Unitone课前作业
毫不气馁的意思Unit one: Pre-reading class assignment
1. Finish exercis on page 5 and page 6 (2,3,4,5,6)
2. The passage is meant to be humorous, and the writer achieves this effect through
exaggeration. Try to find as many examples in this passage as you can?
3. Try to figure out the meaning of the culture-related expressions:
coffee morning; a gap year; a fresher’s fair; ballroom dancing;
bell-ringing; club night.
4. Features of a diary
Formal/Informal
Words(simple/formal),ntence length(long/short), passage(easy to
read/complicated)
Narrative consistent/ episodic, rambling
5. Are there any actual events, personal viewpoint, and ungrammatical ntences in this
passage? If Yes, plea find them out.
6. The essay of active reading 1 is an adapted article(改编的文章). The
following article is it’s original version. Plea find out the differences, and think
about which expression is better, and why?
Diary of a fresher
Sunday
1 After a wearisome expedition by car from home, we arrive at my hall of residence, and I check in. The warden gives me a t of keys and a room number. My room is five floors u
p, and the lift has a sign on it, “Out of order”. Finally, with my mother flushed and gasping for breath, we find Room 8, I unlock the door, and we all walk in.
2 After one minute, my father climbs out. The room is barely big enough for one, and certainly not big enough for the whole family. I can stretch out full-length on the bed and touch three walls without moving a muscle.
3 Lucky my brother and my dog didn’t come too.
冲上云霄2英文插曲4 Later. My parents have just left. I’m here alone, hemmed in by my books and a suitca. What do I do next?
Monday
5 There’s a coffee morning for first-year students. I meet my tutor, a lofty man with
travel是什么意思sloping shoulders, who looks determined to be affable.
6 “Have you come far?” He peers down at me. As he speaks, his head jerks wildly
anyway是什么意思
from side to side, which makes his coffee spill into the saucer.
7 “I live not far from Edinburgh, about six hours away,” I explain.江南style 歌词
8 “Splendid!” he says, and moves on to the freshman standing beside me. “Have
you come far?” he asks, “splendid,” he barks, without waiting for the answer, and
moves on. He takes a sip of coffee, and looks thunderstruck to discover the cup is
empty.
9 My mother calls. She enquires if I’ve met my tutor yet.
Tuesday
10 Am feeling a bit peckish, and it occurs to me that I haven’t eaten for two days. I go downstairs and stumble across the dining hall, where I can have three meals a day. I go down and join a lengthy file of people winding its way out into the open.
11 “What’s for breakfast?” I ask the guy in front of me.
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12 “No idea. I was too late for breakfast. This is for lunch.”
13 It’s lf-rvice and today’s menu includes chicken, rice, potatoes, salad, vegetables, chee, yoghurt and fruit. The boy in front piles it all onto his plate, pays for it, and goes to sit down. I em to have lost my appetite.
14 My mother calls. She asks if I’m eating proper meals.
Wednesday
15 I have a lecture at 9 am. I wake up at 8.45. No one has woken me. Weird.
16 I pull on some clothes, and dash over to the lecture hall. I sit down beside a girl who looks half asleep. She inspects me. “Just got up?” she asks. How can she tell?
17 The lecture takes an hour, and at the end I look at my notes. I can’t read my handwriting.
18 The girl’s name is Sophie and she’s an English literature major, like me. She looks frighteningly intelligent, and when we chat after the lecture, she tells me she read the无锡一对一
whole of this term’s reading list during her gap year. She’s a bit impressive, and I feel so ignorant … I don’t even think I should breathe the same air as her.
19 Mum calls. She asks if I slept OK.
Thursday
20 It’s the Freshers’ Fair today, and Sophie and I go along to e how many clubs we can join. We concur that we want to make a lot of friends, so I sign up for ballroom dancing, the Artificial Intelligence Society, bell ringing and the Extreme Sports Club. Sophie signs up for Amateur Dramatics and the Mozart choir. I wonder if Sophie and I are going to stay buddies.
21 Mum calls. My brother has tried to rent out my bedroom back home. Mum reassures me that it’s mine for as long as I need it, that it’s my home and that they miss me very mu
ch, especially the dog. I burst into tears.
Friday
applicant22 In the morning, I go to the library. But it ems I need some form of identification. But I don’t have an ID card yet. For some reason, I also have to swear that I won’t damage the books or break the library rules, and if I do, I’ll be nt to prison. (What!? For speaking too loudl y?) It ems that it’s a very old library, and the university is inordinately proud of it.
