大英IIIUnit2课文翻译和练习答案
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Unit 1
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Pre-reading Activities
Instructions for teachers: Pre-teach esntial new vocabulary. Tell the students they're going to hear a conversation about Western traditions of courtesy toward women, but before they listen they should brainstorm what forms of traditional courtesy they know about (question 1 in the students' book). During the first listening, they should check to e if any of their ideas are mentioned; then they should listen again to find the answers to the questions marked 2 in the Students' Book.
1. This is an open-ended question with no "correct" or "incorrect" answers, but other ideas might
be opening doors for women, helping them carry heavy things, holding their chairs when they sit down, etc.
2. Checking for the mention of polite gestures that they have thought of is an open-ended
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a) Where do you imagine the incident the woman describes took place?
Certainly at the entrance to a building — probably an apartment building.
b) What courtesy did she expect?
She expected the man to open the door for her.
十大茶叶c) What, in the man's view, is the basis of a lot of common courtesy?
The notion that women are too weak to cope with everyday reality.
3. The are open-ended questions with no "correct" or "incorrect" answers.
Listening Passage:
Germaine: So there I was, struggling to get the door open without dropping my bags, and this guy just stood there staring at me with a look of total confusion on his face. I don't understand. I think if it'd been a woman, she would've opened the door for me. Or if I'd been a man, he would've opened the door for me. It was a simple ca of one human being needing a hand from another human being, and all this guy could do was stare stupidly at me.
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Hugh: I don't blame him — how was he suppod to know you wouldn't bite his head off for offering help? A lot of women get mad nowadays when a guy offers to help them with something. Men just don't know how to act anymore.
G: That's exactly my point! Something's gone wrong. Surely the idea of equal rights for women wasn't meant to prevent common courtesy.
H: Well, but a lot of what you call common courtesy is bad on the notion that women are too weak to cope with everyday reality.
G:[getting angrier and angrier] Oh yeah?! Well, maybe too much of what you call everyday reality was designed without thinking of women. Why is the door so heavy? Why are the shelves in shops and libraries so high?? Why aren't babysitters provided for free00? [wildly] Why was I the one carrying all tho heavy shopping bags H;Ow, don't hit me!
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Text Comprehension
II. Respons to the questions are open-ended, but the general idea is:
1. The attitude that women should be grouped with children in getting "priority ating" on
lifeboats.
2. Becau it is so clearly contrary to modern views of women's rights; becau it is insulting to
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3. He gives examples from recent newspapers:
"The invaders gunned down the Indians, most of them women and children ..."
"As many as 200 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed ..."
"At the massacre in Ahmici 103 Muslims, including 33 women and children, were killed ..."
4. He considers it appropriate, becau children are both helpless and innocent.
5. He es it as attributing to women the same dependence and moral simplicity we find in
children.
6. In 1912 women had few rights and privileges, and being given special consideration in times
of emergency was a form of "compensation" for this inequality. But now that women have much greater equality, there is no justification for giving them special privileges or for treating them like children.
7. It's depressing and (implied) wrong to treat women as if they were merely "egg-layers."
8. Fathers and mothers sharing equally in the responsibilities of bringing up children.
9. It's applicable only in a limited number of situations and therefore fails to resolve the whole
problem. 10. The author's vision is that everyone might drown out of stubborn idealism.
Other possible endings might be:
Seats on the lifeboats might go to whoever has the speed/strength to get and keep them; the women on board might accept the traditional "priority ating"; each individual might make his or her own decision about whether to yield a at to someone el; or ... you'll e the students will come up with their own ideas!
