Unit Six

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Unit Six
Marriage
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Objectives

• 1. grasp the main idea and structure of the text
  
• 2. appreciate the use of interior monologue in
  portraying a characters inner world
• 3. master the key language points and usages
• 4. conduct a series of reading, listening,
  speaking and writing activities related to the
  theme of the unit.

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Time allotment
1st 2nd periods 3rd 4th periods 5th 6th periods 7th 8th periods
Pre-reading questions, class activity While-reading structure, main idea, writing techniques While-reading language points, understanding of the text, Fast-Reading (Unit6-A1) Post-reading guiding through Ss after-text exercises Checking on Ss home reading (Text B) Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks Fast-Reading(Unit6-B1) Practical-Exercise Book (Unit5)
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Questions to Answer

• Have you attended someones wedding? (describe)
• What do you think marriage is? Why?
• What kind of marriage do you think is a good one
  ? Why?
• Why did some people fail their marriage?

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Class Activity

• 1) Ss divide into groups of 4-5.
• 2) Each group will think of one of wedding
  ceremonies to describe. It could be a wedding
  tour, a western wedding ceremony in a church,
  etc.
• 3) Ss give brief reports to the class.

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Structures and Main ideas
Part One (Para 1-11) Gilbert meets Sissy Miller and gives her the gift his wife Angela left for her.
Part Two (Para 12) In Angelas diary Gilbert reads about how she felt, proud of him at first as a promising politician, and then a bit lonely at home.
Part Three (Para 13) Angelas diary reveals how she went to work with the poor in the East End and developed an affection for B.M.
Part Four (Para 14-24) Gilbert finally comes to realize that Angela committed suicide in order to escape from him and rejoin her lover.
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The stream of consciousness and interior
monologue

• By depicting peoples inner consciousness, the
  author can bring up the complexity and
  colorfulness of the inner world of the character,
  and thus explore deeply what really underlies
  external occurrencespeoples interior, or
  mental, lives.

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Some examples from the story by using interior
monologues to reveal Gilbrts mental responses to
the development of the entire event

• 1.     It was like Angela to remembered
  L 4
• 2.     Yes, he went on, L12
• 3.     To himself, he thought, as he pushed
  L 30
• 4.     A rather incongruous gift it seemed
  L 49
• 5.     She had, he supposed, other
  L55
• 6.     Her words and the look It was almost as
  if L 72
• 7.     It was as if she had answered L 82
• 8.     Who was B.M.? He could fill in
  L 124
• 9.     That was just the kind of the thing B.M.
  L 138
• 10.   He could see her
  L 183

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Cultural Notes

• Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) an English novelist.
  She is well known for the experimental style of
  many of her books. She was one of the first
  writers to use the "stream of consciousness", a
  way of describing a person's thoughts and
  feelings as a flow of ideas as the person would
  have experienced them, without using the usual
  methods of description. She was a member of the
  Bloomsbury Group and is considered an important
  early writer about feminism (the idea that women
  should have the same fights and opportunities as
  men). Her best-known novels include Mrs Dalloway
  (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando
  (1928).

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House of Commons

• The lower house of the British Parliament,
  in which elected Members of Parliament meet to
  discuss current political issues and vote on Acts
  of Parliament.

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Tower of London
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• One of the oldest and most famous buildings
  in London, England. It is an ancient fortress
  on the north bank of the fiver Thames to the east
  of the city, and is a popular tourist
  attraction. It was made a World Heritage Site in
  1988.

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Language Study

• 1. Outlive live longer than
• 1. Some practices and rules have outlived
  their usefulness and require updating.
• 2. The world has outlived much,and will
  outlive a great deal more.
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• 2. discretion good judgment
• While the Senate closed its three buildings, it
  allowed senators to enter offices at their own
  discretion.
• You must show proper discretion in carrying out
  the plan. You must show proper discretion in
  carrying out the plan.

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• 3. dab touch lightly and quickly
• She dabbed her eyes with a handkerchief.
• Fingerprints, which literally leave the artist's
  unique print behind, are also fundamental to the
  overall effect, particularly when dabbing on the
  rich colours of blossoms.

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• 4. incongruous inappropriate out of place
• His private opinions were incongruous with his
  public statements.
• The outcome is an incongruous spectacle of faux
  antique temples made with new bricks and cement,
  housing brown-painted plaster Buddha statues.

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• 5. intrude put ( oneself) into a situation
  where one is unwelcome enter unwanted or unasked
  (followed by on/ into/ upon
• I don't want to intrude my opinion upon you.
• I am afraid that I intrude upon you.
• "When the wind blew in the desert in the past, we
  couldn't even eat because sand would intrude into
  rooms and make our food gritty."

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• 6. threshold a doorway forming an entrance to
  a building
• He is on the threshold of adulthood.
• They are at the threshold of a discussion.
• While the new measures will not raise the
  threshold to market access, they will require
  real and adequate cash deposits from investors.

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• 7. random without any plan, aim, or pattern
• At random in a random way aimlessly
• During a random check at four major intersections
  and four trunk roads connecting the city to other
  provinces, 1,574 overloaded vehicles were found.
• "Stopping treasure hunters' random looting is not
  only the duty of Chinese, but the duty of the
  world.
• To investigate whether iron replenishment might
  be helpful, the researchers conducted a study in
  which 11 patients at random were given daily
  treatment with iron dextran.

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• 8. terrific very great in size or degree very
  good and enjoyable
• The action of Shaolin kung fu is loud, colourful
  and exciting and it's done at terrific speed.
• "Having spent some time in Brazil, I can tell you
  there's some pretty big boys up there who could
  probably be turned into terrific football
  players.
• As the man shuffled into the camera's frame to
  shake hands with Kurdish official Bakir Jola,
  Mameh heard a terrific explosion and "my camera
  lens went red with blood."

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• 9. grief great sorrow or feeling of suffering
• Some of the bodies have been sent away in purple
  hearses, while some family members just arrived
  there to look for their beloved with grief.
• After her initial grief, Xu was happy to resume
  her old routine of doing exercises in the morning
  sunshine with her neighbors, tending to her
  plants, and watching TV in the evening.

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• 10. insignificant of no value or importance
• The other interesting factor that has been
  highlighted by the report is that the
  contribution of IT to employment generation in
  India is insignificant.
• Officials said some documents were handwritten
  and others typed. Some are insignificant such as
  poems or verses from the Koran, while others are
  interesting, officials said.

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• 11. slacken become less active, intense,etc.
  loosen relax
• Relevant experts note that in the future the
  number of brands will gradually drop due to
  market competition, but on the whole the
  competition pressure posed by the domestic brands
  to their foreign rivals will not slacken in the
  short term.
• All sectors of society, including the civil
  service, must not allow their vigilance to
  slacken under the improving economic conditions.
• The pace of private investment is expected to
  slacken and private spending will remain
  sluggish, they said.

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• 12. paradise heaven a place of perfect
  happiness
• This is almost a paradise on earth.
• He remembers that when he was a child the lake
  was a paradise for fish and birds.

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• 13. candour the quality of being sincerely
  honest and faithful
• Because of his candour and honesty, Han gained
  the trust of both the local authorities and the
  farmers.
• We really dont know what to do about it, she
  said with surprising candour.

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• 14. inexplicable too strange to be explained or
  understood
• 'We find it inexplicable that the government
  enters into agreements on improved pay and
  conditions of service, then sets up a tranche of
  schools that can opt out of those very
  agreements,' she said.
• Ellie Nycholat says she would go to work feeling
  healthy and leave with inexplicable symptoms.

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• 15. stride walk with long steps
• The farmer strode across his fields.
• Their living standards have taken a big stride
  forward particularly in the past 20 years since
  China launched the reform and opening drive.
• The child could not keep up with his father's
  stride.

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Student Presentation

• Directions You are required to look up the
  following words and expressions in the dictionary
  and give a brief presentation in the class.

• Inscription
• Distinguishable
• Trustworthy
• Prominent
• In mourning
• Parliament
• jolly

• Scrappy
• Speculate
• Pluck
• Stubby
• Obliterate
• Impertinence
• char

• Engagement
• Wait up
• Hastily
• Scoundrel
• Mistress
• Implore
• mantelpiece

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Additional Exercises

• 1.       There would be no mercy, only bitter
  revenge. When Brigge asked who it was they would
  revenge themselves on, the people rounded on him
  and threatened him with blows for the rudeness
  of his question and asked who he was.
• A. imperative B. indictment C. impertinence D.
  intervention
• 2. In the long run, pirated products may have a
  negative impact on customers because those lawful
  producers' creativity and enthusiasm may be
  deeply hurt by the fact that some customers are
  more interested in the pirated products for the
  sake of small gains.
• A.legitimate B. inherent C. ingenious D.
  invalid
• 3. During the meal he summoned up the courage
  to ask her on a date. To her surprise, he invited
  her to the Oscars the following month.
• A. piled up B. picked up C. set up D. plucked up

C
A
D
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• 4.       The incident, which occurred on Aug. 1
  in the Ycua Bolanos supermarket, left 417 dead
  and 55 scorched human remains, plus 49 missing.
• A. coarsened B. codified C. conferred D.
  charred 
• 5. It is the duty of me to thank the committee
  for their continued support of the group.
• A. falls to B. feels to C. runs to D. climbs to
• 6. In love, you'll be met with petty disputes
  and slight quarrels that will escalate into
  massive arguments.
• A. topsoils B. swans C. tiffs D. tows 
• 7. Teenagers clicked away with their
  camera-phones. Television crews battled for prime
  filming position. And in one bizarre incident, a
  mother placed her infant before Mason, imploring
  him to sign his forehead.
• A. beseeching B. baffling C. bisecting D.
  bestiring

D
A
C
A
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• 8. From an architectural point of view, the 1990s
  may come to be seen as "the age of the air
  terminal," as other eras were seen as the age of
  the railway station or the age of the minster.
• A. pasture B. cathedral C. mansion D. paradise
• 9. The details about rescuing efforts would be
  unveiled at a proper time in view of security
  reasons.
• A. in regard to B. at the thought of
• C. in consideration of D. in line with 
• 10. Relics guardians said about 40 per cent of
  the old city area had undergone nearly wholesale
  destruction by 2002. They worried that urban
  renovation would break up the traditional frame
  of the city, making it difficult for younger
  generations to understand the life of old city.
• A. layout B. format C. fabric D. sketch
• 11. At our begging, some girls even sang songs.
  As time went on, their songs were punctuated by
  _____ as the hiking became more demanding, and
  thrilling.
• A. exclamations B. exhortations C. extraction D.
  exhaustion

B
C
C
A
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• 12. Arriving in the elegant city in baggy
  combat trousers, fedora hat pulled low and a
  ______ cigar lodged in the side of his mouth, the
  shaggy-haired Depp said he was sorry he hadn't
  come sooner.
• A. sticky B. stiff C. sinewy D. stubby
• 13. Every fear we overcome, no matter how
  _________, helps prepare us for the next big
  thing that comes along.
• A. Insignificant B. indispensable C.
  inevitable D. influential
• 14. The attack failed because the missiles were
  old and inaccurate, and not because an on-board
  system of decoy flares deflected them as had been
  __________ at the time.
• A. projected B. speculated C.
  predicted D. assessed 
• 15. Under the electoral law, half of the
  parliamentary seats are shared on a proportional
  basis by parties winning at least 5 percent of
  the popular vote, while the rest 225 seats are up
  for grab in individual _________ across the
  country. 
• A. chivalries B. constituencies C.
  cholesterols D. conventions

D
A
B
B
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• 16. However, according to the Blood Centre, less
  than 20 per cent of the children were proved to
  be illegitimate as a result of the tests meaning
  that at least 80 per cent of the children's
  mothers were wrongly suspected of _________.
• A. iniquity B. infidelity C. sin D. offence
• 17. What is remarkable about the picture is
  that the faces of the elves are all ________ with
  vermilion, and the lines of their features are
  drawn in a highly exaggerated way.
• A. dashed B. dammed C. deceited D. dabbed
• 18. Among the conditions were jaundice, low
  blood sugar, respiratory _________, the need for
  intravenous feeding and difficulty maintaining
  body temperature.
• A. distress B. disgust C. disorder D.
  discourse
• 19. Bubbling on the fire are a pair of black
  pots containing Tibetan tea--an oily ______laced
  with salt and butter--and tsampa, a porridge made
  from barley.
• A. blur B. fare C. aliment D. concoction

B
D
A
D
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• 20. resemble the cuneiform writing of the ancient
  Near East and hieroglyphic writing of ancient
  Egypt.
• A. Inflations B. Inscriptions C. inspirations D.
  isolations
• 21. Parent Jane Dennis from Leeds became
  suspicious of her 13-year-old son David when
  change went missing from her __________.
• A. marble B. missionary C. mantelpiece D.
  maneuver
• 22. It just appears that he may have caught a
  ________ at the top of the sand bowl, which
  caused his bike to hit hard on the front wheel,
  which sent him over the handlebars and,
  unfortunately, it appears that he hit his head on
  the slope.
• A. ruby B. rut C. relish D. reverse
• 23. Last August, her condition worsened and she
  knew she would succumb ________ the cancer soon.
• A. to B. for C. with D. on

B
C
B
A
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• 24. One man, 89-year-old Richard Macaulay, died
  from the disease last Friday. Results from the
  ________ into his death are expected this week.
• A. inquest B. insight C. inspection D. detect
• 25. After she heard Kang shout, she ran over to
  him and saw the bears a hundred meters away,
  clearly __________ but without any sign of
  hostility.
• A. impressionable B. isolable C.
  indisputable D. distinguishable 
• 26. The gown of the suit, made of tiger,
  leopard and otter fur and equipped with gold
  waistband and pearl _________, takes the owner
  two hours to wear it.
• A. napkin B. nil C. necklace D. novelty
• 27. The lady had only one regret that she had
  been stripped of everything she owned by her
  ex-husband, a heartless __________.
• A. scoundrel B. bandit C. hijacker D.
  highwayman

A
D
C
A
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• 28.   The three men also alleged that they were
  repeatedly beaten, _______ in painful positions
  during interrogations and subjected to sleep
  deprivation.
• A. seceded B. snorted C. squinted D. shackled
• 29. From my seat I watched the scenes of
  _________, the toots of cars and buses competing
  with the sounds of thunder and lightning.
• A. chaos B. complexions C. clowns D. collisions 
• 30. with the rapid advances of technology and
  the increasing globalization of the world,
  products are now becoming _________ at a faster
  rate, and the time
• from concept to market has to be
  shortened considerably.
• A. offhand B. ominous C. ornamental D. obsolete
• 31. The suicide rate has been increasing in the
  country, with the main reasons including mental
  diseases, drug and alcohol dependence, population
  migration, family and _______ problems, and life
  pressure.
• A. metallic B. marital C. monstrous D. muscular

D
A
D
B
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• 32. Their narratives, simple and unpretentious
  yet rich with the realities of life, give the
  readers a real feeling of _________and warmth.
• A. infinity B. ingenuity C. intimacy D. imagery
• 33. In every case of ________ there is a 50
  chance that the source of the problem lies with
  the male partner.
• A. infection B. inference C. ingenuity D.
  infertility
• 34. The natural environment for power facilities
  is deteriorating. Bad weather, such as
  lightening, _________ and ice, raises the
  probability of grid accidents.
• A. hypothesis B. hilarities C. hurricanes D.
  husbandry 
• 35. Even though the ferry sank close to shore,
  the river is ________ here and it is hampering
  the rescue work.
• A. placid B. turbulent C. pacific D. exalted

C
D
C
B
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• 36. The train, traveling from New York to
  Miami, was going 79 mph when it hit the rear
  quarter of the truck, separating the bed from the
  cab and pushing the mangled wreckage and _______
  logs down the tracks.
• A. signified B. splintered C. slaughtered D.
  smuggled
• 37. Extended periods of time without
  communication with parents _______ a child's
  social skills, making them less willing to talk
  with others they become withdrawn.
• A. devours B. seizures C. despoils D. erodes
• 38. Suffering is as essential to a good life,
  and as inextricable, as ________.
• A. bliss B. blotch C. boutique D. breach
• 39. After three hours of rescue work, all the
  ________ dolphins were helped into the sea with
  the rising tide.
• A. slithered B. streaked C. stranded D. stifled

B
D
A
C
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• 40. Although locust plagues ________ from time
  to time are unavoidable, mankind can still keep
  them under control if effective measures are
  adopted in time.
• A. embedding B. erupting C. migrating
  D. flaming 
• 41. Firefighters were preparing to flood the
  mine shaft with a gaseous compound to ________
  the blaze.
• A. suffocate B. subdue C. appease D. alleviate 
• 42. Such a weapon, it was stated, has ten times
  the power of _________ as that of the atom bomb
  dropped on Hiroshima.
• A. deprivation B. commission C. devastation D.
  inflation 
• 43. The plane then landed safely. As relieved
  passengers disembarked the 14 men were _______
  over to one side where they were taken away for
  questioning by airport authorities and the
  police.
• A. lamed B. shuffled C. fleed D. coasted

B
A
C
B
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• 44. Human activities in recent years have
  __________ environmental degradation and resulted
  in rapid reduction in biodiversity.
• A. infuriated B. aggravated C. maddened D. irked 
• 45. For those blacklisted husbands, including
  men often beating their wives, drinking alcohol
  and gambling, staff from the police station will
  be watchful of them and help them _______ their
  way of violence.
• A. perfect B. deviate C. amend D. diversified 
• 46. The panda gestation period lasts 83 to 181
  days. Several days before it gives birth, the
  mother panda eats much less than usual and then
  refuses to eat. Many start to build _______.
• A. dents B. craters C. dens D. pits 
• 47. Established on June 12th, 1952, the theatre
  has ________ audiences all over the country with
  its distinctive performances.
• A. allured B. enthralled C. infatuated D. enticed

B
C
C
B
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• 48. Knowing that the slightest mistake meant
  losing his job, the waiter served the customers
  _________ all the time.
• A. recklessly B. judiciously C.
  gingerly D. rationally
• 49.   This ancient city is changing so fast that
  once familiar places disappear while new ones
  emerge. Thankfully the great historic buildings
  remain for __________.
• A. populace B. preoccupation C. primacy
  D. posterity 
• 50.   More and more people crowded around him
  including the Germany lady, her mother, her
  husband, a group of Belgian tourists and ________
  admiring French children.
• A. a heap of B. a morsel of
• C. a brood of D. a bevy of
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C
D
D
The End