but no professors gave him any hints.Professor Bassum,in particular,gave him as many hints as was necessary for him to get the correct answer.Deta

38、iled ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After ReadingF()9.The economics professor turned scarlet because he was angry when Bolenciecwcz could not answer his questions.The economics professor had embarrassed himself by making the childlike noise“choo choo choo”in front of a class of adult students.

39、F()Unit 12 University DaysI passed all the other courses that I took at my University,but I could never pass botany.This was because all botany students had to spend several hours a week in a laboratory looking through a microscope at plant cells,and I could never see through a microscope.I never on

40、ce saw a cell through a microscope.This used to enrage my instructor.He would wander around the laboratory pleased with the progress all the students were making in drawing the involved and,so I am told,interesting structure of flower cells,until he came to me.I would just be standing there.“I cant

41、see anything,”I would say.He would begin patiently enough,explaining how anybody can see through a microscope,but he would always end up in a fury,claiming that I could too see through a microscope but just pretended that I couldnt.“It takes away from the beauty of flowers anyway,”I used to tell him

42、.University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 12 University Days “We are not concerned with beauty in this course,”he would say.“We are concerned solely with what I may call the mechanics of flowers.”“Well,”Id say,“I cant see anything.”“Try it just once again,”hed

43、say,and I would put my eye to the microscope and see nothing at all,except now and again a nebulous milky substancea phenomenon of maladjustment.You were supposed to see a vivid,restless clockwork of sharply defined plant cells.“I see what looks like a lot of milk,”I would tell him.This,he claimed,w

44、as the result of my not having adjusted the microscope properly,so he would readjust it for me,or rather,for himself.And I would look again and see milk.I finally took a deferred pass,as they called it,and waited a year and tried again.(You had to pass one of the biological sciences or you couldnt g

45、raduate.)The professor had come back from vacation brown as a berry,bright-eyed,and eager to explain cell-structure again to hisDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 12 University Days classes.“Well,”he said to me,cheerily,when we met in the first laboratory hour of the se

46、mester,“were going to see cells this time,arent we?”“Yes,sir,”I said.Students to the right of me and to the left of me and in front of me were seeing cells;whats more,they were quietly drawing pictures of them in their notebooks.Of course,I didnt see anything.“Well try it,”the professor said to me,g

47、rimly,with every adjustment of the microscope known to man.“As God is my witness,Ill arrange this glass so that you see cells through it or Ill give up teaching.In twenty-two years of botany,I”He cut off abruptly for he was beginning to quiver all over,like Lionel Barrymore,and he genuinely wished t

48、o hold onto his temper,his scenes with me had taken a great deal out of him.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 12 University DaysSo we tried it with every adjustment of the microscope known to man.With only one of them did I see anything but blackness or the familiar la

49、cteal opacity,and that time I saw,to my pleasure and amazement,a variegated constellation of flecks,specks,and dots.These I hastily drew.The instructor,noting my activity,came back from an adjoining desk,a smile on his lips and his eyebrows high in hope.He looked at my cell drawing.“Whats that?”he d

50、emanded,with a hint of a squeal in his voice.“Thats what I saw,”I said.“You didnt,you didnt,you didnt!”he screamed,losing control of his temper instantly,and he bent over and squinted into the microscope.His head snapped up.“Thats your eye!”he shouted.“Youve fixed the lens so that it reflects!Youve

51、drawn your eye!”Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 12 University DaysAnother course that I didnt like,but somehow managed to pass,was economics.I went to that class straight from the botany class,which didnt help me any in understanding either subject.I used to get them

52、 mixed up.But not as mixed up as another student in my economics class who came there direct from a physics laboratory.He was Bolenciecwcz.Most of his professors were lenient and helped him along.None gave him more hints,in answering questions,or asked him simpler ones than the economics professor,a

53、 thin,timid man named Bassum.One day when we were on the subject of transportation and distribution,it came Bolenciecwczs turn to answer a question.“Name one means of transportation,”the professor said to him.No light came into his eyes.“Just any means of transportation,”said the professor.Bolenciec

54、wcz sat staring at him.“That is,”pursued the professor,“any medium,agency,or method of going from one place to another.”Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 12 University Days Bolenciecwcz had the look of a man who is being led into a trap.“You may choose among steam,hors

55、e-drawn,or electrically-propelled vehicles,”said the instructor.“I might suggest the one which we commonly take in making long journeys across land.”There was a profound silence in which everybody stirred uneasily,including Bolenciecwcz and Mr.Bassum.Mr.Bassum abruptly broke this silence in an amazi

56、ng manner.“Choo-choo-choo，”he said,in a low voice,and turned instantly scarlet.He glanced appealingly around the room.“Toot,toot,too-tooooooot!”some student with a deep voice moaned,and we all looked encouragingly at Bolenciecwcz.Somebody else gave a fine imitation of a locomotive letting off steam.

57、Mr.Bassum himself rounded off the little show.“Ding,dong,ding,dong,”he said,hopefully.Bolenciecwcz was staring at the floor now,trying to think,his great brow furrowed,his huge hands rubbing together,his face red.Detailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 12 University DaysDeta

58、iled ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading“How did you come to college this year,Mr.Bolenciecwcz?”asked the professor.“Chuffa,chuffa,chuffa chuffa.”“Mfather sent me,”came the reply.“What on?”asked Bassum.“I git an lowance,”said his student,in a low,husky voice,obviously embarrassed.“No,

59、no,”said Bassum.“Name a means of transportation.What did you ride here on?”“Train,”said Bolenciecwcz.“Quite right,”said the professor.“Now,Mr.Nugent,will you tell us.”Unit 12 University DaysI passed all the other courses that I took at my University,but I could never pass botany.This was because all

60、 botany students had to spend several hours a week in a laboratory looking through a microscope at plant cells,and I could never see through a microscope.I never once saw a cell through a microscope.This used to enrage my instructor.He would wander around the laboratory pleased with the progress all

61、 the students were making in drawing the involved and,so I am told,interesting structure of flower cells,until he came to me.I would just be standing there.“I cant see anything,”I would say.He would begin patiently enough,explaining how anybody can see through a microscope,but he would always end up

62、 in a fury,claiming that I could too see through a microscope but just pretended that I couldnt.“It takes away from the beauty of flowers anyway,”I used to tell him.University DaysDetailed ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 12 University Days“We are not concerned with beauty in

63、this course,”he would say.“We are concerned solely with what I may call the mechanics of flowers.”“Well,”Id say,“I cant see anything.”“Try it just once again,”hed say,and I would put my eye to the microscope and see nothing at all,except now and again a nebulous milky substancea phenomenon of maladj

64、ustment.You were supposed to see a vivid,restless clockwork of sharply defined plant cells.“I see what looks like a lot of milk,”I would tell him.This,he claimed,was the result of my not having adjusted the microscope properly,so he would readjust it for me,or rather,for himself.And I would look aga

65、in and see milk.I finally took a deferred pass,as they called it,and waited a year and tried again.(You had to pass one of the biological sciences or you couldnt graduate.)The professor had come back from vacation brown as a berry,bright-eyed,and eager to explain cell-structure again to his Detailed

66、 ReadingBefore Reading Global Reading After Reading Unit 12 University Daysclasses.“Well,”he said to me,cheerily,when we met in the first laboratory hour of the semester,“were going to see cells this time,arent we?”“Yes,sir,”I said.Students to the right of me and to the left of me and in front of me were seeing cells;whats more,they were quietly drawing pictures of them in their notebooks.Of course,I didnt see anything.“Well try it,”the professor said to me,grimly,with every adjustment of the mi