现代大学英语精读5

孙荣荣

目录

  • 1 Unit 2 Two Kinds
    • 1.1 Development of Conflict
  • 2 Unit 3 Goods Move. People Move. Ideas Move.
    • 2.1 Part 8 Alvin Toffler's Views
    • 2.2 Part 9 A Summing-up of Linking
    • 2.3 Part 10 The result of linking is change
    • 2.4 Part 11 Another Example from Shanghai
    • 2.5 Part 12 Conclusion
    • 2.6 Post - reading Discussion
  • 3 Unit 4 Professions for Women
    • 3.1 Pre - reading Tasks
    • 3.2 Part 1 Additional Reading
    • 3.3 Part 2: The 1st obstacle
    • 3.4 Part 3: The 2nd obstacle
    • 3.5 Part 4: Woolf concludes speech
    • 3.6 Post - reading Tasks
  • 4 Unit 5 Love Is A Fallacy
    • 4.1 Pre - reading Tasks
    • 4.2 Part 1 Checking
    • 4.3 Part 2 Dating Part
  • 5 Unit 8 The Merely Very Good
    • 5.1 Pre-reading Tasks
    • 5.2 Paras. 1-2
    • 5.3 Paras. 3-4
    • 5.4 Paras. 5-7
    • 5.5 Paras. 8-9
    • 5.6 Paras. 10-12
    • 5.7 Paras. 13-16
    • 5.8 Paras. 17-20 and Post-reading Tasks
  • 6 Unit 9 Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize
    • 6.1 Pre-reading Part
Part 11 Another Example from Shanghai

Part 11 (Paras. 37-39)

The author again uses an example from Shanghai to illustrate the transformation of cultures.



Question: 

1. Why does the author describe her experience at a Jewish gathering in Shanghai? What does she want to show?

2. In para. 39 the author mentions that "The penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was universal". How can we do understand this statement?




Words and Expressions:

sterile (infertile; barren; lacking new ideas; without bacteria; unattractive and plain)

the Jewish Day of Atonemnet

diplomat (+person who is skilled at dealing with other people)

preside over, infant (in early stage), congregation

solemn (religious ceremony or formal occasion/ person or person's behavior is serious)

intone, penitence

论犹太教的“罪”