Century English (III)

世纪英语 读写教程 III

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Unit 1 Nurturing Children

• Passage A: Raising Children in America• Step 1: Preparation:

• 1. How do you get along with your parents?

• 2. Are most Chinese parents successful in raising their children?

• 3. What’s the significance of children’s independence when they grow up?

• Step 2: Teach the text:

• 1. Stand on one’s own two feet 自立• 2. Make one’s own choices 选择• 3. Tied to the mother’s apron strings 对母亲过分依赖

Passage B The Education of Fourteen Children

• Step 3: Retell passage A according to the following outline:

• 1. The goal of American parents is to help children stand on their own two feet.

• 2. American parents try to treat their children as individuals.

• Step 4 : Learn passage B

• 1. see to it that = make sure that 确保 ; 关照 , 处理• 2. Give sb. credit for sth. 将… 归功于• Step 5: Word study

• 1. fulfill (v.) --- fulfillment (n.)

• 2. entertain (v.) --- entertainer (n.) --- entertaining --- entertainment(n.)

• 3. treat (v.) --- treatment (n.)

Unit 2 Animal World

Passage A: Pets in America

Passage B: Penguins’ love

Grammar Focus: Adverbial Clause (II)

Translation Skills: Verb

Practical Writing: Letters of Invitation

Passage A Pets in America

• The outline of the passage:

• 1.American love pets. Many pet owners treat their furry furry friends as a part of the family.

• 2. Pets can even stay with their owners on vacation.

• 3. Beneath the luxuries, there lies a basic American belief: pets have a right to be treated .

• 4. To Americans, pets are not just property, but a part of the family.

Passage B Penguins’ Love

• Outline of this passage:

• 1. Every year, in the Antarctica, a surprising love story happens.

• 2. At the beginning of every summer in the Antarctica, male go in search of the perfect female.

• 3. The penguins go though an elaborate display to show their feelings are more than friendship.

• 4. There are around 18 species .

Unit 3 Sports

• Passage A: Dangerous Sports: What and why

• Passage B: Sports and Games

• Grammar Focus: Attributive Clause (I)

• Translation Skills: Adjective

• Practical Writing: Letters of Thanks

Passage A Dangerous Sports: what and why

• Answer the following questions according to passage A:

• 1. What sports and activities do more and more people take part in?

• 2. In bungee-jumping, do you attach yourself to a rope and to the water?

• 3. Why do more and more people take part in dangerous sports nowadays?

• 4. What do you think of it?

Passage B Sports and Games

• Outline of passage B:

• 1. Some people seem to think that sports and games are unimportant things that people do at times when they are not working.

• 2. Sports and games build our bodies, prevent us from getting too fat, and keep us healthy.

• 3. Very useful for character-training.

Unit 4 Health

• Passage A: Smoking is dangerous to health

• Passage B: Wise ways of weight control

• Grammar Focus: Attributive Clause (II)

• Translation skills: Pronoun

• Practical writing: Letters of application

Passage A Smoking is dangerous to health

• 1. What are the dangers of smoking?

• 2. Why does the habit of smoking cut short smokers’ lives?

• 3. What is meant by describing some people as innocent victims of smokers?

• 4. How can laws help protect non-smokers?

• 5. What is your opinion about passing a law to prohibit smoking?

Passage B Wise ways of weight control

• Outline of this passage:

• 1. There are many ways to control your weight.

• 2. Regular or daily exercise is more important than how much or how hard you exercise.

• 3. Be creative in how you get exercise and find activities .

• 4. Give yourself time to see your progress.

Unit 5 Computer and man

Passage A: E-mail or E-jail

Passage B: Computer concern you

Grammar focus: Subjective Clause

Translation skills: Article (I)

Practical writing: Letters of apology

Passage A E-mail or E-jail

Answer the following questions:

1.Do you use e-mail as a vehicle for communication?

2. What are the disadvantages of e-mail?

3. What can you do by e-mail?

4. Why is e-mail a valuable tool for college students?

5. Why does the author call e-mail as e-jail?

Passage B Computers concern you

1. Computers are being used more and more extensively in the world today…

在当今世界，计算机被越来越广泛地使用。

2. They have much better memories and can store huge amounts of information…

计算机有较好的存储能力，能储备大量的信息。

Unit 7 View of life

Passage A: A price tag on happiness

•Passage B: Laughter is the best medicine

•Grammar focus: Appositive clause

•Translation skills: Article (II)

•Practical writing: Letters of complaint

Passage A A Price Tag on Happiness

Answer the following questions:

1.How do you understand the title?

2. What will happen if you have financial stress?

3. What’s the opinion of psychiatrists about financial stress?

4. What’s the opinion of researchers in the United States about money?

5. How much is enough in reserve for providing peace of mind?

Passage B Laughter is the best medicine

Retell passage B according to the following outline:

1. Laughter does good to human beings.

2. Scientists conducted a test that indicated smiling made us feel better.

3. A sense of humor also helps to keep things in perspective.

Unit 8 Human Feelings

• Passage A: Brotherly love

• Passage B: Great Brother

• Grammar focus: Predicative Clause

• Translation skills: Numeral and Quantity (I)

Passage A Brotherly Love

Work in groups to complete the following tasks.

1. Describe some human feelings.2. What would you do if a member of

your family was seriously ill?3. What factors usually influence our

feeling?

Answer the following questions:1.Why does the author say brotherly

love is the most fundamental?2. What is the characteristic of it?3. What is meant by our human core?

Passage B Great Brother

Decide whether the following statements are true or false:

1. Victor’s operation was pit off several times because he declined the offer.

2. Victor declined Tony’s offer because he loved his brother.

3. We can offer on kidney because God gives us two.

4. Tony loved his brother so much that he decided to offer one of his kidneys to save his brother.

Unit 9 Space

•Passage A: The First Astronaut

•Passage B: China Enters Space Race

•Grammar Focus: Emphasis

•Translation skills: Numeral and Quantity (II)

Passage A The First Astronaut

• Retell passage A:

1. In 1961, a Soviet Union rocket blasted off and began one of the greatest adventures in history---the conquest of space.

2. The first step in this fantastic journey took place in 1957 when the Soviet Unit launched Sputnik, the first satellite, which had a great effect on the entire world.

3. In 1964, another important goal was reached when both countries launched satellites headed for the far side of the moon.

Passage B China Enter Space Race

Decide the following statements are true or false according to it:

1. China is the third country to send people to enter space.

2. China has been developing rockets since the 1940s.

3. At least 14 fighter pilots have been chosen to train for the mission.

4. John Glenn was the first man in Space in 1961.

5. China’s space ambitions seem to put people into space.

Unit 10 Man and nature

Passage A: Preserving Farmland

Passage B: A New Source of Fresh Water

Grammar Focus: Inversion

Translation Skills: Adverb

Practical Writing: Notices

Passage A Preserving Farmland

Retell the outline of this passage:1. Farmland constitutes the most impor

tant material basis for mankind’s survival and prosperity.

2. Shrinking farmland poses a serious threat to our country.

3. From now on, we should do whatever possible to preserve our farmland.

Questions :1. Talk about different ways to produce

fresh water.2. Discuss how our farmland is diminis

hed.

Passage B A New Source of Fresh Water

Answer the following questions:

1. How did people use to think of the concept of obtaining fresh water from icebergs?

2. How much fresh water supply is still tied up in glacial ice?

3. Are all the icebergs from Antarctica?

4. Would it be easy to steer the icebergs to parts of the world where they are needed?

5. Would it be expensive to obtain fresh water from icebergs?

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Unit 11 A new space for cities

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• Passage A: Tokyo Goes Underground (I)

• Passage B: Tokyo Goes Underground (II)

• Grammar Focus: Ellipsis

• Translation Skills: Preposition

• Practical writing: Greeting Cards

Passage A Tokyo Goes Underground (I)

1. The city has spread out so far and the traffic has become so heavy that it is very difficult to get from one place to another.

2. What are some of the advantages of shopping and eating underground?

3. All sorts of surprises can be found in underground world.

4. … the most complicated to build is the Yaesu Subcenyter at the heart of the city.

                                                                                                                                                 

Passage B Tokyo Goes Underground (II)

Retell passage B according to the following outline.

• 1.There is a control center.

• 2. Underground construction can be complex and expensive.

• 3. There was also some resistance from the people above ground.

• 4. The Yaesu builders wanted to to deeper.