新编英语教程(基础英语)第三版4unit6课文详解及练习答案

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新编英语教程(基础英语)第三版4unit6课⽂详解及练习答案
netmeetingUnit Six
Text I
1.Pre-Reading Questions
Think about the following questions before you read the text.
1. How do people usually think of pearl? As an ordinary piece of jewellery? A thing of great value?
A uless ornament? Give reasons for your answer.
2. What might happen if a very poor person came into posssion of a very large pearl of great value? Think of two or three possibilities.
For your reference
(They are open questions. Let the students air their views freely and exerci their imagination.)
2.The Main Idea
Much of the language of the text is metaphorical, and that makes it difficult for you to understand the meaning of the passage quickly. But it is far from incomprehensible. Go over the text once, not too rapidly, and e how much you understand at first reading.
Now answer the following questions:
1.What point is made about the news in a town?
2.What was the news in the town?
3.Who were particularly interested in Kino’s pearl?
For your reference
Answers:
1.It travels fast.
2.That Kino had found the Pearl of the World.
3.The priest, the shopkeepers, the doctor, the beggars, the agents of the buyer of pearls.
3.Background Notes
(1) colonial animal
A colonial animal is an association of individual organisms that are incompletely parated. Life forms such as corals and moss animals are good examples of colonial animals. They are individual organisms that normally exist in mass of large collections.
4.Text
The Pearl
Kino, a poor fisherman, has just found a very large and valuable pearl and is going to the nearest town to ll it. He needs money urgently to get medical help for his baby who has just been stung by a scorpion. Before Kino found the pearl, the only doctor available had refud to treat the baby becau Kino could not afford to pay for the treatment.
A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. (1)A town is a thing parate from all other towns, so that there are no two towns alike. (2)And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News ems to move faster than small boys can (1)scramble and (2)dart to tell it, (3)faster than women can call it over the fences.
(4)Before Kino and Juana and the other fishers had come to Kino’s brush hou, the nerves of the town were pulsing and (3)vibrating with the news — Kino had found the Pearl of the World. Before panting little boys could strangle out the words, their mothers knew it. (5)The news swept on past the brush hous, and it washed in a foaming wave into the town of stone and plaster. It came to the pri
est walking in his garden, and it put a thoughtful look in his eyes and a memory of certain repairs necessary to the church. He wondered what the pearl would be worth. And he wondered whether he had baptized Kino’s baby, or married him (6)for that matter. The news came to the shopkeepers and they looked at men’s clothes that had not sold so well.
The news came to the doctor where he sat with a woman who illness was age, though
neither she nor the doctor would admit it. And when it was made plain who Kino was, the doctor grew (4)stern and
(5)judicious at the same time. “He is (7)a client of mine,” the doctor said. “I am treating his child for a scorpion sting.” And the doctor’s eyes rolled up a little in their fat hammocks and he thought of Paris. He remembered the room he had lived in there as a great and (6)luxurious place. The doctor looked past his (7)aged patient and saw himlf sitting in a restaurant in Paris and a waiter was just opening a bottle of wine.
The news came early to the beggars in front of the church, and it made them giggle a little with pleasure, for they knew that (8)there is no (8)alms-giver in the world like a poor man who is suddenly lucky.
Kino has found the Pearl of the World. In the town, in little offices, sat the men who bought pearls from the fishers. They waited in their chairs until the pearls came in, and then they (9)cackled and fought and shouted and threatened until they reached the lowest price the fisherman would stand. But there was a price below which they dared not go, for it had happened that a fisherman in despair had given his pearls to the church. And when the buying was over, the buyers sat alone and their fingers played (10)restlessly with the pearls, and they wished they owned the pearls. For there were not many buyers really —there was only one, and he kept the agents in parate offices to give a (9)(11)mblance of competition. The news came to the men, and their eyes (12)squinted and (10)their finger-tips burned a little, and each one thought how the (13)patron could not live forever and someone had to take his place. And each one thought how with some capital he could get a new
start.
All manner of people grew interested in Kino — people with things to ll and people with favors to ask. Kino had found the Pearl of the World. (11)The esnce of pearl mixed with esnce of men and a curious dark (14)residue was (15)precipitated. Every man suddenly became related to Kino’s pearl, and Kino’s pearl went into the dreams, the speculations, the schemes, the plans, the futures, the wishes, the needs, the lusts, the hungers, of everyone, and only one person stood in the way an
d that was Kino, so that he became curiously every man’s enemy. The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town; (12)the black (16)distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is (17)withheld. The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture (18)venom, and (13)the town (19)swelled and (20)puffed with the pressure of it.
By John Steinbeck (an excerpt)
Words and phras: (点击⽂中红⾊单词或词组,出现该红⾊部分及e.g.字样,再单击e.g. ,出现例句)
1.scramble:v. move somewhere in a hurried awkward way
< The man scrambled to his feet(=stood up very quickly and awkwardly)and hurried into
the kitchen.
Your students may scramble up the bank of the river to follow you.
2.dart: v. move suddenly and quickly in a particular direction
< His teacher darted forward and pulled him away from the fire.
The guard pulls the fire alarm, and the elevator stops, giving the pasngers time to
dart down the stairwell.
3.vibrate: v. shake quickly and continuously with very small movements
< The floor was vibrating to the beat of the music.janus
The a began to vibrate with waves that spread out in a circle.
4.stern: a. rious and strict, and showing strong disapproval of someone's behavior
< Father looked stern at us for a while, and then we went to watch him hunt.
Now it takes a stern soul to resist the temptation to check the headlines at least once
while you're away.
5.judicious: a. done in a nsible and careful way
< In an environment of multiple campaigns promoting judicious antibiotic u in children,
identification of effective strategies is important.
Meditators should learn how to be judicious without being judgmental.
6.luxurious: a. very expensive, beautiful, and comfortable
< She tried hard to retrieve her luxurious life.
The luxurious liner is cleaving through the waves.
汽车音响喇叭7.aged: a. advanced in years
< I well remember taking my aged grandfather across a road.
He is aged, but his memory is still good.
8.alms-giver: n. people who give money, food etc. to poor people
< But William is an entrepreneur, not just an alms-giver.
There can be no friendship between a beggar and an alms-giver.
9.cackle: v. laugh in a loud unpleasant way, making short high sounds
< The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine.
The teacher let us cut the cackle in the class.
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< I bought a ro and restlessly arched for her in the restaurant.
As for poor Leo, after turning restlessly for hours, at last he had dropped off into a
sleep or stupor.
11.mblance: n. a situation, condition etc. that is clo to or similar to a particular one, usually
a good one
< After the war, life returned to a mblance of normality.
Pursuing name brands can only create the mblance of wealth, not win actual respect.
12.squint: v. look at something with eyes partly clod in order to e better
< He also ems to be slightly blinded by the sun, causing him to squint.
Increa the text size if you can. Small text that forces you to squint is much harder on
the eyes.
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13.patron: n.someone who supports the activities of an organization, for example by giving money
< A patron of the arts should have deep pockets.
He was warmly welcomed at the annual meeting as a celebrated patron of the Hope Project. 14.residue: n. a substance that remains on a surface, in a container etc. and cannot be removed easily, or that remains after a chemical processsweet
< In the United States, shredders generate about 5 million tons of shredder residue every year.
Recently the reports on pesticide residue and unsafe bottled drinking water have
prompted government action.
15.precipitate: v. parate a solid substance from a liquid by chemical action, or to be parated in this way
< Diamond is precipitated from the kimberlite magma.
If the blood acid content incread, it will also precipitate the formation of stones.
16.distillate: n. a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling
< Most ships run on bunker fuel, which is cheaper than distillate, but more polluting.
U.S. distillate fuel consumption fell 4% last year as a mild winter curbed heating oil
u.
17.withhold: v. refu to give someone somethingbipt
< Jack was accud of withholding vital information from the police.
The boss withheld payment until they had completed the work.
rver is too busy是什么意思18.venom: n. a liquid poison that some snakes, incts etc. produce when they bite or sting you
< The infection or venom from the bite could kill my sheep.
The drugs are developed from the venom of poisonous snakes.
19.swell: v. become larger and rounder than normal, especially about parts of the body
< His ankle was already starting to swell.
The little girl’s arm was beginning to swell up where the bee had stung her.
20.puff: v. become bigger by increasing the amount of air inside, or to make something bigger in
this way
< He would surely puff out if he ate everything he wanted.
Her eyes were puffed from lack of sleep.
Notes (点击⽂中蓝⾊字体,出现该内容,再点击,出现下⾯的注释内容)
1. A town is a thing parate from all other towns
A town is detached from / apart from all other towns; in other words, each town is a parate
entity, not joined to or connected with any other town.
2.And a town has a whole emotion.
This is an example of metaphor. A town is compared to a living being with feelings of all kinds — love, joy, hate, fear, grief, etc.
4p什么意思3.faster than women can call it over the fences
faster than women can talk about it to their neighbours over the fences that parate their
homes
4.Before ... the nerves of the town were pulsing and vibrating with the news — Kino had
found the Pearl of the World.
Before ... the town was alive with the news that Kino had found the Pearl of the World. Here the author wants to show us how fast news travelled. Kino found the Pearl of the World when he was out fishing, but before he reached home, the news had already spread through the
whole town and was on everyone’s lips.
5.The news swept on past the brush hous and it washed in a foaming wave into the town
of stone and plaster.
The brush hous, referring to the hous in the area where the poor fishermen live, which is presumably just outside the town, form a strong contrast with the town of stone and plaster, where the priest, shopkeepers, doctor, and pearl buyers live. Note also how the author us the figurative language to make the scene more vivid, comparing the news to a body of
water that swept on and washed in a foaming wave.
temp6.for that matter
This phra gives emphasis to what he had said. In other words, if he had baptized Kino’s baby or had married him, Kino would be grateful to him and would show him his gratitude.

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