1、Skimming&ScanningSkimming&ScanningDiggingDiggingWarming uWarming up pFurther readingFurther readingCulture pointsCulture points Culture points Culture pointsSurvival of the fittest第1页Warming upWarming upListen to a dialogue.Work in pairs and explain the meaning of the phrase with examples and guess
2、what “blow the whistle on”means.第2页Look at the first paragraph of the passage and answer the questions.Warming upWarming up1Whatisthewomandoing?2Whatisthewriterdoing?3Dotheyknoweachother?She is out jogging.He might also be jogging but do it with a lot more energy.No,or he would be unlikely to refer
3、to her simply as“the woman”.They are strangers being polite to one another.第3页Warming upWarming up4Doyouthinkthewomanisagoodrunner?5Doyouthinkthewriterisagoodrunner?The writer seems to laugh at her running style,so maybe she is not a good runner.He is very likely a good runner as he thought“You have
4、 no idea.”第4页TaskTaskBrowse the passage within 8 minutes and find out which questions on the previous page the passage answers in full.Answer the questions of Activity 2 and 3 on page 36.Skimming&ScanningSkimming&Scanning第5页 Choose the best description of the writer of the passage.1 This is the stor
5、y of a man who discovers the value of sport only in adult life,and finds that running regularly can help him to feel fit both physically and mentally.He is also determined,since a bad accident does not make him give up sport.Skimming&ScanningSkimming&Scanning第6页2 The writer is a man who has always h
6、ated sports.This negative attitude goes back to his childhood.However,he is able to overcome this problem by forcing himself to go running regularly even though he doesnt enjoy it very much.Skimming&ScanningSkimming&Scanning3 This is the personal story of a man who wants to be a winner in life.Compe
7、tition excites him,and as he gets fitter and better he sets himself targets.But he doesnt achieve his ambition of winning the London Marathon.Answer:1第7页 Choose the best answer to the questions.Answer:(c)Skimming&ScanningSkimming&Scanning1 Why did the writer hate sport at school?(a)Because he didnt
8、get on well with the captain of sports.(b)Because he wanted to play a different sport.(c)Because he was no good at it.(d)Because they played sport too often.第8页2.What did the writer do after university?(a)He began running occasionally.(b)He began running long distances.(c)He began skiing.(d)He start
9、ed going for walks in the countryside.Answer:(b)Skimming&ScanningSkimming&Scanning第9页3 What did the writer do while he was running?(a)He solved mental challenges.(b)He visited lots of new places.(c)He began thinking about all his problems.(d)He worked out how to deal with challenges in his life.Answ
10、er:(a)Skimming&ScanningSkimming&Scanning第10页4 What did the writer discover about himself in a charity race in a park?(a)He was interested to find he could run fast if he wanted to.(b)He felt foolish in the middle of a group of runners.(c)He was embarrassed because he wasnt supposed to be in the race
11、.(d)He felt pleased with himself for beating everyone else.Answer:(a)Skimming&Scanning第11页5 What happened after the ski accident?(a)He couldnt move for six months.(b)He had to walk with sticks for three years.(c)He was unfit and unhappy for a long time.(d)He became fitter than he had been before the
12、 accident.Answer:(c)Skimming&Scanning第12页6 Why did he take part in the London Marathon?(a)To prove to himself that he was still fit.(b)Because it gave him a chance to be on television.(c)Because he thought he had a chance of winning.(d)Because he lived not far away,in Oxford.Answer:(a)Skimming&Scann
13、ing第13页1“Thank you,”said the woman,as I held open the gate for her to pass ahead of me along the path by the river in Oxford.She started to run with more vertical movement than horizontal.“Have a nice jog!”she called as she jumped up,down and away.A nice jog!You have no idea,I thought.Digging译文译文Sur
14、vival of the fittest句子分析句子分析第14页2 I hadnt always been like this.At school,I was useless at sport,and when youre useless at something,you hate it.When the two captains chose the best players for their football teams,I was always the last to be called or tennis,or cricket,you name it,I was no good.译文译
15、文Digging第15页 3 But I began to run when I was at university.In fact,my first runs were along the same stretch of river in Oxford.There was a feeling that to be intellectually successful you had to be physically fit too.But I didnt like competitive sport.The sports I did with enthusiasm,like running a
16、nd skiing,were ones which provided me with fun and good company.译文译文DiggingDigging第16页4 After university,I ran every day,not fast but quite far.I increased the distances gradually,so that half a marathon was the equivalent of a gentle walk.I also felt mentally acute,and some of my very best work was
17、 done while running.When I started a run,I would have a problem to solve,a mental challenge to face,a string of thoughts in knots.By the end of the run,everything had fallen into place.译文译文Digging第17页5 One day,I went for a run through countryside which I hardly knew.After a couple of hours,I found m
18、yself in front of a beautiful house surrounded by trees and an extensive garden.It turned out to be Down House,the home of Charles Darwin,and the place where he developed his theory of evolution and the survival of the fittest.With the raised perception of an oxygen-filled brain,I understood what Da
19、rwin had revealed to the world.译文译文Digging第18页6 Some years later,I found myself by chance running in my local park at the same time as a charity run was taking place.I wasnt registered to take part but I ran alongside the runners in the middle.Then out of curiosity,I wanted to find out if I could ca
20、tch up with the front runners.It was so ridiculously easy.But it didnt make me feel especially good to beat everyone.It was just like ticking something off a list of things to do.译文译文DiggingDigging第19页7 Of course,as they say,pride comes before a fall.In my case,it was literally true.I was involved i
21、n a ski accident,falling badly and breaking several bones,including both legs.For six months I moved with immense difficulty using sticks.Physical activity was impossible,I got unhealthy,and I became depressed at the prospect of my future life.译文译文DiggingDigging第20页8 But gradually,I began to take ex
22、ercise again.Over three years,I started walking without sticks,then running slowly,until my improvement was such that I was nearly as fit as I was before the accident.To complete my recovery,I needed a goal,and the one I chose was the London Marathon.译文译文DiggingDigging第21页9 I trained for nine months
23、,and when I lined up in Greenwich Park on the May morning of the event,I felt as good as I have ever felt.I ran with the pack in the middle,not the champion athletes,but among the best club runners,as we all wound our way up and down and across the river,past cheering crowds and television cameras,o
24、ver Tower Bridge,through Docklands,and back along the Embankment to finish the race in front of Buckingham Palace.The fact that I completed the race in an honourable time of three hours gave me only slight pleasure.But it felt good to have survived the past few years,and to be back among the fittest
25、.译文译文DiggingDigging第22页10 On that other day by the river in Oxford,I thought that overtaking the woman too quickly ran the risk of appearing ill-mannered.I waited five seconds and then accelerated past her with a series of long,lazy strides.She didnt hear me coming from behind,and she could hardly s
26、ee me running ahead.I wasnt bothered if she was impressed,it was simply a privilege to be fit.译文译文DiggingDigging第23页Difficult sentences Difficult sentences TextWhen British philosopher Herbert Spencer read Darwins revolutionary work OntheOriginofSpecies(物种起源),he summed up its message as“survival of
27、the fittest”.Darwin liked the phrase and used it in later editions of his book.He intended the phrase to mean that the animals and plants best adapted to their environment will be the most successful.Here the writer uses it also to refer to the most physically fit and jokingly compares this great bi
28、ological principle with his own overtaking the woman out jogging.A reference to his own recovery from his accident and regaining fitness may also be intended.1.Survival of the fittest(Title)第24页2.She started to run with more vertical movement than horizontal.(Line 3,Para 1)Difficult sentences Diffic
29、ult sentences The lady is kick jumping as she jogs,a technique used in fitness training by lifting the knees very high when one runs.It can look rather amusing to onlookers.Text第25页Difficult sentences Difficult sentences 3.“Have a nice jog!”she called as she jumped up,down and away.A nice jog!You ha
30、ve no idea,I thought.(Line 4,Para 1)The writer in a good-tempered way is shocked that his long-distance stylish running could be called“a nice jog”.He gets his revenge in a moment when he runs past the woman,showing her he is no“jogger”.you have no idea:you do not understand the situation at all Tex
31、t第26页Difficult sentences Difficult sentences 4.When I started a run,I would have a problem to solve,a mental challenge to face,a string of thoughts in knots.(Line 5,Para 4)a string of thoughts in knots:This is a metaphorical use which refers to complex problems.The writer finds that he thinks more c
32、learly when he runs and can sort the problems out.Metaphorically he can untie mental knots.Text第27页Difficult sentences Difficult sentences 5.With the raised perception of an oxygen-filled brain,I understood what Darwin had revealed to the world.(Line 7,Para 5)TextThe physical activity which makes th
33、e heart beat faster fills the blood stream with extra oxygen.The writer feels this makes his thoughts much clearer and sharper.第28页Difficult sentences Difficult sentences 6.But it didnt make me feel especially good to beat everyone.It was just like ticking something off a list of things to do.(Line
34、6,Para 6)Running faster than anyone else did not give me any special pleasure.Showing I could win a race was just something I hadnt done before and ought to experience.Text第29页Difficult sentences Difficult sentences 7.Of course,as they say,pride comes before a fall.(Line 1,Para 7)pride comes before
35、a fall:It is a famous wise saying which means when we start feeling how good we are,something will happen to punish us.Text第30页Difficult sentences Difficult sentences 8.Over three years,I started walking without sticks,then running slowly,until my improvement was such that I was nearly as fit as I w
36、as before the accident.(Line 2,Para 8I made such big improvement that I was nearly as fit as before.be such that:used to say that something is so great,so bad etc that something else happens e.g.Hermarksweresuchthatshecouldchooseanyuniversityshewanted.Text第31页Difficult sentences Difficult sentences
37、9.The fact that I completed the race in an honourable time of three hours gave me only slight pleasure.(Line 9,Para 9)It is not a great winning time,but it is a good time which no one could criticize as the writer had encountered a serious accident.Text第32页Difficult sentences Difficult sentences 10.
38、I waited five seconds and then accelerated past her with a series of long,lazy strides.(Line 3,Para 10)The writer easily overtook the woman even though he was running far below his top speed.His slow running was far faster than the womans jogging.Text第33页Difficult sentences Difficult sentences 11.I
39、wasnt bothered if she was impressed,it was simply a privilege to be fit.(Line 6,Para 10)TextI was not showing off and wanting the woman to admire me;I was simply enjoying being fit and healthy.第34页例句例句翻译翻译释义释义a.standing,pointing,ormovingstraightup垂直vertical 这座山北侧几乎是垂直。WordsWordsThe northern side of
40、the mountain is almost vertical.例句例句翻译翻译Hold the ruler in a vertical position.使尺子保持垂直。Text第35页释义释义a.straight and parallel to the ground水平horizontalBottles of wine should be kept horizontal for storage.WordsWords例句例句翻译翻译葡萄酒应该平躺放置储存。The baby has been returned to the cradle and placed in a horizontal p
41、osition.婴儿已经被放回摇篮平卧。例句例句翻译翻译Somestudiessuggestthatstraight,horizontalbarspaintedacrossroadscaninitiallycuttheaveragespeedofdriversinhalf.(Jan.,CET4,Reading Comprehension)真题真题Text第36页例句例句翻译翻译释义释义1n.C a run for exercise or pleasure at a slow steady speed慢跑jogI began at a slow jog and gradually increas
42、ed my pace.他天天早晨上班前都进行轻快慢跑。WordsWordsHe goes for a brisk jog before work each morning.例句例句翻译翻译我开始时跑得迟缓,以后逐步加紧了步速。第37页例句例句翻译翻译释义释义2vi.to run at a slow steady speed,usually for exercise or pleasure慢跑jog他们以稳定速度迟缓地跑上山。WordsWordsThey jogged steadily up the hill.他喜欢天天早晨在公园里慢跑。He liked to jog in the park e
43、very morning.例句例句翻译翻译Text第38页例句例句翻译翻译释义释义1n.C(of)an area of land or water(地域或水域)一段stretch这是一段非常危险路。WordsWordsIts a very dangerous stretch of road.The boat rocked as it entered the stretch of rough water.例句例句翻译翻译船进入那段风浪大水域后摇摆起来。第39页例句例句翻译翻译释义释义2vt.to pull something to make it longer or wider拉长;拉宽那男孩把
44、橡皮筋拉到极限后瞄准我。WordsWordsThe boy stretched a rubber band to its fullest extent and aimed it at me.stretch例句例句翻译翻译别拉我毛衣会把它撑大。Dont pull my sweater youll stretch it.TextThe socks were too small and it was only by stretching them that he managed to get them on.(Jan.1991,CET4,Vocabulary and Structure)真题真题第4
45、0页例句例句翻译翻译释义释义a.used for describing the senses and abilities of someone who notices things very quickly and easily灵敏;敏锐acuteSolving the problem will require acute perception and subtle communication.他有敏锐商业头脑。WordsWordsHe is acute as a businessman.例句例句翻译翻译处理这个问题需要敏锐洞察力和巧妙沟通能力。Text第41页例句例句翻译翻译释义释义n.C(
46、a of)a group of similar or connected things一连串,一系列(类似或相关事物)string上个月我们这个地域发生了多起入室偷窃案。WordsWordsWe had a string of burglaries in the area last month.例句例句翻译翻译作为作家,她取得了一系列成功。As a writer,shes enjoyed a string of successes.Text第42页例句例句翻译翻译释义释义1n.C,U a particular way of understanding or thinking about som
47、ething了解;认识;看法perception父母观点影响孩子对世界看法。WordsWordsParents views influence their childrens perceptions of the world.例句例句翻译翻译公众对他看法在慢慢改变。The publics perception of him is slowly changing.Why are Americas kids so stressed?The report cites two main causes:increasing physical isolation and a growing percept
48、ion that the world is a more dangerous place.(Dec.,CET4,Reading Comprehension)真题真题第43页例句例句翻译翻译释义释义2n.U the ability to notice something by seeing,hearing,smelling etc感觉;觉察perception当代科学范围超出人直接感知。WordsWordsThe arena of modern science lies beyond direct perception.例句例句翻译翻译大脑有一部分控制我们痛觉。Part of the brain
49、 controls our perception of pain.Text第44页例句例句翻译翻译释义释义n.C an organization that collects money or goods to help people who are poor,sick etc慈善团体;慈善机构charity几个慈善团体向洪水受害者送去了援助。WordsWordsSeveral charities sent aid to the flood victims.例句例句翻译翻译学校为慈善机构募集了100多英镑。The school raised over a hundred pounds for c
50、harity.Text第45页例句例句翻译翻译释义释义vi.to put your name and other information on an official list in order to be allowed to vote,study,stay in a hotel etc登记;统计registerHis car has been registered in his wifes name.出生人口必须在42天内登记。WordsWordsBirths must be registered within 42 days.例句例句翻译翻译他车已用妻子名字登记过了。It is impo