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Unit 1 Changes in the Way We Live

While-reading tasks

Language points

1. I am not in E.B. White’s class as a writer or in my neighbors’ league as a

farmer.(Para1,L2)

Paraphrase: I’m not so fine a writer as E. B. White or so good a farmer as my

neighbors.作为作家，我和E.B.怀特不属同以等级，作为农场主，我和乡邻也不

是同一类人。

2. …,but I am getting by. (Para.1,L4)

get by：be good enough but not very good; manage to live or do things in a

satisfactory way

eg: I can't get by on such a small income.

Practice: 1.我的工作勉强过得去。

I can't get by on such a small income.

Practice: 2. She never works but somehow she gets by.

3. Our bees provide us with honey, …. (Para2, L4)

honey: n. a sweet sticky yellow substance made by bees.

eg: Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.

Practice: 1. Have you seen my keys, honey?

Practice: 2. He can be a real honey when he wants to be.

Practice: 3. That camera is a honey.

4. …,and we cut enough wood to just about make it through the heating

season. (Para2, L4)

just about: almost

eg: - Did you reach your sales target? - Just about.

Practice: 我几乎每个人都见到了。

I’ve met just about everyone.

5. …, we spent two miserable days hauling firewood up the rive on a sled.

(Para4, L2)

haul: vt.

1. transport, as with a truck, cart, etc.

eg: The farmers haul vegetables to the market on a truck every morning.

2. pull or drag sth. with effort or force

eg: Rescue workers attached the men to ropes before hauling them to safety.

Practice:1. I hauled my luggage to the nearest small hotel.

我把我的行李运到了最近的小旅馆。

Practice:2. Rescue workers hauled passengers out of the crashed train.

6. … some long-overdue improvements on the outdoor toilet that supplements

our indoor plumbing ….(Para4, L8)

pursue: vt. to do sth or try to achieve sth over a period of time

eg: She wishes to pursue a medical career.

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Practice:1. He is pursuing his studies at the university.

2. Jake has been pursuing her for months.

3. The police are pursuing an escaped prisoner.

7. Sandy, meanwhile, pursues her own demanding schedule. (Para5, L4)

Organ: n.1. a part of the body that has a particular purpose

eg: The heart is one of the body's vital organs.

2. a large musical instrument with keys like a piano.

eg: She plays the organ in church.

8. …, stacks a little wood and delivers the eggs. (Para 5,L9)

stack:

1. vt. to arrange objects neatly in a pile

eg: Mother is stacking the plates in the kitchen.

2. n. a pile of sth, usually neatly arranged

eg: He placed his books in a neat stack.

Practice1. 他们正忙着往货架上摆上货物。

They were busy stacking the shelves with goods.

Practice 2. 房间里堆满了旧书和旧杂志。

There are stacks of old books and magazines in the room.

9. There is, as the old saying goes, no rest for the wicked on a place like this –

and not much for the virtuous either. (Para.5, L10)

wicked: adj. evil or bad

eg: He denied that he had done anything wicked.

他否认做过任何邪恶的勾当。

Practice: 1. We are all born good, but can be taught to be wicked.

2. The wicked storm lasted three days.

Bible, Isiah 57:21, “… no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.”

It is because you are so wicked you have to work so hard.

在这种情况下，坏人不得闲——贤德之人也歇不了。

10. While one storm after another blasted huge drifts up against the house and

barn, …. (Para6, L3)

blast: v.1. blow up or move with great force

eg: The dry hot wind blasted the seedlings.

2. destroy by using explosives

eg: It took two shots to blast the lock off the door.

Practice: The movie was blasted by all the critics.

11. Then the growing season began, swamping us under wave after wave of

produce. (Para7, L2)

接着一次是生长季节到了，一波又一波的农产品潮涌而来，弄得我们应接不暇。

12. … and managed to get through the winter on firewood …. (Para8, L2)

get through: come successfully to the end

eg：The local government has taken some measures to ensure that all the people will

get through the winter.

Practice：She got through the entrance examination and was accepted by the college.

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