第七单元
Unit 7 Making a Living
Text A Life of a Salesman
Part II Text A
Content Questions
1． A surgeon’s scar cuts across his lower back. The fingers on his right hand are so twisted that he can’t tie his shoes. His mother’s challenges and the voices of those who believed him stupid, incapable of living independently keep him going on.
2． He is a door-to-door salesman. His weapons are: dark slacks, blue shirt and matching jacket, brown tie, tan raincoat, hat and a briefcase.
3． He is afraid that someone will steal his briefcase. He was different in that cerebral palsy affected his speech, hands and walk.
4． First a school for the disabled and thenLincolnHigh School, where he was placed in a class for slow kids.
5． She was certain that he could rise above his limitations.
6． He applied for a salesman’s job.
7． With his mother setting up a meeting with a Watkins representative, as well as by his own persistence.
8． He lacked confidence. It took him quite a while to have the courage to ring the first doorbell.
9． He keeps coming back until the customer buys. He tells himself not to worry if hid day has not turned out to be profitable.
10．Because he was laid up for five months after band surgery and couldn’t work.
11．Like a home of the past era. He leads a solitary life.
12．No, he doesn’t. Because he lives a life of dignity.
Text Organization 1.
Parts | Paragraphs | Time of the Day | Bill's Activities |
1 | Paras 1-7 | early morning | preparation for the day's work |
2 | Paras 8-25 | mid-morning | on his way to work |
3 | Paras 26-62 | Last morning and afternoon | door-to-door selling |
4 | Paras 63-84 | evening | eating a frozen dinner and doing some paper work |
2.
Paragraphs | What is written about Bill's past |
Paras 11-20 | his disability, his schooling, and his hard struggle to make a living for himself |
Para71 | his back surgery and the selling of his house |
Vocabulary:
1) disabled 2) impatient 3) solitary 4) crushed
5) feel like 6) lashed 7) echoing 8) paused
9) betrayed 10) laundry 11) section 12) tilted
2.
1) cared for 2) hang on
3) was laid up with 4) are gaining on
5) kicked up 6) went off
7) drop ... off 8)straighten out
3.
1) … sometimes didn't register with her.
2) … in disorder, drawers pulled out, shoes and boots scattered.
3) … was transferred from Father's account to my account.
4) … a pledge to contribute 1000,000dollars to the Children in Needed charity campaign.
5) … the most profitable business in that province.
4. 1) gaining on; off balance; was laid up in; scar on
2) a cripple\ crippled ; surgery , limitations, in literature.
3) commission ; on the phone ; his territory ; never registers with
II. Usage
1. I never did go over these books, although I probably should have.
2. I know this is a personal question. You don't have to answer me if you don't want to.
3. I think this topic should have attracted far more attention from philosophers than it has.
4. "I think you're right." — "I'm sure I am."
5. "He thought that the condition was hereditary in his case." —"Well, it might be."
6. "Sugar?" ---- "No. Maybe next time."
1. The house is only a building. It is a place to live, nothing more.
1. DIANE: You didn't! Tell me you didn't! FATHER: Oh, yes. Anything for my children.
III. Word Family | |||
1.1) bored | 2) boredom | ||
3) bored | 4) boringly | ||
5) boring | |||
2. 1) encouraged | 2) encouragingly | ||
3) encouraging | 4) encouragement | ||
3. 1) frozen | 2) freeze | ||
3) freezing | 4) freezer | ||
5) freeze |
Comprehensive Exercises
I Cloze
1. Text-related
1) off … feet 2) signature 3) commission 4) on the phone
5) laid up 6) surgery 7) territory 8) disorder
9) applying for 10) dignity
2. Theme-related
1）didn’t 2) read 3) come 4) money
5) because 6) earning 7) doing 8) own
9) obviously 10) value
II. Translation
I. I grew terribly scared when I heard sound of footsteps echoing round the hallway at midnight yesterday.
2. The name-brand sports shoes are guaranteed for 12months.
3. Snowstorms threw communications and transportation into disorder.
1. I’ve been suffering a lot of stress from work lately, I feel like taking a vacation at the seaside.
5. Living in an apartment is all right, but it has its limitations--- for example, you don’t have your own gardens.
6. Tom was born a cripple, with one of his lower limbs useless. Early in his childhood, he learned that unless he so exerted himself as to rise above his limitations, he could not earn a living, and unless he succeeded in making a living on his own, he could not win/gain the respect of others. That was the price he had to pay for his dignity as a human being.
Tom applied for numerous jobs, only to be turned down, before he finally got one as a delivery boy for a Pizza Hut. He then worked as a sales representative for a sportswear company in a territory no one else would want. Today he owns a fairly profitable retail shop in his hometown, and hires several people to work for him.
Part III TextB
2. d 4. d 6. b |
Comprehension Check
1. c
3. a
5. d
Translation
1. 1. 当时我俩并未意识到这一点，但那就是我们之间开始拉开距离的日子，是开始在家庭内部重新界定劳动者的意义的日子。
2. 2. 他没有想到的是，他的大儿子打破了蓝领规则的第一条：赚尽可能多的钱，过尽可能好的生活。
3. 3. 爸爸就像家人期望的那样，学了一门手艺，过上了一钟预先设计的单调生活。
4. 4. 与此同时，他继续他的蓝领生活，一块一块地砌砖。
Language practice
1. 1) h 2) c 3) e 4)f 5) b 6) d 7) a 8) g
2. 1) institutions 2) campus 3) myth 4) advertise 5) criticized
6) took on 7) putting…through 8) settled into 9) come down to
10) lucrative 11) loaded 12) scratch
