大学英语综合教程第一单元知识点.pdfVIP

Detailed Reading Unit 1 Growing Up Detailed Reading I. Difficult Sentences 1. Until then I ’d been bored by everything associated with English courses. (Para. 1) What can we infer from this sentence? (Up to then, Baker had had no interest in things related to English courses.) 2. I hated the assignments to turn out long, lifeless paragraphs that were agony for teachers to read and for me to write. (Para. 1) Paraphrase the sentence. (I found it painful to write long, boring essays as required by teachers; neither did teachers enjoy what I wrote.) 3. another cheerless year in that most tedious of subjects (Para. 2) What can we learn from this phrase? (We can know from this phrase that before Mr. Fleagle became Baker ’Englishs teacher, all English courses were dull.) 4. I prepared for an unfruitful year with Mr. Fleagle and for a long time was not disappointed. (Para. 3) What does the author really mean when he says “I ... was not disappointed ”? (He means that his expectation was right that Mr. Fleagle ’) s lessons were dull. 5. I took the list home and did nothing until the night before the essay was due. Lying on the sofa, I finally faced up to the unwelcome task, took the list out of my notebook, and scanned it. (Para. 3) 1) What can we infer from these sentences? (Baker was unwilling to write his essay.) 2) List phrases to support your inference. (did nothing until … the essay was due; faced up to the unwelcome task.) 6. This title produced an extraordinary sequence of mental images. (Para. 4) Paraphrase the sentence and translate it into Chinese. (At the sight of the title I saw an unusual series of pictures in my mind 这个题目在我脑 ’s eye. 海里唤起了一连串不同寻常的图像。 ) 7. Vivid memories came f