●悅讀齋

做家庭主婦的另一面

Step 2 理解·文本解讀

目標呈現

Ⅰ.1.Commentary (an article or a book which explains or discusses something).

2.（1）the topic and the author's opinion（2）the examples of two grandmothers （3）the problems facing women （4）conclusion

Ⅱ.1.Katrina Holte quit her job, returning home with the aim of living a life of a 1950s housewife, in which she appeared to take delight.

2.The author holds disapproving attitude towards it.I think it's important to remember that being a 1950s housewife was actually totally awful, and something our grandmothers and mothers fought against.(Para.3) Romanticizing the 1950s is especially gross when you think about how women of color and poor women were treated back then, and the lack of education and choices available to them.

3.In the author's opinion, being a 1950s housewife was no fun and was something that our foremothers fought against.The author used the examples of her two grandmothers who lived in the 1950s to back up her opinion.

One of the grandmothers was tied up in household chores involving serving the husband and the children.She had no days off, but seemed not to gain credit from her husband and children.The other grandmother couldn't afford time to pursue her dream until she divorced her husband and the children grew up and left the house.

4.Women's life was restrained by their family and women's hard work and devotion to the family was often taken for granted by family members.Women seldom had chance to pursue their dreams.

5.The author intends to show that women were faced with many problems especially inequality and discrimination back then.

6.In the 1950s and the 1960s, most women were used to the unfair treatment at home let alone have their dreams and pursue them.In particular, women of color and poor women were treated more unfairly with little access to education and choices.At present, women are still faced with lack of equality in material and spiritual aspects.

Ⅲ.1.The author intends to reveal the problems facing women by contradicting the behavior of Katrina Holte.Women of all ranks from home and abroad might be the reader of the article.

2.The author stated her opinion in a logic and clear way.However, the passage might be more objective if she can write the passage from more perspectives.If I am asked to add something to make the article more thorough, I will add the opinions of those who are in favor of Katrina Holte's behavior.

3.Personally speaking, I support the author's opinion.First of all, I place much value on my career and family.As a result, it's not wise to quit one's job for the sake of serving families.Without work, I wouldn't enjoy a sense of connection and achievement which is also essential to my well-being.Second of all, being fi nancially and psychologically independent makesfor a mature w oman, who benefits the whole family.Last but not least, it's every woman's job to fight for the gender equality instead of setting back the wheel of history.

Step 3 運用·讀寫整合

主旨新探

Ⅰ.We are not supposed to set the same standard for every woman.Some women prefer to center around their family rather than achieve something in her career.If they do their job at home well, and enjoy what they are doing, we should respect their choices.Besides, the family may also run well if women and men have their distinct distribution of work.For example, men are responsible for earning the bread for the family while women are responsible for focusing on the growth of the children, especially their education, which can bring both potential to the fullest.

Last but not least, housewives can also make something of themselves in contemporary society.For example, they can write books or microblogs on WeChat by sharing what they are good at.

Ⅱ.There are still many problems facing Chinese females nowadays.To begin with, in remote villages of China, girls generally have less access to education than boys and are often burdened with the idea of giving priority to boys'interest.As a consequence, when these girls turn into womanhood, they are at a disadvantage in terms of securing a good job.Second of all,income gap still exists between man and woman for doing the same job.Moreover, the higher the job rank is, the less the number of women is.As it turns out, women are less likely to secure job promotion due to pregnancy and raising children.Thus, married women stand a slim chance of winning the competition with men.Last but not least, when women get married, they are expected to be responsible for the emotional labor of running a household and raising the children.Chances are that women often have to struggle a balance between family and work while men are free of this kind of dilemma.Compared with men, women commit more time to family after marriage while maintaining the working hours.Under this circumstance, many of these women have to sacrifice their jobs for the sake of family interest.

It's high time that all parties concerned took effective measures to wrestle with the issues.As to women, they should break the stereotype of female by enhancing their selfvalue and self-esteem.Especially, they should seize the chance to improve themselves, trying to be independent financially and psychologically.Besides, they should stand up to the challenges of unfair treatment, voicing their opinions bravely.As for men, they should shoulder more responsibility of taking care of offspring, thus easing the burden of women and enabling women to pursue their dreams in parallel with men.As for employers, they should be open and fair when recruiting new employees and distributing employee paychecks.In particular, when they promote employees, they should take women's interests into account, enabling more women to get the promotion they deserve.As for government,they should raise people's awareness of treating women and men equally, especially in terms of access to education.

歷史上的流行病

Reading Check

1.C 2.A 3.B

Language Study

查士丁尼瘟疫通常被認為是第一次有記錄的鼠疫事件，它在世界上留下了印記，殺死了多達四分之一的東地中海人，并摧毀了君士坦丁堡。在君士坦丁堡，在疫情最嚴重的時候，估計每天有5,000人因此死亡， 最終導致該市大量人口死亡。

鐘南山——抗“疫”戰(zhàn)士

Reading Check

1.C 2.B 3.A 4.D

Language Study

Although he is known to only a few, his reputation among them is very great.

約翰·斯諾擊敗“霍亂王”

Reading Check

1.C 2.C 3.A 4.D

Language Study

盡管他對水泵里的水樣進行的化學和顯微鏡觀察試驗沒有得出結論， 但是他對疾病模式的研究促使地方議會取下泵的手柄或力桿，使泵失效。

方艙讀書哥

Reading Check

1.A 2.A 3.B 4.D

Language Study

湖北省有關部門，特別是省會武漢市有關部門，堅決采取措施，確保所有需要醫(yī)療救助的感染新冠肺炎的人都能入住醫(yī)療機構。

與冠狀病毒一樣糟糕的“信息瘟疫”

Reading Check

The infodemic means the information epidemic which spreads false information with fear, speculation and rumour.（ 要 點 一 ） The infodemic makes it difficult to control the public health crisis and harms economies, politics and even security worldwide.（ 要 點 二 ） The infodemic can spread worldwide more quickly through modern information technology although some people seem unable to contain it or reluctant to acknowledge its existence.（要點三）To check the infodemic，better and comprehensive warning systems are indispensable.（要點四）Language Study

而且，信息流行，或“infodemic”，使得控制公共衛(wèi)生危機變得困難，在這場危機中，一些與恐懼、猜測和謠言交織在一起的事實借助現代信息技術在全世界被迅速地夸大和傳播。

防止流行病傳播的3種方法

1.F 2.E 3.A 4.G 5.D

Language Study

Reading English as much as possible is an effective way to improve your English.

主題應用·語庫構建

Ⅲ.讀后創(chuàng)寫

【參考范文】

Dear readers，

面對頻發(fā)的極端天氣，黨中央、國務院高度重視。習近平總書記、李克強總理多次作出重要指示，提出明確要求。值得關注的是，國家防總于7月21日召開了第二次全體會議，分析研判主汛期形勢，對防汛抗旱工作進行了再動員、再部署、再落實。這在近年防汛抗旱中并不多見的安排，也充分表明了新形勢下做好防汛抗旱工作的復雜性和極端重要性。

I am eager to hear that your new term，which has long been suspended because of the unexpected COVID-19，will restart after a bitter winter.How excited I am to embrace and witness the moment when you make a comeback in this late yet sunny spring!

Here I'd like to share something with you on behalf of Crazy English.Firstly， I hope you can stay healthy， for which you should maintain good hygiene and keep your environment clean in your daily life.Just do more exercise because an hour of exercise a day keeps a doctor away.Secondly， I hope you can reduce or avoid faceto-face communication with others in the nearfuture.Finally， I hope you can make full use of every minute to make up for the lost time and maintain a remarkable sense of commitment to yourself and our dearest motherland to overcome every potential difficulty yet to come.Do believe that sunshine always follows a storm.

May you and your family stay healthy， stay hungry， stay foolish and stay hopeful in the new term.

Yours,

Editor-in-chief Chen of Crazy English

第一章 一個人也沒剩下

Activity A

Ⅰ.C

Ⅱ.（1） Uncle Archibald/Mr Craven （2） train（3） Misselthwaite Manor

Ⅲ.1.（1） Ten （2） cholera （3） plain looking（4） Rude （5） Bad-tempered/Irritable（6） Proud/High self-esteem

2.When alive, Mary's parents had never said much to her about anything.Her father was always at work, and her mother was always at some party or others.In other words, they neglected her.They made Mary feel unwanted.

3.Mr Craven is as sour as a crab apple.He was like that, not only because his wife died young,but also because he was born with a crooked back.

Ⅳ.（1）tired,impatient （2）uncomfortable,uneasy（3） angry, hurt （4） unhappy, disappointed（5） cold, lonely

Activity B

Ⅱ.The last paragraph of this chapter uses the writing technique of irony.“With that warm welcome, Mary Lennox was left alone.” In this sentence, “warm” should be replaced by “cold”.When arriving at Misselthwaite Manor, Mary didn't receive a warm welcome.Her uncle didn't come to see her and Mrs Medlock left her alone.This sentence not only emphasizes Mary's poor situation but also echoes Mrs Medlock's previous warning—don't expect a big welcome.

Ⅲ.After ten-year-old Mary Lennox lost her parents to cholera, her only relation Uncle Archibald's housekeeper Mrs Medlock took her from India to Misselthwaite Manor, Yorkshire.Uncle Archibald was said to be bad-tempered and didn't even come to see and welcome Mary when she arrived.Mary was asked to stay at her room and she was alone and in low spirits.

Ⅳ.Any answer is possible.

人的自尊心何時最高

Language Study

Ⅱ.1.in which a famous writer once lived

2.among which short of experience is the most vital

Reading Check

Researchers have found that people's selfesteem doesn't reach the highest point in one's 20s, but rather later time.According to the study, except a slight pause in teen years,people's self-esteem increases throughout one's life until 70s.Opposite to the traditional opinion,middle adults enjoy a lot of advantages, which results in their priority in self-esteem.Despite facing some challenge, experts believe that most people keep a high self-esteem state even after 90 years old.

真實的珍珠項鏈

Reading Check

Paragraph 1：

Several days later, when Jenny's father came in to read her story, Jenny was waiting anxiously for him on the bed.When listening to the story, Jenny was totally absent-minded, withher hands holding the necklace tightly and firmly.When the story came to an end, unexpectedly, Jenny offered her beloved necklace to her father,with her fingers trembling automatically.No one knew what the necklace meant to her.She whispered to her father, softly and gently, “Daddy, you know I love you more than the necklace.” Then, the necklace slid into her father's hands determinedly.

Paragraph 2：

Holding the plastic pearl his daughter offered, the father dragged out a blue box.Much to Jenny's amazement, a beautiful real pearl necklace lay peacefully in the box, which set her heart racing.Jenny froze there, a thrilled expression twisting her face.Before Jenny was able to say something, her father brushed a warm kiss on her face and gathered her into his arms.The dad said,“Jenny, life is like this pearl necklace.Stay strong and confident enough, and you will glitter like it every day.” Holding the genuine necklace in her hand, Jenny lifted her lip, tears beginning to blur her vision.

耄耋老人，滑雪不止

Reading Check

1.pain 2.hospital 3.careful 4.replace 5.advice

Language Study

This morning，I was walking along the river when I heard someone call for help.

人類為何從不滿足

Reading Check

1.A 2.B 3.D 4.D

Language Study

It was not until his child came back home that he went to bed.

機器人指揮人類管弦樂隊

Reading Check

1.B 2.A 3.A

Language Study

More high-speed railways have been built in China, making it much more convenient for people to travel.

美國女孩獲得青少年最高科學榮譽

Reading Check

1.A 2.D 3.B

Language Study

Li Bai, along with other famous poets, created lots of extraordinary works in Tang Dynasty.

才華橫溢的畫家用牛仔布作畫

Reading Check

1.C 2.B 3.B

Language Study

It was not until he failed in the job interview that he realized how important confidence was.

愛的絕唱

Reading Check

1.A 2.C 3.A 4.A

Language Study

With all the work finished ahead of time, I can enjoy my holiday in a relaxing and delightful atmosphere.

篝火之夜

Preparation task

1.G 2.D 3.F 4.A 5.H 6.B 7.C 8.E

Task 1

A.5 B.8 C.2 D.7 E.3 F.1 G.4 H.6

Task 2

1.F 2.F 3.F 4.T 5.T 6.F

Discussion

Any answer is possible.

貝寧的摩托車

Preparation task

1.C 2.E 3.D 4.A 5.B

Activity 1

1.on→into 2.by→on 3.driving→riding 4.into→inside/in 5.in→on/onto

Activity 2

Any answer is possible.

Activity 3

Any answer is possible.

Activity 4

略

●加油站

周末加油站（Ⅰ）

Task 1

本文是說明文。 面對新型冠狀病毒（COVID-19）的爆發(fā)，科學研究人員迅速揭開了很多關于它的神秘面紗。文章就該病毒的名稱、傳播、癥狀及預防等方面進行了介紹。1～3 BDADC

Task 2

本文是說明文，從四個方面闡述了學生在校園中如何節(jié)約能源、保護環(huán)境。1～5 BEFCA

Task 3

本文是一篇記敘文。作者原本并不喜歡跑步，但是在丈夫的帶動下她也開始跑步，并且堅持完成了5公里的跑步比賽。1～5 DDABC 6～10 ACDAB 11～15 CBDAB 16～20 DCBCB

Task 4

Ⅰ.語法填空

1.delighted 2.facing 3.from 4.especially 5.be divided 6.to combat 7.useless 8.against 9.biological 10.supplying

Ⅱ.書面表達

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for reading my letter.I'm writing to you to be a volunteer to fight against COVID-19.

I think I can make a contribution.Firstly, I can help to clean up our International Student Service Center.Secondly, I'm willing to help take the overseas students' temperature and urge them to wear their masks properly at the entrance of our service center.Thirdly, I can help give out the masks and notices at the gate of Xiashang Supermarket.Finally, I have a good command of English so that it's easy for me to teach them how to wash hands correctly and put the used masks in the special trash bins.

Looking forward to your early reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

Task 5

He turned out to be a pretty cool kid.At first, he didn't fit in.He, however, volunteered to play basketball with us, and gradually made many friends.He was hard-working and willing to help others, which changed my view of private school students.

We hung out all weekend, and the more I got to know Kris, the more I liked him.One day we hung out as usual.Suddenly he stared at me and said， “Do you still remember the day you met me?” “Yes, of course! ” I answered.“Actually, the first time I met you I was planning to end my life, for I lost my beloved parents.It was your kindness that saved me.” Hearing this, I felt touched, bursting into tears.“I also thought it was my fortune to meet you and be friends with you.I believe our friendship would last forever.” “Yes, you are right.We are sure to be friends all our life.” We both smiled.