基础英语4-现代大学英语精读4

王瑛

目录

  • 1 Reading a novel Lord of the Flies
    • 1.1 Full text
    • 1.2 Quizzes and questions
    • 1.3 The key to quizzes and questions
  • 2 Unit 1 Text A Thinking as a Hobby
    • 2.1 Pre-reading activities
      • 2.1.1 About William Golding
      • 2.1.2 Learning objectives
    • 2.2 Text analysis
      • 2.2.1 Video lessons
      • 2.2.2 Paraphrasing exercises
      • 2.2.3 language study ppt
      • 2.2.4 Rhetorical devices
    • 2.3 Post-reading exercises
      • 2.3.1 Writing a summary
      • 2.3.2 Writing a playscript
      • 2.3.3 The key to textbook exercises
  • 3 Unit 3 Text A Groundless Beliefs
    • 3.1 Pre-reading activities
      • 3.1.1 Listen and answer: This I Believe
        • 3.1.1.1 mp3
        • 3.1.1.2 Scripts
      • 3.1.2 Belief sharing
      • 3.1.3 Learning objectives
    • 3.2 Text analysis
      • 3.2.1 Questions and translation
      • 3.2.2 Video lesson 1
      • 3.2.3 Paraphrasing exercises
      • 3.2.4 Video lesson 2
    • 3.3 Post-reading exercises
      • 3.3.1 Writing a summary
      • 3.3.2 Writing an essay
      • 3.3.3 The key to textbook exercises
  • 4 Unit 3 Text B Corn-porn Opinions
    • 4.1 The author
    • 4.2 Questions
  • 5 Unit 4 Text A Lions and Tigers and Bears
    • 5.1 Pre-reading activities
      • 5.1.1 Discussion
      • 5.1.2 Watch and Fill: Central Park Vacation Travel Guide
      • 5.1.3 The author
      • 5.1.4 Learning objectives
    • 5.2 Text analysis
      • 5.2.1 Paraphrasing exercises
      • 5.2.2 Students' presentations
      • 5.2.3 Words and expressions
      • 5.2.4 Questions
    • 5.3 Post-reading exercises
      • 5.3.1 Writing a summary
      • 5.3.2 The key to textbook exercises
  • 6 Unit 6 Text A The Telephone
    • 6.1 Pre-reading activities
      • 6.1.1 Discussion
      • 6.1.2 Listen and Fill: Telephone, a Good or a Bad Thing?
      • 6.1.3 Listen, take notes and retell: About the author
      • 6.1.4 About Lebanon
      • 6.1.5 Learning objectives
    • 6.2 Text analysis
      • 6.2.1 Video lesson and exercises
      • 6.2.2 language study ppt
      • 6.2.3 Comprehension questions
      • 6.2.4 Mind-mapping the main ideas
      • 6.2.5 Talking about the theme
    • 6.3 Post-reading exercises
      • 6.3.1 Writing the summary
      • 6.3.2 The key to textbook exercises
  • 7 Unit 9 Text A The Damned Human Race
    • 7.1 Pre-reading activities
      • 7.1.1 Discussion
      • 7.1.2 About Mark Twain
      • 7.1.3 Learning objectives
    • 7.2 Text analysis
      • 7.2.1 Video lessons
      • 7.2.2 Close reading questions
      • 7.2.3 Paraphrasing exercises
      • 7.2.4 language study ppt
    • 7.3 Post-reading exercises
      • 7.3.1 Writing the summary
      • 7.3.2 Dictation
      • 7.3.3 The key to textbook exercises
  • 8 Unit 13 Text A Cords
    • 8.1 Pre-reading activities
      • 8.1.1 Activity: A Role-Play
      • 8.1.2 About Edna O'Brien
      • 8.1.3 Learning objectives
    • 8.2 Text analysis
    • 8.3 Post-reading exercises
      • 8.3.1 Group work
      • 8.3.2 The key to textbook exercises
  • 9 A Review
    • 9.1 Translation exercises
Questions

Questions

 

1.    Whatkind of opinions are corn-pone opinions?

2.    Fromthe first paragraph, what do you learn about Mark Twain's opinion of hisfriend? Is it positive or negative? What do you learn about Twain's mother'sopinion of his friend? Is it positive or negative? (para. 1)

3.    Thequote "You tell me whar a man gits his corn-pone, en I'll tell you whathis 'pinions is." contains words of dialects of Southern America. Pleaseturn these words into standard English words. (para. 3)

4.    Whowas Jerry (para. 5)?

5.    Inwhat ways does Twain agree with Jerry and in what ways he disagree with Jerry?(paras. 5-7)

6.    Accordingto Mark Twain, “It is our nature to conform” (para. 9); he also says that we doso for self-approval. The two statements seem contradictory; how does Twainconnect conformity and self-approval?

7.    Inwhat two ways does a political emergency bring out corn-pone opinions? Whatdoes Twain mean by “an ass of high degree” (para. 13)?

8.    Twain’sessay is ultimately a denunciation of cultural chauvinism. What consequencesdoes he suggest are the result of “corn-pone opinions”? Which are explicit?Which are implicit?

9.    Whatis Mark Twain’s purpose in this essay?