综合英语1unit 10

Unit 10 A Debt to Dickens

Section One Pre-reading Activities (1)

I. Reading aloud .................................................................... 错误！未定义书签。

II.Cultural information .......................................................... 错误！未定义书签。

III. Audiovisual supplements ................................................ 错误！未定义书签。Section Two Global Reading .. (2)

I. Main idea (2)

II. Structural analysis (2)

Section Three Detailed Reading (3)

Text I (3)

Section Four Consolidation Activities ......................................... 错误！未定义书签。

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IV. Exercises for integrated skills......................................... 错误！未定义书签。

V. Oral activities ................................................................... 错误！未定义书签。

VI. Writing Practice .............................................................. 错误！未定义书签。

VII. Listening Exercises........................................................ 错误！未定义书签。Section Five Further Enhancement .............................................. 错误！未定义书签。

I. Text II ................................................................................ 错误！未定义书签。

II. Memorable Quotes ........................................................... 错误！未定义书签。

Section Two Global Reading

I. Main idea

1. What does this narrative text tell us?

This text first tells us about the most indelible experiences the writer went through when she lived an isolated life as a child in the remote Chinese countryside. Next, the text describes and relates how she discovered and read and digested Dickens’ novels. Then, it highlights the ways in which the writer benefited immensely from Dickens.

2. What is the main purpose of the writer?

The writer’s main purpose is to emphasize that she is immensely grateful to Charles Dickens, for she has been enlightened a great deal by him, and that Dickens’ novels, which deal with real life and real people and explore significant and permanent topics, constitute a rewarding heritage of mankind, and therefore are well worth reading and studying.

II. Structural analysis

1. How is the first paragraph associated with the last one?

In the first paragraph the writer makes it clear that she has owed Charles Dickens a heavy debt by reading his novels. And the only way to honor her obligation is to write down what Charles Dickens did for her. In the last paragraph, the writer says she was deeply influences by him.Thus, the concluding part of the narrative text is naturally connected with the beginning part.

2. Work out the structure of the text by completing the table.

Paragraph(s) Main idea

1 It introduces the setting and the relationship between the writer and

Charles Dickens.

2-3 The writer recalls her isolated childhood life in a remote Chinese countryside, her unpleasant experiences and the painful feeling she had

because she was a foreigner.

4-6 The writer narrates and describes her experiences as a voracious reader.

7 The writer highlights Di ckens’ great influence upon her.

Section Three Detailed Reading

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A Debt to Dickens

1.I have long looked for an opportunity to pay a certain debt which I have owed since I

was seven years old. Debts are usually burdens, but this is no ordinary debt, and it is no burden, except as the feeling of warm gratitude may ache in one until it is expressed. My debt is to an Englishman, who long ago in China rendered an inestimable service to a small American child. That child was myself and that Englishman was Charles Dickens. I know no better way to meet my obligation than to write down what Charles Dickens did in China for an American child.

2.First, you must picture to yourself that child, living quite solitary in a remote Chinese

countryside, in a small mission bungalow perched upon a hill among the rice fields in the valleys below. In the near distance wound that deep, treacherous, golden river, the Y angtse, and some of the most terrifying and sinister, as well as the most delightful and exciting moments of that child’s life, were spent beside the river. She loved to crawl along its banks upon the rocks or upon the muddy flats and watch for the lifting of the huge four-square nets that hung into the moving yellow flood, and see out of that flood come perhaps again and again an empty net, but sometimes great flashing, twisting silver bodies of fish. She lingered beside villages of boat folk, and saw them live, the babies tied to a rope and splashing in the shallower waters. But she saw babies dead thrown into the deep waters. She wandered small and alien among the farm folk in the ear then houses among the fields. She accepted a bowl of rice and cabbage often at meal time and sat among the peasants on the threshing floor about the door and ate, usually in silence, listening and listening, answering their kindly, careless questions, bearing with shy, painful smiles their kind teasing laughter at her yellow curls and unfortunate blue eyes, which they thought so ugly. She was, she knew, very alien.

Upon the streets of the great city where sometimes she went she learned to accept the cry of foreign devil, and to realize she was a foreign devil.

3.She grew from a very tiny child into a bigger child, still knowing she was alien.

However kindly the people about her might be, and they were much more often kind than not, she knew that she was foreign to them. And she wondered very much about her own folk and where they were and how they looked and at what they played. But she did not know. In the bungalow were her parents, very busy, very, very busy, and when she learned her lessons in the morning quickly, they were too busy to pay much heed to her and so she wandered about

a great deal, seeing and learning all sorts of things. She had fun. But very often she used to

wonder, “Where are the other children like me? What is it like in the country where they live?” She longed very much, I can remember, to have some of them to play with. But she never had them.

4.To this small, isolated creature there came one day an extraordinary accident. She was

an impossibly voracious reader. She would like to have had children’s books, but there were none, and so she read everything, —Plutarch’s Lives and Foxe’s Martyrs, the Bible, church history, and the hot spots in Jonathan Edwards’s sermons, and conversations out of Shakespeare, and bits of Tennyson and Browning which she could not understand at all. Then one day she looked doubtfully at a long row of somber blue books on a very high shelf. They were quite beyond her reach. Later she discovered this was because they were novels. But being desperate she put a three-cornered bamboo stool on top of a small table and climbed up and stared at the binding sand in faded black titles she read Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens.

She was then a little past seven years old. It was a very hot August day, in the afternoon about three o’clock, when the household was asleep, all except the indefatigable parents, and they were very, very busy. She took Oliver Twist out of its place — it was fat and thick, for Hard Times was bound with it —and in great peril descended, and stopping in the pantry for a pocket full of peanuts, she made off to a secret corner of the veranda into which only a small, agile child could squeeze, and opened the closely printed pages of an old edition, and discovered her playmates.

5.How can I make you know what that discovery was to that small, lonely child? There in

that corner above the country road in China, with vendors passing beneath me, I entered into my own heritage. I cannot tell you about those hours. I know I was roused at six o’clock by the call to my supper, and I looked about dazed, to discover the long rays of the late afternoon sun streaming across the valleys. I remember twice I closed the book and burst into tears, unable to bear the tragedy of Oliver Twist, and then opened it quickly again, burning to know more. I remember, most significant of all, that I forgot to touch a peanut, and my pocket was still quite full when I was called. I went to my supper in a dream, and read as late as I dared in my bed afterward, and slept with the book under my pillow, and woke again in the early morning. When Oliver Twist was finished, and after it Hard Times, I was wretched with indecision. I felt I must read it all straight over again, and yet I was voracious for that long row of blue books. What was in them? I climbed up again, finally, and put Oliver Twist at the beginning, and began on the next one, which was David Copperfield. I resolved to read straight through the row and then begin at the beginning once more and read straight through again.

6.This program I carried on persistently, over and over, for about ten years, and after that I

still kept a Dickens book on hand, so to speak, to dip into and feel myself at home again.

Today I have for him a feeling which I have for no other human soul. He opened my eyes to people, he taught me to love all sorts of people, high and low, rich and poor, the old and little children. He taught me to hate hypocrisy and pious mouthing of unctuous words. He taught me that beneath gruffness there may be kindness, and that kindness is the sweetest thing in the world, and goodness is the best thing in the world. He taught me to despise money grubbing. People today say he is obvious and sentimental and childish in his analysis of character. It may be so, and yet I have found people surprisingly like those he wrote about —the good a little less undiluted, perhaps, and the evil a little more mixed. And I do not regret that simplicity of his, for it had its own virtue. The virtue was a great zest for life. If he saw everything black and white, it was because life rushed out of him strong and clear, full of love and hate. He gave me that zest, that immense joy in life and in people, and in their

variety.

7.This is what Charles Dickens did for me. His influence I cannot lose. He had made

himself a part of me forever.

Paragraph 1

Questions

1) How do you interpret the debt which the writer has owed since she was seven years old?

According to the context, the debt the writer has owed is not a sum of unpaid money, instead, it is her feeling of warm gratitude to Charles Dickens, who long ago in China rendered an inestimable service to her.

2) In the eyes of the writer, what is the best way to pay her debt to Charles Dickens?

As far as the writer can see, the best way to express her heartfelt thanks to Dickens is to write down what Charles Dickens did for her in China a long time ago.

W ords and Expressions

1. render:v. cause sb. or sth. to be in a particular condition; give sth.to sb.or do sth., because it is your duty or because sb. expects you to

e.g. He was rendered almost speechless by the news.

It is an obligation of ours to render assistance to those in need.

Derivation:

rendering: n.

Translation:

His fatness renders him unable to touch his toes.

他很胖，连自己的脚趾也够不着。

请你发出借欠清单。

Y ou will be expected to render an account of money that is owed.

2. inestimable: adj. too great, precious, etc. to be estimated

e.g. Y our advice has been of inestimable value to us.

The value of your assistance is inestimable.

Synonym:

invaluable

3. obligation: sth. that must be done because of a duty or promise

e.g. Y ou can look around the shop with no obligation to buy.

We attended the party more out of a sense of obligation than anything else.

我们参加那个聚会是迫于人情，而并无别的原因。

Derivations:

oblige: v.

obliged: adj.

Collocation:

under an obligation (to): having a duty (to)

e.g. We are invited, but we are under no obligation to go.

Translation:

Everyone has a legal obligation to provide the tax office with details of their earnings.

每个人都有法律义务向税务局提供自己的收入详情。

Sentences

1. My debt is to an Englishman, who long ago in China rendered an inestimable service to a small American child. (Paragraph 1)

Paraphrase: I cherish the feeling of warm gratitude towards an Englishman, who did an invaluable service to a small American child a long time ago in China.

Translation: 我亏欠了一个英国人的恩情，很久以前在中国，他为一个美国小女孩提供了无价的帮助。

2. I know no better way to meet my obligation than to write down what Charles Dickens did in China for an American child. (Paragraph 1)

Paraphrase: As far as I can see, the best way to express my warm gratitude to Charles Dickens is to put in black and white the inestimable service he rendered in China to an American child. Explanation: obligation: something that must be done because of a duty or promise Teachers have an obligation to treat all students equally.

Parents are under a legal obligation to educate their children.

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Questions

1) What is the message that is stressed in the second paragraph? (Paragraph 2)

While living in that remote rural area, the narrator as a small child was very alien to the people and was laughed playfully at and thought of as ugly and even unfortunate by them.

2) What is the message this is repeatedly emphasized? (Paragraph 3)

The repeated message is that as she grew into a bigger child, she still felt that she was alien and foreign to the people around.

4) What is the main idea of Paragraph 3? (Paragraph 3)

The main idea of Paragraph 3 is that as she still felt alien, and as her parents were too busy to pay any heed to her, she longed very much to have companios, but she had none.

W ords and Expressions

4. solitary: adj. spending a lot of time alone; doing sth. without any companion

e.g. One solitary tree grew on the mountainside.

Pandas are solitary creatures.

Synonym:

alone

Antonyms:

sociable; accompanied

5. treacherous:adj. behaving with treachery, (showing signs of) betraying a person or cause

secretly; dangerous, esp. when seeming to be safe

e.g. We cannot trust treacherous people.

The ice on the lake is treacherous, not as strong or thick as it looks.

Derivation:

treachery: n.

Synonym:

unreliable

6. linger: v. stay for a long time and be reluctant to leave; be slow; dawdle

e.g. She lingered after the concert, hoping to meet the star.

They lingered over coffee and missed the train.

Derivations:

lingerer: n.

lingering: adj.

Synonyms:

stay; remain

Collocations:

linger about/around/on

Translation:

The pain lingered on for weeks.

病痛持续了好几个星期。

事情是过去了，但人们对此记忆犹新。

The event is over, but the memory lingers on.

7 alien: adj. foreign; strange; unfamiliar; contrary

e.g. As she stayed in an alien land, she lived in an alien environment.

Such principles are alien to our religion.

Derivation:

alienate: v

Collocation:

alien to: very different in nature or character, esp. so different as to cause dislike or opposition e.g. Their ideas are quite alien to our way of thinking.

Antonym:

native

8. heed: v. give attention to; consider seriously

e.g.She didn’t heed my warning/advice.

Their offspring do not heed to what they say.

Derivations:

heed: n.

heedful: adj.

heedless: adj.

Collocations:

pay heed to

take heed (of sth.)

Sentences

1. First, you must picture to yourself that child, living quite solitary in a remote Chinese countryside, in a small mission bungalow perched upon a hill among the rice fields in the valleys below. (Paragraph 2)

Paraphrase: First, you need to form a mental image of that child, who was living a very lonely life in a distant Chinese rural area, and whose family lived in a small one-story house in a settlement where missionaries had their homes, the small one-story house located on a hill among the rice fields in the valleys below.

Explanation: It is to be noted that the modal verb must in this sentence indicates the narrator’s advice or recommendation to readers, and that the adjective "solitary" functions as subject complement, telling readers that the child was lonely when living in a remote Chinese countryside.

2.She lingered beside villages of boat folk, and saw them live, the babies tied to a rope and

splashing in the shallower waters. (Paragraph 2)

Paraphrase: She stayed near villages of fishermen and their families, reluctant to leave. She witnessed how they lived. She saw their babies fastened with a rope and sitting or standing in the shallower waters and playing with water.

Explanation: Waters means a mass of water in a river, lake, etc.; a sea or a large area of water near or belonging to a particular country

e.g. The waters of the lake flow out over a large waterfall.

The ship is moving through the stormy waters of the Atlantic.

The ship drifted into Turkish territorial waters.

The species are found in inland waters.

Translation: 她流连于渔民聚集的村落，观看他们的生活，许多婴儿都用绳子系着在浅滩里戏水。

3.She wandered small and alien among the farm folk ... (Paragraph 2)

Paraphrase: She walked slowly and aimlessly among the farming people. As a small child whose parents were from an alien land, she was strange and foreign to the local farmers. Explanation: Attention should be paid again to the adjectives "small" and "alien" that serve as subject complements in this sentence, meaning that she was small and alien when wandering among the farm folk.

Translation: 她，一个外国小孩，漫无目标地游走在村民中。

4.However kindly the people about her might be, and they were much more often kind

than not, she knew that she was foreign to them. (Paragraph 3)

Paraphrase: No matter how kindly and friendly the people around her might be, and they were very often kind indeed, she knew that she was alien to them.

Explanation: More often than not means very frequently; usually

More often than not the trains are crowded during the Spring Festival.

When it is foggy, the buses are late more often than not.

Translation: 无论周围的人们对她多友善，他们通常对她的确相当的友善，她知道自己对于他们仍是外国人。

5.And she wondered very much about her own folk and where they were and how they

looked and at what they played. (Paragraph 3)

Paraphrase: She wished very much to know about other children of her own culture; she was anxious to know their whereabouts and their appearances and the way they played. Explanation: Note the repetition of "and" in the sentence. It is repeatedly employed to emphasize her anxious state of mind and the chain of her psychological activities at that time.

6.… they were too busy to pay much heed to her and so she wandered about a great deal,

seeing and learning all sorts of things. (Paragraph 3)

Paraphrase: As her parents were so much preoccupied with their own work that they paid little attention to her, she often walked about slowly and aimlessly, observing and getting to know all kinds of things.

Explanation: Pay heed to means pay attention to; take notice of.

Y ou should pay much heed to the doctor's advice.

Their offspring do not pay much heed to what they say.

Translation: 他们太忙以至于不能很好地关心她，因此她常常四处徘徊，观看和学习各种各样的事物。

7.She longed very much, I can remember, to have some of them to play with. But she never

had them. (Paragraph 3)

Paraphrase: It’s still clear in my mind that she wanted very much to play with some other children like her. But she had none of them to play with.

Translation: 我记得她很渴望能和一群像她一样的孩子游戏，但她确从来没有这样的玩伴。

Activity:

Directions: Sit in rows or lines of five. The students in the first row / line are given one sentence, which they should recite to the next students. The sentences will be passed on until the last students, who will come to the blackboard to write down the sentences.

It is an obligation of ours to render assistance to those in need.

He is a solitary sort of fellow.

She lingered outside the school after everyone else had gone home.

Cruelty was quite alien to his nature.

Y ou should pay much heed to the doctor’s advice.

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Questions

1) Why did the narrator say, “She was an impossible voracious reader”? (Paragraph 4)

There were no books suitable for her to read in that remote village. Since she had the desire to read, she searched and read all the books she could find instead of being frustrated.

2) How does the narrator describe the way she read the novel Oliver Twist? (Paragraph 5)

One day, the author discovered the book named Olive Twist by Charles Dickens. She buried herself reading the book all day.

3) In what ways was the narrator greatly benefited or enlightened by Dickens? (Paragraph 6)

He opened her eyes to people, and taught her to love all sorts of people, to hate hypocrisy and pious mouthing of unctuous words. He gave her an immense zest for life, that immense joy in life

and in people, and in their variety. In short, the narrator learned many invaluable things from Charles Dickens.

4) What comments does the narrator make on Dickens? (Paragraph 6)

Dickens was a man of simplicity and has a great zest for life, and also a man full of hate and love.

5) Point out the sentences in Paragraph 6 that are parallel to each other. What rhetorical effect can

parallelism product? (Paragraph 6)

“He opened my eyes to people, he taught me to love all sorts of people, high and low, rich and poor, the old and little children. He taught me to hate hypocrisy and pious mouthing of unctuous words. He taught me that beneath gruffness there may be kindness, and that kindness is the sweetest thing in the world, and goodness is the best thing in the world. He taught me to despise money grubbing.” These sentences are characterized by parallelism, by virtue of which they are fluid and smooth, expressive and impressive.

9. isolate: v. separate; single; solitary; standing alone

e.g. Several villages have been isolated by the floods.

The poor girl from an isolated village was deeply impressed by the tall buildings in the city. Derivations:

isolation: n.

isolated: adj.

Collocations:

isolate sth. (from sth.)

in isolation

Translation:

科学家们已分离出引起这种流行病的病毒。

Scientists have isolated the virus causing the epidemic.

Comparison: isolate, insulate

insulate: protect sb./sth. from the unpleasant effects of sth.

e.g. Children are carefully insulated from harmful experiences

The royal family is insulated from many of the difficulties faced by ordinary people.

普通百姓面临的许多难处皇室成员都不必面对。

10. voracious:adj. having an extremely strong desire to do or have a lot of sth.

e.g. Teenagers usually have voracious appetites.

She is a voracious reader of biographies.

Derivation:

voracity: n. adj.

Synonym:

greedy

11. somber: (BrE: sombre) adj. dark-colored; dull and dismal; sad and serious

e.g. She prefers to wear somber clothes.

Y ou could see a sombre expression on his face that day.

Derivation:

somberness: n.

Synonyms:

serious; grave; dark

Translation:

A funeral is a sombre occasion.

葬礼是个悲伤的场合。

12. desperate:adj. feeling or showing great despair and ready to do anything regardless of danger;

in great need (of sth./to do sth.)

e.g. The prisoners grew more desperate with the approaching date of execution.

She is desperate for money.

Derivation:

desperation: n.

Collocation:

desperate for sth./to do sth.

Translation:

Have you got some water? I’m desperate for a drink.

你有水吗？我很想喝点。

我很想见到她。

I’m desperate to se e her.

13. peril:n. serious danger, esp. of death; a dangerous thing or circumstance

e.g. These birds are able to survive the perils of the Arctic winter.

这些鸟能在北极的严冬中生存。

The bicycle has no breaks. If you ride it, you will be in mortal peril.

Derivation:

perilous: adj.

Collocations:

at one’s peril: with a risk of harm to oneself (used esp when advising sb. not to do sth.)

in peril of one’s life: in danger of death

Synonym:

danger

14. descend: v. come or go down; lead downwards

e.g. The sun descended behind the hills.

The Queen descended the stairs.

Derivations:

descendant: n.

descended: adj.

Collocation:

descend on/upon: (of a group of people) to attack; to arrive, esp. in large numbers, to visit or stay with, often unexpectedly.

descend to: to lower oneself to

Antonym:

ascend

Translation:

I want to talk about all these points in descending order of importance.

我将按照重要性的程度先后谈谈这几点。

15. agile: adj. able to move quickly and easily

e.g. Monkeys are agile, hence the idiom “as agile as a monkey”.

This little boy has an agile mind.

Derivation:

agility: n.

Synonym:

nimble

16. rouse:v. (fml) waken

e.g. The noise roused me from/out of a deep sleep.

The speaker tried to rouse his listeners to action.

Derivation:

rousing: adj.

Collocations:

rouse from/out of

rouse to

Translation:

I warn you, he’s dangerous when he’s roused!

我警告你，他一旦被惹怒是非常可怕的。

17. wretched:adj. very unhappy, miserable or pitiable; causing unhappiness or misery

e.g. He is in bed with a bad cold, feeling rather wretched.

What wretched weather!

Derivation:

wretchedness: n.

Translation:

I feel wretched about having to disappoint her.

我因不得不让她失望而深感懊丧。

Why can’t that wretched child behave himself?

那孩子真讨人嫌，为什么他就不能规规矩矩的呢？

18. indecision:n. hesitation; the state of being unable to make a decision

e.g. She was standing outside the house in an agony of indecision.

At a critical moment, we should act decisively instead of being seized with indecision. Derivation:

indecisive: adj.

Antonym:

decision

19. resolve:v. decide firmly; determine; make a decision

e.g. Once she has resolved on doing it, you won’t get her to change her mind.

He resolved to work harder.

Synonym:

determine

Collocations:

resolve on

resolve to

Translation:

The committee resolved on appointing a new secretary.

委员会决议任命新的书记。

The Senate resolved, by 70 votes to 30, to accept the President’s budget proposals.

参议院以七十票对三十票通过决议同意总统的预算草案。

20. zest:n. a feeling of being enthusiastic, eager, excited, interested, etc.

e.g. Her zest for life is as great as ever.

He entered into our plans with terrific zest.

Derivation:

zestful: adj.

Synonym:

enthusiasm n.

Translation:

The element of risk gave an added zest to the adventure.

这种冒险成分给探险活动平添了几分乐趣。

The danger of being caught gave a certain zest to the affair.

做这种事情有被发现的危险，但这倒增加了刺激性。

Sentences

1.T o this small isolated creature, there came one day an extraordinary accident. (Paragraph

4)

Paraphrase: One day, something quite unusual happened to this little lonely girl.

Translation:有一天，这个孤独的小女孩遇到了件不平常的事。

2.She was an impossibly voracious reader. (Paragraph 4)

Paraphrase: She had an unbelievably strong appetite for reading.

Explanation: When used together with a person, the word "impossible" or "impossibly" usually indicates a meaning of behaving in a very unreasonable and annoying way. Therefore, the writer used "impossibly" here to emphasize that she had an unbelievably strong desire for reading. Translation: 对于读书，她的贪婪难以想象。

3.Then one day she looked doubtfully at a long row of somber blue books on a very high

shelf. (Paragraph 4)

Paraphrase: Then one day she stared at a long row of dark-colored blue books on a very high shelf, asking herself what kind of books they were.

Translation: 有一天她满脸疑惑地盯着一排放在高书架上的深蓝色书本。

4. burning to know more (Paragraph 5)

Paraphrase: wanting to find out something very much

Translation: 渴求获得更多的知识

5. …, I was wretched with indecision. (Paragraph 5)

Paraphrase: ..., I felt unhappy because I was unable to decide whether I should read it all straight over again or pick out a new book to read.

Translation: 犹豫不决真让我苦恼。

6.…, and after that I still kept a Dickens book on hand, so to speak, to dip into and feel

myself at home again. (Paragraph 6)

Paraphrase: ..., from then on I almost always had a Dickens book within easy reach to read and feel myself comfortably back once more on familiar territory.

Explanation: so to speak: used when you are saying something in words that do not have their usual meaning

e.g. We have to pull down the barriers, so to speak, of poverty.

The whole of life, so to speak, is involved in the pursuit of the good life. Translation: 从那以后，我仍然将一本狄更斯的书带在身边，可以说，这让我沉浸在一种身处家乡的舒适感受中。

7.He taught me to hate hypocrisy and pious mouthing of unctuous words. (Paragraph 6) Paraphrase: He taught me to hate both the act of pretending to be very good and insincere earnestness.

Explanation: The word "mouth", when used as a verb, is usually derogatory, often in the meaning of saying something that you don't really believe or you don’t understand.

Translation: 他教会我憎恨虚假伪善、油腔滑调。

Paragraph 7

Questions

1) What is the textual function of the first sentence of this paragraph?

The first sentence of Paragraph 7 plays the function of connecting the concluding part naturally with the beginning part of the text.

2) What is the main idea of this paragraph?

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Direction: The class is divided into several groups, and two students from each group take part in this activity. One student will paraphrase or explain the words showed on the screen, and the other one will guess the words. Each pair can use any method to help paraphrasing and guessing, including gestures, sentence examples, etc. The group which can guess the most words within given time wins.

Rules:

1) Each group must finish the guessing within one minute.

2) The guesser cannot look at the screen.

3) The one who explains can only speak English and is not allowed to mention the words showed on the screen.

Words for reference:

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年给我的一杆毛笔，挥毫写出一副春联。因为怕到时无暇向朋友们解释对联的意思，所以我还写出了它的法语译文。我还让一个英国朋友帮我把买来的红纸折成红包，以备装压岁钱之用。 我们盼望的日子终于来临了。大年初三是星期天，家里来了六十多位客人，老老小小聚在一起，共庆中国牛年的到来。对于来自全球 各地的朋友来说，我们确实做出一道道另人惊讶的菜式。我做了 " 蚂蚁上树 "，一种叫 " 花卷 "的螺旋状的馒头（我第一次做，它们看起来很奇怪，于是我拿不准一个 " 真正 "的中国人看到了会不会吃），还有盐水鸡。法国朋友们准备了宫堡鸡丁，红烧肉和广式炒饭；日本朋友们带来了寿司和鱼生沙拉；印度朋友们做了五香排骨和蚝油牛肉；越南朋友们准备了越南香肠和小月饼；而英国朋友们则带来了各种各样的美味糕点。那些不会做中国菜的朋友们就带来法国红酒和香槟。我们还特别准备了一些红卡片放到桌上，写上各个菜式中文和法语名字，让大家易于辨认。 对于传统菜式 " 蚂蚁上树 " 这个名字，朋友们发现它只是一个奇妙的 想象而已。不到半个小时，我们费了九牛二虎之力做出来的菜就被 一扫而光了。 年夜饭后，我们宣布发红包的时候到了，又向朋友们介绍说如果父母给小孩压岁钱，小孩就要跪下叩头。可是想不到的是当我端出满是红包的托盘时，小孩子们都跪下来向我叩头。我连忙扶起他们，再告诉他们只需要给自己的父母叩头。丈夫说这是他第一次见识到红包有如此大的威力。

综合商务英语1(已完成)综英第三版Chinese_food

Chinese Food "Few things in life are as positive as food, or are taken as intimately and completely by the individual. One can listen to music, but the sound may enter in one ear and go out through the other; one may listen to a lecture or. conversation, and day-dream about many other things; one may attend to matters of business, and one's heart or interest may be altogether elsewhere... In the matter of food and eating however one can hardly remain completely indifferent to what one is doing for long. How can one remain entirely indifferent to something which is going to enter one's body and become part of oneself? How can one remain indifferent to something which will determine one's physical strength and ultimately one's spiritual and moral fibre and well-being?" -- Kenneth Lo “生活中很少有什么东西象食物这样真切实在，或者说那么彻底的为个人接纳吸收。一个人可能在听音乐，但是音乐可以从一只耳朵进从另一只耳朵出；一个人可以在听讲座时胡思乱想；一个人可以在料理生意上的事务而他的心思和兴趣另有所属…….。而在吃饭就餐时，一个人几乎不可能长时间的对自己正在做的事完全无动于衷。一个人怎么能对即将进入身体并成为身体一部分的东西保持绝对的无动于衷呢？一个人怎么能对即将决定自己体力以及最终决定自己的精神和道德品质以及幸福安康的东西无动于衷呢？ ——肯尼斯·洛 This is an easy question for a Chinese to ask, but a Westerner might find it difficult to answer. Many people in the West are gourmets and others are gluttons, but scattered among them also is a large number of people who are apparently pretty indifferent to what goes into their stomachs, and do not regard food as having any ultimate moral effect on them. How, they might ask, could eating a hamburger or drinking Coca Cola contribute anything to making you a saint or a sinner? For them, food is quite simply a fuel. 这是一个中国人常问的问题，而西方人却很难作答。在西方，很多人都是美食家，还有其他一些是暴饮暴食者，而混杂于这两者中间的还有一种对吃进肚子的食物漠不关心的。这些人也许会问，吃一个汉堡，喝点可口可乐就会变成圣人或罪人？对于他们来说，食物就是一种能量。 Kenneth Lo, however, expresses a point of view that is profoundly different and typically Chinese, deriving from thousands of years of tradition. The London restaurateur Fu Tong, for example, quotes no less an authority than Confucius (the ancient Sage known in Chinese as K'ung-Fu-Tzu) with regard to the primal importance of food. Food, said the sage, is the first happiness. Fu Tong adds: "Food to my countrymen is one of the ecstasies of life, to be thought about in advance; to be smothered with loving care throughout its preparation; and to have time lavished on it in the final pleasure of eating." 肯尼斯·洛认却表达了一种截然不同的，典型的中国化的观点。这种观点源于从几千年中国文化。例如，一家伦敦餐馆的董福就引用了如同孔夫子（中国人陈这位古代圣人为孔夫子）的权威人士的话。圣者言，食乃是人生最大的幸福。董福还说：“食物对中国人来说是生活中的一大乐事，需要预先准备，需要精心烹饪，还要肯花时间去享受吃得乐趣。” Lo observes that when Westerners go to a restaurant they ask for a good table, which means a good position from which to see and be seen. They are usually there to be entertained socially -- and also, incidentally, to eat. When the Chinese go to a restaurant, however, they ask for a small room with plain walls where they cannot be seen except by the members of their own party, where jackets can come off and they can proceed with the serious business which brought them there. The Chinese intentions "are both honourable and whole-hearted: to eat with a capital E."