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Unit 4 Fun, Oh, Boy, Fun, You Could Die from it.
Key to the Exercis
Text comprehension
I. Decide which of the following best states the author's view on fun.
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II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or fal.
1. T (Refer to Paragraphs 5 to 10.)
2. T (Refer to Paragraph 7.)
3. F (Refer to Paragraphs 11 and 12. Big occasions like Christmas, wedding days, and honeymoons are suppod to be fun; however, they are not necessarily occasions of fun as the author points out in Paragraph 12 that "not much is (fun).")
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4. T (The statement suggests that fun does not only come from playing or enjoying onelf on weekends but also from working and the fulfillment of one's duty during weekdays.)
英文电子书5. F (When saying that tho days made her really regretful that she had to grow up, Jordan is not lamenting over the passage of the innocent childhood days. Instead, with this example, she aims to elucidate the esnce of fun.)
III. Answer the following questions.
1. Refer to Paragraphs 2 and 5. Most people believe that fun is and should be readily available whenever they want it. If there isn't fun, they would make fun, or if something is not fun, they would make it fun. In a word, they derve fun which is within their reach.
2. Refer to Paragraph 10. Advertiments, or TV commercials, help to develop the modern fun fetish by tting examples and showing how much fun we should have got from consuming all the items being advertid.
3. Refer to Paragraph 14. Jordan was twelve when she, as she remembers, had an especially wonderful time. She had a fun night to look forward to that day and she had lots of candies and her friend kept imitating a sailor's posture and words. All the were simple forms of fun yet appealing to a girl of twelve. More importantly, she was a simple, innocent girl without a dulled and insatiable appetite for fun; that is why she could feel the fun of simple joys.
4. The author employs the technique of negation -- i.e. defining a term through showing what it is not -- in defining the concept of fun. Fun, according to Jordan, is not a family visit to Disney World; neither is it celebrating big occasions. Fun is in simple pleasures of life which lie rather in one's work and the fulfillment of one's duty.
5. An open question; answers may vary.
IV. Explain in your own words the following ntences.
1. Nowadays, people believe that they can have fun whenever they want it, and that they should have fun; otherwi they would be leading a dull and bitter life as a puritan.
2. We have long assumed that fun was easy to have, but now we are paying a price for that shallow-mindedness, i.e., our party is hardly as much fun as it is expected to be.
Structural analysis of the text dote
Paragraph 12 is the turning point where the writer switches from negation to affirmation. With the last three paragraphs prented mostly affirmatively, the tone is thus turned from irony to matter-of-factness.
Rhetorical features of the text
Here is another example: "Think of all the things that got the reputation of being fun. Family outings were suppod to be fun. Sex was suppod to be fun. Education was suppod to be fun. Work was suppod to be fun. Walt Disney was suppod to be fun. Church was suppod to be fun. Staying fit was suppod to be fun." (Paragraph 6) The underlined part in the quotation displays the repetition of the pattern: "?was suppod to be fun," which shows, by way of illustration, how one might spare no effort to find fun in everything.
Vocabulary exercis
I. Explain the underlined part in each ntence in your own words.
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1. we would be morally too strict with ourlves to enjoy life
2. that made all other questions less significant
3. counting fun as the most important quality of lifeharbor
4. the best example of having fun
5. by nothing more than simple exposure
II. Fill in the blank in each ntence with a word taken from the box in its appropriate form.
1. overshadows 2. traip
3. fetish 4. flunked
5. swilling 6. flicked
7. epitome 8. licentiousness
III. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.
1. insured 2. underved
dettol3. generosity 4. benefits
5. regrettable 6. mirthful
7. blasphemy 8. reverence
IV. Fill in the blank(s) in each ntence with an appropriate phrasal verb or collocation taken from the text.
1. turn into
2. occurred to
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3. end up
4. step up
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6. look forward to
7. look for
