综合英语教程2,unit1
综合英语教程
Unit 1 Someone waiting
Part1
Important sentences
1. He is nowhere to be found .
2. He strikes me like an unreliable person.
3. His words struck a slightly false note for me.
4. Love is like coke : sometime you get as the product of making something else. Words
Efficiently 效率高的,有能力的
Mysterious 神秘的,奇怪的,不易解释的
Cue 提示,暗示
Arrogant 傲慢的,自大的
Instructive 富有教益的
Presentation 表演
Pavement 人行道
Sidewalk
Lamppost 电灯柱
Backbag 背包
Oblivious 不管
Bulge 鼓鼓的
Neglect 被人忽视的
Spectacular 壮丽的
Awe 敬畏
Neutral 中立的
Favourable 给人好印象的
Part2 reading comprehension and language activities
Someone waiting I am siting at the airport watching people in the final moments before their loved ones arrive or depart . They are pacing ,nervous,looking at one another ,touching and not touching .the emotion is charged . A woman,speaking Spanish,is running in circles trying to gather family members together for a good-bye.Her voice is high-pitched .When the final moment comes before boarding,she wraps her arms around her son,giving hin a powerful embrace that should protect him until he returns.
A grandmother and grandson stand at the rail where I am waiting;the people who are supposed to pick them up are late.Two ladies,next to them but unrelated ,look up and down the corridor as if scanning an open sea.A mother holds a baby as she kissed her husband.Tears dampen her cheeks.The moment is charged. At Gate 13 ,the arrivals are just coming in.” I see her. There she is.” Just as poigant,the arrivals fold into the mix of people as if they have been the missing ingredient. There are tears and smiles.,pure delight ringing in the laughter of seeing someone who has been gone.
I sit,glancing at my book,waiting for my turn to leave,alone because the ones I love have a different shedule from mine,and the one I am going to see,a daughter,is at the other end of my journey.
I think of other departures and arrivals. I recall seeing my daughter,the daughter I an going to visit, coming down that narrow corridor with her backbag slung on one shoulder, her overstuffed carry-on cradled in her arms, her headphone making her oblivious to the stream of people flowing along with her. She was in her frist year at university coming home for a holiday in Novermber –the frist time since August.I wrapped myself around her as if she had been lost to me.
Today my flight is two hours late. The book I am reading is not as interesting as the people leaving and coming,coming and leaving. A little boy about five is meeting his grandfather for the frist time. He looks up and up at the face of a man who is not that tall,except to a child. Joy shines down and up,and I am wandering how one would cather this moment in words or on film.
When my flight is finally called,I gather my books and carry-on. Since there is no one to see me off, I do not look back to see where I have come from. Instead, I think of my husband at work wonding if I have left yet, and my daghret at the other end wondering the same thing. As I head toward the plane,I find myself remember yet another arrival and departure. When I was a newlywed, my 91-year-old granderfather died. We had been very close, and one evening,returning from his funeral, I arrived at the airport crying. My husband of only a year was
waiting at the gate to take me in his arms. Because of my tears,
everyone was looking at us, but I didn’t care. Somehow the emotion I felt seemed not at all out of place for the airport.
(黄色为重点字词,红色为重点句子)
Solemn 庄严的
Whimper 哭泣,低泣
Tug 拖拉拽(几次用力)
Show you their teeth 要挟(孩子)
The dawn will follow the dark
Sacrifice
Noble 崇高的
Fudge 法奇软糖
Frosting 给覆上糖霜
Of one’s own accord 主动自愿
Torture 拷打 折磨
Resort to sth. 诉诸,求助于
They’ll give you one more chance to tell them of you own accord .tf you don’t, they will have to resort to torture.
Relife from pain
Earnestly非常认真的
Conventional 依照惯例的,传统的,普通的
Pester 打扰,纠缠
Cope with
sharpen
ashen 面色苍白的,没有血色的
earthen陶制的
harden变硬,硬化
lighten 变明亮,变成淡色
strengthen 增强,巩固
fasten (使两部分)系牢,扎牢,扣紧
fastener纽扣,扣件,拉链
milestone 重要事件,重要阶段
category
Bouquet花束 wedding婚礼 get engaged订婚 divorced离婚 widower鳏夫 honeymoon bride蜜月
Pregnan怀孕 godmother 教母 nappy尿布 maternity leave产假 pram婴儿车
Mourners悲伤者;哀悼者;送葬者 coffin棺材,灵柩 funeral bury sympathy grave墓穴;埋葬处 wreath花圈;花环;花冠 grief悲痛,悲伤