Lesson one

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Lesson one

• Rock Superstars What Do They Tell Us About
  Ourselves and Our Society

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• Pre-reading questions You can just browse and
  think about the questions or just answer one of
  them.
• How many famous stars do you know popular
  nowadays?

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• How many old pop stars can you name?
• Do you have any idols like pop singers, movie
  stars, or someone else

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• Who are they?
• Why do you like them?
• Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion,
  Madona, Michael Bolton, Michael Jackson,
  Carpenters, Eagles, Air Supply, Back street boys,
  to name just a few

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• Reflections
• 1. Do you think it a good idea
• to have an idol?
• 2. Can you analyze the social background and
  reasons?

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I. Main idea

• The story begins from a rock music concert in
  the mid-June, 1972 in Chicago Amphitheater. From
  a sociological point of view, the author
  discusses the social meaning of rock music. In
  the first three chapters, the author uses the
  same method to describe the great situation of
  the performance given by the three rock stars.

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On the one hand, young people treat them as idols
with continuous praises, on the other hand, the
adults hold a negative view to the rock music
stars, and they think that rock music is
disgusting and they cannot stand it. This shows
the opposite view towards the rock music between
the young and the adults.
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Then the author points out that rock music is a
kind of showing of social mentality. It
represents the era at the moment and is the front
place of different thoughts. In this forum of
debate, rock stars have expressed not only
youngsters attitude and stand towards various
social issues, but also their feelings and wishes.
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By doing so, it can help society explain its
belief and attitude. In the end of the text, the
problem given in the subtitle reappears,
intending to encourage readers to consider the
problem seriously.
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• II. Background knowledgeRock music A form of
  popular music that is characterized by a
  pronounced, amplified beat. Electric guitars are
  almost always the main instrumental sound source.
  The modern rock bands basic elements are one or
  more vocalists, an electric lead guitar and bass
  guitar and drums.

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• A rhythm guitar is often included, and many
  bands also use keyboards. Rock-and-roll was
  coined in the mid-1950s by a Cleveland
  broadcaster, Alan Freed, to replace
  rhythm-and-blues-a term that Freed thought had
  too many racial overtones. (It was being called
  race music in some quarters at the time.)

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• Rhythm-and-blues was itself an urbanized
  stylization of the blues, which bad been
  developed mainly by rural or country-oriented
  black musicians. When the music was renamed
  rock-and-roll, it also underwent an elemental
  change, particularly when white performers saw
  how eagerly young audiences responded.

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• White music-that is essentially conventional
  popular music with a decided country-and-western
  flavor-was blended with rhythm-and-blues, and
  young people continued to hold a proprietary
  attitude about it. Rock went through its share of
  phrases and participated in a number of pop
  culture fads.

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• Rolling Stones?? Album Rock(????)
  Blues-Rock(????) British Blues(????) British
  Invasion(????) British Psychedelia(????) Hard
  Rock(??) Pop/Rock(??/??) Psychedelic(????) Rock
  Roll(??)

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• 1962?7?21?"THE ROLLING STONES"???????.1963??????
  ?????ltltCOME ONgtgt.???????????????ltltI WANNA BE YOUR
  MANgtgt??1964?1???????????.??2???????????ltltNOT FADE
  AWAYgtgt .

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• ??????????ltltIT'S ALL OVER NOWgtgt????,????????????
  ???????.???????????????????.????????????????????,?
  ?????????????????,??????????????.

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• 1965??????ltltSATISFACTIONgtgt???????????.??????????
  ???????????.???????"THE ROLLING
  STONES"???????.?????????????????????,
  ?????????????????????.?????????"THE ROLLING
  STONES"?????????????????????????????????ltltSATISFAC
  TIONgtgt.

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• Elvis Presley ???????(??) Elvis Presley Elvis
  Presley ?1935?1?8??????????????? (East
  Tupelo)?????????Elvis ??????,???????????????????,?
  ?????????????????,???Elvis????????????1948?,13??El
  vis ?????????????? ?????RB??????CW??????,Elvis??
  ???????????????

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• 1953?,??????Elvis?????????, ???????Sun?????????
  My Happiness?Thats When Your Heartaches
  Begin????????????????Elvis????Sun????,???????????
  ,????That's Alright Ma Ma ?????????7000?,???????
  ????????1955?Elvis????????????,????????Elvis
  Presley,????Heartbreak Hotel????????,Elvis?????
  ????????

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• The Black-board Jungle ??????????Elvis
  ???????,????????? ????Elvis Presley
  ???????????????,?????????????????Elvis
  ?????????????????,??????????????????? ???
  ??????????Presley ??????,50???????????,????Elvis
  Presley ????????

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• ?Heartbreak Hotel??,??Hound Dog?Love Me
  Tender?Don't Be Cruel????????????????????,?????
  ?????Elvis ??????????????????????????????????
  ???????????????

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• Bob Dylan  ???? 1941?5?24?,Bob
  Dylan?????????????????????????,????????????,??????
  ?????,??????????
•     

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• 1961?4??1?,Bob Dylan????????????????,?????????
  ????,???????????????????10?,?Bob Dylan????Bob
  Dylan????????,???????????????Bob
  Dylan?????????,??????????,??????????    

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• 1963??,Bob Dylan????????,?BBC????????????,??,
  ????????????????5?,??? The Freewheeling Bob
  Dylan ??,???????????????Blowing in the wind
  ???????????????????Bob Dylan????????,???22?
•     

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• 1964?,???? The times they are changing
  ????????20??????????????????10?,?????Bob
  Dylan??????,????????????????????????,???????,????
  ??????

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Bob Dylan????????????,???????????,???????????????,
?????????????????????????,????????????????????????
????????????
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• 1965?,Bob Dylan????????,???????????,??????????????
  ?????,?????????????????Bob Dylan????????????????
  ?????????,??????????????40?,??????????6????   

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•  Bob Dylanlonde on blonde ?????9????,?Bob
  Dylan1966?8????????????,???????????????????????
      ??,Bob Dylan??????????????????????????Like
  a rolling stone(??????2?)?Positive Forth
  Street?Rainy day women ????????,??????????????????
  ?

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• Bob Dylan?????????????,??????,?????????????,??????
  ?????,????,?????????????????Bob
  Dylan????????????????,????????????????????????????
  ,???????????????

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•  1966?7?29?,??????????????????,Bob
  Dylan??????????????,????????????1968?Bob
  Dylan?????,??????????????????????????????????????
  ???????? John Welsley  Harding ?1969?? Nashville
  Skylive ,?????????????,??????????????????????10?
  ?????    

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• Bob Dylan???????,??70??,???????,????????????,?
  ?????????????,1974??Planet Waves,1975?? Bob
  Dylanlood on the tracks,1979??Slow train
  coming,1985??????????80???????,???????????????
      

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• ??90??,?????Bob Dylan????????????????????????????,
  ??,??????????????,Bob Dylan???????

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• ?????????,??.???????????,??????????????????????
  ? ??.??1943??????????????,??????,???????????8?????
  ?????,???????

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• ???????????????,??1971?????,??????????????,?????
  ??????????????????(Country road)?????
   1972?????????(Rocky Mountain
  High)??????,???????????????????

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• ????????,?????,?????????????????????????????????
  ?????,????????????????,?????????????????????????
  ??????????????????????,???????????????21??????4???
  ????

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• ???????(Old Guitar)???????????(Annies
  song)?????????1975 ????????????????,????,?????????
  ?????70??,???????,?????????????... ?????????????
  ?????,??????????????????(Perhaps Love)?

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• 1979?1???????,?????????????????????????.??????
    ??.??1980???????,???????????????,??????????????
  ???(Shanghai Breezes),????????????????????????

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•   1997??????,??????John Denver??????????????,?????
  ??????????John Denver?????,???????,??????????,????
  ?????...?????????????(Forest Lawn)??????????
  ????

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III. Vocabulary and phrases

• 1. Vocabulary
• 1.Vocabulary
• Amphitheater n.????????, ???, ????????

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• Swelter vi vt.
• 1)   to be uncomfortable warm to suffer from the
  heat ?????
• 2) to oppress with heat ???
• ?? sweltering adj.- a sweltering hot day ?????

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Rock n.??, ??, ??, ??vt.??, ???vi.?,
??Onstage adj.??????, ???, ?????Rambler
n.???, ???, ????
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Critic n.???, ???, ?????Grab v.??, ??, ?? Jug
n.??, ??, ?????????vt. ????, ?, ??vi. ?????
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• Sprinkle v. to scatter in drops or small grains
  ?,?, ?, ??
• eg sprinkle sand along the icy path
• ??????????
• Coliseum n.????, ???,??????
• Pilgrimage n.??
• vi.??, ??

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Ban v. to prohibit, forbid or bar ?? ??-ban
nuclear weapons/pirated audio and video products
?????/??????-The dictator banned all the
newspapers and books that criticized his regime.
??????????????????
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• ?? prohibit taboo outlaw proscribe
• ?? allow
• n. an act of prohibiting by law ?? ??

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• ??
• -lift (remove) the ban ?? ??
• -place (put) under a ban ??
• Ghoulish adj of or like a ghoul very unpleasant
  gruesome ????? ????? ???????ghoulish behavior,
  laughter, stories ?????????????

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• Guillotine n
• 1 machine of French origin for cutting peoples
  heads off, consisting of a heavy blade which
  slides in grooves and is dropped from a height
  (?????)???

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• 2 machine with a long blade for cutting or
  trimming large quantities of paper (eg in
  book-binding ) or for cutting metal ??? (??) ???
  3 (fig Brit politics ??, ?) setting of a time
  limit for discussion of a bill in Parliament so
  as to prevent it being obstructed by too much
  debate (???) ???????)

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• Guillotine vt use the guillotine on (sb/sth)
  ??????(??) ??????????(??) (???) ????(??)

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• Adulation n u excessive admiration or praise
  flattery ?? ?? ?? ?? the fans adulation of
  their favorite pop stars ??????????????????
• His undisguised adulation to his boss revealed
  his ambition.
• ???????????, ???????.

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• ??
• Adulatory adj???
• Adulate v (back formation from adulation)
• eg The leaders are easily adulated.
• ????????

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• Surge v. to move, esp. forward, in or like
  powerful waves ??,??
• Eg. The crowd surged past him.
• ???????????

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Reverence n. great respect and admiration ??, ??,
??, ??, ??, ???...?? vt.??, ??, ?? Eg People
still reverence the name of Mahatma
Gandhi. ??????????????
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• Reverent adj. Having a feeling of reverence ???
• Eg reverent behavior
• Reverential adj. Respected ???
• Eg reverential movement of the head
• ????

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• Sociologist n. ????,????
• Disaffection n. the absence of affection or
  goodwill political disloyalty ?? ?? ????
• -Disaffection often leads to outright treason.
• ?????????????

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• ?? dis (????) affection (??)
• ??disaffect vt.
• -The dictators policies had soon disaffected the
  people.
• ?????????????????
• ?? disaffected adj.
• Discontented and disloyal, as toward the
  government or toward authority ??????

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• Bewilderment n. state of being puzzled or
  confused completely, perplexed ?? ??
• -He looked at me in open-mouthed bewilderment.
• ?????????????
• ?? bewilder vt. To puzzle to confuse ??????
• -these shifting attitudes bewilder me.
• ????????????????

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• ?? mystify nonplus confuse puzzle confound
  stagger
• -Tom was bewildered by the examination questions.
• ???????????????
• Bewildering adj. Extremely confusing ???????
  ?????
• -a bewildering schedule of events ???????????

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• editorialize vi. To set forth ones opinion on
  some subject in an editorial ???????
• ?? editorial (???) (??????)
• ?? edit vt.
• 1)   to collect, prepare, and arrange for
  publication ??
• 2)   to revise and correct a manuscript??
• 3) to prepare a movie or tape recording by
  putting parts in a suitable sequence ??
• to arrange data for computer processing ??

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• 1)   ?? editorial adj.
• Of an editor ??? ???
• -the editorial office ???
• -the editorial office ???
• -editorial work ????

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• n. c special article or discussion of news in a
  newspaper,etc. usu, written by the editor ????
• -There is an editorial on this subject in the
  Peoples Daily.
• ??????????????
• Editor n. a person who edits ??

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• Edition n.
• 1)   form in which a book is published ?
• 2)total number of copies (of a book, newspaper,
  etc.) issued from the same types ??
• Piety n.??, ?? filial piety ????
• Lyric n.???, ??
• adj.(?)???, ???

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• Conceive vt.
• 1)   to form (an idea, plan, etc.) in the mind
  ???? (??,??)
• -Who first conceived the idea of filling bags
  with gas to make balloons? ???????????????????????
  
• -I cant conceive of your allowing the child to
  travel alone.
• ??????????????????

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• 2)to hold as an opinion to think to believe ??
• -I cant conceive that it would be of any use.
• ??????????
• 3)to become pregnant with ??
• -conceive a child??
• 4) to hold a hatred/an aversion/prejudices
  ??????

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• Embody v. express ??
• Eg Words embody thought.
• ??????
• Embodiment n. ??,???
• Eg His enemies called him the embodiment of
  evil.
• ???????????

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• Bewilder v. confuse
• Eg Big citys traffic bewilders me.
• ?????????????
• Bewilderment n.
• Eg imagine my bewilderment when she did that.
• ???????????????

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• Rebellion n. an act or the state of rebelling
  ??,??
• Eg A little rebellion now and then is a good
  thing.
• ??????????
• Rebel v.
• Eg The slaves rebelled against their masters.
• ???????????

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• Rebellious adj.
• Eg rebellious behavior
• ????

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• 2. Phrases
• a range of
• a row, line or series of things ?? ??
• -a range of buildings ?????
• -a wide range of styles ???????

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• act out
• 1)     to demonstrate or illustrate by pantomime
  or by words or gestures ?? ??
• -The party guests acted out stories for one
  another.
• ?????????????????

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• 2) to perform actions which represent, and may
  help release the fears, inhibitions, etc. ??
• -The patients acted out early traumas by getting
  angry with the analyst. ????????????????????
• Crunch up to
• Crunch vt., vi. ??????,?, ?????

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• The frozen snow crunched under the wheels of our
  car.
• ?????????????(??up, through??)?????????
• to crunch through the snow
• ?????????
• to crunch up the gravel path
• ??????????????
• Crawl on my knees

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• vi.??, ??, ????
• n.??, ??, ?????
• Drawn to
• Pulled to attracted to ???
• -The audience was drawn to the speaker by his
  eloquence.
• ?????????????
• Get away from
• To leave to escape ?? ??

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• -The racehorse got away from the starting gate.
• ??????????
• He tried to get away from the stadium, but the
  crowd was too dense.
• ????????, ????????

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• Civil rights ????,????
• In other words
• To say otherwise to put it differently ???
• In other words, I cant afford the luxury. ????,
  ??????

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• In return As payment ????
• -In return for his hospitality, we invited him to
  visit us. ????????????, ??????????
• Mix sth. into sth
• To make a number of things come together
  ??????????
• -He sings beautifully because he always mixes his
  feelings into his songs. ??????,
  ??????????????????

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• Speak of ??, ??
• Tune for
• To tune for ones musical instrument for
  performance ???????
• -The orchestra were tuning for the concert when
  the distinguished guests walked into the concert
  hall. ???????????, ?????????????

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• IV. Sentence and Discourse analysis (text
  explanation)
• Jagger, he said, grabs a half-gallon jug of
  water and runs along the front platform,
  sprinkling its contents over the first few rows
  of sweltering listener---
• Sprinkling-?????????,???????????????,?????????????
  ?????????
• We worked there for a week, helping them to
  prepare for the international conference.
• -
• -?????
• We worked there for a week, helping them to
  prepare for the international conference.

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• ????????,??????????????????
• ???????
• Standing on the mountain, one could see the whole
  city. (??)
• Standing on the mountain, the whole city could be
  seen. (??)

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• He ends it by pretending to end his life-with a
  guillotine. His head drops into a straw basket.
  He ended his singing show by pretending to lie
  on a guillotine and having his head cut off
  which then rolled into a straw basket. The
  present tense is used here to make the show
  dramatic and vivid. ???????????,???????????
• He ended his singing show by pretending to lie

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• Ooh, grasped a girl dressed in black.
• Dressed in black ???????,??????? who was dressed
  in black?
• They think he is sick, sick, sick.
• They think his performance is disgusting.

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• How can you stand that stuff?
• Stand bear, tolerate
• Eg 1. This work will hardly stand close
  examination.
• ????????????
• 2. No one can stand his behavior.
• ??????????

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• Bob Dylan and the Band were tuning for a concert.
• Tune set a musical instrument at proper musical
  level ?????
• Do you share Chris Singers almost religious
  reverence for Bob Dylan?
• Share to be among those who have an opinion
• Eg 1. We cant share your faith that everything
  will be all right.
• ??????????????,??????

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• 2. Do you share my advice?
• ?????????
• Do you think he-or Dylan-is misguided?-Who do you
  think is misled or mistaken, Christmas Singer or
  Bob Dylan?

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• Or are you drawn somehow to this strange clown---
• Draw attract
• E.g.1. The film is drawing big audience.
• ????????????
• 2. They feel drawn towards her.
• ?????????

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• a place where ideas clash and crash. -A place
  where different ideas oppose and conflict each
  other vehemently. Clash and crash is an instance
  of alliteration (repetition of two or more sounds
  within two words) or consonance (??repetition of
  two or more sounds within two words) or cacophony
  (????use of harsh, imitating sounds). Clash and
  crash is also used metaphorically. clash
  ?crash ??,???????????,????????

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• It is they alone who combine invention and
  exaggeration.
• It is---who---????,?????that ?who (??),???when,
  where, why ??
• Eg It was on the street that I saw him last
  time.
• It was Mr. Li who repaired the desks and
  chairs on Sunday.

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• Rock music he says is really a sociological
  expression rather than a musical force.
• Rather than more, in a greater degree
• Eg1. John ought to go rather than Jean.
• ?????????
• 2. These shoes are comfortable rather than
  pretty.
• ??????????

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• Its just that Elvis managed to embody---- Manage
  to succeed in dealing with a difficult action
• Eg1. She managed to carry the heavy box.
• ??????????????
• 2. How can you manage to work out this
  problem?
• ???????????????

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• Newspapers editorialized against him.
• Newspapers carry the editors articles attacking
  him.
• The beatles, --- urged peace and piety, with
  humor and maybe a little help from drugs. The
  Beatles insisted on peace and respect, and they
  did this in a humorous way and by using drugs. A
  little help from drugs is an understatement used
  to illustrate the cynical attitude of the
  Beatles.??????? little help, ??? ??????? ?

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• ---get away from it all---escape from all the
  boredom, corruption, and evils caused by the
  modern society. ???????????????????,????????
• ---while the lyrics celebrate the simple joys or
  the good old days. --- while the lyrics praise
  the simple yet happy way of life of the
  past.?????, ????????? ????????,????? ?

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• These rock musicians mirror feelings and beliefs
  that help us see and form our own.
• They reflect emotions and outlooks.
• What do we give them in return?
• In return in exchange, in payment for
• E.g. Give her some roses in return for her
  kindness.
• ??????????????

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• National opinion poll-collection of opinions
  throughout the country..
• And I laughed to myself at the men and the
  ladies. And I laughed secretly at the men and
  the ladies. Here the men and the ladies are
  used with a mocking tone, implying that they are
  very naïve, even stupid. ???????????,???????????,?
  ?????

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• Who never conceived of us billion-dollar babies.
• Conceive of think of, consider
• E.g. 1. Its difficult to conceive of traveling
  to the moon.
• ?????????????
• 2. In the old times the earth was
  conceived of as flat.
• ????????????

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• Text and version
• Rock Superstars
• What Do They Tell Us About Ourselves and Our
  Society?

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• Rock is the music of teenage rebellion.
• -John Rockwell, rock music critic
• By a man s heroes ye shall know him.
• -Robert Penn Warren, novelist

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• It was mid-June, 1972, the Chicago
  Amphitheater was packed, sweltering, rocking.

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• Onstage, Mike Jagger of the Rolling Stones was
  singing Midnight Rambler. Critic Don Heckman
  was there when the song ended. Jagger, he said,
  grabs a half-gallon jug of water and runs along
  the front platform, sprinkling its contents over
  the first few rows of sweltering listeners. They
  surge to follow him, eager to be touched by a few
  baptismal drops.
• It was late December, 1973, Some 14,000
  screaming fans were crunching up to

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• the front of the stage at Capital Center,
  outside Washington, D,C. Alice Cooper, Americas
  singing ghoul, was ending his act. He ends it by
  pretending to end his life-with a guillotine. His
  head drops into a straw basket. Ooh, gasped a
  girl dressed in black. Oh, isnt that
  marvelous? Fourteen-year-old Mike Perlie was
  there too, but his parents weren't. They think
  hes sick, sick, sick, Mike said. They say to
  me, How can you stand that stuff?

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• It was late January, 1974. Inside the Nassau
  Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, Bob Dylan and
  The Band were tuning for a concert. Outside, in
  the pouring rain, fan Chris Singer was waiting to
  get in. This is pilgrimage, Chris said. I
  ought to be crawling on my knees.
• How do you feel about all this adulation
  and hero worship? When Mick Jaggers fans look at
  him as a high priest or a god, are you with them
  or against them? Do you share Chris Singers
  almost religious reverence for

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• Bob Dylan? Do you think he-or Dylan-is
  misguided? Do you reject Alice Cooper as sick? Or
  are you drawn somehow to this strange clown,
  perhaps because he acts out your wildest
  fantasies?
• These aret idle questions. Some
  sociologists say that your answers to them could
  explain a lot about what you are thinking and
  about what

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• you are thinking and about what your society is
  thinking-in other words, about where you and your
  society are. Music expresses its times, says
  sociologist Irving Horowitz. Horowitz sees the
  rock music arena as a sort of debating forum, a
  place where ideas clash and crash.

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• Arena a place of combat ???, ??
• University campus is an arena of love, torture,
  and grow up.
• Life is a big arena for you to show and develop
  yourself.

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• He sees it as a place where American society
  struggles to define and redefine its feelings and
  beliefs. The redefinition, Horowitz says, is a
  task uniquely performed by the young. It is they
• alone who combine invention and exaggeration,
  reason and motion, word and sound, music and
  politics.

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• Todd Rundgren, the composer and singer,
  agrees. Rock music, he says, is really a
  sociological expression rather than a musical
  force. Even Elvis Presley wasnt really a great
  musical force. Its just that Elvis managed to
  embody the frustrated teenage spirit of the
  1950s.

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• Of course Presley horrified adult America.
  Newspapers editorialized against him, and TV
  networks banned him. But Elvis may have proved
  what Horowitz and Rundgren believe.

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• When he appeared on the Ed. Sullivan Sunday
  night variety show in front of millions, a kind
  of debate took place. Most of the older viewers
  frowned, while most of the younger viewers
  applauded.
• Between Elvis and Alice, rock critics
  say, a number of rock stars have helped our
  society define its

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• beliefs and attitudes. Bob Dylan touched a
  nerve of disaffection. He spoke of civil rights,
  nuclear fallout, and loneliness. He spoke of
  change and of the bewilderment of an older
  generation. Somethings happening here, he
  sang. You dont know what it is, do you, Mr.
  Jones?

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• Others entered the debate. The Beatles,
  Horowitz said, urged peace and piety, with humor
  and maybe a little help from drugs. The Rolling
  Stones, arrogant street-fighting men, demanded
  revolution. The Jefferson Airplanes We Can Be
  Together and Volunteers (Got a Revolution)
  were two further statements of radical youth.

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• But politics wasnt the only subject
  debated in the hard rock of the sixties.
  Feelings, always a part of any musical statement,
  were a major subject. Janis Joplin sang of her
  sadness. The Beatles showed there were a range of
  emotions between love and hate. Then came The
  Band, mixing the more traditional ideas of
  country and western music into the more radical
  city ideas of the hard rock.

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• This country element, Horowitz feels, helped
  its audience express an urge to get away from it
  all, to go back to the old days. One of the
  best current examples of what Horowitz is talking
  about is John Denever. His most notable
  songs-Sunshine on My Shoulders, Rocky Mountain
  High,

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• and Country Road-combine the musical drive
  and power of folk rock, while the lyrics
  celebrate the simple joys of the good old days.
• The list could go on and on. Like all
  artists, these rock musicians mirror feelings and
  beliefs that help use see and form our own.
• What do we give them in return?
  Applause and praise, of course. In one

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• 1972 National opinion poll, more than 10
  percent of the high school boys and 20 percent of
  the girls said their hero was a rock superstar.
  We also give them money. The fastest way to
  become a millionaire these days, says Forbes, a
  business magazine, is to become a rock n roll
  star.

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• Todays heroes-some of them, anyway-tell us
  they enjoy their rewards. And I laughed to
  myself at the men and the ladies. Who never
  conceived of us billion-dollar babies. The
  particular culture hero who sings that is Alice
  Cooper.

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• The big question remains Why is he a
  culture hero? What does he-or any other current
  rock success-tell us about his fans? About
  ourselves and our society? Where it is, where it
  was, where its heading?

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• V. Structure
• Part I. Para 1-3 listing three rock music
  concerts to show the appearance and popularity of
  it
• Part II. Para 4- giving and analyzing the
  question supplied in the title of the text from a
  sociological point of view.
• Part III. Conclusion and the further reflection
  on the problem.

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• VI. Exercise
• A
• 1. The function of the two quotations at the
  beginning of the text is to summarize and
  introduce the theme of the text, and as such they
  serve as a guide for the reader in interpreting
  and understanding the special message that rock
  music tries to communicate. This kind of
  inclusion of corresponding quotations at the
  beginning of the text appropriately prepares the
  reader for a correct understanding of the text.

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• 2. The three scenarios are used by the author to
  dramatize and illustrate the sensation that rock
  music has created in young people.
• 3. According to Irving Horowitz, the
  sociological significance to rock music is that
  it has offered a sort of debating forum where
  different ides conflict and where American
  society struggles to define and redefine its
  feelings and beliefs.

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• 4. Elvis Presley proved what Horowitz and
  Rundgren believed because his rock shows caused a
  debate between the old and the young generations
  most of the older viewers frowned, while most of
  the younger viewers applauded.
• 5. Bob Dylan touched a nerve of disaffection. The
  Beatles urged peace and piety. The rolling Stones
  demanded revolution.

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• 6. Apart from politics, the rock music dealt with
  a range of feelings and emotions.7. The rock
  superstars got applause, praise and money. 8.
  No, he has not. It is impossible for the author
  to give a complete answer in s short article. He
  ends his article with questions because he wants
  to leave the questions to the readers and let
  them think.

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• B
• 1. ???? ?????????, ??????, ??????????????????
• 2. ???????????????
• 3. ??????????????????,??????????????????????

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• 4. ?????????????????,?????????,
  ???????????,????????????5.????????????????50?????
  ??????????

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• 6. ???????????????,?????????7.
  ??????????????????????????????????8.?1972????
  ???????, 10????????20????????????????????

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• C
• 1 embody ??????????2.act out ??????????
  ?????????????3. Sprinkled ?????????,???????????
  4 .sweltering ??????, ???????????????? 5. Idle
  ??? ??????????6. Rejected ????????,?????????????
  7. Rather than ????????????????????????8.
  Reverence/worship ?????????????????????

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• D
• 1 debating ??????????????????????????
• proud ??????,???????????????
• 3 mix, blend ??????????,????????
• 4 conceive ????????,??????????????
• 5 were dressed ????????,????????

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• 6 idealistic ??????????????????????
• 7 admiration ?????????????,??????????????
• 8 rumbling????????????????

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• E
• 1 disgusting
• 2 Editors articles attacked him.
• 3 the confusions of the old people
• 4 had a strong desire for peace and piety
• 5 The words of the song praise the natural
• 6 reflect emotions and outlooks.
• 7 a place where ideas come into opposition and
  contradict to each other.
• 8 other successful rock stars at present

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• F
• Rock music began in America in the late 1950s.
  It was not only a new musical form, but a forum
  for the American youth to express their ideas of
  the world and life. In this forum, the stars sang
  out the attitudes of the youth towards civil
  rights, war and peace, the disaffection of their
  society, and a range of emotions between love and
  hate. All in all, in this forum, the American
  youth redefined the beliefs and feelings of their
  society. The typical representatives of the early
  rock music were Elvis Presley, singer and poet
  Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and so
  on. They were the culture heroes whom the young
  people worshiped.

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• VII. Writing and Its Technique
• 1. Comment
• 2. Introduction of the test-orientated writing
• CET 4/6
• TEM 4/8
• BEC
• Description, narration, exposition, argumentation

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• Applied English Writing personal correspondence/
  office correspondence/international
  correspondence
• Format, content, variety thanks, note,
  invitation, complaints, minutes, memo, bidding,
  fax, offer, counter-offer, contract, etc.

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• VIII. Translation
• In-class exercise
• Mini test

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• IX. Homework and Tasks
• Position paper your attitude on College
  students off-campus cohabitation
• Comment
• Your comment on CET reform

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• X. Rhetoric
• Alliteration This device is extremely popular
  with poets and writers. In this device the same
  consonant sound is repeated at intervals in the
  initial position of words, as in mad-March days
  or a cargo of Tyne coal.

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• We all know the familiar tongue-twisters like
  Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper and
  She sells sea-shells on the sea-shores on the
  sea-shore, where alliteration is used to
  practice certain consonant sounds.

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• As a rhetorical device, however, alliteration
  has much more significant uses. In the following
  examples, an examination of how it is used to
  achieve effect will illustrate the point.