研究生基礎(chǔ)綜合英語(yǔ)unit8-研究生入學(xué)考試-高等教育-教育專區(qū)

1、Unit 8 PatriotismmainPartA_ Lead-in1Pre-listeningListeningWord BuildingLead-inBackground InformationYou will hear a news report of a successful Chinese vocalist named Ding Yi. Before you listen, read the following key words and phrases in the news and guess what story it might be. Tell a partner you

2、r guesses and find out what he/she thinks.Part APart BPart CMy Chinese HeartPartA_ Lead-in2Pre-listeningListeningWord BuildingLead-inBackground InformationKey Words and PhrasesDing Yis IdentityDing Yis Problems vocalistleading tenorsolo concertthe leading actorthe Opera of AustraliaChinese complexlo

3、nelinessnot apply for permanent residencereluctantpromote western operaPart APart BPart CMy Chinese HeartPartA_ Word BuildingWord BuildingLead-inBackground InformationPre-listeningListeningMatch each of the words and expressions in the left column with its meaning in the right. performed by one sing

4、le personwith all ones exertion; extremely enthusiasticallyuttered or made by the voiceemotionally or mentally opposed to a course of action; unwillinga persistent set of attitudes that have a decisive influence on the personality, partly determined by unconscious motives1. vocal2. solo3. like crazy

5、4. complex 5. reluctant Part APart BPart CMy Chinese HeartHis range was astonishing.She wanted to fly across the Atlantic.Youll have to work to get this finished. I am developing a guilt about it.She was very to admit the truth.PartA_ Word BuildingWord BuildingLead-inBackground InformationPre-listen

6、ingListeningvocal Fill in the following blanks with the previous words. _like crazy _ complex_solo_reluctant_Part APart BPart CMy Chinese HeartPartA_ Background Information1Word BuildingLead-inBackground InformationPre-listening1. The Opera of Australia The Opera of Australia, often known as Austral

7、ia Opera, is Australias national opera troupe of global fame. Resident at the Sydney Opera House in Sidney and the Arts Center in Melbourne, it performs operas and concerts in capital cities and regional centers all over the world. In 1956, it started its very first season of Mozart operas, touring

8、most big cities in Australia. It is made up of a permanent ensemble of vocal artists and musicians. ListeningPart APart BPart CMy Chinese HeartPartA_ Background Information2Word BuildingLead-inBackground InformationPre-listening2. green card A green card refers to the permanent residence that allows

9、 a person to live and work in countries like Australia and the United States for the rest of the holders life. Most people obtain green cards by being sponsored by their employers or their relatives. Most likely, skilled workers or candidates with irreplaceable talents to their employers are eligibl

10、e to green cards.ListeningPart APart BPart CMy Chinese HeartPartA_ Listening1Pre-listeningListeningListen to the news and choose the options that define the identity of Ding Yi. How good were your guesses? Part APart BPart CMy Chinese Heart a, b, c, fPartA_ Listening2Pre-listeningListeninga. a leadi

11、ng tenor in Australia Opera. b. a vocalist who has worked in Australia for seven years.c.a returned overseas Chinese singer who performs a solo concert.d. a fill-in actor who gains his permanent residence in Australia.e. a vocal artist who refuses to accept the Artist Establishment Award of the Euro

12、pean Art Committee and Roman municipal government.f.an organizer of a Chinese Three Tenors concert.Ding Yi is _Part APart BPart CMy Chinese Heart1)How many years did Ding Yi stay in Australia?Ding Yi stayed in Australia .2)What decision did he make finally?He finally decided to .3)What did he have t

13、o give up by leaving Australia? He had to .4)Why did he return to China?He returned to China because .for 7 yearsPartA_ Listening3 Listen to the news again and answer the following questions. _opera company, and separate from his familyreturn to China_give up his position in an established _he could

14、 find more chances Pre-listeningListeningPart APart BPart CMy Chinese Heartin China_PartA_ Listening4Was Dings road to becoming a famed tenor easy? Why or why not?6)What made Ding win the hearts of his Australian colleagues?His and won the hearts of his Australian colleagues.7)What is Ding Yi busy w

15、ith after his return to China?Ding Yi is busy hard work _No. At first, he could not communicate with otherspersonality_and planning various performances.Pre-listeningListeningPart APart BPart CMy Chinese Heartin English at all and had no plays to perform for quite a long time._with his solo concert,

16、 teaching, organizing _PartA_ Listening-sprit1Pre-listeningListeningAfter a seven-year stay in Australia, vocalist Ding Yi has made a decision to return to his home country and devote the rest of his life to opera education and performances in China. To mark the new start of his career in China, the

17、 leading tenor of the Opera of Australia will perform a first solo concert in Beijing on September 29, 2006. By leaving Australia, Ding is giving up not only his position in an established opera company, but he will also be separated from his wife and son who are settled there. Ding explained his re

18、ason for leaving is that “I believe I can find more chances here.” “The holding of Olympic Games and the building of the National Grand Theatre are all exciting news to me,” he added. The artist also knows it will be tough to promote western opera in China and help Chinese vocalists tackle the inter

19、national stage. “I know it is hard, but there is nothing else in the world I would like to do,” Ding Part APart BPart CMy Chinese HeartPartA_ Listening-sprit2Pre-listeningListeningsaid. “Western opera is not so popular here. But it is really beautiful, and only if people get more knowledge and more

20、chances to appreciate it, they may fall in love with it,” he said. Dings road to becoming a famed tenor was not always easy, and in fact, was extremely difficult in the beginning. When Ding first went to Australia at the invitation of the Opera of Australia, he could only speak two English words: “y

21、es” and “no”. “I could not communicate with others at all, and because of this I had no plays to perform for quite a long time,” Ding said. He then began to study both English and opera like crazy. Little by little, his hard work and personality won the hearts of his Australian colleagues. He became

22、 a fill-in actor, then the minor-role actor, then the leading actor, and finally the leading tenor of the troupe, which often performs at the Sydney Opera House. But the success did not drive out Dings loneliness. “I have a deep Chinese complex and cannot change that,” Ding said. Having lived inPart

23、 APart BPart CMy Chinese HeartPartA_ Listening-sprit3Pre-listeningListeningAustralia for enough time, Ding did not apply for a green card to gain permanent residence in Australia. Not having permanent residence has brought Ding a lot of troubles. He gave up many shows in other countries because he c

24、ouldnt get his visa in time. For this reason he even missed the ceremony for the Artist Establishment Award, given to him by the European art committee and Roman municipal government. It was the first time the award was won by a Chinese. But Ding does not regret his choice. “I feel very uncomfortabl

25、e every time I think about losing my Chinese identity,” he said. With one success after another in Australia, the artist then became more and more unsatisfied with his life abroad. “There were less and less challenges there. If I stayed I knew I would lead a comfortable life that would be the same u

26、ntil I die, which I felt reluctant to accept,” Ding said. “And that is why I am here,” he added with a laugh. Part APart BPart CMy Chinese HeartPartA_ Listening-sprit4Pre-listeningListening Besides his solo concert, Ding is now busy teaching, organizing a concert by Chinese artists in Sydney, and pl

27、anning a Chinese Three Tenors concert. His upcoming solo concert includes the pieces of classic operas like Carmen and some foreign folk songs. He also arranged dances and drama dialogues to connect every program, “because various performance styles can attract the audience more.”P(pán)art APart BPart CM

28、y Chinese HeartPartA_ Listening-sprit1Pre-listeningListeningPart APart BPart CMy Chinese HeartAfter a seven-year stay in Australia, vocalist Ding Yi has made a decision to return to his home country and devote the rest of his life to opera education and performances in China. To mark the new start o

29、f his career in China, the leading tenor of the Opera of Australia will perform a first solo concert in Beijing on September 29, 2006. By leaving Australia, Ding is giving up not only his position in an established opera company, but he will also be separated from his wife and son who are settled th

30、ere. Ding explained his reason for leaving is that “I believe I can find more chances here.” “The holding of Olympic Games and the building of the National Grand Theatre are all exciting news to me,” he added. The artist also knows it will be tough to promote western opera in China and help Chinese

31、vocalists tackle the international stage. “I know it is hard, but there is nothing else in the world I would like to do,” Ding PartA_ Listening-sprit2Pre-listeningListeningPart APart BPart CMy Chinese Heartsaid. “Western opera is not so popular here. But it is really beautiful, and only if people ge

32、t more knowledge and more chances to appreciate it, they may fall in love with it,” he said. Dings road to becoming a famed tenor was not always easy, and in fact, was extremely difficult in the beginning. When Ding first went to Australia at the invitation of the Opera of Australia, he could only s

33、peak two English words: “yes” and “no”. “I could not communicate with others at all, and because of this I had no plays to perform for quite a long time,” Ding said. He then began to study both English and opera like crazy. Little by little, his hard work and personality won the hearts of his Austra

34、lian colleagues. He became a fill-in actor, then the minor-role actor, then the leading actor, and finally the leading tenor of the troupe, which often performs at the Sydney Opera House. But the success did not drive out Dings loneliness. “I have a deep Chinese complex and cannot change that,” Ding

35、 said. Having lived inPartA_ Listening-sprit3Pre-listeningListeningPart APart BPart CAustralia for enough time, Ding did not apply for a green card to gain permanent residence in Australia. Not having permanent residence has brought Ding a lot of troubles. He gave up many shows in other countries be

36、cause he couldnt get his visa in time. For this reason he even missed the ceremony for the Artist Establishment Award, given to him by the European art committee and Roman municipal government. It was the first time the award was won by a Chinese. But Ding does not regret his choice. “I feel very un

37、comfortable every time I think about losing my Chinese identity,” he said. With one success after another in Australia, the artist then became more and more unsatisfied with his life abroad. “There were less and less challenges there. If I stayed I knew I would lead a comfortable life that would be

38、the same until I die, which I felt reluctant to accept,” Ding said. “And that is why I am here,” he added with a laugh. PartA_ Listening-sprit4Pre-listeningListeningPart APart BPart C Besides his solo concert, Ding is now busy teaching, organizing a concert by Chinese artists in Sydney, and planning

39、 a Chinese Three Tenors concert. His upcoming solo concert includes the pieces of classic operas like Carmen and some foreign folk songs. He also arranged dances and drama dialogues to connect every program, “because various performance styles can attract the audience more.”P(pán)artB_lead in1You will he

40、ar an excerpt of an interview with Roger Rosenblatt, the author of the book “Where We Stand 30 Reasons for Loving our Country”. The correspondent Anderson Cooper talked with him about patriotism. Before you listen, read some of the words said by Roger Rosenblatt in the interview and guess what quest

41、ions were raised by the interviewer. Compare your guesses with a partners. Word BuildingLead-inBackground InformationPre-listeningListeningPart APart BPart CComments on PatriotismPartB_lead in2Pre-listeningBackground InformationQuestion 1: Roger Rosenblatt: I think its different for all of us since

42、9/11. Were much more alert to why we like the country and what we think about it in all its complexities. And were probably much more prone to sentimentality and to feeling deeply the sympathies with those people who were lost in 9/11.ListeningWord BuildingLead-inPart APart BPart CComments on Patrio

43、tismWhat do you think of the patriotism of our Americans now?_How do you define patriotism in your book?PartB_lead in3Pre-listeningBackground InformationQuestion 2: Rosenblatt: I think patriotism really gets a bad rap when one only associates it with a weapon or something that people used as an excl

44、usionary element to keep other people out. We live in a very rich, complicated, wonderful country. And the patriotism that goes along with those complications seems to me to be just right.ListeningWord BuildingLead-inPart APart BPart CComments on Patriotism_ What is the story of American wave in you

45、r book?PartB_lead in4Pre-listeningBackground InformationQuestion 3: Rosenblatt: The thing was that I lived in a small village on Long Island, and people waved to one another. And my guess is everyone in this village has waved to everybody else in the village at one time or another. And I began to un

46、derstand that as something as an expression of the freedom that weve got. Were careless people. And we just wave to everybody. We wave to truck driver. Truck driver waves back to you. And its a small gesture.ListeningWord BuildingLead-inPart APart BPart CComments on Patriotism_PartB_ Word Building1M

47、atch each of the words and expressions in the left column with its meaning in the right.Word BuildingLead-inBackground InformationPre-listeningsentimentalityexclusionarydignifiedvulgarabundanceget a bad rap A. worthy of respect or honorableB. unrefined and lacking good tastes or manners C. the quali

48、ty of being easily moved by or full of tender feelings, or being weakly or foolishly sentimentalD. having to do with ideas of excluding aliens from a community E. to get a bad reputationF. great amount; plenty ListeningPart APart BPart CComments on Patriotism1) Her voice dripped .An emphasis on puri

49、ty in contrast is and selective, and in the long run is counterproductive to insuring the survival of the magic allele.3) You look very .4) He is in speech.5) There was an of good food at the party.PartB_ Word Building2Word BuildingLead-inBackground InformationPre-listeningabundanceFill in the follo

50、wing blanks with the previous words. _dignified_vulgar_ exclusionary _sentimentality_ListeningPart APart BPart CComments on PatriotismPartB_ Background Information1Word BuildingLead-inBackground InformationPre-listeningRosenblatt is a contributing editor and writer for the New York Times magazine an

51、d the New Republic and appears as a regular essayist on the Public Broadcasting Systems News Hour With Jim Lehrer. He is the author of many books and the winner of numerous awards for print and television, including two George Polk Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, and the Emmy. His book, Chi

52、ldren of War, an account of young people growing up on modern battlegrounds from Northern Ireland to the Middle East and Cambodia, won the 1983 Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize.1. Roger RosenblattListeningPart APart BPart CComments on PatriotismPartB_ Background Information2Word BuildingLead-inBackgroun

53、d InformationPre-listeningListeningPart APart BPart CComments on PatriotismPartB_ Background Information32. Anderson Cooper Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an American journalist, author, and television personality. He currently works as the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson C

54、ooper 360. The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live on location for breaking news stories. He also frequently guest hosts on Live with Regis and Kelly.Word BuildingLead-inBackground InformationPre-listeningListeningPart APart BPart CCo

55、mments on PatriotismPartB_ Background Information53. 9/11 The September 11 attacks (often referred to as September 11th or 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial pas

56、senger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging othe

57、rs. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. TheWord BuildingLead-inBackground InformationPre-listeningListeningPart APart BPart CComments on PatriotismPartB_ Background Information6Word BuildingLead-inBackground InformationPre-li

58、steningListeningPart APart BPart CComments on Patriotismfourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington, D.C. There were no survivors f

59、rom any of the flights.PartB_ Listening1Listen to the interview and choose from the following options the four major issues discussed by Roger Rosenblatt.Pre-listeningListeningPart APart BPart CComments on Patriotismdgab_PartB_ Listening2a. The patriotism of the Americans associated with a weapon or

60、 exclusionary attempts to keep other people out.b. A new change in American peoples patriotism concerning how to look at national love.c. Campaign to call young people to join the army.d. National dignity comes from sympathy and capacity to join hands. e. The sympathy with those who died in 9/11 att