College English Reading Course Book III

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College English Reading Course Book III

• Unit Two

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Reading SkillsGuessing unfamiliar words in
context

• Common types of context clues
• Synonym Antonym
• Comparison Contrast
• Example
• Definition
• Restatement
• General Knowledge
• General sense of the sentence
• Related information

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Text 4. I Have a DreamI. Information Related to
the Text

• 1. Author Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
• Nobel Peace Prize winner (1964), one of the
  principal leaders of the American civil rights
  movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent
  protest

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2. The Civil Rights Movement in the United States

• a political, legal, and social struggle to gain
  full citizenship rights for black Americans and
  to achieve racial equality
• Montgomery bus boycott in 1955

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3. I Have a Dream

• In 1963 King led a peaceful march between the
  Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial,
  where he delivered his most famous speech, I
  Have a Dream
• Now watch the video clip of the speech.

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II. Questions for discussion

• 1) What role does repetition play in this speech?
• 2) Why does King stress pacifism (????) as a
  means of struggle for civil rights?
• 3) Do you believe in nonviolent protest as an
  effective means against social injustice? Why or
  why not.

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III. Vocabulary

• Band 4 Vocabulary
• obligation
• revolt
• marvelous
• pledge
• fatigue
• veteran
• guarantee (L21)
• evidence v. (L63)

• Band 6 Vocabulary
• decree
• cripple
• segregation
• exile
• default (on)
• sacred
• legitimate
• threshold
• stagger

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• ??????
• discrimination
• appalling
• vault
• tranquilize
• tranquility (L48)
• desolate
• persecution
• discord

• Useful Phrases
• promissory note
• trials and tribulations
• dramatize sth. (L14)
• -- describe or represent dramatically
• fall heir to (L20)
• -- become heir to
• unalienable right (L21) ???????
• bad check (L26)
• ????

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• (up)on demand (L30) ?????
• engage in (L33)
• cool off (L33)
• quick sand (L39) ??
• blow off steam (L46) ??????? ???,???, ????????
• rude awakening (L47)
• -- a sudden disillusionment ????
• on the high plane (L47)
• -- on the high level
• deeply rooted in (L94)
• live out (L95) -- fulfill

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IV. Translate the speech into Chinese
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V. Key to exercises

• I. 1. A 2. B 3. A 4. B
• II. 1. ?????????,??????????????????????????????,??
  ???????????????,??????????????????,???????????????
  ???????????????,???????????????,?????????????????
  

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• 2.??????,?????????,????????????????????????????
  
• 3.??????,????,????,?????????,????,?????
• 4.??????,?????????????????????????,???????????????
  ?,?????????????????

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Text 5. BooksI. General Comprehension of the Text

• 1) What effects can books have on a person as
  mentioned in the text?
• 2) What books are good books in the eyes of the
  author?
• 3) How should we read according to the author?
• 4) What do you think of the three rules of
  reading books suggested by Emerson?

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II. Vocabulary

• ??????
• converse
• potent
• Useful Phrases
• associate with (L12???
• get acquainted with (L25)
• spell out (L27)
• make clear

• Band 4 Vocabulary
• glimpse
• patch
• Band 6 Vocabulary
• wretched
• degradation
• latent
• bias
• vicious
• assimilate

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• contract the faults of (L40)
• -- acquire ??,??,??(??)
• stir sb. up (L44)
• make the most / best of (L49)
• a standard work (L63) ??????
• flavor by (L77) ????????
• mental stature (L80) ????
• to cram (their brains) (L86) ??

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III. Difficult language points in the text

• 1. We often find in books what we thought and
  felt, could we have expressed ourselves. (Line
  23)
• could we if we could
• ????????????????????,????????????????????????

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• 2. We discover one feature in Emerson, an
  expression in Homer, a glimpse of ourselves in
  Dante, and so on until we spell out our whole
  individuality. (Line 25)
• ???????????????,????????????,?????????????????,?
  ???,??????????????????????

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• 3.We cannot escape the influence of what we read
  any more than we can escape the influence of the
  air that we breathe. (Line 41)
• not ... any more than ?......???
• ???????????????????,????????????????

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• 4. The conversation of a man who reads for
  improvement or pleasure will be flavored by his
  reading but it will not be about his reading.
  (Line 76)
• ????????????,????????????????????????????
• 5. He is the best reader who consumes the most
  knowledge and converts it into character. (Line
  82)
• ??????????????????????????

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IV. Key to exercises

• I. 1. T 2. F 3. T 4. T
• II.1. ???????????????????????????,????????,
  ??????????,???????,????????,???????????
• 2. ??,?????????????????????????,??????????????,
  ??????????????????????????????
  ???????????,???????????????????????????,??????????
  ?

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Text 6 Ecosystem in and out of BalanceI. General
Comprehension of the text

• 1) Describe the structure that is necessary for
  the flow of energy and nutrients through the
  ecosystem.
• 2) Why does the author say the idea of ecosystem
  balance is relative? What is the relationship
  between the degree of balance and the rate of
  change?
• 3) What are the factors that maintain the balance
  of ecosystem?

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• 4) Which factors of environmental resistance are
  affecting the giant panda at the present time?
  What is the overall relationship between biotic
  potential and environmental resistance for the
  panda?
• 5) In what way is human different from the
  evolution of other animals?
• 6) Why has this difference led to an imbalance
  between humankinds biotic potential and
  environmental resistance? What has been the
  result of this imbalance?
• 7) Why are ecologists concerned about the changes
  brought about by technology?

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II. Vocabulary

• Band 4 Vocabulary
• eliminate
• distress
• sphere
• alter
• range
• preserve (L143)
• maintenance (L154)

• Band 6 Vocabulary
• disperse
• parasite
• graze
• shrub
• displace
• inherently
• crumble
• disrupt (L131)
• vegetation (L148) ??

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• ??????
• livestock
• Useful Phrases
• biotic potential
• defense mechanism
• parking lot
• in this light
• in the light of
• checks and balances

• feed on (L5)
• in the course of (L28) ?...????
• as such (L77) ???
• The reverse is true. (L82) ??????
• long lasting (L104)
• short lived (L108)
• wipe out (L139)

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III. Difficult language points in the text

• 1. It follows that if a change is made in one or
  more of the factors that affect balance, the
  ecosystem itself will also change. (Line 31)
• It follows it occurs as a consequence
• ??????????????????????,?????????????

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• 3. Given favorable conditions (Line 44)
• -- If every species is given favorable
  conditions
• 4. The result is that extinctions are occurring
  at a distressingly fast rate, a rate which is
  more than likely to increase in the future.
  (Line 122)
• more than likely very likely
• ?????????????,????????????????

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• 5. This is overgrazing in a figurative sense, but
  if carried to the end point, the results will be
  just as fatal. (Line 156)
• to the end point to the final stage of a
  process or period

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IV. Key to exercises

• I. 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. T 6. F
• II. 1. ???????????????????????,?????????????????
  
• 2. ?????????????????????????,???????????
  ???????????????
• 3. ??,??????????????????????????????