基础英语2

王爱琴

目录

  • 1 Unit 1 Another School Year-What For?
    • 1.1 Objectives
    • 1.2 Background and warming-up
    • 1.3 Text comprehension
    • 1.4 Language learning
    • 1.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 1.6 Exercises
  • 2 Unit2 Say Yes
    • 2.1 Objectives
    • 2.2 Background and warming-up
    • 2.3 Text comprehension
    • 2.4 Language learning
    • 2.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 2.6 Exercises
  • 3 Unit3 The Rite of Spring
    • 3.1 Objectives
    • 3.2 Background and warming-up
    • 3.3 Text comprehension
    • 3.4 Language learning
    • 3.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 3.6 Exercises
  • 4 The Man in the Water
    • 4.1 Objectives
    • 4.2 Background and warming-up
    • 4.3 Text comprehension
    • 4.4 Language learning
    • 4.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 4.6 Exercises
  • 5 Quick Fix Society
    • 5.1 Objectives
    • 5.2 Background and warming-up
    • 5.3 Text comprehension
    • 5.4 Language learning
    • 5.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 5.6 Exercises
  • 6 Wisdom of Bear Wood
    • 6.1 Objectives
    • 6.2 Background and Warming up
    • 6.3 Text comprehension
    • 6.4 Language learning
    • 6.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 6.6 Exercises
  • 7 Inter-Lesson (I)
    • 7.1 Group work
    • 7.2 pdf
  • 8 The Man in Asbestos
    • 8.1 Objectives
    • 8.2 Background and Warming up
    • 8.3 Text comprehension
    • 8.4 Language learning
    • 8.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 8.6 Exercises
  • 9 Confessions of a Miseducated Man
    • 9.1 Objectives
    • 9.2 Background and Warming up
    • 9.3 Text comprehension
    • 9.4 Language learning
    • 9.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 9.6 Exercises
  • 10 Pompeii (for self-learning)
    • 10.1 pdf
    • 10.2 Materials
  • 11 Button, Button
    • 11.1 Objectives
    • 11.2 Background and Warming up
    • 11.3 Text comprehension
    • 11.4 Language learning
    • 11.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 11.6 Exercises
  • 12 A Fundamental Technique in Handling People
    • 12.1 Objectives
    • 12.2 Background and Warming up
    • 12.3 Text comprehension
    • 12.4 Language learning
    • 12.5 Critical thinking and enhancement
    • 12.6 Exercises
Text comprehension
  • 1 Main idea
  • 2 Structure an...
  • 3 Detailed und...

This passage is an essay, rather than a narrative. Thus, it is not so easy to understand. Here are some clues to facilitate your understanding:

In this essay, the author not only tells us how he acquires unique pleasure from his gardening activity. He also enjoys the unusual challenge of "conflict", the satisfaction of being able to improve and "do it just right this time"; he talks about the parental instinct at work in gardening and the joy of seeing the healthy growth of plants and the success in their protection; he mentions also the moral significance, how gardening keeps reminding people of the delicate and easily ruined Earth and how the healthy growth, the orderliness and thrusting life in the garden reflect "similar movements in the gardener's own spirit".