新视角研究生英语读说写2二单元答案.ppt

Exercises,Reading Comprehension,Structure of the Text,Unit 2: Exercises,,Vocabulary,Cloze,Translation,,Unit 2: Reading comprehension,1. What is the central topic of the text?,The author’s own understanding of home.,Reference,,,Ex. I, pp.30- 31,,,2. What is Mead’s implied definition of home?,Home isn’t necessarily a particular place where you have lived for a long time. It can be anywhere you have lived for any length of time. You can make anywhere your home even with small objects you have brought from your home. Home also means a place to which you come back again and again.,Reference,,,,Unit 2: Reading comprehension,,3. In paragraphs 3–14，the author describes the different homes in which she had lived when she was a child. What point does this part of the text illustrate？,It illustrates that, to the author, moving and staying at home, traveling and arriving, are all the same. She could feel no difference between them. She was too used to moving and traveling. Her childhood experiences had shaped her unique understanding of home.,Reference,,,,Unit 2: Reading comprehension,,4. In paragraph 11, Mead recounts an incident in which she was told it would be better if she stayed at home and had children, rather than going to the South Seas. Explain in what ways the poem she wrote is a reply.,Literally, the poem describes a girl who commits herself to doing traditional women’s work and confines her life to her home. But we can sense a bitter tone from the poem, which suggests that the girl actually does not like living the way she does. She is not happy. She is not happy. She dreams to live a life full of freedom and energy like the wild geese flying over her head. But she can only keep her dreams quiet in case it is detected. The author wrote this little verse to protest the prejudice against women, as she specified in paragraph 11.,,,,Reference,Unit 2: Reading comprehension,,5. In paragraph 15, Mead speaks of “the need to define who you are by the place in which you live.” What does she mean?,She means that the place in which you live can define who you are to some extent. It bears marks of your identity. For example, the place you have lived in can tell about your language, food, culture, living styles, and even personalities, etc.,Reference,,,,Unit 2: Reading comprehension,,6. According to the author, what enables her to remember so much about her childhood? Why can’t the young people today remember the things they had in their childhood?,The author remembered so much about the things she played with in her childhood because she only had had a few things to play with. Children today are so dominated and overwhelmed by the various kinds of toys that none of them is going to leave a deep impression on the children, and none of them is going to be symbolic for them.,Reference,,,,Unit 2: Reading comprehension,,7. In paragraph 15, the author says: “The Bushman of the Kalahari Desert often build no walls when they camp in the desert. They simply hollow out a small space in the sand. But then they bend a slender sapling into an arch to make a doorway,…” What is the author’s point of saying this?,The author simply wants to illustrate that home can be anywhere you make it even with small simple objects. The Bushmen can make themselves a home in the wild desert with only a few tree branches.,Reference,,,,Unit 2: Reading comprehension,,8. What is the author’s purpose of writing about the fishermen in the Pacific Islands and Portugal in paragraphs 17 and 18?,To illustrate that for many people, leaving home shouldn’t be anything sad because home is a place to which you come back again and again. But for the fishermen in these islands, it is a different story because they have to face the dangers when they are out to sea. They never know whether they will be able to return to their homes again. Their fate is hard to predict.,Reference,,,,Unit 2: Reading comprehension,,9. What is meant by the last paragraph?,She gave away all the objects she had brought with herself for her travel life because the poor people in the local place, realizing that she would be gone forever, wanted to share her things and keep her things for themselves.,Reference,,,,Unit 2: Reading comprehension,,10. Through reading the text, what can we learn about the author’s life? Please list at least three things you have learnt about the author.,1) She was a very mobile woman and traveled a lot during her lifetime. 2) She had a daughter, who went to several sea voyages with her. 3) She enjoyed living at different places when she was a child.,Reference,,,Unit 2: Reading comprehension,Ex. II, p.31,1. Introduction (Paras. 1–2),2. Body (Paras. 3–18),3. Conclusion (Para. 19),Text Outline,,Unit 2: Structure of the text,,,,,,1. Introduction (Paras. 1–2),For many people, moving and traveling are ____________. But for the author, moving and staying at home, traveling and arriving are ___________.,Text Outline,,,,very different,all the same,,Unit 2: Structure of the。